i'm sure i'll see you there. the you shut its borders for a month to limit the spread of covert 19 takes the strictest measures in the block because our correspondent reports from paris and me believing the pope he is also being told that the meat of. this is so to say i. think the world health organization urges countries to take a leaf out of beijing's book and impose tougher restrictions to fight the pandemic is the situation in china itself against aids and with the world distracted by covert 19 a controversial bill that critics to say were practically and online privacy makes its way through u.s. congress.

and i welcome 6 pm here in moscow you watching r.t. international now the number of confirmed cases of coronaviruses top 200000 worldwide with the death toll now at more than 8000 as the world leaders to scramble to contain the spread of the outbreak europe has become the center with a growing number of countries going into lockdown while the u.s. has not confirmed infections in all 50 states. well it's not just people that are self isolating at the moment because of coburg 19 entire countries are doing the same russia has become the latest to close its borders to foreigners joining the likes of canada and the u.s. the e.u. has also restricted access to limits to support of the various bubel we agreed to

enforce external borders both a close. temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e.u. folk you at or 30 deuced france meanwhile has put the entire country of 66000000 people on walk down army trucks have been seen on the streets of paris while large numbers of police officers have been deployed to ensure compliance. he sent this report from the capital. france is now on lockdown strict lockdown that would be in course the government has talked about wanting $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

ruled. we are at war to help 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 and self late too likely in fact while balls in restaurants were being closed all around them 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 no more. 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 closed. the restriction these are really centered around self isolation to people who have been told that they can leave their homes but the very specific reasons that could be to go 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 is cool with 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 criticised 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 was in thursday and 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 non's by the prime minister i hope that the government will take responsibility and change its mind as the lockdown began many played the city possibly going to take her to state friends and family anything to be isolated in this time

over merge and see here france this idea of self isolation is something that many people fear many people who live below the idea of not having 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 these could be extended but many people here in france just have no idea when their lives are going to return to normal charlotte people ski r.t. in paris during the long time. well if he does remain one of the country's worst hit by coronavirus health care workers there do say that they can't cope with the influx of patients at the moment and complain of exhaustion from overwork he spoke with a nurse in the city of pitch. and which literally on

a computer so it into his stomach just on i'm going to get up while you're driving up is out. there so he could. enjoy going out i could be too but it was interesting i thought a noise was the pretty or door scam will be even going to see what's in it just the sound different. to be in a money game with a legit national. interim in egypt and. this is just a bit more downtown atlanta to the better so annoying i'll get on camera 72 up quick. to do that i'm going to hear their city is in to get out on the cars a credible. a few put down to get it looking that was a bit directivity time percent. 20 percent of them are near 10 percent of the sawi it would have been. seen live in peace.

meanwhile the regional director for europe at the world health organization has a nations to take a bolder approach when it comes to tackling the coronavirus pandemic and said that china had set a good example. the experience of china and showed that this thing. will bind with social distancing measures. when put in place quickly and effectively prevent infections and safe lights while the spread of the virus in china has been slowed significantly string only 30 new cases on tuesday and life is returning to normal in previously hard hit regions lockdowns of being slowly and partially lifted and domestic travel is starting to resume however at the start of the outbreak china's anti virus measures were widely criticised but is drawn cotton now explains many countries have adopted the same

measures. 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 in forcing 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 working 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 hefty fines 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 don't go to that well we discussed the situation with journalist and commentator. and also with. assistant professor of public policy at the northeastern university in the united states. joel crises tend to strengthen the hand of the executive we're seeing the tremendous increase right now in the federal government power in the united states so the reason 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 better that debate whether how constitutional is i think it's it's shocking how easily americans will give up their liberty that said the u.s. is a democracy in china is an authoritarian country but in general in terms of the continuum

between democracy limited government and authoritarianism a u.s. government is moving more into direction of china while still trying to maintain some of our time a kind of norms i think that that max is absolutely correct that if 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 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 the where's the dip coming from it's coming from the hysteria that anik i mean we've got every restaurant and bar and retail store closing our biggest cities where i disagree with my colleague is that i actually do you view this threat as extraordinarily severe and and and not just scary. 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 distancing so that we don't infect each other needlessly there's an insane amount of panic out there being driven by the media and meanwhile when you listen to the experts when you actually listen to them and you listen to the crowd of ira's task force that they're very calm they're not freaking out and they're giving pretty simple basic instructions to people. now i would have a more countries putting their entire populations under quarantine millions have found themselves spending more time at home than usual however some won't waste another extra time because this spanish couple still managed to exchange marriage values by shouting out of the window despite the government imposing a state of emergency on their wedding day they didn't cancel the event and the bride even threw her broke a tradition demands there it goes with r.t. to ask you tell you shares of the tips and i want them 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 instinct now nothing will come between a man and his new paper. coronaviruses cleared the streets and driven us into our homes i'm not going to lie my main concern was about getting out in the time of corona i mean i know i have to go running in the park like i promised myself 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 keep moving in these claustrophobic times.

