Dominates the 1st. Democratic president ial contest. A very warm welcome to our to international this monday morning here in moscow good to have you with us i mean in the real. With scientists around the world racing to find ways of combating 19 reports claim that the trumpet ministration offered a German Company large sums of money for exclusive access to any vaccine it develops german officials said however that any such deal is off the table the countrys ministers are sent to discuss the development in talks this monday roccos the if no takes a look at the alleged efforts to cash in on the crisis. In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king similarly in the land of the infected the man with the vaccine becomes a god the tubing in based company is researching a Corona Maxine and the High Pressure the government wants to secure the rights to it exclusively the German Government is trying to prevent this there are only 2 reasons why anyone would want a monopoly on a vaccine the 1st is money it would take a truly miserable creature to try and profit from a cure that could save millions of lives would hate capitalism to control over who gets vaccinated and if trump does get exclusive rights to a vaccine guess wholl be lost in the least for an injection. Harsh economic sanctions imposed by the trumpet ministration have contributed to a shortage of test kits and medical supplies in the wrong School Smocks and does affect ins im not pharmacists theyre out of stock the situation is really a burden my family and i could be inspected at a meter in effect american sanctions against iran is bliss stick Missile Program also include facemasks and corona virus test kits even an iranian app to help people identify the symptoms of a corona virus infection was banned by google because sanctions would take venezuela a miserable playground for American Foreign policy. This is a time to demand the president on and trump criminal sanctions against venezuela so that venezuela can go into the market to buy everything it needs on a medical level to face this situation if anyone ever tells you that the purpose of sanctions is to change a government space here you go ahead and laugh in their face long and loud mass sanctions have one purpose to make life miserable for the entire population to make the public hurt and suffer to make them do anything to make the pain stop including overthrow their government. Patients in hospitals dont even have water now imagine with an epidemic like this the creatures become for is going to be left alone we have to be clear the plague has arrived here and the rules dont have any problems because they have the bankers they have the clinics they have everything even the cubans most of whom have never known life without us sanctions being urged to make their own face masks so how do you get mosques when there is a lack of medical supplies theyre easy we can make them at home from materials such as cotton cloth linen their washable and we can carry cereal depending on the hours that we will be in public places. The end result has been the near collapse of Health Care Systems in numerous countries tens of millions of People Limited in the health care in medicine in essential its basically tied hands and feet on the sacrificial altar of the coronavirus pandemic and if god forbid trump does get exclusive rights to the vaccine you couldnt bet your life savings it will come with Strings Attached the number of coronavirus cases has spiked dramatically in the u. S. With 3800 infections recorded in 49 states in an effort to tackle the crisis and its economic consequences the house of representatives passed the bill on saturday morning that would entitle some workers to paid sick leave the legislation if approved by the senate would allow 2 weeks of paid sick leave as well as up to 3 months of family or medical leave it would also provide tax credits for small and medium businesses to help cover the new benefits caleb maupin explores the predicament currently faced by Many American workers if they fall. Authorities here in the United States are emphasizing the importance of self isolation as coronavirus cases continue to rise however one problem facing american citizens is a lack of sick leave legislation only 12 of the 50 us states actually mandate that employers give paid sick leave other states have various regulations now amid the crisis some corporations have adjusted their policies for their own employees only of course and in addition to that Many Americans are just facing the choice of risk health or lose money think about the restaurant workers the people who prepare our food think about what you do if your Childs School closes down for a week for so many people taking a sick day means going without pay and even in some cases potentially losing your job but not everyone agrees this is unreasonable employees are struggling our employers are struggling and its not a cure for covert 19. 