in the main stories of the week rolls out automated id checks to allow essential travel. but after an initial pass system suffered big problems on the city's metro . system. doesn't make sense. in the usa their lives are being put at risk by the government's failure to supply protective gear and french teacher isn't criticize present a plan to reopen schools by mid may calling it premature and dangerous.

but i welcome the latest developments and look back at the last 7 days to watch the week here on r.t. international well let's start with the latest numbers then on the pandemic more than 2300000 cases have been confirmed across the globe at least 164000 people have died and the highest death toll in the night is in the united states so far more than 614000 people have recovered from the virus. well today orthodox christians around the world have been celebrating easter sunday but for most going to church was not an option due to the pandemic so in russia services that were being streamed on the internet are the leader of the russian orthodox church patrick carroll has aged people to stay at home and pray he died an

overnight feature at the cathedral of christ savior in moscow attended by a small group of the clergy traditionally thousands gather there 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 traditional easter cake at home and president vladimir putin sent out this easter mass. with i'm going to present it but who do the slew of these east 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 and see the risks and assess what to do in any scenario it 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 in 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 has asked taylor expects. this week saw a few changes in the way russia is fighting to create a virus outbreak on wednesday a new pasta stove was rolled out right here in moscow brought to teach limiting 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 from pretty much to go anywhere other than just throw out the rubbish walk the dog coach my supermarket or my local pharmacy but there was

a few teething problems beginning to sayit register on crashed because of high tomato and a prostate they came into force they have kids to do move harm than good. it's not surprising that initiate a reaction to the process jim was a bit mixed with whom we 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 and never once started to plan for apostles and the server crashed disputes idiotic all these kind of what those cannot so it's not a 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 time it was physically being checked by the authorities obviously creating crowds but tell from next wednesday the system will become 30 automated you'll have to link up the metro card to travel permit online and if you haven't

done that the bar isn't a 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 have 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. and which don't now and not the big announcement this week was spending the night made out to sleep on real victory day parade along with me yeah it is possibly the most highly anticipated event in russia and canada so a bit of 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 welcome to factions 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 sheer joy and 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 you that will be felt in 2020 just at the late date either in the summer heat but since so those are just some of the key decisions that were made in russia this week we're seeing how started dating at 19 and various ways to try to keep the country safe so we can all return to normality as quickly as possible. so as to tell reporting now a pharmaceutical firms worldwide are working flat out at the moment to develop vaccines and treatments for cope with 19 and in russia patients who have recovered are helping deltas by donating their blood plasma with antibodies for transfusions one of the 1st owners told us how it works. 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 blood 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 then a team of medics from school for 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. 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 we're losing sleep in consciousness anyone who came through this conveyed infection could do the same but we will said my plans might help 2 or 3 people who are about to be put on ventilators. or gets mosque which you'd better put on a medical mask yourself and then see people wearing masks and has months you'd soon 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. now the united states has registered more than 39000 deaths from cave at 99 according to official data at least 27 doctors and nurses have died from the virus but the media has been reporting much higher think is some medics have been taking to the streets to blame the government for the severe shortage of protective equipment. i. was. like it was really. this rally took place outside a hospital in new york which has been devastated by the pandemic medics carried signs demanding urgent action to get supplies of. personal protective equipment where it's needed the state's death toll now stands at more than 17000 motions for the over 2 of the protests gross is saying that they are risking their lives jean

seeing government incompetence. just. what it looks like so i discover rona my best friend 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 feet 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 apart from the lack of protective gear medics in the u.s. to say see that the health insurance system is putting people's lives at risk a post by a nurse was shed many times on facebook about this derrick smith recalled the final words he heard from the patients he was put on

a ventilator they were he was going to pay for it the nurse spoke without. 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 multi-billion dollar annual military budget you know which with our allegedly partner of defense where i think the 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 has one of

the most available downs at the moment with hefty fines for people who break the rules and speaking earlier in the week the president did say today that the measures will have to be extended until maybe 11th so far 19000 people have died from coronavirus in france and and on your macro on emitted that mistakes have been made. it to demean it doesn't got me to say 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 a lot. of these so who are we prepared for this crisis well i think the answer would be no we won't but we have to admit our errors we made difficult decisions when dealing with incomplete information changing information about the virus the containment measures have dealt a hefty 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

