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Joining us here with your global News Headlines this is r. T. International. Lets begin with the latest figures in the global covert 900. 00 pandemic more than 730000 cases of now being confirmed around the world thats an increase of around 10 percent in just 24 hours more than 34000 people have lost their lives more than 150000 have recovered half of them in china. Here in moscow now into the 1st day of a citywide partial lockdown it was announced by the just last night people are required to stay at home whenever possible to prevent the spread of the corona virus he said to try to report from the city center well for a whole bunch of reasons including early border restrictions testing and quarantine measures for everyone coming into this country and also pure luck the outbreak of covert 19 in this country in this city in particular wasnt as disastrous as in some other places round this world which gave the russian authorities a chance to try and balance between a lighter measures and very strict measures in their attempts to flatten the curb i guess we all know what this phrase means by now in particular the mayor of moscow the capital in this countrys biggest city and also the city with the most coronavirus cases announced late on sunday night that from that point moscow is going to be in full self isolation mode and the russian Prime Minister me followed up on that this morning. The self isolation rules apply to people of all ages exceptions are for those who require emergency help need to get food have to get to work if the work hasnt been stopped by order of the government or have another compelling reason. So let me just explain what complete self isolation means in the case of the russian capital for the people who are in moscow the rules are that they will only be allowed to leave their homes or places where theyre staying only in case of emergency to go to a pharmacy or to get groceries or in case they have to continue working officially unnecessary movement is forbidden but city borders still do remain open people besides this have to keep social distancing everywhere which is 1. 5 meters thats how its been ordered by the government and also compensations have been and now for those who have lost their jobs now as for how all of this is affecting the situation in the streets of the capital i can tell you that there are apps with a score for how busy the roads in moscow are from one to 10 and usually during the morning rush hour it gets to as high as a wall sometimes 67 while at about 10 am on in moscow it was 0 so that probably explain it barely saw people in the streets at least and downtown moscow and clearly everything except for government offices police stations medical organizations grocery shops and pharmacies Everything Else is pretty much shut down this is what moscow looks like at this point president clinton keeping cova 19 deaths below 100000 in the u. S. Would be great to have meant for his administration the killed more than 2400 americans you talking about 2200000 deaths 2200000 people from this. And still if we could hold their down as were saying 200000 its a horrible number maybe even less but 2100000 so we have between 10200000. We all together of done a very good Jersey New York is by far the worst hit city in the u. S. Accounting for almost half of nationwide infections with hospitals overflowing central park has been turned into an emergency Field Hospital tents with dozens of beds are being set up there and hes my guest has more on the situation in new york city has 7 days left one week before the citys hospitals its medical infrastructure collapses the crucial day to think about it is sunday april 5th meaning as ive said were getting through this week its tough. We have what we need for next week but it will definitely be a very hard week but after next sunday april 5th is when i get very very worried about everything were going to need the more you read about whats happening in new york the more horrifying it is its out of control and by all accounts all of them its only going to get worse the peak in death rate is likely to hit in 2 weeks so ill say it again the peak the highest point of death rates remember this is likely to head into inks Emergency Services getting more calls now than they did or 911 just let that sink in the city is terrified theyre scared of the virus theyre fearful of how unprepared they are that terrified from a mental standpoint its a serious strain on on us when you mess. Were doing over 6000. 00 calls dearly in the last few days weve done over 44000. 00 calls just to give you some perspective we normally only do about 4000. 00 calls a day and 911. 00 which was the busiest a. T. M. s we did 6000. 300 calls in the last couple days weve done over 7000 so were. Doing a lot of double ships were very busy running around number one stress isnt that if i can get infected you know we signed up for a job thats dangerous that we know we can be killed in the line of duty we know we can get sick while we take care of others the stress has been that were not able to get tested properly so the city has not provided dedicated test think of 1st responders so the problem with that is we dont know if were bringing it home to have families just look at this in the middle of the pandemic nervous is a protesting that dont be quick to judge. Many of them being sent to the deaths theres not enough mosques theyre being asked to use mosques that are intended only for a few hours then being told to reuse them for days some of them lacking gallons of wearing trash bags trash bags imagine if youre given this and told to use what entire we only hear and over again its extremely difficult when you need what you need to do what you gotta do and you dont have it and you have to improvise so some of us. Probably once we come out once you start losing the mask and we dont have it anymore