china as the country with the most deaths from the corona virus today is also the 1st day that china reported no new local infections 3 months since the beginning of this outbreak there is cautious hope tonight in china growing desperation here in europe and in the united states the fear that many won't take the threat seriously until it's too late. this is the day. it was difficult but will it and it has over the department told me it is enough of the puppets of ernie els the telling there is going to be coming. out in full emergency with these coronavirus and even. a lot of personnel nurses and physicians are working round the clock countless our work to fight these incredible situation. we do not know. the spend enough will last.

i have to massachusetts the 1st one is for the general population. pleats state that holds. the 2nd message is full of whoever wants to help us we are in desperate need of both nurses and physicians. also coming up tonight quarantined by a virus quarantined by a government's lack of action what coronavirus patients are telling us in the united states through the window. liz burns blames the u.s. government for not responding to the coronavirus threat quickly enough they could have done a lot more at the beginning. i think we should have learned from the pandemic that had happened and asia and. other countries more on it very quickly and our forcefully. went to our viewers on p.b.s.

in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the dead in italy 3405 that is today's official death toll from the corona virus pandemic it is a record high for any country in the world meaning italy today surpassed china in the number of lives that have been lost to the virus it comes amid reports of scenes no one in italy thought possible just a month ago coffins stacked to the ceiling and hospital morgues that are filled to capacity. firing 247 quarantine to patients dying alone while the exhausted nurses and doctors are now falling ill to the same virus killing so many of their patients are 1st reported takes us to northern italy tonight which is now the epicenter of this pandemic the front line between humans and a virus. the city of bergen mohammed ran out of space to bury its dead.

these military trucks are taking the coffins to nearby cities for burial the coronavirus has hit the lombardi region like no other place in italy. names and faces of lost loved ones filled the local papers as the death toll keeps climbing physicians and officials are appealing for help we are in full of mergers with this corona virus a media. our personnel nurses and physicians are working round the clock countless our work to file these incredible situation we do not know how wrong the funding mia will last we are in desperate need of board nurses and physicians together with ventilators and these positives for protection efforts to build a temporary hospital in the epicenter are under way. its top that $200.00

intensive care units will be ready by the month and. italy has also turned to the country where the virus originated 1st support medical teams from china have flown in to lend their expertise. not yours it's i don't i eat enough to haul the people over 2 countries will stay together and support each other to join to overcome the hardship. i believe the top class teams of experts will learn from each other and make joint efforts and surely will be able to subdue the outbreak very soon cheer up italy. amid speculation that the lockdown could be extended for several more weeks italians are finding simple ways to lift their spirits. the. oh lord god or. man he be your.

baby that was 8 all. you know these songs of hope there in italy let's bring in our journalists sima got to she is in rome tonight good evening to you you know we have heard so many stories of sorrow from italy this week especially today i want to ask you how much more can the people in italy take would you say that you're near a breaking point tonight. i think you definitely saw it today with these fake as it's edges shocking and incredibly hot freaking i mean 3405 people that have died with 19 infection in them and that's in a country of 60000000 now that siga is less than the entirety of china which has a population of 1500000000 people so the question one wants to ask is how is that

possible in the authorities keep going back to the issue of the elderly population in the country the fact that you've got the 2nd oldest population in the world and that most of the people that have succumbed to this disease an overwhelming number over the age of 70 and that have preexisting health conditions and this is the reason why the country seems to be hit hard another possible reason is the fact that they're overwhelmed in terms of the health system east 14 doctors have succumbed to the disease and it's the need to to over 2600 infected with cope at 19 making it difficult for them to treat patients obviously and then of course you have the issue of the lock down in law but he couldn't have been done should it have been done for the moment though the focus really is on the immediate merge and see and to boost the medical stuff that as we heard in that earlier

