monday may the 18th for the headlines today the victims among the most vulnerable britain's opposition labor party demands an investigation into what it describes as the mishandling of cope with 19 deaths in elderly care homes and coming up we talked to one woman who lost her mother. sweety horrible because she called going to see how that happens you count the cost to them you can't eat and eat. anything. sensitive moves to lift the lockdown across europe the gathering pace with france appealing for unity on reopening borders with the e.u. . and the brazilian government's revolving door sees yet another health plan to

stick quits hall for a dramatic fall out with the president as the country post a wreck or number of coronavirus place. scenario exile few song free will and is irresponsible at this time of crisis q one song of people who share his point of view without taking into account any technical scientific studies. for a good morning cheer live from art international's world news center here in moscow is kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes with the latest round appreciate your company as we get them with a quick check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections no standard more than $4800000.00 teletubbies have topped 316000 now the number who recovered stands at more than $1800000.00 around the world.

in some of today's developments britain's opposition labor party is demanding an investigation into coronavirus deaths an elderly care homes we should describe as mishandled about a quarter of the country's cobra fatalities have happened in residential facilities labour's deputy leader says people have been tragically let down they should be there should be some investigation into that and care stammers requested that because everything is tragic and we've had medical experts on to miss that we see that the virus into our care homes and the guidance wasn't there for care workers i think we've been tragically let down on friday it was revealed the number of care home residents in britain who died from corona virus was actually 50 percent higher than previously estimated the new data removed after the prime minister was called out over what some of the labor leaders described as unexplained death the research

has revealed that there have been more than 12000 covert related deaths in the elderly residential facilities since the beginning of march we talked to michelle rowlands who lost her mother mum's got a temperature and a call and then they sort of advised me that she had to cut the date for us. i said well these are very symptomatic of the coronavirus 09 cino ever. has she been tested it's not we're not testing out. the preceding days basically on the friday night i get a call. we've got the test back she's been tested for cape it 19 and it's. really horrible because she can't going see you cannot hold their hands you cannot look at them you can't you know it's. anything i have to really pretty much crack migrates get my mum because. that

was the last time. and we took. the day we were looking for a cheap when the weather was going to get warmer and we were going to get in a chair. and she was so to keep. going to morning. frankel from can say lemon house when i went still all i could. so sad is now not only a problem of course in the u.k. over the united states around a 3rd of all coronavirus deaths are among residents or staff as well in the country $7700.00 facilities american journalist and regular r.t. contributor dave lindorff told us about the loss of his mother in law to covert 19 at a care home in new jersey. my mother in law had dementia so you know she needed to be in care like that unfortunately when the affection started to spread around the

nursing homes all over the country including where my mother in law was the quarantined so family members were not able to go in and be with their relatives sciri were fighting the deceased and eventually dying of it as in her case we couldn't see her for like the last 5 weeks of her life so we thought that because it was a very pricey and wretched well nursing home that they would it least be able to handle it but they were any different from the rest of them they were in the process of building an expansion and rather than stop that and take some of the money that was going into their expansion to buy the protective equipment for their staff and patients at whatever it would cost so it just went right through it be ended up with 100 and the last time i looked at 114 patients infected out of 150 patients. the jays clee everybody there. and there's more of

a care home crisis coming up later too in a program in spain that new numbers show the grim extent of the problem there but the majority of coronavirus related deaths happening in residential facilities again for the elderly. summary of pain countries are gradually lifting their restrictions a lot down says the peak summer tourist season draws close but the still big concern over potential 2nd wave of infections with the will health organizations top official in europe saying it may be inevitable this winter let's go to our yoko spot in berlin painter all of a warning playing nice to see each countries of course got his own priorities problems and indeed solutions right now where are they in terms of reopening obeying in sync of this unity that france is calling for. well we'll start here in germany surely federal system means the 16 states can open up or not open up on their own agendas at their own accord pretty much here in berlin on friday we saw restaurants opening albeit with social distancing in place