00 to put a big new expensive federal mandate on employers who are struggling in the middle of this matter u. S. Politicians are now rushing to change laws but some see this not as a Public Health necessity but as the unrolling of a far left agenda unfortunately it appears at this hour that the speaker and House Democrats in chose to produce an idiot logical wishlist that was not covert closely. Now the democrats are quick to present themselves as the good guys in this scenario but they havent always been on the same page for years Bernie Sanders has pushed for paid sick leave and other benefits for workers and been castigated as a socialist only under the current circumstances have democrats fully jumped on board the debate about paid sick leave goes on but the clock is ticking along with the debate goes on the more people will be affected. R. T. New york. We spoke to new york based lawyer marni how she believes the new bill doesnt go far enough people need far more for. Not soliciting. Interesting and ive been hearing not just he thinks we but people are really talking about other people who read greek and work for a month fiction a novel something called universal basic income so i think what i see is that people are looking not just for me really but for real transformative change because i think with the sentencing that everybody should have read to think everybody should have Free Health Care how there should be human rights. And you know there is a plan to pay for it and its something that i think now were all seeing that something 1. 00 universal Health Care Medicare for all have to have to be implemented right moral you know youll see that people who have money and are wealthy will be able to kind of weather the storm i can come are going to have a lot lot more problems in the roughly worsening pandemic is taking its toll on politicians too with the sickness striking down many in the car the doors of power the growing number of lawmakers falling ill is causing concern over how effectively governments will be able to coordinate their responses to the outbreak. There are far more politicians who have been infected than you would have by statistical chance politicians are overrepresented in the number of people who have been diagnosed. Well we spoke to the celebrated slovenian philosopher. He likened the crisis to a war time scenario and emphasized the need for Meaningful International solidarity. If in previous cases people were thinking just about isolation and so on until one day i sure hope we are becoming aware that we cant go in there unite that coordinate that way we are all in the entire humanity in we did in the same boat the big loser i think will be but he sadly nationality racist and so wont within our country to isolate itself until of course we need to get an inch and odette like for example take europe we should act in a united to a shell pinkett job that we could have great that street in mosques what they would eat what their bodies need it and go on and so on i think that in this sense we should be shaped as if riyad in the middle of that military operation we should be im not here appealing to some kind of abstract sense of solidity even in our interest it germany now thats. They may get an Even Stronger probably epidemic and go on and to want so it can think obviously that it is something that is demanded from us but if sadly if we think as a rational. Step well get that big step back and reflect what this our mobile go through life how should we change it because we should be aware of why i dont think its not grouch. Lets just go on gullibly and into 30 months it will be over baby because if we then beat the older women in the photos that are that if the day may set out that its a logical think about sort of and one of the more i think that even when things go poorly that it doesnt look normal it to me to not be the same normality as denver might be because we are we will get to change our mode of life. Well while many countries are implementing aggressive measures to contain the krona virus the British Government has been sharply criticized over its perceived lack of action of particular concern to many people has been the suggestion that authorities will attempt to control the rate at which covert 19 spreads now thats with a view to developing widespread immunity among the population in terms of building up a 3rd immunity within the u. K. What i mean what sort of percentage of people need to have contracted the virus probably about 60 percent or so in britain the number of cases has exceeded 1300 with 35 people dead as a result a petition has been launched calling for schools to be closed the across the country the government has also stated it plans to ban master events after delaying on the decision i do the u. K. s Health Secretary has said that people aged over 70 could be isolated for up to 4 months we asked people in london what they think about the governments high risk approach to tackling the epidemic. And its probably true to take you. I dont really describe how the 1st responders i should do what i know body needs to be put at risk for a situation like this i can see the argument doing that but really i can also say were going to. Put up people to get that virus if we make. Weve come down to die. Which scared to death for this but weve got to carry on living. Overseas i dont say to far this is a peak into about 10 weeks time so thats when i would get really concerned what we dont know yet is full range of detail and if you do we would need to know whether or not we do become immune. To this virus simply. Its the right strategy or simply wrong strategy we dont know but nobody. Seems to be giving us the range so one year. When mike tilsley is an associate professor of Infectious Disease modeling at the university of warrick in the u. K. No he explained the thinking behind the government strategy. Community is that when enough people have been in fact to find the virus then. The epidemic will eventually die out so essentially what were still trying to do is were trying to control the outbreak so were trying to put in interventions that will delay the peak of the epidemic and also reduce the height of the epidemic at that point to the certain number of people would be in fact then it could no longer in fact any more