a gal's explosion causes apartments to. 3 people are known to have. more. sounds over its investigation into a stopping attack which left 2 dead counter-terror police the suspect was arrested but no motive. another news french. protest accusing the government of leaving them woefully ill equipped to treat coronavirus patients. here's what our government has given us. as you can see. this is magical we actually don't have to provide sufficient

medical how. hard. ecuador the bodies of victims are being. streets because health services cope with. you. wherever you are churning in from right across the globe. international my name's you know in the middle. to our developing story 1st in russia 3 people being confirmed to died. or explosion ripped through a building. causing it to partially co-ops russia's emergencies ministry say 9

people were injured 4 of currently are in hospital it happened. located there are 90 kilometers east of moscow i spoke a little bit earlier to our correspondent out the scene. the rescue services and in fact you can see behind me there's plenty of rescue workers they're still working on clearing out the debris essentially a whole section of a 5 story residential building collapse because of a gas explosion talked to some people in fact i talked to an elderly woman who lived in that particular section but she was a lucky and she was not living she didn't live in the section that collapsed but right next to it here's how she told me he's how she described to me what she experienced pretty clearly that they measured services arrived and told us to leave the building we were about to do that but it turns out that our franjo had been

torn apart and the nearest wall had collapsed and luckily i was it was start to scream and telling them that we couldn't get out there magine says so since then had to rescue us if we don't know what to do know the house is no longer suitable for lay then we will move in with our daughter but she has 2 children and husband and now also the 2 of us in a food to square meter apartment well in fact the blast was so powerful that it shadowed the windows of adjacent of nearby buildings as you can see there are shattered all over the ground and this is the building that right that is right in front of the one that where the gas explosion explosion had happened it's not the only building that suffered from of this we also talked to some people who witnessed it who didn't live in this particular residential building but who witness said from from their homes is what they told us 1st you know i was in my balcony smoking then an explosion happened in a building and from where i was. i can see the corner of the building i saw smoke

shook with was so strong it even reached my window in the distance then i was at home when i heard the noise it sounded like a building was shaking i rushed to the street but i couldn't see anything and then i heard the police and fire for just started and i thought that they call since top people standing outside in blankets among them were many children and elderly people who were in the military at 1st all i could see was a cloud of dust but a few minutes later when they dispersed i saw a guy sitting on the 3rd floor he was covered in blood people emitted in a rush towards him slowly brought him down 5 minutes later an ambulance arrived and took him away. those some 200 people who have been evacuated from this building right now in a nearby school this is where they have been placed for now but obviously all of them are concerned as to where they will be spending this night already well the governor of the moscow region talked to them and then he talked to us to

journalists and he explained what the authorities are going to do to help out those who have found themselves in this tragedy that is the nationals of the show. is to provide everyone with accommodation and then the experts will make a decision on what happens next with the building over at the residence of fakes who do receive special material assistance users which will several people are still unaccounted for now doesn't mean that they are there under the tons of rubble behind me but it means there are simply not picking up their phones and as the authorities are trying to reach them but still rescue as well it's still a lot of work ahead of them and they will be have been bringing the lights because the sun is about to go down and it seems it looks like that they are going to be working through the night here. turn intention to france where a deadly stabbing incident in the southeast of the country is now being treated as a potential terror attack that left 2 dead and of least 5 injured is believed her

written documents pointing to a possible motive or find in the suspects heise president among his condolences earlier to the victims with more on what we know here is our friends correspondent charlotte. well we haven't had very much from the police other than the fact that the perpetrator behind this attack has been arrested and now an investigation is underway into what the motives were behind that attack what we know from local reports as to what happened is that this took place in a coal mine just south of leone called hormones. and it took place at around 11 am local time here in france and we understand that the assailant was armed with a knife and he had packed passers by in the center of this comment and also according to reports went into some of the shops attacking customers and also start inside those shops now we understand 2 people have been killed as

a result of that attack and several others were injured including some who are said to need critical conditions or in critical condition in hospital right now receiving treatment for their injuries we also know details from local reports about the attacker we understand it was a sudanese national who is an asylum seeker here in france and that he is said to be in kiev thirty's we have heard from the interior minister here in france this is what christopher kastner had to say on twitter or my thoughts go to the victims of the attack at romance or is there and their relatives their last perpetrator was arrested by national police the police and leon are mobilized under the authority of the justice department to stop was the nature of this horrific act and we've also had witness reports it's been reported by local media that he shouted back while rushing towards his victims but that hasn't been confirmed by the police he

