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on the lasting effects of social distancing. permanently. we discuss how isolation. future. for those that don't have to face. not an option. one minute 7 pm here in moscow this monday april the 13th my names you know native watching from welcome to our international. well here's where we are on the numbers

as we enter a new week it is 4 months since the 1st infections began to calls concern around the world as of now more than 1800000 cases being logged over 116000 people have died another important figure though over in the corner the number of people known to have recovered from cobra 19 now it's at over 436000. well let's focus the program 1st of all in new york the worst affected state 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 squeezed the resources and left them quick to deal with the pandemic with more and similar struggles elsewhere globally here's our

senior correspondent. isn't is astounding 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 we have powerless we have nothing to fight it with but there are those who fly to 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 and 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 try to skimp on health care for years longer hours few abed's nurses doctors less equipment and less money.

for the world while military budgets explode. that politicians rule the dice on which hospital to close next and no one can claim that they didn't warn us her in 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 here troll to use one mouse over and over and they're cruel items over and over to their mouths or if you're giving discretion and told to use what entire we 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 could 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 the cancerous 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 a 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 fell 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 there say 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. our trust. well there are growing calls in france over the urgent need to develop an exit strategy from the kobe 1000 locked on president was jus to

give a nationwide address on monday evening his 3rd on the pandemic are parsed correspondent charlet do been told us what we might expect to hear. president mark owen 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 coburg 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 they'd need 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 lived in lockdown 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 that this is the worst recession since 1945 remember some 30 to 40 percent of businesses are just completely shut down with no ticking at all now the head of the employer francis is medic 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 office. serious. it is utterly indecent to ask people to work more it's not up to them to pay the costs of this 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 and the lockdown 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 we'll be watching to see exactly what president says and will bring you the latest. let's turn tension to here in russia were president putin say the brick 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 the nation is continuing to stay ahead

with its actions to try and contain the spread. we see that the situation with coronaviruses 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. we need a good professional projection for coming 3 to 7 days. well a digital permit system is rolling out here in moscow this monday to try incurred tail non-essential travel around the region america is also ordering the majority of non-vital enterprises to stay shut saskia to or has more in the capital's 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 red square and not direction is kind of the equipment of london's oxford street cars to shanties a new york's 5th avenue so usually it's obscene jump 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 so from now on until the touches 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 1st stage of promise for people traveling to and from the us the 2nd stage of the tricks of the frying tees on the front stage will actually be to limit movement within your own neighborhood 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 serious 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 30th of 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 of 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. more stringent matches 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 partly stands out $148.00 now most of us russia's largest city accounts around 2 pool of russian pows it 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 on kill it says in fact of the 2 recently came out showing a few of confidence is waiting to drop top us suspect is covering a high risk. patients not to clinics on the outskirts of moscow now on average jane 1300 people have been transported by ambulance to the top 500 just a few weeks ago these new restrictions with police it brought in because unfortunately some people are still refusing to abide by the state otto diakite something that w h o says if you see any busting situation yes the sun is shining yes bring has

arrived but it's a health crisis to people a staying in and that doing that part to ensure the health and safety of all the thought i must of bytes you know those new restrictions to ask you was just going through come into effect on the whedon's they russia has so far conducted more than 1300000 coronavirus test one of the major test manufacturers is getting backing from the russian direct investment fund which is the government vehicle for driving the economy we spoke to its chief executive. well we already manufactured 500000 cuts and we own that track to have more than 1000000 best manufactured every week and what is unique about is a system that we've invested in to look at the wages systems and we believe testing is very important is a system that is one of the most precise and more systems in the world we can test wasn't going to be a more well known mobile units that 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 they divide that 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 the key criteria of success in supply goes the virus and by the way out tests have been used in australia and u.a.e. and other countries and we believe in international cooperation we believe it's very important that countries share information shared to all the g.'s share approaches 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 and of virus while the u.s.