the mob president barack obama is calling for schools to resume normal activity in mid may although many teachers do you think that that is premature charlotte explains schools could start to reopen from may 11th that was the announcement from president matt groening 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 to enforce 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. well 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 shock but perhaps given that almost in the same breath mark or announce that restaurants bars cinemas and museums would not be reopening until further notice that's left some teachers groups reeling who they're 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 at 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 demonic to many children notably in poorer areas in the countryside are deprived of school without access to digital tools. since schools closed in more teachers of

educating their students online there have been public television services broadcasting lessons to the nation yet despite these new concerns from the government about students for ling behind the education minister genre show blanca recently it flies that they should take a break that you stop holidays for one teaching union there is a clearer motivation behind the return to school we have the impression that we are being personally author 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 pupils 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 facemasks how will they enforce any social distancing that still mandated and if as the longest says the return will not be obligatory how can 2 the government be sure that the most deprived students well actually come back to the classroom show but even ski r.t.

paris. more than $1000.00 sailors on board a french aircraft carrier have tested positive for cope with 19 shasta gold is docked off the country south coast at the moment but it isn't the only nato ship that has been infected by the virus.

well we spoke to are tied to u.s. air force left and colonel who does think that france should have learned lessons from america's recent experience. the group that is most sickened by this is not normally the age group of soldiers or ornate the 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 bethink because if a 3rd of your crew is sick and not functional then your ship is not functional well he'd like to think that social distancing and things like that they 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 can 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 well despite the risk that the virus to supposed to say this the nato secretary general seems to believe the real danger lies elsewhere and stoltenberg has warned of the sarees including russia not to exploit the planned them security challenges have not diminished because of cold with 19 on the contrary potential adversaries look to exploit the situation to further their own interests terrorist groups could be emboldened we see a continued peso russian military activity all were operational readiness remains under me in the sht. and our forces remain vigilant and prepared to respond to in the thirty's while americans death so spyros the new york times has begun blaming russia today saying that kremlin propaganda is making the pandemic worse we'll have

the details in a couple of. join me every thursday on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm sure business also you have. been arguing for the last decade or so. crisis is both a structural crisis and it is also a crisis of statement you're going to see in a capitalist and your money and this did not cause that crisis it only made it very astley. and revealed so 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 budget in this. welcome back to the weekly now the new york times is accusing russia's president personally helping to spread 19 in america according to the paper kremlin propagandists have done that by discrediting the american health care system with more his moderate gas the. 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 for 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 the decade of health information promoted by president vladimir putin of russia his son white confusion huts major institutions and encourage the spread of deadly illnesses the new york times lies right off the bat there is no widespread confusion in fact americans trust in 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 new 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 and the media should rigorously examine the bases for any such restrictions seems trump followed the advice he read in the new york times. it's 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 putin 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 ansi vaccine movement a movement that was birthed not by putin in the k.g.b. but by a british physicians 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 vaccination because of the 998 snowball the reason it snowballed this because the media gave

a controversial research paper ad side including the new york times which gave a platform for conspiracy theorists 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 to 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 but american c. 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. we are such

a weak sister we deserve the right protection to be in that environment that is in the little bit 98 look at all the charlatans the bloggers the televangelists who are being watched by the americans i believe is that putin do you see behind america's faith based medicine. only. was it putin or american politicians who cut funding for counter pandemic programs was it russian balts 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 endemic so often feet scapegoating jews were widely blamed for the black death creating a fertile field for demagogues the difference this time it's. more a ghastly it than i was we've been reporting the pandemic has brought entire economies to a standstill but with factories closed roads empty and planes grounded the has also been a shop for open pollution and in many parts of the world the contrast is striking.

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a lot and very very big worlds apart as you can probably gas some joining us north from our usual studio from my old all my. old of the last couple of weeks isolation has become an overbearing and while most of us can't go back to our normal lives it's hard to tell what normal even means at this point how will the college 19. change the way we run our politics economy and social relations gaza.