. >>> morris johnson, the british prime minister is prime ministe coronavirus 10 days ago. still has symptoms. before going to the hospital, he was quarantined at his home. in this video message on friday, prime minister johnson says he was feeling better but still had a fever. in the meantime, queen elizabeth try to reassure the british people during a rare televised speech. she spoke from windsor castle yesterday, where she is sequestering herself from the virus. in her remarks, the queen banks healthcare professionals as well as other essential workers. >> i hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. those who come off first will say the britons of this generation were as strong as any. >> now, the queen's speech was only the fourth time in her 68 year rain that she had addressed the british people outside of her annual christmas greeting. within 48,000 people in the uk have been infected with the coronavirus, including her son, the heir to the throne prince charles. >>> time is up for 146. engineers at tesla g

morris johnson regains power in london the epicenter of what set to be the worst coronavirus death to capital hit country in the world so far coming up in the show what price is a human life lost to coronavirus restaurants and the government appears to think it is 60000 pounds we talked to former president of the u.k. faculty of public health professor john ashton about why so many nurses and doctors are dying on the so-called front line is u.k. and u.s. backed is the misuse coronavirus to propagandize against the west we speak to the author of a new book about the rise of u.s. u.k. backed islam is a true one of its lesser known figureheads the anticommunist firebrand of donna has another place to be in the 1980 s. if you saw terror around the world this new york texas and california all the civil coming up in today's going underground the 1st u.k. prime minister barak's johnson's 1st full day back in downing street was marked by revelations his government has been deliberately inflating the amounts of life saving equipment available to doctors nurses and cleaners on the front line ag

then this is still going on when those in the higher world is facing this crisis in fairness to morris johnson's foreign office and a stand that the british government have thanked the cuban government for taking the ship the braemar into port but certainly no condemnation from here about the u.s. sanctions on the island i want to get on to some of those other issues a bit later and today's anniversary of the iraq war but you're also a novelist and putting your novelist hat on how do you. eric ries near liberal culture and art given the fact that most people's cultural imagination of a pandemic is really from hollywood and from films that what we have to go on well i mean you know it's lost both of the culture today obviously is dominated by a form of neo liberalism which ill courage is individualists some of the most grotesque sort of you know this and the worship of 1st celebrities that someone extremely well known on television or a very strong. actor is almost greeted as a god and this is really deep deep you know become much much worse over the last 30 to 40 years so this. proves various pe

morris johnson's office is briefing that the reason maybe we didn't get the information was that china was giving us disinfo mation that china has been their big factor here and will face a reckoning they could be considered a pariah state this is nothing about your ventilator numbers and lack of oxygen today this is the fault of beijing seems to be what's coming out of downing street i think it's very sad that we reached a situation where the failures of our own governments are being just ignored and not learnt from the lessons learnt from and rather hitting out in all directions and i think at the very beginning of this it seems as though the chinese layer have been slow to recall what was going on the numbers initially from december lids january may not have been reliable but law recently and particularly since the world health organization became involved with china the charities have been demonstrating really quite extraordinary leadership they've been sharing our line globally all their treatment protocols all their lessons learned if only we would wake up and listen to what's be

lives on monday also coming up get well wishes from around the world for britain's prime minister morris johnson he remains in intensive care at a london hospital tonight the foreign minister is stepping in for the prime minister and what can the european union do to prevent the pandemic from becoming a bigger recession. finance ministers are divided especially over one controversial proposal with the name. it's good to have you with this it has been another grim day for new york as the city's death toll from the corona virus soared close to 3500 despite that the governor of the state of new york andrew cuomo says that the number of deaths in the city appears to be leveling off and that it shows that social distancing is working a quote somewhat upbeat assessment it did not stop the pain of those in those overstretched hospitals whether as patients or as nurses or doctors. new york fishies doctors work around the clock to save lives that makeshift hospitals like this one the governor's daily messages are sounding increasingly bleak more people in the city have now died from kovac 19 of them peri

