A chance to pet that animals remotely our correspondent gave it a try because its not. Just. A very warm welcome from all of us here in moscow this is r. T. International with me nicky aaron well lets begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the Global Pandemic is still raging with 2700000 cases now confirmed and the number of fate toiletries has surpassed 191000 but over 750000 people have recovered. Well current a virus that isnt the only thing that spreading during this pandemic conspiracy theories about the origins of covert 19 have swung to the internet more pay looks at why they gaining so much traction. The coronavirus pandemic is opening up weird new horizons for online conspiracy theorists the virus was bioengineered in a lab by scientists to be used as a weapon or a form of population control this is a theory the form of politician Bronwyn Bishop has also suggested it is to get rid of nonproductive chinese in the Chinese Community in the words of george that is who should be eliminated. So they dont have to be free but its getting beyond just talk hashtags dont your hospital is saying that the corona virus is just a big hoax and urging people to come out of lockdown nothing going on here not burn up and go on armed. Chanting sound. Things are starting to get frightening to as individuals who believe these ideas take action neo nazis and White Supremacists capitalized on the lists and publish them aggressively across their values using the data far and extremist who are calling for Harassment Campaign while sharing conspiracy theories about the coronavirus the damage someone dumped thousands of personal email addresses and passwords online now the information allegedly belongs to people working to fight against the pandemic people working with the Gates Foundation the National Institutes of health the centers for Disease Control the World Health Organization and yes even the will Hunt Institute of uralla the distribution of this alleged email credentials or just another part of a months Long Initiative across the far right to weaponize decode the 1900. 90 s. Certainly cannot blame anyone for people believing can see. Seriously theories but the fact that the white house has latched on to their ideas is certainly not helping at this point weve got the white house encouraging distrust of a vital International Body thats working against the pandemic had the w. H. O. Done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out chinas lack of transparency the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death we still dont have the transparency and openness we need in china and it is the World Health Organizations responsibility to achieve that transparency theyre not doing it they need to be held accountable and now the World Health Organization has been targeted as has the one lap top u. S. Brass continue to insist could have possibly been a source of the pandemic we know that there is there was an institute of oil that just a handful of miles away from where the wet market was there still lots to learn you should know that the United States government is working diligently to figure this out amid the fear and uncertainty its human nature to pursue opportunities but whats needed now is global togetherness in the face of the pandemic not naysayers chancers and governments weaponized martin r. T. New york privacy concerns are being aggravated as governments try to tackle the pandemic and even the bulletin we look at now take jayantha cufflinks of the european faked the over the web Data Collected by new Contact Tracing apps a big cap on people flock phones all in date 30th story still to come. While the u. K. Is enjoying a spell of sunny weather ordinarily a welcome thing but now its a concern as people visit parks and beaches flouting the nationwide lockdown has arties a study at woodstock city with more. Britain is by no means out of the danger zone but despite that as you say the u. K. Is witnessing a growing number of people have been caught out in about breaking these lockdown measures that of course of the been in place now for well over a month and that really is the concern Going Forward as the weeks all turning into months people of feeling isolated and cooped up plus quite crucially at this stage the weather is significantly improving across the United Kingdom we are witnessing some of the hottest days of the year quite up in normal and uncharacteristic for what is usually quite rainy days in this april season but its sunny and we are now seeing many people are yet again in these lockdown measures now these breaches actually come as the death toll remains quite high across the United Kingdom the latest figures show that the numbers have cling to the 20000 mark just in the last 24 hours alone weve seen 616 deaths now as we know in the United Kingdom the governments policy has always been led by the medical experts and the science experts all know who say that if we relax these measures too much too soon we could even see a resurgence in this virus in fact a leading government science expects even anticipates that social distancing you know that to meet its distance will have to remain in place indefinitely until a vaccine is found available in the long run the exit from this is going to be one of 2 things ideally one of which is a highly effective vaccine in the variety of ways vaccines can be deployed or and or highly effective drugs so that people stop dying of this disease into we have those and the probability of having those anytime in the next calendar year incredibly small and i think we should be realistic about that and were going to have to rely on other social measures. Well while maintaining a distance might all be well and good Opposition Party leaders think the United Kingdoms response has been actually quite frankly too little too late that comes amid as i already mentioned. Persistent reports of a lack of preventative equipment to staff at hospitals and care homes testing or not enough transparency in what happens next what does the future look like person these are really serious and very pressing issues for many people across the United Kingdom and the Opposition Leader the new Opposition Leader secure starman last a scathing attack on the government saying somethings going very wrong indeed with the governments policy and somethings going wrong with the supply divergent here we were slowed to look slow and tested slower protective equipment are now slow to take up these offers from british curbs. Well one of the biggest issues a stomach mentioned there is this lack of testing for the virus that dominick whos the foreign secretary of course the man standing in the forest johnson you know he himself is fighting off 19 well he has denied that the government has been too slow and even insisted