Company and russia to give staff blood plasma screening tests for antibodies that can fight the disease. Youre watching our to International Coming to you straight from the russian capital thanks for joining us this hour lets begin with the latest figures on coded 19 the Global Pandemic is still raging with the number of confirmed coronavirus cases now surpassing 3100000 more than 161000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 218000. I. The World Health Organization has warned against issuing immunity passports saying theres no solid proof yet that recovery from the disease would prevent a 2nd infection but the plan is being widely discussed particularly in europe with croatias tourism minister claiming many agree on the need for a common trouble protocol or what he calls a coded 1000 passport arties peter all for 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 e. U. Tourism ministers as they try to find ways to mitigate the impact of covert 90 on the holiday industry what particular idea is based on the whole proviso that if you had 19 you cant be. Some nations like greece which relies massively on holiday makers spending money there are very much on side with the plan but there is one quite significant show experts at the World Health Organization say immunity passports could 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 that if it gets made there for increased the risks of continued transmission in some parole a just so wanting that immunity sports would just be practical but they could be held to spread the virus the sad reality for europes Tourism Industry is that without saying working but seeing the future looks far from bright the trail of a hearty. Dr Mohamed Munir a viral just at the u. K. s Lancaster University told us any moves to get people moving on mass again could actually lead to a 2nd outbreak. But unity passport has to has a lot of debate and discussion and to media assessed whether it is a good to be of forwards because what we dont want really is the reemergence of the same inspection because to an old to be a lot more lethal than what we have seen in the 1st phase one of the important things that we have to understand is that it was due to resume or movement of people that are spreading this insurrection from china or the rest of the globe so a movement of people has grave concerns for reopening the countries whether it is for tourism purposes or for any other purposes and when it comes to tourism even if it is within the continent is not riddled any risk however immunity passports could get the public flying again and large numbers and that would be a boost to the Airline Industry which is fighting for survival amid the lockdown airlines have resorted to calling each other crack junkies and other abuse as they battle for government aid at stories coming up later in the program. And russia there are more than 99000. 00 coronavirus cases with just under 6000. 00 registered in the last 24 hours or 10000. 00 people have recovered and total more than 100. 00 have died here r. T. Has become the 1st company and russia to conduct staff screening tests to find out whether their blood plasma contains antibodies i confirms if a person has been ill without symptoms as well as a fine plasma donors for the severely ill i was one of the lucky ones to take the test heres how it went. Everybody who is left at the channel which is not a whole lot of people think les for 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 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 coronavirus and theres been a lot of success for them so want to try that out im going to go get one taken which is not everything to do but were going to cause its all work theyre great. Way to turn that look like a month. On someone on. The eve. Of the little. Show of the totally. The right and thats it so when the results come in and if it turns out that i have somehow the con artist didnt know it and i do have the antibodies then the contacts meet and i can become a donor which would be really nice to feel like you can help people you know it is right now theres. So much going on that its really difficult to. Understand how about this. 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 me there for thing is theyre 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 immune 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 the 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 potentially infected and then 2 bodies can be found in the blood the victims both with or without symptoms now they rush the results of that test and while i dont have the antibodies i dont have the virus either which means i continue to fall the advice of Wearing Masks and keeping my distance and washing my hands incessantly with the number of corona virus victims and russia still rising president putin has extended the lockdown to may the 11th he told a Video Conference with regional chiefs that the toughest phase of the fight against the pandemic is about to start. Morsels you wheeling in the daily number of new infections has stabilised but that doesnt mean we can relax the situation remains very complicated case but since Scientists Say we havent passed the p. T. S. D. Which now were about to face perhaps the toughest phase of all fight against a pandemic the risks of being infected are reaching the upper limit of the russian president has been very diligent in recent weeks in keeping people up to speed on the caret of our situation in the country and on tuesday he spoke again it was said that the collective effort and discipline opened millions of russians meant that we now have a stable daily increase in the number of new cases around the 6000. 