in the headlines this hour the u.n. children's fund of a potential measles outbreak of youngsters missing now a vaccine that 19 from unicef that immunization these 117000000 children we have to give me they're going to miss. the nation. frontline medics in the usa their lives are being put at risk by the government's failure to supply hospitals with protective equipment. and small business owners in france say the newly extended lockdown could force them out of business leaving millions of people jobless.

other thanks for joining us here with your global news update this is r.t. . start with a look at the latest figures in the covert 900 pandemic more than 2100000 cases have now been registered worldwide 136000 lives have been lost united states has the highest death toll followed by italy and spain and so far more than half a 1000000 people have recovered from the virus globally. the u.n. children's fund is one of the possible resurgence of maize will see to the covered $900.00 pandemic according to unicef millions of children are at risk of missing the vaccines follows world health organization guidelines issued in late march saying that immunization should be postponed and missiles as an easily preventable

viral disease and according to w h o targets at least 95 percent of people need to be vaccinated the many countries could fall short of that target if quarantine measures continue we heard from robin on the chief of immunization and unicef he says that any vaccine delays must be temporary these 217000000 children that we estimate are going to miss out on measles vaccination over the next several months are. those children that we miss out on because planned mosque campaigns have been rescheduled or or temporarily suspended why have they been temporarily suspended because we do not want our delivery of immunization. to contribute to the spread of called it so we recommended a temporary suspension of these mosque campaigns in addition to campaigns

routine delivery of immunization services are also being employed so in addition to me those children are not getting vaccines for other diseases like deep tyria protests polio and so on so you know this our statement gives a snapshot into a much bigger problem that. we have in immunization. well fine for measles a whole list of diseases that could reappear according to the vaccine alliance think leave polio cholera robin nandi again says that after the current pandemic is over countries must please cite of other infections. if you talk about the entire world we estimate that there are. approximately 20000000 children. that are either unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated so these $20000000.00 are unprotected to the end to the range of vaccine preventable diseases this is in the

pre covert context this figure is going to rise. considerably and will rise more and more the longer this disruption persists the planning needs to start now what we don't want is is. you know a country affected by call that 19 recovering from the called 19 outbreaks and then faced with an outbreak of vaccine preventable disease our advice to to parents is you know depending on what country you live in depending on what the. situation is you know follow the you know public health interactions you know provided by your ministries of health as soon as these restrictions are lifted. please keep a record of what. your child might have missed and please go out as soon as

possible to your nearest city. to receive these vaccines. the united states is registered $2400.00 deaths from covert $9000.00 in just the past 24 hours it's the highest single day figure so far and brings the total loss of life there to more than $28000.00 nationwide according to official data at least $27.00 doctors and nurses have died from the virus media reports quote much higher figures and some medics are taking to the streets blaming the government for the severe shortage of protective equipment. right behind. me. in this particular rally took place outside a hospital in new york which has been devastated by the pandemic the city's death toll now stands at 10003 times more than china now dicks carried signs demanding urgent action to get supplies of. personal protective equipment where it's needed

and emotions boiled over the protest nurses there saying that they are risking their lives because of government incompetence. what we did not find so i just don't know why us then i mean if you do let us. work as well i wonder let's just. let's think about the fact that the mount sinai bosses right now are in their mansions in florida while they're nurses and dying because they can't get the proper v.p. and they just don't give a damn they don't care about our lives the loaded the gun they played russian roulette with working people's lives with training the consequence was sign from the lack of protective equipment medics in the united states say that the health insurance system is putting people's lives at risk a post by a nurse anesthetist went viral on facebook their expense recalled the final words

that he heard from a patient who was put on a ventilator. who's going to pay for it the nurse in question spoke with r.t. . it was really sad because someone who is you know potentially going to die the last thing they should be worried about is how to pay for their health care it speaks to a misallocation of fun you know we have almost endless discretionary spending for militarism. we recently just you know injected $1.00 trillion dollars into the stock market you know just that the years of that but when it comes to health care you know the constant question is who's going to pay for it which is the same question as the patient ironically but you know it just shows where the priorities are i don't know that it's necessary to have a multi-billion dollar annual military budget you know which with our legit department of defense where i think a real honest effort to defend would be with providing care for our citizens especially with the amount of people that just lost their insurance that's type of their employment as you know