we've seen waiting staff having to wear masks those chefs cooks those in the kitchen staff don't have to wear a mask however dinah's it's suggested that you do but not enforced obviously you can't wear a mask while you're eating there she should bars here in the german capital they remain closed at the moment when it comes to borders what we saw on saturday from a german standpoint was all 'd restrictions between germany and look some bug lifted and also a number of the restrictions lifted between travel from germany to austria switzerland and france from saturday you're allowed to make business trips and also travel to meet family what we're hearing from horse and see a hope for the interior minister though is he wants to see all of those restrictions to those countries removed by the middle of next month and it by that date of june 15th that he also wants to see travel from the united states and

russia or in other countries allowed to come back to germany what we also saw over the weekend was the return of football here in germany the bond as leader is back albeit with no fans in the stands and social distancing protocols in operation for coaches and other stuff fantastic for many of the union berlin did lose 2 nil at home to buy in munich good to see in the end anyway football fans certainly happy but not everybody happy across europe we saw another weekend with another round of protests with tempers flaring here in germany and elsewhere across the continent as well.

well when it comes to lifting restrictions politicians are faced with a difficult choice just the italian prime minister has said that he knows the country needs to open up but opening up without a vaccine poses a whole host of new risks. we're confronting this risk and we need to accept it otherwise we would never be able to relaunch and we cannot afford to wait for the moment of the discovery and the distribution of the vaccine we would find ourselves with our social and productive fabric heavily damaged or when it comes to european nations opening up the message coming from france and from the french government is that they want to see a pan european agreement they want to see all of the e.u. nations while singing from the same song sheet performs good if this all sounds

good it is essential for us to card in a decision so it's a european level especially with the c.n.n. but that is not the case today and the unilateral decisions by spain and italy do not make it easy for us to work in solidarity. well specked expect i beg your pardon another week with tourism and what's going to happen to that industry topping the agenda we're expecting the german foreign minister to hold meetings with representatives from spain italy greece austria other nations as well about where the future of tourism lies and whether that's all important industry for some of their nations will be able to reopen this summer or whether covert 19 will put paid to it for good so many question marks still pete thanks for updating us there from berlin this morning so you know all hope on the vaccine will occur maybe some people say never will for many of us it's likely to

be a long time anyway before life is anything like normal certainly until said vaccines and circulation sounds good sailor next looks at how we're all having to adapt to our new social distancing world. well 20 twentieth's been a shocker and it's only may at the beginning quarantine didn't seem so bad we thought a few weeks will sit who greets a book's catch up and that's thanks to a sprinkling suction i.e. the 2 pretty quickly we've run out of things to do on the net i was brief yet to take my balcony deejaying and soon parties. but then the globe or it was so i moved on i even tried online dating not like usual thing but desperate times but it was fun for a while especially when my popularity skyrocketed off the event prospect for those quarantined catfish but let's be honest screen life just doesn't compare to street

life so when i had the countries like easing out of lockdown i almost choked on my disinfectant i know i had my 1st place quite an outfit but reality check it's not going to be like the full kiss is a thing of the past hugs forget it you know how chicks are under review also normal cheeky smiling about passing on street on through that mask on the plus side you have just a way of being able to see or feel small when you tell them you love the bangs you know frost for also develop patience because queuing is here to stay.

and when your favorite restaurant reopens the path to some wine it changes. will be a good workout. it's actually really nice super goes in i think it will be also very romantic of couples are going to be here and you might have to go to extremes to make sure people you know keep that distance unless you still more ready to make them don't worry you won't be lonely. unless you really do want to be left alone men which case when our 1st guest david arrives today he's going to be welcomed by a sign and there's going to be a role for him to fall. through to go to school. well so you don't expect quite the same level of services before all.