people because essentially people had contacts and been infected and so it reduced to a low enough level that the epidemic would die out is a risk to have we know that the over seventys and particularly over eightys. Because they may have Underlying Health conditions are more risk some opiates that you want to protect those. Those people in the population which is why these sorts of measures are being considered its really important now that we keep these good hygiene practices that have been recommended to keep necessary isolation and quarantine policies. And the crucial thing here is to reduce the demands on the Health Service to make sure that those people that really do need ospital have access to it. The 1st one on one debate in the race for the u. S. Democratic partys president ial nomination was held in washington d. C. On sunday night much of the discussion between the front runner joe biden they self styled democratic socialist Bernie Sanders focused on the question of health care with all due respect to medicare for all you have a single payer system and that only it doesnt work there weve got thousands of private insurance plans that is not a system that is prepared to provide health care to all people. Senator sanders used the coronavirus threat to emphasize the need for universal health care while joe biden focused his fire on a Trump Administration generally accusing it of botley mishandling they punt anik. Happy to say were joined live now on the program with Professor James lark janes represents the libertarian party. Good to have you good to see you as well just on your take on the debates Bernie Sanders seemed to be making an impassioned case throughout for medicare for all professor to what extent has this break demonstrated the need for universal health care. Well in my opinion it hasnt demonstrated the need for Government Health care it has pointed out of course that when you have a situation such as this in many cases the any sort of any sort of Health Care System whether governmentally provided or privately provided can have some difficulties the problem of course is in a free society you do run the risk people with their their contact of spreading a disease like this i dont think that senator sanders arguments are particularly strong in suggesting that this is particularly relevant for a Government Health care system as opposed to some other sort of Health Care System but of course its not just sunders or his supporters is that there are cracks appearing in the system to the expense of even getting they coronavirus test was very large how are people as well supposed to survive with with no paid sick leave that thats going to be a big issue is it not. It certainly could be an issue for many people and i i believe that there are ways in which businesses are going to be able to cope with this of course by imposing costs on on a businesses to say we must provide some sort of sick leave many businesses are running on very small margins and so the effort which is im sure well intentioned unfortunately may simply make problem basically cause problems for everyone so again. A situation such as this of course is going to place the stress i think on any Health Care System whether governmentally provided or privately provided how would you assess the Trump Administrations handling of the crisis in fact what criticism president did you find most compelling during the debate. Im not sure that i not inclined generally to give the trumpet ministration much credit for anything however i think that any sort of situation such as this in a nominally free society trying to deal with Communicable Diseases is going to be very difficult. Im not sure again that any of the criticisms that were at the trumpet ministration would have been any less true had either Vice President biden or senator sanders been in charge to what extent its a big year ahead isnt it to what extent does the coronavirus actually call the president ial election into question you know its a guessing game i suppose at this stage but do you get the feeling from what youre hearing that it will go ahead. I believe so then again contrary to rumor ive been wrong before i dont think that theres going to be much push to delay the election i think that it will proceed as as scheduled but then again 11 never knows if we see a flattening of the curve in terms of the spread of disease i dont think well see any sort of major effort to try to delay the elections but then again. Contrary to rumor ive been wrong with if it does go ahead then which democrats at this stage she think has the the best shot at beating donald trump thats difficult to say i mean you could make a good argument either for Vice President biden or senator sanders Vice President biden i think is perceived by Many Americans as being somewhat less scary somewhat less inclined to major changes whereas senator sanders of course as inspired a lot of people to become involved hes staking out a a vision that many people find attractive so i think both candidates will have a decent chance against President Trump but i also think President Trump has a pretty good chance of being reelected unless something truly stunning happens with respect to the outbreak of the coronavirus but even without all the mind of course this is going to be the overriding theme isnt it coronaviruses going to be the thing thats going to be debated by going to be talked about because not whats on the minds of the people its as if all the other issues the big issues that were leading into this year theyre going to be put to the side is not the case. I its certainly looks that way of course