well i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm sure both of those. headlines this coronavirus takes a devastating toll on care homes across europe with residents dying with no treatment and no families allowed to see them the director of retirement home in this league describes the die conditions. i would describe what's happening as a tsunami and losing so many people at the same time is terrible. the more new york starts digging mass graves after malls in this city overwhelming overwhelmed by the huge numbers of the dead that is the health crisis there spins out of control and russia and opec finally reach agreement which will see all production slashed in a bid to stabilize the global market although mexico had been against the move though later came around to the idea.

hello good afternoon just gone 4 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international let's start with the latest figures on the code 19 pandemic because the number of confirmed infections worldwide has passed 1600000 the death toll stands at more than 97366000 people have recovered. well the coronavirus is taking its greatest toll on the elderly with picture of devastation emerging around care homes throughout europe deaths in such facilities has surged but exact numbers aren't yet known due to a lack of testing and delays in reporting initially the health the rector of one

nursing home says that there are no resources to cope with the crisis. i would describe what's happened as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time is terrible we have not even had time to know what happened and mourn for those who have died over time and homes to provide optimal conditions for the virus to spread and in many european countries residents have been left behind by health care services receiving little or no treatment in france almost a 3rd of all coronavirus deaths have happened in such facilities challenged reports . 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 a 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 and most vulnerable people during the peak weeks. it to put a 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. struggling to stop the spread of covert 19 it's estimated that a march alone nearly $5000.00 people in cafes in madrid region died that's thousands of deaths higher than normal a correspondent from our sister channel r.t. 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 in that receive and there were different parties community college there's a lot of the t.p.t. is they were defined inside as the type of us bases they could be 19 and in that time period this equation becomes very difficult for care homes because. for them they need to act nicer hospitals 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 being 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 could be 19 is very cruel because you cannot have 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 the supervisors 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. with the fact that you see how many people. care homes die in the last weeks 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 and hope and it found elderly residents who've been abandoned and in some cases all day able their beds meanwhile in a chilly investigation has been new which after dozens died at a nursing home. one worker 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 that this situation isn't good this covered everything up and 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 tons of money to importing into care homes and i think insult to injury by. 19 positive patients is also used to basically make health suicide notes for people. we're taught from a young age to respect our elders to look after our elderly yet as the panic has ensued with a pandemic those key lessons those reassuring overtures from leaders feel like in some cases they have evaporated shoulder jeevan ski auti paris.

hospitals around the world having to spend the final services they focus on 19 patients will have a look at the details on this a bit later in the program. the u.s. does have the world's fastest growing death toll from cope with 19 at the moment the figures approaching 17006 protected to overtake italy within days in new york state 7000 lives have been lost are unable to cope in this video you can see here contract labor is in protective gear burying the dead in a trench on hot island in the bronx the area has traditionally been used to bury with relatives trinity chavez reports.

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. are 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. oh 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 if you want to be. working out of. 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 receive a large if they still work in 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 is 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 world bank has warned that sub-saharan africa is entering a recession for the 1st time in 25 to the pandemic and that could mean millions of people pushed into extreme poverty and unable to. their daily needs. the global shock waves and how they are affecting the continent. of 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 says the great depression these numbers are dramatic other. comparisons with 2008 financial choices and even the great depression of the

thirty's are inevitable in the us and asked me to 16000000 people have filed unemployment claims over the past 3 weeks and know if that is happening to the world's economic superpower what bleak future awaits everyone else take africa for example the world bank says the coburg 900 is threatening to take 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 hof 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 of 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 no around 11000 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 tees 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 we 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 scene in europe or china the outcome could be devastating the coronavirus would actually affect health care services across the world but more so african countries who are clearly more prepaid who are clearly have just because they're underfunded and ill equipped many of them are the cause of the labor market

expected to docs and nurses very in short supply so. called market 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 office's straight but meanwhile south africa has taken the unprecedented step of going into a military patrolled lockdown bar was human rights groups also allege these lockdowns are being taken advantage of by authoritarian regimes to consolidate their power and also to snort social uprisings as joblessness continues to rise the timing of the pandemic is big bad for africa

a number of its nations only now is 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 a lack of pesticides then we could see 4000000 more people struggle to. families so while the corona virus is making life around the world difficult for the 1300000000 living on the african continent it threatens to undermine individual freedoms collapse health care systems and bring about economic ruin africa's meant to be an agricultural produce the continent and in many cases many countries in africa how sort of the the element of mineral well actually seeing that doesn't actually play in good hands so if people who live on a dollar