that he was confident the government reached the target of 100000 tests a day by the end of this month which is by the way selfimposed deadline but as we have ever closer to the end of the month in fact its just less than a week away that seems really really way off the United Kingdom a president who only has a capacity to 40000 test a day just over half of that number actually being carried out latest figures just around trips 2000 so were still around 80000 shy so it really does seem highly likely that that target will be missed now as we know all of the effects of this virus having to stress that impact also on the economy now the bank of england warns actually of one contraction in centuries its of course no surprise that kinetic activity has been completely ground to a halt but the key question is how does the United Kingdom recover not just financially but physically as well. A Record Number of americans have filed for Unemployment Benefits in the last week that has over 3000000 lost their jobs since the outbreak of coronavirus almost 30000000 people in the u. S. Have signed on and its this number will keep soaring in the coming week despite the government dumping up funds to help businesses retains darth but the u. S. Senate majority leader has questioned additional spending on benefits pointing out that it would add to Americas National debt. Well thats what it is very carefully because the future of our country and terms of the amount of debt there were you know is a matter of genuine concern what youre seeing is the worst collapse of capitalism in the United States since the Great Depression of the 1930 s. In the United States and in most other countries Political Leadership sailed to prepare in the same way that they failed to prepare for the coronavirus and so now we have 2 crises on top of one another an unprepared for viral pandemic and an unprepared for capitalist downturn because the downturn is worse since it took 10 or 11 years and because we have this virus it is it extreme collapse of capitalism and no one at this point can tell you clearly how bad it will get or how long it will last the federal Budget Committee says u. S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is concerns over debt and has predicted that the National Debt could potentially suppose post world war 2 records the u. S. Treasury secretary is adamant though that the trumpet ministration will spend whatever it takes economists Richard Wolffe again ses government is the only force that can solve the Current Crisis but is being held back. We now have somewhere between 27 and 30000000 people unemployed that is by the way a serious on do it kind of point the only thing would be a massive intervention by the state by the government to try to do that no other social source exists in the western capitalist parts of the world but probably anywhere other than the government and here then is the problem the government is controlled in the United States and in most other parts of the capitalist world by the private capital is sector and they dont want the government to take steps that threatens their control saw the government cant do. With lockdown taking its toll and many are in need of creature comforts what better then that a group of friendly alpacas as Matthew Taylor find out. So its friday. Why the way its quarantine days 795 full disclosure im a big animal fan i pretty much only subscribe to top new accounts on instagram animals are amazing because theyre loving theyre entertaining and they help to reduce anxiety and depression and lets be honest be cooped up for weeks on end in south isolation is sentenced some People Stress levels through the roof now i dont have a pet to help me through tough times but i found the next best thing i was actually is all those who are giving you a screen time with your favorite farmyard creatures all she has managed donkeys goats cows pigs you name it you consume other price why office he did my research and a killer animal caught my eye i give you. The humble alpaca. Ability to work. More to success im not that much interaction with benny one for several weeks alls like this have been a huge hit hundreds of animals have already crashed Conference Calls and online casters because thats fun big break up the monotony of coron too much and they never spirits but crucially lifeline of his trucking business serves unlike restaurants or museums places like zoos cant just shut the doors and wait for this all to end they have mouths to feed and out of those are expensive they need food Veterinary Care as well as constant attention. Blondel we work according to the plan but without visitors it makes it difficult because when people come it helps us to move forward both financially and in other directions. Because of what attracts people to our farm people come they watch and talk with the animals and go to our store where they can buy our products its all linked to each other all together it brings as income d with no revenues from visitors susan johnny for example have appealed for public donations and of asking for a 100000000 euro bailout from the government the situation is so dire that one still in the north of the country said in a worst Case Scenario it might have to feed animals to each other because of the financial pressure india the alpaca farmer says hes trying to be proactive and use this time off wisely but it man. Others will not come out of this crisis quite as well. If you take off farm for example and we have a relatively good situation the land is our property and despite the fact that there are no visitors we use this time to repair or build something new people who rent their territories they physically have nothing to do or improve there they are in a worse situation maybe some will even close i feel sorry for the animals we have the opportunity to stay with them all the time while others for example in zoos cannot so maybe next time you have a spare moment pick an animal any animal not going to soon and then to medical business a helping hand im just feeling the stress fade away and if you dont think you can handle an alpaca want to might not far from one that make a potty out of a. Plant well stories coming up after this break. I mean. Is that once you got infected then youd get a nice word for any response and so that. It was softly protects you against reinfection or trying to and with this new crown of ours is that its a very calm case in training in many patients get mild disease any antibodies. Seem wrong why dont we all just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out these days you cant educate and indeed from an equal trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Welcome back muslims around the world are going to celebrate the holy month of ramadan in isolation with