Live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight on r. T. International with you welcome to the program. And lets begin with the latest figures on covert 19 Global Pandemic is a new month those confirmed coronavirus cases are still soaring. 3 and a half 1000000 there is some hope that 1100000 have recovered the grim number you can see there fatalities more than 247000. Now nearly half of all workers across the globe are at risk of losing their jobs thats the stark warning from u. N. Experts although this crisis has been provoked by a covert known team directly but explains why the labor market was already under threat. The jobs of 1600000 people are in jeopardy due to coated 1000 lockdowns around the world hours have been cut incomes have decreased unemployment is rising but the problems did not start with the pandemic for millions of workers knowing come means no food no security and no future millions of businesses around the world are barely breathing they have no savings or access to credit. The International Labor organization points out that roughly half of the Global Workforce has a precarious existence where their livelihoods their access to food and health care and other necessities of life can be cut off at any moment due to problems in the market they often have poor access to Health Care Services and have no income replacement in case of sickness or look down many of them have no possibility to work remotely from home staying home means losing their jobs and without wages they cannot eat 2 to 3300000000 people function within whats referred to as the informal economy they are self employed or they have short Term Contracts their wages have decreased by roughly 60 percent during the 1st month of the pandemic for them the pandemic is not just a time to stay home and relax they have very real fears about how they are going to pay their bills as the International Labor organization predicts massive losses in income are ahead for them then terms of the economic and social effects of this and demi it discriminates massively and above hold it discriminates against those who are at the bottom end of the world or for those who dont have protection those who dont have the sole says those who dont have recourse to the types of things that we regard as you send chills of a normal life not everyone is in the same boat amid the pandemic a new study shows that the 500. 00 plus us billionaires have seen their combined well surge by roughly 282000000000. 00 with 8 of them gaining a 1000000000 dollars each since the beginning of the year meanwhile the weekly jobless claims keep rising and rising with roughly 30000000. 00 of them in the last 6 weeks gallup poll shows that one in 7 americans would avoid seeking medical treatments if they had some key symptoms of coded 19 fever and dry cough because theyre afraid of medical costs. And it gets worse when framed explicitly is believing to have been affected by the Novel Coronavirus 9 percent still report that they would avoid seeking care adults under 30 nonwhites those with a High School Education or less and those in households with incomes under 40000. 00 per year how the groups most likely to indicate they would avoid seeking out cap the crisis in the economy is taking on the identity of its own i would argue and its not just now being driven by whats happening with the virus slowdown that was really quite obvious in the us in advanced economies you could see it in the commodity producing economies especially oil that was already slowing down the price was already decrying you could see it the global trade which was barely growing global g. D. P. That was slowing so you know the process was already underway and it probably would have. Unravelled in a much slower way and clearly though the virus of precipitated in the acceleration of the contraction it clearly does discriminate it is hitting the working class harder and certain segments of the working class even even harder while there may not be many big parades with red flags this mating it seems that the pandemic has made it apparent many of the issues that working class organizations have been trying to highlight for so long it will come up and r. T. New york. The World Health Organization has warned against issuing immunity passport saying theres no solid proof yet that recovery from the disease would prevent a 2nd infection plans being widely discussed particularly in europe with croatias tourism minister claiming many agree on the need for a common travel protocol or what he calls a covert 1000 passport piece all of it takes a closer look. The Brandenburg Gate is one of germanys most visited Tourist Attractions but if youre dreaming of seeing it or anything else in the e. U. Any time soon you may well need a special type of passport that says you are new to the coronavirus the Tourism Sector has experienced an immense and unexpected decline in demand due to the outbreak of the corona virus pandemic our mission is to be as members of the European Union and as part of the most successful tourist region in the world leader in the recovery of tourism these m unity passports are just one of a number of ideas being discussed by the new tourism ministers as they try to find ways to mitigate the impact of covert 90 on the holiday industry one particular idea is based on the whole proviso that if youve had covert 19 you cant be back to some nations like greece which relies massively on holiday makers spending money theyre very much on side with the plan but there is one quite significant show experts at the World Health Organization say immunity passports wouldnt be worth the paper theyre printed on at this point there is not enough evidence about the effectiveness of antibody mediated immunity to guarantee the accuracy of an immunity passport or risk free certificate people who assume that they are immune to a 2nd infection made more Public Health advice the use of such a difficult made therefore increase the risks of continued transmission in some barolo just so warning that immunity passports would just be impractical but they could do if we held the spread the virus the surge reality for europes Tourism Industry is that without saying a working vaccine the future looks far from bright peter all of a r. T. Here in russia more than a 134000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed over 10000 were registered in the last 24 hours. 