germany accuses the us of modern day piracy in the race to secure protected medical gear but donald trump says that americans need face masks and he doesn't want other people to get the. funeral services in italy spain have been overwhelmed as the 2 countries suffer the highest fatalities in the covert 900 pandemic. in sweden takes the longest approach in europe to tackling coronavirus with life going on normal some sweet worried about the growing death toll.

thanks for joining us here with your global news update this is r.t. international. the latest figures in the covert 900 pandemic the number of cases worldwide has now surpassed 1200000 the us has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy 70000 people have lost their lives and 271000 people have recovered. germany's accuse the u.s. of modern day piracy for that italy seizing a plane load of respirators in thailand which was intended for berlin the u.s. president this week invoked wartime powers to prevent other countries from getting hold of protective facemasks during the ongoing pandemic donald trump defended the

move we need the masks we don't want other people getting and that's why we're that's why we're instituting a lot of defense production act. you could call it retaliations because that's what it is it's a retaliation if people don't if people don't give us what we need for our people we're going to be very tough and we've been very tough usually we don't have to use it but we've used to plenty it's turning out more and more unfortunately and it works very well. well the u.s. has the world's largest number of confirmed covert 19 cases now standing at 336009600 americans have died germany is also in the midst of a significant down break with more than 100000 cases there peter all over has more on the battle to secure lifesaving supplies. there's a number of rail was brewing between the united states and its allies over the tactics used to procure protective equipment such as masks the re direction into

the united states while in bangkok airport of some 200000 masks that were supposed to be going from china to the berlin police or resulted in a pretty extreme reaction from a senior figure here in the german capital last week we consider it an act of modern piracy this is not the way to deal with transatlantic partners i urge the federal government to press the united states to comply with international rules over the weekend a different story emerged warn where the supply of 3 m. simply received a much better offer for those masks than the one that had been made by the berlin city government q a lot of criticism for officials here in berlin and the spokes person being pushed to the forefront to explain well we're looking into what happened we are in the process of clarifying the details we're now trying to find out how the order of production and delivery chain went and what exactly happened at the airport in

thailand the us president donald trump had taken the twitter last week to explain to 3 m. that they weren't to be sending their masks anywhere other than the united states we had 3 him hard today after seeing what they were doing with their masks big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing will have a big price to be as well as these german claims that the u.s. may have intercepted equipment canada has made similar allegations in fact prime minister. justin trudeau has said that he'll be speaking with the us president donald trump this coming week saying that such actions could harm both nations in the long run we are continuing to engage in constructive discussions with different levels within the administration to highlight that the u.s. will be hurting itself as much as candidate will be hurting if we see an interruption of essential goods and services flow back and forth across the border

the british government is being stressing the importance of working together with other nations when it comes to curing protective equipment for front line workers it's a team effort and a national mission to defeat an international pandemic but french officials say to us by is a flexing their financial muscles when it comes to snapping up the much sought after protective gear i found a stock of masks that was available and americans i'm not talking about the american government but americans are they offered 3 times the price and they proposed been upfront i can't do that i'm spending taxpayers' money while donald trump was particularly slow when it came to accepting the severity of the coronavirus it seems that sharp elbows fight wallets and presidential to crease the companies over who they should sell their goods to how we hopes to make up for lost time. early in. the white house has denied seizing get any masks

overseas intended for of the countries and the manufacturer that it has no evidence that any shipment was confiscated. to italy now or $15800.00 people have died since the start of the outbreak that's the highest figure in the world the mortality rate has been slowing in recent days but funeral services in several provinces are still overwhelmed. i. know you're going to do to your we have received approximately 150 coffins and used it for time that the army is going to collect them and take its operations out all

over. in iran in talk to our you know today we're facing an absolutely extraordinary situation as the qana virus mortality rate here is very very high the demand for confidence has multiplied by 5 to 8 times compared to what used to be normal yes. it is. so if it is a seed a hospital in paris employed bodyguards to a school staff to their cars or public transportation it follows a spike in attacks on medical workers since the start of the covert 19 pandemic nurses working at a hospital in the capital were filmed on saturday being accompanied by gods to take

the train home the guardian or stations just a 10 minute walk from the hospital and yet still employees don't feel safe making the short journey alone. just called so i can now say that we get to go home in peace and afraid not to wondering whether we are going to be assaulted we saw the police teen aggressive people some colleagues have been assaulted it is happening more often because fewer people are allowed out onto the streets so after several incidents the hospital organized a security presence for us. it's the 1st time the protection like this has been put in place we have several colleagues who have been assaulted there are rumors that there is a drug addict near here who's to be dangerous. office in order to seem clear which medics are given to people in their work we hope to give to them by helping them by working for them and by helping them to get home safely. or most

