ministers insist there is significant support for a part of the public to have immunity passports despite the world health organization noting such documents could end up being misleading. brazilian president downplaying of the outbreak has the country divided with some even calling for his them i mean fear of insufficient about it measures and rapidly growing numbers of victims. and r.t. becomes the 1st company in russia to give staff blood plasma screening tests for

antibodies that can fight the disease. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour let's begin with the latest figures on kobe had 19 the global pandemic is still raging with the number of confirmed coronavirus cases now surpassing 3100000 while the 964000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 218000. i. the world health organization has warned against issuing immunity passports saying there is no solid proof yet that recovery from the disease will prevent a 2nd and faction but the plan is being widely discussed particularly in europe with croatians tourism minister claiming many agree on the need for

a common trouble protocol or what he calls a coded 1000 passport are peter over takes a look. the brandenburg gate is one of germany's most visited tourist attractions but if you're dreaming of seeing it or anything else in the e.u. any time soon you may well need a special type of passport that says you are new to the coronavirus the tourism sector has experienced an immense and unexpected decline in demand due to the outbreak of the corona virus pandemic our mission is to be as members of the european union and as part of the most successful tourist region in the world leader in the recovery of tourism these m unity passports are just one of a number of ideas being discussed by the e.u. tourism ministers as they try to find ways to mitigate the impact of covert ninety's on the holiday industry one particular idea is based on the whole proviso that if you've had covert 19 you can't be free to some nations like greece which

relies massively on holiday makers spending money they're very much on side with the plan but there is one quite significant show experts at the world health organization say immunity passports wouldn't be worth the paper they're printed on at this point there is not enough evidence about the effectiveness of antibody mediated immunity to guarantee the accuracy of an immunity passport or risk free certificate people who assume that they are immune to a 2nd infection made more public health advice the use of such that if it gets made there for increase the risks of continued transmission in some barolo just so wanting that immunity sports would just be practical but they could be helped to spread the virus the sad reality for europe's tourism industry is that without say working back seeing the future looks far from bright peter all of a party. dr mohamed money or

a biologist at the u.k.'s at lancaster university told us any moves to get people moving unmask again it could actually lead to a 2nd outbreak. miti passport has to has a lot of debate and discussion and 2 media assessed whether it is a good to be of forwards because what we don't want really is the reemergence of the same inspection because to an old to be a lot more lethal than what we have seen in the 1st phase one of the important things that we have to understand is that it was due to resume or movement of people that spread of this insurrection from joyner to the rest of the globe so a movement of people has grave concerns for reopening the countries whether it is for tourism purposes or for any other purposes and when it comes to tourism even if it is within the continent is not riddled any risk but i munity passports could get the public flying again and large numbers which would be a boost to the airline industry that is fighting for survival amid the lockdown

airlines have resorted to calling each other crack junkies and other abuse as they battle for government aid that story is coming up in full later in the program. and russia the number of corona virus cases is nearing 100000 with just under $6000.00 registered and the last 24 hours one than $10000.00 have recovered in total but almost a 1000 people have died here r.t. has become the 1st company in russia to conduct staff screening tests to find out whether their blood plasma contains antibodies that confirms if a person has been ill without sometimes as well to fine plasma donors for the severely ill i was one of the lucky ones to take the test here's how it went. everybody who is left at the channel which is a whole lot of people think play for is getting to us today to see if we have the anti-bodies for the crown fires and if we do and if it turns out that we do know

later on we could possibly become donors because there's this whole wave of treating people with blood plasma from people who have already had the coronavirus and there's been a lot of success for them so want to try it out i'm going to go get one taken which is not like everything to do but we're going to cause it's all work they're great. way to turn that look like i'm up. on one of. the of the i think. it was a little. slow to come up with. the

right let's see it so when the results come in and if it turns out that i have somehow the con artist didn't know it and i do have the anti-bodies then the contacts meet and i can become a donor which would be really nice to feel like you can help people you know it is right now there's. so much going on that it's really difficult to. understand how to help these. without contacting you being in contact with other people but this could be a really great way to do it so fingers crossed and it's got me there for thing is they're telling everybody who's here the channel today and maybe one of them will

become i don't or and be able to help people who are really really suffering right now. so far we can say with absolute confidence that antibodies create a long lasting and strong immune system but what we can say is the doctors and specialists hope that antibodies provide the immune system with enough strength to prevent getting infected a 2nd time the testament of bodies is important because there is a number of professionals such as doctors journalists or police officers who have to work with patients and those potentially infected and then 2 bodies can be found in the blood the victims both with or without symptoms. now they did rush those results and while i don't have the anti-bodies i don't have the virus either and so for now i'll be continuing to follow all the advice washing my hands wearing masks and keeping my distance but the number of coronavirus victims in russia still rising and president putin has extended the lockdown in the country to may the 11th it's all the video conference with regional chiefs that the toughest phase of the

