of course you the girl or if you're. a coronavirus pandemic is being accompanied by a global outbreak of conspiracy theories in part aided and abetted it seems by remarks coming out of the white house. as the month of fasting and prayer known as ramadan started muslim communities the world over find themselves unable to assemble in mosques shut down by the pandemic. buke a enjoy some lovely spring sunshine prompting many to ignore stern government warnings and fly out to the lockdown letting the country's parks and beaches. and creature comforts with many struggling and self isolation zoos have gone online to give people a chance to pets that are the most remotely our correspondents gave it

a try. it's. a very warm welcome from all of us here in moscow that is r.c. international with me we care and let's begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the global pandemic is still raging with 2700000 cases now confirmed the number of states how ti's has the past 191000 but over 750000 people have recovered. new. current a virus that isn't the only thing that's spreading during this pandemic conspiracy theories about the origins of covert 19 have swarmed the internet auntie's caleb

maupin looks at why they gaining so much traction. the coronavirus can demick is opening up weird new horizons for online conspiracy theorists the virus was bioengineered in a lab by scientists to be used as a weapon or a form of population control this is a theory the form of politician bronwyn bishop has also suggested it is to get rid of nonproductive chinese in the chinese community in the words of george that is who should be eliminated. so they don't have to be but it's getting beyond just talk hashtags don't your hospital is saying that the corona virus is just a big hoax and urging people to come out of lockdown nothing going on here not burn up and gone on. to. check things out.

things are starting to get frightening to as individuals who believe these ideas take action neo nazis and white supremacists capitalized on the lists and publish them aggressively across their values using the data far and extremist who are calling for harassment campaign while sharing conspiracy theories about the coronavirus the damage someone dumped thousands of personal email addresses and passwords online now the information allegedly belongs to people working to fight against the pandemic people working with the gates foundation the national institutes of health the centers for disease control the world health organization and yes even the woo han institute of uralla the distribution of this alleged e-mail credentials or just another part of a month's long initiative across the far right to weaponize decode the 1900. 90 s.

certainly cannot blame anyone for people believing can see. seriously theories but the fact that the white house has latched on to their ideas is certainly not helping at this point we've got the white house encouraging distrust of a vital international body that's working against the pandemic had the w.h.o. done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out china's lack of transparency the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death we still don't have the transparency and openness we need in china and it is the world health organization's responsibility to achieve that transparency they're not doing it they need to be held accountable and now the world health organization has been targeted as has the one lap top u.s. brass continue to insist could have possibly been a source of the pandemic we know that there is there was an institute of oil that just a handful of miles away from where the wet market was there still lots to learn you

should know that the united states government is working diligently to figure this out amid the fear and uncertainty it's human nature to pursue opportunities but what's needed now is global togetherness in the face of the pandemic not naysayers chancers and governments weaponized. r.t. new york privacy concerns are being aggravated as governments try to tackle the pandemic play to the front and we look at how the tech giant thought tousling with european states where data collected by new contact tracing app should be kept on people thought phones all in state service we have details on that for them to come . here kerry is enjoying a spell of sunny weather ordinarily a welcome thing but now it's a concern as people visit parks and beaches final thing the nationwide lockdown has artie's sunday at woodstock stay with more. britain is by no means out of the

danger zone but despite that as you say the u.k. is witnessing a growing number of people have been caught out in about breaking these lockdown measures that of course of the been in place now for well over a month and that really is the concern going forward as the weeks all turning into months people of feeling isolated and cooped up plus quite crucially at this stage the weather is significantly improving across the united kingdom we are witnessing some of the hottest days of the year quite up in normal and uncharacteristic for what is usually quite rainy days in this april season but it's sunny and we are now seeing many people are yet again in these lockdown measures now these breaches actually come as the death toll remains quite high across the united kingdom the latest figures show that the numbers have cling to the 20000 mark just in the last 24 hours alone we've seen 616 deaths now as we know in the united kingdom the government's policy has always been led by the medical experts and the science experts all know who say that if we relax these measures too much too soon we could

even see a resurgence in this virus in fact a leading government science expects even anticipates that social distancing you know that to meet its distance will have to remain in place indefinitely until a vaccine is found available in the long run the exit from this is going to be one of 2 things ideally one of which is a highly effective vaccine in the variety of ways vaccines can be deployed or and or highly effective drugs so that people stop dying of this disease into we have those and the probability of having those any time in the next calendar year incredibly small and i think we should be realistic about that and we're going to have to rely on other social measures well while maintaining a distance might all be well and good opposition party leaders think the united kingdom's response has been actually quite frankly too little too late that comes. as i already mentioned. persistent reports of the lack of preventative equipment

the staff at hospitals and care homes testing are not enough transparency on what happens next what is the future look like person these are really serious and very pressing issues for many people across the united kingdom and the opposition leader the new opposition leader secure starman lost in scathing attack on the government saying something's going very wrong indeed with the government's policy and something's going wrong with the supply the virgin here we were slowed to look slow and. slow and protective equipment are now slow to take up these offers for british for well one of the biggest issues as mentioned there is this lack of testing for the virus but dominic who's the foreign secretary of course the man standing in the forest johnson you know he himself is fighting off of it 19th well he has denied that the government has been too slow and even insisted that he was confident the government were to reach the target of a $100000.00 test a day by the end of this month which is by the way self-imposed deadline but as we