were going to have to were substandard equipment puts us at rest we can do better we should be doing better in this day and age and whats supposed to be the richest country on the planet its unacceptable that nurses should be interesting people should be without the equipment they need god for a big view for those of a break you call an ambulance theyre busy there arent enough they have to go get the guy thats suffocating from pneumonia from a severe coronavirus case you decide to go to the hospital you a self where Emergency Rooms of full of severe coronavirus cases you get infected you talk to a nurse who lacks basic personal Protection Equipment your chances of infection go up they call provide for the nurses and the nurses call and provide for you what happens when we dont have the proper equipment is that we potentially expose ourselves which we have been not only do we expose ourselves but weve been exposing the patients that getting have the virus weve been bringing home to our families and bringing it out into the community this is an on mitigated disaster they they had a choice lead. All of them from china to russia to europe to america the choice was to save business save Bank Accounts keep things open let the infection spread or save lives closed borders closed businesses quarantine it works we know it works and given these 2 choices lives or businesses youd have to go back to the civil war to talk about borders of states like that i think it would paralyze the economy a lockdown is what they did in war on china and were not in china we were not in war on new york has made its choice italy has suffered more than any other nation from the cove of 19 pandemic with more than 10700 people losing their lives the governments warned that a nationwide lockdown will have to be extended for an indefinite period and it was supposed to end on april 3rd your thirties are also urging recent graduates to join the ranks of doctors to cope with the continued influence of patients the director of a clinic in bergen most spoke with him returns a host of arties going underground she shared her experience of undoing the pandemic. We are or are very much worried about to their masks we chat import them to back to these vitals its the same says natale s. Trading that to the hair back there also and maybe mainly true disorder faces and the contact so is that really important or brought to wash and you can become a director of designers and that door i mean in the environment you should look at counties to stop the spread of divide it was good to read a lot of environmental measures to keep oil day places clean and if your desk that peabody a negative that is austan can be negative today maybe you put a cape doubts that came people as if this is what i need tell you they decided to test only people weve seen thought maybe if they would develop her different kind of test that i that he detests which to add that there is as i can wage these might really help why is it were getting reports of younger people now dying of coronavirus if youre going to say because there are people even we deny that a disease is quite like 4550 s or lane they develop a serious illness that add their people we do many diseases say and they dont develop serious illnesses that so. Im not experiencing a clear correlation between their diseases you are florida. Your genetic condition and the 11 of these that you develop because a squadron of right. Now to moscow and the surrounding region all the restaurants of being closed since saturday to stop the spread of the virus but deliveries are still permitted and some businesses are stepping in to provide help where its needed the key havent explains. In times of crisis you have 2 options you can either panic oh you can think what can i do to support the community and im here to see how it started out as a full full suggestion of sending flowers to doctors and nurses in hospitals across the city has spiraled into something of a mission because wallflowers will certainly help boost morale sweaty things like coffee chocolate and other supplies that will keep these king workers go away its turns out theres plenty of people willing to help with that. Extra pair had a call read my call or heres a doctor i asked him to help you he said ok you can take part in that probably you can give us some coffee because right now we dont have it and asked to see a launch the hash tag fighting together as a way of getting people on board an Online Community of mums who were already sending flowers to doctors and nurses aunts of the cool putting their own concerns and stresses aside to focus on supporting those who need it most. More than a 100 people have responded to oh cool and the donations keep coming and i think everyone who sees our posts cannot stay indifferent and they send money. One local restaurant in moscow also decided to pitch in its a challenging time for businesses but the pandemic putting some at risk of closure and leading to uncertainty about what the future holds but they using this opportunity to turn and negative situation into a positive. Was sent by as to doctors and some swedes which are their. Free time with everything for us through improve their moods and so that they know that we support them and ready to thankful to them now like all of us are in cycles and out they dont care for. Instinct to do people are scared and upset and so its also for them its kind of. Emotional. To make something for. Their hair we have one of the beautiful cookies the doctors the nurses dont have the time to have a sit down meal. Currently the initiative is supplying boxes of snacks and drinks to 2 clinics in mosco but theyre hoping this will follow suit and join the project so that more hospitals in moscow and elsewhere can also benefit everyone can help every little help will count and if we combine all these help together as a community i think this could be a really