feat. headlines this hour on our t.v. show its borders for a month to limit the spread of. france takes the strictest measures in the block our correspondent there describes the situation. anybody even the pope is also be told the fleet was this is so to say i think i mean while the world health organization countries take a leaf out of beijing's book and impose tougher restrictions to fight the pandemic as the situation in china itself begins to aids the world distracted like a big 19 a controversial bill that predicts things say will practically end online privacy makes its way through the u.s. congress.

hello they're just gone 4 pm here in moscow you're watching international now the number of confirmed cases of corona virus has gone over 200000 worldwide with the death toll now at more now more than 8000 as world leaders still scramble to contain the spread of the outbreak europe has become the at the center with a growing number of countries going into lockdown while the u.s. has now confirmed infections in all 50 states. well it's not just people that are self isolating the world over because covert 19 means that entire countries are now doing the same russia has become the latest to close its borders to the foreigners joining the likes of canada and the us you has

also restricted access to limits district of the various bubel we agreed to enforce external borders both closed and coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e.u. folk preview it or 30 deuced france meanwhile has put the entire country of 66000000 people on lockdown army trucks have been seen on the streets of paris while large numbers of police officers have been deployed to ensure compliance are to charlotte dubinsky reports now on the nationwide quarantine. france is now on. lockdown strict lockdown that would be in course the government has talked about pouring $100000.00 police officers to set up fixed points to check people who are in their vehicles the word from the government everybody in france is to

self isolate president mark one was incredibly clear when he came to the presidential address all monday night in fact the one thing that came through over and over is that france is that rule. we are at war that helped war to be sure we are not fighting another army new another nation but the enemies there invisible and elusive. that decision came to the french took the calls to stay at home late 2 likely in fact while bowls and restaurants were being closed all around them and many here in paris came out to the parks to picnic to meet their friends all to sit by the senate and do the same but. the government has announced new measures to limit new infections by limiting contact between people as much as possible to amplify the impact of this measures paris

parks and gardens will be close to. the restriction these are really centered around self isolation so people have been told that they can leave their homes for very specific reasons that could be too good for a medical appointment it could be to top up on food supplies or it could be to go for a walk for health reasons anybody leaving their property has also been told that they need to look at this in pakistan so to say why maybe. some of those reasons that i just outlined anybody who is cool flouting that law or in school is going out for a walk just socialize with their friends rather than for health reasons could face a fine of up to 135 years. old the message is clear stay at home these are containment measures similar to those in spain and italy all persons travelling must be able to justify their movements each person

will have to carry a document certifying the reason for his or her journey. was another casualty of the new stricter regime is the 2nd round the ring is a collections which will no be postponed but many had already criticize the government for allowing the 1st run to take place while sproles was under a partial lockdown. the makris are pushing the limits you do not say to 67000000 french people stay at home for an indefinite period on saturday evening but then on sunday morning leave your house and put your health and those of others in danger if the health situation got this bad writing thursday in today to the point of closing almost all businesses in makes no sense to hold these municipal elections they must be postponed because they cannot be held fairly. holding the municipal elections is completely incomprehensible and contradicts the measures announced by the prime minister i hope that the government will take responsibility

and change its mind as the last time began many play to the city possibly going to take her to state friends and family anything to be isolated to give this time but merge it see here problems this idea of self isolation is something that many people fear many people who live below the idea of not tapping that social contact face to face for a 15 day period is something that they dreading in fact something else that they dreading is the fact that the government has said it's a 15 day minimum and that this could be extended to many people here in france they just have no idea when their lives are going to return to normal charlotte people ski artsy in paris during the lockdown. italy does remain one of the worst hit on trees by coronavirus health care workers there say they can't cope at

the moment the influx of patients and complain to exhaustion from overwork we spoke with a nurse from the city appear. and which literally i'm a computer so i have been talking standing just on my attic and if i could join up is out. there so they could. enjoy going out i could be one of with interest that i thought annoys mr perry or do or scam will be even going to see what's in it just the sound difference if i get. to be in a money game with a large amount. of instrumented. sisters to sort of be on with downtown atlanta to the better so annoying i'll get on camera 72 up quick. to know what i'm going to hear their city is in to get it out i'm just a bit was because a care in the pit. if you put it down to get it looking that was a bit directivity time to sit. down 2 percent of them are near 10 percent of the

