british prime minister announces tough new coronavirus restrictions with large fines for rule breakers suffer a surge in case numbers. similar measures are being rolled out across europe as the pandemic gathers pace rights groups say it's the poorest who are suffering the most . but he gets ready to start a nationwide clinical trials of another covert 1000 vaccine. and the united nations begins its 1st ever remoted general assembly world leaders are giving video speeches with the pandemic and global conflicts at the forefront. by their live and worldwide this is r.t.

international one column break with the news this hour is just turned 8 pm on tuesday here in the russian capital it's 6 pm in the u.k. that's where we're starting this hour where the prime ministers unveiled a range of new coronavirus restrictions to counter the latest surge in case numbers that may have forced in england to start with and similar measures will need to be introduced in other parts of the u.k. saudi reports from london. in the wake of the number of rising chases across the whole of the united kingdom when it comes to coated 19 the government how strong back into action announcing a number of measures and in all of this in response really to those rising numbers with government experts health experts and scientific advisors all the warnings now the prospect of a 2nd wave is very real about all of these measures are absolutely necessary we always knew there were we might have driven the virus into retreat the prospect of a 2nd wave was real and i'm sorry to say that as in spain and france

and many other countries we've reached a perilous turning point but unless we probably make progress we should assume. that the restrictions i've announced who remain in place for perhaps 6 months now some of these measures include workers working from home unless they have no ability to do so they also include the wearing of mosques being made mandatory to start off working in shops in restaurants people in taxis and also finds increasing to 200 pounds up from 100 pounds if people refuse to wear a mosque in certain situations and also from thursday parks restaurants and other hospitality industry outlets having to close at 10 pm that spock's quite some rituals online with a number of means making fun of the fact that apparently counted 19 only really kicks in after 10 pm all of this very confusing for small business owners and

members of the public can criticism also coming from m.p.'s in the house of commons including the leader of the opposition kids stand which says the government must do a better job but how it communicates to the public although we fierce criticism of the way the government is handling this pandemic when restrictions are mediate the national interest lies in clear communications and cross party support mr speaker farmers across the country will be anxious today many are already living on the local lock downs many more fair that soon they will they're worried about their jobs about their loved ones of whether they will be able to spend christmas with their family so will the government now apologized for his government's gross incompetence over testing over tracing over clear communications who have led to these latest restrictions on people's daily lies he says he's going to put his arms around the hard work forth many millions of the self-employed have not felt the benefit of that in grace

a prime minister do not call workers on the spot people through no fault of their own now those trust ratios that thought all of this could last 6 months worries. about people's jobs and people's own civil liberties has led to tensions spilling over on the weekend we saw protests in central london with thousands of people mainly gathering peacefully to protest against locked on measures but towards the end of the evening as the metropolitan police in london announced they would be clearing trafalgar square a number of clashes kicked off between some protesters and police was. was now with the coded cases rising once more the total amount of cases in the united kingdom reaching almost 400000 people not work anyway because there have been

criticisms of how that the government has failed with regard to its testing regime there have been over 40000 deaths which have been attributed to coded 98 and the government really saying that as a result of these measures they appreciate workers will be hit the government saying that they will support them where they can't but we already had earlier this year richardson at the chancellor saying that schemes such as the follow scheme but the government supports and supplements people's wages that it will be coming to an end at some point and so over the next 6 months if that is how long all of these measures last it could be really difficult for people both socially mentally psychologically but also economically or it is not alone in being on the brink of a 2nd coronavirus wave european nations including france and spain have seen a dramatic spike in cases and the health risks along with the ongoing restrictions appear to be disproportionately affecting the poor a shallot their bensky report length. coverage 19 pandemic has highlighted many

problems from inadequate medical resources to a lack of trust in governments around the world but perhaps the starkest issue that it's exposed is how different it is to experience a pandemic if you are poor compared to those with money. thank you thank you thank you thank you. thank. people impossible to do and face new restrictions on movement there has been an uproar over what some and labeling has segregation this is an example of government defense fear of people confined poor neighborhoods and the districts can continue to enjoy their kids. the president of the community of madrid treats this area like a ghetto the virus is here but why does that mean the workers need to be locked up

it's even claimed in the evening at the oprah highlighted the disparity in how people in the cheapest seats were treated when they were in all of those in the more expensive seats below had adequate social distancing measures in place. social inequality has also been a topic for protestors in. while in the u.k. the editor of the. medical journal the lancet lambasted what he described as being

