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9 pm monday night here in moscow high headlining this u.s. stocks continue to tumble despite attempts by the smooth over a coronavirus in the day as markets all around the globe look to fend off free falling prices. are going to perfection rates increasing dramatically we are. really in for a loss of. how everyday life could be affected as he sees it's going to sound on him as decision makers go into quarantine. you know the same. people believe. critics accuse the u.k. government of pursuing a high risk strategy for battling covered 90 after official suggested the love of
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his ease to sweep through the population to create herd immunity as people in london before about that plan. for you so we could take a week. or so people to get the harvest quick. and kind of inquire into child sex abuse in the u.k. finds that the internet is facilitating a sharp rise in predatory behavior with police struggling to respond to the growing threat. by their well come on kevin owen your doubt international world news age q with his 30 minute live update for you thank you for your company so 1st then is the fallout from the corona virus continues to sink kid it seems tonight that contingency plans are not stopping financial markets from plunging worldwide america's dow jones index has dropped another 10 percent within moments of wall street opening monday
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earlier discussed what's driving markets to the brink of collapse with our senior correspondent were aghast at. well the zuni one way this is going and it is going down look at yourself in a matter of weeks the dow jones industrial average this is this is an average of many major corporations so an index of their stocks the average it is plunged to levels that we saw that the world was out in 2070 so over the course of a few weeks we've raced all economic progress made over the last 3 years and this is still early days yet i mean the pandemic in the united states it is predicted to get much much worse and essentially what we're seeing is the equivalent of a run on banks so if a bunch of people right on by scene are trying to get their money out this is what investors are doing now with the stock markets with the stock markets in the united states and. their reaction has been so far to come out and say they're obviously
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trying to avoid inciting panic they're trying to calm everyone down and they're pulling money out of thin air billions and billions 700000000000 that they announced in financial measures which is quantity of easy which is a bailout which is it's essentially printing money pulling it out of thin air and giving it to bags the whole point of this is to keep keep banks running what is a bank to bank has money what does it do with this money doesn't sit in it it gives it out so it gives it gives it out to you you're a business you're a mortgage owner you get all this money and here's the bag it has hardly any left suddenly all these. debtors all these that is come to the bank and say look we want our money back in the bag doesn't have any money i mean you've got all the money you pay every month you pay every month the situation we're in now is the entire industry is collapsing all manufacturing italy is on lockdown and the banks rule
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exposed to this so nobody's paying the banks of the back of the banks can pay the eventual. you know the people who invest that money in a bag and this is this is where we're at now the united states government others are trying to stop this trying to give banks money so they can keep the economy running how this affects the markets around the world 1st it was china they shut everything down and this was you know this was the 1st wooden bell because this would this is a knock on effect the entire world economy is interconnected a small bag somewhere in chicago has ultimately an interest in keeping things running in china because say it own stock in apple apple produces its phones in china so eventually there's no phones being produced in china. no new phones being sold so the bank takes a loss ultimately it's all a knock on effect and with genius across the entire world we know what's been done so far that recap it for us and what difference is it going to make when if we're
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only on the precipice into something much bigger more quantitative easing and rate cuts they're going to keep rates of this is this is to stimulate boring to stimulate banks to give out more loans on top of loans that are being paid back so that we can at least pretend that things are going on as as usual we have these fiscal measures out there and they're very powerful i mean the sum total as well over $800000000000.00 from our forward so $800000000000.00 that they've now put that they're now promising to print in addition to the $700.00 that they've already guaranteed this is it is sort of kicking the ball down the road. all this money the more than a trillion if the if the $800.00 a printer to get more than a trillion dollars that people are going to have to pay back this is banks this is ultimately borrowers that are going to have to pay back all this huge amount of money but there's no alternative. is to watch the entire thing crash and burn
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and the europeans especially worried about it we support our. companies we support the small and medium enterprises and above all we support people we support them in their jobs we support them with their income losses so right now the focus is on strengthening our economies and investing what ever is necessary to have the economy going on further there is a lot of tension i can guarantee you at european financial institutions financial institutions all over the world because as the future as things stand the future looks very bleak because you will have hundreds hundreds of millions of people all around the world sitting at home without jobs entire interest industries at a standstill but everyone has to eat you know their loans to pay their responsibilities that must be attended so it's anyone's guess how this is going to go. isn't it just more goes if there were the world health organization is
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confirming european fears now that the continent has become the new epicenter for the coronavirus it says europe's death tolls and overtaken china's from the pandemic. in the past week we have seen a rapid discoloration of cases of course 19. more cases have now been reported in the rest of the world than in china according to the latest estimates china has reported a little over 3200 deaths rather with west of the world is nearing 4000 now numbers affected in china are just over 81000 which is about 15000 less than the rest of the globe but this point in time let's talk to my server logistics lancaster university in britain hey thanks ben live an hour to international making the time for us so it's hard to keep up with this isn't there for you guys as well in a fortnight the epicenter of this pandemic moved from china to europe a number of deaths is now overtaken that of china how worrying should that be for