fight against the pandemic is about to start. if you knew that just one more. day the number of new infections has stabilised but that doesn't mean we can relax the situation remains very complicated system which experts in scientists say we haven't cost the pretense that which now we're about to face perhaps the toughest societies of all fight against demick the risks of being infected are reaching the upper limit of the russian president has been very diligent in recent weeks in keeping people up to speed on the caret of our situation in the country and on tuesday he spoke again said that the collective effort and discipline help millions of russians meant that we now have a stable daily increase in the number of new cases around the 6000 mark now and exponential bust but he said more consider it done so he announced the nano period to kind of semi lockdown that we've been in since the end of march will be extended all the way up until may 11th inclusive now the start of may is

a favorite time of year the many russians people usually go to the countryside they visit the frenzy to barbecues they walk around the city spring has arrived and there are a number of public holidays so was probably to be expected that the government would take measures to prevent people from streaming out onto the streets and a syphon not made it out but interesting remarks he made was that while of course corona virus is a national and local emergency we in the midst of this cannot forget about all the people who need medical support but you wouldn't know me suleyman you'd sooner obviously we put all our medical resources towards the fight against the pandemic but unfortunately nobody is able to cancel other dangerous diseases including uncle logical and cardiovascular accusing chronic regardless of today's extraordinary situation people should receive all the help they need now this is a touchy subject in a number of countries in the u.k. for example it's thought that around 2000000 side streets have been postponed in order to free up that's for cope with 19 patients and that's under. stand to be led

to a lot of anger frustration and of course desperation so russia very keen to avoid a similar scenario and just a final thing that came out of the speech it was very interesting to see how successfully russia had mobilized its resources in the fight against coronavirus so just an example that's an approach and said that what a new you know russia was producing around 70 ventilators for intensive care units in april that had risen to $800.00 and in may that will be a target of $2500.00 similarly the testing system in russia has become incredibly comprehensive around $150000.00 test button approach and stress that of course this is an unprecedented climate things are changing daily so we need constant access not solves new targets but either way tuesday to address a very clear message that from the russian president that more can and should be done in order to slow the spread of crude a virus we absolutely cannot let god stout but so many who are sick of sitting

inside 4 walls definitely a light at the end of the quarantine tunnel as we look forward to that may 11th. plane maker airbus has posted a 49 percent slump and 1st quarter adjusted operating profit as the industry faces what analysts are calling its worst crisis in history british airways is to cut 12000 jobs after a record quarterly loss saying air travel will take years to recover both suppliers and airlines seem ready to destroy one another to get their hands on state aid has been gutted performance. for airlines this is an extinction level event so take your average airline most of your aircraft are abroad on credit so you can fly there's a pandemic but you have to make interest payments every month on every aircraft so how long do you think all these airlines would last without government taxpayer

bailouts i am in favor of companies like lufthansa having an opportunity to get back on their feet and make money again if there's a tornado coming for your house you don't try to save the couch you grab what you can and you run because you can't save everything the analogy ends here airlines aren't couches and they're now asking governments why the hell they use saving some companies the big ones and not others look transit is a create a 2nd crack cocaine junkie looking for state aid but you know times are tough when airline executives compare their rivals to crack junkies can say there was no warning either i mean these people even had exercises to prepare for pandemics to think about what they would do capsis spreading and it's largely due to the movement of people how should national leaders businesses and international

organizations balance the risk of worsening disease there will be caused by the continued movement of people around the world against the risks of profound economic consequence of travel and trade bans so they wed back and forth brainstorming about how their business could survive a pandemic this was in october 2019 a game could organize by the world economic forum so what happens when you let politicians and businessmen decide by themselves how to handle a pandemic and balance with. saving lives and saving revenues spoilers a lot of dead people we project that in one month we could see upwards of $2000000.00 cases and over 100000 deaths and in 3 months there could be as many as 20000000 cases and 1600000 deaths the outcome of the cap's pandemic an event to well one was catastrophic 65000000 people died in the 1st 18 months

airlines among others haven't just learned that they're awful at saving lives they've accepted it some have to suspend all operations ground their entire fleet others claim to have introduced safety precautions like social distancing which is not dissimilar to stuffing a can full of beans and asking the beans to stay away from each other as they say every dollar counts it will take 2 to 3 years for travel to return to $29000.00 levels and additional few years beyond that for the industry's long term growth trend to return when the situation does stabilize the commercial market will be smaller and our customer's needs will be different you carol deny that the airlines a facing catastrophe this truly is survival of the fittest or well those most willing to violate health standards and most adapted to smearing their rivals.

