comes. in the stories that shape the week you're an anti international half of all workers around the globe are at risk of losing their job as the richest people on the planet see their bank accounts and bush thirds on the back of covert 90. community passports are being considered by europe's top tourism officials to get economies rolling again but the world health organization said the plan is flawed. and will take a look at may day celebrations from around the world with a twist and france they were mostly limited to balconies and rooftops but elsewhere something did fly out lock down on social distancing roles with dozens of arrested .

you're watching the weekly run out of top stories here not the international hawkins good to have you with us. now we begin this hour with the latest figures on covert 19 the global pandemic is in a new month those confirmed cases are still soaring now supporting 3 and a half 1000000 there is some hope though 1100000 have recovered the grim number you can see there in terms of fatalities now stands at more than 246000. only half of all workers across the globe are at risk of losing their jobs that's the stark warning from u.n. experts and although this crisis has been provoked by cope with 19. explains why the labor market was already under threat. the jobs of 1600000 people are in jeopardy due to coated 1000 lockdowns around the world hours have been cut incomes

have decreased unemployment is rising but the problems did not start with the pandemic for millions of workers knowing income means no food no security and no future millions of businesses around the world are barely breathing they have no savings or access to credit the international labor organization points out that roughly half of the global workforce has a precarious existence where their livelihoods their access to food and health care and other necessities of life can be cut off at any moment due to problems in the market they often have poor access to health care services and have no income replacement in case of sickness or look down many of them have no possibility to work remotely from home staying home means losing their jobs and without wages they cannot eat 2 to $3300000000.00 people function within what's referred to as the informal economy they are self employed or they have short term contracts their

wages have decreased by roughly 60 percent during the 1st month of the pandemic for them the pandemic is not just a time to stay home and relax they have very real fears about how they are going to pay their bills as the international labor organization predicts massive losses in income are ahead for them in terms of the economic and social effects of this and demi it discriminates massively and above all that discriminates against those who are at the bottom end of the world or for those who don't have protection those who don't have the sources those who don't have recourse to the types of things that we regard as you essential oils of a normal life not everyone is in the same boat amid the pandemic a new study shows that the $500.00 plus u.s. billionaires have seen their combined well surge by roughly 2. $182000000000.00 with 8 of them gaining a $1000000000.00 each since the beginning of the year meanwhile the weekly jobless

claims keep rising and rising with roughly $30000000.00 of them in the last 6 weeks and gallup poll shows that one in 7 americans would avoid seeking medical treatments if they had some key symptoms of coded 19 fever and dry cough because they're afraid of medical costs and it's worse when framed explicitly is believing to have been infected by the novel coronavirus 9 percent still report that they would avoid seeking cat adults under 30 nonwhites those with a high school education or less and those in households with incomes under 40000 dollars pay year how the group's most likely to indicate they would avoid seeking out cat the crisis in the economy is taking on the identity of its own i would argue and it's not just now being driven by what's happening with the virus slowdown it was really quite obvious in the us in advanced economies you could see

it in the commodity producing economies especially oil that was already slowing down the price was already declining you could see it the global trade which was barely growing global g.d.p. that was slowing so. you know the process was already underway and it probably would have. unraveled in a much slower way and clearly though the virus effect does precipitate in the excel ration of the contraction it clearly does this criminal it is hitting the working class harder and certain segments of the working class and even even harder while there may not be many big parades with red flags this may day it seems that the pandemic has made it apparent many of the issues that working class organizations have been trying to highlight for so long it will mop and r.t. new york. the world health organization has warned against issuing immunity passport saying there's no solid proof yet the recovery from the disease would

prevent a 2nd infection plans being widely discussed particularly in europe with caray shews tourism minister claiming many agree on the need for a common travel protocol what he calls a covert 19 passport peter oliver takes a closer 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're immune to the coronavirus the tourism sector has experienced an immense and unexpected decline in demand due to the outbreak of the coronavirus 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 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 one particular idea is

based on the whole proviso that if you've had 19 you can't be very effective some nations like greece which relies massively on holiday makers spending money there are very much on side with the plan but there is one quite significant hit 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 just so wanting that immunity passports would just be impractical but they could do if we held. to spread the virus further the sad reality for europe's tourism industry is that

without a working that scene the future looks far from bright peter all of a half to the. overall it's just that the u.k.'s lancaster university told us that people moving on mass again could lead to a 2nd outbreak munity passports as to how does a lot of debate and discussion into a meeting assessed by that it is a good to be of forwards because what we don't want really is the reemergence of the same inspection because that would turn out to beat 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 a reason or movement of people that spread of this insurrection from china or the rest of the globe so a 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. here in russia more

than 134000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed over 10000 were registered in the last 24 hours some 16 and a half 1000 people have recovered and almost 1300 are full of victim to the virus now here at r.t. we've become the 1st company in russia to conduct staff screening tests to find out whether their blood plasma contains antibodies that could indicate if a person has been ill without symptoms as well as finding possible plasma donors for those critically ill our correspondent jacqueline vogel was one of the 1st to take the test here's how it went. everybody who is left at the channel which is not a whole lot of people thankfully is getting to us today to see if we have the anti-bodies for the crunch virus 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 corona virus 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 are going to cause it's all work they're great. way to turn that look like a month. on someone. with the living. ability. of the totally.