report they need more doctors and more nurses so what about the patients that these grim stories we've been hearing of elderly people in hospitals they've been quarantined and they're dying alone i mean the biggest fear for a lot of people is to die by themselves or what is being done to prevent this. well there's very little one can do simply because this is such an infectious disease that it passes on so quickly we've even heard of funeral workers getting infected because of contact with the bodies and it's not just hospitals that out if the affected one is not to get it can homes for the aged as well a particularly hard hit because of course the good you have a population that is fragile being housed there it's a perfect place for this virus to spread and that is why it's very essential that they have all the protective gear the boss and so on and the respirators they're

asking for this equipment they are trying to breach produce it themselves hear it city but you're absolutely right the idea of having to die alone is hot breaking obviously for those who succumb to the disease but also for the family members the loved ones who can't even say goodbye to their loved ones at the last moment of their lives because they cannot have contact in the county even carry out the funeral you know i mean it's unimaginable down you know what you're describing there and it's hard it's a hard story for anybody to cover especially when you're on the ground words happening and as you are your before we go i want to ask you how are you doing how are you coping with so much sorrow and suffering to report. well i think it is very hard listening and reading to these stories and having direct contact i think it's almost impossible now to find someone who doesn't know of someone who's been infected until someone who has

a loved one that's been affected if it's bread across so which brings it home and makes it much more real but i think it's important to get this message out to get this message up to other countries that they have to be prepared and that's what it's and he's trying to spread not just the doctors and nurses themselves if with scene on social media but also the authorities that a sharing this information with their european cotner has at the moment the prime minister has said that he's looking at further measures more stringent measures in terms of the lockdown we expect schools school closure to be extended even further the exact date we still don't know and you know the chinese experts who have been in italy now are saying perhaps now is the time for even further closures the defense minister has said he's ready to put the military on the streets to ensure that it's secure because the message to stay at home needs to be heeded yes we're hearing the same thing all over europe tonight similar in rome for us thank you see

misty save and stay healthy thank you. well this is a story of 2 crises the viral pandemic claiming the lives and the economic collapse created by efforts to save lives today the european central bank announced a 750000000000 euro bond buying program to help stabilize markets reeling from this unprecedented threat and it is just one of many plans designed to save economies from total collapse. on both sides of the pond the central banks are pulling out the big guns $750000000000.00 euros in bond buying by the e.c.b. the federal reserve promising $1.00 trillion dollars in cash loans from banks get even old that is not enough after all monetary policy firepower alone can't breathe life back into knock down economies they want to avoid a wave of insolvencies that would undermine the recovery but nobody can prevent

the freezing of the economy and the consequences this is certainly are in the global economic downturn which is at least as severe as the downturn in the financial crisis could government spending provide the european governments are spending multiple billions of euros to keep businesses afloat and employees paid central banks and governments are digging deep but the only way out for businesses is likely months away when restrictions to movement and economic activity ease after the pandemic has passed. and join me here to be table tonight is our senior business editor. ben there is plenty of stimulus now is working a lot of it but a lot of it is not seeing results this is a hard one i mean we're throwing the world is throwing a huge amount of money we're talking about trillions at a health emergency which is causing trillions in losses but again it's a health emergency so it's very mixed as far as the success of these packages go

we've got the 3rd emergency credit program from the fed into. today's the bank of england out with another one today the australian straightens around with another support package as well for their economy the dollar did so john thursday but equities are all over the place they're going crazy i mean they were up by one percent 2 percent at times down by 3 percent the dax finishing up by 2 percent the dow finishing up by one percent just a glimmer of heart glimmer of hope for something we've never done before we've never actually asked the global economy to polls while we save lives which is what we're doing right now how serious is the economic impact that we're talking about you know well this is it's about saving lives it's about saving jobs as well and saving economies as a whole as a business journalist this has been a real challenge just keeping up with the different agencies that are coming through my the 2nd a it's like playing tetris and you see one thing about corporate warnings about job