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all of us. well i think it is already gave its impression to not only just worried just to be an it because it has acquired in all all the countries but in the europe and almost wanting to stop reporting that it needs i mean even in europe 3 everybody reporting disease and everyone is moving into the same to reject me if you put the number up for a day for a country into that african nation is this mean the situation is a little more than just being worried and we see it now people talking about the health authority in the england is saying that maybe this could go on in the u.k. saying this could go on maybe for up through a year do you buy that as well well that is really the plan of the government to stress the peak in such a manner that there would be very little burden onto the and i just which is the health care system so there were going to be any and all about me situation and you
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and i just can't tackle the number of patients that will come over which also means that their cases have to be stretched forward longer dimensions than otherwise this is a complete contrast approach compared to china for instance in china everything went on to feed for a very limited time and that they manage it very well. it appears that in u.k. the plan is opposite to scratch as long as they can so that the peak cannot be achieved china seems to be getting a grip on the situation those skills are returning we heard the horse last major hospital there that they built re quickly to deal with krone viruses close to the rest of the world could hope for that kind of quick turnaround within a couple of weeks a month or so. well not really because what what is true of that is that whatever you can apply in china is not up you can fill in the rest of the words because we live in a different. system here in the europe we have a complete transparency and democracy which is good in one of it but they're very
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corny and the years china has put in place or probably not easily to be 3 implemented here in the u.k. or in other european countries so therefore i can only see even if we apply thoughts your join our plight we were see the same benefit but that does not mean that we call them anything we at the individual or within the community can do a lot more to really by the time for the government and also to safeguard our elderly and wondered why no population britain aside the is now talking about a 30 day travel ban on non-essential travel yet to be brought in i mean you the u.k. may change it's to know what it's going to do depending on what everybody else does but what we've seen happening in spain what we've seen happening in italy is not the way it's going to go any time soon a big locked. well it would certainly have a lot more impact that we can use it against anticipated like weeks before we didn't think that in europe it would be a situation like in china or we started seeing in iran in the beginning but one
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thing now is very clear that in this small continent if all the countries are going to stop. a little bit in the countries or store closings destruction is in the countries is not going to work we are now in the situation where disease is almost at the same level in different parts of europe some are screening more other us meaning less mark through leaks before others are 2 weeks behind so the approach that is going to work is to consider the entire europe as a single region and apply a blanket approach for containment so there is actually there is just going is a way where you are schools are still open in britain lot of paper unhappy about that is a good plan is a bad plan in your view should schools be closed now in britain. well at least the government plan has been to keep the schools open until probably the easter holidays and they reasoned that if you close the schools children need to go somewhere that will put a stop for example from chess or other health care professionals were put off the
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work and they have to stay at home which would negatively impact onto the health care system and also if children are going to go to somebody are they going to pose a threat to other political community or their grandparents so that there's a logic. that is going to stop the spread of the infection if we keep the schools open and this is where the i'm sorry there's a worry as well there's this kind of plan maybe to do this herd immunity thing in britain it's not officially that's not going to happen as one of the advisers leaked it but the if that's the case is there a worry that if it doesn't work that could be a worse virus coming back in a year's time it could mutate what we're about that kind of thing so we're going to see the last of it when this is done precisely i mean the things that we are doing year in the u.k. are pretty risky and hasn't been done before at that scale so i think either it's going to be very fruitful if everyone sure a certain level of citizenship and government make everything very clear or is going to be disastrous in case anything goes wrong right in the middle of these
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practices because whatever the controlled media that are being put in place for example now. even if it's been suggested that anyone in a housing cost think the whole lot has to be in self isolation well that is really a project of it will work the contact with the community with just the scale of such drastic measures that are done will be sustainable where everyone really listened to that isolation because there was no any restriction put in place but if anything goes wrong this practice is going to revert back to your mother anyway when you spoke about the whole africa thing is a kicked off there but we've got 10 seconds said craig your best guess on this when can we be out of it do you think on your best guess. we've going to not be out of this this year. just like to see university thank you very much for coming on the program and telling us your educated view and it's much appreciated come back to us again soon yeah thank you. on the spot a covered 90 has taken its toll
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a big decision makers to the people who run all this because they're only human with a sickness striking to many in the corridors of power the growing number of lawmakers falling ill is causing concern of our effectively government will be able to coordinate their responses to the outbreak. there are far more politicians who have been infected than you would have by statistical chance politicians are overrepresented in the number of people being diagnosed.
