right here on the news or where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. monday may the 18th when 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 we talked to one woman who lost her mother a. speedy horrible she called going see. you can't. you can't you can't eat. any. tentative moves to lift the lockdown across europe gathering pace with france highlighting a lack of solidarity in reopening the. borders. this food section versus privacy is european politicians raul over the infection tracking apps under

development right now but fears that personal data is at risk of being leaked. could alter their life martin financials world news h.q. here in moscow it's kevin 0 in here for the next 30 minutes with this latest round ups good to have you company is begin then with the daily quick roundup of the latest global coronavirus figures. total infections now stands at more than 4800000 fatalities and topped 316000 while the number of those who've recovered stands of more than 1800000 around the world. view.

britain's opposition labor party is demanding an investigation into coronavirus deaths in elderly care homes which he describes as mishandled about a quarter of the country's covered her toilet is 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 in case downwards requested that because everything is tragic and we've had medical experts on to him with 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'd died from the corona virus was actually 50 percent higher than previously estimated the new data removed after the prime minister was called out over what the labor leader described as unexplained deaths the research has revealed to they'll be more than $12000.00 covert related deaths in 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'd had a cough the day before as. i said well these are very symptomatic of that the coronavirus 09 chain or whatever. has she been tested it's not we're not testing us at. 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 can't hold their hands you can't look at them you can't you know it's. anything i have to really pretty much crack my rights get my mum because. that was the last time. and we took. the day

we were looking for which he when the weather was going to get warmer and we were going to get in a chair. and she was so to keep court. until morning 10 o'clock frankel from carrying a lumber house to. the one still all i could. it's not only a problem in the u.k. of course in the united states around a 3rd of all coronavirus deaths are among residents or staff in the country $7700.00 care facilities american journalist and regular r.t. contributor dave lindorff told us about the loss of his mother in law to cover it 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 infection started to spread around the nursing homes all over the country including where my mother and my rights to ended up with 100 the last time i looked at 114 patients infected out of 150 patients.

everybody there and. they didn't have masks were adequate masks for the nurses were for the patients so there was really no way to keep it from spreading the infections really should never have happened and that's i think a really hard thing. that the reason may happen you knew was because the nursing homes didn't have the adequate tests to be able to isolate people who had it from people who did the nursing homes who were getting 2nd priority for distribution of the available tests and the masks so they went 1st hospitals and i see use because they had so few 70 percent of the nursing homes as for profit part they're owned by pure profit corporations and so they're squeezing. the

staffing in order to keep the profits up and the costs down and that's another reason why this is so bad. the problem with the majority of coronavirus related deaths happening in residential facilities for the elderly. several european countries are gradually lifting their restrictions on lockdowns as the peak summer tourist season draws close but the still concern over a potential may be a 2nd wave of infections with the world health organization's top official in europe saying that it may be inevitable this winter we know from history that in pandemics to countries that have not been hit early on can be hit in the 2nd week people think lockdown is finished nothing has changed the full disease control package has to be in place. to avoid open the floodgates to more infections than

france is no appealing for unity across the e.u. on reopening borders as our europe correspondent peter all of a explains next. door since friday restaurants here in berlin have been able to reopen their doors albeit with social distancing in place waiting stuff have to wear masks just working in the kitchen chefs cooks and other kitchen staff they don't those guests are advised that if they can wear a mask they should but obviously you can't wear a mask when your eating pubs she should bars and the like remain closed here in berlin though what we've also seen change over the weekend in germany is when it comes to borders all restrictions for travel from germany to luxembourg have now been lifted we've also seen an easing of some of the restrictions that were in place for travel to switzerland austria and france from saturday you know allowed to make business trips and also travel for family visits as well across that border

the interior minister horse and the office said that he hopes to see all restrictions disappear by the middle of next month and that date of june 15th has been set up as a potential date to see travel to germany from countries like the united states and russia allowed again also coming back over the weekend was the ball does league at football has finally returned albeit with no funds in the stadium and coaches and stuff having to observe social distancing certainly good to see even if union berland went down to nil a time to buy in munich football fans happy though bought not everybody so elated with the progress that's being made in opening up countries in the lifting of corona restrictions we saw another weekend of demonstrations against those measures here in germany and elsewhere across europe with tempers flaring. kooky.