good thing. Unsurprisingly the goodies are going down well hospital staff have taken to social media to post them messages of gratitude from doctors that are as absolutely amazing because once i saw abound they were so have just taken this cup of coffee with milk and they was like oh my god its rio is it from people as the saying goes a small circle of kindness can create a big wave and if these little care packages that can make the world of difference for those working around the clock until with during this difficult time. In canada the situation appears to be relatively stable around 6000 covert 9000 cases have been registered in 65 people have died but nationwide containment measures have had a severe Economic Impact according to a new poll almost half of canadians say that they or someone in their household has lost income most of them of receive no compensation for their loss of working hours a movement called keep your rent is urging landlords to temporarily stop charging rent for those whove been left out of pocket we spoke with one of the activists out of work carpenter that cant make their rent i live in a neighborhood with thousands of people that are faced with the same situation in a city and a province and a country with millions of people that are facing the same situation we have just seen wide spread loss of jobs increase in costs and yet rent is still due to the old brick of coverage 19 this is pushing people over the Tipping Point in a lot of ways so tenants are coming together to organize together and spread the word there are no guarantees ahead of us their number one priority needs to be the safety and security of themselves their families and those around them that may need the money that the rules dictate be handed over on the 1st of the month. The keep your rent movement is putting up posters across toronto telling tends to stop paying theyre also dropping leaflets into letterboxes but landlords are pushing back. Where i grew a number of tenants who are planning around strike this would be catastrophic for landlords who need that money to be able to make their payments brown dhoti again says despite awareness of the rent problem nothing has been done so far. Everyone knows that rent is coming up every tenant every landlord every politician and everyone in the media and there have been no movements if working class tenants keeping what little they have left under these circumstances puts individual landlords in jeopardy those concerns need to be taken up not with tenants but up the line if they have an issue with putting food on their table then theyd need to make choices and they need to put pressure on their Financial Institutions and on their lenders not on tenets no 10 and created the situation we are simply trying to deal with it. With talks in india are also at risk of eviction but for a different reason will you that story in a moment. Believing weird things by the way is called superstition or magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the system its a feature comes equipped in the software of our program to try to connect things in the environment just in case theres a real connection. Micrographs friends arent slights against you know whites or men for example theres their sites against women or nonwhites so its always you know the idea is that statements that directed toward a Privileged Group are interpreted differently than a statement directed toward an oppressed group and so thats kind of the whole framework and its its a political framework thats used the result is of course focusing at least on certain kinds of minor slights and saying well rather than a northern door then we need to call attention to them but its not so its very political in this month. Indias big cities are usually teeming with Migrant Workers from the countryside but the nationwide lockdown there is left millions without work and they are heading home a mass of buses have been provided to get them out of the citys front line medics in india who treat coronavirus patients now have an extra problem to deal with some of them reportedly unable to leave the hospitals where they work and theyve been evicted from the land those fear that they may be infected the government has expressed serious concern. Im deeply anguished to see reports that doctors and paramedics are being ostracised in residential complexes and societies. These doctors are saving our lives putting their lives at risk their landlords should not do this this is wrong and we spoke to the head of a Doctors Association in india who said that many people have even no understanding of how the virus is transmitted these we also Work Information regarding the weight of the. Normal in each of those mission of the way it is what it is and what you want it is when we will deliver. You news and. The only still 3 i mean. Thats nearly all us and ensuring their immediate action will be against us and our beach police. Beat where this was happening and they were in states double of 18 so there have been. So this points made to ministry and was to do. Then this Prime Minister is urged citizens to remain calm and avoid panic buying in a radio broadcast over the weekend apologize for the hardships people are facing during the lockdown. Bar and certainly all many people my being free with me wondering why we have locks everyone up in their homes i understand your problems and your frustration but but in such a country as india with a population of 1300000000 there was no other way to fight over 1000 years. The pandemic counts cause a global shortage of face masks and other equipment but inventors stepping in to tackle the problem is jacqueline vinegar explains. Right now the world is facing a completely unprecedented situation and focus are having to adapt fast any and all ideas are on the table because the fact is shortages of essential materials and medical equipment is a global problem shortages are