the true scale of social pathology underlying national crisis the gruner virus pandemic has exposed the reality of contemporary britain the countries defined by poverty insecurity and inequality science cannot guide the government in formulating this strategy a plan for britain's future must be guided instead of values and the lessons learned from the human consequences of this pandemic there has also been concern raised about the minority ethnic backgrounds who make up a 3rd of patients in the intensive care units we are continuing to see black asian and minority ethnic people suffering disproportionately in terms of intensive kid missions so not acting means that we're not protecting the vulnerable communities action was needed back in july and it's certainly needed now more than ever i think minorities so also faced issues here in france statistics from the government's own agency reveal that the disproportionate impact of early on in the

pandemic that's shot up by a 134 percent amongst north african immigrants it was up 219 percent for those who were born elsewhere in africa and it's not just saying europe that there are problems across the globe it's estimated the pandemic will have far reaching consequences with inequalities whitening an estimated $71000000.00 additional people will be living in extreme poverty due to covet 19 sudden asian sub-saharan africa are expected to see the largest increases in extreme poverty would an additional 32000000 and 26000000 people respectively live in the large international poverty line as a result of the pandemic the european commission has pledged to aid to poor countries with a vaccine when one is approved for use the commission president. has said this. is about ensuring its commitment to equitable access to the world's poorest turned

loose and vulnerable people but many people living in europe particularly those who exist on all points to the poverty line may be questioning where that help is then right now how are they expecting people to respond to this all over it's not just europe it's all over the world people are being asked to make sacrifices if people saw beneficial results for the rewards coming out of the sacrifices in terms of a drop in the infection rate or an improvement in their general life circumstances then they probably would be compliant or more complied but at the moment absolutely nothing and it seems to be getting worse by the day this is hitting all populations disproportionately the poorer and particularly ethnic minorities are being hit hardest the magic bullet of course that we're all after is

a vaccine the acid test will be who gets the vaccine quickest is it going to be evenly distributed the people there are worst affected should be the people who get the vaccine 1st. the russian health ministry is approved testing of another coronavirus vaccine clinical trials will begin soon in cities across the country involving around $3000.00 volunteers it comes a month after russia registered its 1st covert vaccine. kevin oh it heard more about the new trials from correspondent maria for national. this brand new vaccine has no name yet but we know how it works it is a so-called inactivated corona virus vaccine meaning it contains the deadly virus in it but it has been weakened or even killed depending so that it cannot infect cells or replicate but still is capable of setting off a needed response from the immune system of the body so it's quite a tricky thing the trials are indeed about to start very soon in 3 russian cities

3000 volunteers are expected to take part after the injection they will be isolated for 16 days this what the pasta cole require is under close supervision of scientists and doctors and we expect to hear the 1st results by the end of the bamber and this is russia's 3rd corona virus vaccine entering human trials another one is vector we expect it's registration within the next month but that we know of this race so far he and russia ease of course the drug known as sputnik v it is the adenovirus based viral vector vaccine meaning it has no deadly virus a need and among those who are thankful to is russia. had all for the world health organization's you were a pain office let's take a listen to music is data pretty good for you old boy the 1st thing to be put in for

a letter written for the 4th graders to the front of the tree. i have to say that aides quite divided worlds scientific community and those who think russia for its research and on those who are worried about aids and are concerned about the speed of its development and doubt its effectiveness just earlier this month around 40 experts signed an open letter expressing their concerns and expressing that attitude to. ward's russian facts say mr clooney is in the russian capital now this is in moscow telemedicine center that you can see behind me are the chance to talk to him and to discuss this twitter says my question of course is the top russian but it seems now we're talking about the teams round 3 of them right now what do you think about them and why there are so much skepticism right direction for the nation there objectively the long history books in development men affection and

take that is move the reason that they seek to be skeptical but of course like for any over concrete. or certain criteria that the character has far to you her one of the early volunteer is came forward to say that yeah you try this sport the question is what happened you know we're the only contra indications are you. go there i got the injection on saturday or maybe kava it was a placebo because this is a so-called double blind trial when neither participant or doctors know who ease receiving what kind of drug is it a drug overdose even no one knows and actually i don't know whether i'll have the answer to this question at all and this is the idea of these trials so i got it on saturday whatever it was and in the next day i felt why bad to be honest as if i some kind of virus was starting so i got muscles pain