a day nearly 70 percent of population size is. a dollar a day those people do not ask 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 strange and more than likely the african people will stop when the supply chains are terribly affected which they will see got to be the case. now in other news in a bid to stabilize what have been plunging oil prices the opec group of the world's major producers have finally reached an agreement with russia to slash production mexico had been the only country refusing to come on board although it was eventually persuaded to do so so let's get the details on quarter he's been following the story for us so don't just run through them what's happened in the last few hours aside. well i need this agreement that opec and russia come to was

certainly one of historic proportions now this now that mexico has agreed to this plan that originally saudi arabia and russia had come up with which was intended to cut global oil production by $10000000.00 barrels of oil a day things are going to be looking better now this now this agreement comes after a month long price war between moscow and riyadh actually this was this was after saudi arabia had dramatically cut sorry boosted its oil production and pushed global oil prices down significantly as a result on thursday opec plus nations called for its member states to to help efforts intended on stabilizing the or the international oil market but this was after a marathon negotiations on the issue and we even heard from russia's energy minister which says that the cuts agreed upon were necessary were crucial to the international markets. especially in that we have seen

a substantial slump in demand 10 to 15000000 barrels a day demand could fool even further in the near future oil storage facilities and 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 new range now like you said before any of this agreement was hanging for a while on mexico's agreement now this is a country that has for a while had plans actually to expand its own domestic oil production but mexico's president said that after after talks with u.s. president donald trump they were able to work out a deal so now that the world's oil producing countries are more or less on the same page even moscow said that this is only going to mean positive things for the world economy. ok thanks don't don't call today with the latest so pretty head to see this hour including preying on failing to get the fruits to is trying to cash in on the 19.

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i would say we could have prevented this pandemic but we weren't ready remember as reasons because you know the problem is that companies that are making vaccines and other virus they want to make a profit so they don't make them if there is no virus to make them against it so after sars one it disappeared very quickly there was no incentive. welcome back with health services around the world engaged almost solely in the fight against the corona virus it means the focus has been taken off many other crucial sectors in the u.s. there's been a drop by up to nearly 60 percent in admissions for those suffering heart attacks spain seen a 40 percent cut in emergency procedures and patients seeking heart care in hong kong have reported lengthy delays while

a doctor in new york has revealed that patients there are refusing to come in over face they'll be infected. 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 a problem to share a room or go in the hallways without the covert active patient i have patients come in crying and screaming but they don't want to be sent to the emergency 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 fill the air of an emergency room where the patients are 90 percent of them are testing positive over 19 coughing and sneezing. or british doctor david paul who is a former m.e.p. to say that no one should be scared of going to hospital if they need 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're 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 calls back lots of retired doctors lots of retired nurses back on 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 well the u.k.'s national health service is under the strain in the moment and it's waiting time to trip in london and many hospitals have chiesa this is to private clinics we heard from one patient. to teach evans.

operation shirt george for next week and it was cam saltus recurrent breast cancer . i had a lot of treatment about 5 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 the consultant hasn't operated there before so his very. being very very cautious and very careful to make sure that he thinks a. lot of scientists are warning that a vaccine for the corona virus is likely to be more than a year away and that that gap in the market has allowed fraudsters to step in offering fake treatments are against if as the story. it's always like this isn't

it especially in times of desperation but mankind is gripped by fear and despair they crawl out from under their rocks the charlatans the prophets years the slimes and the sneezes even among them of those of exceptional shamelessness i'm asking for a brief 3 months to assist in research work uncovered 19 being released to the post covered world is no solace to even been concentrated martin's correctly former drug industry executive a fraud a ponzi scheme creator but lose 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 this 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 a 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 is no silver toothpaste yes toothpaste that's not a joke patented now we have the pentagon has come and documented in homeland

security and so. disturbed the whole sorry strain of family at point blank range so ludicrous were his claims that authorities in new york had to step in and 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 so just walk by report them make a complaint that facebook and twitter if you see

a post there which is. the only thing worse than waiting for a cure is being fooled into buying one only to learn that it's fake and someone jury in a pandemic profited off of our collective misery. when ever something happens of a catastrophic nature you see a number of sometimes altruism but oftentimes despicable for example price gouging in this country there were people who were selling pure rel these these and who lotion types of things for $200.00 a bottle was ridiculous facemask so that's one example then you have televangelists or others who apply their spiritual where 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 dish now i i've heard radio promotion sometimes tawdry despicable so whatever the human imagination can provide that's what you'll see so that's how the news is looking so far today here not eating to remember those the pandemic continues we had our say will be here with all the latest information bringing you coverage on our website and on social media to an addition to the radical coverage we have from our studios in moscow london and also washington so do stay informed and stay with us.

with 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 flown some her calling this the ultimate perfect storm how this all ends is in place against. him.

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