losses then the next notification comes through and it keeps moving down the screen . today just some of the 25000000 job losses worldwide in the u.s. services sector making huge layoffs left right and center is surging unemployment figures germany's manufacturing sector seeing its steepest full in expectations in the 70 year history of industrial surveys. also crude oil traders from africa to america offering huge discounts because. basically supply is swelling and demand is is plunging also in the airline industry one of the hardest hit at the moment because no one wants to go anywhere or is allowed to go anywhere quantas telling most of its 30000 stuff to take leave and look tons of saying if they don't get state aid and this goes on for a long time there are going to be a whole lot of failings it is unbelievable and we're hearing time and time again this week you know do home office do home office is it enough though to keep the businesses from going bankrupt and everything afloat it won't be enough for me it's

a godsend i was never allowed to have office. and been baking cookies for the crew . with plastic gloves on of course you're also getting into some god ning i was at one of the god centers here and was picking up some seeds for vegetables and. tomatoes and there were a heap of other people doing it as well because they're worried they're not going to get enough food from the supermarkets which are allowed to be open at the moment but it's a real challenge getting your hands on they're not respecting those social distancing measures either are well actually it's a godsend when i move from the keening to the tomato i took a step to the left the guy next to me took a step to the left a good good good well that's good then we got 30 seconds what is surprised you the most so about this this crisis i think the run on toilet paper i mean how much toilet paper do you need for how long i mean for such a personal question. in a fear of people all around the world you sort of fights on social media in australia absolutely embarrassing but people really have to think and think hard

about what they're doing because there's panic buying means sure you'll have a whole lot of it but they'll be other people missing out yeah so on monday $20.00 for one roll of toilet paper and about projects couches of it you know it was all it has always been thank you. whereas if the race to save lives and the global economy were not enough there is another very different but all too familiar threat attached to the coronavirus in a report prepared for the european union russia is singled out as the main source of what is now a tidal wave of misinformation about the pandemic the report points to fake news most of it online designed to inject fear and discontent into society's already jittery from the virus take a listen to what the european union's foreign policy spokesperson said. would be the start of spreading call folk around a virus or could be 1000 v. of course nor with these that was increasing was also done

a number of this information misleading information. outright lies and wrong things which have been cool 88 we know is that there was because in amount of this information fed from outside of the e.u. among others also from russia or from providers which are based in russia or a linked somehow to broker and lean sources and while these are very important it's also like to inform the public and to keep the people to be aware about these because whoever i mean and it's not only coming from from russia this is not the only source of the misinformation but whoever is spreading that this information is essentially playing with people's lives playing with people's lives serious stuff there let's pull in roughly 0 gold's fight he is research in social media coordinator at democracy reporting international he is here in berlin tonight or here i want to ask you how do we know that so much of this misinformation how do we

know that it's coming from russia. thank you for having me brianna basically the report was written by the use tracked task force which was founded in 2015 to basically controversial disinformation so irises they have been doing a work on countering online disinformation coming from russia going through different aspects of russian interference in political life in the basically elections are also yellow vast movements in france independence and in the specific case of the coronavirus related this information the report states that they collected 110 pieces of disinformation directly or in directly related to russian and my directly and me basically the outlets as we know russia today sputnik and their online versions but also other outlets contribute to spreading this narratives and when we look at something online that is deliberately meant to scare

us or to misinform us i mean how can we identify how do we know what we're looking at. yeah i think we have been hearing a lot these days wash your hands and i think on the internet the same goes for check your sources so the 1st thing is to look into where the information comes from what's this news outlet isn't reliable so this is the basic rule for checking your information but of course those campaigns are much more complex than only looking at the sources mostly they use videos and images to actually play with people's beliefs and feelings so really doubt whenever it relates whenever an enemy more and information that comes in a visual way tries to trigger people's insides and few years those are. techniques used very much for from disinformation from things you're talking about online hygiene and you're right everyone should practice more of that what about the european union there now it's got this report what if anything can it do to protect

itself or to retaliate. yeah i think basically you have basically a short term and a long term role in trying to fight this types of contains the short term i think the you could actually. recent experiences fighting disinformation around big political events such as the 2019 and european parliamentary elections back then they agreed with this social media companies code of conduct against disinformation which basically 8 made the social media companies. liable for looking into what was going wrong in social media and actually which measures they were taking to take down alicia's compensating the you has experienced on that already this is the time to use this experience on the short term and i feel that in the long term we need more sustainable solutions for that such as legislation or legislation. how can the e.u. protect its citizens from this is the only way. i think on the one

