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bless her. it's. just 1 am here in moscow this morning high in the headlines that u.s. stocks continue to tumble despite attempts by the federal reserve to smooth over the coronavirus and use it as markets all around the globe look to fend off free falling prices. as the rest of the world overtakes china in confirmed deaths from the virus with nations now seeking beijing's president voice on how to tackle the pandemic and for those who function rates increasing dramatically we are screwed now and slovenian for last for a bit of advice he's got a real sound head dog every day life could be affected his decision maker is going to quarantine. it to not be seen.
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believe. hello there welcome my name is kevin hart international worldview center with his life 30 minute update for you just want to talk in the morning in moscow now and it's grown a verse we're talking about again as the fallout from it continues to sink in 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 up or earlier on monday i'll discuss what's driving markets to the brink of collapse with our senior correspondent. well there's only 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
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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 essentially what we're seeing is the equivalent of a run on banks so if a bunch of people run by sea to try 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 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
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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 outs and gives it out to you you're a business you're a mortgage owner you get all this money and here's the bank it has hardly any left suddenly all these. debtors all these that has come to the bank and say look we want our money back 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 will manufacturing italy is on lockdown and the banks rule exposed to this so nobody's paying the banks of the back of the banks come pay the eventual. you know the people who invest that money in a bag how this is affecting 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
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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 phone to china so then surely there's no phones being produced in china. new for new phones being sold so the bank takes a loss ultimately it's all a knock on effect with genius across the entire world more quantitative easing and rate cuts they're going to keep rates of this is this is to stimulate bori 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 this is it is sort of kicking the ball down the road. all this money more than a trillion if the if the $800.00
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a pretty 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. turn it is to watch the entire thing crash and burn 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 in the future looks very believe. because you will have hundreds hundreds of millions of people all around the world sitting at home without jobs and entire interests industries at a standstill but everyone has to eat you know their loans to pay there are responsibilities that must be attended so it's anyone's guess uncharted territory
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how this is going to go as i said about growing the uncharted territory indeed talked about the issue too with economists region wolf earlier things confidence is slipping in governments and it's going to spell a major disaster at the great depression. because lots of the markets today down 10 percent roughly here in the united states in new york city where i'm sitting is a clear very profound statement that the entire investment community which is not the small people who have a few shares i'm talking about the people who manage pension funds who manage bank warts all yours and so on have a massive loss of confidence in the government of the united states or in the private economy to get out of this disaster after a cut in the interest rate last week and even bigger double the size cut this week and the announcement of stimulus plans we do not see a recovery
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a turnaround we see that these are interpreted as signs that this situation is out of control and i think you see that in the business community you see it in the mass of the working class you see it in average people everywhere are we are out of stock in our supermarkets we are experiencing the kind of meltdown that you associate with events like the great depression of the 1930 years what health organizations announced the global death toll from the coronavirus is no overtaken china's ground 0 of course for the that the break in the 1st place. in the past week we have seen a reputed skull asian of cases of course 19. more cases and does have now been reported in the rest of the world than in china so i was put out to follow this but bear with me according to the latest estimates deadly cases may around the rest of the world of now exhilarated past china by 600 or so while approximately
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16000 more people have been infected around the globe compared to the total number in china where the virus outbreak was 1st reported. on monday beijing announced it was sending additional experts to help tackle the pandemic in italy the 1st team arrived in rome last week with tons of medical aid including masks and respirators it has been reported that italy's e.u. allies have refused to help saying that they need their own stockpile essential for their own citizens as part of dr no not one last he single action at international relations in the university of bath in the u.k. explained why china air stepped in to help italy. to china italy has a very special crease because italy was the 1st country who signed the one by one rule agreement so i believe as italy has already extended how we quest to china china has taken it very seriously and cement off the entire 40 did