the right and that spirit so when the results come in and if it turns out that i have somehow become artist and didn't know it and i do have the anti-bodies then the contacts me 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. what's going on that it's really difficult to. understand how to go. 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 not me you're there for thing is very 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 the 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 potential infected and then to bodies can be found in the blood of victims both with or without symptoms. of friday marked labor day in many parts of the world the holiday usually mixed with celebrations and process as well and recent years france will be remembered for its yellow vests and scenes of violence since covert 19 is put the country on lockdown demonstrations were restricted to balconies or online this year some did out in solo protests and even those sort of police stopping him from correspondent charlotte do looks back at the may day may be more familiar with in paris if it weren't for locked up. may

the 1st is seen as being the traditional day of rally by unions here in france now normally here tens of thousands of people would be gathering ready to march for workers' rights. in recent years the big protests have been hijacked and they have descended into chaos now i was here back in 2000. an 18 in the may day when i still what has been some of the worst violence i have ever seen in france and it started only street basically when people began to approach actual bombs at this fast food restaurant and then going inside to complete the project.

claiming to be the work of the so called a black box these all the far left and the case that much of destruction continue down this street smashing windows until they got here where they burned vehicles outside the shop that released a huge plume of smoke into the air that burnt it felt like for at least an hour releasing potentially dangerous toxins into the air and putting the people who live in this building out race. not. as covert 19 has been in a wave of protests in france but at least out on the streets instead unions have

called for people to take to have balconies and to all in the spirit but with the friendship pent up inside and having no way to really vent their anger frustration against the government perhaps bull economy or even the environment there is real concern that when the confinement starts to ease up on may the 11th radical groups will have something up their sleeves groups on social media have been calling for people to get ready for a new spate of action our own goal will not be confined was the slow good an eyesore. on one poster now these calls on social media already being tracked by the intelligence services who fear that violence will be used to seize public attention very active rights and ultra left networks of coup to prepare a number of attacks police also see the calls on social media as being an opportunity to display their hostility towards the police one militant site

describes offices as being a greater threat than the virus itself and during the lockdown there has already been issues with the police and we need cues to pull talented particularly towards ethnic groups in the parisians suburbs that lead to nights of violence. while the looked down for the most part has been peaceful be observed there is a real fear that france has become a bit of a pressure cooker and not anger towards the government hasn't gone away instead it's building up in some boiling away when people are released paris and in other cities they could have open revolt on their hands. ski out

see paris. all riots did however break out in germany with some defying a ban on public gatherings the protests were going for the social distancing rules which were implemented by back in march 5000 police officers were deployed in the capital and several arrests were made. now in chile the situation was much more tense several dozen protesters were detained for vomiting looked down rules according to reports one of those upper handed had tested positive. but 19 and was meant to be quarantined for another 10 days police resorted to cut and to disperse protesters. i was the fight against corona virus take center stage in the u.k. you experts warn of a rise in cancer related deaths more details after this break.

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much the program that supports the coronavirus could claim thousands of additional lives due to a lack of diagnostics and treatment that's according to new research by university college london a health research up starting from britain will restore vital services including cancer care which has mostly been put on hold during the pandemic. britain could soon face another health care crisis not corona virus but a consequence of it scientists predict 18000 more people in the u.k. could die of cancer in the next year deaths from new cases in england could rise by

a 5th or one expert has a grim prognosis about the overall number of deaths caused by the disruption of cancer services during the pandemic this is likely to outweigh the number of deaths from the corona virus itself over the next 5 years cancer treatment in hospitals has been put on hold to make room for covert 19 patients last month attendance for chemotherapy dropped by as much as 60 percent and cancer referrals by doctors are 76 percent lower but it's not just treatments that have been affected an n.h.s. england survey found 10 percent of the public wouldn't seek help at all during the pandemic if they suspected they had cancer as experts fear people aren't coming forward cancer treatment hasn't stopped but we have seen a big reduction in the number of people coming forward and we'd like to reverse that because the system is open for business experts also warn other in direct death such as heart attacks could mean

a total exceeding those of the virus itself while the national health service also faces a backlog of procedures that could cost $3000000000.00 pounds to work through after cancelling 2000000 operations i think that it will take us many years to get back to a good position we need more operating theatre facilities we need more birds we have to keep the independent sector go when we may need to rely on keeping some of the nightingale hospitals open so far over 26000 people in the u.k. have died from coronavirus they want to stay health secretary matt hancock revealed urgent n.h.s. treatment for cancer and other real nurses will soon be working as usual because hospital admittance from coburg 19 pete the exact pace of the restoration will be determined by local circumstances on the ground. according to local need and according to the amount of the coronavirus cases that host that hospital is having to do with ministers are now considering moving many coronavirus patients to britain's near mt nightingale wards to make the u.k.'s permanent hospitals free

