alex i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm sure those. are the stories that shape the week here in our team. automated ideal checks to allow essential travel during the last dance that after an initial pass system suffered big problems on the city's metro. if this doesn't make sense. i also to come from line medics in the usa their lives are being put at risk by the government's failure to supply hospitals with protective gear and french teachers and doctors criticize. plan to reopen the school. calling it premature and dangerous.

slow they welcome the latest developments and look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international well let's start there with the latest numbers on the pandemic more than 2300000 cases have been confirmed across the globe at least 161000 people have died with the highest death toll in the united states and so far more than 606000 people have recovered from the virus. you. know today orthodox christians around the world are celebrating easter sunday but for most going to church is not an option to you to the pandemic so russia services are being streamed on the internet where the leader of the russian orthodox church patriarca carol has

a people to stay at home and pray he led an overnight vigil at the cathedral of christ the savior in moscow attended by a small group of clergy traditionally thousands do gather to light candles from the holy fire flown in from jerusalem meanwhile the russian orthodox church has given some recommendations on how to bless the traditionally stick cake at home and president vladimir putin has sent out this easter message. we're going to present but who do the slew of these east the celebrations are happening at a time of restrictions they're necessary to battle the disease known around the world we are closely analyzing the experience of other countries to understand the situation see the risks and assess what to do in any scenario we will do all that is necessary to stop the pandemic there is no doubt that rush will make it through these challenges with dignity happy easter stay happy and healthy well in russia 361 people have lost their lives to the coronavirus and there are almost

43000 infections the majority of those are here moscow and this week the city did roll out a digital past scheme to ensure that people only use transport for essential purposes after some early setbacks the system is now fully automated saskia taylor reports. this week saw a few changes in the way russia is fighting to create a virus outbreak on wednesday a new pasta stone was rolled out right here in moscow brought to teach you imitate people's movement around the city and that's going to remain in force until at least the 1st of may now i can show you this one here is my it's got my name it's got my possible data it's also got my employees information and the most important thing is the possible code right that i taught and i need this to get to watch child from a taxi even pretty much to go anywhere other than to throw out the rubbish walk the dog go to my supermarket or my local pharmacy but there was a few teething problems at the beginning the site you register on crashed because

of high it tomorrow and on the 1st day that they came into force they appeared to do more harm than good. initially the reaction to the process jim was a bit mixed with whom can i curse or not this doesn't make sense but also move everyone is a know what all they say as usual do it right now or never once started applying for a process and the server crashed with but it's idiotic these kind of what those cannot so it's sort of quarantine at all these are the right measures and should be strictly implemented but they must remain reasonable so the problem that is still there was that each and every part of it was physically being checked by the authorities obviously creating crowds but from next wednesday the system will become fully automated you'll have to link up the metro card to travel permit online and if you haven't done that the barriers in the magic just way open and you won't be and out through much more efficient now

a similar formal streamlined system has also been created because we heard stories here of people waiting for hours to get that documents checked but now the cameras will be scanning to see which bits have the right puppets and which don't now another big announcement this week was the persona of the night. may that is the annual victory day parade along with me yeah it is possibly the most highly anticipated event in russia canada so a bitter disappointment especially as this year was going to be extra special about it as it marks 75 years since the fascism but a large gathering of people especially while the 2 sections who are in the out risk category was something the russian president said was simply not justified at this point i wanted to change the postpone the rehearsal for the military march on red square and postpone all of the mass gatherings to celebrate 75 years since the great victory we have been promised the event will be held in 2020 just at the late

date i do in the summer. so those are just some of the key decisions that were made in russia this week was seeing how it started to dealing with 19 in various ways to try to keep the country safe so we can all return to normality as quickly as possible ask a tale of a pharmaceutical firms worldwide are working flat out at the moment to develop vaccines and treatments for 19 and in russia patients who have recovered helping doctors by donating their blood plasma with antibodies for transfusions one of the 1st stone is talk to talk to us and talk to us through how it works. but. i became a donor 2 weeks after i was discharged from hospital as far as i know there was the time when the concentration of fan type bodies in my blog had reached its peak i received a call from the hospital and they asked if they could pass my personal data to

another medical institution and then a team of medics from school if i saw schemes to cheat came to take my blood for testing 4 days after i learned the results were good enough to be a donor. some of the procedure itself is rather simple and takes about an hour during this time you're surrounded by medics who are monitoring your condition it's not scary it's fast and causes no pain we're losing sleep in consciousness anyone who came through this could lead infection could do the same it was said my plans might help 2 or 3 people who are about to be put on ventilators. or gets mosque or you'd better put on a medical mask yourself and then see people wearing masks and hazmat suits and run you for a month you shouldn't think this won't happen to you i thought i was immune to this disease because i hadn't been ill for 13 years but it happened anyway it's better

to stay at home for a month or 2 than stay in a great forever elsewhere the united states has registered more than 39000 deaths from the cave at 19 according to official data at least 27 doctors and nurses have died from the virus but the media has been reporting much higher figures some medics have taken to the streets blaming the government for the severe shortage of protective equipment. it was. like he was really. this rally took place outside a hospital in new york which has been devastated by the pandemic medics carried signs here demanding urgent action to supplies of. personal protective equipment where it's needed the state's death toll now stands at more than 17000 motions boiled over to the protests with nurses saying they are risking their lives due to government incompetence. so i guess. just.