has been arrested as i mentioned and the counterterrorism police are investigating but they haven't taken over this investigation fully yet and it is too early for them to label this a potential terror attack. these are the latest figures in the kobe of 19 demick today billions of people are currently under some sort of lock done but the number of corona virus cases is still increasing there are no more than 1100000 registered infections more than 60000 have died but almost a quarter of a 1000000 people have recovered. well let's return to france which has not reported its deadliest day yet with frontline medical staff saying they're exhausted and still under equipped hundreds

of nurses are raising awareness about their lack of protection by photographing themselves without any clothes on their symbolic campaign runs with the hushed naked against covert 19 one 'd of the nurses involved ses the french government's probing health workers a deadly risk. here's what our government has given us to fight the cold in 1000 as you can see we need a full range of necessary medical equipment so that we actually don't have to provide sufficient medical help for our patients and the risks for us as well as for the government to satisfy them and applications and we decided to before make it as part of this campaign because thora to leave us naked in the face of the one day make or from late all the special holy speed trains for a moving infected patients between cities to try and ease the burden not overwhelm facilities by transferring the sick to less crowded hospitals in

a different flush elegancies the country's health care system has been in dire need of an overhaul for over a decade. the middle east i think our interests should be represented but nobody protects us on a governmental level it is not only the current government that bears responsibility for the situation we find ourselves right now france's health care system has been a dire conditions for 15 or 20 years as the 5th of the 6 strong as european economy doesn't have the capability to take necessary medical measures we have to understand that you have praised the choice in this and you're pretty aware that this is our reality we have to choose which patient or treat. oh with just about every country having a tough time trying to stay on top of infections in ecuador there are a particularly hard oing stories emerging in the country's most densely populated city there are reports that families are having to leave the bodies of their dead

on the streets health services are starting to cope well the government says it's building a special facility for corona virus victims. my brother has just died due to a respiratory problem and he's here outside the house the police told me they can come and collect the body and i have to wait a day to mourn the body lying here on the sinai because that. day

ready. well back to europe where a member of the british science group responsible for must being infections once the herd immunity strategy to be reconsidered that would involve allowing 60 percent of the population to get infected it had been suggested a few weeks ago but was abundant hospitals rapidly filled up professor graeme medley ses the locked up isn't enough. this disease is so nasty that we had to suppress its completely then we've kind of painted ourselves into a corner because then the question will be what do we do now in broad terms are we

going to continue to harm children to protect vulnerable people or not if we carry on with the lock down it buys us more time we can get more thought into it but it doesn't resolve any think it's a placeholder or concentrating on britain it now has more than 41000 cases over 4300 people have died that's more than the number of fatalities recorded in china it's led to another trucking solution being floated by the health secretary who himself just recovered from the virus one cox looking at issuing immunity passports to people who develop antibodies. we are looking at munity certificate and how we can how how people who are have had the disease have got the antibodies and therefore have immunity can show that and so get back as much as normal to as much as possible to normal life but it's too early in the

science of the immunity that comes from having had that disease. yet the problem right now is that the you care is not yet approved an antibody test and health experts say it's still not clear whether people with bodies as the health secretary was going through there explaining people who have had the disease and recovered whether they are actually truly immune to reinfection or we discussed possible ways forward with british lawyer luke get us on the liberal democrat party politician and belcher. there is no antibody test that is functional which has been currently developed and we've got 66000000 people in the country to try and test to get certificates for and naturally some of them will require retesting so the practicalities of this are impossible practicalities it difficult non-playing know and claim it's going to be easy but it can be managed you know germany has implemented a system that which we are attempting to model and i think what we can't do is

underestimate the economic damage of the entire population being on lockdown you know we're seeing a 1000000 new claims for social security or the equivalent in this country going in suggesting people are either losing their jobs feelers or they're about to lose their jobs of course the government is not going to allow any system of testing there is certain but if we can get to a place where we let people return to work if they have the necessary antibodies if that is scientifically possible then in principle it's something we absolutely have to support part of the government strategy i think is to try and make sure that we flatten the curve as much as possible but we're trying to do that at the moment without adequate testing a tool and so i would much rather government focused on getting the current tests out to everybody who needs them and we need to concentrate on get solving that problem 1st rather than trying to design pie in the sky schemes around something that doesn't even exist yet can't allow that uncertainty to lull us into