european countries are in some form of lockdown sweden has so far taken a more relaxed approach the authorities there of advise the public to practice social distancing box primary schools restaurants remain open and only gatherings of more than 50 people have been banned sweets death toll is now above $400.00 total cases standing at around $7000.00 significantly higher than in other nordic countries even taking into account sweden's larger population yes the locals say what they think about the measures taken so far. i don't think that a quarantine it's needed now like it. is really because sweden used. late to stop everybody here in europe with karen thurman shipped i don't go to publix places that much anymore and i think it's good that we all take our own responsibilities i think you should just have a. safe thinking about it and maybe not stand too close to people i trust sweden

i don't really think about that so much you people are like sitting close and it's like a pack of burrill going there but. i don't really care. people ever were so and even know it so yeah but you have to go home also so you need to you also need to go home after work so we have no choice. we've spoken to a swedish epidemiologist he says the model basis some based on the belief that people in sweden are more disciplined than other countries. do you have to observe whether that degree of comfort is such really a sweeter son of the people is acting according to his recommendation and we are not seeing that completely we see that after those recommendations of not traveling for instance people continued traveling to commendation of stay at home people continue breaking those recommendations because they're not specifically rules there is no any punishment it's no any penalty for in one not following their

recommendations which are basically in that notion that 3 people in sweden would be more disciplined the united countries or they would have more trust or more confidence in their authority is and and therefore it would be more willing to do for all of those are going to asians. the u.s. chief medical officer was warned that this coming week could be the worst so far in the covered 19 outbreak as we mentioned earlier more than 1600 americans have died in the crisis and there's been a brutal economic impact with unemployment at its highest since the great depression. more pain reports deaths from coronavirus are setting records across the united states the new reality seems to be overloaded hospitals and morgues tents set up in central park and shortages of food and medicine but that's just part of the new reality workers are losing their jobs 10000000 are newly unemployed

the red cross is now warning about a potential social bomb you few weeks say you will that we will experience in the western counties we have a lot of people movies eating. very marginalized. let me use a warning day in the break in the so call of the nichol of the society she weeks to live social programs he's a shell shock bomb that can explode in every moment the economy has been seriously wounded here and that means the expectations and psychology of both consumers and businesses this is not going to turn around very quickly people are going to say they're going to pay down debt they're not going to spend all this businesses are not going to turn around and hire everybody back you know in crises like this they find ways they're run you know even even more efficiently and they they won't call people back they did in a lot of small businesses won't be there to call people back and it's going to drag

on for quite some time i believe as a result the american public is now in a scramble to buy gun searches for amma are now top online this is only the 2nd time in my 61 years of business that we've seen anything like they say we are experiencing a massive rushed buy guns and ammunition s people feel the need to protect themselves and their families and their fears are not entirely unfounded 5 were just busted in santa cruz for breaking into stores that were closed by coded 19 regulations yes while the national guard has been deployed in all 50 states the situation with coronavirus is already grim but people see here at this point the worst could be yet to come well you know the police services and security services our firefighters and everything are really stressed out with this they're focusing a lot of their attention on you know correctly on on the health problems of this and that specs of this and you know that kind of gives an opening to people who

people to take advantage of that you know not just street crime but the you know what about white collar crime you know what about the businesses that will scam these slush funds that have been provided for corporations you know the. going to find ways to tell your manager that. you know let's not forget the white collar crime and not just the street crime but both will be a problem which is typical in the in periods of extreme stress like this. a u.n. official has called forge and sanctions relief for low income countries suffering from the coven 19 demick it echoes earlier warnings from the un human rights commission and secretary general of the un special rapporteur on the right to food war and sanctions are putting people at risk of starvation allow singled out syria venezuela and iran as being in grave danger she told r.t. if the restrictions continue to be enforced it could amount to criminal activity

there are many countries already picked it wrong. and most of them are equipment chang actions and usually it's very severe right now in health systems the chariot thing and goods is the mill buettner turia every attack really is units good example because in china. when is germany in our series that can. ignite because of her human rights thereby ovations or other reason or the by omission of the right on the sanction will be more serious than the reasoning and you can only tractions quenching it will be a kind of her even criminal act will hopefully this figure to the general call will make. him pegged on the u.s. government is nearing. thanks please the period of the coroner wives.

the british prime minister is in hospital with a high temperature 10 days after he contract at the corona virus that story and more after this break. join me every 1st day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports that's less i'm sure i'll see of that.

