but all of them come straight from the heart to look for a seat in one of the more the marsh. lands of the law to their final resting place the russians off to dublin documentary. in. st mark's square in the heart of venues. you know usually this place is teeming with thousands of people gathered here now there's no one know which.

a deathly hotshots descended on the city with its world famous canals everything is closed for the forseeable future. the tourists have left and venice is resident saw heeding the strict lockdown imposed on italy since march and. most of the time cameraman marco polo and i find ourselves completely alone in the city's memories of alleyways. normally the crowds here make it difficult to cross the reality bridge now i stand alone by the grand canal the city's main thoroughfare. we can tell from the packaging that these are boxes of medicines. that are being unloaded here the supply chain

for the pharmacies appears to be working they are still open. the delivery workers letters film them but they don't want to be interviewed so we move on. the few others we come across give us a wide berth somehow in this difficult situation it doesn't seem appropriate to confront them with a camera and a microphone. what we're experiencing is extraordinary fascinating but a bit frightening at the same time. we've obtained special permits from the math and completed the self declaration forms required of all italians when they travel otherwise we wouldn't be allowed to be here or took.

luckily our encounter with a caribbean yesterday passes off without incident with filming it secretly with a cellphone. do a film permit yes we've got approval from the mass office. to hear the documents the press office has also been informed. that's your self declaration form. yes. and you can carry on. as if the thing as. close to the reality bridge is the city's fish market normally it's packed with

vendors now there are just a few many fish mongers wonder how they're going to survive economically sales have collapsed. the few customers who do come here by 2 full 3 fish if that fish than those on their money from the restaurants and hotels that buy in bulk but they are all closed by diesel that's about it i haven't experienced anything like it in the last 35 years that i've worked here which i applied down there we have never been hit so hard not by the floods or other catastrophes for them up and awful but it was out of we've been nations are tough it was a lot of. people but we have never seen anything like this cycle me just you look at it you just don't know how to react and how to stay healthy and start. he thought the hole that many people of lost their jobs their home without work

these are difficult times. that. we had for a bag in the region of lombardy 230 kilometers west of venice an epicenter of the corona virus in europe. we want to know why kovac 19 has infected and killed so many people in number. for us to it's hazardous to enter this quarantined area we decide not to take any risks we have disinfectant masks and gloves at the ready. at the time we filmed in mid to late march close to 10000 people had already been admitted to hospital treatment in the province of lombardy. by the 1st week of april the number of reported cases in the region would reach nearly 55000.

with its population of 120000 people the city of baghdad now her long with its outlying areas is long but is most important commercial center after milan. journey takes us to the historic center of baghdad which is perched on a hill called outta here too most of the businesses in stores are closed. and. the alley is the desire to as they were in venice there are just a few people standing a safe distance away from one another waiting patiently outside the pharmacy. in the piano survey care the square at the heart of the old town we meet marcelo menow de who runs the cafe downtown. cafe dates back to $1476.00 and the any time that it has had to close for such

a long periods was during war time but marcelo is an optimist he says now the main thing is to be there for one another and pull together. we will open the cafe as soon as everything is over here and the entire family will do their bit including him. and step by step will begin again. i hope very much that everyone will be buoyed by this optimism including the government and. they've really done everything possible and are doing a pretty good job prime minister condé and all the others it's an exceptional situation very very difficult to see all. the macho asks whether we've already had a coffee as everywhere is closed including the motorway service stations we classically accept his invitation.

just off the answer vecchia is the terminal for the funny kill a runaway that runs between beg and beg. the newspaper kiosk inside is open. we're going to go can i see the daily newspaper please here you are of a many a bitch or it's. your home yes unfortunately we're living with a serious threat. and are you afraid. yes why there's so many deaths in bank and in particular the logic of that there is no logical official explanation. perhaps it has to do with the fact the paradigm now is a hub for the region close to the alps and is connected to milan. as well and then you add $1.00 and $2.00 together you end up caught in this vicious circle. all

