no dairy thinks. we dare to ask. but over 100 frontline health care workers were ported the dying in the u.k. from kovac 19 medics are urged not to complain online about shortages of protective gear on testing kits prompting outrage. the end i. can see. all. of them which i should have released those before clinical concerns and cites. russian doctors say they have successfully helped treat coronavirus patients find giving them transfusions of blood plasma from those who have recovered we visit one of the hospitals using this technique. blood plasma with crucial antibodies that will help those who are right

now perhaps in critical condition buckling the new disease. more on rats the under lockdown in the french capital was the most power save poorest registering some of the highest mortality rates from kofi 19th in all of france also ahead. of a stop the export of these viruses from china the virus was spawned in china as the largest sponsor. washington ramped up the pressure on beijing with threats to sue china over the pandemic back to donald trump says he'll cut only u.s. ties to a chinese virology lab which for a state significant financial support from the a bomb a administration. very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me. and us begin with the latest figures on covert 19 since

the outbreak of the new virus in december last year over 2500000 have been infected with it the number of fatalities currently stands at over 177000 but more than 697000 people have managed to recover from the deadly disease. the u.k.'s health secretary has responded to allegations that medical staff are being gagged saying they are free to raise their concerns during the pandemic about laughter and n.h.s. trust issued a new social media guidelines to its staff outlining a list of topics to avoid it asks them to refrain from tweeting about political issues including shortages of p.p. and testing kits but staff are encouraged to praise the n.h.s. is hard work and volunteering initiatives mental health campaign terence o'shea

stays this situation will affect the morale of frontline workers. it's not a coincidence that guidelines were issued by probable a. mental health trust in the united kingdom with the worst reputation and the worst relationship between workers and management. it just excessive bites noureddine. poor situation well i think if we look at the response to the corona virus outbreak in the u.k. . it's brain ball shift and perhaps one of the reasons why the u.k. has been so slow to react to the corona virus is because the n.i. has a consistent record all but saying it's its reputation and

reputation of ministers before clinical concerns and safety issues transparency is a must if we are to stop this dreadful outbreak. the british medical association has warned the doctors lives are being parted with bind dangerously low levels of people and amid the shortages the n.h.s. has changed its guidelines advising medics to reuse gowns and aprons punting unions to call for an independent inquiry into the government's handling of the crisis they say a block of equipment has contrapositive to the deaths of over 100 health and cast offs so far in the battle against covert 19. let's find out more now let's cross live to law gas now i mean bennett is an n.h.s. nurse he's been working on the front lines of the pandemic welcome to the program it's good to see you and i mean give us a better idea of what the situation is on the ground how severe is the lack of pay pay and how is that affecting you want because well as the morale of you and your

colleagues yesterday basically and i didn't want in the. not one specific hospital so i do sort of agency nurse in our working different hospitals across the n.h.s. however i'm no is personally that there's a very big difference between hospital to hospital so for example although my most recent hospital are worked in i was given a basic surgical mask when i've been looking after country 1000 positive patient whereby the guidance actually says that my should be fit with proper p.p. to trace your mars when i tried to bring this up to life senior staff i was told that this is how they do at that particular trust so it kind of makes is very very uncomfortable so much things go wrong with that the government's a strategy in supporting the n.h.s. . is quite difficult to say because like i said different hospitals

are doing different things so it's not like there is a set framework that will trust the full or any i've been asked probably what the issue could be so if there was more central guidance and trust fall of the same pattern then maybe that would be a way to solve it the largest said the particular hospital i worked with they were not prepared to supply the basic surgical masks however i did know that i could see that some. some staff were able to get a p.p.a. filtration mask in some circumstances i was actually working with 2 patients that were put tested positive and i was supplied to the surgical mask which will not protect me when i'm in the room with a patient and their coffee and flour and i didn't feel comfortable with that and like i said when i raised it as an issue i was told that that's how they do it in that particular trial. and the health minister at pocono said that health care

