Hard hit. The. Streets because Health Services. Welcome to our to international my names you know 30 minutes of news views start out. And we begin with a developing story in russia 2 people have died after a gas boiler explosion ripped through a building causing d it to collapse it happened in a tunnel around. 90 kilometers east of moscow the scene for us right now. Tell us more about what the situation is like and how this began. Well the rescuers have now discovered the body of the 2nd person killed in this gas explosion and as you can clearly see behind me there is still going through tons and tons of rubble left over there because literally a whole portion of the building collapsed the official statistics as of now is that 6 people are injured 3 of them in Critical Condition one in a coma 3 of them in an emergency in an intensive care units so right now we talked to some people in fact i talked to an elderly woman who lived in that particular section but she was lucky and she was not living she didnt live in the section that collapsed but right next to it heres how she told me hes how she described to me what she experienced. They measured services arrived and told us to leave the building we were about to do that but it turns out that our front door had been torn apart and the nearest wall had collapsed and locked the exit start to scream and telling them that we couldnt get out there magine society says that had to rescue us if we dont know what to do know the house is no longer suitable for lay then we will move in with our daughter but she has 2 children and husband and also the 2 of us in a 4 to square metre apartment. Well in fact the blast was so powerful that it shadowed the windows of adjacent of nearby buildings as you can see there are shattered all over the ground and this is the building that right that is right in front of the one that where the gas explosion explosion had happened its not the only building that suffered from of from this we also talked to some people. Who witnessed it who didnt live in this particular residential building but who witness said from from their homes heres what they told us. First here. I was in my balcony smoking then an explosion happened in a building and from where i was i could see the corner of the building i saw smoke shook with was so strong even reached my window in the distance that i was at home when i heard the noise it sounded like a building was shaking i rushed to the street but i couldnt see anything then i heard the police and firefighters sirens i followed the people standing outside in blankets among them were many children and elderly people the 4 artists have already started their rescue operation the rubble here and. Now the initial fears were that the death toll would be much higher because right now while russia is not on a full lock down because of the corona virus but well people are still not allowed out of their homes unless its to go visit the local shop or to walk the dog and so on will get the idea so there were lots of concerns that a little way too many people would still be in their homes and they wouldnt have time to escape from the blast and therefore more bodies therefore more deaths so far it looks like its not as bad as it could have been but this whole building has been evacuated and that is more than 200 people right now they have been put in the by in a nearby school thats where the emergency the emergency temporary Location Service is but they are of course wondering as to where they will be spending this and the next night because this building is not habitable as of now and the Russian Emergency ministry will have to make the evaluation whether the parts of the building unaffected by the blast are still good for people to live in them so we saw the governor of the Moscow Region he explained that what the local authorities. Going to do to help out those who found themselves in this tragedy. That is not of the shots after ask is to provide everyone with accommodation and then the experts will make a decision on what happens next with the building the residents affected will receive special material assistance mission. Well several people are still unaccounted for now doesnt mean that they are there under the tons of rubble behind me but it means there are simply not picking up their phones and as the authorities are trying to reach them but still rescue as well its still a lot of work ahead of them and they will be have been bringing the lights because the sun is about to go down and it seems it looks like that they are going to be working through the night here. Just a dreadful time for all the families involved there as youve been going through igor igors adela for porting from the moscowitz. Ok moving on now to another headline story this hour 2 people have been stabbed to death inside face front at least 5 others are injured police have arrested a man but ive not given any details regarding an alleged motive with more and what we know at this stage are fronts correspondent charlotte devinsky well we havent had very much from the police other than the fact that the perpetrator behind this attack has been arrested and now an investigation is underway into what the motives were behind that attack what we know from local reports as to what happened is that this took place in a coal mine just south of leone coal. And it took place at around 11 am local time here in france and we understand that the assailant was on the knife and he had it packed passes by in the center the old face coming and also according to reports went into some of the shops attacking customers and also the stuff inside those shops now we understand 2 people have been killed as a result of that attack and several others were injured including so. Some who are said to need Critical Conditions or in Critical Condition in hospital right now receiving