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on the northeastern outskirts of baghdad lies the village of kaz nigga. there's a home for retiree's here. we set off to find out how the situation is developing in such cannot. deliver. from. the health and caste system and lombardi one of italy's richest regions says well in international comparison and where he's waiting in the courtyard we're not allowed to film the facility either inside or on the outside. the situation for residents and cameras is very great. i think. you still have some time here where this is like a war stay at home all of you and. no one should be out and about in particular the elderly are at great risk there have been many many deaths but the figures are much

higher than is generally known you still have a few days reprieve but i repeat stay at home. the situation here is very very serious. i don't want to spread panic but please get the old people into isolation avoid any contact because for them the situation is much worse than it seemed. like here it's like being at war. he doesn't know whether. back in bag among the city hospital is out of bounds in front of the building there are huge additional oxygen tanks the hospitals own facility can no longer supply anywhere near enough oxygen to run the many ventilators needed for the coronavirus patients. so this is said here so this is the sign giovanni

hospital named for pope john the 23rd pops on is that one of the biggest hospitals and really the center of the corona infections you could almost say europe's coronavirus hotspot. and. when also not to film in the hospital. we meet the director of the pediatric departments who learns oh don t. got in the foyer. we conduct the interview outside like the rest of the staff dr don tiger has been working almost round the clock for weeks now but. many doctors and nurses have contracted the virus and are unable to watch patients in isolation wards are also separated from their loved ones request wanted to see steady for the devout it's an extremely difficult situation. it's.

not being able to be with their loved ones in their final hours and not being able to have a funeral with a priest is a very painful experience that they're. bad miscible because the virus hits old people the hardest the head pediatrician says that's why the situation in can homes is particularly precarious. see him on top of it a lot that is only one fortunately there are a lot of dead here and not just here in the hospital but also elsewhere there are many elderly people living in their own homes in the villages around bearable or in the valleys in the outlying foothills with a lot of them are dying at the moment and we're convinced that they are dying from coronavirus. but because they're not being taken to the hospitals there is no diagnosis. according to statistics in italy the vast majority of deaths

from covert 19 caring people over the age of 60. most of them had one or several preexisting conditions. one good piece of news about the virus says the doctor is that children are extremely unlikely to be severely affected. because a particle adequately bambini that event by the children or case in particular. they can get infected with the illness isn't very serious and. that's definitely good news for the families with small children. but you shouldn't forget one important aspect. the children who have been infected pass on the infection. if it's it's crucial to realise that. you can infect adults without showing any sign of symptoms yourself. if it got out there but. it's an almost 3 hour drive from bag a motor boat santa has all the hotels

a shot we can't dally one advantage of the long down is that the roads are largely clear and we made good progress. even around busy hubs like verona where there are usually kilometer long traffic jams. i. can build santa the capital of the largely german speaking province of al to other j. pickups with loud speakers are urging people to stay inside for health reasons. that . a lot is being done here to stop the spread of the virus. overnight the roads pavements and bus stops are being cleaned and decontaminated

with water and hydrogen peroxide. think feel a mention again i think it has some effect a lot of people walk on the streets a few spit their animals running around illnesses can get passed on like that north korea listen we believe that we have to reach 00 inflection point if we want to rule out the chance of the road the ground is a source of infection. i . the cleaning liquid is said to be harmless to the environment. we also asked whether this is really meant to just reassure the city's residents. a symbolic act. non-effective now it's not just about the psychological fact. let's be clear on this its citizens still have to stick to all the regulations and

they shouldn't think that the streets are clean now and the problem of the virus is solved now what about so no way. it just makes a small contribution there nothing more. than people for free. if we get out of their way. next day at home with a camera man marco to hear from the doctor and number 3 that his 3 sons are not at acute risk from the virus is reassuring the boys are working on exercises that their school has sent via email. some work can also be done on the computer together with mothers sylvia plath i. fear. that.

since the lockdown was imposed sylvia has spent most of her time at home with the boys as a software programmer she also has to work from home recently the italian government tightened up the long town banning walks outside anyone violating those rules faces a fine of 2000 euros and criminal charges. british. from time to time the pono family sit outside the house at the entrance to their small garden just for a change of scene. all. be he one how. at home i'm not scared at all but i would be if i were in the city. i hold my breath when people walk past and then breathe out when they've passed by . i'm

fed up with this virus i want to go back to kindergarden. every day without fail the family sit down together to watch the evening news on italian t.v. the statistics in. also paint a worrying picture in the next 2 weeks the family will learn that the number infected has more than doubled with more than 4 times the number of deaths. the economic situation is also dramatic some 7600 businesses have been forced to close in the northern italian province. in vivid taina shortly before the brand a past one company has been able to avoid having to put their employees on reduced hours or give them notice pay to tranq founder and his team came up with a new business idea overnight the 20 strong team is now constructing protective