sawi it would have been. the same. while the regional director for europe at the world health organization has the nations to take a bolder approach when it comes to tackling the corona virus pandemic he said to that china and set a good example to follow. the experience of a show that this thing. called binds with social distancing measures i don't. when put in place quickly and effectively but events in fictions and see lights the spread of the virus in china has been slowing significantly registering only 30 new cases on tuesday life is returning to normal in previously hard hit regions local lockdowns are being slowly and

partially lifted and domestic travel is starting to resume too and china's antivirus measures which were widely criticised initially are being adopted globally one quarter explains remember when only china had to deal with the coronavirus the west had plenty to criticize about beijing's handling of the crisis back then when europe and the us didn't have to get their hands dirty. rights districts measures should also be implemented with consideration to the public's willingness to comply with government control efforts now that the critics are in the same situation that china was in just a month ago it seems like they weren't creative enough to come up with their own solutions after the coronavirus ravaged europe governments across the continent started enforcing lockdowns people confined to their homes streets virtually empty just like in china at the height of the outbreak. gatherings family get togethers and social functions will no longer be familiar to walking to meet friends in the

park or on the streets will no longer be possible any elderly daredevils that venture out of their homes could face have to find or even a police baton and all the while militaries across the continent are mobilizing in switzerland it's the biggest since world war 2 and in france army convoys are becoming a regular sight in the suburbs. to bomb front. although it's not like they have many places to go the entire european union's closed its borders anyway and on top of that they'll be under the watchful eye of those dystopian police drones just like the chinese ones that frightened more than a few in the western media the country taking some extraordinary measures to contain this outbreak police are using drones equipped with a public address system to tell people to wear face masks and stay indoors to stop the spread of coronavirus and drones are flying up to people in public and yelling

at them for not wearing masks in fact we're hearing of mask shortages drones soldiers lockdowns whatever communist china does it the western media loves to call it all off thora tarion ism but what even makes these measures democratic or not at a time of crisis shouldn't people be focusing on which measures are the most effective. we discussed situation with journalist and commentator chad whitmore and also with my saab ramses assistant professor of public policy at northeastern university in the united states joel crises tend to strengthen the hand of the executive we're seeing a tremendous increase right now in the federal government power in the united states out there isn't it and there's even some talk of you know about martial law curfews i think it's terrifying i think it's really disturbing and it's you know there are some constitutional scholars out there that are that debate whether how constitutional is i think it's it's shocking how easily americans will give up

their liberty but that said the u.s. is a democracy in china is an authoritarian country but in general in terms of the continuum between democracy human and government in a poor kerry because of a u.s. government is moving more into correction of china while still trying to maintain some of our time credit norms i think that max is absolutely correct that we're seeing just how swiftly the state can expand out how it can come in and become more authoritarian and you know in new york city but right now it's a ghost town here and it and you know the mayor wants to quarantine the entire city the governor won't let him know where's where's the tip coming from it's coming from the hysteria that anik i mean we've got every restaurant and bar and retail store close in our biggest cities where i disagree with my colleague is that i actually do you view this threat as extraordinarily severe and and not just scary 'd. but consequential given the nature of the threat it is

reasonable for the government to intervene in reasonable ways to try to mitigate that threat particularly by enforcing social distance and so that we don't infect each other needlessly there's an insane amount of panic out there being driven. and meanwhile when you listen to the experts when you actually listen to them when you listen to the group of ira's task force that they're very calm they're not freaking you know and they're giving pretty simple basic instructions to people who have a more countries imposing stories strict quarantine rules millions of people have found themselves spending more time at home than usual a prospect's not everybody relishes although some stuck at home are wasting any time because this spanish couple did exchange marriage bagus across windows despite the government imposing a state of emergency on their wedding day they didn't cancel the event and in fact the bride even threw a tradition demands there it goes r.t.

