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Place for joining us here with your global news update this is art. Lets start with the latest figures on the covidien 1900 pandemic more than 2300000 cases of now being confirmed worldwide at least 161000 people have died in the heist in the United States and more than 606000 people have recovered from the virus. Orthodox christians around the world are celebrating Easter Sunday but for most going to church is not an option this year because of the pandemic so in Russia Services are being live streamed the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch kirill has urged people to stay at home and pride led an overnight vigil at the cathedral of christ the savior in moscow attended by just a small group of clergy traditionally thousands would gather there to light candles from the holy fire flown in from jerusalem in the Russian Orthodox church is given some recommendations on how to bless the traditional easter cake while at home and president Vladimir Putin sent out his east agreed with them to the present but which it was lugar these east to celebrate ins are happening at a time of restrictions when theyre necessary to battle the disease known around the world we are closely analyzing the experience of other countries to understand the situation and see the risks and assess what to do in any scenario if we will do all that is necessary to stop the pandemic there is no doubt that rush will make it through these challenges with dignity im happy easter stay happy and healthy in russia 361 people have lost their lives to corona virus and there are almost 43000 infections the majority occurring in moscow this week the city rolled out a digital past scheme to ensure that people only use transportation for the most essential purposes after some early setbacks the system is now fully automated teller has more. Bespeaks saw a few changes in the way russia is fighting with the creative Virus Outbreak on wednesday a new pasta stone was rolled out right here in moscow brought to teach you limit to Peoples Movement around the city and thats going to remain in force until at least the 1st of may now i can show you this one here is my its got my name its got my possible data its also got my employers information and the most important thing is the possible code right there i talk and i need this to get to watch child from a taxi from pretty much to go anywhere other than to throw out the rubbish walk the dog go to my supermarket or my local pharmacy but there were a few teething problems at the beginning the site you register on crashed because of piet tomatoes and in the past a bit they came into force they appeared to do more harm than good. Its not surprising that initially the reaction to the pasta was a bit mixed with whom can i curse or not this doesnt make sense but also in that everyone is a know what all they say is usually do it right now and never once started to plan for passes and the server crashed yeah the impulse but its idiotic these kind of what those cannot so its not a quarantine at all these are the right measures and should be strictly implemented but they must remain reasonable so the problem that was still there was that each and every pub was physically being checked by the authorities obviously creating crowds but from next wednesday the system will become 30 automated youll have to link up the metro card to a travel permit online and if you havent done that the barriers in the magic just way open and you wont be and out through much more efficient now a similar formal streamlined system has also been created because we heard stories here of people waiting for hours to get that documents checked but now the cameras will be scanning to see which victims have the right. And which dont now another big announcement this week was the perspiring of the night of may that is the annual victory day parade along with new yeah it is possibly the most highly anticipated event in the russian calendar so a bit of disappointment especially as this year was going to be an extra special about as it marks 75 years since the defeat of fascism but a large gathering of people especially while the 2 factions who are in the out risk category was something the russian president said was simply not justified at this point i ordered to change the postpone the rehearsal for the military march on red square and postpone all of the Mass Gatherings to celebrate 75 years since the great victory we have been promised the event will be held in 2020 just at a later date either in the summer event or something so those are just some of the key decisions that were made in russia this week was seeing how it started to dealing with 19 and various ways to try to keep the country safe so we can all return to normality as quickly as possible pharmaceutical firms worldwide are working flat out to develop vaccines and treatments for covert 19 and in russia patients who have recovered hoping doctors by donating the blood plasma with antibodies for transfusions or the 1st donors how it works. I became a donor 2 weeks after i was discharged from hospital as far as i know there was the time when the concentration of fan type bodies in my blood had reached its peak i received a call from the hospital and they asked if they could pass my personal data to another medical institution then a team of medics from the kloof i saw schemes to cheat came to take my blood for testing 4 days after i learned the results were good enough to be a donor. The procedure itself is rather simple and takes about an hour during this time youre surrounded by medics who are monitoring your condition its not scary its fast and causes no were losing sleep in consciousness anyone who came through this conveyed infection could do the same it was said my plans might help 2 or 3 people who are about to be put on ventilators but. I did ask if youd better put on a medical mask yourself and then see people Wearing Masks and hazmat suits around you for a month you shouldnt think this wont happen to you i thought i was immune to this disease because i hadnt been ill for 13 years but it happened anyway its better to stay at home for a month or 2 than stay in a great forever. United states is registered 139000 deaths from cove and 19 according to official data at least 27. 