i got some headache it was very hard for me to like concentrate in terms of vision but it faded away like next day so it just lasted around like 16 hours but i was again under the supervision of doctors like millions of them called me during the day asking i mean about my feelings about my health so i hear people praise me for take. in part in this trial i'm one of the around 40000 to participate actually in phase 3 of the clinical trials. but i don't quite agree that the reason like bravery or hair reason behind these moves because i entered the trial after phase one and 2 were complete and the goal of the 1st 2 stages is to prove that the vaccine or the drug is c. so i don't put myself into any danger but the reason chance that i mean after this

injection if it was not to placebo my body can produce anti-bodies and i can be able to resist coronavirus so and this is what i persisted pated in this trial for for this chance to be able to resist this corona virus that is i mean put in the world in such a mass for the last 8 months. world leaders are addressing the united nations and the general assembly is to 1st have a virtual session they want already seeing video speeches from the likes of donald trump xi jinping the demir putin let's go live to new york now our correspondent kind of more present i cared to take a photo 1st than what did the russian president have to say about an hour ago. well russian president vladimir putin he issued basically a message of peace to the u.n. general assembly and he called for a global mutual fight against coronavirus and he also emphasized that russia was

offering its vaccine free of charge to all u.n. staff as a way of aiding the global fight against the against the coronavirus and against this pandemic now he also emphasized in his remarks the importance of veto power in the u.n. security council as a mechanism for ensuring a balance of power around the world furthermore he called for the ending of illegal sanctions on countries that take a listen to that particular portion. i would like to draw attention once again to russia's proposal to create so-called green color to use free from trade was unsung sions primarily for essential goods needed to fight the pandemic in general freeing the world trade from power is bones restrictions and illegitimate son ctions would be of great hope in a very volatile izing global growth under which you sing unemployment now that

reference to illegitimate sanctions was most lidl likely it is widely being interpreted as a criticism of washington for its recent move to impose sanctions on the islamic republic of iran despite full compliance with the nuclear deal. and as usual in the day while the 1st few hours we hear from the likes of the permanent security council members the ones that people are looking out for what else has been said in the opening day. well this is a little bit different than previous u.n. general assembly is as it's being held virtually due to health concerns we're not having people travel around the world so it's being held virtually the heads of state have prerecorded messages that are being played for the u.n. general assembly body now the u.n. secretary general is actually at the premises in manhattan we did hear from him at the opening of the remarks the world needs

a global ceasefire to stop all hot conflicts but at the same time we must every seeing the new cold war. now that call for a global cease fire is something that many would agree with but the fighting on the ground in libya in afghanistan and in yemen and in other countries doesn't appear to be stopping and despite the situation regarding the pandemic now donald trump president of united states he addressed the u.n. general assembly body and many saw his remarks as not exactly escalating tension around the world he took particular aim at the people's republic of china making some rather strong allegations against them. we have waged a fierce battle against the invisible enemy the china virus which has claimed countless lives in 188 countries we must hold accountable the nation which

unleashed this plague onto the world china in addition every year china dumps millions and millions of tons of plastic and trash into the oceans those who attack america is exceptional environmental record while ignoring china's rampant pollution are not interested in the environment now certainly those are not the words of peace and diplomacy rather those are words of finger pointing and accusation and donald trump speech had plenty of that when it came to china now when we heard from chinese president xi jinping he talked about the need for a global order based on win win cooperation and a shared destiny for all of humanity and said that china really doesn't have a desire to engage in a hot or cold war with the united states or with any other country this was the chinese head of state. facing the us we should solve it and get this through

together any attempt of politicizing the issue those stigmatization must be rejected china is the largest developing country in the world a country that is committed to peaceful and cooperative uncomment development who will never seek could germany extension always fear oath includes we have no intention to affirm that either a cold war or a halt one with any country. now so far we've also heard from the president of cuba and the president of turkey and many more heads of state are expected to address the u.n. general assembly via their pre recorded messages as the week goes on and i suppose we can have a day without some of the drama on the diplomatic sidelines that we usually get with the business is done in the general assembly it's not stopping any of the sniping though for now kind of open in new york thanks for the. next prinz 1st refugee camp has opened it stalls

a former army barracks in southeast england will house up to 400 asylum seekers local authorities though of raised their objections saying they were never consulted over the new facility from a surgeon a rival's by sea with almost 6 and a half hours migrants crossing the english channel in small boats since the start of the. war. or. fed up hearing it we don't want to put the number of people at the plight of

babies not being don't keep fighting no i haven't a chance to get a few slips this happened quite quickly we 1st found out about it maybe 2 weeks ago and we've had a lot of questions none of which we've had satisfactory answers to yet i think is a good idea because clearly many many and most buildings here that are empty and i think these people have some would be no safe to live she really seeking asylum that's fair enough to do it in the proper man at this could have added on the people i mean we don't know. but bobbie just very grateful to be. i don't put that on their faces again this is just a very nice little community here people are very friendly very nice but i know a lot of them don't like a 2nd seat just coming em all but see that they leakers. let's see if the person if they say keep it stand up if they. can for money try to change.