navy has confirmed a sailor assigned to the carrier theodore roosevelt died of code 19 complications another 584 crew members from the same vessel which is docked off the pacific island of guam have tested positive for corona virus here's our teams kill up and. the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt's a u.s. navy vessel is once again making headlines around the world it appears that a sailor from the crew of that vessel has died from coronavirus now you'll recall that the ship made headlines at 1st when a memo was 'd sent out by the captain of the ship describing a dire situation on board take a listen we are not had war sailors do not need to die if we do not act now we're failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset our sailors keeping overthe $4000.00 young men and women on board the t.r. is an unnecessary risk and breaks faith with those sailors intrusted to our care

now after that memo was sent out the captain of the ship was fired however his crew described him as a hero and applauded him take a listen to that. and now the case has become almost symbolic of widespread accusations and allegations of mismanagement of the coronavirus situation by the u.s. government there has been widespread outrage about the firing of the captain and criticism of that decision from many prominent figures and voices in the united states at this flowing as the coronavirus situation continues in the united states we have roughly a 561000 cases that are confirmed as well as well over 22000 deaths from coated 19 so as the situation continues with infections across the

united states and the country basically being locked down as people are basically trying to stay indoors and avoid infection shortages of needed supplies and such many are looking at this case with the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt as kind of symbolic. how the u.s. government has almost dropped the ball. this is our to you on the way personal interaction be changed forever as we get used to social distancing leading american doctor says' we should permanently ditch sticks for a future health and some longer stories still ahead after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

21 minutes past 7 pm here in moscow welcome back the way we personally greet each other could be about to change forever as one of america's most prominent experts on infectious diseases suggests we all shakes the elbow it's being claimed that stopping this centuries old tradition would not only prevent the spread of coronavirus but also a 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. earlier i discussed with an expert panel just how the pun demick might affect her hands on we are in

the future. if it was somehow universally adopted out how big a difference would it make you know a sense what's what what was being promoted in the name of health is actually the erosion of human contact and human solidarity and it seems to me that if you begin to medicalize human relationships and contacts into is being 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 i see people very close to each other there are strangers talking to each other or people shaking hands and they get they're disgusted i feel like 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 i think older forms 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. she is shaking hands and physical presence to be there 1st is that still going to be daily survival in this in stream

leon equal global society that we live in where 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 they're 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 our freedoms for security which is basically to make our private lives negotiable and i have a little bit worried in the way in which there's all this stock what 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 a war your freedoms the authorities did let us go back to you there is a very quick tension requited quite a difficult situation coming up as far as question of freedom is concerned. all right well being stories from around the world not on 1st in ukraine the site of one of the most tragic disasters in modern history here the exclusion zone around the turn of all nuclear accompt is battling a wildfire these are pictures from above while on the ground firefighters are doing their best to tackle the inferno the blaze started a little over 10 days ago triggered by what has been described as a joke. there's been a coronavirus i praye on another ship on board the french navy aircraft carrier seen here 15 cases were registered on the charlotte the cole which is docked in the mediterranean port of 2 nor 3 sailors are in hoss. a precaution while the remaining crew are quarantined on board for 2 weeks and are wearing face masks also.

and on a positive note this. concert comes courtesy of spanish police who gave stuff a madrid hospital full of time odds so all of the medics are in the us you can see them singing along to popular russians. with locked on scouting a tranquil silence throughout the world it seems mother nature is breathing a sigh of relief the air is clearing normally polluted cities and why life's making the most of the nearly deserted streets images which people have been sharing online.

yeah as this strange timer who are all going 3 plays i thought together thanks for choosing r.t. for your hourly update our newsroom just behind the camera there is busy putting together all the news you need today i'll bring it to you in 32 hope you'll join me for 2 great programs though get their start in moments see so.

the outbreak and spread of the corona virus has become a black swan event for the global economy is no longer whether the u.s. and other economies will slip into recession the question now is how long the recession will last it's going to get worse before it gets better. soon you're watching going on the ground the whole team here hope you're all safe we're away until wednesday the 22nd of april but in the meantime we're screening somebody a favorite episodes of the sofa coming up in this show we ask legendary activist and inspiration for the rolling stone street fighting man tariq ali if anything has changed since he took part in the biggest global peace protest of the 21st century

against the unchecked imperialism the destroyed iraq and destabilize the world plus as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage europe what does it mean for capitalism kashmir and the future of the world's most famous publisher judy and. also more coming up in today's going on the ground but let's go straight to one of the greatest living political activists and writers who has inspired antiwar figures from malcolm x. to john lennon tariq ali joins us from his north london home via skype chart thanks so much for coming on the program i have to declare an interest because you brought me to channel 4 in the 1980 s. and you were my boss but what would you say you know to the millions who have been inspired by your work the fight for freedom and justice that you want to take in in your life what would you say to them who are now profoundly pessimistic about the neo liberal response to a pandemic let alone gross inequality.