a lot of people just lost their jobs with this pandemic so the economic situation in new york is rapidly deteriorating and that's to make it half a 1000000 people have lost their livelihoods because the pandemic and some even unable to put food on the table on eastern it each of us reports from the city. today new york city mayor bill de blasio shifting focus to food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic this crisis is now adding to that number of people who are food insecure every day because literally people run out of money every single day well over a 1000000 people in new york city where food and secure before kovan 1000 including one in every 5 children as unemployment grows many are going hungry we need to. keep our family eating. and we have to take a rest the mayor announcing a $170000000.00 initiative to fight hunger in the city $50000000.00 of which will go to building up an emergency food reserve for backup saying that since the

pandemic more than 500000 people lost their livelihood when it comes to something like unemployment the effects get felt more deeply week after week it doesn't all happen i want to guess she gets tougher as we go along so. i think what's coming up is going to be even more of a challenge and that's why we're preparing right now to feed everyone this while the city's homeless population seeks refuge with no place to go as new york remains the epicenter of the outbreak with over 200000 cases and more than 10000 deaths the city announcing that they plan to move 6000 homeless people about a 3rd of shelter residents from shelters into hotels by april 20th the coalition for the homeless saying that the move does not come close to meeting the scale or urgency of the need this while new york governor andrew cuomo along with governors from several other eastern states are working to coordinate the reopening of the region and its economy while governments grapple with how to reopen people on the streets of new york have mixed feelings i know everyone in new york is so anxious

to go back but we have to take things slow and. slow we take in more time we have to. go back to work in a safe environment and the death toll decreasing 600 to 800 people a day is still too high and has to come down way down before me to feel safe to get back on the train or do anything. the curve continues to flatten in new york and neighboring new jersey the 2nd most impacted state cases continue to climb today the state has more than 68000 cases and nearly 3000 deaths governor phil murphy telling residents not to expect the lockdown rules to be lifted until june at the earliest reporting in new york trinity chavez our. mother can supply firms in the u.s. so the mothers are being made worse by tariffs on chinese products on the region president trying to lift those restrictions at morgan has a story. as the us emerges as the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic

donald trump is standing firm on his america 1st policies sticking to a trade war with china over urgent and essential medical supplies that are now running short everyone has been discussing the requirements for more vents but no one is discussing the need for patients when they are on the vents the sedatives and the 38th and paralytic agents demand and no supply partly due to a 25 percent tariff that's been imposed 'd and the trumpet ministration is not willing to completely lift it some of the goods produced in china are essential and cannot be replaced for example you've got chinese made fabric in bed sheets these sheets desperately needed because hospitals have dramatically increasing the number of beds available for the in spate it's in code 1000 patients some special medical equipment for anesthesia cannot be produced without built in ventilators that are made in china at this point the demand is 10 times what is available and the price

of hand sanitizer has also gone up due to u.s. terrorists. at the end of the day the consumer ultimately is having to be price gouged and pay a king's ransom for something we desperately need to give them and they can't afford to live without so sadly the tariffs have continued to drive into the pockets of february american consumer all the companies that are pushing for the terrorists to be lifted saying that it's necessary to fight the pandemic and american lives are at stake the us trade secretary doesn't agree in imposing tariffs on goods from china as part of the section 3 a one action the united states determines north impose tariffs on certain critical products such as ventilators oxygen masks and nebulizers in addition over the past year the u.s. trade representative granted exclusions for a large number of health related products notably the imposition of tariffs on certain chinese imports has not resulted in an overall decline in the availability

of needed medical equipment and supplies but experts say the terrorists have never really been fully lifted at this point $3300000000.00 worth of critical important health care products and only had the tariff reduced by 7.5 percent it seems that donald trump's obsessive opposition to china as well as his idea of wanting to appear is that deal maker could be putting american lives at risk it would mop and archie new york we have a financial analyst benjamin chair who believes that the u.s. needs to save lives rather than gauging trade wars and also from professor politics to have been honing i think that trumps in no position to relax the pressure on china. there's been a lot of debate about whether or not we're seeing the emergence of a new world order and whether or not china is winning in this so i think that what we're going to see is is you know not a relaxing but a doubling down and a commitment to this strategy of trying to limit and contain china that trump

