homes across europe are devastated by the covert 900 pandemic with many residents passing away without receiving treatment and italian retirement home director describes the dire conditions. i would describe what's happening as it's now losing so many people at the same time it's terrible. york city highest contract labor is to bury dozens of bodies in a trench on heart island wards simply unable to cope with the soaring number of fatalities. in russia and opec agreed to slash oil production to stabilize the global market for the plan hits a roadblock as mexico refuses to comply meaning more talks ahead.

either here with your global news update this is r.t. international. will start with an update on the latest figures on the covert 90 pandemic the number of confirmed infections worldwide has now passed 1600000 the death toll is approaching 97362000 people have recovered. what's become clear that elderly people are at greatest risk from covert 19 and an alarming picture is emerging from care homes across europe there's been a surge in mortality rates but the numbers are still unclear because of a lack of testing and delays in reporting in italy the health director of one nursing home says that there are no resources to cope with the crisis. i mean i would describe what's happened as

a tsunami losing so many people at the same time is terrible to have not even had time to not only happened and mourn for those who have died retirement homes provide optimal conditions for the virus to spread and in many european countries residences be left behind by health care services receiving little to no treatment in france almost a 3rd of all coronavirus deaths have happened in such facilities r.t. charlotte do pinsky explains. as the grim toll from covert 19 continues to mount official figures often amid deaths outside hospitals including those in nursing and care homes a picture is now emerging of how the virus is laying waste to some of the most fragile while many older people have been self isolating at home and hopefully safeguarding the health as much as possible it seems that others in care homes are more at risk in front the death toll rose rapidly off due to merge how many

people in care homes had lost their lives to the virus those deaths now account for more than 30 percent of total fatalities but this isn't surprising from the very start we were warned that older people were at highest risk the most important task would be to protect our elderly and most vulnerable people during the peak weeks didn't assume it to put the priority of the nation is to protect our elderly you must do it responsibly with common sense and discipline strong words from those in charge yet words that some say have wrong hollowing as the elderly bear the brunt of the virus in spain nursing and care homes have been struggling to stop the spread of kofi. 19 it's estimated that they march alone nearly 5000

people in cash in the trade region died that's thousands of deaths higher than normal a correspondent from our sister channel to spanish francisco got you to told me that in some places care homes have become defacto hospitals when the euro's spread out. and it's very deep equal to keep you not received and there were different parties. there is a lot of the t.p.t. as they were defined inside is the right club us bases they could be 19 and it. is this equation becomes very difficult for care homes because. for them they need to act as a host details francisco's mother was living in one home but following complications she's been transferred to a hospital where she's fighting pneumonia although it's not yet been confirmed she

is also being treated as if she's been infected by kuwait 19 as a reporter francisco knows the drill but as a son he says the hardest thing is to not be with her in person. 19 is very cruel because you cannot hack your mother you come the peace here you cannot be weak pair. it's very tough for a patient and for days really. we cannot be close to her in these circumstances when you are in the middle of these and then yeah i think it's very difficult but there were some messages that they were saying for example that all people it's a priority that it was not true you know was not true and it's clear with the fact that you see. how many people. care homes die in

the last week. thousands of people of all people are dying because of. the outbreaks in care homes in spain have led to a collapse in staffing last month the military was called to help but there were time at home and it found elderly residents who've been abandoned and in some cases all day their beds meanwhile in a chilly investigation has been after dozens died at a nursing home. what will work at the facility said the true extent of the risk of infection had been played down what stuff had been told not to wear masks and remember. this situation isn't good this covered everything up there were even 4 people who gave including a female doctor who terrorized us saying we didn't have to use masks. in the u.k. government guidelines say 1000 patients can be safely cared for in care homes

if precautions are taken but some care home managers say that by doing so the government is sacrificing the elderly. that would be tantamount to importing into care homes and i think to add insult to injury by asking us to take over 19 positive patients is asking us to basically make health suicide notes for people who. we are taught from a young age to respect our elders to look after our elderly yet as the panic has ensued with the pandemic those key lessons those reassuring overtures from leaders feel like in some cases they have evaporated so that even ski ati paris. hospitals around the world are having to suspend vital services they focus on code 900 patients that story and more still to come.