we seem extraordinary changes in the United States over the last week and if we dont see a flattening of the curve with respect to the disease it very well may have an enormous impact on the on the upcoming president ial election because of course this plays directly into many of the arguments that both biden and sanders are making about the Trump Administration and the need for what they perceive as changes in the american Health Care System just before you go can it perhaps get your take on another big issue were speaking about today in britain with the national Health Service the the big debate with the government there professor is is to try and really. As youre saying the plot to the cs they really want to level at all its so that people will in fact get the disease but the be able to get treated by the national Health Service now its a risky strategy because it means that the government is in essence saying more people will die particularly the elderly what is your take on what the British Government is implementing. Well all i can say is as someone viewing it from afar i think its a very risky strategy and. Unfortunately i think that in these sort of situations there are not a lot of easy answers i guess my perspective is that theyre probably moving in the wrong direction but then again i dont consider myself an expert in these matters and unfortunately these people are facing a lot of very difficult decisions i dont envy them there are the responsibilities of the case well thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us and staying up late indeed pos midnight on the east coast where you are Professor James lark from the u. S. Libertarian party. But. Now moving on to more world news the greek island of last boss recently confirmed its 1st case of corona virus and the morea refugee camp threatening to come and its further know the thousands of Vulnerable People packed into this squalid site fears are growing for their well being and the locals to of course eventually has been speaking to people there. The greek island of levels has a 3 week conflict on its hands as europes front line to the migrant crisis some locals are taking more of a stance against the swelling numbers of refugees held up on the island and the ngos have been drawn into battle 2 reviews of people but not small couple of 100 they start blocking the streets are stopping cars that many in just a bunch so that would stop in the vans but they were stopping their rental cars and there was just much in them between them throwing stones at them they can be put out between people weve been doing in this. Case in also. Years so they said a big thing with the station of people that works in indio this is because they they. Want to bust the message that n. G. O. S profit from human suffering finally we got the commission to duck in this part in a t. V. Need we think its a very good sign from the authorities that they made it possible to sign also to say that its not just a group of patients that are going to take over. How things work on this island the migrants remain in overcrowded facilities with lack of hygiene its frankly living in terrible conditions in a desperate move to try to pursue some of them to go back home the e. U. Is offering 2000 euros as bait but some of them have traveled so far is that money really enough to make them go back if i go back to night yeah. So to me to tell you all would not take me back to 90 so that would be. 2000 euros is not enough i come to love my country for money i love because it wasnt safe there now if you protect its. The 3rd front is the one created by right wing groups we do not appreciate your picture a sick island turning into a giant migrant camp something more getting up with us every day these people pass through our town without asking anyone they come and steal from us people here a fed up thats why we decided to make these barricades we gather here as often as we can to prevent the refugees from entering the town and force them to take another route we have never been aggressive towards them and we have never clashed with them on the contrary they come in gangs and try to argue with us but the moment but the numbers a main goal is to protect the village the soaps and banks and need to linny where do they want to pass through here and since the growth of virus has been confirmed to mid to linny thats another reason to prevent them from entering here this additional struggle local speed very big price tourist season has become something of the past that businesses havent even been forced to put them shutters for good and there is very much in our life here is horrible we were happier in the past they robbed us destroying our properties they even break into our houses most of the shops are closed and the refugees are the reason there are 25000 of them and only a 1000 of us. Lesbo says the island that has been suffering the most the morea camp is overcrowded with refugees i believe we all have to sit down and find a solution because we cant live like this anymore our town cant survive like this we are fed up. This island might be a tiny greek paradise that the sun shines all fuel around but down here on the ground its clouded over fear uncertainty endanger eventual seps us from lesbos greece where r. T. Love how they started the week is shaping up news wise to keep a handle on all of todays developments with parties social networks and ill see you again here in just a worth reading. Im going to fulfill the repeated purposes apologise to the people and come out the you know its all bots thank. You. For a. Pretty good burka now you want to 1st read that. No