but. i think they can come apart. just. as. another nation that's making moves to lift corona restrictions is italy there's going to be an easing of restrictions in place there coming from monday but just said he can't say the italian prime minister has been highlighting what is a well a big problem for all politicians making these decisions at the moment that if you open up the country without a vaccine well you're putting people at risk whatever you do. 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 the discovery and the distribution of the vaccine we would find ourselves without social and productive fabric heavily

damaged so we've seen some nations making decisions by themselves as to open up their borders to other member states in the european union in france and the french government is saying though they want to see a more unified approach they want to see everybody essentially singing from the same song sheet when it comes to opening borders across europe forms good to this and saying it is essential for us to coordinate decisions it's a european level especially with the area but that is not the case today and the unilateral decisions by spain and italy to not make it easy for us to work in solidarity well as we enter another week expects tourism to dominate the agenda again here in europe how come asked the german foreign minister is expected later on monday to hold talks with representatives from spain italy greece austria other nations as well to discuss the possibility of german tourists heading to the.

destinations it's all up in the air at the moment and tourism such an important industry you've got to remember for a number of european nations should there be no tourists from say countries like germany arriving at those destinations could have huge potentially catastrophic knock on effect for the economies in those countries keeping an eye on that of course here on r.t. . for so much to process right now as there will for many of us is likely to be a long time before life is anything like normal like it was just a couple of months ago certainly until a vaccines in circulation if they find one sounds good looks at how we're all of the human right now to the new world of social distancing. well 20 twentieth's been a shocker and it's only may are the beginning quarantine didn't seem so hot we thought a few weeks will sit who tweets of books 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 a night i was briefly entertained by balcony deejaying and soon parties.

but then the globe already 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 prospects 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 smile he got up passing on street on through that mask on the plus side you had just a way of being able to see or feel small when you tell him you love the bangs you

know crossed for those i develop patience because queuing is here to stay. and when your favorite restaurant reopens the path to some wine it changes. nothing. workout is actually really nice super goes in i think it will be also very romantic or for 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 believe me.

unless you really do want to be left alone men which case when our 1st guest david arrives today he's going to be well by his side and there's going to be a role for him to fall but. it's going to go to school. well so you don't expect quite the same level of service is the fool. a slacker. now i know lots of people all still hoping for that some a 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 race out i promise socially distance parties can still be

a real hoot. the way they are. so yes it's a new goal 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 must stop 7. absolutely the world's tech giants next gaged in a big race to try to develop a ups which would help track the spread of the virus but it's got european politicians arguing over the best method with the core concern being the risk of people's personal data being leaked a shiela do bensky 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 are 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 grizel not protected and helped get. them extinct that's. not data collection. there's also the question to be arsed 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 get different digital tools from competing companies even be able to interact with each other the interoperability 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. essentially solutions decided upon last week and a solution is insurance data is only stored in 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 too 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 nor 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 be decorative it. when the pandemic is sort of but the decisions governments take now at a time when there is unprecedented political economic and public health pressure are 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. to the point of nursing home suffering with grim mortality rates spain's leading newspaper has revealed the extent of the problem of 28000 total deaths nationwide more than 17 and a half 1000 have been in care homes while nurses told us about the heartbreaking final days for some residents. see on this last thing and that is the and passing

on this has been called the definitive when they were dying and we couldn't say goodbye they were all alone we have been taking care of them for something 8 even 10 years and we rented to their rooms at least twice during the shift sometimes we came in and they were already dad they couldn't get medical treatment and the hospital many died because they received it never knowing whether they had a coronavirus 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 the 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 taken it out all she could do was to watch you through the window that's all that far will she had to her mother the spanish government has yet to comment on those figures but officials have opened $140.00 criminal probes against nursing homes after several bodies were still found in their beds spain has $5400.00 care homes on the pandemic has seen

