in the stories that shaped the week here in r.t. moscow rolls out automated id checks to allow essential travel during the lockdown but after an initial pass the system suffered big problems on the city's metro and roads. doesn't make sense. medics in the usa their lives are being put at risk by the government's failure to supply hospitals to. french teaches criticized president micron's plan to

reopen the schools by mid mid may calling it premature and dangerous. the latest developments and look back at the last 7 days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international well let's start this hour them with the latest numbers that we have on the pandemic more than 2300000 cases have been confirmed across the globe and at least 164000 people have died with the highest death toll in the united states and so far more than 615000 people have recovered from the fires. well today orthodox christians around the world were celebrating easter sunday but

for most going to church wasn't an option juta the pandemic so in russia many services were streamed on the internet and he drove the russian orthodox church patrick carroll as a people to stay at home and pray he led an overnight the jail at the cathedral of christ the savior in moscow attended by a small group of 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 to one how to bless the traditional in stick at home and president vladimir putin had this easter message. we're going to present 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 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 corona virus and there are almost 43000 infections the majority of here in moscow and this week the city did row a latter digital past scheme to ensure that people only each transport for sensual 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 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 to throw out the rubbish walk the dog coach 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 to moderate and in the 1st state they came into force they have kids to do move harm than good. it's not surprising then that initially the reaction to the process jim was a bit mixed with whom we get a 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 applying for a process and the server crashed and yeah i didn't dispute c.d.o. to 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 was still there was that each

and every time it was physically being checked by the authorities obviously creating crowds but 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 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 had stories here of people waiting for hours to get that documents checked but now the cameras will be scanning to see which vehicles have the right. it's and which don't now and not the big announcement this week was the spending of the night may that is the annual victory day parade along with me yeah it is possibly the most highly anticipated event in russian calendar 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 held in 2020 just at the late date either in the summer event. so those are just some of the key decisions that were made in russia this week we're seeing how start 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. pharmaceutical firms around the world are working flat at the moment develop vaccines and treatments for 19 and in russia patients who have recovered helping doctors here by donating their blood plasma with antibodies for transfusions one of the 1st donors 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 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. so. 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. now the united states has registered more than 39000 deaths from cave at 19 and according to official data at least 27 doctors in the us as have died from the virus allege 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. well the. 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 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 well emotions did boil over at this protest with nurses saying they are risking their lives to save government incompetence. some. just. what we needed. so i discover on our my best friend that i mean if you do not give us. the work as well i wonder if that's really kind of 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 lives the loaded the gun they played russian roulette with working people's lives and with training the consequence apart from

the lack of protective gear medics in the u.s. to say to you that the health insurance system is putting people's lives at risk a post by a nurse was shared many times on facebook about this derrick smith recalled the final words he heard from a patient who was put on a ventilator they were he was going to pay for it the nurse spoke with r.t. . 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. and 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 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 that france has have one of the most severe downs at the moment with hefty fines for people who break the roofs and speaking here in the week the president did say that the measures will have to be extended until may the 11th safe 900000 people have died from coronavirus in france and and the new mccrone has admitted 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 that 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 and of action managed to say that they won't have the finances to reopen once the pandemic is over meanwhile president matt brown is calling for schools to resume normal activity in mid may but many teachers do think that that could be premature with more knishes charlotte the big. 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 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 macro given reasons for reopening schools gradually was to fight against social inequality or don't fall in the

demonic too many children notably in poor 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 the 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 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 minister shaul 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 it says longer 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 a 1000 sailors on board a french aircraft carrier have tested positive for covert 19 charles de gaulle is docked off the country south coast at the moment but it isn't the only nato ship that has been affected by the virus.

well we spoke to retired u.s. air force left and colonel he thinks the front should have learned lessons from america's recent experience. though group that is most sickened by this is not normally the age group of soldiers or or in a the service men so you know it's not that dangerous per se like in terms of life and death but in terms of operational capability yes the best think 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 could work with they that those things are not going to be possible on a close quarters ship of any kind 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 or despite the risk the virus as opposed to silence the nato secretary general does believe that the real danger actually lies elsewhere in stealth and burke has borne adverse sarees including russia not to exploit the pandemic the security challenges have not diminished because of cold with one team on the contrary the potential adversaries look to exploit the situation to further their own interests terrorist groups could be emboldened we see a continued the russian military activity over operational readiness remains under me in the sht. forces remain vigilant prepared to respond to in the 30.

americans death told the new york times has begun blaming russia to you saying that i mean propaganda is making the pandemic worse we'll have a look at the details in a couple of minutes.

join me every 1st week on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to us on the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you there. welcome back to 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 with more his murder against 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 or. 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 flu kills more people reaching audiences saw grayson 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 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 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 ad side including the new york times which gave a platform for conspiracy theorist and vax 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 regularly cost american health officials as patronize ing 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 such a weak sister we deserve the right protection to be in that environment that is in the little bit $98.00 look at all the charlatans the bloggers the televangelists who are being watched by millions of americans i believe that putin do you see behind america's faith based medicine cover during cheney oh it. was a 2000 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 where 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 it's proved. the right around gas if an hour as we've been reporting the pandemic has brought entire economies to the standstill bus with factories closed roads empty and planes grounded there is also been a sharp drop in pollution and in many parts of the world the contrast is striking.

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