suggests that. the long term effects may not just be the absence of benefit but actually the right because we want to. put over $100.00 frontline health care workers reportedly dying in the u.k. from covert 19 medics not to complain online about shortages of protective gear and testing kits counting out wage. the has a consistent record all. of them the reputation of release those before clinical concerns and safety issues. russian doctors say they have successfully helps treat coronavirus patients by 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 are battling the new disease. more unrest under lockdown in the french capital with some of power says poorest suburbs registering some of the highest mortality rates from cove at 19 in all of france also ahead. of stop the export of these viruses from charlotte a virus was spawned in china as the largest state sponsor pandemics washington ramps up the pressure on beijing with threats to sue china over the pandemic that says donald trump says he'll cut its only u.s. ties to a chinese virology lab which will state significance financial support from the about the administration. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron and let's 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 aids the number of fatalities currently stands at over 178. 1000 but more than 701000 people have managed to recover from the deadly disease. thing. the u.k.'s health secretary has responded to allegations that medical staff are being ganged to saying they are free to raise their concerns during the pandemic and i thought to an n.h.s. trust issued new social media guidelines to its stars outlining a list of topics to avoid it all 6 them to refrain from tweeting about political issues including shortages of p.p. and testing kits but stocks are encouraged to praise the n.h.s. his hard work on voluntary and initiatives mental health campaign a terence o'shea sees the situation will affect the role of frontline workers. it's

not a couple instance that guidelines were issued by probably a mental health trust in the united kingdom with the west reputation and the worse relationship between workers and management. it just excessive bites in already. poor situation well i think if we look at the response to the corona virus outbreak in the u.k. . it's brain ball sht and perhaps one of the reasons why the u.k. has been cited sleights reacts to the corona virus is because the n.i. has a consistent record for putting its reputation and the 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 put at risk by dangerously low levels of pain and amid the shortages the n.h.s. has changed its guidelines advising medics to reuse gowns and aprons and prompting unions to call for an independent inquiry into the government's handling of the p.p. crisis they said the lack of equipment has contributed to the deaths of over $100.00 health and cast offs so far in the battle against private 19 and i test nurse naomi bennett says hospitals all not following best practices. hospital not what they were not prepared to supply the basic surgical masks however i did not see that some. some stuff why able to get p.p.a. filtration laws in some circumstances i was actually watching the tube. actions

that will 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. i didn't feel comfortable with that but like i said when i raised it as an issue i was told that that's how they do it in that particular trial i found myself in a position where my own safety was compromised but i think a lot of how care workers we do tend to work. more towards their outcomes for our patients so if we're not in a in a situation where oh well almost forced to be working in unprotected it is very difficult when you know that the outcome of a patient should depend on you leaving the shift to make the department sure. the number of corona virus infections in russia keeps thawing with some 5236 new cases registered the total number of people who have died from the virus now stands at

513 and meanwhile russia medical staff are exploring new ways to help coronavirus patients recover one thing that appears to be working is that blood transfusions 3 patients were discharged from a moscow hospital after they received blood plasma from people hate recovered from covert 90 artie's they called stand off talk to some of those donating their blood . plenty of russian hospitals have been brute purpose these partially to treat those who have fallen sick with covert 90 but right now we've come not to where the patients are but were 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.

will be stable. my friend who had corona virus 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 because i also got over the coronavirus and wanted to help. how did you illness play out jevon the symptoms. yes i had symptoms it went by the book at 1st i had a fever followed by a cough. would you believe it's of significance which you're doing here right now. the pretty much the bum 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 there they have to be destroyed and it happens here. 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. this procedure for an artist they took a blood test from i think and discharge me from hospital as. well they see the are expecting you back in 2 weeks time yes there's they're expecting me and of course i'll go back. to the jews but it didn't stick it's 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 it's called 19 is indeed the invisible enemy as they say this right here is the front line of the civil resistance. where france remains europe's the hardest hit country with more than 158000 cases and more than 20000 deaths despite the nationwide lockdown

some of paris's poorest suburban areas have seen violent clashes between the residents and the police. in a northern suburb of paris tensions were high tense by the collision of a local motorcyclist with a police car over the weekend fireworks were used on the streets 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 schaller day by the ski has more on the situation in the affected area. what we've 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 than die let's take cents on to new which is one of the tourists

northern suburbs of france it's one of france's smallest departments and now new figures from frances a to sticks agency all see shows that 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 move risk of catching it at 19. 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 says people are starving i'm shocked that in a country as wealthy as ours the authorities do not provide better support but also

exacerbating the situation in. fact it is an area that also has a lot of shanty towns inhabited by communities and also by immigrants and these are areas that have conditions this war lead one charity medicine and more and is concerned that the residents here could face their own epidemic. we're facing double health crisis in the slums because when crueler virus reaches them people will have big problems to get access to health care and also because the basics access to water access to tourists are not yet efficient in all the shanty towns 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 cents on to me is a twelvemonth as 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 the

lockdown of france has been very strict in that is difficult for many people but if you're living in school it cramped conditions in a shanty town then it really must be pretty unbearable and the fear is that 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 us states to ban abortions arguing that they are non-essential more nonstory and just a few minutes. the world is driven by a dream shaped by those. who

dares thinks. we dared to ask. after a lot of bluster primary democrats and their media friends have decided on joe biden as their party nominee is the left again will the progressive school in line with these junk offering voters in will the d.n.c. experience buyer's remorse.