00 mark now and exponential bust but he said more can still be done so he announced the nano period to kind of semi lockdown that weve been in since the end of march will be extended all the way up until may 11th inclusive now the start of may is a favorite time of year for Many Russians people usually go to the countryside they visit that friends into barbecues they walk around the city spring has arrived and there are a number of Public Holidays so was probably to be expected that the government would take measures to prevent people from streaming out onto the streets and so i think that made the announcement interesting remarks he made was that while of course coronavirus is a national and global emergency we in the midst of this cannot forget about all the people who need medical support but you only see limited sooner obviously we put all our medical resources towards the fight against the pandemic but unfortunately nobody is able to cancel other dangerous diseases including uncle logical and cardiovascular accusing chronic regardless of todays extraordinary situation people should receive all the help they need now this is a touchy subject in a number of countries in the u. K. For example its thought that to millions have been postponed in order to free up thats for kofi 19 patients and thats under. Stand to be led to a lot of anger frustration and of course desperation so russia very keen to avoid a similar scenario and just a final thing that came out of the speech it was very interesting to see how successfully russia had mobilized its resources in the fight that gates coronavirus so just an example of putin said that while the new you know russia was producing around 70 ventilators for intensive care units in april that had risen to 800. 00 and in may that will be a target of 2500. 00 similarly the testing system in russia has become incredibly comprehensive rob 150000. 00 test but russia putin stress that of course this is an unprecedented climb but things are changing daily so we need to constantly setting ourselves new targets but either way tuesday to address a very clear message that from the russian president that more can and should be done in order to slow the spread of crude a virus we absolutely cannot let god stout but so many who are sick of sitting inside 4 walls definitely a light at the end of the quarantine tunnel as we look forward to that may 11th. Plane maker air bus has posted a 49 percent slump and 1st quarter adjusted operating profit as a mystery faces what are calling its worst crisis in history British Airways is to cut 12000 jobs after a record quarterly loss saying air travel will take years to recover and both suppliers and airlines seem ready to destroy one another to get their hands on state aid as maga safer ports. For airlines this is an extinction level event so take your average airline most of your aircraft abroad on credit so you can fly theres a pandemic but you have to make Interest Payments every month on every aircraft so how long do you think all these airlines would last without government taxpayer bailouts i am in favor of Companies Like lufthansa having an opportunity to get back on their feet and make money again if theres a tornado coming for your house you dont try to save the couch you grab what you can and you run because you cant save everything the analogy ends here airlines arent couches and then now asking governments why the hell they use saving some companies the big ones and not others look transit is a create a 2nd crack cocaine junkie looking for state aid you know times are tough when Airline Executives compare them i mean these people even had exercises to prepare for pandemics to think about what they would do capsis spreading and its largely due to the movement of people how should National Leaders businesses and International Organizations balance the risk of worsening disease there will be caused by the continued movement of people around the world against the risks of profound economic consequence of travel and trade bans so they wed back and forth brainstorming about how their business could survive a pandemic this was in october 2019 a game could organize by the World Economic forum so what happens when you let politicians and businessmen decide by themselves how to handle a pandemic and balance between saving lives and saving revenues spiralis along. The dead people we project that in one month we could see upwards of 2000000. 00 cases and over 100000 deaths and in 3 months there could be as many as 20000000. 00 cases and 1600000 deaths the outcome of the caps pandemic an event to well one was catastrophic 65000000 people died in the 1st 18 months airlines among others havent just learned the theyre awful at saving lives theyve accepted it some have children to suspend all operations ground their entire fleet others claim to have introduced safety precautions like social distancing which is not dissimilar to stuffing a can full of beans and asking the beans to stay away from each other as they say every dollar counts it will take 2 to 3 years for travel to return to 29000. 00 levels and additional few years beyond that for the Industries Long term growth trend to return when the situation does stabilize the commercial market will be smaller and our customers needs will be different you carol but neither the airlines are facing catastrophe this truly is survival of the fittest or well those most willing to violate Health Standards and most adapted to smearing their rivals. A hunger crisis is brewing in paris suburbs and another fallout from the coronavirus outbreak that story and more after the break. The world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those with. Low dares thinks. We dare to ask. Them back more than a 1000000 coronavirus cases have been long in the u. S. And the situation is particularly severe in new york city which has almost a 3rd of all cases or 300000 people sick trade charges reports. As new york continues to come down the current officials are preparing for whats next Governor Andrew Cuomo asking the president to keep the Javits Center makeshift hospital open and on standby because he fears a possible 2nd wave of the coronavirus come this fall i spoke to the president about leaving them in place until we get through the flu season god forbid we need extra capacity again the virus Still Holding a tight grip on new york even as it comes down the curve a 2nd wave of Antibody Testing revealing nearly 15 percent of residents tested positive for cold in 1009. 00. 