what. does my discovery one of my best friends that i mean if you do in the us. work as well i wonder. let's think about the fact that the mount sinai bosses right now are in their mansions in florida while their nurses are dying because they can't get the proper v.p. and they just don't give a damn they don't care about all the lies the loaded the gun they played russian roulette with working people's lives and with training the consequence and aside from the lack of protective gear medics in the us say that the health insurance system to you is putting people's lives at risk a post by a nurse was widely shared on facebook derek smith recalled the final words he heard from a patient who was put on a ventilator they were who's going to pay for it the nurse spoke with.

it was really sad because someone who is you know potentially going to die the last thing you should be worried about is how to pay for their health care it speaks to a misallocation of 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. 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 multibillion dollar annual military budget you know which with are allergic to apartment 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 now france does have one of the world's strictest strictest lockdowns at the moment with hefty fines for

people who break the rules and speaking earlier in the week the president does say that the measures will have to be extended until may the 11th so far 900000 people have died from coronavirus in france and and i know macron has admitted that mistakes have been made it to demean it doesn't commit the epidemic is still not under control we need to continue to make every effort to try and stem the spread of this virus because the more we do this the more we will be able to save lives oh . yes it does so who are we prepared for this crisis well i think the answer would be no we won't but we have to admit to our errors we made difficult decisions when dealing with incomplete information changing information about the virus. containment measures have dealt a heavy blow to the french economy with restaurants and cafes out of action many owners do say that they won't have the finances to reopen once the pandemic is over meanwhile president mark warner is calling for schools to resume normal activity in

mid may many teachers do you think that that is premature to show that the reports . schools could start to reopen from may 11th that was the announcement from president not growing prompting a wave of criticism not just from teachers but doctors too this choice reveals an absolute lack of logic it is very difficult in a school environment can for social distancing measures and now the 1st environment that the president wants to reopen is the school environment how does it no longer carry the same risks while the federation of french doctors says it's worried the target date could generate an unnecessary risk and is premature children do not necessarily follow instructions they will naturally play together and risk bringing the virus home that criticism seems shocked but perhaps given that almost

in the same breath that court announced that restaurants bars cinemas in museums would not be reopening until further notice that's left some teachers groups reeling who they were going to return with young children and adults packing the small classrooms 20 square metres maximum of the school cafeterias a crammed with 500 people inside it's completely incoherent to leave bars and restaurants closed because of 20 people you know the same time open a school with some 502-1500 students one of macros given reasons for reopening schools gradually was to fight against social inequality called off on the. too many children notably in poorer areas in the countryside are deprived of school without access to digital tools. since schools closed in march teachers have been educating their students online there have been public television services

broadcasting lessons to the nation yet despite these new concerns when the government about. students for link behind the education minister genre show blanca recently is that they should take a break the easter holidays for one teaching union there is a clearer motivation behind the return to school we have the impression that we are being 1st in the auto of the economy it seems like the school is being used to the big childcare service so that mom and dad can go back to work that's also the belief of the teaching collective the red pens. this is an irresponsible decision driven by economic interests life is more important health is more important than the economy. the red pens also say there needs to be a concrete plan to protect not just those who work in schools but the peoples to.

get what we are waiting for is a more viable situation mass testing including immunity to mosques in large quantities and although i won't be ready in $26.00 days it's impossible a bold plan hasn't yet been formulated about how schools will reopen schools will though be disinfected and full classrooms will be out of the question that's according to france's education is so sure michel but for many teachers the devil will be in the details will they get face masks how will they enforce any social distancing that still mandated and if as longer says the return will not be obligatory how can the government be sure that the most deprived students well actually come back to the classroom. r.t. paris more than a 1000 sailors on board

a french aircraft carrier have tested positive for 19 charles de gaulle is docked off the country south coast but it's not the only nato ship to been affected by the virus. well we spoke for tides us air force left and encouraged us think that france

should have learned from america's recent experience of an onboard break. though group that is most sickened by this is not normally the age group of soldiers or or navy. servicemen so you know it's not that dangerous per se like in terms of life and death but in terms of operational capability yet it's a bad thing because if a 3rd of your crew is sick and not functional then your ship is not functional well you'd like to think that social distancing and things like that could work with they that those things are not going to be possible on a close quarters ship of any type i actually am surprised that the navy doesn't seem to have reacted and learned from that type of situation because we had that months ago and we could see how it was handled and also what the vulnerabilities were very much a bureaucratic response as opposed to real leadership it seems

