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French president or money or mccrone has announced the country will enter a 2nd National Lockdown in a bid to turn the tide against the coronavirus or to Charlotte Dubinsky can tell us whats ahead president mike onset in july he tweeted that in the event of a 2nd wave there we are ready thats francois be ready and thats clearly not the case france feels now its in the middle of the 2nd wave could be 1008 colored coat bits try different methods such as the curfews the local lock downs none of them seem to work as we keep seeing or roy sing them but off positive cases being which is that every day the government has said it didnt want this locked down but despite its efforts it looks like its back to square one when it comes to cope 19 from friday we will see a closure of bars and restaurants all essential or nonessential as shops will be closed and those forms that people in france needed during the 1st lockdown to leave home is at his desk since they will be back the suggestion is that once again the french will only be able to leave their home if they have to do essential shopping if they have to go to the doctor says or if they need their one hour of daily exercise sent back to those really restrictive measures the one thing that is different this time around there is the fact that schools will remain open and we know the present math concept that this will be reviewed in 2 weeks to see how the progresses during a whether that means that they can perhaps loosen the noose slightly but as you mentioned this will be in place until december 1st cohen said in the speech that the virus is circulating in france at a speed that even the most pessimistic person did not foresee and he said that the 2nd wave would be more deadly than the 1st that he talked about something he said. If this was on check that process went along the route of trying to create who had immunity it would see some 400000 excess deaths as a result of that now we know that the situation with couvade at the moment we have seen 523 code related deaths in a 24 hour period up to the last day or so that is the highest they get that france has registered it since april and in the last few days we have seen the kobe test weights at come back with movement 58000 people breakfasting positive for the disease in a 24 hour period and these measures of being brought in mainly to try and help hospitals hospitals which say they are overwhelmed by cases of cope with 19 hospital staff who have been saying for months they are exhausted and need more assistance at present michael talked about the figures in hospitals and he said across france at the number of patients now with could be 911. 00 tapes akkadian it is around 58 percent of the capacity of those units so that gives you a sense but if you look at certain areas we know that at capacity is saturated up to about 7080 in some places even lanty percent full up with could get 1000 patients now we know that this had been expected by many people it fearing the worst that it would be is an excellent of a 2nd looked out and as a result of that in the last sort of couple of hours 2 people have been leaving paris in their droves at one report suggesting there was 400 kilometers worth of traffic people leaving paris to be able to not stay during a lockdown in perhaps small cramped apartments hoping to get sick stay with family or theyve got holiday homes in other parts of france that didnt go down well in the 1st Lockdown People in rural areas extremely unhappy and accusing people in the city. Bringing the virus to their local communities reactionary people have been stocking up already on food with some supermarkets already posting pitches showing the shelves are empty but present makana said the government will give Everything Possible to keep people in the means that they need to we know that long will be extended and we know that there will be more aid announced for as social ringback charges and for rent and there will be aid for business say so france going into its 2nd lockdown a lockdown thats not expected to last until at least december 1st its not what the government will take but present back on senshi saying that there was no other choice. New restrictions are also on the way in neighboring germany but theyre less severe than in france the dealy infection rate recently top 13000. 00 theyre leading Angela Merkel to announce a broad lockdown from next week lasting a month or europe correspondent peter oliver reports from berlin. Well this was called lockdown lights in the build up to it we knew it was coming what we didnt expect is how soon these new measures would come in place there was talk about the 4th of november or later next week its going to be monday the 2nd of november that this new lock down light comes into play that the idea behind it is to keep schools and kindergartens open what that means is that other areas are going to have to make way younger merkel was speaking to the press earlier she said that social contact is going to have to essentially suffer in order to try and get over this hump over this autumn spike in corona infections now what we are going to see is a limit put in place on meeting meeting in public a meeting with members from of the households one of the household a maximum of 10 people youre allowed to meet with all theaters concert halls operas any that was still open theyre going to be closed on the sport thats going as well as fitness clubs swimming pools joking and cycling will still be allowed anything you can do pretty much by yourself shops are going to only be allowed one customer per 10 square metres its understood this was a subject of heated debate between chancellor merkel and the heads of the 16 states initially they wanted to make it one customer per 25. 