16 and a half 1000 have recovered but almost 1300. 00 have fallen victim to the virus well artys become one of the 1st companies in russia to conduct screening tests to find out whether their blood plasma contains antibodies that could indicate if a persons been ill without symptoms as well as finding possible plasma donors for those critically ill our correspondent Jacqueline Virgo was one of the 1st taking a test is how it went. Everybody who is left at the channel which is not a whole lot of people thankfully is getting to us today to see if we have the antibodies for the crown fires and if we do and if it turns out that we do know later on we could possibly become donors because theres this whole wave of treating people with blood plasma from people who have already had the corona virus and theres been a lot of success for them so want to try it out im going to go get one taken which is not everything to do but bargain cause its all work theyre great. Way to turn that look like im up. On someone on. The i think its. A little. Slow to come up with. The right and thats it so when the results come in if it turns out that i have somehow become virus and didnt know it and i do have the antibodies and the contacts meet and i can become a donor which would be really nice to feel you can help people you know because right now theres. Whats going on that its really difficult to. Understand how to go. Without contacting you being in contact with other people but this could be a really great way to do it so fingers crossed and its not really there for thing is very telling everybody whos here that you will today and maybe one of them will become i dont or and be able to help people who are really really suffering right now. So far we can say with absolute confidence that antibodies create a long lasting and strong i mean system but what we can say is the doctors and specialists hope that antibodies provide the immune system with enough strength to prevent getting infected a 2nd time the testament of bodies is important because there is a number of professionals such as doctors journalists or Police Officers who have to work with patients and those potential infected and then 2 bodies can be found in the blood the victims both with or without symptoms. Friday marked labor day in many parts of the world over in france the u. K. Had 19 locked are meant demonstrations were restricted to balconies or online is here so did out in sort of protests police that quickly the correspondent charlotte looks back at the may day we may be more familiar with in paris if it werent for locked up. Maybe the 1st scene is being the traditional day of rally by unions here in france now normally here tens of thousands of people would be gathering ready to march for workers rights. In recent years the big protests have been hijacked and they have descended into chaos now i was here back in 2018 on the may day when i saw what has been some of the worst violence i have ever seen in france and it started on the streets basically when people began. Throw petrol bombs at this Fast Food Restaurant and then go inside to complete the russian. Claim to be the work of the socalled a black blogs these are all the far left and the case by much of destruction continue down this street smashing windows until they got here where theyve been vehicles outside the shop that released a huge plume of smoke into the air that burnt it felt like for at least an hour releasing potentially dangerous toxins into the air and putting the people who live in this building race. Not. As covert 19 has been in a wave of protests in france when at least out on the streets instead unions of called for people to take today have balconies to all in the spirit but with the friendship pent up inside and having no way to read a vent their anger frustration against the government perhaps Global Economy or even the environment there is real concern that when the confinement starts to ease up on may the 11th radical groups will have something up their sleeves groups on social media have been calling for people to get ready for a new spate of action our own goal will not be confined was the slogan that i saw on one post now these calls on social media already being tracked by the Intelligence Services who fear that violence will be used. To seize public attention very active rights and ultraleft networks have to prepare a number of police also see the calls on social media as being an opportunity to display their hostility towards the police one militant site describes offices as being a greater threat than the virus itself and during the lockdown there has already been issues with the police and we need to particularly towards ethnic groups in the parisians suburbs that led to nights of violence. While the looked down for the most part has been peaceful be observed there is a real fear that france has become a bit of a Pressure Cooker and not anger towards the government hasnt gone away instead its building up in some boiling away when people are released paris and in other