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it. in all the uncertainty and unknown of this is easy to get a bit worked up of course but we thought we'd get someone with a real head on this we spoke to the celebrated slovenian philosophers level jacque about the thoughts he liked in the crisis indeed to a wartime snarly when emphasize the need of meaningful international solidarity and helping each other out a bit too. in previous cases people were thinking just about isolation and so on until one day i sure hope we are becoming aware that we kept cool in the unite that coordinate that way we are
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all of the entire humanity in we stayed in the same boat the big loser i think will be but he sadly nationality racist and to want within our country took isolate itself until of course we need got an inch and went for example take europe we should act in a united through a shell pink tribe or we could rate their sweet mosques what they would eat whatever is needed and go on and so on i think that. in this sense we should be shape reality in the middle of the military operation we should be i'm not here appealing to some kind of abstract sense of. it keeping our interest in germany now. they will get an even stronger probably epidemic and go on until one so it can't think obviously that it is something that demand for a mosque but he decides if we think as
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a rational. step look at that we step back and reflect what this our mole go through life how should we change it because we should be aware of why i don't think it's not let me just go on galilee and in thought that a month it will be over baby. in the fall that are that if the day me get out i'll get a full article about it and show what it was i think that even when things go well that it doesn't. it would not be the same nor miley miley really now we're going to change over mode of like you know we touched on this just now while many countries are implementing aggressive measures to contain coronavirus the british government's been sharply criticized over its perceived lack of action of particular concern to many people has been a suggestion that authorities will attempt to control the rate at which covered $1000.00 spreads there with
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a view to developing widespread immunity among the population. in terms of building up a unity within the u.k. what i mean what sort of percentage of people need to have contracted the virus probably about 60 percent or so in britain the number of cases has exceeded 1300 now with $35.00 people dead as a result the petitions been launched calling for schools to be closed across the country the government's also stated it plans to ban large events after delaying on the decision and additional so that to the u.k.'s health secretary said the people aged over 70 now could be isolated for up to 4 months we asked people in london what they thought about the government's high risk approach to tackling the pandemic. it's probably true to take your view but i don't really describes how the 1st to take responsibility i should do what i already knew so we put at risk i situation like this i can see the argument doing that but really i
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can also see the n.t. say we're going to you know push it out of people to get that virus if we think that we do things we've come down to die. a bit scared to justify this but we've got carry on living. overseas i don't say that far this is a peak into about 10 weeks time so that's when i will get really concerned what we don't know yet is full range of detail and if it didn't we would need to know whether or not we do become immune to this virus possibly. it's a great strategy possibly some wrong strategy i don't know but nobody seems to be giving this whole the range of b.p. so one year might tell this leigh is an associate professor of infectious disease modeling at the university of warwick in the u.k. he explained a bit more about the thinking behind the government's approach at the moment. immunity is that when enough people have been trapped by a virus then. the epidemic will eventually die out.
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essentially what we're still trying to do is we're trying to control the outbreak so we're trying to put in interventions that will delay the peak of the epidemic and will certainly reduce the height of the epidemic to point to the certain number of people would be infected then it could no longer in fact that he will people because he sensually people had contacts and been infected and so in reduced to a low enough level that the epidemic would die out is the risk to have we know that the over seventy's and particularly the eighty's. because they may have underlying health conditions are more risk some opiates the you want to protect those. those people in the population which is why these sorts of measures are being considered it's really important now that we keep these good hygiene practices that have been recommended we keep necessary isolation and quarantine policies. and the
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crucial thing here is to reduce the demands on the health service to make sure that those people that really do need hospital cat have access to it here in russia the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now they reached $100.00. central moscow for us with details on the new measures being introduced to try to hold the spread here. or russia's coronavirus infections have jumped to $93.00 people only 7 of which were actually infected within the borders of russia the vast majority came from abroad and the whole situation has really set off alarm bells with officials moscow's now banned public gatherings of more than 50 people until april 10th schools and universities will also be closed by the end of the week for about just under a month but students will be able to continue their studies over the internet now russia's. also decided to close its border with neighboring bella ruse to halt the spread of the virus as for russian nationals returning from the u.s.