initiated once he took office finally i don't think trump is concerned very much about whether or not we're going to have supplies from china i think there's a whole strategy at this point depends on trying to contain things until we get to the warmer months and hope for a vaccine as a silver bullet you can be on greening the tree warnock's a lot of 3 missing u.s. economy have already expressed a view that even either the economy is to curse pilots continuing their piracy is the 1st task to do because economic value can only be created by people like us the 2nd quarter of this year is widely expected to contract 36 percent and then any rights basis and people are really losing their jobs to them it is a clear example of that the world wants join hands to apply their powers it requires country in fighting to drive is we determine the time. otherwise the virus

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than 1400 fatalities were announced on wednesday bringing the total in the country 217000 according to the health minister the spike in numbers is due to a delay in reporting following the 3 day easter weekend meanwhile the nationwide shutdown staking a severe toll on the economy so do the school reports. this week president told from the lockdown would and on may 11th while that means citizens will apparently be able to leave their homes and some businesses will we start that's not the case. you are some lonely people however public places restaurants cafes and hotels cinemas and museums will remain closed at this stage with no end date for when they can reopen some restaurants and cafes are starting to stress this year. through

all the challenges that. arisen over the years with. strikes on the make sure the terrorists attacks and so we can always go in confidently here. what is happening now really has. got to the or where we actually do anything small businesses cafes such as this the pallet in and restaurants are seen as being the life blood of the national economy in france and that is particularly true here in paris when they were shut down as being no one essential business is back in march some claim that that would herald an economic catastrophe and those warnings are serving true. figure in france in 1945 was minus 2.2 percent in 2009 after the financial crisis of 2008 we will probably be very thought beyond minus 2.2 percent this year the

government has announced packages worth tens of billions of euros to help save jobs and prop up the economy but poor baron again says though this is a did his employees own this like himself have been left in a tight jam. there's been no is that how as owners we're not salaried per se with both companies so at this stage there has been no help for us this is the 1st time in my life that there is that strangeness of how i'm going to pay my mortgage how am i going to you know food on the table and so i guess the stress of that is real they represent. the. months probably before we're kind of in trouble business is feeling the pressure can apply for loans but paul says the interest free period is only

a year and he doesn't think taking on debt with so much uncertainty is prudent they can give as many loans to the cows come home. but it is but we don't want to do is get into too much debt because then i had this idea that it would just be very hard to get out of it i think what would help us is that instead of just freeze in social security just basically saying hey look you don't have to pay. his debt and that's probably one of my biggest expenses this is curious if they came out and said look see at the basis of security at all then that would give us the kind of hope that one sweet get back we don't have coming off. each month when cafes and restaurants reopen they may also have to contend with far fewer tourists that will certainly hit hard hit in paris now added to that concern is that even locals may be feeling the pinch from the recession and less likely to part with a catch so perhaps treat such as

a specialty coffee or eating out may be off the menu putting even further strain on small businesses such as these poll describes himself as being an entrepreneur and he told me that with the right help his business will pull through even if that means adapting and changing how they operate but for that to happen it needs to start with one key ingredient clarity from the government so they can say that they are open for business charlotte even ski auti paris. pups in the u.k. are facing a similar crisis they've been shut for almost a month now and one landlord in norwich posted a video showing around the sun signed was . was. signed there was kegs of beer being tipped down a drain according to some estimates 50000000 pints will go to waste if the lockdown

continues throughout the summer we heard from the man in that video you saw there philip cutter who explained why he had to dump his supplies the problem is that we had here. that was was open and. he would just go dance it down in our cellars so we had to pour it down the drain just to be able to dispose of it in that short period time that was 5050 gallons or so being the rest of that data and our salaries we look at it almost a 1000 gallons of that replicate across the country just that you seek support against the war system in the short term we can certainly look at. our bills and people will flow through probably about 6 times we've been well established a fair number of years i've worked here since the age of 16 and that was 33 years ago. that there have been trading for quite as long as well established quite