a hunger crisis is brewing in the parisian suburbs and another fall out from the crowd a virus outbreak details on that story and more after the break. we go to work. street whole. show for seemed wrong. holds just all. the world to

get to shape our disdain for the conflict educate and in dangerous equals betrayal. once a many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground in. welcome back more than a 1000000 cases have been logged in the u.s. and the situation is particularly severe in new york city which has almost a 3rd of all cases more than 300000 people treat each of us reports. as new york continues to come down the curve officials are preparing for what's next governor andrew cuomo asking the president to keep the javits center makeshift

hospital open and on standby because he fears a possible 2nd wave of the coronavirus come this fall i spoke to the president about leaving them in place until we get through the flu season god forbid we need extra capacity again the virus still holding a tight grip on new york even as it comes down the curve a 2nd wave of antibody testing revealing nearly 15 percent of residents tested positive for cold in 1980 s. governor cuomo saying he will extend new york's pas order in many parts of the state but while some are ready to get back to business we have to take a risk because we need to. be going to get i'm going to be meeting others have mixed feelings i know everyone in new york is so anxious to go back but we have to take things slow as of right now just coming out. this while the virus continues to take an extreme toll on health care workers on

the front lines the head of the emergency department at new york presbyterian allen hospital dr laura now brain taking her own life her father saying she tried to do her job and it killed her doctor had a contract of the virus while on the job she returned to work after nearly 2 weeks of recovering her father telling the new york times make sure she is. praised a hero because she was reporting in new york trinity each other's r.t. . the brazilian president downplaying of the covert 1000 i'll break has the country split on whether to impeach the number of deaths is rising fast with some now fearing it will become the new epicenter of the virus are his own accord or has more. brazilian president jay or balsa naro is downplaying the seriousness of the coronavirus and its dividing his country against itself to evenly matched camps have emerged those who want to see balsa naro out and others who have come to his defense.

but. also now is doing all he can to make this virus look like it's no big deal he's calling it a little flu telling business owners to reopen and he's even hugging supporters on the streets. in the middle. of the debate. in my case due to my track record as an athlete were infected so i would not even worry because i would have symptoms or at most it would be like a flu

a cold the president even fire brazil's health minister a strong supporter of self isolation officially the country's got almost 70000 cases but many experts are saying that the real number can't possibly be that love with some estimates reaching as high as 1000000 why the big discrepancy it could be a lack of testing or the terrible medical conditions that have pushed doctors onto the streets in protest. cemeteries are so overcrowded the government has begun taking mask. raids to absorb the extra bodies many media outlets are reporting that brazil has become one of the world's largest coronavirus hotspots but despite all the indications that something is clearly wrong all scenarios and to lock down policies have

a lot of support behind them so why do we think that the same just as about as you know there are cities in brazil that have no coronavirus cases that's more than 80 percent of cities in the country so stopping the entirety of brazil like this is irresponsible. and. make them that. way he also because we support our president both a narrow and then till proven otherwise we still believe him and wish he had to show us strength and all support to our beloved country brazil it's unclear how many more people will die before boston are all has a change of heart about the virus if he has one at all but it doesn't least seems like the brazilian government is more concerned about the safety of the economy than of its own people. but all men editor of the opera monday news site says both of those more interested in economic growth and people's health. it's a political choice both a man who works for capitalized interest especially for 'd finance 2 groups and

they want they don't want to pay to be you for so so isolationists strategy although the hand brazilian president bats that people will be mainly worried but we. vacation not that we've heard a virus his speech defending carnaby against public health is. in large. social groups which are just great we could only busy break as social isolation is from them and the early. states and cities brasil is not a matter of the fabric. both so mad that this shouldn't be so so isolation the strategy we can all phase only to go bad it's. hundreds of people are spending hours lining up for food handouts and the poor

suburbs of paris authorities warn to cope with $1000.00 has caused an unprecedented hunger crisis and families relying on food banks just to survive. well for the lock down had local markets which are cheaper than supermarkets supermarkets are too expensive for the kind of shop there. i'm not covered by their employment or fortunately i still do otherwise we would not eat. as soon as people arrive here would get set up and give the different grades who are prepared to those distributing the food.

everything is prepared here we distribute milk our preserves our vegetables. for the special expense so it's too expensive for me just difficult with my children and my husband has been to work since the beginning of the crisis i have to call them to get food and this is why it was a solution. when this coded 19 health crisis started we thought that it was going to affect the whole population but especially those in a precarious position we thought about how we could help them so we decided to do food distribution. we have a lot of people who come from all over the region from far * away to get food in or

we have about 300 families 200 who come constantly and 100 from the other municipalities but it's huge. you know. we see numerous people in either urgently in a way we have never seen in these tense neighborhoods the smallest part can trigger yet more tension. that's our world news wrap up for this hour but don't forget you can always time up to the minute reports on our facebook and twitter pages all of us here at r.t. hope you and yours are well.

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