00 doctors and nurses have also died from the virus but media reports quote much higher numbers of the medics have taken to the streets there blaming the government for the severe shortage of protective equipment. Why do you want to leave me. With all this rally took place outside a hospital in new york which has been devastated by the pandemic now ticks were carrying signs that demanded urgent tanks and to get supplies of personal protective equipment to where its needed the states death toll now stands at more than 17000 and emotions here boiled over with nurses saying theyre risking their lives due to governments incompetence. Some just. Have. What we need. So i just dont know why us then dammit if you do let us. Work. I wonder. Lets think about the fact that the mount sinai bosses right now are in their mansions in florida while their nurses a dying because they cant get the proper v. P. And they just dont give a damn they dont care about our lives the loaded the gun they played russian roulette with working people and with training the consequence. Aside from the lack of protective equipment medics in the us say that the Health Insurance system is also putting peoples lives at risk a post by a nurse and he says his status being widely shared on facebook during smith recalled the final words that he heard from a patient who was put onto a ventilator the words whos going to pay for it the nurse spoke with r. T. It was really sad because someone who is you know potentially going to die in the last thing you should be worried about is how to pay for their health care its speaks to a misallocation of you know we have almost endless Discretionary Spending for militarism. We recently just you know injected 1. 00 trillion dollars into the stock market you know just that knows that there are but when it comes to health care you know the constant question is whos going to pay for it which is the same question as the patient ironically. And you know it just shows where the priorities are i dont know that its necessary to have a multibillion dollar annual military budget you know which with our legit department of defense where i think the real honest effort to defend would be with providing care for our citizens especially with the amount of people that just lost their insurance thats type of their employment as you know a lot of people just lost their jobs with this pandemic so. France has one of the worlds strictest lock downs with hefty fines for those who break the rules speaking earlier in the week the countrys president said that the measures will have to be extended until may 11th so far 19000 people have died from coronavirus in front of them either my call admitted mistakes have been made. It to demean it doesnt commit the epidemic is still not under control we need to continue to make every effort to try and stem the spread of this virus because the more we do that the more we will be able to save lives oh. Yes it is so who are we prepared for this crisis well i think the answer would be no if we werent but we have to admit our errors we made difficult decisions when dealing with incomplete information changing information about the virus. On the containment measures of a heavy blow to the French Economy with restaurants and cafes out of action many owners say they wont have the finances to reopen once the pandemic is over meanwhile president mantra is calling for schools to resume normal activity mid may many teachers though think that that move would be premature reports schools could start to reopen from may 11th that was the announcement from president Matt Groening prompting a wave of criticism not just from teachers but doctors too this choice reveals an absolute lack of logic it is very difficult in a School Environment to enforce social distancing measures and now the 1st environment that the president wants to reopen is the School Environment how does it no longer carry the same risks. Well the federation of french doctors says its worried the target date could generate an unnecessary risk and is premature children do not necessarily follow instructions they will naturally play together and risk bringing the virus home that criticism seems shock but perhaps given that almost in the same breath mark or announce that restaurants bars cinemas and museums would not be reopening until further notice thats left some teachers groups reeling. Who are we going to return with Young Children and adults packing the small classrooms 20 square metres maximum the School Cafeterias a crammed with 500 people inside its completely incoherent to leave bars and restaurants closed because of 20 people here at the same time open a school with some 5021500 students one of macro given reasons for reopening schools gradually was to fight against social inequality hold off on that amount only to many children notably in poorer areas in the countryside are deprived of School Without access to digital tools. Since schools closed in march teachers have few educating their students online there have been Public Television Services Broadcasting lessons to the nation yet despite these new concerns from the government about students for ling behind the Education Minister genre show blanca recently advised that they should take a break the easter holidays the one Teaching Union there is a clearer motivation behind the return to school we have the impression that we are being 1st in the auto of the economy it seems like the school is being used to the big Childcare Service so that mom and dad can go back to work thats also the belief of the teaching collective. The red pens. This is an irresponsible decision driven by economic interests life is more Important Health is more important than the economy. The red pens also say there needs to be a concrete plan to protect not just those who work in schools but the peoples to. Get what we are waiting for is a more viable situation mass testing including immunity tests mosques in large quantities and although i wont be ready in 26. 