An issue maybe a little too close to. Hello there this is out international from moscow has just turned 11 am here now this thursday im kevin o. And welcome to this 30 minute world news roundup. And 1st corona virus is spreading rapidly around the world as the current number of covert 19 confirmed cases stands at nearly half a 1000000 as of today the death toll has moved beyond 21000 the amount of recoveries is also on the rise too we can report nearly 115000 thats roughly a quarter of all known infection. So than in the latest developments to report to the smalling the french president has given the green light to operation resilience its a military plan that will see the Army Deployed to help with the logistics and medical support there in defeating coronavirus g d c d i have decided to launch operation resilience it will be entirely devoted to providing aid and support to populations as well as to supporting Public Services to deal with the covert 19 epidemic both in mainland france and in the French Overseas departments and the new mccrone announced the plan for the army as he visited a makeshift Field Hospital on wednesday its being forced to take patients says regular hospital struggle to keep up with the virus paris has also promised a Huge Investment for the Health Care System but medical workers in france feel its been a Long Time Coming with demands going back for more than a year already with investments being promised them by governments worldwide on the back of mass quarantines nexus want to do bensky looks at why the money wasnt injected before and for how long the nations can keep up the spending to. Economies across the world have ground to a halt kilian measures have been announced. To governments offering to pay full salaries to cannot work there is a scramble to inject amounts of money into the system to counter the economic fallout of the pandemic the costs are expected to exceed germany from economic crisis to natural disasters in recent decades as knock downs are implemented with no clear end in sight the real question perhaps is now how long could the world afford this this pandemic has brought the 3rd and most serious economic financial and social crisis of the 21st century the strict measures applied around the world although essential to control the spread of the virus plunge our economies into an unprecedented paralysis from which they will not come out easily or automatically already we know that some 67000000. 00 us citizens are worried about how they going to pay their credit card bills because of the pandemic other fears about finding money for the more essential basic needs of life accommodation and food while the multitrillion for now will keep things taking a long and over some point that will end governments will have to choose between keeping the economy running or treating populations it is impossible to leave even in self isolation and to cure people if we do not continue the Economic Activity that quite simply allows us to live in this country our daily life so that eating out to restaurants going to the cinema meeting friends perhaps for a drink or even having a haircut these are all activities that contribute to. Keeping our economies taking over the money top sliced off by our governments in taxes then goes towards paying for essential services be that the doctors and nurses who are currently at the frontline of the war against 19. 00 all the ability to purchase ventilators and other essential medical equipment governments need money and money comes from a healthy working economy we have already been warned that when containment measures finally and this will not be over the virus will not magically disappear. This idea that if you close schools and shut restaurants for a couple of weeks you solve the problem and get back to normal life thats not whats going to happen this virus is going to be circulating potentially for a year or 2 so we need to be thinking on those times goes. Social distancing may provide a respite from infection peak rates the socalled flattening the curve model but the impact that could have on wrong term economies could some believe provoke spikes in deaths elsewhere in the u. S. State of massachusetts a Suicide Prevention hotline has seen a surge in cools the majority of people called lately a mention in all talking about fear of contracting the virus Economic Impact and prison loneliness or isolation we anticipate and there will be an increased need for Services Like ours for a time to come in countries where social safety nets on particularly robust or or perhaps nonexistent this is a real concern President Trump is well aware of this that despite lawmakers agreeing on a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package trump knows like china he may have to prioritize the economy we have people get tremendous anxiety and depression and you have suicide over things like this when you have a terrible economy you have death probably i mean definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that were talking about with regard to the virus governments who they enact a draconian lockdowns now face an even bigger die lemma given that a vaccine for the virus is still possibly a year or even 2 years away and that were being warned by Health Experts that kovac 19 will remain a deadly force when recess or take over the Financial System becomes the more pressing issue how will they sell the exit strategy from containment before