saskia taylor shares of the tips now on how to survive the ordeal in her latest weekly diary. dear diary the last 2 weeks have been a bit surreal it's like we're living in some kind of weird parallel unify us people have returned to that animal instincts now nothing will come between a man and his new paper. coronaviruses cleared the streets and driven off into our homes i'm not going to lie my main concern was about getting fat in the time of corona i mean i know i have to go running in the park like i promised myself and the only thing i'm losing at the gym is money but still luckily though there are some fitness fanatics out there who are making sure we all you know keep moving in these claustrophobic times . but if

the idea of exercising and public is your was a nightmare no fair. also this is a powerful time to combine getting to know your neighbor you've been avoiding for years with a hot healthy pursuit. i've also realized it will give me the opportunity to finally perfect my organizational skills. they do say you should have one task every day to keep you motivated also i do always think i have the potential to be an invaluable member of a quad but you know what the modern wilde's like harry hurry hurry no time for anything now though there are no excuses.

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a snatch as a bonus to make you look like the potential that you are. i would have met though there are some downsides to this whole self isolation thing like those tourists who went to spain in search of some rays only to be put in quarantine and realize the sun never actually hit that balkany i am slightly disappointed that my skin will be taking water a fan pyrrhic tone in the coming months but better than the risk to 1000 very high but really on balance it's not so bad at all those times i want to cancel on my friends but struggled to come up with a convincing reason no longer an issue my dislike of standing in place is of more than 50 people at a time literally banned i've also was hated when people didn't respect my personal space now they literally have to stand a meter away from me and don't worry i haven't forgotten the most important thing i

know we're all in lockdown i know we all think our houses are safe from the plague but washing your hands is a must. if the hamster can do it so can you. ask a tale of them now with the world distracted by the pandemic u.s. lawmakers are hoping to push through a controversial law that some you would end previously on line because critics warn the u.s. government is trying to unlock greater surveillance powers in the guise of fighting the spread of online child abuse imagery cause more pain has more on the story. now if you follow the goings on in the u.s. congress you'll know that they often take advantage of moments when big news is happening to slip through controversial legislation and the coronavirus has given them a big ideal opportunity they call it the earn it bill that stands for eliminating abusive rampant neglect of interactive technologies lindsey graham and richard

blumenthal have introduced it saying that the aim is to protect children from online sexual predators to nickel systems available to have been a dream come true for child predators for every good thing this happen with the internet for lack of a better term there are dark forces that need to be dealt with now certainly a noble goal no one wants kids to be in danger but this bill could also crack down on end to end encrypt eliminating the ability of americans to protect sensitive data from hackers criminals the government or their employers essentially the bill holds internet service providers accountable for any information that gets posted by users whether they know about it or not our bill would allow individuals to c.u. tech companies that don't take proper steps to prevent online china exploitation and it's an important step to protect the most vulnerable among us however under this law the only way that internet companies cannot be held liable for what users

write in private messages is if they fully comply with government standards standards written by an unelected commission now one of the bill's co-sponsors made very clear where he stands on encrypt so facebook is talking about in the in encryption which means they go blind. we're not going to go blind and let this abuse go forward in the name of any other freedom sure hyper encryption can be used by criminals sexual predators and terrorists but it's also a protection that americans have against government surveillance voices from across the spectrum from edward snowden to the head of whatsapp are outraged the government is attempting to exploit tech companies to pass a law that intentionally undermines digital security and sense of speech that such a low res being considered by congress is a national disgrace absent clear protections for encryption urn it has the

potential to make people less safe not more but reducing the security of the over 2000000000 people who use whatsapp to communicate not to mention all the other encrypted services as well the bill deals with a very serious issue of child exploitation on line but it offers no meaningful solutions rather the bills authors have shrewdly use defendant children as the pretense for intact in our free speech and security online now the bill is yet to become law but in a situation like this with one big story dominating the headlines will people even notice if it does it will mop and r.t. new york your phone co-founder of the so i think reaction software thinks that will make us are also using coronavirus distraction to pull off a power grab i think that the government wants to let any good crisis go to waste so i definitely do think they're trying to take advantage of the fact that people aren't paying as much attention right now and they're distracted by the pandemic

