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Senate approving a 2 trillion dollars package unemployment has now shot up to 3200000. 00 across the country while not a hero is in the spanish capital in the dritte for us the numbers are clearly not going down in spain so where are we now in terms of the curve of spread. Despite the grim figures today from spain with more than 8500 new cases of corona virus infections and the death toll increased by more than 600 people we can see theres a small window of hope for the 1st time in spain the number of people infected and death has the greased so i mean of the reducer thought or just keep saying that were reaching the peak of the curve thats the same thing we are jester day so we cannot make a balance so we cannot predict anything we will have to wait another 24 hours to get the new figures who are saying these very grim pictures from this this makeshift morgue and the Health System is clearly under strain how the medical staff theyre coping. Well or d as weve been talking about the best of Health Care Workers and also the army and Police Officers that are the ones that are combating these coronavirus in the front line are lacking not protecting gear they dont have blogs they dont have ghouls they dont have maps and they keep demanding the government the Central Government or even regional regional governments to supply or to provide all this equipment in order to to to develop their work or deploy their work in safety conditions not a herero there for us in the spanish capital madrid thanks very much for that update. Well Prime Minister is warning that the coronavirus will cause what he calls a hard severe recession in europe she said because its a addressed parliament and roman said that europe would only be able to face the shock with exceptional measures with italy and locked down for the last 2 weeks contains promised around 27000000000. 00 worth of emergency measures if lee now has the highest number of virus deaths in the wild at more than 7500 well lets now speak to french jim but tony he is in milan francesco we have been hearing from the Prime Minister and hes also been accusing other european nations of not doing enough to support if he is that something that the a sentiment that other italians share. Yes for sure especially at the beginning of the outbreak it seemed. Countries didnt do march to help italy many many things that were needed by the professionals like masks were not sent to italy even though italy wanted to pay to buy them but there was no corporation so today he asked very firmly new help for from italy from from europe new financial rules and also more support from from the European Union to try to reduce the negative Economic Impact of the pandemic on all the continent and the need to lead to he said as you were saying the. Government will allocate more than 25000000000 euros to sustain families companies and to increase the efficiency of the Health System with a new decree. So on this topic of parliamentary debate has started. Francesco we speak every day and we keep looking at these numbers and they seem to be getting worse every time we speak how are people that type thing. Well its difficult to say because after almost 20 days off a lot down are getting used to it somehow they are also becoming tired of the situation especially for who is losing relatives or friends the lockdown is very tough they cannot assist. Familiars at the hospital and if a Family Member die most of the times he dies alone and funerals are not allowed so sometimes bodies have to be taken to other regions because many pregnant or even here in the northern regions are full so this is just to give you. A picture of how this is the situation here in the north yesterday the number of the new infected and deaths started going down again a little bit 683 people died in one day less than the 743 recorded tuesday but the death toll is still very high with 7500. People who lost the lives its still early to see a new positive or negative trend experts warn every day not to look for tendencies based just on one day or 2 well need more time to Say Something more accurate but at least there has not been an except an exponential growth in cases in the last days so were waiting for a peak that italy has not reached yet of course the latest news are not very good few minutes ago the longer the governor and dissipated new figures the new positive cases could be around 2500. 00 today just in the hardest region of lombardy so he explained that we have to understand now if it was something exceptional but he said he is very worried francesco jampacked tiny of air for us in milan thank you francesco. Well as weve been saying the e. U. Chief has criticized european nations for what she calls a lack of a coordinated response in the fight against the corona virus live on the land says the commission has now created europes fastest stockpile of medical supplies and it will serve as a bank of crucial equipment to help its 27 member bloc fight one of the worlds west outbreaks well lets now go to lawrence and he who is in london lawrence my understanding is that the e. U. Is previously had limited powers to tackle this pandemic as as the e. U. Itself because Member States oversee their own Health Responses but now it seems there is some kind of unified position imagine well i mean obviously individual countries have their Health Care Systems and you know i dont suppose you could do any individual country to think about what they might have to do for anybody else in the in the event of the pandemic because its never happened before but clearly philosophically the point of the european project is that individual countries oppose without help each other and thats where on the land said it it completely fell on the pulse in the decisions that countries took in the last few weeks shes really talking about a period and mauch when cases initially started to rise exponentially and countries started to close the borders because that meant that countries which was stuck on stockpile things like mechanical ventilators and protective equipment for doctors and nurses started to hold them and inform the lns view what they should have been doing at that point was to actually give them to italy but they but they other were issues because they do want to keep themselves or they said they couldnt get them across the borders the lens of the things were now improving and told everybody off in no Uncertain Terms in this speech but she employed effectively that these countries which suppose were supposed to be friends if italy and spain had in the sense betrayed them when europe really needed to be there for each other too many initially looked out for themselves. When europe really needed an 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 fear whether union too many initially refused to share their umbrella but it was not long before some felt the consequences of their own uncool ordinated action of wonderland today also spoke about the economic ramifications of all of this what kind of action is the e. U. Taking to try to address this. Well and this and this is another fault line really in the European Union you know. Very well ventilated saying things are not Getting Better and comes on to worse together on the financial level a theyve theyve proved unable to do that as well in certainly inside the euro zone a number of Different Countries wanted the creation of these these things called corona bones very Long Term Debt repayment vehicles to try and prop up in particular this the poorer southern European Countries but the richer northern European Countries the netherlands and germany austria those who are saying no we dont want to do that thank you very much they said it was too ideological whatever that means in the time of crisis so while the European Finance ministers couldnt get an agreement on that in steps the European Central bank in states with a thing called the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program which is worth over 800000000000. 