artie's headline news this thursday april the 2nd corona virus infections here in russia see the biggest daily increase 771 new cases confirmed president putin is expected to address the nation in the coming hour. europe's lockdown sees tempers fray pharmacy workers in france report abuse to leave food supplies an economic hardship push people to the edge. of things that people keep losing their jobs remain locked up or risk of a crisis much worse than anything before. internally you squabbling stalls much needed financial help for struggling countries like italy whether the economic fallout with members of easy it sharing the pandemic dead. the pentagon tries

to source around 100000 body bags shortages and overrun facilities in the united states where the number of deaths is expected to soar in the coming weeks. hello this is r.t. international from moscow has just turned 4 pm here this thursday i'm kevin irwin well welcome to this 30 minute world news round up and 1st these are the latest figures in the covert 19 pandemic today the total number of coronavirus cases around the globe is veering towards a 1000000 now the number of deaths to continues its troubling rise it's now more than $48000.00 with billions on the locked we can report over 200000 people have recovered.

we saw this bullet in the no talking about russia here 771 new coronavirus cases were confirmed earlier this thursday with the total number jumping to over 3500 it's the biggest single day increase in patients since the start of the break so far here there's been 30 deaths the russian president is expected to deliver another nationwide address any moment now coming up this hour to give an update on the country's response to the pandemic so as we wait for that and see what he's got to say let's go to saskia taylor in central moscow saskia hey there we spoke earlier on about what might be coming up any more idea about what the president is likely to say imminently. well kevin i'll tell you what i've got some deja vu because exactly 8 days ago i was sitting in this very waiting for president putin to address the nation over a week on a very similar situation and it seems that just as last wednesday today he might be

running slightly behind schedule but given the nation dress is actually quite eradication and of course he's speaking on a very important issue that's not particularly surprising i was announced very last minute quite unexpectedly by vladimir putin's press secretary let's listen in. to me right now no decision has been taken about prolonging the paid week of the week the president is working on his new nationwide address let's wait and see what the president has to say. while it's probably no surprise that president putin will likely be discussing the struggle against coronavirus in a meeting on wednesday he said that in russia as globally the situation is of course very difficult and serious. in russia we have over 3500 cases but at the same time russia is being very proactive with testing so to date over 530000

tests have been done 48000 just within the last 24 hours which actually puts russia in the top 3 countries worldwide in that regard but what points exactly as you mentioned could president putin talk through today it's likely that the address will be dedicated to the measures that have either been taken all the ones that still need to be taken as we struggle with this global pandemic for example on wednesday president putin who now by the way is actually walking remotely for precaution sake held a televised conference meeting with his government and it was decided that $33000000.00 would be set aside to pay for salaries of people who walk in the most . sectors are things like companies tourism has hospitality and sport. and that package is actually part of a much bigger $18000000000.00 fund which is set aside to help small and middle sized businesses as they of course have been dealt a really big blow in the last in most recent days on wednesday we also support

parliament approved new much harsher punishments for those who do not obey the strict quarantine laws for example even including up to 7 years in prison if you break the quarantine north and go on to in fact several people who then actually lose their lives as a result i also as i reported back last wednesday in his address on the 25th of march president putin announced that this week that is the 30th of march into the 8th of april would be a normal working week for nonessential workers to people who stormed government hospitals and banks are still working for everyone else he said sit tight at home only go to a crisis michael seen together we're going to try and slow or stop the spread of covert 19 today it is possible we might see an extension of that self isolation regime although if we follow suit cannot the european countries including the u.k. . france and spain we might see

a much harsher quarantine given that the majority of russia's covert 1000 cases are actually centered in moscow if there is a city that will fall victim to a to a harsh quarantine it will be the capital so there is just the things potential economic measures stricter punishments and of course harsher social distancing policies there's all the things that might be up for discussion but we'll just have to wait and see hope it'll be any minute now. should be coming so it will be across it will hums a movie but she later after that it gets more comment on it from the center of moscow the thanks very much well as truck was circling around the rest of europe france has no suppose 4000 coronavirus related deaths and 57000 registered cases surprisingly those on the front line of treating the sick are reporting the. abuse one she was attacked as the face mask she was carrying and pharmacy workers say they're also suffering physical and verbal abuse since strict quarantine rules

were imposed. our system shows a 50 to 60 percent increase in aggressive action against pharmacists since the beginning of the isolation regime compared to the same weeks last year these actions include insoles threats but also physical attacks and break ins and they bring it to the lock downs been extended but difficulty in buying food is seeing some having to resort to theft child to do bensky reports on her. it started in solidarity and song to keep up spirits i. but now off to 3 weeks of lockdown the mood and dangers are apparently evolving they are no longer singing dancing on the balconies now people are more afraid not so much of the virus but of poverty many are out of work and

