so there was 2 more. or less you. or anyone. with over $100.00 frontline health care workers reportedly dying in the u.k. from covert 19 medics not not to complain online about shortages of protective gear and testing kids pointing out wage. d.n.i. chairs i can system. i should have a great future i should have released those before clinical concerns and insight from. russian doctors say they have successfully helped to treat coronavirus patients find giving them transfusions of blood transfer money from those who have recovered we visit one of the hospitals using this technique. blood plasma crucial antibodies that will help those who are right now perhaps in critical condition are

battling the new disease. more on westbound on lockdown in the french capital with some of paris's poorest suburbs registering some of the highest mortality rates from kovac 19 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 state sponsor of pandemics washington ramps up the pressure on beijing with threats to sue china over the pandemic that of donald trump says he'll cut all u.s. ties to a chinese virology lab which was significant financial support from the a bomb a administration. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me nick. 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 it the number of fatalities currently stands at over 179000 but more than 704000 people have managed to recover from that 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 of the an n.h.s. trust issued new social media guidelines to it starts outlining a list of topics to avoid it all sucks 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 a terrence o'shea say this situation will affect the morale of front line workers.

it's not a cover instance that guidelines were issued by probably a mental health trust in the united kingdom with the west reputation and the worst relationship between workers 'd and management. it just exacerbates nor where they. 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 to 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 'd 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 8 planes prompting unions to call for an independent inquiry into the government's handling of the crisis they say the lack of equipment has contributed to the deaths of over $100.00 health and cast off so far in the battle against kovac 19 and a chestnut any bennett say is hospitals are not following best practices. hospital not what if they were not prepared to supply the basic surgical masks however i did know that i could see that some. some stuff i do to get p.p.a. filtration laws in some circumstances i was actually watching with 2 patients that

. tested positive and i was supplied to the surgical marks which will not protect me when i'm in the room with a patient and they are and i didn't fool 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 you'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 ship to make the department shoe. in russia the number of corona virus infections cape story with some 5236 new cases where just at the total number of people who have died from the virus there are stands at 513 meanwhile russian medical staff are exploring new ways to help

coronavirus patients recover one thing that appears to be working is a blood transfusion 3 patients were discharged from a moscow hospital after they received a blood plasma from people who were targets from covert 19 artie's ecostar of talk to some of those donating their blood. plenty of russian hospitals have been brute purpose into this bar surely to treat those who have fallen sick with covert 19 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 possible blood plasma with crucial antibodies that will help those who are right now perhaps in critical condition are battling the disease.

in here. 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 because i also got over the coronavirus and wanted to help. how did you play out jevon the 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. the queen of much 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 there 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 an discharge me from hospital. well they say we're expecting you back in 2 weeks time yes there's good you know they're expecting me then of course i'll go back. to the jews but it would stick to the cities all the pandemic we were doing $20.00 to $30.00 test a day at the institute now we're doing $2500.00 tests every day. so it's a covert 19 is indeed the invisible enemy as they say this right here is the front line of the civil resistance. or france remains europe's 3rd and 3rd hardest hit country with more than 150000 cases and more than 20000 deaths despite a nationwide lockdown from the paris is poorest suburban areas have seen violence

clashes between residence and police. in a northern suburb of paris tensions were high turned 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 and the protests have spilled into the neighboring area where the mortality rate from the corona virus is one of the highest in france surely deeper the city has more on the situation in the affected area. what we found out in the last few days is how inequality in if you will 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 frances it is dick's 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 unit habitants. or 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 catching 19. areas destroyed what's going on in this department in france as being akin to a social emergency. and sounded the alarm over sense and these people are starving i'm shocked that in a country as wealthy as ours the authorities do not provide better support but also that's exacerbating the situation in. fact it is an area that also has

a lot of shanty towns inhabited by rumor communities and. also by immigrants in these areas that have cramped conditions this squad led one charity medicine to more and is concerned that the residents here could face their own epidemic on this we're facing double health crisis in the slums because one karuna virus reaches them 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 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 sense 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 and it is difficult for many people but if

you're living in squalid cramped conditions in a shanty town then it really must be pretty unbearable and the fear is that coded 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 non-essential run after orian just a few minutes.