most most closed religious Services Suspended muslims on able to participate in traditional mass pres earlier i spoke to atis more i guess you have about how typical ramadan practices have been adopted during the pandemic. This is the 1st day of a ramadan that is unlike any other unlike anything that muslims expected this is a very difficult time ramadan and the locked out. With public gatherings bandaging ramadan including communal prayers speeches and so on remember to continue your prayers and devotions in self isolation you might think that ramadan is an individual thing that you could be fast by yourself at 0 but in fact ramadan is its a very social thing theres a huge aspect of it that is community that is social that is your neighbors and your family for example families wake up together to pray in the morning to eat that for a very difficult day at the end of that day they get together with the entire communities entire towns and they celebrate they eat they pray they they they said this is you know a long and difficult 100 day food at last people have been deprived the social aspect for now theres also a whole host of things the things that muslims stay away from so for the to the generation of the toss while the sun is up people refrain from entertainment various forms of entertainment and on top of that theres all the other challenges theres the quarantine theres millions of people who dont have enough money who dont live in a country where the government can give them money to stay in self isolation for a month people facing very difficult challenges we must accept ramadan as a test sent to us by allah we lived and sometimes forgot about who gave us hope life well being and work today there is an opportunity to think to look at the past and into the future again muslims are a quarter of the worlds population and for the next month. Many of them will be exhausted as a whole host of medical arguments here to be made whether whether you know some people should be exempt others should add and they are they are religious leaders and leaders of muslim nations are exempting nurses for example medical staff doctors from the fuss because theyre working in incredibly stressful conditions especially now theyre wearing full personal Protection Equipment eat is very difficult work they have a new room that sarah no room to make mistakes and theyre being exempt from the fast if a doctor asks a person not to fast as it might affect his immunity then the person has the right not to fostering ramadan workers in the Health Sector also have the islamic right to choose not to fostering their record days obviously muslims around the world to the voice that they will abide by 3 least one of the 5 pillars of islam the month of ramadan but this is going to be a very different and a very difficult month for many. The u. N. Warns that the corona Virus Outbreak could trigger another global disaster a hunger pandemic of biblical proportions the situation is already dying some 135000000 people are facing crisis levels of hunger and the u. N. Says that the number could double because of covert 19 we spoke to the uns special report on the right to food she told us more about the end folding food catastrophe. Worked here curse it was such a Global Pandemic to come but how to emergency that syrias. Could emergency of course some countries that are major staple to explore terrorists like us russia and china have significant stocks. Actually importers come to serve such a comfortable position there thats a theres going to be the serious some or some countries. Now as of 2 times end of 200120200 1000000 people are severely with insecurity in basically a purely country is a. Real major this will be done and maybe it will not or maybe it will mark sort of if we are in the. Uncharted territory yet about actually there it came in at a time and there was a lot of my problem there was no who took on iran there was no significant. Really to be hairy now because of lie down and more militaristic and today they are mostly relying on Global Supply chain and almost all countries are planning on imports from port and or even inside of the country systems are dependent on transportation from crime to take. Around the street. Prices go up through the. Market. And move to put in securities starts. European nations led by germany are pushing for corona virus tracing apps to be rolled out the system is aimed at containing the spread of the disease by alerting users if theyve been in contact with infected people apple and google are developing the app but berlin and paris are unhappy with it because apples Privacy Policy wont let them access users personal data theyve asked the tech giants to resolve the issue and thereby speed up the rollout of the app across europe one place where Contact Tracing has already proved successful in stemming the spread of covert 19 is thing a poor. Get peace of mind for you and your family to communities in context recently traced together helps contact traces notify you more quickly if you had close contact with a target 90 with a road not killed the person. Or data handling has been at the core of the dispute between governments and the tech giants germany and others have opted for a centralized approach meaning that the registered data will be stored on a government run server but apple and google insist on keeping Sensitive Data on private devices and meanwhile scientists from around the world have warned that Contact Tracing ups can be exploited to keep tabs on people. We are concerned that some solutions to the crisis may via Mission Creep result in systems which would allow on president its surveillance of society at large. Social media lawyer cohen told us there is a risk that Contact Tracing will continue was the crisis is over. The real dispute is about how mobile telephone telefon going to communicate with each other and the who will be able to obtain in my day we can store or delete contacts these things is that once technology is there once did you think of the vault and you can actually put it back in the centralized government to be able to trace movement of people into schools misuse the technology. To find out what people over there are up to this is how someone might be using the information for political advantage is. A special platform to inform on people violating the lockdown in new york has been suspended and i thought it was bombarded with names and prank posts. And now its as simple as taking a photo all youve got to do is take the photo and put the location with it and bang send a photo like this and we will make sure that in force from comes right away comrade citizen reports all suspected anti distancing activities to a friend the new York Ministry of social cleanliness. 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