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is actually the. solution is for those that don't have to where. they should not an option for billions of people around the world. coming from the russian capital base international my names you know mail in 30 minutes of news and views. well here is where we are in the numbers as we enter a new week it's is 4 months since the 1st infections began to cause concern to run the world. more than 1800000 cases have been logged in over 116000 people died another important figure though over in the corner the number of people

known to have recovered from kobe 1000 know it's over 434000. let's focus on new york 1st the worst affected states in the world's most affected country the governor of new york is planning to launch a fund to support medics but there's skepticism from unions who blame him for budget cuts which they say have squeeze resources left the middle of quip to deal with the pound demick with more and similar struggles elsewhere globally here is our senior correspondent in iraq gusti it. isn't in the standings that something super tiny a virus which isn't even technically considered alive has humbled us through all our technology for all our knowledge and hubris ami's robots rockets with powerless

you have nothing to fight it with but there are those who fly through a godless every day into the jewels of infection or warriors in this life and death battle the incredible doctors and nurses and health care workers on the front line of the fight physios radiograph was pharmacists who kept coming to work kept putting themselves in harm's way for years we took what medical professionals did for granted this is a given they didn't get parades all fireworks it took a pandemic for the world to wake up to the service that sacrifices that medics make is a process well the commitment of that i make tonight for health care workers and for the entire nation is that once the crisis is over a massive investment plan and an upgrade of career paths will be put in place for our hospital system we think the federal government should set up a hero's compensation fund to compensate our health care and other front line

workers for what they did here oh they're thankful now they are on camera he didn't mention how under him and his predecessor they eliminated 20000 hospital beds to cut costs the french president doesn't mention how successive governments tried to skimp on health care for years longer hours few abed's nurses doctors less equipment and less money. over the world while military budgets explode. politicians rule the dice on which hospital to close next and no one can claim that they didn't warn us her her odd that.

the end result has been that we don't have enough of anything that we need not beds nor hospitals no ventilators 1st world nations with astronauts in space ascending the nurses to work in trash bags there troll to noons one miles over and over a period of cruel irony over and over to their manager if you're given this condition and told to you for the entire week don't applaud politicians they were warned time and time again that this could happen sure it would have been expensive to prepare the turns out it would have been cheaper than doing nothing. the world is not prepared for a fast moving global respect that would kill up to $80000000.00 people devastate economies and create social chaos and yet those medics that we try to skimp and

save money on they care for us every day in america france or russia these medics who to work every day knowing that there's a serious risk of infection and with the dignity to avoid mentioning that they warned us were unprepared as health care system one that was already broken prior to this and is completely destroyed at this point we were unprepared as a country it's unfortunate how it everything played out how every the personality sponsible for making sure we were protected so that we could do our work properly and save other people fail to do that they completely let us down they betrayed us every single agency every single federal government does every single person that was there that was supposed to provide us what we needed that was supposed to assist us and give us support during these difficult times so that we could do what

we needed to do would be properly if equally fail to do that we were left alone. to figure it out on our own we're going to be damage as a result of this i don't know what are we going to end up i don't know what we're going to look like after this but if we're never going to be this a health care is never going to be the same health care workers are never going to be the same this is as completely destroyed. everything that it could. even. well let's turn attention to europe where there are growing calls in front so where the urgent need to develop an exit strategy from the covert 19 locked on president is due to give a nationwide address sometime on monday evening when our parse correspondent charlie told us what we might expect to hear later. president macklin is due to address the french nation on monday evening where it's expected he will announce

that the lockdown will be extended again it's been in place since march 17th but the suggestion now is that will go on until at least made may there's also suggestion that he will announce schools will not reopen until september this comes as the death rate for kovac 19 has been decreasing in the country over the past few days and the suggestion is the number of people in the intensive care unit has also gone down now for 4 consecutive days but what is the exit strategy as many are saying the lockdown just can't continue indefinitely but one medical institute is warning that needs to be a strategy in place and it's warning that so far it isn't clear that one is and without that they could be a 2nd even more deadly wave that could overwhelm the health systems to lock down with no exit strategy in place will inevitably lead to a large rebound in fact as the immunity of the population is estimated to still be

very low profile one to 6 percent meanwhile there's pressure on the government to try and get the economy moving we know that france is already in a recession and some people are suggesting this is the worst recession since 1945 for members some 30 to 40 percent of businesses are just completely shut down with no ticking at all now the head of the. francis is made it is actually warning that when we do go back to work that french citizens may have to work harder and longer we will have to ask ourselves the question of working time sooner or later public holidays and paid leave to accompany the recovery and to facilitate by working a little more the creation of additional growth well as you can imagine that's not everybody's cup of tea and in fact workers unions of. serious. it is utterly indecent to ask people to work more it's not up to them to pay the costs of the