shields from plexiglas and metal. as these products are intended to protect people from the new coronavirus hygene is being taken very seriously at 1st it wasn't clear whether the product would sell. you know if they know we're not giving up we're making these protective panels and going from door to door with them many banks and stores have snatched them up. enough that we've seen that many people need them. which production from one day to the next almost evil we've posted our product on social media and seen that there is a demand on the go this pulse of the art. in the meantime the production hole has been almost totally refitted with new machines and materials. it's

a mammoth task. and a real a chief meant. no reason for the course it's a big change. and we are really pushing the envelope. but we are a great team. we are sticking to the rules we have protective suits and i hope that this crisis will be over at some point and then to feel and all the others out there stick together like we have. and they will also survive this crisis. there are enough orders to keep the company busy for the next few weeks and the jobs here are secure for the time being at least. it's all a bit like it was one 3rd luck with the one 3rd team effort and one 3rd the absolute will deserve i have. it so that's what motivated us and that's what made the difference for 5 days ago the business was completely different

a classic small blue collar for what's on all today we're talking about hygiene risk management and there's the plan that list what people have to do and when. one has to provide food the other the supply of materials each is concentrating on their role and nothing else is on this bitter corner or. the tourist resort of tiro patched about the spot town of matt on 0 is also deserted right next to the villages can home is general practitioner where he can slightest practice. first of all he provides us with fresh face masks and stresses just how important protective measures are for

people in the health care centers who work with old people. i think for when i arrive at the practice i try to put on an entire new set of clothes i change here when i get home i again change out of the clothes that i only wore for travelling between work and. i take off my shoes outside the door i try to keep to the highest standards of hygiene that's so to keep external contact down to a minimum for those at home and for my patients to come back the house and you see . doctors lying to takes us on a quick tour to show us the situation in a care home in toronto the safety measures are strict with additional restrictions of movement within the home itself. and here are the time to all have if that's all they have closed all the communal rooms and stop all group activities we have tried to isolate each floor. so if we did have someone who test positive the other floors would be in quarantine and

protected couldn't be in their home. some are now in the communal rooms it's empty time and i $35.00 all of our residents are all on the floors above us. normally this is a happy place with people playing cards and eating coffee and cake or carers organizing games. yes this is unfortunately the sad reality that. the next day outside the main hospital in bolts on oh here there are also special measures in place in the control tent in front of the building everyone entering the hospital is 1st tested for the corona virus. right by the side that is the region's italian white cross control center the relief organization has set up its own task force for the transport of people infected with covert 90. told

before we go to speak to the white cross and ask the volunteers how things are with that ambulance services the doctors told us to put on gloves. the head of the coronavirus task force in both zano is louder part of an. she has been employed by the white cross for 11 years. she says she has never experienced a situation like this. unfortunately we have been picking up a lot of patients who although they can still walk and breathe on their own in the morning by evening we have to rush them to an intensive care unit. was. in the afternoon we get a message from a doctor in baghdad he says the situation has deteriorated over the last few days.

this time we decided to carry out our interview by skype to avoid any possibility of infection like dr dan tika don't turn to rennes or norse or works in a public giovanni hospital in bangkok. i think the message that goes for us all for the whole of europe is all of us we doctors to need to keep our distance from our families. well. if everyone in europe does that then at some point this will be over. and then we'll have a lot of time again to spend together and to hug each other just like we did in the past. but for now we must stay at home in self isolation. because that's the only option we have to stop the spread of the virus in europe.

optimism and solidarity what's important now even if an end to the crisis is not in sight. while the curve of new infections appears to be flattening out it's still unclear when the country will be able to return to normality. is that when i 1st saw the photo in social media i thought it was a fake but it's true the water is a lot clearer than usual and you don't hear a sound either it's almost eerie now and then you hear a child crying but nothing apart from that i'm believable.

if something positive has come out of this crisis then it is the cleaner water in venice's canals. and who knows maybe even phoenicians will also miss the peace and quiet when one of this is over 1. because. for. me and some. yes some doubt. ms it's a kind of culture twat to me a send me

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is the news live from berlin the world's biggest coronavirus lockdown extended for 3 more weeks indian prime minister narendra modi tells the nation's economic prize of the lockdown has been high the people's house is far more and. also coming up trump on the defensive posture coming under fire over his handling of the crisis in a heated news conference the u.s. president claims his actions have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and then as a cell phone. video criticize.