the u.s. has the world's fastest growing death toll from covert 19 the figure is approaching 17000 and is expected to overtake italy within days in new york state 7000 lives have been lost and morgues are simply unable to cope in this video you can see contract laborers protective gear burying the dead in a trench on hot island in the bronx the area's traditionally been used to bury those with no known relatives and at each other's reports from the city. here today the coronavirus continuing to take a dramatic toll on new york it's like a battlefield behind your house the number of coronavirus cases and now more than 150000 with more than 7000. the buyers having the biggest impact on some of the new

york city's poorest areas the disparities that have plagued the city this nation there are all about fundamental inequality. once again causing such pain. and causing people innocent people to lose their lives it's just abundantly clear it's sick it's troubling it's wrong new data showing jackson heights elmhurst and corona queens have higher numbers of coronavirus cases than in wealthy mostly white parts of manhattan. it's terrifying here because we're downwind of this of the hospital it's a percentage of the death of the national crisis while queens the epicenter of the outbreak in new york city accounts for more than 3200 factions many are still forced to continue to go to work. want to be.

working. many low wage workers on the front lines from grocery store employees to public transportation workers all deemed essential working around the clock during the pandemic right now everybody who are here if you are the still working the m.t.a. confirming the corona virus has claimed the lives of 41 transit workers in 5 weeks and more than 6000 have fallen sick or self quarantined this as new research shows that the novel coronavirus likely circulated in new york for weeks undetected with more new york infections coming from europe and not asia critics pointing out that the findings contradict president trump's argument that his ban on travelers from china in late january delayed the arrival of the virus to the u.s. reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . the opec oil producing nations plus russia have agreed to cut global output in

a bid to stabilize prices above the deal hinges on mexico which is so far refused to play along on the stomach or to has details. this is certainly a store agreement that's in the works right now between opec plus and russia saudi arabia and russia have already agreed to cut global daily oil production by $10000000.00 barrels of oil and that's after 2 after a month long price war between saudi arabia and russia actually began after saudi arabia had dramatically boosted its oil production resulting in record low global oil prices on thursday opec plus called on its member states to assist in efforts intended to stabilize the global oil market and that was after marathon negotiations on the issue we also heard from russia's energy minister who said that these intended cuts in production are crucial to the global economy and that we

have seen a substantial slump in demand 10 to 15000000 barrels a day demand could full even further in the near future so oil storage facilities are nearly full to capacity and that's a cause for concern this could have serious consequences for the oil sector and the global economy as a whole range now mexico isn't seeing eye to eye with everyone else though right now the agreement is hanging on that countries consent according to opec and even saudi arabia which not long ago was against cutting global oil production is trying to get mexico into the fray i hope mexico can see the benefits of this agreement not only for mexico but for the whole world the entire agreement depends on mexico's consent now there's still another round of talks ahead so nothing set in stone yet but of course we'll let our viewers know of their decision as soon as the details become available. we heard from currency analysts jamila who believes that the tentative agreement between russia and saudi arabia is a reassuring sign for the market. they are on the same page and it's

a good thing there was only a month long history of generally speaking both economies and countries benefit from struggle oil prices but with oil prices now for $20.00 nobody benefits from the situation and there's a lot of job state going to be at risk and there's a lot of other economic implications so generally i still think that that might be some underlying difference of opinion behind the scenes that no longer both sides speaks in their chests saying that we won't stand down and this is a very good message to send to ok we will collaborate we will unify together but once again you're saying that mexico that's not even a huge producer of oil by any state is still able to provide an influence and sense of the structure of the steel. the world bank has warned that sub-saharan africa is entering a recession for the 1st time in 25 years because that the pandemic could mean millions of people pushed into extreme poverty unable to meet their daily needs ski

tayla looks at the global shock waves and how they are affecting the continent. the world has now realized it's facing not just a health crisis but also potential economic collapse global growth will turn sharply negative in 2020 in fact we anticipate the worst economic fallout sees the great depression these numbers are american. comparisons with 2008 financial crisis and even the group depression of them going to thirty's are inevitable in the us and asked me to 16000000 people have filed unemployment claims over the past 3 weeks and known if that is happening to the world economic superpower what bleak future awaits everyone else take africa for example the world bank says that covert 1000 is threatening to tip the continent into its vast recession in 25 years we will see