a smile but. now i know lots of people all still hoping for that summit beach holiday while it might happen once a few adjustments of course and off to the beach you can still poppin says it all fairy friends just don't forget that take matter. and for all you raves out i promise socially distance parties can still be a real hoot. all the way. so yes it's a new normal but with a little imagination maybe a way to be hot oh and the fashion game has changed this is spring summer collection has got a distinct magickal twist to it so musk up 7. absolutely

now also another brazilian health minister is resigned this time after less than a month on the job nelson tike is the latest high profile departure from j a bulls and arrows government the president had fired his previous health minister in a spot of a lot much like his predecessor the nelson tike now was on a collision course with polls an hour after backing strict social distancing measures and criticizing the president's push for the widespread use of hydroxy chloroquine as a treatment for the corona virus just a day before quitting tired was visibly caught by surprise at a news conference after learning the president james beauty parlors and hairdressers to reopen the now former minister had pushed back against calls to restart the economy there. we were debating between health and the economy that's very bad because those things don't really compete with each other they're completely complete when you polarize something like that you start treating it like it's people versus money. we have the courage to face the virus people are

dying they are i'm sorry but more will die much more if the economy continues to be destroyed by those measures are we going to preserve lives we are but this way with restricted measures the price in the future will be the loss of hundreds of lives because of those absurd measures of closing everything so as it stands at the moment brazil currently has the world's 4th highest number of corona virus cases with over 2 141000 confirmed infections and just over 16000 deaths the latest health ministers exit is adding to rising political friction too in latin america's largest country with brazilians divided over the handling of the pandemic so for. the resignation of the minister i believe the president is shooting himself in the fort while the minister for both the narrow acts of his song free will and is irresponsible at this time of crisis that the question on the resignation of the

health minister is not a surprise since our government and the president went to people to do what he says his personal vision he cannot lead the country he wants only people who share his point of view without taking into account any technical scientific studies and this is sobering the amazon rain forest biggest city has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic forcing the authorities there to resort to burying the dead in mass graves the rising number of deaths in mn a s is also stirring fears that the city will soon run out of coffins. and one last time i was told that we work day in and valley as you can imagine the amount of work we have here my nowish is full of the infected. hospitals are full now but it was ready and it took all by surprise hospital cemeteries were not prepared and we are all involved in this huge details of equipment that's so we had all this is vice about social isolation. but it applies for the middle class the richest once.

we have a problem with water here there was no water here for 3 days and water just arrived there and my idea to not call it doesn't keep we have several colleagues tested positive friends intubated someone to beatrice we have to fight for people and we have to use disposable masks they want to disposable masks for a 12 hour shift when they function for just 2 hours but. if you're checking out it's a national good morning frank should come for a monday morning here the russian capital right coming up the infection tracking being hastily developed by the tech giants might have sounded intentions a day but europe's still wary of what it's going to mean for people's privacy i'm kevin how about with the lowdown on but much more in just about 90 seconds.

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this is also international the world's tech giants are engaged in a race of ups which would help track the spread of the virus but it's got european politicians arguing over the best method with a cold concern being the risk of people's personal data being leaked to show the dube and ski reports. as part of the on going efforts to keep a lid on the corona virus pandemic many countries have embrace technology now you may have heard about the new virus tracing app that tests tracks and traces the idea is that you download the app and if you develop symptoms of covert 19 or test

positive you let the app know and then it will pass on the information to anyone else who also has the same app sounds like a good idea no but for many the alarm bells are sounding. this system and those is an idea that is deadly for democracy so let's be clear not only is my surveillance not a solution it also constitutes a proven danger to our fundamental freedoms as countries are rushing to develop these apps the big tech companies like google and apple already mapping out the route ahead they're laying out the conditions for building the tools which you countries are due to rollout from next month while huge faith is being placed in contact tracing apps there is little solid evidence that they will be effective some are calling on governments to find some real alternatives. governments reason sure at last check to help get. them

mixed that's what you. need to collections. there's also the question to be honest about how much control these big tech companies will have all the forcing governments hands given that they already control the smartphone market and will be different digital tools from competing companies even be able to interact with each other the interoperability of a major blind spot from a technical perspective. one another in germany plans had been afoot to develop an app of course. several countries with data being centrally stuart it later backed down and is now pursuing proposals promoted by google and apple and. solutions decided upon last week and a solution is insurance data is only stored on the device and not in