while the message for people who suspects they have cancer is still the same go and see your doctor we have got the facilities to treat people cancer can be a much bigger danger than coronavirus and we'd much rather see people with cancer is at an early stage the effect of coronavirus in the u.k. cannot just be measured on a daily death tolls there's also the a measurable cost in terms of where we've met and social and economic hardship but with the peak of the pandemic only just here the long term effects on the u.k.'s health could yet be worse kate partridge r.t. monday. r.t. spoke to carole sykora an oncologist and the dean of medicine at the university of buckingham in the u.k. he stressed the importance of starting to prioritize those in need of urgent treatment 1st of all people stay where it is that's right and stay home protect the n.h.s. save lives that's been the slogan for the last month that petrified to go to the

g.p. that would get them into the diagnostic pathway operative surgeons have been idle for the last few months everything's been on respond to control there until a bittersweet scan intensive care and so on so we've got a whole cohort of cancer patients from april that haven't been diagnosed yet they're going to be diagnosed hopefully in may we're moving round to that now and then they'll come on the last 2 or 3 months worth of patients all need surgery reader therapy chemotherapy so prioritizing them and getting them through the system is really the key. with the world health organization warning that the worst of krona virus may yet still be still to come in africa some countries on the continent are taking a lot. the approach to stopping the spread. of the a from port. on the surface africa appears to have escaped the worst of it but that's on the surface and already health care systems at the call means

a crumbling at the same time while we're dealing with govan night even pandemic we're also on the break of a hunger pandemic for the crawler virus even became an issue i was saying that 2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since war 2 we're competing with the developed world the very future of the continent will depend on how this matter is handled. it is getting competitive rich nations are buying up mosques and gloves and ventilators this quickly as they're produced leaving poorer nations with nothing international aid be it food or medicine or money is slowing to a trickle even the w.h. who is warning that things could get very ugly within africa that killed 300000 and forced millions into starvation it all depends on what we are discussing here which is are you testing or are you finding the cases are you

isolating and tracking the contacts the w.h.o. report is not a prediction that means it must happen how is africa supposed to deal with a pandemic that is bored america to its knees especially without being able to print dollars in euros without foreign aid without advanced healthcare systems and the millions of africans western advice to self isolate and work from home is something out of a fantasy it's in and i don't have a source of income my normal work is to try and do people's laundry but it's been impossible to find work these days because of the fear of this disease grave conduct as men and women they are locking in markets market watch cars so these people us 400 but they walk on the mouth every crime will go up in slums because now. these people the country. we live in now in a low income area i don't have quite high at home so that has impacted mine i think

it is beach because now we have to catch up in academics when you see how to a lot of speeches in terms of cost but because you have been dismissed in any period of time millions have no access to the internet to read warnings and explanations what they have a rich imaginations b it's graffiti informing people look the virus isn't a. in spirit see placed in slums where poverty and misinformation a rife be it music the legendary south african song patter pat has been rewritten and re recorded with antiviral lyrics and is being aired by more than a dozen african review stations. it's no surprise that on a continent where funerals can involve song and dance that music is on the front lines in the fight against who would $98.00 africa is being left to fend for

itself charity has become a luxury no one expects a miraculous international rescue so the continent does what it can at least it fights the virus on its own terms. can be a real strain on the body and mind but those in need of daily assistance it's been devastating for essential routines some people are stepping up their time of need take who's volunteered to go to be with me now from a residential care home out is only spoke to them about their locked out experience together. mina how is your life literary now be and i'll just have. you don't you want to go back to hospital. you know definitely not a celebrity like you and will try during the day i was told anything now during a friendship if i want to watch a movie i do i can it was

a. when me that just moved in she said that at the beginning of the year she had one dream to meet football players. appears before the current team and i said i want to meet russian football players and the dream came true. and then inquire into my she said she had another dream to move away from the residential care somewhere and the 2nd dream came true and. actually. i mean i don't really have not left to bob for weeks and been spending more time cooking dancing and even celebrating a birthday together every night although you know why she decided to isolate with me and what i would date is becoming a growing trend in russia. dr could she also. quarantine and residential care didn't look so secure people can't leave because all it is can't come in but the permanent workers just do their salaries are not so big so most use public transit but in residential care such

a close place if someone's in fact that will be a tragedy as long as i've known enough she's always been a very optimistic person told my question is she has always answered that everything's great but after residential care was close to quarantine i started to receive other messages that she's bored she feels bad but not comfortable so i thought to ask nina to leave with me taking into account all our messages i knew that we would find a way to live together comfortably and quarantine but of course taking people from residential care to quarantine is not a solution for everyone and yourself as far as i know just around 400 people since the beginning of the pandemic have been taken from such residential care home. what's coming up next on all the documentary from the people in the streets to its root causes your perception of homelessness with the invisible class go back next hour with the latest.

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