had ever closer to the end of the month in fact it's just less than a week away that they can seems really really way off the united kingdom president only has a capacity 240000 test a day just over half of that number actually being carried out latest biggest just around terms 2000 so we're still around $80000.00 shy so it really does seem highly likely that that target will be missed now as we know all of the effects of this virus having impact also on the economy now the bank of england warns actually of what contraction in century is it's of course no surprise that cannot make activity has been completely ground to a halt but the key question is how does the united kingdom recover not just financially but physically as well. a record number of americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the last week. the 3000000 lost jobs well since

the outbreak of corona virus about 30000000 people in the u.s. have signed on and is fair this number will keep storing in the coming weeks as despite the government's dumping up funds to help businesses retain staff but the u.s. senate majority me to have questioned additional spending on benefits pointing out that it would add to america's national debt that's what it is very carefully because the future of our coverage from there were no is a matter of genuine concern what you're seeing is the worst collapse of capitalism in the united states since the great depression of the 1930 s. in the united states and in most other countries political leadership sailed to prepare in the same way that they failed to prepare for the coronavirus and so now we have 2 crises on top of one another an unprepared for viral

pandemic and an unprepared for capitalist downturn because the downturn is worse since it took 10 or 11 years and because we have this virus it is it extreme collapse of capitalism and no one at this point can tell you clearly how bad it will get or how long it will last. the federal budget committee shaz us senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's concerns i have a debt and has predicted that the national debt could potentially suppost world post world war 2 records the us treasury secretary is adamant that a trumpet ministration will spend whatever it takes economists which it wolf again say's government is the only force the console the current crisis but is being held back. we now have somewhere between 27 and 30000000 people

unemployed that is by the way a serious on do accounting this point the only thing would be a massive intervention by the state by the government to try to do that no other social source exists in the western capitalist parts of the world but probably anywhere other than the government and here then is the problem the government is controlled in the united states and in most other parts of the catalyst world by the private capitalist sector and they don't want the government to take steps that threatens their control so the government can't do. with lockdown taking its toll many are in need of creature comforts were better then than a group of friendly alpacas saskia taylor got up close and personal with the

adorable animals albeit fire video are linked. so it's friday. why the way it's quarantine days 795 full disclosure i'm a big i pretty much only subscribe to dog accounts on instagram animals are amazing because they're loving that entertaining and they help to reduce anxiety and depression and let's be honest be cooped up for weeks on end and solve isolation is sent in some people stress levels through the roof now i don't have a pet to help me through these tough times but i found the next best thing i was actually is all over the world giving you a screen tired with your favorite farmyard creatures austria's miniature junkies goats cows pigs you name it you consume of them at a price well i obviously did my research and your animal caught my eye i give you.

the humble out. of there is. more to success other than that much interaction with benny one for several weeks alls like this have been a huge hit hundreds of animals have already crashed conference calls and online classes because that's fun big break up the monotony of corinth and the left spirits but crucially a lifeline for striking visitors unlike restaurants or museums places like zoos can't just shut their doors and wait for this all to end they have mouths to feed

and out of those are expensive they need food vet care as well as constant attention. why don't we work according to the plan but without visitors it makes it difficult because when people come it helps us to move forward both financially and in other directions the alpacas are what attracts people to our farm people come they watch and talk with the animals then go to our store where they can buy our products it's all linked to each other all together it brings as income. with no revenue for visitors zoos in germany for example have appealed for public donations and the asking for a 100000000 euro bailout from the government the situation is so dire that once they were in the north of the country that any was the case scenario it might have to feed animals to each other because of the financial pressure and here the alpaca farmer says he's trying to be proactive and use this time off wisely but admits

that others will not come out of this crisis quite as well used to brag of group if you take off farm for example then we have a relatively good situation the land is our property and despite the fact that there are no visitors we use this time to repair or build something new people who rent their territories they physically have nothing to do or improve there they are in a worse situation maybe some will even close i feel sorry for the animals we have the opportunity to stay with them all the time while others for example in zoos cannot so maybe next time you have a spare moment pick an animal any animal not going to soon and then to american business a helping hand and just feel your stress fade away and if you don't think you can handle in our pocket want to might not far from one that make a potty out of. well

but with more after this short break stay with us. i mean he found. that once you got infected and you'd get a nice one for any response and said that. it was softly protect you against me infection or no i was fine with this new crown of ours is that it's a very calm case a tracing in many patients you get mild disease any antibodies. 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 that. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or a mate in the shallowness. welcome back muslims around the world are going to celebrate the holy month of ramadan in isolation where most small screen closed down when it just service is suspended muslims on able to participate in traditional must press early i spoke to watch he's more i'd go c.f. about how typical ramadan practices have been adapted to during the pandemic. this