and the panic that comes with that and trying to push this through and just say it's a no brainer because it helps children i mean it particularly matters for encrypted because there would be no way 'd to. in fact these best practices that doesn't undermine what intent encryption does in order to be able to say scan content for abusive material the content would have to exist as plain text somewhere and even if you trust big tech companies and the government not to infringe on your privacy they are not to do anything bad with it that also exposes that information potentially to hackers so it is stablish is some pretty broad powers and gives them to the government for regulating tech companies and how we do things online this bill might be carved out specifically more for trying to combat child exploitation but once that precedent is a stablished the government would likely reach for more and try to apply it to other crimes as well or abuse it never situations where previously concerns are also being raised in israel to you which has decided to track people with

coronavirus using them data on these middle east correspondent poor asli he explains. israel is fighting corona virus with a little digital help the government has approved a new emergency measure of tracking mobile phones in order to contain the spread of the virus israel is a democracy and we must maintain the balance between civil rights and the public's needs these tools will very much assist us in locating the sick and stopping the virus from spreading the idea is to use the cio location data from people's cell phones to track who's been in contact with known by was areas and to send them text messages to alert them to the problem and to get them also to self isolate here is it is a measure that will thirty's normally use for tracking extremists and terrorists it wasn't so long ago that people were asking the same question should we hand over our privacy for a greater good civil rights activists in israel warning it is

a slippery slope it's a dangerous precedent and the slippery slope that must be approached unresolved of the much debate and not after a brief discussion even in crises of this nature the core of civil rights and democracy must be preserved i understand that infection in contagion and the spread of the virus must be prevented but it's inconceivable that because of the panic so right should be trampled without restraint that's a totally disproportionate to the threat of the problem the prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is still fighting for power claims that this tool is more effective than isolating the whole country this is an effective tool to locate the virus and isolated instead of isolating an entire country israel is not to meet kid is joy in china me ran in this population trekking journey and it's no secret that our cell phones contain more information about ourselves than even we know of course it's information that can be used for both good and evil which is why everyone's fighting to excess said the question remains are you willing to give up your

privacy to contain the virus and while the authorities stop it or tracking once the pandemic is over i'm afraid after. this is one time that the government well before this. it will be. slipping away to using it again in august 2nd stone says which i'm not sure. i will agree with. corn which i say that everything needs to be done to stop the disease the shows that netanyahu makes every evening at 8 o'clock in the news is because of his legal situation one is not really important because the other didn't know about everything about yeah i'm in favor of following corona patients by phone so that we don't all get sick with it and then the surveillance on the phones will stop i think in any case everything you write on google and facebook and you pass on a card everyone knows your information today so it's no problem to follow you it prevents infection it will save us. or it's a reporting there will political analyst amid all the things that the lack of

public trust in prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the moment could make it difficult for the government to implement any containment plan. these reli probably in this particular crisis would prefer health and prevention of contagion epidemics over almost anything but this is not the issue for the israeli public but then you know government it has lost its credibility and therefore is suspect in its handling of this crisis himself he's also a defendant in a criminal trial because he has been indicted for bribery and other offenses so whenever he says something he is suspect of trying to play for rezone personal or political advantage. in other news tonight moscow has launched a criminal probe after the country's embassy in kiev was attacked be craning

nationalists shot at the building with a flag and desecrated a russian flag during a march there on saturday. i. footage from the event here does show that the crowd did fire a flag which you see very few as protesters chanted anti russian slogan these radicals also pelt the premises with smoke pellets particles with memorising volunteered to those who have fought against self-proclaimed the public's in the east of the country during the demonstration despite a heavy police presence offices a power can stop by and did nothing to stop the riots is authorities said that they found serious violations during the bout. so that's how things are looking so far today here in r.t. don't forget they were also plenty of stories for you to see what i website at r.t. dot com.

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