Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark ullman in oxford hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have a real because he is founder of a consulting and Foreign Affairs analyst all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here and let me just read you 2 quotes here from number one foreign minister lavrov played in munich saying quote change course speak for its too late and we have the new head of the European Unions Foreign Policy arm he he also says europe must develop quote appetite for power in the trump era theyre both hinting at the same thing in Different Directions here what does that tell you Better Change course before its too late whats that mean to you. I think. The tensions between russia and the west in general are really probably tensions in russia in the
There with your global news update this is r. T. International. And we start with the latest figures in the global covert 19 pandemic more than 737000 cases have now been confirmed globally an increase of around 10 percent over just the past 24 hours more than 35000 people have lost their lives and 156000 have recovered half of them in china. Head to moscow we are now in the 1st day of a citywide partial lockdown was announced by the last night with people required to stay at home whenever possible to prevent the spread of the virus into trying to reports 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 att
A bug would you advise of us 1st of all to do to minimize the impact of growing a virus they see in us that it would seem bad again how it out there what the actually at the end because for all the people entering they all say well weve decided that theyd best and i think he quit meant to tourists that in stack that its raining or that you was of the equipment and that fluff and i actually did write it was that i didnt know that you didnt go insane that community in this situation needs to be to difficult because many genetic speak and that so that people are that whole mess and they need. To seek for a cat and that device for doctors so what we had doing in my office because sometimes we had again i think a kind of from saturdays of a doctor as wedding day full on for all other people that that he told not so its sort of nice that im saying. Omniscient ok well we have a phone Service Although its been quite controversial trying to get through to it were also putting thousands of beds
Networks isnt going to be intimidated to a blow to the United States to give up on that. Weve already seen when we look at the iran policy that the trumpet ministration with substantially and ill use the word blackmailing european cars automotive producers to put a tax tariff on their cars if they dont toe the line i mean jonathan says you know theyre there theyre bucking the trend but i mean it gets kind of leads into where i want to go in the rest of the program is that you know the u. S. Still has not so many levers and coercive levers against europe that they dont toe the line go ahead in london. Thank you thank you for mentioning this thank you for the previous time as you mentioned china because as we know it was not about russia it was about the china we know the. Realistic Foreign Policy thinkers in the United States including john meshaal em out. It was present in 2015 my very own university in poland you know you dont university told us about this very moment that we have arr
Sort of the sense that is easing conditions ok well we have a phone Service Although its been quite controversial trying to get through to it were also putting thousands of beds 4000 beds in a Conference Center in there and east london here but what advice would you give given that you just talked about protective equipment should doctors and nurses and cleaners should they wear dustbin bags what should they do here because we have a shortage of Protection Equipment in this country for a front line National Health service yet they did think of a shock they had to ask if protective equipment i use they use any a show what. You need to do it out and i live they use of them so they use them exactly as the days that i commanded and we really with were getting reports of the doctors and nurses are reusing the protective equipment because there just isnt enough here in britain we had over. Or are very much what a day about to the masks which are important to back to these vitals its the same