leaving doctors nurses and other frontline workers dangerously ill equipped to care for covert 1000 patients due to limited access to supplies such as gloves medical masks respirators goggles face shields to gallup and a prince we have tremendous numbers of ventilators but theres never been an instance like this where no matter what hugh have its not enough that would be the case and then theres the story of the italian doctor who has now fallen victim to the corona virus who shortly before he died revealed in an interview that doctors on the front lines had run out of protective gloves but desperate times call for Desperate Measures and many people are answering that call take in italy for instance where a start up is making ventilator masks which are urgently needed out of snorkels the focus of you today on a website people can download for free the file we created which will allow everyone around the world to turn a dive a mosque into respect and potentially save lives how about a snood that kills more than 95 percent of viruses including coded 19 yes i said a snood those things that are somewhere between a scarf and a hood might soon be found on millions of n. H. S. Workers. d employed ones or. A chemist. All. We went to a full production were that we called the stations were used as well. And were also. With various well. Just throughout the globe then theres a 3 d. Printed all hands free door pull to reduce contact and Public Places the design for which is now on. Free for downloading we call upon everyone who has access to a 3 d. Printer to d. D. Print this part and to make this part of vailable to his local community in order to make the door handle safe. Its designed for the Current Crisis my wifes been to a hospital recently and she was telling me about people in the handles with the problem doors with leads and things on the way out so i got some time on my hands because im a freelance designer so theres not so much work around now so i started thinking how can i know what can i do to help her do lots reprints in the locks and computer aided design so why cops were come on make it so you didnt have to touch it with your hands both the snood and the door pull came out of a hub for Scientific Research in the u. K. The minimize science park the centers managing director told us about their importance 1st of all it is a device to open doors without a chip door handle allows you to all of the doors with with a 4 hour as opposed to use your hands and 2nd device is a special sort of mascot this coat sit with a true seed its called the value of a stock take shield. The throw to the mask this coat sit on the basket with the curtain that attaches itself to the virus and prevents distraction to where also discussions now producing the visors for the health board as well i dont think you need to be einstein to help yourself or others you only need to type make your own masks or Hand Sanitizer in a you tube search bar to get thousands of hits and my local shop has flyers to fill out so that you can help your elderly neighbors with their shopping every little bit counts right now do we all wish things were different yes 100 percent and is extremely frustrating to learn how woefully unprepared most governments were for such a catastrophe yet it is. Theres no coordination even prefix to complain about it have told me doctors go to the front without orders and without equipment this is serious we no longer trust the government if governments wanted to secure a supply for Health Care Workers they could have purchased them in bulk when they were Still Available knowing what we know now it makes that all the harder to stomach but its times like this that can bring out the best in people and now that the creative juices are flowing who knows what well see next. Ok youve got it today ill be back with the very latest on our top stories in half an hour. The Atlantic Alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 Global Security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington in brussels diverged on important Foreign Policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. I cant show you my face but im going to teach you must door in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. They could charged with capital murder even though he didnt have the gun didnt pull the trigger didnt intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for the week with the son of a 23. 00. Confined within 4 gray walls hed find so using hot turn on to help him to leave dense room. Not National Towns they were going underground broke us doing from one of the epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic is the 2nd week of u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson socalled lockdown begins coming up in the show a warning from italy we go to go to hear from the Health Director of a clinic on the frontline of the Global Pandemic and this chancellor rhee she said act like other major nation finance ministers rejects a universal basic income instead opting for arguably impossible loans shadow chancellor John Mcdonalds Financial Advisor on his new book on basic income and not making the same mistakes next time there is a Global Pandemic. Why is it always communist cuba that comes to the rescue when theres a medical emergency even when the countries in distress like britain and italy are allied to the usa responsible for decades of terrorism and sanctions against the caribbean island all of them all coming up in todays going underground the 1st lets go straight to bug them and if just because guide to dr Sylvia Binney meaning the Health Director of the San Francisco clinic who is on the front line of the fight back against corona virus sylvia thanks so much for coming on spain seems to be a turning into italy by next week who knows new york and london maybe like burger mo what do you advise all of us 1st of all to do to minimize the impact of grow