ministers insist there's significant support for requiring the public to have immunity passports despite the world health organization noting such documents could end up being misleading. the brazilian president's downplaying of the outbreak has the country divided with some even calling for his impeachment and it fears of insufficient preventive measures and rapidly growing numbers of victims. and our team becomes the 1st

company and russia to give staff blood plasma screening tests for anti bodies that can fight the disease. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour we begin with the latest figures on covert 19 as always the global pandemic is still raging with the number of confirmed coronavirus cases now surpassing 3100000 more than 165 people i'm sorry 165000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 218000. the world health organization has warned against issuing immunity passports saying

there is no solid proof yet that recovery from the disease would prevent a 2nd infection but the plan has been 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 covert 1000 passport participator of her takes a closer look at 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 tourists region in the world a leader in the recovery of tourism these are munity passports are just one of a number of ideas being discussed by the tourism ministers as they try to find ways

to mitigate the impact of covert 90 on the holiday industry particularly idea is based on the whole proviso that if you've had 19 you come back 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. so just so rewarding that it needed a school. that they could do to be held to spread the virus the sad reality for europe's tourism industry is that without saying

a word to see the future looks far from bright the role of a party. dr mohamed many are viral just at the u.k.'s lancaster university told us any moves to get people moving on mass again could lead to a 2nd outbreak. immunity passports as to how does a lot of debate and discussion and to be to get assessed whether it is a good to be of forwards because what we don't want really is the reemergence of the same infection because that would turn out 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 interaction from joyner to the rest of the globe movement of people has great 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 immunity passports could get

the public flying again and large numbers which would be a boost to the airline industry that is fighting for survival right now 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. here and russia the number of corona virus cases is nearing 100000 with just under $6000.00 registered and the last 24 hours more than $10000.00 have recovered in total but almost a 1000 people have died in the country now our team has become the 1st company and russia to conduct staff screening tests to find out whether their blood plasma contains antibodies that confirms if a person has been ill without symptoms as well as to find plasma donors for the severely ill as one of the lucky ones to take the test here's how it went.

everybody who is left at the channel which is not 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 that out i'm going to go get one taken which is not everything to do but we're going to cause it's all work they're great . way to turn that look like a month. on someone on. the eve.

of the little. show of the totally to. the right and that's it so when the results come in and if it turns out that i have somehow found the con artist and 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 in the city right now there's. so much going on that it's really difficult to. understand how about these. without contacting me and being in contact with other people but

this could be a really great way to do it so fingers crossed and it's not me there for thing is they're telling everybody who's here that you will 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. they did rush those results and while i don't have the anti-bodies i don't have the virus either so all be continuing to follow all the advice during my mask when i'm not in the studio staying away from other people and washing my hands raw. but the number of

coronavirus victims in russia still rising president putin has extended the lockdown to made the 11th he told a video conference with regional chiefs that the toughest phase of the fight against the pandemic is about to start. more speech if we really knew by the day the number of new infections has stabilised but that doesn't mean we can relax the situation remains very complicated case but since scientists say we haven't passed the peak against which now we're about to face perhaps the toughest phase of all fight against a pandemic 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 opened millions of russians meant that we now have a stable daily increase in the number of new cases around the $6000.00 mark now and exponential bust but he said more can still be 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 for 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 if i think that made the announcement interesting remarks he made was that while of course coronavirus is a national and global emergency we in the midst of this cannot forget about all the people who need medical support but you wouldn't is the only silly midget 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 to millions 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 it gates coronavirus so just an example 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 and in may that will be a target of 2500 similarly the testing system in russia has become incredibly comprehensive rob 150000 test button approach and stress that of course this is an unprecedented climb but things are changing daily so we need to constantly set small selves new targets but i do a 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 in 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 and both suppliers and airlines seem ready to destroy one another to get their hands on state aid as if explains. for airlines this is an extinction level event so take your average airline most of your aircraft abroad on credit so you can fly there's a pandemic but you have to make interest payments every month on every aircraft how

long do you think all these airlines would last without government rules 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 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 balance 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 then 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 caps pandemic and event to world one was catastrophic 65000000 people died in the 1st 18 months airlines among others haven't just learned the 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 we smaller and our customer's needs will be different you cannot deny that the airlines are

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 still to come a hunger crisis is brewing in the parisian suburbs and another fallout from the corona virus outbreak details on that story and more after this.

boring one almost seemed wrong oh just don't hold. me. to shape out. and in again try to. trail along. when so many find themselves worlds apart going to look for common ground. welcome back to the program when the 1000000 cases have been logged in the us and the situation is particularly serious in new york city which has almost a 3rd of all the country's cases or 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. 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 allan hospital dr laura no brain taking her own life her father saying she tried to do her job and it killed her doctor had contracted 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 chavez r.t. . the brazilian president's downplaying of the covert 1000 outbreak 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 quarter has more . brazilian president jr balsa naro is downplaying the seriousness of the

coronavirus and it's dividing his country against itself 2 evenly matched camps have emerged those who want to see valsin are out and others who have come to his defense. but. also are 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. of the bank. in

my case due to my track record as an athlete were infected i would not even worry because i wouldn't have symptoms or at most it would be like a flu a cold the president even fired 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. the like them that. we hear 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 bolton are all has a change of heart about the virus if he has one at all but it doesn't he seems like the brazilian government is more concerned about the safety of the economy than of its own people. i'm an editor of the opera monday news site believes wilson are more interested in economic growth and people's health. it's

a political choice both a man who works for capitalist interests especially for 'd finance to groups and they want they don't want to pay to be you for so so isolationists strategy overhand brazilian president bats that people will be mainly worried but we. vacation not that we've heard a virus his speech defending the car may be against public now is. in large. social groups which are just great we. 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 isolationists fractured and we can see all phase leaks go bad and it's.

hundreds are spending hours queuing for food handouts and the poor suburbs of paris authorities one cup in $1000.00 has caused an unprecedented hunger crisis with 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. are not covered by the employment law fortunately. 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 to 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 because bring it all 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. we see numerous people in need urgently in a way we have never seen in the east and snowy with the smallest part can trigger yet more tension. here at r t you were cutting back on personnel in an effort to help fight the spread of the corona virus so the top the hour r t u k will be taking over and you can always head to our website in the meantime for

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washington coming up a few of them already well into phase one studies in humans to determine if it's safe may be light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to coban vaccines as some trials are making headwinds straight ahead we break down the state of global infections and where the fight against the pandemic plus the federal reserve will meet this week to decide on how to tackle some issues facing the u.s. economy what moves will they make following recent rate cuts we'll take a look and later in the midst of shortages due to the outbreak we take a look at the surge in prices for some products and there are reports of profiteering with a boom bust panel with a packed show today so let's dive right in. as we continue to discuss the prospects of returning to normal life and reopening

economies the truth is many experts don't believe that will fully.