a state of complete inertia and i don't disagree that obviously p.p. is an absolute significant priority but we also have to recognize that getting people back to work is a priority i think one of the problems with the government messaging so far has been not giving people a sense of the way out of this what we're living with in the moment is a sort of indefinite state where people have no idea when they're going to get back to work that level of uncertainty is killing british business and it stands to do a lot more damage than the virus itself. just explain p.-p. is personal protective equipment that's what was being spoken but you are watching r t live in moscow if you need some tips on coping with self isolation after the break we hear from people who know all about being cooped up in a small space for months on end russian cosmonauts have some wise words for you a little later in the program stay with us.

if you can't win every single time eventually some workers have to participate in the american economy the american economy is not just buying for a club to crash it's not by and for terrorists like jamie diamond there's labor involved people who work with people our families our values of the american history that like a state that has to be respected at some point you simply can't throw the keys to a group of wall street charlatans and give them 6789 trillion dollars and expect them to do something that's not an outright act of terrorism. do you believe in miracles it would seem democrats do after the job i do search on super tuesday for them the fear of the bernie sanders candidate see me now be contained however this is far from over taking on trump no we see.

it in minutes into the program welcome back no oil prices have rallied slightly after a glimmer of optimism in a global feud over production prices time as the month dried up because of cruel of ours but behind the scenes there's also been a rug over cutting world supply we've got more another earlier from correspondent for. the oil sucked it was already in a precarious situation and that's only been wason by the spread of covert 19 but it seems that some leaders are trying to mitigate the fool out so on friday in a meeting with the country's top oil executives russian president vladimir putin suggested that he be ready to cut oil production in

a bid to try and revive price collapse we currently are seeing an $18.00 yet low price should grosser considers it necessary to join forces we were not initiators of the constellation of the opec plus deal we are ready for agreements with partners and we are ready for interaction with the united states on this issue i think it is necessary to join efforts to balance the market and reduce production as a result of these coordinated efforts and actions he also did specifically emphasizes that have to be a joint coordinated effort not a case where one or 2 countries make some sort of compromise and the others just sit back and really reap the rewards. just when we are in close contact with our partners in saudi arabia recently i had a conversation with the united states president we all are concerned about your developing situation everyone is interested in joining in the i would like to emphasize chlorinated actions for ensuring long term market stability. a couple of

weeks ago and impasse started between the wild top oil producing nations and not exactly was slashing production so that saw prices plunge not was only wason when saudi arabia decided to essentially just open it stops and flood the market and that really caused chaos that's how we got to this moment but luckily it seems that the market is already responding quite well to this latest initiative from russia we saw a record breaker some to buy oil prices so you stabilize ation measures will likely be the prime rate top. more top of the agenda after opec plus meeting and actually we're getting reports that the majority of opec members do actually support cutting down on production the u.s. is the top the oil producer who also want to see this. very quickly especially unfortunately it's found itself in the terrible position of being a country in terms of the coronavirus pandemic. well just going on saying there

has blamed russia for the failure to agree on production cuts saudi officials also refuted claims of intentionally trying to squeeze a large shale oil producers earlier we discussed who might be responsible with the chief executive of a foreign exchange brokerage also 1st let's hear from an economist political commentator so you are desperate they are almost bankrupt they have to prior sale they have a vast vast deficit they are running the government has so many expenses and they have not enough enough so they had to increase their own production to 7 at any price the someplace for this most definitely and only russia is at the minute the only one who is a problem and who is so supply tries to get everybody back to the table and makes good not only good 'd suggestions they are even willing to cut their own production even though they need the money to do i can say with confidence but you don't need

really need a ph d. . when. increase the use of production in order to let's say harm or ethical all the other. ground to kind of. of this comes well. if he goes without saying it gets a lot of pressure on the on the project he's already losing money. kept on. life assistance with probably with some subsidizing their suffering a lot and most probably would have to cut. on the expenses they're doing that means also him possibly even more on the same government side. maybe not the bankruptcy situation but if he told he could become quite. right to another developing story in the us as