coronavirus crisis and there's huge pressure on the president in this address tonight it will be one of several addresses is made to the nation since the start of the pandemic turned the lock down here in france and it comes at a time when some 38 percent of people in one poll suggest that they just don't trust the government to deal with this crisis but will be watching to see exactly what president says it will bring you the latest. president putin says the outbreak in russia is worsening there was another daily record this monday with 2558 new registered infections more than 1300 of them here in moscow but mr putin added the nation is continuing to stay ahead with its actions to try and contain the spread. we see that the situation with coronavirus changes daily and unfortunately not for the better reason increasing cases particularly severe what the next weeks will

define everything all our actions should be optimized taking any factors into account to continue our preemptive course even though the situation is not getting better we're still managing to make preemptive move we need a good professional projection for coming 3 to 7 days. but digital permit system is rolling out here in moscow this monday to try and curtail non-essential travel around the region but here is also ordering the majority of nonvolatile enterprises to stay shut saskia taylor has more in the capital new restrictions but i'm just standing opposite the mayor's office right here in the center of moscow and it's located on the main street all the way down to right square not direction it's kind of equipment of london's oxford street paris is shanties a new york's 5th avenue so you see it's actually. john packed with both cars and people but today you can see there are relatively few cars and almost no

pedestrians why well new harsha knocked out matches have come into effect this monday so from now on until the 30th of april trouble within the city will be regulated by a strict cost system so how to set up false starts 3 stages to the prostate a promise for people traveling to and from but the 2nd stage of the trip up the fried cheese and the 5 states will actually be to limit movement within the neighborhoods now so far around $780000.00 costs have already been given out just to give you an idea must the house around 13000000 residents i'm actually one of those 718000 you can see right here this is my permit it comes in an electronic form it's got various information so it's obviously got my name it's got my e-mail address it's got my possible information it's got the time limits of mine is going to last until the 13th april but the most important thing it has is right here at the very top and that is a sin old code not this is the code it's

a policeman comes up to me it says can i see your comment that is the code i'll give him he'll check it interested and then heard from you also let me carry on and i'll be trying this with me everywhere i go if i'm going on a tux if i'm going on the cheap from walking down the street the only time that i will safely leave that i hope is fun throwing up my rubbish or walking my unfortunate imaginary dog or going to my local shop now this is a significant tightening over the restrictions on till now we've just been requested to sit at code but given the recent surge in the number of coronavirus cases here in russia the moscow authorities said they were really left with no other option but to impose more stringent measures so that the latest count is that i'll just tell you that 18000 cases here in russia around 2500 new ones in the last 24 hours and the death toll current. he stands at 148 now most of us russia's largest city accounts around 2 full of russian toads at 19 cases now you don't

actually need to look at the figures to see that increase just looking around on the streets are noticeably more ambulate says in fact of the 2 recent meet came out showing a few of confidence is waiting to trump told us suspect is covering a high risk patients not to panic on the outskirts of moscow now on average jane 1300 people have been transported by ambulance and that's up from 500 just weeks ago these new restrictions but most important because unfortunately some people are still refusing to abide by the state diakite something that w h o says is look to see only busting situation yes the sun is shining yes bring has arrived but it's a health crisis to people are staying in and that doing that part to ensure the health and safety of all the thought i must go bites. where we know that russia has so far conducted more than 1300000 coronavirus tests one of the major test

manufacturers is getting backing from the russian direct investment fund the government vehicle for driving the economy now we asked chief executive crow dimitri of where russia is in terms of testing. well we already manufactured 500000 tests and wheels of track to have more than 1000000 deaths manufactured every week and what is unique about a system that has invested and looked at the wages systems and we believe testing is very important is a system is what was the most precise and more systems in the world we can test wasn't going to be or well known mobile units of looks like a suitcase and it can be used at airports and schools and different places and factories and we believe at best it has to be much more ubiquitous and we believe that russia is moving forward to do more testing we can find 100 units of virus which basically means that we can identify a person on the 1st day of the infection and this is important because of the test

and systems you know find people one week later or 2 weeks later but identifying people early it allows us to treat those people sooner and allows them to in fact 5 fewer people so we believe in early testing as a key criteria of success if i close the virus and by the way out deaths have been used in australia and u.e. in other countries and we believe in international cooperation we believe it's very important that qantas share information shared the knowledge is share prochoice we have a local or from china you know lots of countries have a lot to learn from russia i think international cooperation is vital to fight for the virus well. and other aspect to the pandemic with lock ins casting a tranquil silence right the world it seems mother nature is breathing a sigh of relief the air is clearing and normally polluted cities and while life's making the most of the newly deserted streets which people have been sharing a life.

