Zealand changes his plea and admits to murdering 51 people. And the unique plan to protect the oceans around the seychelles. Im going to get your skill with the sport italian officials believe a Champions League football match could be partly responsible for the spread of coronavirus in one of its hardest hit cities well hear from both of those mayors and what people there are calling games 0. Now the french region west hit by coronavirus is struggling to cope and has now begun sending some of its sickest patients to other cities and even across borders the Eastern Region of bordering germany began and lifting patients to other countries on wednesday and now its moving others by train to hospitals and other french cities. Take a look this is the main station and strasburg 20 people 4 of them a seriously ill being transferred on specially equipped high speed trains the region has reported more than 500 deaths so far 99 of those just in the past 24 hours the number of confirmed cases in france has now passed 25000 more than 1300 people have now died french president emanuel knock on has called in the army to help even withdrawing troops from iraq well lets speak to our correspondent attached a butler who joins us from southwest france natasha what do we know about just where these trains are going in especially given that some of these patients are in serious conditions how will they be cared for on board. Lets take you to natashas story shes been reporting about the broad impact of whats been happening with coronavirus and also how the french have been trying to. Taking the necessary precautions the french president arrived at a Field Hospital in the all solution city all lose it was built to ease pressure at least in frances Health System this struggling to cope with the countrys highest number of coronavirus cases a facility usually seen in conflict zones but for a man who will mark rohr of place in peacetime he says the fight against the coronavirus is a war going on. When you engage in war you engage fully you mobilize together i see divisions and fractures in our country doubts people who want to divide the country when we should have only one obsession to unite to fight the virus. It took the french army 4 days to build a network of tens that can receive dozens of patients in intensive care. Its a store because its the 1st time weve built the sort of structure thats been created specifically for covert. Is close to the german border its plight is motivated its neighbors to help several hospitals in germany switzerland and luxembourg have also to take in french coronavirus patients at a time when so many countries in the e. U. Have shut borders it is a display of European Solidarity on wednesday german Emergency Services collected critically ill french patients and flew them to a hospital in freiburg. Were proud to be able to help our french colleagues our neighbors our friends and irrespective of our location this is about our duty as humans and our desire to help as europeans. Bells across france rang out to thank the Nations Health workers for macro its imperative that people unite behind him and support his actions in this moment of crisis hes convince them to stay for 2 weeks but hes now expected to ask them to stay indoors for even longer natasha aljazeera western france. Well we can now speak to her shes in isolation currently in border and france and not here thank you for joining us from your lock down can you talk us through your living situation at the moment and just how youre coping with all of this. Yes of course hello. Im the looked out in bordeaux so i try to keep cool to train myself because im a dancer and choreographer and used to practice a lot of dance and your girl and now im i can do it so i try to do it on skype with my friends and also doing training in trying to work on my company and do everything that i couldnt do before administrative work and then rethink so and also a i moved to paris recently but now i came back to border to take my my stuff and doing. Administrative work and i now im here with my exhusband so its out of this range but its ok where doing good were supporting each other can you tell us a little more about the restrictions that youre living under and the logistics around that are you able to get fared and how how would you communicating with other people. So yeah i call other people for all my family and my friends and we cant go out we can go out on a one hour a day like can reduce of one kilometer from the whole we can go in the supermarkets and we have to write to permission every day every. Which each time we go we now to have to write and signed our commission to going out and it cant do or more than one hour. No idea how do you personally think the government is coping with this crisis that people there are broadly supportive of the decisions that have been made. Yes i can see the people. Who respect the decision of the government. Is that. The government wasnt ready for this situation if. The government did was ready for this we should hold maybe we should on the some activity is not the total knock knock down. Divided to actually do p. T. And some people think its good to have to respect that the people think that maybe the medical system was ready it could be could be better can we can know. An artillery in there theyre speaking to us on skype from border france where she is under lockdown thank you for joining us nadia. Now the president of the European Commission has been speaking about the efforts to contain the spread of the pandemic well be speaking to lawrence lee in just a moment about what underlayer had to say but 1st lets go to francesco jumper tony who is in milan for more on what italy as Prime Minister has been telling lawmakers just moments ago about the virus francesco weve literally just been hearing from the Prime Minister i see his Approval Rating is at a record