is the 1st day of a ramadan that is unlike any other unlike anything that muslims expected this is a very difficult time ramadan and the lockout jenna's hotel or with public gatherings bandaging ramadan including communal prayers speeches and so on remember to continue your prayers and devotions in self isolation you might think that ramadan is an individual thing that you could be fast by yourself at 0 but in fact ramadan is it's a very social thing there's a huge aspect of it that is community that is social that is your neighbors and your family for example families wake up together to pray in the morning to eat that for a very difficult day at the end of that day they get together with the entire communities entire towns and they celebrate they eat they pray they they they said

this is you know a long and difficult one hungry day food at last people have been deprived the social aspect for now there's also a whole host of things the things that muslims stay away from so for the to the generation of the toss while the sun is up people refrain from entertainment various forms of entertainment and on top of that there's all the other challenges there's the quarantine there's millions of people who don't have enough money who don't live in a country where the government can give them money to stay in self isolation for a month people facing very difficult challenges we must accept ramadan as a test sent to us by allah we lived and sometimes forgot about who gave us hope life well being and work today there is an opportunity to think to look at the past and into the future again muslims are a quarter of the world's population and for the next month. many of them will be

exhausted as a whole host of medical arguments here to be made whether whether you know some people should be exempt others shouldn't and they are they are religious leaders and leaders of muslim nations are exempting nurses for example medical staff doctors from the past because they're working in incredibly stressful conditions especially now they're wearing full personal protection equipment it is very difficult work they have a new room to the air or no room to make mistakes and they're being exempt from the fast if a doctor asks a person not to fast as it might affect his immunity then the person has the right not to fast during ramadan workers in the health sector also have the islamic right to choose not to fast during their rock days of this you muslims around the world the voice that they will abide by 3 least one of the 5 pillars of islam the month

of ramadan but this is going to be a very different and a very difficult month for many. of the un warns that the corona virus outbreak could trigger another global disaster a hunger pandemic of biblical proportions the situation is already dire some 135000000 people are facing crisis levels of hunger and the u.n. says the number could double because of covert 19 we spoke to hell out of at the un special rapporteur on the right to food she told us more about the unfolding food catastrophe. worked through here curse it was such a global pandemic to come but how to emergency that syria's let alone could emerge and still of course some countries that are major stable could export terrorists like us russia and china have significant stocks. next to the

importers they come to serve such a comfortable position that that's a there's going to need a serious some course some countries not of. now as of 2 times until 20190200 1000000 people are severely insecure in basically a purely country but the real me is this if they stumble they don't know and maybe it will not or maybe it will marx or if we are in. uncharted territory yet about actually behind them came in at a time then there was not my problem there was no hooked up like iran there was no significant. pool to the really to be hairy now a little itty sure but it had never rock the global supply chain because of lockdown and mobility. and today we are mostly relying on global south like chains

and almost all countries are depending on imports from port and or even inside of the country could systems are dependent on transportation from crime to take rand this chain of the prices go up through that cannot reach to market. and major put in security is starts. being serious. european nations are wrangling with tech giants as they try to roll out contact tracing apps designed to stem the spread of the pandemic these apps alerts here. if they've been in contact with people who have coronavirus applets refusing to host platforms developed by france and germany either privacy concerns and is launching its own rival up one place where contact tracing has already proved successful in the stemming of this part of covert 19 is think up or. get peace of mind for you and

your family to community driven context racing trace together helps contact traces notify you more quickly if you had close contact with the truth that 900 case whether or not to do the person data handling is at the core of just disputes between governments and the tech firms germany and have opted for a centralized approach meaning that be registered data will be stored on a government run server but apple and google insist on keeping sensitive data on private devices and meanwhile scientists who are around the world have warned that contact tracing apps can be exploited to keep tabs on people we are concerned that some solutions to the crisis may via mission creep result in systems which would allow on presidents and surveillance of society at large well social media lawyer cohen told us there is a risk that contact tracing will continue once the crisis is over the rule dispute is about how. to communicate with each other.

who will be able to train in my day we can store the least of. their want. to. put it back. to troops movement of people in. the technology. to find out where people are with their out. how someone might be using the. political advantages. a special platform to inform on paypal violating the lockdown in new york has been suspended now softer it was bombarded with means and print posts. and now it's as simple as taking a photo all you've got to do is take the photo and put the location with it and

bearing send a photo like this and we will make sure that in force from comes right away comrade citizen report all suspected anti distancing activities to friend the new york ministry of social cleanliness. reports what is this 9904. start flooding their reporting tax number was this fix.

thanks for choosing r.t. international we hope you're having a great day we're back in just 30 minutes with the latest headlines. with good reason public discourse is focused on addressing and finally each containing the coping $1000.00 pandemics. now the focus is on devastated economies we're in a recession will it morph into a depression will the recovery be you. or anyone else. but i. let's see

when. i was on the floor some days ambassador you know crying praying. yes it's time for west. i was having children fever i didn't have any sense of say so smell from the most you know and i. would you. recently she you know sometimes you go oh this initiative. i'm going to calm down for the purposes. i have to. push myself how close it is for me in the face i'm going to. as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40

hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of the years we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing for a living minimum wage gave many people no choice you know that's been a problem with the city knows turn every time only stay way out almost our twosomes of concerted effort is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to make up the invisible class.