here incredible footage wasn't well this is our take on the way. code our personal interaction be changed forever as we get used to social distancing a leading american doctor says we should permanently ditch one chick's for future health of some other stories to lead for the shortest breaks. and.

the outbreak in the spread of the corona virus has become a black swan event for the global economy and is no longer whether the u.s. and other economies will slip into recession the question now is how deep how long the recession will last it's going to get worse before it gets better. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those great. military thinks. we dare to ask.

join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. 20 minutes into the program welcome back the way we personally greet each other could be about to change forever now as one of america's most prominent experts on infectious diseases suggests we all gave hunk shakes the elbow it's being claimed that stopping this centuries old tradition would not only prevent the spread of corona virus but also apparently the common cold. i don't think we should ever shake hands ever again to be honest with you not only would it be good to prevent

coronavirus disease it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country you know there's been plenty reaction to that and earlier i discussed with an expert panel just how they might affect how we are in the future . if it was somehow universally adopted that how big a difference would it make you know a sense what what what was being promoted in the name of health is actually the erosion of human contact a human solidarity and it seems to me that if you begin to medicalize human relationships and contacts into it's been suggested it simply makes the divisions and the tension that already exists so much more difficult to bear i think that's something we should very strongly oppose and that is that a lot of people are talking about now and i watch television messy people very close to each other are strangers talking to each other or people shaking hands and they get their disgusted i think that's quite unsettling this is a class pandemic that is several billions of poor people around the world crowded

in corridors in the world's megacities they're forced to do jobs that involve physical contact and close proximity to others they have no other choice social isolation is a privilege for those that don't have to either face work in close proximity or die of starvation in the future after the pandemic is over such things as no longer handshaking were having physical contacts not an option for several billions of peoples around the world how easy do you think it will be after being told for so long to move away you know social distancing isolation supermarket rushing how do you expect the public to react when when the measures are lifted as this as the measures begin to recede hopefully we will see ourselves going back to i think older farms out of social contact think a portion of global humanity is going to be more cautious there's going to be of course the psychological trauma of having emerged from this pandemic but again i

see the world from the viewpoint of that's 34b5b that are the most outcast and the most downtrodden and their secondary concern is shaking hands in physical presence maybe there 1st is that still going to be daily survival in this in stream leon equal global city. i agree that we live in what the pandemic has done is that it's created a 2 tier system it made it even more rigid many respects what a pandemic has really done is reinforce trends that were already exist in existence in the economy prior to that play the accelerator it intensified it and in that sense divisions and differences in lifestyle are going to become even more pronounced what happens now are we still helping to be monitored cutted encourage people to test snitch on each other to the authorities what's your take is the next stage in exchanging of freedoms for security which is basically to make our private lives negotiable and i have a little bit worried in the way in which does all the stock work governments into

using these new apps that will monitor us but it does seem to me that it does give enormous power over to the authorities and my understanding of human history is that whenever you get all your freedoms the authorities didn't ask you back to you there is a very good tension requited quite a difficult situation coming at us for this question of freedoms and. there's been a coronavirus outbreak onboard this french navy aircraft carrier 50 cases were registered on the charlotte a goal which is docked in the mediterranean port of tune all 3 sailors are in hospital as a precaution while the remaining crew are quarantined on board for 2 weeks and are wearing face masks. while some police use drones to check on social distancing compliancy in germany they're using and it's to look for groups of people run their picturesque make constance near the swiss border the authorities

say it's better for higher altitude monitoring and it's quieter over the sunny easter weekend gatherings were seen in berlin sparks despite advice to stay home also. and on a positive note this alfresco concert comes courtesy of spanish police who gave. a madrid hospital a bit of time bite some of the medics joined into singing along to a popular national. i don't think it takes me to tell you that tackling the the long hours stuck indoors can be tough but some upsides are emerging out of bringing i people's hidden talents well the example here in russia is isolation are a facebook group where people are uploading images of themselves recreating muster

pieces with whatever comes to hound home it's also by the way huge hit worldwide with more than $400000.00 followers so let's finish the program with a little exhibition. 2 you always need to fuck out in there don't you now in a rapidly changing world get the updates you need an r t's twitter page and the news keeps rolling here again in just over 30 hope you'll join me then for more.

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longer. call. hello and welcome across reconsidered i'm peter lavelle the outbreak and spread of the corona virus has become a black swan event for the global economy that is no longer whether the u.s. and other economies will slip into recession the question now is how deep and how long the recession.