a little too little too late or despite the risks to silence life the nato secretary general does believe that the real danger lies elsewhere burke has accused the sarees including russia of trying to exploit the pandemic. security challenges have not diminished because of called it 19 on the contrary potential adversaries will look to exploit the situation to further their own interests terrorist groups could be emboldened we see a continued pace of russian military activity our operational readiness remains undiminished and our forces remain ready vigilant and prepared to respond to any threat. now while american death toll spirals the new york times has begun brain russia today saying that the kremlin propaganda is making the pandemic worse by having put that into a town just off the bat. i've

been arguing for the last decade or so. crisis is both a structural prices and it is also a crisis of statement you're going to see in a capitalist and this did not cause that crisis it only made it they asked. and made and revealed to the whole world and it's going to aggravate all of the reds and dimensions of the crisis the health emergency millenniums we're still going to be left with this dual crisis of structural the structural crisis of the economy and the political crisis of state.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development that only really going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome at the weekly now the new york times is accusing russia's president of personally helping to spread 19 in america according to the paper kremlin propagandists have done that by discrediting the american health care system and you correspondent stiff takes a closer look at the story. nowhere in the world is it as bad as in america a quarter of the world's confirmed infected are in the states the economy's on the

brink of ruin millions fighting in employment someone has to take the blame preferably someone smart we want to look into the world health organization because they really are. they called it wrong they call it wrong they really they missed the call blame the world health organization blame the chinese blame conspiracies and of course blame russia a decade of health information promoted by president vladimir putin of russia has certain white confusion hood's major institutions and encourage the spread of deadly illness says the new york times lies right off the bat there is no widespread confusion in fact americans trust and scientists and doctors has grown yeah off the year according to pew research a record 9 in 10 americans trust scientists and doctors and less than half of

americans trust the media or the new york times apparently for good reason experts fear that it will foster public cynicism that erodes washington's influence as well as the core democratic value of relying on demonstrably facts as a basis for decision making the facts as follows in january it was the new york times that misled and misinformed potentially millions of americans about the pandemic telling them it's nothing to worry about and that the flu kills more people reaching an audience is far greater than any russian bought network given the checkered history of coron teens throughout history they've been used to persecute the marginalized lawmakers in the media should rigorously examine the bases for any such restrictions. trump followed the advice he read in the new york times. delaying almost every measure against the virus from mass quarantine to international travel restrictions to the last moment

a device that has potentially could tributed to the deaths of thousands of americans sure they apologized and admitted to being wrong but it was too late mr ferguson has worked hard to encourage americans to see vaccinations as dangerous and federal health officials as malevolent and here we thought it was a matter of public knowledge that the united states is the capital of the world's vaccine movement a movement that was birthed not by putin the k.g.b. but by a british position who were really nice leaning vaccines to autism the alleged autism vaccine connection is perhaps the most damaging medical 100 years even today masses in the united states refuse vaccinations because of the 998. reason it snowballed this because the media gave a controversial research paper. including the new york times which gave

a platform for conspiracy theorist and vaccines to speak the spite the overwhelming majority of the scientific community insisting it was nonsense it is absurd to accuse the n.y.t. of helping birth the anti vaccine movement 20 years ago but for some reason it's ok for the new york times to accuse others of spreading simulate this information the russian president has waged his long campaign by means of open media secretive trolls and shadowy blogs the regular cost american health officials as patronize and frauds putin didn't put a trash bag on that nurse when american sea then says dressed in trash bags they lose faith in their system in their leadership because their leaders have failed them not because putin said so and everybody involved. if we are essentially just are we deserve the right protection to be in that environment that is in the little

bit 90 look at all the charlatans the bloggers the televangelists who are being watched by millions of americans is that putin do you see behind america's faith based medicine. only. on. you was it putin or american politicians who cut funding for counter pandemic programs was its russian boss who urged america's elderly to sacrifice themselves so the economy could keep running i think all of my my fellow grandparents out there are going to be smart we all want to live we want to live with our grandchildren as long as we can but the point is our biggest but our biggest gifts we give to our our country and our children and our grandchildren is the legacy of our country we can go on and on about how american media and politicians bungled this pandemic caused untold suffering but instead will end with this

quote from the new york times itself it is worth remembering that disease or the fear of disease can bring out the worst in humanity and demick so often feet scapegoating jews were widely blamed for the black death creating a fertile field for demagogues. difference this time its putative. moderate ghastly with an i.v. pandemic has brought entire economies to the standstill with factories closed roads and planes grounded there's also been a shop in pollution levels in many parts of the world the contrast is striking.

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