00 days its impossible a full plan hasnt yet been formulated about how schools will reopen schools will though be disinfected and full classrooms will be out of the question thats according to frances Education Minister. But for many teachers the devil will be in the details will they get facemasks how will they enforce any social distancing that still mandated and it says longer says the return will not be obligatory how can 2 the government be sure that the most deprived students well actually come back to the classroom. Altie paris. More than a 1000 sailors on board a french Aircraft Carrier have tested positive for covert 19 sharda goal is docked off the countrys south coast and its not the only nato ship to suffer an outbreak. Of the. Response the rest of sailors lives the nato secretary general believes that the real danger lies elsewhere against altenburg is accused adversaries including russia of trying to exploit the pandemic security challenges have not diminished because of called with 19 on the contrary potential adversaries look to exploit the situation to further their own interests terrorist groups could be emboldened we see a continued peso Russian Military activity all were operational readiness remains under ministry and our forces remain vigilant and prepared to respond to in the thirtys we spoke with a retired u. S. Air force Lieutenant Colonel who thinks that france should have learned from americas recent experience of an on board outbreak. The group that is most sickened by this is not normally the age group of soldiers or an ornate the servicemen so you know its not that dangerous per se like in terms of life and death but in terms of Operational Capability yet its a bad thing because if a 3rd of your crew is sick and not functional and your ship is not functional well youd like to think that social distancing and things like that could work with those things are not going to be possible on a close quarters ship of any type i actually am surprised that the navy doesnt seem to have reacted and learned from that type of situation because we had that months ago and we can see how it was handled and also what the vulnerabilities were very much a bureaucratic response as opposed to real leadership it seems a little too little too late. To come this hour while americas death toll spirals the New York Times has turned this far into russia saying kremlin propaganda is making the pandemic that worse story more after the break. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on often scary Dramatic Development only really im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. The world is driven by shape. Thinks. We are here to ask. Welcome back the New York Times is accusing russias president of personally helping to spread covert 19 in america according to the paper kremlin propagandists of done by discrediting the American Healthcare system and you correspondent brian gets the it takes a closer look. Nowhere in the world is it as bad as in america a quarter of the worlds confirmed infected are in the states the economys on the brink of ruin millions fighting in employment someone has to take the blame preferably someone far we want to look into the World Health Organization because they really are. They called it wrong they call it wrong they really they missed a call blame the World Health Organization blame the chinese blame conspiracies and of course blame russia the decade of Health Information promoted by president Vladimir Putin of russia has certain white confusion hoods major institutions and encourage the spread of deadly illnesses the New York Times lies right off the bat there is no widespread confusion in fact Americans Trust in scientists and doctors has grown yeah off the year according to pew research a record 9 in 10 Americans Trust scientists and doctors and less than half of Americans Trust the media or the New York Times apparently for good reason experts fear that it will foster public cynicism that erodes washingtons influence as well as the core democratic value of relying on demonstrably facts as a basis for Decision Making the facts as follows in january it was the New York Times that misled and misinformed potentially millions of americans about the pandemic telling them its nothing to worry about and that the flu kills more people reaching an audience is far greater than any russian bought Network Given the checkered history of coron teens throughout history theyve been used to persecute the marginalized lawmakers in the media should rigorously examine the bases for any such restrictions. Trump followed the advice he read in the New York Times. Delaying almost every measure against the virus from mass quarantine to International Travel restrictions to the last moment a device that has potentially could tributed to the deaths of thousands of americans sure they apologized and admitted to being wrong but it was too late mr putin has worked hard to encourage americans to see vaccinations as dangerous and federal Health Officials as malevolent and here we thought it was a matter of Public Knowledge that the United States is the capital of the worlds Vaccine Movement a movement that was birthed not by putin the k. G. B. But by a british position who were really nice leaning vaccines to autism the alleged autism vaccine connection