we go into this latest crisis back in january were already. Dirt and we were heading into a recession what weve got now is its very unusual weve got a supply and demand shock. And economic servants. I mean even the Food Industry if were caught up in cotton the suit. And a car that just simply get it to go there and that only to bail out as well and that will again at the National Debt and then have people come pay their mortgages because their college work and even if even if theyre getting money theyre giving loans they can they cant pay their mortgage and we have repossessions this is my worry right now but all of the industries will and are. Getting affected by this the most just in one giant mass you know we had to for economics professor Richard Wolfe who believes action should have been taken sooner we are going to have a worst condition of unemployment now 100 employment goes up a little more like this every conceivable still szell problem we have i grow a little child that you did poorest you name it golds read it thats one of the reasons you cant i have to believe predict the next fall out of all of this everything that government has done since we 1st learned about the a coronavirus in december of last year has been too little and way too late and my judgment as best i can see it now is that this bill are still madly in the form it takes one and finally there will also be true little and too late. On the expected here and now authorities in italy are hopeful theyve started to turn the tide on the pandemic the number of confirmed cases has gone now for a 4th consecutive day but still the country seeing hundreds of people succumb to the virus on a daily basis with italy remaining the hardest hit nation in terms of teletubbies and desperate times of call for Desperate Measures in one northern town where a church has been turned into a Holding Place for coffins as a group say it isnt it the situation is so bad there that there are queues forming around the province for Funeral Services a priest for the church said they are expecting many more coffins into in the coming days meanwhile ever more countries are coming to italys aid to help as best they can with a crisis a convoy of 22 trucks with russian medical experts and special equipment has reportedly reached burgerman now considered to be the epicenter of the outbreak there in italy as rome reached out for support its not only russia but also lets remind ourselves china and cuba 2 that have responded we heard from residents in milan who seem surprised by the day it was known e. U. Members have so far shown greater solidarity in the fight against coronavirus in italy. We should be thankful to russia but also to china and cuba as well as to other countries outside the European Union as it is right to help each other in this instance we too will be ready to help other countries when the need arises. Events of in with that agenda i think in such circumstances any kind of help regardless affords you know ideology must be accepted from my. Must unless its a welcome hand because italy has been left alone so for me they did good. On european aid has been greater than aid that came from within the e. U. Community see what i mean when germany or france need help were always there for them when its the opposite not so much while many people stand in solidarity afraid of the rapidly growing Health Crisis some are going out of their way to capitalize on a shortage of those facemasks our europe correspondent peter all of us got the latest on the. The coronavirus brings the world to its knees we all seeing some exploiting fear and scarcity to try and make money out of protective equipment like these face masks a hospital in cologne was looted of thousands of face masks and 6000000 yes thats right 6000000 masks that was supposed to arrive in germany last week from kenya failed to show up and seem to have disappeared without a trace in moscow over 800000 was stolen from a warehouse while in ukraine gunmen masqueraded as Security Services to rob thousands of protective facemasks police in the United States were able to recover some stolen masks and sets about donating them to those in need theres also Major Concerns about fakes coming on to the market criminals will stop at nothing to make a profit the Illicit Trade in such kinds of fake medical items during the public Health Crisis shows their total disregard for peoples well being or their lives while of Front Line Health Care workers are scrambling for functioning personal Protection Equipment fashion houses and social media stars being slammed for trying to cash in on this crisis. In france the government to step in to regulate just you should have access to face masks saying that its only those in high risk groups all those that are confirmed to be infected with covert 90 that actually need to wear them in the 1st place and they are the only things in high demand and its a cargo ship bound for tunisia has in the words of that countrys trade mint. Being pirated now the cargo ship in question was full of Vital Equipment and supplies needed for the manufacture of Hand Sanitizer then theres toilet paper despite being made from recycled paper and produced by the millions of rolls in almost every country around the world people keep stockpiling it. I just repeated it its being used as a currency gimmick by one australian cafe its been described as the best gift in these times by lifestyle magazines and more seriously a man in Sydney Australia is being sought by police after he held up the store at knife point and made off with 500. 