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headline stories donald trump invokes a war time law. to be corona virus outbreak forcing american companies to ramp up production of vital equipment. meanwhile sheltered supporters for a month to limit the spread of coal bed 19 from stick to the strictest measures in the blockhouse our correspondent reports from paris and believing the pope has also been told that the. state. of the world health organization urges countries to follow beijing's example on imposed tougher restrictions to fight the. us the situation in china itself begins
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to. grab your tuning in from a right across the world this hour welcome to moscow. for the company. president trump said he is invoking wartime powers to force industry to tackle the cove would like to break senate republicans are also pushing for an economic stimulus package worth up to a trillion dollars but the drastic measures have so far feel to count the markets as you can see here kill up and goes further into. as everything seems to be called a native and quite a crisis we have donald trump invoking the defense production act now that is a law that was 1st invoked during the korean war gives the government the ability
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to have industries aska late production the hope is that with the government invoking this act there can be an escalation and rapid production of masks medical supplies and other needed materials now donald trump has got a lot on his plate because the stock market took a very dramatic plunge we saw at this point what people are calling a historically unprecedented volatility on the new york stock exchange dramatic drops taking place in response to that we have donald trump saying that the white house is stepping up that americans will be receiving a check kind of a stimulus check to help to keep them spending during this time of crisis also some other measures are being taken here is donald trump will be invoking the defense production act just in case we needed the fuel knew what it is that can do a lot of good things if we need it was together because we are all loose together
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and will come through together now donald trump has also spoken about the need to go after helping out specific industries that have been particularly badly hit by the slowdown surrounding the coronavirus and the epidemic pandemic at this point there's talk of bailing out the airline industry and other other industries in the united states that are just not functioning normally not turning a profit at this point because of the slowdown so very very very dramatic need at this point as many many parts of the u.s. economy are just suffering many of pointed out that unemployment seems to be a logical outcome of this situation right now in what many describe as a gig economy in the united states. at this point people won't be finding the work that they are used to finding and accustomed to finding as people are in their homes and as people have just slowed down we have the economy people not spending like they once were according to
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a study that was recently conducted one in 5 households in the united states has already experienced a layoff or a reduction in work hours as a result of the pandemic of coronavirus so at this point donald trump is addressing the health issue and how to mobilize you know testing he's also dealing with the economic situation and how to bail out the united states amid some economic freefall that seems to be surrounding the coronavirus pandemic yeah. a suspect we spoke to financial analyst charlie boy friend of the program he thought the impact of the virus will be bigger than the crisis. we have a situation that we've never been before and that turns to the school started 3 months which means governments are going to have to say about individuals companies and corporations now regardless of what you think of that politically i think
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people are starting to wonder how what form that's going to stay so until we get a real sense of details from something that ministration and in the u.k. and in europe as to exactly what this detail of these bailouts is going to be that markets are still going to be on top of so the lease for the next 2 weeks i would say in 2008 now the balance the banks are in a much better shape but who are there lending money lending might individuals with mortgages corporations that might be insolvent we've got more debt all over the world. government debt the feds debts student loans and we've all done to try and recover from the last disaster and this is this is this crash this is not the great mostly because most people have been recovering from the last gratz so i think it's actually ringback could be worse certainly in terms of the day it's a complete mess from right well just to give you an overview really the number of confirmed cases of corona virus is now approaching 220000 worldwide the death
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toll from but it said almost 9000 in europe's become the epicenter and more cases than china where it all began while in the u.s. all 50 states at this point recorded cases entire countries are shutting down their borders russia has become one of the latest to deny entry to most foreigners shown in the likes of canada and the united states the e.u. also has restricted access. 2 limits to support of the various beliefs we agreed to we enforce all external borders by applying coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e.u. folk preview it or so to do this let's just focus all of those countries inside the e.u. front as per the entire country of 66000000 people on lockdown army trucks have been seen on the streets of paris large numbers of police as well deployed to
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ensure compliance with their rules sharia dubin skis in the car before us. france is now we all look down to brake to look down that would be in school the government has talked about deploying $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 was was incredibly clear when he gave the presidential address on monday night in fact the one thing that came through. is that problem is that. we are at war health war to be sure we are not fighting another army knew another nation but the enemies that invisible and elusive that decision came to the french took the calls to stay at home and self isolate too likely in fact while
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bowls and 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 so people 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 a 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 have one of this in pakistan so to say why been leaving their home for
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some of those reasons that i just outlined anybody who is cool flouting that law or unschooled going out for a walk just socialize with their friends rather than for health reasons could face a fine of up to 135 years. the message is clear stay at home these are containment measures similar to their responsibilities and it is that persons traveling must be able to justify their movement s. each person will have to carry a document certainly resound if that's his or her journey if it was another casualty of the new stricter regime is the 2nd round the ring is a collection which will know it being disposed of many had already criticised the government for allowing the 1st round to take place while sproles was 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