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in europe they'll be confined to self quarantine for 14 days president putin's also already ordered the creation of a new group within the state council to address nationwide mobilization against the spread of the corona virus and starting tomorrow special volunteers will be sent to all of russia's virus stricken regions to help the most vulnerable the elderly to get through this difficult time but most of all moscow wants to make sure that a panic doesn't occur and it's assuring everyone that they need to stay calm. it's the best way no way from coronavirus for a minute a 2nd some of the news tonight the leader of israel's blue white party benny gantz has accepted an official request from the president to try to form a coalition government there it comes off the longtime rival benjamin netanyahu was endorsed by a majority of lawmakers in the knesset after a 3rd inconclusive election in under a year. here and discuss the prospects than all of a new look government and with will be successful in all with middle east correspondent pulis leah. what does this mean for benjamin netanyahu. well it's
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certainly not good news i mean he's going to be hoping that there's going to be a 4th round of election he's also very surprised because he was the one who actually won these elections and. particularly from his voting bloc was that he would be the one to form the next coalition government what are the chances that guns can become the next pm look at this stage they seem quite small he's facing 2 main problems the 1st problem is that he's formed a coalition between our parties and a right wing political party belonging to a former army defense minister avigdor lieberman they are not natural allies so you'll just have one issue that will be wrapped in the 2 sides will fall apart guns also faces threats from 2 members of his own party who say that because he's formed this coalition they are going to withdraw and if they withdraw he won't have the 61 majority that he needs at this stage however the country's president we've been ridden has tossed guns with forming the next government or at least trying to pick
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the law gives you 28 days beginning tomorrow to form a government this is a short amount of time but given the current circumstances of national and international crisis even this. i will do whatever it takes to form within a few days as possible national petri arctic and broad government so if guns doesn't manage to form a majority coalition one next. well then they're going to be for the elections and the question here for everyone is how do you hold elections when you have the coronavirus epidemic at the same time israelis are really fed up we've already had 3 elections here in the space of one year and it's costing the country a fortune but that will be the ultimate solution or at least the next step. and if it goes through a 4th round of elections would that benefit actually yahoo or guns it will probably benefit netanyahu because we're already seeing a lot of criticism from the guns camp he campaigned on a ticket where he said he would not have anything to do with the right wing political party they now. come on board and they complained on
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a ticket saying they have nothing to do with the arabs and here you see them forming some kind of alliance so that that kind of support is going to be lost also dan said he wouldn't have any kind of relationship with the extreme arab parties a party called balad and he is having a relationship he needs them for the 61 coalition so people are likely to say the next time around hang on can we really trust guns can we really trust the coalition that he's going to build now lets you know his corruption child was due to start tomorrow tuesday but if the pope postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic now what impact did his trial have on the elections where you might think that of might have had a negative impact but actually it had the opposite in september he won 33 seats and this time around he won 36 seats so with these corruption trials going on behind the scenes his support particularly from his base has actually increased and this is because people say they must be unified against what they see as an attorney general that has it out for netanyahu against what they call
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a liberal unfair media so it's actually banded together the netanyahu supporters. of the news tonight independent inquiry into child sex abuse united kingdom has found that the internet facilitating a sharp rise in predatory behavior and the police are struggling to respond to the growing threat according to reports findings 11 to 13 year olds are most at risk he says as many as $450.00 suspected paedophiles arrested every month and it stresses that the scale of abuse is likely to be considerably higher than the official figures show the inquiry also notes that many internet companies are failing to provide adequate protection for youngsters using the services.
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you don't know where this images will end up and that is an awful thing thinking that peter foss can just look on line and get whatever they want it's scary. you know the media now is bomb or will i feel that we are just now aware of it not that it's changed really. outraged. and i feel that we need really equal changes to our whole criminal justice system we need a law that the police themselves are not equipped 1st of all to deal with the very
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sophisticated and internet matters that abuses use. the report says the british government needs to work with tech companies to counter online abuse it also says that new tools needed to prevent the posting of indecent images online as well as algorithms to detect illegal content further on schools to offer better advice about how best to stay safe online and the legislation may be proposed to which would enable law enforcement to tackle the problem more effectively we can't arrest our way out of the problem we have to look at a far more holistic approach we are at saturation point margaret all of her disposal poor handling of the rochdale child abuse ring back in 2012 agrees that the government needs to be working more closely with tech companies. even with the right training in the u.k. we must live. that a set of police offices individual police officers are overwhelmed there are not
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enough of them and it's down to the government to invest in the criminal justice system we need to address this root cause we need more police officers we need a real commitment to invest in dealing with this kind of crime but alongside that i have to say that the technical giants like google like microsoft like a mist and they have billions of pounds and legislation should make them culture abuse the funding too and she will the investment does the incentives to prevent paedophiles from destroying in children's lives because that is that what is happening on a daily basis is. well it's infamous so far as much as it happens not not here in moscow keep up to speed with all the headlines only some coronaviruses it comes in with an emphasis on russia as one of the if you don't comment for social media here most of it is.
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