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ask help from the you'll however it didn't work that's why italy has to ask for help from china. are the european. states members who experience all know are as oprah crisis and i believe that the chinese government would also be willing to extend help cement off the corner where it's all broke it's not all nafta to china it's all saw this. major economies in europe and in north america as well as disrupting all these global supply trends saw i believe we are actually or really the entire into recession. the spartak of in 1000 is taking its toll on big decision makers too with the sickness striking down many in the corridors of power as well there on human end of the day the growing number of lawmakers falling ill is causing concern over how effectively governments will be able to coordinate their responses to the outbreak
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. 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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in all the uncertainty in the note of this of course is easy to get a bit worked up anxious about it so we thought we get a sound ahead on it we spoke to the celebrated slovenian philosophers level about the pandemic he did like in the crisis to war thompson are all but also emphasize the need for meaningful international solidarity and helping each other out just a little bit too. in previous cases people were thinking just about isolation and killing and care well and today i hope we are becoming a rat that we kept to. unite that coordinate that way we are all the entire humanity. in the same boat the big loser i think will be precisely the nationality. and she won't be in our country to isolate itself until of course we need to get an
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engine and all that but for example take europe we should act in the united way shall think it's odd that we could break that street in mosques where they would eat whatever is needed and to want and i think that. in this sense we should be shape riyadh in the middle of that military operation we should be i'm not here appealing to some kind of abstract sense of. keeping our interest in germany now that's. they will get an even stronger probably epidemic and go on and to want so it shall think obviously that it is something that demand there from us but he states that if we think as a national know it. will get that recruits step back and reflect what this our mole go through life how should we change it because we should be aware of why
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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 i did it the day me get out of identical article about the woman that was i think that even when i think we'll go but it doesn't look normal it would not be the same normality. we leaped out we'll get to change over mode of like a silly time to take stock of it by the sounds of it isn't it will here in russia let me tell you about the latest numbers as they stand as we know it seems the confirmed coronavirus cases here in the russian federation has nearly reached 100 now as speak this morning new in the last show as well as the news that from wednesday the government will introduce a ban on all foreign nationals entering the country until may the 1st that's new don a court is in central moscow of for more on the new measures to. well russia's corona virus infections have jumped to $93.00 people only 7 of which were actually
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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. and 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
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a panic doesn't occur and it's assuring everyone that they need to stay calm. while many countries are implementing aggressive measures to contain coronavirus the british government's been sharply criticized over its perceived lack of action some of the latest concerns came after the country's chief scientific advisor mentioned the going down the route of so-called herd immunity in other words infecting more than half of the u.k.'s population. in terms of building up a unity within the u.k. i mean what sort of percentage of people need to have contracted the virus probably about 60 percent was a footnote to all the u.k.'s health minister denied that the government is planning to go down that herd immunity route interesting to hear it though with cases in britain exceeding 1300 with 35 people dead as a result of petitions being launched calling for schools to be closed across the country the government's also stated it plans to ban luxury vans to. delaying that decision for a bit so far additionally to the u.k.'s health secretary said that people aged over
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70 years old could be isolated for up to 4 months it's a long time we asked people in london what they thought about the government's high risk approach to tackling the pandemic more generally it's probably true to take your view but i don't really describes how we 1st take responsibility i should do what we can do which i already knew so we put at risk for i situation like this i can see the argument doing that but really i can also see that indeed they were going to you know push it out of people to get that virus and if we make that really sounds we've come down to die. which scared to divide us but we got carry on living. overseas i don't say that by this is a peek into about 10 weeks time so that's when i will get really concerned what we don't know yet is full range of data and evidence that we would need to know
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whether or not we do become immune to this virus possibly. it's a great strategy possibly wrong strategy i don't know why nobody. seems to be giving us all the range of maybe it's a once a year last thing isn't it well my tilsley is an associate professor of infectious disease modeling at the university of warwick in the u.k. to try and get a handle on it he explains why slowing down the epidemic is so crucial. immunity is that when enough people have been in fact to find the virus then. the epidemic will eventually die out so 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 also reduce the reduce the height of the epidemic at the point that a certain number of people would be in fact in then it could no longer in fact any more people because the sensually people had all their contacts and been infected
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and so it 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 over eighty's. because they may have underlying health conditions are more at risk so obviously 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 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. or their search had accrued a verse from an issue in look at some other news the leader of israel's blue and white party but again says accepted an official request from the president to try to form a coalition government it comes after