stuff in several state run facilities denounce the lack of people he claims centers the severely understaffed is nurse s. to be. with. the nothingness party thanks to donations from individuals who gave us f.p. 2 masks we were able to solve the problem with masks we had no gowns no shield masks nothing had to be gallons of shoes from ways bags and then we started getting gowns that were waterproof so in helpless much we were wearing ways but i. was going to cross the latest russian there russia's registered less than $9000.00 new daily covert cases this monday this hour the 1st time it's been down to the level since the 1st of may it's going to cost some more detail with a senior correspondent one of our other good afternoon sorry still a high number of course but any chance for some cautious optimism here in russia. well i as you say we're not out of the woods yet but there is

a break in the line of sort of trees in these difficult times and that is because for the 1st time in 2 weeks the number of new cases every day struck balloon 9000 and you know it's only by about 1000 but nevertheless this is a milestone because russian authorities optimistic they say that we've we plotted and now the number of cases is going to drop so they said that being crease in the number of daily cases that is over for the foreseeable future and that is a mix of all the measures some very draconian that have been taken in russia. in this ticket with the level of virus proud that we see now we can declare that we've got it under control as of today city all the regions have reached a point where the situation is stabilizing here and this is the result of

a very careful approach to public health was that. according to the russian prime minister who spoke today about a 3rd of russia's 85 regions are ready to graduate. if the restrictions suits of the pandemic situation in the midst of the viruses. on the down it's it's receded the number of new infection infections every day and bad lab gives cools to the sort of i wouldn't say celebrate yet but certainly for cautious optimism so certain restrictions will begin to be lifted this is again will happen very gradually of seniors those over 65 will be confined to their homes for the foreseeable future until until we are absolutely safe and sure that there's no direct and immediate threat to their lives and will be restricted to self

isolation they'll have to stay at home this is obviously been a very difficult to play everyone because of you know when you went out and 41 of this moscow unprepared every government in the world was to deal 'd with this crisis that there was human error as well economic. sample social apps played a huge role in containing the virus in all the current self isolation measures of for example if you had been diagnosed positive if you tested positive for the crew on a virus you were. made to download an app geophone the school social monitoring and you sometimes at the had to send a selfie to to prove that you're a hoe and the subway would be checked by authorities but by people in various agencies just just to make sure that nobody is violating quarantine that the problem was they had put

a lot of thought into it and in the initial days you know you get a request for a selfie in the wee hours of the morning and obviously people step through it'll be slapped with a $51.00 of those files. but nevertheless you know them enough to think there's a lot of technological glitches and and human error and things that hadn't been quite full through you have to strictly follow the instructions and the documents you sign when you begin home treatment or 14 days quarantine the instructions are clear that you have 24 hours to install the app moreover we additionally santa semes reminders and calling on people to read the documents attentively when signing them. one of the minor glitches has been more or less eliminated now we're in the phase where there's a lot of attention on medics on lived on you know the sacrifice that they've made their service and they had been some some confusion about.

medics across russia being paid for what they've done through you know working with a group of patients exposing themselves to the bars and and an additional 7000000000 rubles have been allocated as food this is the medics who sent them to sum up basically this is the 1st time in 2 weeks the number of new infections every day have dropped below 9000 and russia and the saudis for the 1st time saying that this is potentially it this is the breaking point this is where the virus starts to recede. well fingers crossed it's going to carry on going that way the question is of course when things lighten up again will it come we don't know a lot of question marks but will be across. the scene a correspondent thanks for briefings on what's happening here in russia and thank

you for watching as well over a time from now that's the way things look in so far this monday the 18th of may with me kevin now in during these times will of course key for me posted around the clock as we have been doing online on the social media and other t.v. sort of things covering up for h.q. here in moscow and also our teams 9 kids in our other studios around the world so for now i can say is to stay safe and well have a great rest of this monday. for a photographer. we

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