workers are free to speak their mind i do believe that. not really it's very difficult like i said i found myself in a position where my own safety was compromised but i think a lot of healthcare workers we do tend to work more towards better outcomes for our patients so it's putting us in a in a situation where we're almost forced to be working in unprotected it's very difficult when you know that the outcome of a patient could depend on you leaving the shift to make the department sure. someone working on the front line how do you expect the pandemic to play out in the u.k. do you think enough is being done to contain the outbreak. for me personally i believe that people are not listening in to the guidance of staying at home and the problem is that there's so many conspiracy theories going on the general public and not taking this seriously so that seem to be

a real problem on social media i'm listening to people say that it's not it's not true explain it's you know all these conspiracy theories are actually die new in the the wider issue and people really just need to stay at home if you stay at home and keep it's not contained. it will help the dart the virus to die out closely at the moment but i personally do not believe people are listening i do work as a nurse currently i think i passed several commons parks on my way to work and i see people having picnics. trying quiets you know to me it's like the general public just not taking it seriously do you feel about why people like yourself who work in the health care who work on the frontline feel the need to go on to social media to talk about what you're experiencing yet i think as well because i don't discuss it on social media so much but even between my small networks whenever i

speak how. the general public don't believe what i'm saying when i say that people are dying because the sounds of the in accuracies on social media seem to be having more of an influence so i think it's really good if people are allowed to speak on social media obviously that's not the case at the moment. the n.h.s. thank you for speaking to us today and your daily life thank you. and number of corona virus infections in russia keep thorin with some 5236 new cases registered the total number of people who have died from the virus now stands at 513 meanwhile russian medical staff are exploring new ways to help coronavirus patients recover one thing that appears to be working is blood transfusions 3 patients were discharged from a moscow hospital after they received blood plasma from people who have recovered from coke at 19. talk to some of those donating blood.

plenty of russian hospitals have been group purpose countries partially to treat those who have fallen sick with covert 19 but right now we've come not to where the patients are but those who have been cured have come to donate their blood plasma blood plasma with crucial antibodies that will help those who are right now perhaps in critical condition are battling the new disease ringback. my friend who had coronavirus and recovered was asked for a blood test because doctors need blood plasma from those he successfully recovered from the virus and i decided to donate my blood to it because i also got over the coronavirus and wanted to help. how did you play out gemini symptoms.

yes i had symptoms it went by the book but 1st i had a fever followed by a cough. and you believe it's of significance which you're doing here right now you have. the conversion of the from oh yes as far as i understand this will help the doctors they save this blood plasma transfused it will help critically ill people. but rule blood plasma can be used for treatment just yet 1st it has to be processed all potential bacteria and other viruses that is in the they have to be destroyed and it happens here. ringback

we have 10 to 15 people donating plasma today we don't know how much russia will need as we don't know how huge the peak of the pandemic will be but based on what is expected in moscow what is happening now we will need 202250 donations a day and that's just for moscow plasma has already showed its effectiveness we have seen the 1st recoveries however more time is needed to say if the effect is proven. so how were you examined before this procedure on august they took a blood test for making and discharge me from hospital. well they say they are expecting you back in 2 weeks time yes there's the issue they're expecting me then of course i'll go back.

to the jewels but it would stick in cities all the pandemic we were doing $20.00 to $30.00 tests a day at the institute now we're doing $2500.00 tests every day. so if covert 19 is indeed the invisible enemy as they say this right here is the front line. the civil resistance. front remains europe's the 3rd hardest hit country with more than 158000 cases and more than 20000 deaths despite the nationwide lockdown some of piracies poorest suburban areas have seen violent clashes between the residents and the police. in a northern suburb of paris tensions were high to find the collision of a local motorcyclist with

a police car over the weekend fireworks were used on the street and police used tear gas to disperse the protesters the protests have spilled into the neighboring area where the mortality rate from the corona virus is one of the highest in france shallow due by the ski has more on the situation in the affected area. what we found out in the last few days is how inequality in if you're poor means that if you have 19 you're more likely to suffer as a result and even die let's take cents on to me which is one of the tourist northern suburbs of france it's one of france's smallest departments and now new figures from france's statistics agency all see shows that it also has one of the highest mortality rate from cope with 19 in all of france this health crisis throws a harsh light on the territorial inequalities of which the and habitants. are