00 square metres however the fear was that that would essentially aimed Small Businesses across the country the reason that chancellor merkel said theyve gone through with this and theyve put this in place for initially one month it will be revised in 2 weeks time but as it stands at the moment were. Models this new lockdown will be in place for the reason this because if they didnt the Health Care System was at risk of just being overwhelmed. Lets assume if the current rate of spread of the coronavirus in germany continues the Health Care System will collapse within a few weeks things can get out of control in the blink of an eye so that is why we are taking decisive action. Over in germany. Its wrong to say being welcomed but theyre being understood however there is still a small dedicated and loud group of the population who are opposed to all coronavirus measures weve seen demonstrations all over germany some of those turned into clashes with police there have been arrests made and you would be hard pushed to think that these people wont be outraged by this move put in place by the chancellor we wont see more scenes like this. Earth. d with. Well the message from angola merkel as she introduces whats being called block down light is sacrifice your social lives in order to keep schools kindergartens and essential businesses alive and keep the economy ticking over its preparations to try and stop a spike in coronavirus cases here in germany well be looking to see if the lockdown light works. Through whats happening in germany as we mentioned in france lets discuss with our guest eric very political analyst whats happening there hes live from paris eric good to see you how surprised are you that such a drastic. Measures have been again brought in oh we are not surprised because everybody i think in france was prepared the information because this information was indeed atmosphere since yesterday and for the bieber who are not very well informed since this morning we Everybody Knows in france that there will be does you look down the nation and look down in france and manage very surprised but i think we are angry dan surprised by this information because its a its a matter like in italy i think a lot of people in italy denies done to accept the principle of this new look down and i think in france we will observe the same phenomenon that a lot of people done to accept this idea and this principle of a new look down because its a an important limitation to differ and freedom of securitisation and i think its a very very important difficulty in our democracies yet weve just been going through as im sure you heard our correspondent in germany there is speaking its much stricter whats happening in your country is the french government going too far or is berlin not going far enough. I think it did to go too far because this is not a program of of house of public else this is a program for for our between generations and its obvious for everybody that the principle of a good down is a protection for the old people or the people exposed to the risk to do to the hill in this risk but for the young people who are us heal them beyond one and i think it is its a problem of freedom because we dont understand why to prove in order to protect people we have to limit to freedom of young people and i seeing that was in the 2 or 3 months we will see a lot of movements from the young people who want accept and or want understand why their freedom is limited to predict or people who are up to the mar rich richer than their own and more protecting more protected than them thats the because you know be very hard for the young people and employment and poorness poverty will be very important for the young people and its a problem because all this phenomenon is organized to protect your people and we dont understand why. Well that was going to be my my question about how do you expect the french people to react to another quarantine which so many already fed tea struggling with covert 1000. 00 measures i suggest theres also going to be a lot of interested other countries other governments seeing how the French Public reacts to whats just been announced you know i think that the government and the president micro. Have decided this new lockdown because in the bar there is a majority of people who are. Poor in favor of this look down and in favor or for the more protect give. But its pretty but i think there is that a vast vast very important minority of people who are up against and or poor was opposed to does the restriction of freedom and im not sure that. It will be very easy and very comfortable for the president michel to imposed this new look down because they sing there are a lot of people who are very tired and especially in the great cities in the in the in did grade down its a program to be knocked down because the jap arguments you flats are very small and the desire for it is not very easy when youre down in the great cities and im not sure that it would be very easy and and very and very still in france you look down and i suppose im convicted that there will be. A gang of resistance here i was in the air and its the reason that the reason i said the word surprised at the start was because the World Health Organization previously described whole lockdowns as quote a bad idea parise has now decided the opposite who proved to be correct. Yes because we are not convinced that the dog down is very useful and very efficient and the left of it and a lot of people can see down that in france there was a lack of anticipation of foresight against the. And we can see down the deer is a