treatment for their injuries we also know more details from local reports about the attacker we understand it was a Sudanese National who is an Asylum Seeker here in france and that he is said to be in kiev thirties we have heard from the interior minister here in france this is what Christopher Kastner had to say on twitter all my thoughts go to the victims of the attack at romance or is there and their relatives their ledge perpetrator was arrested by National Police the police and leon are mobilized under the authority of the Justice Department to stop was the nature of this horrific act and weve also had witness reports its been reported by local media that he shouted allah akbar while rushing towards his victims but that hasnt been confirmed by the police he has been arrested as i mentioned and the Counterterrorism Police are investigating but they havent taken over this investigation fully yet and it is too early for them to label this a potential terror attack. These are the latest figures in the covert 19 pandemic today billions of people are currently under some sort of lockdown but the number of coronavirus cases is still increasing there are now more than 1100000 registered infections more than 60000 have died but almost a quarter of a 1000000 people have recovered. A day in france which has now reported its deadliest day with frontline medical staff saying theyre exhausted and still on direct quipped hundreds of nurses are raising awareness about their lack of protection by photographing themselves without any clothes their symbolic Campaign Runs with the naked against coburg 191. 00 of the nurses involved ses the french governments putting Health Workers a deadly risk. Heres what our government has given us to fight the cold in 1000 as you can see we need a full range of necessary medical equipment so that we actually dont have to provide sufficient medical help for our patients and the risks for us as well as with the government and. We decided to before make it as part of this campaign because i thought to leave us naked in the face of the pandemic. For. Special highly speed trains for moving infected patients between cities thats to try and ease the burden on overwhelm facilities by transferring the sick to less crowded hospitals to fly on the show like it saves the countrys Health Care System has been in dire need of an overhaul for over a decade. The middle east i think our interests should be represented but nobody protects us on a governmental level it is not only the current government that bears responsibility for the situation we find ourselves right now frances Health Care System has been a dire conditions in a 15 or 20 years the 5th the 6th strong as european economy doesnt have the capability to take the necessary medical measures we have to understand that you have faced this choice this and youre pretty aware that this our reality is we have to choose which patients or treat. Just about every country is having a tough time trying to stay on top of infections in ecuador where there are particularly hard knowing stories emerging the country has more than 3000 factions 145 new and 50 talents hes and in one city there are reports that families are having to leave the bodies of the dead on the streets Health Services are struggling to cope but the government says it is building a special facility for corona virus victims there. My brother has just died due to a respiratory problem and hes here outside the house the police told me they can come and collect the body and i have to wait a day more the body lying here on the side and. You know what they. Were. Going to get 3 ready. But of course the big question is solution well a member of the british Science Group responsible from upping infections once the herd immunity weve heard so much about that strategy to be reconsidered lets go through what it actually would involve it would mean 60 percent of the population actually getting infected had been suggested a few weeks prior but it was abundant in the u. K. As hospitals rapidly fill up professor graeme medley says the locked on as it stands now is not an. This disease is so nasty that we had to suppress its completely then weve kind of painted ourselves into a corner because then the question will be what do we do now in broad terms are we going to continue to harm children to protect Vulnerable People or not if we carry on with the lock down it buys us more time we can get more thought into it but it doesnt resolve any think its a place holder the figures there are some of the worst globally britain has more than 38000 cases and more than 3 and a half 1000 people have died because of corona virus that is no more than the number of fatalities actually in china and its led to another trucking solution being floated by the Health Secretary who himself just recovered from the virus might hancocks looking at issuing immunity passports to people whove developed antibodies we are looking at munity certificate and how we can how how people who are not have had the disease have got the antibodies and therefore have immunity can show that and so get back as much as normal to as much as possible to normal life but its its too early in the science of the immunity that comes from having had the disease the problem right now though is that the u. K. Aus and year to prove their Antibody Test and Health Experts say its still not clear whether people actually without the bodies are truly immune to reinfection we discuss possible ways forward with british lawyer look at us a liberal Democrat Party politician helen belcher. There is no Antibody Test that is functional which has been currently developed and weve got 66000000 people in the country to try and test to get certificates for and naturally some of them will require retesting so the practicalities of this are impossible practicalities it difficult