hungry even though in the poorer southern regions the impact of covert 19 has been less dramatic than in the north they too are in confinement and just people run out of food and money so dissipate as residents are becoming desperate police are now patrolling supermarkets and streets in some areas no longer just to make sure that people are staying indoors but to stop thieves we need to act fast more than that distress into violence as supplies dry up reports are emerging that gangs around sicily are using social media to plot attacks on stores this comes after a ferry company that used to deliver vital supplies of food and medicine to the island fell into bankruptcy and has halted its services it's not just the stores

that are under threat local media has also reported that 2 elderly italians were rolled off their shopping by young people on scooters targeted apparently because they were seen as easy prey civil unrest is some suggest a real concern i'm afraid that the worries gone are a thanking large sections of the population over help him. the future with the continuation of the crisis will turn into ungar cred that warning has been echoed by the head of the red cross which believes italy won't be the only country impacted by social unrest if the lock downs continue in the most difficult neighborhoods of the biggest cities i'm afraid that in a few weeks who have social problems this is a social bomb that can explode at any moment because they don't have any way to have an income even though italy's prime minister. has said his government too

will designate 400000000 euros for feedback she has as part of a why don't release package may say that the funds simply aren't enough. we were expecting more and i hope the government will find a way the situation is extremely delicate as a significant part of the population has 0 income those who before lived with dignity now find themselves in difficulty. quarantine in italy has been extended until at least april the 12th but as with other countries that is not a definitive end date and while covert 19 may be gutting the country italy soon could have to fight back against a very different kind of threat charlotte devinsky r.t. paris here is a colony was already fragile before the virus hit no locals fear this latest impact

might mean their lives will never return to normal. when i leave my home here in florence do some shopping i feel the situation has really become more dramatic the streets are empty and i see police officers doing their checks everywhere i'm no really afraid for myself but i do feel worried about the situation in general if things don't change soon and people keep losing their jobs remain locked up or we risk of a crisis much worse than anything before. this is one of the hardest moments we have ever had to endure we're trying to move forward despite all the sadness what people see in the future well i think it will be very hard especially for local businesses who are already starting to go bankrupt i help our government will help and europe will not abandon us. e.p. boyle a lot of people are said that because of the squire and no we are easily to each child or. friends. and basically what's the perception

off of they look be normal is there that we will never go back to normal life. even after after their loved this is due to do it for so many company many services a little girl restaurants were shut down definitely after and a crisis even worse months from there you know you're beyond you your one central banks are not good enough where before a call or. sort of crisis will be a war doesn't that this is our perception. so i'm a director of 2 hotels in marina the camera also which is close to salerno it's a coastal city where we used to hosting many tourists in the summer time but due to this pandemic situation we don't know how it's going to be we're trying to modify our cancellation policy but for sure we'll lose a lot of money as we'll have to drop our prices. were missed everything to worry about trying to stay positive to take it day by day

isolated the talent is still keeping their spirits up with music and song from their balconies or one neighborhoods definitely lucked out they've been serenaded by a professional opera singer no less we were one was there was one of your loved ones. will last well here and there was no one will will will. that's called e-mails who's been telling us how the popularity of that video being shared widely online is helping her overcome the difficulties of have been a stay at home. plan wasn't actually to make a video. once they closed all of this. it's in everything in rome they made an announcement on t.v. that people would get together in solidarity to sing difference arms for 3 nights in a row and on this night we went out and everyone sang the national anthem together and then my neighbors asked me to sing another song so i sang this line and my

friend filmed it but it was definitely not my and my friend uploaded it to face and i got a lot of it is that i share it and then it just kind of. like crazy it helps that i how so many people reaching out to me after this video. and they say that i helped them but really they have helped me a lot and i have my family and my friends but i'm here by myself and. it's really hard you know. yes snapshot of life in italy there now the bigger picture and you are the pundit mix proving to be a real litmus test for solidarity in the e.u. the reluctance of germany and other wealthy european nations to share the financial burdens infuriated italy or europe correspondent peter all of a next looks closer at the impasse. away from quarantine and self isolation the very future of how the european union sees itself may be at risk from this