00 toilet rolls really its unbelievable how things that had being so commonplace become so sought after in times of crisis peter all of our r. T. Early. Is crazy in the wiki leaks editor doing this news on him has been denied bail in the u. K. As Health Concerns of a covert 19 strike fear into prisons use trailing whistleblowers lawyers say that hes a great risk in britains high security belmarsh jail we kill leaks has spoken out to claim at least 100. 00 workers at the facility are off sick with symptoms of the virus. It was 30 solicitously. To the. Court judge relayed in. The prison authorities reliable records of the no call the 19 pages of inside the almost prison while we look for the last 100. Years our lives religion 10 years of detention. In a very poor health is a very vulnerable individual of this moment it is unjust and inhumane in light of the cries of the police. While adding to that Amnesty International is now calling on the u. K. Authorities to release Julian Assange if he is at risk hes currently awaiting possible extradition to the United States after British Police forcibly removed him from london that quote or an embassy after 70 is holed up there and sound just lawyers say that on top of existing Health Conditions connected to isolation hes also got a lung problem right now we spoke to a member of his legal team. Considering the possibility of an infection outbreak an overcrowded belmarsh prison under sanjays Health Condition after almost 7 years of imprisonment he should be released immediately besides sondra is not convicted officially in britain hes just going through the extradition process he hasnt been convicted he is not serving a sentence. Worth paramatta course if julius is extradited to the United States he could face up to 175 years in prison for leaking confidential data lawyers fears hearing and possible trial there could be politically motivated over his publishing of alleged u. S. War crimes on wednesday the judge looking into his songes bail declared that he still posed a flight risk but a former u. N. Expert an opportunity tension told r. T. That the coronavirus pandemic means that that argument falls flat. 1st of all she sought refuge asylum in an at an American Embassy well. Is it likely that he could seek refuge in refuge in any similar embassy and now i dont think so and secondly its Free Movement much more restricted today than it has been only a month ago so the likelihood of somebody being able to to flee the United Kingdom under the extreme form of Political Police surveillance that mr sonner misleading would be in addition to choose it was a site in press following him its not very likely hes house has the tenor it is going to tear it thats not a question of finally real argument its a question of the man being in a situation where his health is well hes life he may not survive this the extra added risk of the current and b. Demick is extremely serious this man should be kept in isolation in a private facility and not in a prison. Youre watching out International Live from moscow with me kevin now in hi there good morning head there with the u. K. 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Against 20 past the hour now thank you for being with us the morning or if you choose to run the world write us about russia now whats happening here and a move to halt the spread of coronavirus here all International Flights are said to be grounded from tomorrow except for those bringing citizens home again it comes after Vladimir Putin announced a week long paid holiday for nonessential workers another new measure that starts on monday the president explained that its because of russias geographical position its near impossible to lock the country down totally but did vowed to do everything to minimize the effects. But it is right now it is important to prevent a pass spread of the disease that is why i am a non senior the next week as the week that i will not see anyone working and everyone will have this seller its as dear in our priorities here is the health of our people well we brought you the whole thing live here stay more that came out from address the nation putin and those various benefits many explained were not simply because of the crisis theres a boost for sick leave in unemployment payments russians who suffer a sharp drop in income can request a suspension to credit payments to similar support would be given to Small Businesses with tax breaks and protection from bankruptcy wealthier individuals and Big Companies are expected to cover some of the cost of the measures the changes come in as russias registered its 1st 2. 00 deaths from cope with 19 so far it currently has 840 cases of the coronavirus with more than half of those infected here in moscow and so chris of ski host of the epidemic series here on this channel spoke with people returning home to russia from viral hotspots about what theyd been through in their quarantines. How did you end up in this hospital. I arrived by plane at 11 am from bologna to moscow and i went into self isolation the next day 8815 i opened my door and was met by a medical school board i was really afraid that i would like people in plague suits yeah exactly i noticed i had a message at 8 in the morning which i only read later that said al flight had people infected with corona