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welcome back to washington and beijing got on a collision course over the pandemic with the trumpet ministration suggesting it's now seeking to suit china the u.s. president has previously insinuated that the virus originated from a lab in the center of the outbreak that contradicts the world health organization is finding that the virus is likely to have come from bats in late 2019 trump officials they beijing must be held accountable. got 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 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 officials in the state of missouri have become the 1st to file a lawsuit against the chinese government and edging the pandemic was unnecessary and preventable if not for a cover up by beijing while donald trump says the u.s. will sever ties with the now infamous woo han institute which was funded by

washington in the past caleb maupin has the story. the blame game between the usa and china is escalating we've 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 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 saying china china is 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 looking at it it seems that makes 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 and 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 of 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 and spirits the theories 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 tensions have been pretty high with china for some time and i do fear that to speaking it worse certainly it could result in more economic warfare against china as everyone knows the u.s. has the most cases of coke at 19 in the world as the most number of deaths from covert 19 those numbers will continue to go up it's clear that the reason this has happened is because number one. trump waited 6 weeks before doing anything to confront the crisis and because even to this moment we're not testing nearly enough people for the virus so this is

a homegrown catastrophe but the government doesn't want to admit that so it's trying to find a scapegoat in china. well the number of confirmed cases 900 cases in ecuador has now surpassed 10000 with over 500 fake teletubbies already the country has resorted to deploying mobile morgues refrigerated trucks was seen parked in the country's capital key so they reportedly capable of storing up to $200.00 bodies however for residents of ecuador's hardest hit say such facilities were main unavailable with mortuaries 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 here that one see my dad's body and i'm desperate i cry every day because i can see my father i would like him to have his christian doria so that all his family came across. the middle of the last time they brought the containers they were placed there at the main entrance of the past while this public cemetery the containers with that with blood leaking out of them salutes all over the floor even maggots in my hand if this is a fact of our respiratory tracks the kids are feeling that in my case last week i

didn't understand the reason for the smile suddenly a focus of stomach leak and i thought why there realize it. because of the smell from star trek. the u.s. state of texas has banned nearly all abortion services as part of its response to covert 19 texas is among 18 u.s. states facing legal battles at the restricting abortion access during the pandemic there were 14 is that a court of law known as sensual prestigious 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 they trust women abortion clinic and countless reported and up to 400 percent increase in patients recently we talked to jimmy carter 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 with. coronavirus and so people are very uncertain if they're going to stay healthy or not we've had millions. claims filed 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 that child and some world news in brief now.

u.k. police 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 that live streamed himself firing shots from several other guns as well police confirmed that he's been arrested on suspicion of firearms offenses. but there have been more protests in the us over stay at home orders being implemented during the coronavirus pandemic hundreds gathered across missouri against the state governor's decision to prolong the curfew through may 3rd demonstrators have decried the measure pointing to the rise in unemployment while also claiming it cattails their personal freedom. was aryans on the only ones flouting coronavirus lockdowns this group of penguins was spotted taking a stroll down the streets of simon's town just outside cape town animal groups say that the penguins are usually anxious around people but with the streets now empty

the animals are reclaiming their territory well that's kept conservation rages busy in south africa with penguin hatching season also in full swing there. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international and wherever you are we hope you'll save and well that's it from the studio here in moscow but will be live from london and just over 30 minutes have a great day. the world is driven by shaped by those great. new dares thinks. we dare to ask.

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this is the one business show you can't afford to miss. in washington coming up oil continues to dominate headlines on wall street earnings reports may be giving even more bad news to businesses are eager to reopen but we'll explain what that means for mass testing workers thank you not only for both swag and says it's ready to pay up for. we have a packed show for you today so let's go and dive right in. the world health organization warns the worst of the krona virus pandemic is still ahead will global infections down at more than $2500000.00 with the death toll more than $175000.00 w h o spokeswoman for delicate said all available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not a manipulated or constructed virus in the lab or somewhere else this comes after

president trump's recent comments on determining whether the virus originated from a lab in one china well meanwhile singapore announced its plan to extend the walk down by another 4 weeks the move comes after a sharp surge in corona virus cases in just the latest days. we will implement these type of measures until the force of me. but we will not be able to completely lift the restrictions off of that and go back to business as usual. we will therefore extend this circuit breaker for 4 more weeks beyond the 4th me in other words until the 1st of june. then provided we have brought the community numbers down we can make further just means and consider easing some measures well meanwhile iraqi officials scaled back the 24 hour curfew imposed to

contain the spread of the chrono virus the new measures have a curfew from 7 pm until 6 am local time and they will remain in place until may 11th this comes days before the start of ramadan the holiest month in the islamic calendar traditionally involves a large gatherings will these large gatherings are still restricted but some shops will be allowed to reopen while some european countries are easing restrictions germany has warned of a possible 2nd wave of countries disease control center empathized the seriousness of the situation. the less we prevent the virus from jumping from person to person through our behavior the more the virus will fall to its actual reproduction rate the basic reproduction rate the rate that occurs when no measures are taken and that is somewhere between 2 and 3 in other words if we all now pretend that the problem has been overcome we will have another outbreak that is quite certain well brazil has the largest number of.