a complete collapse of the condom is and livelihoods livelihoods will be wiped out in the way we have never seen before if the analysis proves right coronavirus could cost the continent up to half of its g.d.p. and 2020 why while africa is one of the most export dependent regions in the wild but with countries shutting their borders the continent can't trade like before that's on top of reduced tourism and no oil prices the number of coronavirus cases in africa is so far relatively low around $11000.00 but there are concerns it's just the calm before the storm case numbers here increasing exponentially and there she can region he took 16 days from the 1st confirmed case in the region to reach 100 cases it took a further 10 days he reached the 1st sad isn't 3 days after this there were teas hasn't cases in 2 days later we were at 3 says and if this pattern continues

african nations which already have fragile health systems will just simply be overwhelmed. don't have the hospitals the i.c. use or the ventilators to deal with massive amounts of people so if the spread is comparable to that seen in europe or china the outcome could be devastating the coronavirus were to the effect their health care services across the world but more so african countries who are clearly market papers who clearly have just because they're under funded and ill equipped many of them are not on the cause the labor market expected to docs and nurses very in short supply so a truly troubled problematic issues for many of your complaints coaches right now to try and get ahead of the pandemic many countries have been forced containment measures like lock downs curfews and travel bans but that has led to its own knew of problems overzealous policing has already cost lives and kenya there are reports of police beatings and the president himself apologized for the death of

a 13 year old boy at the hands of an officer is straight but meanwhile south africa has taken the unprecedented step of going into a military patrolled or knocked out was. was human rights groups also allege these lockdowns are being taken advantage of by authoritarian regimes to consolidate their power and also to thought social uprisings as joblessness continues to rise the timing of the pandemic is taking to be bad for africa a number of its nations are only now recovering from the ebola outbreak and in the east a small of the locusts is threatening to devastate crops. if we fail with the current regional control operations because of the lack of pesticides then we could see 4000000 more people struggle to feed their families so

while the coronavirus is making life around the world difficult for the 1.3 big. and living on the african continent it threatens to undermine individual freedoms collapse health care systems and bring about economic ruin africa is meant to be an agricultural produce the continent i mean many crazes many countries in africa have sort of the the element of mineral wealth. we've seen that that doesn't actually play in good time so if people who live on a dollar a day in the 70 percent of population sizes and with a dollar a day those people will be lost to stay at home if we're told that's the case who's actually going to take care of them and their bread lines are going to be affected the ability to be able to feed their families and themselves are really straight on more than likely the african people will suffer when supply chains are terribly affected which they will see got to be the case. so it's

a company this out preying on the fear we look at the frauds this trying to cash in on the pandemic. join me every 1st week on the alex salmond and i'll be speaking to the world of politics or. i'm sure. i'll see you there.

welcome back hospitals around the world are having to focus their resources on treating covert 9000 patients and that means many crucial services are being neglected in the u.s. hospital admissions for heart patients have dropped by up to 60 percent and in

spain there's been a 40 percent cut in emergency procedures not relating to covert 19 hong kong is reporting major delays in accepting patients and a doctor in new york told us patients are refusing to be sent to emergency rooms for fear of catching the virus. housing the hospitals it's overcrowded over 9000 patients are going to have to wait for a long time just to get upstairs to a bed with if i'm going to share a room or going to hallways with other covered 1000 patients i have patients come into crying and screaming that they don't want to be sent to the very dizzy room from the nursing home because they had a fever disagree with that they don't want the virus to take me back take me back but they know they're being sent to certain do. because they're going to just inhale the air of an emergency room where the patients are 90 percent of them attesting father called 900 coughing and sneezing. we heard from david bull a british doctor and former member of the european parliament who thinks that patients should never have to be scared of going to hospital for treatment really

cared for ice to people is the hospitals remain open if you have a serious condition so for example if you have on china if you have chest pain if you have anything that you are really really worried about then you must seek medical help because actually strangely the public are actually listening to the advice that's being given a many of the wards are relatively quiet at the moment so if you are concerned if you have a life threatening illness then please make sure that you go to the hospital we have ramped up medical provision we have cold backed lots of retired doctors lots of retired nurses back onto the front line so we've also built these other bigger units like the nice ingo hospital which is 22000 bed wards i mean that's extraordinary so the capacity of the n.h.s. has increased dramatically but that means there are still many doctors around to deal with those conditions that are nothing to do with coronavirus itself. but