hand legislation and by that any and 2 pieces of legislation that right now are being discussed at the you what is the digital services act and the other one is the european democracy action plan both of them are aiming to make this process is off reacting to online contains massive online campaigns aimed at this informing people in a faster way so basically setting up what are the pros this is a procedure that needs to be in place for that so i think we need to make this notion that you need to make the social media to have companies more accountable on the one hand but we also have this responsibility of doing our social media our online hygiene as you mentioned like really looking for sources understanding how they're there to deceive us and really do our part is off side trying to keep it clean and it's not as easy as we might think. democracy reporting international. feel thank you thank you very much. the united states has confirmed almost

10000 cases of the corona virus infection and more than 150 deaths president trump has invoked wartime legislation to speed the production of critical medical equipment but many americans say their government's response to the crisis has been slow and inadequate use all over salad met with one of them a mother under quarantine in washington d.c. locked down hits home it's an experience liz burns and her family could have never imagined but since they're all p.r. was hospitalized with a high fever the burns are quarantined inside their house the only way we can conduct an interview is by phone through the window. initially they like something you know and weren't you worried about it and sent me home and she is a little while they continue to run. over the next 24 hours because there are more cats and realize she was negative for everything else and. 9 want to get her

record were very unsuccessful the public health authorities said that she did meet . liz burns blames the u.s. government for not responding to the coronavirus threat quickly enough because it had done a lot more at the beginning. i think we should have learned from be endemic that have happened and asia and. other countries more on that very quickly and forcefully. on the streets of washington d.c. life has slowed down dramatically the usually busy streets remain empty restaurants are open only for takeouts. universities and schools and many states remain closed putting additional strain on students and families. at the albert einstein high school in the state of maryland stuff hands out bag lunches offering some relief for parents the pandemic is putting low income families at particular risk some

working parents have been laid off and now find themselves in a desperate situation but i think i'm and they're not the most there are no jobs for us they canceled everything we don't know how to pay our rent in place apartment there. as a government employee was burned says her job is not at stake she is well aware that many americans are not as lucky. and the pandemic so what can each one of us do to help stop the spread of the virus on top of the self isolation and social distancing that people around the world are practicing they are simple hygiene guidelines to follow they can help stop the corona virus from spreading here's a reminder wash your hands with soap and water and do it often keep going for at least 20 seconds especially after you've been in a public place alcohol based hand sanitizers are a good alternative. if you cough or sneeze cover your mouth and nose with

a tissue where you see inside of your elbow throw away used to shoes and don't use them twice after blowing your nose coughing or sneezing wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces every day this includes tables door handles light switches countertops desks phones keyboards toilets taps and sinks and one of the most important things you can do is keep your distance science correspondent williams you gave us this reminder of the importance of social distance. the thing about social distancing measures is that actually they're one of the few things that we know will slow infection rates down there's some pretty good evidence from from earlier epidemics and next like the spanish flu pandemic and $918.00 that social distancing really can have an impact on how fast and infection through

a population the measures are difficult to enforce of course and they also aren't for free they have huge economic costs but social distancing measures really can help limit exposure and what no medications or vaccines out there at the moment they're going to be key to flattening infection curse in europe and around the world affluent in the curve they're very important to our science correspondent derek williams they are the days almost on the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news you can follow me of brant goth t.v. and don't forget to use the hash tag today and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow here's another day see you then everybody stay safe stay healthy.

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discovered. subscribe to the documentary to. no trips no concerts no visits throughout the world drastic measures are being imposed to combat the coronavirus millions must accustom themselves to an ongoing state of emergency the european union. it's hunkering down borders are closed for 30 days member states are checking passports to get at what used to be open internal crossings and every government seems to be thinking of its own people 1st even as leaders rattle off appeals for cross border solidarity so how are people reacting to what concert.