responsibility of the government in just situation and we are not conveying going to vince that the globe down is very efficient and there will be enough to stop the progress propagation of the of the various and im not sure that will be easy because we know that one months is not enough to truly meet the propagation of the various and to limit dependency ok eric thanks very much for your time in your thoughts this hour in speaking to eric very hague political analyst live in paris thanks a lot on europe as a whole once again finds itself as a major. Infections surging across the continent but this time people arent being so compliant when it comes to the measures designed to slow the spread. Several cities in italy helping see protests break out over the new restrictions such as the implementation of overnight curfews this is spain in a similar picture there are people making a stand against the state of emergency imposed nation. Russia where infections are also spiking the country has applied to the World Health Organization for an emergency license for its covert job although advanced stage 3 trials of sputnik v youre also underway if russia gets w. H. O. Approval it would mean faster availability at the shop around the globe although theres been skepticism about the vaccine a midwestern claims that corners were cut too rushed into production moscow say yes its called foot in the drug or Senior Correspondent moroccos the picks up the story. Well this is the 1st application filed will do with the World Health Organization about a vaccine so a vaccine and the russians are pretty confident you know its now up to the World Health Organization to run this vaccine sputnik through through the gauntlet tested for efficacy tested for quality for safety but as i say the russians are pretty confident this wasnt a vaccine that was built from from the ground up so its a match trials are already underway Prominent Russian officials as well as medics journalists have already had their job thousands of people involved in these trials but as i say this this wasnt a vaccine that was developed from the ground up it was based on an existing vaccine platform that was merely adapted updated. So this is one of the reasons why theyre confident that this is safe that this is going to work nevertheless obviously you have to test it you to meet criteria and it is now up to the World Health Organization. We have submitted an application for emergency use listing and prequalification of the vaccine by the World Health Organization which would allow sputnik the to be included in the list of medical products that meet the leading quality safety and efficacy standards we express our gratitude to the World Health Organization for its active cooperation and look forward to the successful completion of the prequalification process at all major stages look the 2nd wave is well and truly here it is proving exceptionally damaging exceptionally painful you records being set all over the world in russia on tuesday a new record in daily deaths from. 30350 people also killed yesterday so you know the situation is it is desperate all of these restrictions at kemah coming back into force in russia they arent quite as draconian as they were back here in the spring but now were seeing you know mandatory mosques everywhere no public spaces and all public transport quarantines isolations. Theres all manner of restrictions its obviously of the there the race is on the race continues and it isnt just the russian vaccine that is being fast tracked it is seen from all over the world in this in this race to be covert before it does irreversible damage. So ahead on the program on rest descends into losing for a 2nd night in the us city of philadelphia following the Fatal Shooting of a knife wielding black man by police more and more besides after the break. Dealing with a Global Pandemic in the viral type infecting people causing chaos and mayhem but thats small change compared to the mind virus. Hello again media tech giants in the us some faced a grilling by the republicans over allegations they have been suppressing conservative viewpoints socalled content mediation has been the concern of congress before lois intensified with less than a week until the president ial election our correspondent in new york talks us through the hearing. It was a tense morning on capitol hill as the heads of u. S. Tech giants were called before the u. S. Congress and a Senate Committee to answer questions about an alleged conservative bias now the c. E. O. s only agreed to appear after they were threatened with a subpoena and they answered questions from u. S. Senators about the allegations of bias in their handling of news and their ability to oversee what shows up on twitter on facebook and on google now there was an awkward moment towards the beginning of the hearing where it appeared that Mark Zuckerberg the head of facebook wasnt answering the phone but when the hearing finally did get going one of the main things was a New York Post article that reported critical information about joe biden and his son hunter biden and their alleged business dealings they were essentially being asked why this article had been suppressed on facebook and on twitter heres how the questioning went to the f. B. I. Contacts you see the new york construes senator know about that story specifically nicholas i mean why did why did you straddle back video alerted us of it to be on heightened alert around a risk of can we go. Around to release your proof if youre making appointments you know just to be clear on this we didnt censor the content we flagged it for Fact Checkers to review and pending that review we temporarily constrained its distribution but. Its