100 cuomo saying he will extend new yorks pas order in many parts of the state but while some are ready to get back to business we have to take a risk because we need to. Get out of im going to be eating others have mixed feelings i know everyone in new york is so anxious to go back but we have to take things slow as of right now just coming out. And its unchanged. This while the virus continues to take an extreme toll on Health Care Workers on the front lines the head of the Emergency Department at new york presbyterian allan hospital dr laura now brain taking her own life her father saying she tried to do her job and it killed her doctor had contracted the virus while on the job she returned to work after nearly 2 weeks of recovering her father telling the New York Times make sure she was praised a hero because she was reporting in new york Trinity Chavez r. T. The brazilian president s downplaying of the covert 1000 outbreak has the country split on whether to impeach the number of deaths is rising fast with some now fearing it will become the new epicenter of the virus arties down the corridor has the details brazilian president jay are both in our oh is john playing the seriousness of the coronavirus and its dividing his country against it sells. 2 evenly matched camps have emerged those who want to see valsin are out and others who have come to his defense. I am. Happy. With. Both and are is doing all he can to make this virus look like its no big deal hes calling it a little flu telling Business Owners to reopen and hes even hugging supporters on the streets. In the little. Bit of the debate. In my case due to my track record as an athlete were infected so i would not even worry because i would have symptoms or at most it would be like a flu a cold the president even fired Brazils Health minister a strong supporter of self isolation officially the countrys got almost 70000 cases but many experts are saying that the real number cant possibly be that love with some estimates reaching as high as 1000000 why the big discrepancy it could be a lack of testing or the terrible medical conditions that have pushed doctors onto the streets in protest. Cemeteries are so overcrowd. The government has begun taking mass graves to absorb the extra bodies many Media Outlets are reporting that brazil has become one of the Worlds Largest coronavirus hotspots but despite all the indications that something is clearly wrong all scenarios and to lock down policies have a lot of support behind them so why do we think that the same to the stars about as you know there are cities in brazil that have no coronavirus cases thats more than 80 percent of cities in the country so stopping the entirety of brazil like this is irresponsible. And i felt that. Way he also because we support our president both are narrow and then till proven otherwise we still believe him and wish he had to show us strength and all support to our beloved country brazil its unclear how many more people will die before bolton are all has a change of heart about the virus if he has one at all but it doesnt he seems like the brazilian government is more concerned about the safety of the economy than of its own people. Right now all men editor of the opera monday news site says both and i was more interested in Economic Growth than peoples health. Its a Political Choice both a man who works for capitalist interests especially for d finance 2 groups and they want they dont want to pay the bill for so so isolationists strategy although the hand brazilian president bats that people will be mainly worried that we live and vacation not that weve heard a virus his speech defending the car may be against public how is. The law our. Social groups which are just great we. Break. Social isolation is from them and the early. States and cities. Its not a matter of the fabric. Both so mad that this shouldnt be so so isolationists fractured we can see all phases go bad and its. Hundreds are spending hours lining up for food handouts and the poor suburbs of paris authorities warn cohen 1000. 00 has caused an unprecedented hunger crisis with families relying on food banks to survive. d d d before the lockdown i had local markets which had cheaper than supermarkets supermarkets are too expensive the kind of shop there. Im not covered by the Employment Law fortunately. Otherwise we would not see it. As soon as people arrive here we get set up and give the different craves who are prepared to those distributing the food. Everything is prepared here to distribute our preserves and our vegetables. With these 2 expense so its too expensive for me it is difficult with my children and my husband who has been to work since the beginning of the crisis so i have to call him to get food and this is why it was a solution. When this code with 19 Health Crisis started we thought that it was going to affect the whole population but especially those in a precarious position we thought about how we could help them so we decided to do Food Distribution to. Have a lot of people who come from all over the region from far away to get food in all we have about 300 families 200 who come constantly and 100 from the other municipalities but its humor. If you. Will see numerous people in either urgently in a way we have never seen in these towns neighborhoods the smallest part can trigger yet more tension. Thats our world news wrap up for this hour but if youre looking for more head on over to our website all of us here at r. T. Hope you and yours are well. Seem wrong why dont we all just dont all. 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Morris johnson regains power in london the epicenter of what set to be the worst coronavirus death to capital hit country in the world so far coming up in the show what price is a human life lost to coronavirus restaurants and the government appears to think it is 60000 pounds we talked to former president of the u. K. Faculty of Public HealthProfessor John ashton about why so many nurses and doctors are dying on the socalled front line is u. K. And u. S. Backed is the misuse coronavirus to propagandize against the west we speak to the author of a new book about the rise of u. S. U. K. Backed islam is a true one of its lesser known figureheads the anticommunist firebrand of donna has another place to be in the 1980 s. If you saw terror around the world this new york texas and california all the civil coming up in todays going underground the 1st u. K. Prime minister baraks johnsons 1st full day back in downing street was marked by revelations his government has been deliberately inflating the amounts of life saving equipment available to doctors nurses and cleaners on the front line against coronavirus a pair of surgical gloves was considered to be 2 items of p p and this came just as johnsons Health Secretary matt hancock