but if the idea of exercising and public is your wost nightmare no fear. 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 back my skills. they do say you should have one task every day to keep you motivated also i did always think i had the potential to be an invaluable member of the quad but you know what the modern wilds like hari hari hari no time for anything now though there are no excuses.

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a bonus to make you look like the potential that you are. i want mitt 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 want to found parrot tone in the coming months but better than risk 2000 very high but really on balance it's not so bad at all those times i've wanted to cancel on my friends but struggled to come up with a convincing reason no longer an issue my dislike of standing in places 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 house is a safe from the plague but washing your hands is

a must. if the hamster can do it so can you. ask tyler and i with the world distracted by the pandemic u.s. lawmakers are hoping to push through a controversial rule that some do say would end previously online critics warn the u.s. government is now trying to unlock greater surveillance powers in the guise of fighting the spread of online child abuse imagery reports 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 technology lindsey graham and richard blumenthal have introduced it saying that the aim is to protect children from

online sexual predators to goal system. available to have been our dream come true for child predators for every good thing this happened 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 see you tech companies that don't take proper steps to prevent online china exploitation and it's an important step to protect the most vulnerable in months. 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-sponsor has made very clear where he stands on encryption 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 encrypts than 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 companies to pass along all this intentionally undermines digital security and sense of speech that such a low res being considered by congress is a national disgrace absent a 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 just blown the co-founder of the so i think courage encryption software things that will make is all using coronavirus distraction to grab more power. i think that the government lie so 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 in correction because there would be no way 'd to. in fact it is best practice is that doesn't undermine what and ted in question does in order to be able to say scam content or 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 or not to do anything bad with it that also exposes that information potentially to ours so it's stablish is some pretty broad powers and gives them to the government for regulating tech companies and how we do things on line this bill might be carved out specifically more for trying to combat child exploitation but once that precedent established the government would like we reach for more and try to apply it to other crimes as well or not rich nations. of privacy concerns are also being raised in israel which has decided to track people with

a coronavirus using their mobile phone data on his middle east correspondent course slayer has more. israel is fighting coronavirus with a little digital help the government has approved a new emergency measure after checking the 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 the case in the sick in stopping the virus from spreading the idea is to use the chair location dasa from people cell phones to track who's been in contact with known high risk areas and to send in text messages to alert them to the problem and to get them also to self isolate yes it is a major battle for eighty's normie use for tracking extremists and terrorists it wasn't so long ago that people were asking the same question should we hand over our put a seat for a great to good civil rights activists in israel warning it is a sip. it's

a dangerous precedent and the slippery slope that must be approached unresolved have to much debate and not after a brief discussion even in crises or. this nature the core of civil rights in a democracy must be preserved i understand the infection in contagion and the spread of the virus must be prevented but it's inconceivable that because of the panic so all 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 isolate it instead of isolating an entire country israel is not to meet it is joined 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 all tracking once the pandemic is over i'm afraid that after this one time that the government. if over this. it will be. slipping away to using it again in other circumstances which i'm not sure. i will agree with your 1st corn which i say that everything needs to be done to stop the disease the shows that the new yorker who makes everything at 8 o'clock in the news is because of his legal situation one is not terribly important because the other there know about everything about you 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 you would see about. political analyst amir or in the us think that the lack of public trust though and prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the

moment will 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 on your government it has lost its credibility and therefore suspect in its handling of this crisis netanyahu we serve he's also with 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 ukrainian ultra

nationalists shot at the building with a flare gun and desecrated 2 russian flag during a march on saturday. or this video to show crowds there firing a flare which hit the embassy on the reef by chanting anti russian slogans radicals also peddle pelted the premises with smoke pellets as they commemorated volunteered to tell using force against self-proclaimed republics in the country's east despite having police presence officers apparently did nothing to stop the rioters authorities added to that they found no serious violations during the march. so that's how everything is looking so far today here in r.t. we're back there with headlines and more stories for you in just over half.

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