victims this is an area that synonymous with poverty the people who are working or working as delivery drivers or cashiers in shops or home help or care home workers meaning that they are more likely to come into contact with more people which means their move risk of. you know in the area why what's going on in this department in france as being akin to a social emergency. and sounded the alarm over sound sound and the people are starving i'm shocked that in a country as wealthy as ours the authorities do not provide better support. lawsuits exacerbating the situation in. fact it is an area that also has a lot of shanty towns that have a. by remote communities and also by immigrants these are areas that have ranked conditions this squalid not nice as you can see from the pictures as an area to

live places about basic things such as running water one charity medicine and more and is concerned that the residents here could face their own epidemic on their dog we are facing double health crisis in the slums because one can ruin a virus or people will have big problems to get access to health care and also because the basics access to water access to toilets are not yet efficient in old shanty towns it's very tough for them the more time goes by the less money they'll have to feed themselves so the slums are really dependent on the actions of town halls the prefecture and yokes well of course people can access medical care like the charity work that meds and demand is doing but even when they do access that they are facing an uphill struggle sensel to me is a twelvemonth that has some of the fewest intensive care beds in the whole of the country so if you need access to an i.c.u. to intensive care it will be less likely that you'll be able to get that and he

talks about in his journal the situation at the beginning was only bearable in its move towards hardly being sustainable and the lock down in france has been very strict and it is difficult for many people but if you're living in squalor cramped conditions in a shanty town then it really must be pretty unbearable and the fear is that covert 90 in the pandemic isn't just widening inequality in areas like sense on to me it's actually pushing people into their graves. coming up after the break the pandemic has prompted several u.s. states to ban abortions arguing that they are not essential we have more on our story in just a few minutes stay with us. join

me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us

in the depths. or a made in the shallowness. welcome back washington and beijing got on a collision course over the pandemic with the trumpet ministrations suggest an ex now seeking to sue china but us president has previously insinuated that the virus originated from a lap in who hung the center of the outbreak well that contradicts the world health organization is finding that the virus is likely to have come from facts in late 2019 trump officials say beijing must be held accountable. but to stop the export of these viruses from china we have a lot of tools our tool kit i understand there are lawsuits that are being filed here against china's trial lawyers they're there for the dog good and the chinese have a lot of assets around the world you know we'll see what happens lawmakers in washington

are thought to introduce a bill in the senate that would allow americans to sue beijing its handling of the pandemic well donald trump says the u.s. will sever ties with the now infamous will institute which it turns out was heavily funded by washington in the past pain has the details. the blame game between the usa and china is escalating now got a longtime critic of china who's also a white house advisor saying that china is profiteering from the pandemic he put forward the claim that china worked to hide it along with the world health organization while stockpiling the supplies that would soon be in high demand 1st of all the virus was spawned in china 2nd of all they hid the virus behind the shield of the world health organization the 3rd thing they did was basically hoard personal protective equipment and now they're profiteering from with the pandemic

overwhelming america this was on capitol hill soon found a scapegoat that they could pin it on if they did it was a mistake a mistake is a mistake but if there were no a responsibility then there should be consequences china is the largest state sponsor of pandemics this is the 3rd or 4th pandemic that came out of china what should we do to the largest state sponsor of pandemics on the globe which is sanction china china's attempt to control basically every organization within the united nations through their colonial powers to bribery through other things tremendous damage to this country into this world china has has long been the most significant geopolitical threat the united states faces trump even promoted the conspiracy theory that the virus originated in a virus lab in china is a lot of people are looking at it it seems to make sense they talk about a certain kind of bet but that wasn't in that area in the city rouhani are adamant

that this is simply not the case so it's woodruff was there any. officials have repeatedly stated that there isn't any evidence that you coronavirus was produced tree many medical experts in the world also believe the so-called laboratory leak hypothesis has no scientific basis you know that conspiracy. theory wouldn't exactly when the united states points let's remember that lab actually received a grant from none other than the united states itself the obama administration gave them a grant of 3700000 i've been hearing about that and we've instructed that if any grants are going to that area we're looking at it literally about an hour ago and also early in the morning u.s. officials have glossed over this fact it barely was mentioned during a press conference and now despite the fact that there's no real evidence donald trump says an investigation is going on into the laboratory a lot of strange things are happening but there is