welcome back washington and beijing gong a collision course over the pandemic with the trumpet ministrations suggesting it's now seeking to sue china the us president has previously insinuated that the virus originated from other hand they sent to all the outbreak that contradicts the well it's health organizations finding that the virus is likely to have come from bats in late 2019 officials they beijing must be held accountable 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 trial lawyers there are there for the dog and and the chinese have a lot of assets around the world you know we'll see what happens. lawmakers in washington are set to introduce a bill in the senate that would allow americans to sue beijing its handling of the

pandemic while donald trump says the u.s. will sever ties with the now infamous rouhani institute of which it turns out was heavily funded by washington in the past caleb moore pin 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 officials 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 responsible here then there should be consequences china has the largest state sponsor 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 and 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. officials have repeatedly stated that

there isn't any evidence that you corona virus was produced no 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. the number of confirmed covert 9000 cases in ecuador has now surpassed 10000 with over 500 fatalities a lady the country has resorted to deploying immobile molds refrigerated trucks was seen pops in the country's capital kits so they reportedly capable of storing up to $200.00 bodies however for residents of ecuador's hardest hit city such facilities one main unavailable with a mortuary is overwhelmed and cemeteries running out of burial space.

before i did mine and please i want to know where my father is please you know hold up and 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 it last time they do to contain us they were placed there at the main entrance of the past while this public cemetery the containers with their with blood leaking out of the salutes and loads of the even maggots in my hand and this is a back to our respiratory tracks the kids are feeling so that my case last week i didn't understand the reason for the smile suddenly opposing stomach ache and i thought why. never realized it was because of the smell from his. now the u.s. state of texas has banned nearly all abortion services as part of its response to covert 19 texas is among states facing legal battles over restricting abortion access during the pandemic they'll foresees that are calling them known essential

procedures 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 be trusted women abortion clinic in kansas reported an up to 400 percent increase in patients recently we talked to the chief executive of that clinic she says that women are under a lot of additional stress during the pandemic so i. affected our clinics greatly we have seen a stream 100 to 400 percent increase in our patient load i think there are a couple of reasons why. you know we are facing a global health crisis. coronavirus and some people are very certain they're going to stay healthy or not we've had millions climate claim silden people have lost their jobs people are still losing their jobs and we have

absolutely see women coming in and saying you know this is not the time to bring another child into their family because they're i'm sure if they're going to be able to financially support the child. and some world news in brief now. police in the u.k. have responded to a shooting incident in kent after a man was described by neighbors as shooting a machine gun from his balcony the man was also spotted holding a hound gun and a rifle police confirm the man has been arrested on suspicion of firearms offenses . or there have been more protests in the u.s. over stay at home orders being implemented during the coronavirus pandemic while hundreds gathered across missouri against the state governor's decision to prolong

a curfew through till may 3rd demonstrators have decried the measure pointing to the rise in unemployment while also claiming it could tells their personal freedom . people in missouri are the only ones that flouting coronavirus lockdowns that this group of penguins was spotted taking a stroll down the streets of simon's town just outside of cape town animal groups say that the penguins are usually anxious around people but with the streets now empty their animals are now reclaiming their territory and that's kept conservation rangers busy in south africa with penguin hatching season also in full swing there . are those who joining us here on r.t. and wherever you are we hope you're feeling well we're back with all the latest in 30 minutes so we'll see you there.

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle after a lackluster primary democrats and their media friends have decided on joe biden as their party nominee is the electable will the progressives fall in line what is joe offering voters and will the d.n.c. experience buyer's remorse come november. ross knocking joe biden and the democrats i'm joined by my guest richard goodstein an old bridge he is a democratic strategist and a former adviser to bill and hillary clinton and in new york i'm joined by how when she was in city she is in american journalist with r.t. her writings are collected at how one of destroy dot com or across something else in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it but let me go to you 1st. you have to tell me you're really super excited about joe

biden is your nominee right i mean really ok because you're a part of the. peter i am super excited when i look at the polls and i see that the american people have come to their senses i guess you know i'm not donald trump's biggest fan and when i see. notwithstanding the fact that there is this usual rally around the flag it gracing a president during a time of crisis and that's happening in every other country on the planet and virtually every state in the united states dollar tax rates went up and now they're back down to where they've been and joe biden is beating him by 6789 whites in some of the big respectable polls so if that does excite me i will admit that yes fair enough fair enough ok the national polls mean nothing at this point and if you compare it to 2016 joe isn't doing that well hillary was doing much better ok

having to do with me going to let me you know let me go to hell and ellen. the real issue here is within the democratic party itself in its really centered on bernie bernie sanders ok they finally got him out ok they rallied their forces the media came in to save the day as well and it really gets down to the bernie bros and i don't use that term in a project pejorative way as many but i know a lot of bernie bros and they are fervent very smart people may have just much gumption as conservatives do this if we disagree but helen it really gets down to the progressive part of the party are they going to be won over by joe because joe has given them nothing to did. well i mean if they're the ones who voted for hillary back in 2016 will fall in line behind joe personally i don't understand why people were willing to live up to her burning this time around after he basically took him under the bus and $1016.00.