nonplaying know its going to be easy but it can be managed you know germany has implemented a system that which we are attempting to model and i think what we cant do is underestimate the economic damage of the entire population being on lockdown you know were seeing a 1000000 new claims for Social Security where youre going in this country going in suggesting people are losing their jobs feel as if theyre about to lose their jobs of course the government is not going to allow any system of testing that is certain but if we can get to a place where we let people return to work if they have the necessary antibodies if that is scientifically possible then in principle its something we absolutely have to support part of the governments strategy i think is to try and make sure that we flatten the curve as much as possible but were trying to do that at the moment without adequate testing a tool and so i would much rather government focused on getting the current tests out to everybody you need them and we need to concentrate on get solving that problem 1st rather than trying to design pie in the sky schemes around something that doesnt even exist yet carlyle that uncertainty to lull us into a state of complete inertia and i dont disagree that obviously p. P. Is an absolute significant priority but we also have to recognize that getting people back to work is a priority i think one of the problems with the government messaging so far has been not giving people a sense of the way out of this what were living with in the moment is a sort of indefinite state where people have no idea when theyre going to get back to that level of uncertainty is killing British Business and it stands to do a lot more damage than the virus itself or of saturdays big new stories coming your way in 90 seconds time stay with us. But Survival Guide books they send you to the store. You should. Get them back. Repatriations to get the rest in 7 years. Of the kaiser report. Micrograph arent sleights against you know whites are men for example theres their sites against women or nonwhites so its always 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 a political framework thats used the result is of course focusing at least on certain kinds of minor slights and saying more rather than ignored more than we need to call attention to them but its not all slight so its very political in this country. In fact with our t. International no oil prices have rallied for a glimmer of optimism and global feud over production prices tongue dried up because of krona virus but behind the scenes theres also been a raw cutting world supply weve got more in the aspect of things from correspondents. The oil sucked it was already in a precarious situation and thats only been wason by the spread of covert 19 but it seems that some leaders are trying to mitigate the fool out so on friday in a meeting with the countrys top Oil Executives russian president Vladimir Putin suggested that he be ready to cut Oil Production in a bid to try and revive the price collapse of carney at seeing an 18. 00 yet low price should grosser considers it necessary to join forces were not initiators of the consolation of the opec plus deal were ready for agreements with partners and we are ready for interaction with the United States in this issue but i think it is necessary to join efforts to balance the market and reduce production as a result of these coordinated efforts and actions. Also did specifically emphasize this they have to be a joint coordinated effort not a case where one or 2 countries make some sort of compromise and the others just sit back and really reap the rewards. Just when we are in close contact with our partners in saudi arabia recently i had a conversation with the United States president we all are concerned if youre developing situation everyone is interested in joining to and i would like to emphasize chlorinated actions for ensuring long term market stability. A couple of weeks ago and impasse started between the wild top Oil Producing nations and not exactly was slashing production so that saw prices plunge not was only wason when saudi arabia decided to essentially just open its tops and flood the market and that really caused chaos thats how we got to this moment but luckily it seems that the market is already responding quite well to this latest initiative from russia we saw in fact a record breaking percentage climb in oil prices so you stabilize ation measures will likely be the prime rate top. More top of the agenda after opec plus meeting and actually were getting reports that the majority of opec members do actually support cutting down on production the u. S. As the top the oil producer will also want to see this. Very quickly especially unfortunately its found itself in the terrible position of being a country in terms of the coronavirus pandemic. Just expanding a lot saskia was saying riyadh has blamed russia for the failure to agree on production cuts so be officials also refuted claims of intentionally trying to squeeze cheel Oil Producers earlier we discussed who might be responsible with the chief executive of Foreign Exchange brokerage 1st lets hear from an economist and political commentator so you are desperate they are almost bankrupt they have to pray or say they have a vast vast deficit they are running the government has so many expenses and they have not enough being done so they have to increase their own production to 7 and at any price the some playing mumbly for this most definitely and only russia is at the minute the only one who is proud and who is so supply tries to get everybody back to the table and makes good not only good d suggestions they are even willing to cut their own production even though they need the money to do i can say with confidence but you really need a ph d. When. You do production in order to say