is perhaps the most damaging medical 100 years even today masses in the United States refuse vaccinations because of the 998. Reason it snowballed this because the media gave a Controversial Research paper ad side including the New York Times which gave a platform for conspiracy theorist and vax to speak the spite the overwhelming majority of the Scientific Community insisting it was nonsense it is absurd to accuse the n. Y. T. Of helping birth the anti Vaccine Movement 20 years ago but for some reason its ok for the New York Times to accuse others of spreading simulate this information the russian president has waged his Long Campaign by means of open media secretive trolls and shadowy blogs the regularly cost american Health Officials as patronize ing frauds putin didnt put a trash bag on that nurse when american c. Then says dressed in trash bags they lose faith in their system in their leadership because their leaders who failed them not because putin said so everybody involved. If we are centuries to start we deserve the right protection to be in that environment that is in the little bit 90 look at all the charlatans the bloggers the televangelists who are being watched by millions of americans is that putin to say is he behind americas faith based medicine. Only. On you. Was it putin or american politicians who cut funding for counter pandemic programs was it russian boortz who urged americas elderly to sacrifice themselves so the economy could keep running i think all of my my fellow grandparents out there are going to be smart we all want to live we want to live with our grandchildren as long as we can but the point is our biggest but our biggest gifts we give to our our country and our children and our grandchildren is the legacy of our country we can go on and on about how American Media and politicians bungled this pandemic caused untold suffering but instead will end with this quote from the New York Times itself it is worth remembering that disease where the fear of disease can bring out the worst in humanity and demick so often feet scapegoating jews were widely blamed for the black death creating a fertile field for demagogues. Difference this time its polluted. Now the way we personally greet each other could be about to change forever as one of americas most prominent experts on Infectious Diseases suggests that will give handshakes the album thats being planned the stopping the centuries old tradition with not only prevent the spread of corona virus but also perhaps the common cold. I dont think we should ever shake hands ever again to be honest with you not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country. My colleague kunin anneal spoke with 3 sociologists about the likely changes to everyday habits after the pandemic if it was somehow universally adopted out how big a difference would it make you know a sense what what what was being promoted in the name of health is actually the erosion of human contact and human solidarity and it seems to me that if you begin to medicalize human relationships and contacts into is being suggested it simply makes the divisions and the tension that already exists so much more difficult to bear i think thats something we should very strongly oppose and that is that a lot of people are talking about now and i watch television and i see people very close to each other there are strangers talking to each other or people shaking hands and they get their disgusted i feel like thats quite unsettling this is a class pandemic that is several billions of poor people around the world crowded in quarters of the worlds megacities theyre forced to do jobs that involve physical contact and close proximity to others they have no other choice social isolation is a privilege for those that dont have to either face work in close proximity or die of starvation in the future after the pandemic is over such things as no longer handshaking were having physical contacts not an option for several billions of peoples around the world how easy do you think it will be after being told for so long to move away you know social distancing isolation supermarket rushing how do you expect the public to react when when the measures are lifted as this as the measures begin to recede hopefully we will see ourselves going back i think older forms of social contact the proportion of global humanity is going to be more cautious theres going to be of course the psychological trauma of having emerged from this pandemic but again i see the world from the viewpoint of thats 34b5b that are the most outcast and the most downtrodden and their secondary concern is shaking hands. Physical presently there 1st is that still going to be daily survival in this in stream leon equal Global Society that we live in where the pandemic has done is that its created a 2 tier system it made it even more rigid many respects what a pandemic has really done is reinforce trends theyre already exist in existence in the economy prior to that plate accelerated it intensified it and in that sense divisions and differences in lifestyle are going to become even more pronounced what happens now are we still helping to be monitored cut it encourage people to test niche on each other to the authorities whats your take is the next stage in exchanging our freedoms for security which is basically to make our private lives negotiable and i have a little bit worried in the way in which theres all this stock work governments into using these new apps that will monitor us but it does seem to me that it does give enormous power over to the authorities and my understanding of Human History is that whenever you get over your freedoms the authorities did let us go back to you there is a very potentially quite a quite a difficult situation coming up as far as question of freedom is concerned. 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