corona pun demick will it look back and see a union that stuck together through tough times or one that fell apart a group of the talian officials took out a full page police in a major german newspaper that told at the heartstrings it is solidarity that you germans were showing by many european countries after the war and often to reunification did german friends memory helps in making the right decisions the crux of the letter is hope hope that the financial burden for dealing with corona virus will be shared out amongst member states it echoes what had previously been said by the italian prime minister just said he can't take talking about mutual izing current and future debt not harping back to world war 2. again i wanted so old german citizens were not right in the beach overdosed on economics by the beach of a history book germany's hardly greeted those pleas with open arms maintaining that

the 2012 european state guillotine mechanism is the only option. so it is no to corona bombs yes to the european stability mechanism and investment bank i think that is the way to help europe and at the same time to maintain the stability of the euro in the long term that response is left some in rome angry europe has enjoyed it italy's political weakness for many decades italy today does not want to be a waiter while others are eating lobsters like france and germany if you plan to take advantage of the emergency to bring countries like italy or other countries with more fragile economies to their needs europe will have no future. well i'm fairly ofo made a show of removing the from his office replacing it with the italian trickle it's a symbolic gesture fish sure but what it does show is that there are some member

states that are increasingly disappointed in a union that supposed to look out for everyone's interests not being particularly forthcoming when it comes to helping those in need deal not only with a pandemic but also with the economic impact it will also have peter all over r.t. early in his 70 minutes pass for a moscow good afternoon we're waiting for president putin to address the nation we'll take you there when it happens we're reporting worldwide on how the country's attacking the pandemic on the way to american sailors stuck at sea after an outbreak onboard there was a ship it's called that headache for the tiny pacific island now expected to help isolate what amounts to thousands of crew it's among the stories ahead.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

again the pentagon's trying to source 100000 body bags right now the united states currently has the world's highest number of infections and white house officials say the virus could claim more than 2 100000 lives in the country more than a 1000 died on wednesday alone the highest daily number so far the situation's getting so tough in new york that refrigerated trucks of being stationed there overwhelmed hospitals to try to cope with the rising amount of deaths as america's try to teach of its reports next. as the 2nd month of the coronavirus outbreak begins in the nation is bracing for the worst of it i want every american to be

prepared for the hard days that lie ahead this disturbing video showing several bodies being moved from a brooklyn hospital treating covert 1000 patients the number of deaths expected to grow as we approach the anticipated apex the range on the apex is somewhere between. let's say 7 to 21. makeshift hospitals are wrecked across new york city the javits center central park and now parts of the tennis center that host the u.s. open this as concerns grow that hospitals will soon run out of protective equipment for staff and medical supplies including those lifesaving ventilators which governor cuomo says are nearly. possible to get it's like being on e bay with 50 other states bidding on a ventilator and you see the big go up because california. illinois

bit florida bid new york bids california rebids that's literally what we're doing in new york city mayor bill de blasio calling on all veterinarians and plastic surgeons to lend their ventilators if you've got a ventilator in your office in your operating room we need it now it should not be sitting there doing nothing all officials are still working to flatten the curb in new york governor cuomo believes the apex will hit the state at some point in april reporting in new york city chavez are. thousands of sailors on the 1st u.s. warship on deployment to report and will be taken off the vessel by friday will the $100.00 personnel of a feudal roosevelt aircraft carrier have tested positive and of course quarantining with stuff in such close proximity to one of those proved a huge challenge that evacuation would be carried out in the u.s. pacific territory of with the ships currently docked but it's a concern of the self which could see facilities well overstretched the island's

only got a couple of 100 hospital beds and is already dealing with nearly 80 local infections the u.s. warships crewel most self isolated military bases and local hotels although some will have to stay on board. one thing i want to emphasize as well is that we cannot and will not remove all the say or from the ship and that's not what the commanding officer requested either nor the medical team our plan has always been to remove as much of the crew as we can while maintaining for the ship's safety this ship has weapons on it it has munitions on it it has expensive aircraft and it has a nuclear power plant that requires a certain number of people on that ship to maintain the safety and security of the ship yeah that's echoed by former pentagon analyst michael maloof who spoke to us he told us about the in the dangers posed when there's an outbreak on a military vessel. it's very very difficult on a warship like that unlike a cruise and a cruise ship which also was infected on an aircraft carrier a destroyer or submarine you don't have the luxury of individual compartments

except maybe for the tap them because they do what they because they're on 247 duty they do what they call hot where's the someone who's on duty gives up his bed as someone else sleeps at it i mean it's that close they confide and as a consequence the ability to spread the disease such as this particularly if you're in the open ocean is very very very high and people are going up and down the ladder simple holding the same areas constantly and to keep those areas germ free is it's going to be a much would be a monumental task. the un's warning about global uncertainty and keeping grocery supplied in the u.s. alone the farming industry is grinding to a halt and food banks is struggling to meet demand a mile long queue of cars was seen waiting to access one facility in pennsylvania is kind of moping reports the pandemic and the economic fallout has left