a central location we convince the people trusted. that d. centralized approach has also been taken by ireland italy and others to while here in france the government has decided to shun big tech and work on its own though any app that it develops may not even fully function with apple new google phones which is potentially rather problematic and there's concern about the privacy elements while the virus tracing apps are expected to keep sensitive and private data safe as we have seen time and time again not always possible that may be one of the reasons why the e.u. commissioner for justice gave this warning the apps should be only used during the crisis and the day. of the latest when the pandemic is but the decisions governments take now at a time when there is unprecedented political economic and public health pressure

all the ones that will resonate for years perhaps even decades to come we won't know if iris tracing apps are useful unless significant chunks of the population download and use them but by then it may already be too late mass surveillance may become normalized all in the name of staying healthy. r.t. paris. supply the nursing home suffering with grim mortality rates spain's leading newspaper has revealed the extent of the problem there of $28000.00 total deaths nationwide more than 17 and a half 1000. i've been in care homes where nurses told us about the heartbreaking final days for residents. here on this asking and that is the end passing on this as the 19 was a disaster in the nursing home when they were dying and we couldn't say goodbye they were all alone and we've been taking care of them for 78 even 10 years and we

went to their rooms at least twice during the share sometimes we came in and they were already dead they couldn't get medical treatment at the hospital and many died before they received it never knowing whether they had corona virus or not another difficult moment was when funeral services were overwhelmed and the bodies of elderly people were kept in their rooms for several days a woman who lives across the street couldn't take the coffin with her mother's body for more than 2 days and when they were taking it out all she could do was watch it through the window that's all the fell while she had her mother the spanish government is yet to comment on those figures but officials have opened a $140.00 criminal probes against nursing homes after several bodies were found still in their beds spain has $5400.00 homes and the pandemic has seen staff in several state run facilities denounce the lack of p.p. and claim centers are severely understaffed is nurse s. to be. honest like thanks to donations from individuals who gave us f

p 2 masks we were able to solve the problem with masks but we have no gowns no shield masks nothing we had to make gowns and shoes from waist bags and then we started getting gowns that were waterproof so it didn't help much but we were wearing waist berets. the skies are definitely quieter since the world war but grown to hold a couple of months the travel industry's been among the hardest hit with airlines burning through cash and laying off thousands of staff next month some of the major carriers will resume limited services but flying will be the same as quarter explains next. it's bad news for travelers looking to soak up the sun during the coronavirus pandemic airlines are making all sorts of new rules from asking permission to go to the bathroom to fly in a cabin that doubles as a cargo hold but some companies like united airlines have thrown caution to the wind when it comes to social distancing though we cannot guarantee that all

customers will be seated next to an on the queue by a seat based on historically low travel demand and the implementation of various social distancing measures that is the likely outcome disregard for anti coronavirus measures in a crowded cabin can make for an upsetting situation for passengers especially when someone sneezes but for many airlines keeping the middle seat empty for the sake of social distancing just is not profitable not to mention the fact that the international aviation and transport association says it's not even effective keeping the middle seat open will not achieve the recommended separation for social distance and to be effective it will fundamentalists simply cannot mix of aviation by slashing the maximum load factor to 62 percent which is well below the average industry break even load factor of 7 to 7 percent the i $88.00 says many more measures need to be taken in the name of air travel safety temperature checks limited cabin movement and mandatory face coverings are among them as for how

effective these measures will be in practice that remains to be seen as the world's borders begin to reopen. don't called for though the final report for this bulletin was when things look in so far this monday the 18th of may from moscow i'm kevin i don't think should company know during these times when of course continue working around the clock to update you on line on social media out on the t.v. side of things covering that for me or moscow and also our teams of anchors in our other studios around the world so for now for made to stay safe and well i have a great monday. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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