harm or ethical or the other. Ground to the kind of. Of discounts well that goes without saying it gets a lot of pressure on the on the on the project hes already losing money they are kept on. Life subsistence probably with some subsidizing their suffering a lot and most probably will have to cut. On you know on the expenses theyre doing that means also impacting even more on the same climate site. Maybe not the bankruptcy situation but if it holds it could become quite. And living away from corona virus the u. S. Has announced the launch of a mustard and t. Narcotics operation in the current bin thats after washington charged the venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro over Drug Trafficking r t s caleb maupin has more in. The age old american war on drugs has taken a rather interesting new turn we must not let the drug cartels exploit the pandemic to threaten american lives there is an armada of ships now headed to the caribbean to fight against drug cartels today the United States is launching. Enhanced counter narcotics operations in the western hemisphere were deploying Additional Navy destroyers combat ships aircraft and helicopters coast guard cutters and air force Surveillance Aircraft doubling our capabilities in the region so theyre headed to mexico or colombia to smoke out the narco gangs well actually no theyre headed for venezuela thats a country with a socialist government that has long been a target in u. S. Regime change operations is it really. A tyrant who brutalizes his people but matures grip and tyranny will be smashed and broken the longer that Nicolas Maduro hangs on to power the deeper the misery of the venezuelan people washington now wants us to believe that the former bus driver and now elected marxist computer as a side job as a drug king can corrupt actors like the illegitimate majority of in venezuela rely on the profits derived from the sub narcotics to maintain their oppressive hold on power the venezuelan people continue to suffer tremendously you know a door as criminal control over the country the u. S. Department of justice has accused nicholas in the dural of being a narco terrorist and conspiring to flood the United States with cocaine now this comes just days after the United States offered to lift crippling sanctions on venezuela if they will agree to a power sharing agreement with the american backed opposition however marco rubio has been quite vocal about what the ultimate end game is and its not do will power. If you have just been indicted for narcotics trafficking and have a 15000000. 00 reward for your capture having south com conducting counternarcotics operations off your coast with a surge of destroyers a walks an army brigade and special operators is not very comforting whats very clear is that a nicholas mogul. Who will job is. Any revolutionary leadership any its an imperialist leadership the United States is going to reject and theyre going to do everything they can to overthrow this leadership it looks like a distraction smoke and mirrors as it were because with this incredible in measurable unprecedented crisis at home with this pandemic how can they be so far sighted we cant even see it was going to happen in the next few weeks with. The coronavirus how can they be so far sighted to play in the quote unquote future that is what the department of justice has put forward very much evidence to back up their claims against madeira lets not forget that a series of damning revelations from the 1980 s. Reveal that certain government officials were conspiring to flood the United States with cocaine however lets remember that those government officials were a lot closer to home and love muffin artsy new york a lot as the stories are shaping up this summer day or every year tuning in to us from across the globe we hope youre not too inconvenienced by coronavirus restrictions and we do appreciate your choosing else for your news update if youre staying at home do stay at home with r t i mean in a season. Im going to fulfill the repeated promises of politics to the people and tom i said you know weve all bots. Basically praying for a. Pretty good bertha now you want to 1st correct that. You know. Call me cut. My yaar. Hey im max kaiser this is the kaiser report lockdown 2nd month of lockdown finding a lockdown was great i would have done a lot sooner this is really a fabulous stacie one thing were learning through this process of lockdown is the supply chain and distribution and the problem of distribution and the problem with distribution on agricultural goods and facemasks and personal protection a quick man on lysol wipes and things like that has made me really think of the Monetary System and the problems with distribution in the Monetary System because as you know one of the Solutions Offered for the covert 1000 pandemic is that were going to print chileans and trillions and trillions of dollars even more trillions so weve printed for the 2008 crisis well here we have seen carstens hes the former head of the bank of International Settlements and we prince tweets about him Central Bank Interventions to quell the crisis need to reach the individuals and businesses who are all tamale affected the last mile of this channel is not yet in place and needs to be bridged urgently so hes talking about these trillions of dollars are going to be handed to the same banks they got that in 2008 j. P. Morgans of the world Citibank Bank of america all that stuff but the problem is especially in the situation its not those big banks that are having a liquidity crisis as it was back then or credit crisis or credit crunch its these small and Medium Sized Enterprises that operate all the goods and services and deliver all those goods and services that theyre the ones that are in trouble at the moment you know the last mile distribution in terms of money the former