good cash flow so they are out there and really really struggle. with british pubs and key tourist sites closed normally business sites are now looking deserted the chairman of the campaign for reliable nican toner believes that many businesses simply will not make it through the crisis. when we get through this crisis start to see. the pubs opening but not all of them are probably going to reopen initially so we could see if any else of the pubs available in an area 'd we could see come of some of the baker independent pubs not reopening because it's just not financially dawdle for the variable we could see some of the big pop code businesses shuts in because a good licensee just can't make the business because of the you know the hates they've still got the get the crew. their shop and then some of the relief that the government it's giving to 2 businesses in this country doesn't apply to all of the

pubs specially those big ups in more expensive parts who have got rights but use they don't call it they don't qualify for some of the great relief and business rates really 'd the government has given so small businesses so i only expect. some of our pubs not so reopen. here in russia on 3000 new cases a cave in 19 a been registered over just the past day and it brings the total in the country to nearly 28232 people and then to have died from the virus so new measures came into force this week as well in moscow anyone with a valid reason for leaving their home needs to carry a digital pass in the meantime is a large scale research efforts going on nationwide to find potential treatments for covert 19 we heard from 2 specialists. the wages of all of them together any antigenic substances for a molecules are identified by the immune system to be removed by antibodies so when

an antigen gets into the body sooner or later it will lead to the creation of antibodies and that's the basis of vaccination the use of a vaccine requires an active immunity which can respond to a low strength microorganisms injected into the body so that antibodies can develop the same process goes on in the body of an infected person so when we use the plasma of a recovered person we're creating a kind of serum that contains a large number of already developed antibodies it's passive immunotherapy which is then expected to remove the virus at the moment it is the only 18 logical treatment for the infection and it's difficult to say how many people it could save it's also a question of recruiting donors production the correct implementation there are still many open questions because there's not enough experience of that method in use. sometimes antibodies from one person can cause serious complications because as you understand blood plasma can say not only

covered 19 antibodies but also antibodies to a large number of other superficial antigens also one person's antibodies could cause a kind of an auto immune side effect that's why a plasma transfusion will be used only for the seriously ill when it can possibly help rather than harm well thanks very much for staying with us here on r.t. international will be keeping rather up to date on the pandemic viral website starting dot com plus the usual social media channels and of course broadcasts from our studios in moscow london and washington d.c. stay informed stay with r.t. . thanks guys are slanted like a little place a little girl i. love to use it this is

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welcome to the alex salmond show for mom didn't show up in scotland on to an examination of the economics of the coven crisis one of the column is heading towards the session that much is. but could develop into a prolonged depression and could such an economic cataclysm end up causing more human messily the even the pandemic itself and must show we 1st look at the economic impact of the great pandemic through history. and then we ask the leading international callers the world economy can avoid the assailant into economic depression before asked over with your e-mails and your messages there has been a huge response to last week's program on the declaration of our breath with the record fuse on facebook alone of over 700000 seems appropriate given the 700

year anniversary. now roger knight points out that it should be termed a declaration of scottish independence he says correction is necessary but the document signed arbroath in $1320.00 until the 1960 s. i as an arbroath ian was taught that it was a declaration of scottish independence while robert it's only relatively recently that they are both left was termed a declaration a toll once declarations of independence became common in the modern world scotland just got the it bit quicker than the rest but tell ever it's termed it's a hugely significant document for scotland and the world maybe whiten and more for the moon the lack of national celebrations for the $700.00 anniversary maybe says why haven't the concepts and ideals in the declaration ever been adopted into law by hold it i'm also sure that there were no commemorative events brought forward by hollywood to celebrate this anniversary and says gutted not much celebration of this important anniversary it should be said however that there were a range of local events planned with some support but the public response to the

programs and films that have been made indicate something more national and international is called for next year for the 701st anniversary to parson says billy joel thank you for celebrating the declaration of arbroath and its role in establishing the democratic rights of humankind scotius says what's a 1000000000 sure given the circumstances thank you so much such brilliant interesting guests as well louis says nice to see the decentralization of television studios to these of course is referring to alex filming from stricken patricia says very interesting back in the folks in india's ned and at least in the dislike of politeness being dumped in scotland without our permission was the start of a new weakening in scotland that has grown since the even says it lost in the past in more ways than one tech cabin was my 1st scottish history to shoot at emory university many many moons ago he spoke about mist and realities of history and i remember it to the city people are says excellent show.