a lot of investigation going on and we're going to find out conspiracy theory is used to justify us foreign policy rarely require evidence for the u.s. media to run with them and for the u.s. public to become convinced now calls for china to be sanctioned over the virus are growing not just in the united states but around the world and is really n.-g. o. recommends suing china australian and canadian politicians are jumping on the anti china bandwagon as well this as so many countries around the world are depending on china for personal protective equipment a number of confirmed 1000 cases in ecuador has not the past 10000 would have a 500 fake tele taser already the country has resorted to deploying. with refrigerated trucks were seen pumped in the country's capital quito they reportedly capable of storing up to $200.00 days however for residents all that could always hardest hit city such facilities that remain unavailable with motorways overwhelmed

and cemeteries running out of burial space. i demand please i want to know where my father is clean you know what up to me it's not clear that one seen my dad's body i'm desperate i cry every day because i can see my father i would like him to have his christian dorio so that all his family can.

look like little bit of time they do to contain this they were placed there at the main entrance of the past while his public cemetery contains the part that with blood leaking out of them salutes all over the floor even my guts in my hand if this is a fact in our respiratory tracks the kids are fairly certain my case last week i didn't understand the reason for the smile suddenly opposed them stomach leak and i thought why their realized it was because of the smell from a certain trick. the u.s. state of texas has bounced nearly all abortion services as part of its response to cope with 19 successes among 8 u.s. states facing legal battles over restricting abortion access during the pandemic

there were parties that are calling them known as. sensual procedure during a public health crisis it comes as some clinics are now experiencing a spike in requests from women hoping to get an abortion while they still can the trust women abortion clinic in kansas reported up to 400 percent increase in patients recently we talked to julie burkhardt the chief executive of that clinic she says that women are under a lot of additional stress during the pandemic. affected our clinics greatly we have seen 300 to 400 percent increase in our low there are a couple of reasons why. we're seeing a global health crisis. coronavirus and so people are very

certain they're going to stay healthy or not we've had. a claim sire people have asked people are still losing their jobs and we have absolutely see women coming in and this is not the time to bring another child into their family because there aren't sure if they're going to be able to financially support the child. ok now to the u.k. where reports of a shooting incident in kent are coming in police say they've surrounded a block of flats off the gunshots were heard being fired from a top floor apartments on the situation is still unfolding we'll bring you any new updates on that story as and when it comes in well out thank you for joining us here on r.t. and wherever you are we hope you're feeling good that we're back with all the latest in 30 minutes we'll see them.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask.

i'm after a time here we're going on the ground for a brand new season and it's a coronavirus pandemic to bring you news not in the mainstream media coming up on the show game over for capitalism after coronavirus we speak to the un's climate chief and around the sun and as at least a 1000000000 people are expected to celebrate today's 1st earth day have made a global walk down the offer an architect of the 25th in paris trying to push on a for gerunds on what covert 19 could mean for saving humanity from environmental extinction plus the u.k. government's coronavirus maybe press briefings transparency or propaganda goal the ball coming up in a season premiere episode are going underground 1st major nations britain in the usa looks at the moment to be the worst hit by the global pandemic but while don't try and gives long daily press conferences the white house here in britain a parade of much criticised ministers have had to take the place of a coronavirus recovering boris johnson who claimed to have shaken hands with covert

patients shortly before his hospitalization so what is really going on here in the u.k. for all the answers i'm joined now by going underground 70 editor charlie cook good to see you charlie good to see that you all well for a start aereo well i'll be watching the trump press briefings we've had the u.k. ones as one of them today the murdoch sunday times doesn't seem to like boris johnson says we turning turning on him is murdoch the working class champion against elite oligarch run government yet a very much have been removed the charms of the dutch of lancaster one of johnson's deputies michael is supported by rupert murdoch i don't you remember don trump in interview one of his 1st with the british press here michael did the interview rupert murdoch was in the room the entire time and michael gave out he went on the sunday political shows here in the u.k. to defend course johnson and he offered this kind of less than spirited response to some question it was a really really simple question.