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a longtime rival of benjamin netanyahu was endorsed by a majority of lawmakers in the knesset for the 3rd inconclusive election in under a year earlier my colleague nick aaron discussed the prospects of a new look government then and how successful it may or may not be with his middle east correspondent paula slayer. what does this mean for benjamin netanyahu. well it's actually 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 will just have one issue that will erupt 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
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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 living in has tossed guns forming the next government or at least trying to take 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 is too long. 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 before 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
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it goes to a 4th round of elections would that benefit actually yahoo or guns it will probably benefit netanyahu because we have really seen 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 have come on board and they complained on a ticket saying they have no. thing 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 than say he wouldn't have any kind of relationship with the extreme arab parties party called ballot 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 let him 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 if might have had to make it of impact but actually it had the opposite in september he won
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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 a liberal unfair media so it's actually banded together the netanyahu supporters. an independent inquiry into child sex abuse in the u.k. is found that the internet facilitating a sharp rise in predatory behavior in the police is struggling to respond to the growing threat according to the report's findings 11 to 13 year olds are most at risk it says as many as $450.00 suspected paedophiles arrested each month and it stresses that the scale of abuse is likely to be considerably 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 image is ruined down and that is an awful thing to think in the future fos can just look online and get a look at anyone. you know the media now is far more accessible i feel that well we are just now aware of it not that it's
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changed the protocol outraged. and i feel that we need really run the whole changes to our whole criminal justice system we need a law that the police themselves not equipped 1st of all to deal with the very sophisticated. methods that abuses use. the report says the british government needs to work with companies to counter online abuse it also says that new tools are needed to prevent the posting of indecent images online as well as old girl rhythms to detect illegal content further it was schools to offer better guidance about how to stay safe online and legislation may be proposed which would enable law enforcement to tackle the problem or fact of lee. we can arrest our way out of the problem we have to look at a far more holistic approach we are
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a saturation point margrove are again we have to just now expose the poor handling of he watched their own child abuse ring 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 call a massive. deficit of police offices individual police offices are overwhelmed there are not enough of them and it's down to the government invest in the criminal justice system we need to address this because 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 giants like google like microsoft. imus 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 the defiles
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from destroying children's lungs because that is not what is happening on a daily basis. well not know the sofa no for me kevin it is 27 minutes past one of the morning here in moscow we invite you to keep up to speed all the headlines at r.t. dot com of course our various social media it's man for 247 here in moscow and our h.q. so wishing you a very good evening from me a compelling call embrace here in half an hour to take you through the night and and the headlines as they might come in from russia and the next programs or in a few here right after this break.
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if we can mail look into people's minds read the thoughts. the question then is what kind of consequence we can take from this. i think in take the example of lying it would prevent us from i wouldn't be able to live anymore if everything becomes transparent but what we're thinking. now after attention we're going on the ground a bit coronavirus just hours before another super tuesday to determine who might beat us president trump in november coming out of the show following in the footsteps of the american who arguably saved more lives than any other ralph nader
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we talked to green party co-founder and 2020 presidential candidate how he hawkins fighting for a $20.00 minimum wage and nuclear disarmament and with a vaccine for covert 1000 apparently over a year away we are the c.e.o. of a company at the forefront of the fight against the virus if big pharma as profit driven approach is obsolete when it comes to a global pandemic plus how are capitalists set to make a killing out of coronavirus all the small can we have a days going underground for us to morrissey's florida ohio illinois and there isn't a vote in u.s. presidential primaries but how much scope for change does saunders all biden really offer the people of the united states especially as the world faces a climate change emergency co-founder of the us green party and count these bodies front runner to be the green party presidential candidate in november how hawkins joins me now via skype from madison in wisconsin thank you so much howie for joining us before we even get to the presidential campaign your thoughts on the reported attempted suicide of where we the x. whistleblower chill seems.

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