a number of americans in need of assistance still banks where low income americans can turn to survive are now struggling themselves they're overwhelmed by people desperate for help. it's the speed that is hitting us that is making it so difficult to contend with the current immense he's got to have in place where not to sound sort of the numbers of people who need help hardly ideal down the food bank donations have been cut in half at a time when its use are growing rapidly in just one week over 3000000 americans have turned to meal centers banks and kitchens for any help that they can yet it's an issue that goes far wider as well production and american agriculture is on the brink as a result it means that the food supply is fast becoming a global problem we risk a looming food crisis unless measures are taken foster protect the most from rabbo keep global food supply chains alive and mitigate the pandemics impacts across the food system in a situation like this the policies of individual countries can have

a global impact in the united states here essentially workers are not getting any extra pay for the risk they take when it comes to corona virus spreading as a result agricultural workers are demanding more as they work to keep the shelves of our supermarkets full it's almost overnight the food workers went from being an afterthought in people's minds to suddenly being essential work it should not have taken a pandemic of global proportions for us to realize that food workers literally feed us some fear that this could be chool little too late with the supply chain already in danger of breaking down it seems that amid the pandemic the very fabric of everyday life in the united states is coming apart or actually our federal government despite having all of the signs did not take them very very seriously and they did not do preliminary planning that would prevent the need for people to

have to wait on line and have to depend on food banks in a moment like this this is not just poor people or low people who have to depend on this food this is the one with the elder. and people in the middle class people who have literally been laid off we also have farm workers who are not protected and are not being given the information that they need to protect themselves and their children and many of these farm workers are also undocumented people and even the these 3 stimulus that we just passed in the united states does not apply to them so they are not covered they're not protected they're ill informed and that is a recipe for in really really big crisis we don't have people who could harvest our food that are healthy food is going to rot that food is not going to be distributed code that 19 is basically a magnifying glass in elucidation on all of the systems in our country that were already in crisis the system being one of them. this is for so much to head isn't

it right let's take a minute out to go around the rest the world see what's happening in most countries restrictions on movement only seem to be growing but for residents in the original virus every cent of they think in china there are signs that things are slowly returning to normal the city is reopening and locals are being allowed to work limitations all movements are also being eased for people who need to get into the region from outside but safety 1st the authorities are still checking the health of people trying to get into. europe maybe a code red but life so most as normal in sweden still precautions are in place but unlike most of its european neighbors sweden's shops cafes and primary schools are staying open right now at least there's no lock on the borders are open only the most at risk groups have been told to stay at home sweet has got almost 5000 registered cases and more than 200 have died. a different approach in nepal the police keeping their distance right well away while enforcing the law and tackling

people who are flouting the rules the south asian countries only registered 5 infections so far and no deaths fully reported. well right now billions of being told to stay at home and news channels are more in demand than ever but keeping the information rolling means a major shift in how broadcasters like us get the job done for you shouted was dashed the next shows us how the team with r.t. u.k. are handling it at the moment. a rolling don't get too close to the biggest story in town in fact the only story in town is of course the coronavirus crisis with breaking news it's organized chaos editors in the driving seat janice working flat out and correspondents like me in the deep end but with this story it simply can't be like that the government advice is to stay at home in order to stop the spread and anyone that can work from home or our team does but in order to broadcast live television you at least need some people here myself included in the office and in

the studio so those of us that have to be here are at least spaced out 2 metres apart with plenty of handwashing a liberal use of hand sanitizer to behind the scenes one absolutely anyone that's not essential to the tech team is kicked out after they've done their set up good news for the lighting rig this is the room we call studio b. where our guests come to do live interviews but now they're all on video link so i guess it's just gathering dust before i go an am i need to look presentable and even though the make up artist is here as an extra caution i'm doing it myself usually i'd sit next to a news anchor bill but in order to maintain that 2 meters distance i'm all the way over here hi belle. stay safe and keep watching for the latest. just over half an hour of good voice the 2 from the sharia you're watching out international for a moment coming from moscow with me covello will bring you full news hour as we await president putin's latest address to the people of russia is due to come up

this got another half an hour to go before we hand over to the u.k. as when it happens will go to it will cut your correspondent across this in central moscow to more of our headline news or world efforts to contain the coronavirus of this quick break. math guys are financial survival guide liquid assets are those that you can convert into gas quite easily. to keep in mind no assets them into a place of. record. is you'll be a reflection.