not up to us either to determine whether its a russian interference nor whether its true we relied on sort of you know because its. Now the article from the New York Post seemed to indicate that hunter biden the son of joe biden was involved in some shady business dealings in ukraine and china and when that article was suppressed by facebook and twitter donald trump the u. S. President was furious media and the big big tech. Desperately trying to cover up ever. They dont want to hear speeches like this they dont want to hear it and think about it this is a massive scandal that theyre trying to suppress now donald trump has long been facing off with the tech giants who gave views as oppositional to his presidency he has called them out for allegedly shadow banning his tweets in the tweets of his supporters furthermore donald trump signed an executive order that was intended to roll back some of the protection from lawsuits that the tech monopolies seem to enjoy under the Telecommunications Laws of the United States now the tech monopolies were not thrilled about that move by the white house now the democrats have argued that todays hearing was simply a political ploy by u. S. President donald trump to portray himself as a victim of tech monopolies going after him in the lead up to the vote coming up on tuesday however it was quite a tense moment on capitol hill as we saw u. S. Senators challenging and confronting top c. E. O. s from silicon valley. Well lets stay stateside because american streets again erupted in violence just days before the u. S. Election with philadelphia witnessing a 2nd night all the rest following the Police Killing of a black man on monday the protest soon descended into rioting and looting things turned violent after 27. 00 of Walter Wallace was shot dead by police after running at officers with a knife wallace was alleged to be suffering from Mental Health issues and had previous multiple run the ins with the law the National Guard has not been deployed to the city lushes left dozens of officers injured on the number of arrests were. Made. Right. What are you doing yet we are outside the 18th precinct here this is the closest Police Station to where Walter Wallace was killed protesters literally moments ago just clashed with police they are going up in their faces yelling no justice no peace and also profanity this all stemming from a suiting of a black man in broad daylight around 4 pm monday afternoon now weve seen across the city looting has happened as far as a mile and a half all the way to 5 miles away from the city i talked to Business Owners earlier today who say that they saw this months ago during the George Floyd Protests however they never imagined this in their city one business even saying that they lost a total of 500. 00 in dollars in damages so again businesses really rallying together trying to even hire their own security guards knowing that when the police get called to go somewhere else whos going to be there to save them now again this also i mean from the shooting of Walter Wallace you have the mayor and the Police Commissioner now saying that they want to meet with the Wallace Family and the Police Headquarters actually releasing a statement saying that theyre asking everyone to be patient as they investigate this situation and also asking for those to have any other thoughts and prayers with Walter Wallace and his family before right now reporting in West Philadelphia aaron fronsac r t. Well there were protests in new york as well a car drove through a line of police in brooklyn reportedly injuring the in response to may have missed demonstrators vandalized police cars buying son started fires National PoliceAssociation MemberBetsy Bruckner Smith gave us her take on the arrest. He chose to attack 2 Police Officers with a large knife he was asked to stop the Police Officers created distance they tried to get away they asked him to drop the knife instead he chose to attack them reason that they shot this to wallace is because he was about to stab one. Of them with a knife Police Officers never fire their weapons unless they are in him in the danger but if we dont have the political will in those left leaning cities to do that the violence will continue as cities and jurisdictions throughout the United States are preparing for on rast and violence on election night. In chile use capital have use water cannon to break up an empty government demonstration by cyclists the protests now being called following a sharp spike in metro firs which the government has since council where demonstrators are still angry about rising living costs Pension Reforms abuse of power by police. From side to north america california where more than 100000 people have been forced to flee their homes amid wildfires burning out of control in the region especially those planes have been battling the blazes at least 2 firefighters have been injured and are currently in a critical condition. In Southeast Asia where a massive typhoon has made landfall just saw with all of the vietnamese resort city of done leaving at least 2 people dead 2 fishing boats with 26 crew on board. More than half a 1000000 people fled the area ahead of the typhoon arrival its believed to be the strongest storm in vietnam in some 20 years and comes as the country continues to recover from severe flooding which killed more than 130 this. And thats it for naught but do remember to give our twitter page some of your time today if you want to keep in the know new content there every few minutes live from moscow this is r. T. International. Join me every thursday on the alex im unsure when ill be speaking to a guest in the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then