high theban t one percent how is he being received by politicians. Well lessee he went this morning to speak in front of the senate for the 1st time in many weeks he had to do because the tippity of of the parliament had been suspended due to the emergency and all the decrees for the corona Virus Outbreak were never been debated so it was necessary for him to talk to the other parties today. To explain the reasons that brought the government to take the hardest decisions in many years thats what he said to try to fight the virus he said the situation forced the government to reduce. Temporarily the personal freedoms of people for the 1st time since the 2nd world war so it was absolutely necessary. Also italians for more patience he recalls the huge effort made by the state to empower very quickly the national Health System with the construction of new phil hospitals the introduction of additional machines and ventilators in intensive care units where the bads have been more than doubled in a few days but they are not yet enough especially here in the north and in number d. In particular he confirmed it was too difficult for the italian states to find masks abroad even for Health Professionals that are working hard in intensive care units so according to the Prime Minister there was not enough help and cooperation by some other European Countries and that was confirmed by. Also asked for new financial rules and more interventions from European Union to reduce the negative impact of the pandemic on the continent said the government will allocate 25000000000 euros to sustain families companies and increase the houses. To conclude he did not announce any extension of the restrictive measures which should expire on the 3rd of april at the moment but its very unlikely that this will happen they will probably be extended but we dont know how long francesco just taking a look at the numbers today infections and death i mean they seem to be getting worse again daily how are people theyre coping. Well its hard to explain we are we know that the contagion is still growing but its growing a little bit slower than last week so we are getting used to these numbers now we the death toll in italy reached 7500. In the world so far. But its early d to to see a new positive trend or negative trends in day by day we have to wait for a week more at least maybe a. Few days less but now its 20 days this is the 20th of lockdown especially here in the north. Of italy of course people are expecting to see the airports. Are useful and somehow. Its not really working like this right now francesco g. M. But tony there for us in milan thank you very much francesco. The european director of the w. H. O. Is speaking lets take you to what he is saying live and have a lesson. Via digital platforms the issue facing each and every one of us is how we manage and yet too stressful situations unfolding thought up atlee of communities. Here we can draw on the remarkable powers of stent resilience and cooperation that we as humans fortunately possess personally i am trained to stick to what has worked for me in the past when i want to be calm for example learning and practicing simple relax ation techniques like breathing exercise muscle recreation mindfulness meditation can all be very helpful in alleviating bodily and mental distress i myself i also try and acknowledge upsetting thoughts when they occur and discuss them with people around me they are likely to have them too and we may be better able to find solutions collectively try to stay positive i have realized that as a husband father nick and leader it is know that i most need to display empathy solidarity Emotional Intelligence and to walk the talk to leave no one behind ultimately there is only one solution act with kindness act with love but with physical distancing thank you very much. Thanks very much for that Opening Statement i should have mentioned at the beginning that the w. H. O. Materials also that you referred to in your Opening Statement were going to provide some links to those on this channel shortly after we finish the briefing so you referred to homes to the consequences of the Mental Health outcomes and consequences of the covert 19 response and of the covert 19 pandemic ive got a couple of questions related to that straight up front one of them is the 1st is from p. N. Hong from the n. P. R. Network in the usa and theres also a related one from martin bjork from politic and here in denmark and the 2 questions are related so read them together the 1st question is covered 19 has already already caused many people to lose their jobs and livelihoods what can be done now to help improve Mental Health outcomes later and the related question from martin bianca politicking is what are the long term consequences of chronic stress that we can expect after a pandemic ultimately ends and im going to ask malik at headquarters to immediately come in and answer this question and then maybe ill turn the floor again to you hands to a supporter please youre on. Yes so yes thank you for this question it is indeed a concerning issue the measures that we have to take to protect each other side see detrimental consequences. Through most of life. We know that the human itself is a key social determinant for all Mental Health financial loss is respected for trying to stress can be restricted. So Mental Health whether its inside an emergency or outside an emergency requires different values than hearing there from the european director of the w. H. O. And a number of other medical professionals theyve been speaking about the psychological challenges of living under lockdown some of the stress people might experience and also speaking about some of their own personal experiences well earlier the president of the European Commission also spoke and she has called for unity as the continent battles to contain the spread of the pandemic