twitter's apologized for an image cropping feature which some users have branded racist the algorithm apparently shows a preference for white over black faces the social network says is working on a fix to prove the point one user placed an image of republican senator mitch mcconnell above one of barack obama when generating a photo preview they are puerto matic lee cropped out the former president the same thing happened with other combinations of black and white people or surprisingly though the twitter algorithm appears to also prefer yellow over red simpsons characters and golden retrievers over black labradors that's not the 1st such controversy either a user of the zune video conferencing up earlier question why his dark skinned colleague was vanishing during a virtual meeting the firm later explained that the software can sometimes mistake a human face for background social media lawyer cohen gave us his view on the twitter scandal. and the reason why twitter appears to be cropping images in the

1st place is to make the mi g.'s more acceptable to the i perhaps more pleasant to the i and this is part of the over the greeting the did the machine is being fed with the by east easing stick to tional by the why did the by see something that people deliberately cause when we talk about institutional by sue maybe talking about statistics being fed into day into the machine about people's preferences about all sorts of information the year end it causes some sort of prejudice against a particular group of people to the receiving this is more of a technical issue rather then something did the machine had to learn from from people. psychiatry is treating julian assange says the wiki leaks founder is a very high risk of suicide michael copeland spoke at an extradition hearing in

london on tuesday and expressed concerns about a sound his mental health. he's made various plans and undergone various preparations searches confessed to the catholic priest who granted to map solution began to draw farewell letters to family members and close friends he's drawn up to will i conclude the risk of suicide if extradition became imminent or should actually happen would be very high meanwhile more than $160.00 current and former world leaders along with lawmakers and diplomats of call for julian assange and his release they've signed an open letter to the british government and wiki leaks founder is currently in prison in the u.k. awaiting a decision on whether he'll be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges a lawyer for a member of lawyers for asylum says that the case is being highly politicized he's doing it in a sound is a very clear cut morally there there is no doubt who is in the right and who is in the wrong on the one hand we have a journalist who has exposed incredible war crimes and torture and corruption on

the other hand we have the embarrassed superpower that wants to prosecute him it couldn't be more black and white than this as legal experts we can see and equivocally what is going on is a political process of soldiers accused of leaking a trove of secret u.s. military and diplomatic documents his extradition hearings been delayed by the covert pandemic proceedings have been repeatedly mocked by protest outside the court building as well with public figures and political activists coming to support him former m.p. george galloway the 1st rapper m.i.a. reacted to the development. i think. it's just nice. i wish i could tell him the ways that you know well it is changing and people's press would just. be trees speak freely on the internet is actually way where this then it was the area and

you say much since it is the trial is back on again but you use the best ward that i've heard to describe it trudging on it's trudging on in complete silence no no of the british media are covering this story a tall even though it's the trial of the century right in the heart of london in some cases a few 100 yards away from the big media houses but none of them attend none of them are interested even though for the journalists in those media houses if julian are sons goes down so does journalism and where he goes there might one day be forced to follow we know how the case is going it's going extremely badly for the u.s. government and the british government the tragedy is that probably won't make any difference at all. the dangers of runaway climate change are now more real than

ever and according to a new study it's the world's richest who are driving the process researchers and from the anti-poverty charity oxfam along with the stockholm environment institute broke down the numbers over 25 year period they found that the world's wealthiest one percent produced more than doubled the carbon emissions of the poorest hoff of the global population and according to the findings the richest 10 percent causing enough pollution to warm the planet by 1.5 degrees celsius even if everyone else were to slash their emissions to 01 of the report's authors told us that urgent action is needed. well we say this is the result of government policies in most countries around the world that have seen over the last 20 to 30 years economic inequality. really explode the global rich are using up the call button budget just in the process of getting even richer but we also need

to do more to reduce the outsized carbon footprint of the richest people and that means things like much higher taxes or luxury carbon consumption like big highly polluting cars frequent private jets ok that's the news for this hour after washington on the boom bust same shortly all that have been axed r t well is just under half an hour from now.