cities they could have open revolt on their hands. All see paris riots still have a breakout in germany with some defying a ban on public gatherings the protests were against social distancing rules which were implemented by back in march 5000 Police Officers were deployed in the capital and several arrests were made in chile the situation was more tense several dozen protesters were detained for violating the rules according to reports one of those upper handed had tested positive for covert mind and was meant to be quarantined for another 10 days police resorted to water cannon to disperse protesters. And the fight against corona virus Takes Center Stage in the u. K. Experts warn of a rise in cancer deaths war details after the break. And. Theres 2 kinds of leadership crisis leadership and non crisis. In noncrisis leadership when things are stable and theres a reason prosperity in the past produces the future and you just asked me to. A mentally healthy person is no better. But. When you need creativity and risk taking and a different way of thinking those mentally healthy meters youre not as good as. The world is driven by a dream shaped by. The day or sinks. We ask. The program. Support into battling the coronavirus cancer in england could claim thousands of additional lives through to a lack of dog gnostics and treatment thats according to new research by University College london and the Health Research up starting from choose they will restore Vital Services including cancer care which has mostly been put on hold during the pandemic. Reports. Britain could soon face another Health Care Crisis not corona virus but a consequence of it scientists predict 18000 more people in the u. K. Could die of cancer in the next year deaths from new cases in england could rise by a 5th or one expert has a grim prognosis about the overall number of deaths caused by the disruption of Cancer Services during the pandemic this is likely to outweigh the number of deaths from the corona virus itself over the next 5 years Cancer Treatment in hospitals has been put on hold to make room for covert 19 patients last month attendance for chemotherapy dropped by as much as 60 percent and cancer referrals by doctors are 76 percent lower but its not just treatments that have been affected an n. H. S. England survey found 10 percent of the public wouldnt seek help at all during the pandemic if they suspected they had cancer as experts fear people arent coming forward Cancer Treatment hasnt stopped but we have seen a big reduction in the number of people coming forward and wed like to reverse that because the system is open for Business Experts also warn other in direct death such as heart attacks could mean a total exceeding those of the virus itself while the National Health service also faces a backlog of procedures that could cost 3000000000. 00 pounds to work through after cancelling 2000000 operations i think that it will take us many years to get back to a good position we need more operate in theatre facilities we need more birds we have to keep the independent sector go when we may need to rely on keeping some of the nightingale hospitals open so far over 26000 people in the u. K. Have died from coronavirus but one choose day Health Secretary matt hancock revealed urgent n. H. S. Treatment for cancer and other real nurses will soon be working as usual because hospital admittance from coburg 19 pete the exact pace of the restoration will be determined by local circumstances on the ground. According to local meet and according to the amount of the coronavirus cases that the hostile hospital is having to do with ministers are now considering moving many coronavirus patients to britains near mt nightingale wards to make the u. K. s permanent hospitals free while the message for people who suspects they have cancer is still the same go and see your doctor we have got the facilities to treat people cancer can be a much bigger danger than coronavirus and wed much rather see people with cancer is at an early stage the effect of coronavirus in the u. K. Cant just be measured on a daily death tolls theres also the a measurable cost in terms of where weve met and social and Economic Hardship but with the peak of the pandemic only just here the long term effects on the u. K. s health could yet be worse hate partridge r. T. R. T. You spoke to Carole Sykora noncollege just on the dean of medicine at the university of buckingham in the u. K. He stressed the importance of starting to prioritize those in need of urgent treatment. 1st of all people stay away because theyre frightened stay home protect the n. H. S. Save lives thats been the slogan for the last month that chris 5 to go to the people that would get them into the diagnostic pathway operating theatres have been idle for the last month everythings been on risk risp or a tree control there until later sweet scan intensive care and so on so weve got a whole cohort of Cancer Patients from april that havent been diagnosed yet theyre going to be diagnosed hopefully in may were moving round to that now and then theyll come on the last 2 or 3 months worth of patients all need surgery radiotherapy chemotherapy so prioritizing them getting through the system is really the key. With the World Health Organization warning that the worst of coronavirus may yet be to come for africa some countries on the continent are taking a novel approach to stopping the spread. Of the f. Explains on the surface africa appears to have escaped the worst of it but thats on the surface and already Health Care Systems at the colonies are crumbling at the same town while were dealing with govan night eat pandemic were also on the break of a hunger pandemic for the crawler virus even