00 and so it is now going to buy government debts off some of these countries instead so that that now has been very pleasing to the markets because thats such a lot of money and theres no upper limit crucially on the amounts of debt that the e. C. B. Can have by individual countries and so there is no it sounds a little bit of a lifeline and are unfair there for us and on them thanks very much for that lawrence or lets dig into this a little more with oracle broken a hes a political analyst and a professor and European Studies at Stanford University and balin and he joins us now on skype from there all right what do you make of all of the criticism weve been hearing today both from the on the land and also from just that a concept of this lack of unity amongst e. U. Member nations. Its all a role player and we shouldnt. Go as far as the critics from their speakers for example in germany that criticize the European Union for not being union and was a local underlying this also highlighting that either it is only one Member States after all its a club of states 4 states and when we look at the federal republic of germany one could apply the same criticism to the different lenders responded and no one would come up and say thats the end of the federal republic of germany well all right here in you say a club of states full of states surely that entail some kind of support for each other in times of crisis so how do we move on then in order to as wonderland put it today share the same umbrella when when we all face in a crisis what is important is to Exchange Information and since to solve them for we have a European Agency that it was established to provide sufficient information to predict where will the spread of the virus hit whom and how to respond and how to use the facility is as wise as possible i dont think it would have been possible to send nurses and doctors immediately once it popped up in italy from one country to italy not knowing what the situation in the different Member States are but we certainly need a lot of information about the Health System as we will see a much stronger discussion about what to do with the economic consequences of the crisis that will be much bigger than anything we have experienced so far well clearly europe is heading into a recession a very deep recession what do you think this might mean for european integration is it just going to make the fault lines and disagreements between countries do. Well we are in a different situation than in 2008 when the financial crisis started when no one had a clue that Something Like this could happen with the hard learning of the crisis ever since weve prepared a lot in terms of more regulation but one of the big problems of the money terry union that we have a centralised Monetary Policy but still a decent her last fiscal policy hasnt been sufficiently addressed if we increase the act of solidarity in terms of a fiscal union that would pay for the countries that are hit harder than ever before that would then mean that the political nature of the European Union would change because as we know from the beginning of parliamentarism no taxation without. Without representation would need a stronger European Parliament and that would change the nature of the European Union that it is not just another club of 7 Member States but the quality of serenity of the European Union would fundamentally change so all well rick during the 2008 financial crisis i mean the Banking Center itself is the center of the crisis and so the European Central bank could then support markets and banks but the e. C. B. Cant build hospitals or produce ventilators i mean as you say these are all individual fiscal decisions now theyre launching the Pandemic Emergency Program that is that going to be enough for the survival of the year is art. Well it is enough for the moment but since we dont know how big the problem will become it will be too early to throw around even bigger numbers like this is the size of the germans who car and this is the sponsor of the french one what the German Government announced is that this is just of her step and as they used to drive that side in previous crisis they would try to do the same what would that mean for the European Union and whether we transform into Something Like a liability union where countries can borrow money on behalf of the European Union without any conditionality it remains to be seen oric a political analyst and at Stanford University and balun thanks so much for your insights on aljazeera it will come well in the french region of alsace coronavirus patients are now being transferred on specially equipped trains to hospitals and other cities now 20 people 4 of them seriously ill left from the main station and stroudsburg the region has reported more than 500 deaths so far 99 in just the past 24 hours the number of confirmed cases in france has now passed 25000 and more than 1300 people have died there french president emanuel has called in the army to help even withdrawing troops from iraq well our correspondent joins us now from southwest france natasha what more do we know about exactly where these trains are going and especially given that some of these patients are in really serious conditions how theyll be cared for on board the trains. Well it is a very creative solution if you like to the problem of the Coronavirus Crisis in some of these regions of france in particular in this case in eastern france where the number of cases and deaths is enormous in fact a 3rd of all deaths in france happened in the alsatian region up in the northeast close to the german border and what the hospitals the doctors and nurses have been saying is they are struggling to cope they are completely overwhelmed and theyve been calling on the government to come up with a solution and this is it you have t. J. The high speed trains from the outside of course they look like normal trains but inside they have been converted into mobile clinics if you like onboard in each carriage you have a doctor and some nurses and respiratory acquit him and they are rolling in intensive care units so critically ill patients from eastern france will be demoted onto these trains the 1st ones of ready god and they will be taken to hospitals elsewhere for now in western france where some of the cases are lower theyll then be able to be transferred and have beds and treatment there but it is a creative solution its one of the Many Solutions thats been found to try and ease pressure off this region another of course is a bit of European Solidarity as weve seen germany switzerland and knox and all offering to take coronavirus patients from france from just over this border region and on wednesday the french president a man omar actually visited a Military Hospital thats been built very rapidly also to try and help those doctors nurses struggling in those overwhelmed hospitals. Taking the necessary precautions the french president arrived at a Field Hospital in the alsatian city of may lose it was built to ease pressure on east and frances Health System the 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 crawl out of place in peace time he says the fight against the coronavirus is a war. 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 buil