a ninth's the launch of enough of our caltex operation in the car at the end is after washington charged the venezuelan president nicolas maduro over drug trafficking r t scale it's not been explored more. the age old american war on drugs is taking a rather interesting new turn we must not let see drug cartels exploit the pandemic to threaten american lives there is an armada of ships now headed to the caribbean to fight against drug cartels today the united states is launching. enhanced counter narcotics operations in the western hemisphere we're deploying additional navy destroyers combat ships aircraft and helicopters coast guard cutters and air force surveillance aircraft doubling our capabilities in the region so they're headed to mexico or colombia to smoke out the narco gangs well actually no they're headed for venezuela that's a country with

a socialist government that has long been targeted less regime change operations is it really. a tyrant who brutalizes his people but may do or is grip and tyranny will be smashed and broken the longer that nicolas maduro hangs on to power the deeper the misery of the venezuelan people washington now wants us to believe that the former bus driver and now elected marxist computer as a side job as a drug king can corrupt actors like the illegitimate majority in venezuela rely on the profits derived from the self markets to maintain their oppressive hold on power the venezuelan people continue to suffer tremendously good i'm adorers criminal control of the country the us department of justice has accused nicholas in the durham of being a narco terrorist and conspiring to flood the united states with cocaine now this comes just days after the united states offered to lift crippling sanctions on

venezuela if they will agree to a power sharing agreement with the american backed opposition however marco rubio has been quite vocal about what the ultimate end game is and it's not do will power . if you have just been indicted for narcotics trafficking and have a $15000000.00 reward for your capture having south com conducting counter-narcotics operations off your coast with a surge of destroyers a walks an army brigade and special operators is not very comforting what's very clear is that a nicholas mogul. who job is. a euro any revolutionary leadership any it's an imperialist leadership the united states is going to reject and they're going to do everything they can to overthrow this leadership it looks like a distraction smoke and mirrors as it were because with this incredible in measurable unprecedented crisis at home with this pandemic how can they be so far

sighted we can't even see it was going to happen in the next few weeks with. the coronavirus how can they be so far sighted to play in the quote unquote future that is what the department of justice has put forward very much evidence to back up their claims against madeira let's not forget that a series of damning revelations from the 1980 s. reveal that certain government officials were conspiring to flood the united states with cocaine however let's remember that those government officials were a lot closer to home of mufon artsy new york. people have been coming up with plenty of creative ways to break the boredom of self isolation with high cult simply looking to the fridge from online workouts to virtual nightclubs there are all sorts of solutions for us to get together without actually getting together let's hear from some people who really know what it is like to spend

months on able to go outside. it was enabled to sleep on us in our quarantine conditions this is an easy way to spend time and the conditions during the preparation for a space flight ensuring the flight itself we are put in a much more extreme situation compared to what we have to experience in a training capsule to which we are completely isolated from any information for 5 days what we are experiencing now can be called a holiday which. isolation in space isolation in the workplace not in the circle of family and friends this is isolation in the state of a fairly high risk with an unfavorable external environment and the timing of isolation was definitely different from what we have now on earth so of course space is a tougher environment. and that was the most important treatment for depression and despondency is to occupy

yourself with something and after all you can occupy yourself not only with homework but also with multiplies nothing in communicating with your family and friends you communicate with my parents on skype every day we drink tea together and show them what is happening outside our window you look around and find all the positive things you can take out of the situation at the end of the day talk to your children talk to your grandchildren talk to your family take things apart what you promise yourself to do a long time ago you're doing the right thing so try to enjoy a. good advice but is how the stories are shaping up the solid wherever you're tuning in to us from across the globe we hope you're not too inconvenienced by crowbars restrictions we do appreciate you choosing us for your news update. to cease.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see of m. m afshin rattansi and we're going underground amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic as the un's call for a global cease fire to fight the virus appears to go unheard on the battlefields of libya yemen and syria coming up in the show ahead of the w h o's world health of

a going underground speaks exclusively to the 8 secretary general of the united nations ban ki moon about tackling global humanitarian crises in the time of coronavirus and what the rest of the world can learn from south korea plus can they coronavirus catalyze climate cooperation all the simple coming up in today's special episode of going underground but 1st let's go straight to today's guest the 8 secretary general of the united nations ban ki moon who was secretary general during the 2013 to 2016 epidemic he joins me via skype from seoul thank you so much of a coming on burn so before we get to the rest of the world how are you personally dealing with the quarantine and what advice would you in the center for global citizens that you had were advice would you give to people watching all around the world today are some good community crappers friend us friend nor can our congress in 1000 in this very timely. effect on the importance for

how has our prime minister and.