became an issue i was saying that 2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis as war 2 were competing with the developed world the very future of the continent will depend on how this matter is handled. It is getting competitive rich nations are buying up mosques and gloves and ventilators this quickly as theyre produced leaving poorer nations with nothing International Aid be it food or medicine or money is slowing to a trickle even the w. H. Who is warning that things could get very ugly qubit in africa could kill 300000 and forced millions into starvation it all depends on what we are discussing here which is are you testing are you finding the cases are you isolating and tracking the contacts the w. H. O. Report is not a prediction that means it must happen how is africa supposed to deal with a pandemic that is bored america to its knees especially without being able to print dollars in euros without foreign aid without advanced Healthcare Systems and the millions of africans western advice to self isolate and work from home is something out of a fantasy in and i dont have a source of income my normal work is to try and do peoples laundry but its been impossible to find work these days because of the fear of this disease grave conduct as men and women they are locking in markets market watch cars so these people us 400 but they walk on the mouth every crime will go up in slums because now they are unarmed these people the country. We live in now in a low income area i dont have quite high at home so that has impacted mine i think it is rich because now we have to catch up in academics when you see how to a lot of speeches in terms of cost but because they have been dismissed at an early period of time millions have no access to the internet to read warnings and explanations what they have a rich imaginations b. Its graffiti informing people look the virus isnt a. In spirit see placed in slums where poverty and misinformation a rife be it music the Legendary South African song patter pat has been rewritten and re recorded with antiviral lyrics in this being aired by more than a dozen african review stations. Its no surprise that on a continent where funerals can involve song and dance that music is on the front lines in the fight against who would 19 africa is being left to fend for itself charity has become a luxury no one expects a miraculous International Rescue so the continent does what it can at least it fights the virus on its own terms. Can be a real strain on the body and mind but for those in need of daily assistance its been devastating for essential routines some people are stepping up during their time of need take arena whos volunteered to be with me enough for me from a Residential Care home arties im going to try spoke to them about their locked out experience together. I mean the how is your life youre going to now be and i dont just have. Dont you want to go back to hospital. You know definitely not like you and water try doing during the day i was trolling you now during a friendship bracelet if i want to watch a movie i do i can it was a. When the that just moved in she said that at the beginning of the year she had one dream to meet Football Players. Appears before the korean teen i said i want to meet russian Football Players and the dream came true. And then in quarantine as she said she had another dream to move away from the Residential Care somewhere and the 2nd dream came true and. Actually. I mean really i have not left the apartment for weeks and ive been spending their time cooking dancing and celebrating a birthday together you know told us earlier why she decided to isolate with nina and whether her good deed is becoming a growing trend in russia. Quarantine and Residential Care didnt look so secure people cant leave at all and he is cant come in but the permanent workers are still there salaries are not so big so most use public transport but in Residential Care such a close place if someones infected that will be a tragedy as long as ive known nina shes always been a very optimistic person told my questions she has always answered that everythings great but after Residential Care was close for quarantine i started to receive other messages that she is bored she feels bad not comfortable so i thought to ask nina to live with me taking into account all our messages i knew that we would find a way to live together comfortably in quarantine but of course taking people from Residential Care to quarantine is not a solution for everyone and yes as far as i know just around 400. 00 people since the beginning of the pandemic have been taken from such Residential Care homes not a lot of what has come up to help us turn here in moscow next does Mental Illness help or hinder Leadership Qualities in times of crisis find out was a part of exxon a border next to my back and a half an hour with the latest. 50. 4th. You cannot be bold would be at your what. I want to welcome to worlds apart most of us agree that desperate times call for Desperate Measures but do they also call for desperate leader hes my guest today argues that while the same executives are well suited for good times a distorted mind needed the bats to see a country through a rainy day how saul well to discuss that im now joined by doctor and i see i got me a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University and a back selling author. To talk to you thank you very much for your time. Thanks for inviting me now you are joining us from. Austin area which has been under water. And its a funny question to ask if i buy a house same thing you are obese point on the scale oak once its now how saying that you said yeah yeah how same year as a recent survey or 7. The road