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welcome back the british prime minister boris johnson was taken to hospital on sunday 10 days after he tested pose difficult at 19 he's currently at st thomas' hospital near downing. according to a spokesman johnson was taken there is a purely precautionary measure officials say that he suffered persistent symptoms including a high temperature but they have given no details on what treatment he may have received last week the government denied reports that the prime minister was seriously ill saying that there were no plans to put him into hospital. care homes for the elderly in the u.k. say that they're now running critically low on protective gear including masks and

gloves and several boxes of threatened to resign if the government doesn't take action we want producers of equipment being accused of profiting from the situation according to one of britain's biggest care providers the cost of a prince has been hiked by 166 percent while must prices are up more than 1000 percent another social care provider says of the box of gloves that used to cost $2.00 pounds now costs $8.00 and another supplier reportedly tried to charge $179.00 pounds for hand gel before the pandemic would have been just 5 pounds now dromard executive chair of britain's national carrier told us quick profit is standing in the way of protecting people. i think it's a real shame because the people who need it. around a bill to purchase it and when they are purchasing it they're being charged this enormous profit by the supply is

so i think it is in a pandemic likely even right now it's the wrong time to be doing this because we're trying to do this to protect the people who are delivering care and and make sure that the the older people that we're looking after i'm not going to be impacted by the lack of the p. . the government says that it's provided every care home nation why we 300 masks and the department of health says that it's working around the clock to provide the social care sector with the equipment that it needs however the head of britain's largest social care regulator says that's simply not enough. i don't think the governments there enough troops to stop us proper tearing off our arms or we are going to have restrictions for employers very. magician no. p.p.a. to hear from them but what there are 2 americas is not enough that's not for me for cubans are doing the government must prepare for the others find their own great

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a cyclist and i'm purse but what i really wanted to be was a ballerina luckily my hours of excessive instagram scrolling have finally paid off because i came across the hash tag dance with but surely a challenge for those going out of their mind self isolators who want to combine being in a lockdown with a cheeky pair what session with the masters. while in tribute to my younger self and quite frankly because i have literally nothing else to do i decided to give it a go. i think i'll stick to the seats not the stage great news that all around the world theatres which are now just standing empty are giving you the chance to have

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now imagine it on c.n.n. from london we're going underground as a covert positive boris johnson struggles to get hold of basic protection for doctors in a pandemic response characterized by washington as catastrophic coming up on the show just as a taxpayer stepped in to help the banks back in 2008 we will work with the banks to do everything they can to b.p. that fever and support the businesses and the people of the united kingdom in their time when the british government's daily press briefings on coronavirus reveal a moral bankruptcy of capitalism we talked to the president of the u.k. faculty of public health we use that phrase to characterize the response to

a previous epidemic as the tory government stands accused even by a tory media of lethal incompetence this information and lies and will coronavirus destroy sleepy joe biden's chances of beating donald trump while the antibody stand as democrats establishment threatens to risk their lives rather than tomorrow's wisconsin primary we trace how today's politics is shaped from beyond the biosphere and how november's election could be determined by an ancient american see all of them all coming up in today's going underground but 1st after the u.s. a medically supported by the russian military slammed boris johnson's response to the corona virus pandemic britain faces the prospect of millions now infected because the prime minister's aborted herd immunity policy for more let's go straight to the former president of the u.k. faculty of public health professor john ashton who joins me now via skype from dead . and in the yorkshire dales john thanks so much for coming on so trump officials

have used the lack of ventilators to a contrast to other countries' responses to coronavirus this week we're supposed to get 30 new ventilators manufactured with much trumpeting by i must say these and mclaren will they make a big difference to what we're facing here in britain i'm afraid their desperate shortage of ventilators has to be considered alongside the failure to test the shortage of p.c.r. machines i understand slopes the personal protective equipment and i also understand that there's now an emerging issue about oxygen supplies ventilating people even if we have the ventilator so. this all goes back to the failure to get a grip on this emergency right at the beginning when it became apparent that something was happening very serious at the end of january beginning of february when the prime minister failed to convene and sheer kerber of the emergency

committee for governments because what should have happened at that.