the number of reported deaths caused by the virus assault has soared about 10000 from mr morris johnson's been released from hospital after spending 3 nights in i.c.u. he thanks doctors and health care workers for saving his life. in the world's largest oil producers agree to the biggest production cut in history demand for oils plummeted in this crisis so in response saudi arabia russia and other oil producing nations made a deal to reduce production by nearly 10000000 barrels a day. we've talked about the growing concern over the lack of p.p.a. protective equipment for health workers and the u.k.'s royal college of surgeons says nearly 2 thirds of its members report shortages of personal protective equipment one in 3 surgeons say they lack the protection they need especially in scotland and northwest england overall half of surgeons dapat have access to a covert $1000.00 test if they needed one and more than 70 percent said the government would be unable to end the lockdown until widespread testing is available when you saw her briefly in a reporter earlier talk to emma kerman who's a p

has a cough and he still has a fever the spokesman was asked also about the capacity to which morris johnson is still carrying out his very demanding day job as prime minister of the country and this person said that yes boris johnson was still getting his regular box of work as he put it that the prime minister did remain in control of the government in charge of the government and that any decisions required action from the prime minister well they would be given those and that that that action would be taken. boris johnson has given. charge of the daily coronavirus meetings to dominate rob the the foreign secretary but i think 2 big questions questions remain after all of this one is well what's the real states of boris johnson's health because when the spokesperson was pressed on whether or not the prime minister was showing any signs of pneumonia or pneumonia is one of the most serious parts of the coronavirus infection. can lead to death. the the spokesperson dodged the question and said well he just has persistent symptoms of coronavirus the other issue that doesn't really have an ade

i think to call this an emotional roller coaster for morris johnson would be an understatement of course if he's back after his own personal battle with coronavirus he became a father again on wednesday he's facing a cabinet we gather may have strong differences of opinion over what to do next when it comes to easing restrictions on britain's economy going forward but he's under tremendous amount of pressure as the country's chief decision maker to make it clear exactly what the government's plans are but what we've heard from the prime minister spokes person already is that they are not going to do anything that may exponentially risk increasing the death toll or increasing the rate of infections for the time being so no easing of restrictions today but we may have a clearer idea of the kind of approach the government may take when boris johnson gives his daily briefing a bit later on in the day very briefly just looking at what's happening elsewhere in europe we've seen spain allow because ruction to start again some heavy industry to start other countries like germany and some nordic

morris reporting. in the u.k., prime minister boris johnson has spent a third night in intensive care if your the chancelloraid wednesday improving.on is acting on behalf of johnson's foreign secretary dominic raab, who is chairing a virtual meeting looking evidence from scientists on the impact of the anti-code -- anti-covid-19 measures brought in. >> behind the doors of this london hospital, british foreign minister boris j johnson contins his battle against covid-19. publilicinister told the that though he remains in intensive care his condition is improving. hei can also tell you that has been sitting up in bed andnd engaging positivively with a clinical team. >> the 55-year-old was taken to hospital with coronavirus symptoms sunday and moved to the icu ward a day later. the country is entering a critical phasese of the epidide. lives ine lost their the latest daily death toll. health expxperts are showing sis of optimismm, pointing to the effectctiveness of the lockdown. >> we are starting to see a sigig of plateauing fectctions and hospitalitions.s. if we had not taken those measures, if people had no

discuss the criticism of the government over these failings and boris johnson's own role are now joined by labor councillor morris macleod morris good to see her but the governor has been following the science all along we can't question that. well we can talk the talk one thing about. i mean more importantly you choose which scientists you want to listen to any given moment. and i think they were what suggested in the sunday times article is is very worried what i will say though is right now i actually don't want the i don't want the government to be on its or in questions about what it what it didn't do back then i want to be making sure people are ok now i think that there's they've got to begin to ask on now i think i think we need a massive inquiry are 2 words or i said that that's for later but of course there is criticism concerning the presence of the prime minister journeys cobra meeting zizi it's unusual actually but not imperative that the promise of chairs the man and boris johnson is more of a chief exact cast out of leader isn't it it would seem so you're saying in a that's that says israelis about