despite those assurances there are signs the n.h.s. is under severe strain and billions waiting times of tripled in london many hospitals have outsourced key services to private clinics we heard from nick evans a cancer patient. operation shut you out the next week it was camps on recurrent breast cancer. i had a lot of treatment about 55 years ago and ongoing treatment and unfortunately it's returned and it needs an operation sooner rather than later this will be outsourced to a clinic but it's an n.h.s. clinic. and the tet the consultant hasn't operated that before so his very. being very very cautious and very careful to make sure that things say. of course still no cure or vaccine for kovan 19 in the w.h.o.

has said that the search will take months if not longer that gap in the market has allowed fraudsters to step in offering fake treatments and he's right guess the of reports it's always like this isn't it especially in times of desperation one man car and it's gripped by fear and despair they crawl out from under their rocks the charlatans the prophets years that the slide ends and the sneezes even among them are those of exceptional shamelessness i'm asking for a brief furlough 3 months to assist in research work uncovered 19 been released to the over the world is no solace to even the incarcerated martins corelli's former drug industry executive a liar fraud a ponzi scheme creator but those were his official crimes what's correctly really became infamous for is creating a monopoly over

a parasitic infection drug used to treat pregnant women babies hiv victims he got his hands on the drug and he hiked the price from $20.00 per pill. to $750.00 per pill it was ingenious and utterly soulless you either paid or you died health care prices are inelastic they could have raised it higher and more profits were this is a couple of society couple system a couple of rules the way these vultures those promising promising a cure medicine or a secret formula to to ward off coronavirus spirits and for a pretty penny they'll tell you it came from god god gave us this product i believe yet you're saying that silver solution would be effective there's no silver bullet there's no silver pill and i promise you there's no silver toothpaste yes

toothpaste that's not a joke patented now. the pentagon has come out and documented and homeland security and said this stuff kills the whole sars ran a family at point blank range ludicrous where his claims that authorities in new york cata step in to tell him to stop this charade it's easy to blame the victims here you can call them silly or stupid we could try to understand them the elderly especially who are trusting who are told daily on television that they're in the high risk category that they're likely to die 1st of course they're desperate can you blame them for for grasping at straws know what you can do is you can blame the the car not ists who are waving these straws in front of their faces not only do they create the cure but this pill right here is the prevention we can go on and on

there are thousands of these charlatans all over the world more every day they'll just walk by report them like you can play that to facebook and twitter if you see a post they'll just screw. rawdon the only thing worse than waiting for a cure is being fooled into buying one only to learn that it's fake and someone jerking the bad demick profited off of our collective misery when ever something happens of a catastrophic nature you see a number of sometimes altruism take but often times despicable for example price gouging in this country there were people who were selling pirelli these these hand lotion types of things for $200.00 a bottle was ridiculous facemask so that's one example then you have televangelists or others who ply their spiritual wares maybe legitimately i'm not equipped with

the ability to tell whether they're correct or not that's for others to decide then you also have a variety of people who during this will make statements about the cause of this so called conspiracy theories now again i'm not saying anybody in particular but you're going to see everybody from every walk of life use this some how i've heard radio promotion sometimes tawdry despicable so whatever the human imagination can provide that's what you'll see. as the pandemic continues we had on t.v. here for you with all the latest information including coverage on our website r.t. dot com plus the various forms of social media and don't forget of course the round the clock live broadcasts from monuments studio stay informed stay with us on time .

the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those with. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. for the coronavirus now officially declared a pandemic the world faces the additional burden of an oil market collapse this comes at a time when demand for crude was already blown some are calling this the ultimate perfect storm how this all ends is placed against.

jackson in georgia. a town of 4000 people in the southern united states. a place where executions in the nearby prison are a way of life. in a few hours one will take place by lethal injection. how does it make you feel to live is happening around here am time with the death penalty i think people get what they deserve my pain and i think that's how it should be in the family fits the crime if they. get a felony or you know a lot of children get a new job or the yes death penalty. in 2016 for the state of georgia broke the record for the most executions in the united states.