when europe really needed to be there for each other too many initially looked out for themselves when europe really needed all for one spirit too many initially gave only for me response and when europe really needed to prove that this is not only a few or whether union too many initially refused to share their umbrella but it was not long before some felt the consequences of their own uncool you need to action. Lets go now to our correspondent lawrence li who is in london at the moment lawrence i do understand that the e. U. Has limited powers to tackle the pandemic as the e. U. Itself because Member States oversee their own Health Responses is there a unified position now finally emerging. Well its she suggested that through the European Commissions intervention then the then things were improving but the core allegation and she was very clear about this was that when its released on to see this enormous cases other countries which had capacity had ventilators and personal Protection Equipment to doctors and nurses were prepared to hand them over i will just tell you really quickly i mean in terms of the figures its early on a month ago to the day for 26. 00 there were virtually no cases of coronavirus this early march 26 francesco so going to go 7 l. 1000 dead thats a full 10 percent of all the all the confirmed cases and found was that in the cases every day in unbundle ends point was that if countries had given over some of the emergency equipment they had much earlier than italy month not be in this position now and so in that sense shes really accusing all European Countries of a sense of betrayal only through what she the what there not been described as green lanes passages at the borders of countries which are knobs and our clothes through the intervention of the European Commission are now starting to move all this equipment much more freely from from country to country so its a pretty significant intervention really an extremely critical as well funded lan lawrence also spoke about the economic ramifications of the pandemic what kind of action is the e. U. Itself now trying to take to address this. Well theres a meeting this afternoon of the euro zone with that with which of us is 19 countries in inside the European Union and the question thats being raised by by by a full 98 countries is is this some sort of equivalent of the Marshall Plan theres a resurrection of the european economies of the 2nd world war that is now been being countenanced because over the course of this year the economic forecasts are also absolutely catastrophic what a number of countries want to happen these sort of emergency bones which is known as corona bonds. The would allow countries to access fresh debts with very very long term repayment plans attached to them so they wouldnt feel the pain that they felt having to repay the part of the sovereign debt crisis that was called when the banks went down 2008 the simple back from some of the northern European Countries always this is something the poorer countries the woman is to happen but they are certainly talking about vast amounts of money being created 1. 00 way or another to prop countries up which would otherwise go bankrupt and Public Services wouldnt be able to happen and people would just simply romance of money so in terms what will what politicians always try to do is turn a crisis into a virtue. On delay and theyre saying the European Response to this needs to be more european to behave like good europeans and find ways of working together to get through the crisis and in turn thats obviously what theyre going to try to do in but in the film but itll take obviously months and months to see if it will best firms. That are in flavor for ethanol and in fact france arent. Well now a month long stage of imagine c. Has come into effect in thailand the country has reported 100. 00 in the 11 new coronavirus cases that brings the total number to a 1045. 00 on that day people over the age of 70 are being urged to stay at home and public gatherings are banned but our correspondent scott hylas in bangkok scott how a people there are reacting to this state of emergency is it being welcomed. Well the state of emergency is a very interesting thing now because when you look at the streets here in bangkok right across thailand as well this nation of 69000000 people right now there is not a great deal of difference than what it was like just yesterday or what it was like even 34. 00 days ago thats because a lot of the restrictions the shops being closed retail outlets are closed unless theyre selling food restaurants can only sell takeaway and pharmacies anything thats in the sesame for peoples daily lives can remain open Everything Else has really kind of been a suggestion from the government we suggest if you have a private enterprise if your employees can work from home do so social distancing those kinds of things those have been suggestions that have been going on for the last 4 or 5 days but right now with the state of emergency in place what has happened is the government has more power to move forward if they think they need to impose a curfew if they think they need to impose internal thailand restrictions of travel both for thais and foreigners so thats what might come next so when you look at the state of emergency it is more the government preparing if possible if anything gets worse the way these numbers have been coming through over the last 4 or 5 days theyre just kind of preparing for themselves but when you look at the day to day life on the streets here there isnt a great deal of change but that could really move quickly scott well thailands always been a country where the minute change is essentially in charge so how is this all now playing out politically that. Yeah well we know now too this came out in the details over the last day or so before the state of emergency came into play and