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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 losing thursday in today to the point of closing almost all businesses it 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 last time began and many played to the city possibly going home that they hope to stay friends and family anything to be isolated in this time. see here france this idea of self isolation is something that many people fear many people who live below the idea of not tapping not social contact face to face for
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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 just 10 days so they need people here in france just have no idea when their lives are going to return to normal charlotte people ski artsy in paris during the lockdown. that's focused on their clique too but it's registered the highest single day death toll of any country since the brick began on whedon's thing the disease claim $475.00 why of course the nation bringing the total to almost $3000.00 and medics say they are all able to cope with the influx of patients we spoke with a nurse in the city of pierce chickens. and which literally i'm a computer so i have been talking standing just on magic and if i could join up is out. there so we could. enjoy going out i could be to put up with interest
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that i thought annoyed with the body or even going to see what's in it just the sound different just like a. little to be an amalgam or allegedly asked. the interim in egypt. sisters to. down to the biggest one in o.e. on that i'm camera 72 up. to defend what is here and there still is in to keep it out on the cosmic kinda but imagine if you put it down to get it looking that was a big deal activity time passing any time. down to percentage of a minute time to pursue the case of the saw and the 2 white had been bought. the same. motional voice from the front line of the bottle there while the regional director
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for europe of the world health organization has urged nations to take a border approach in the fight against the. and he said the lesson should be learned from china the experience and show that this thing. will bind with social distancing measures and. when put in place quickly and effectively and but events in fictions and say. you know let's just flesh that out by the spread of the virus appears to have almost stopped in china only 13 new cases were registered on choose they all of them in the really hot spot thought would be a province locked in most cities are being partially lifted domestic travel by the way starting to resume as well at the store of brick china's tough response was heavily criticized but has double quarter reports many countries are below started
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to adopt 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 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 finished in i mean friends in the street 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
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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 policed rooms 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
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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. it's an interesting contrast the we discussed the situation with journalist chadwick abrams marx's assistant professor of public policy at northeast university in the us and kicks us off. inchoate all 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 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 who can roll in terms of the continuum
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between democracy limited government can afford terry doesn't the u.s. government is moving more in the direction of china while still trying to maintain some of our time accredit norms max is absolutely correct that it 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 government let him know where's the where's it 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 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
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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 iris past force that they're very calm they're not freaking out and they're giving. pretty simple basic instructions to be. sure you're aware with ever more countries putting their entire populations under quarantine millions of themselves spending more time at home than usual and some are making the most of the situation this polish couple still manage to exchange markets by shutting. window despite the government imposing a state of emergency on their wedding day they did not council and the bride ok.
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well it w.h.o. recommends keeping up physical or mental activity when in home according to its says people should stand up move every 30 minutes and do something physical from exercising to gardening if that is indeed an option and cleaning it even recommends walking around the room or perhaps on the spot when speaking the phone all of her saskia taylor thinking. dia 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. coronavirus has cleared the streets and driven us 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
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have to go running in the park like i promised myself i'm the only thing i'm using at the gym is money but still lucky 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 in public is your wost nightmare no fear. also that this is a puffing 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 organization of skills. they do say you should have one task every day to keep you motivated also i did
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always think i had 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. you. see the. current soon to move. who said quarantine couldn't be fun also for the last stooges among you lot of those hacks trick your teacher online and get out of 5 chill plus only for the more adventurous among you ever wonder what a toilet seat tastes like. apparently she thinks coronavirus is for poor people tom hanks rude monch speaking of the
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than 50 people at a time literally and 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 good advice there from the help story meanwhile privacy concerns are being raised in israel which has decided to try people workroom of ours using their mobile phone data in this is going to be a story we're going to hear more and more about for know the polis leader has the details from the country. 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
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the virus israel is a democracy and we must maintain the balance between civil rights in 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 him 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
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of the virus must be prevented but it's inconceivable that because of the panic so arise 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 publicity to contain the virus and while the authorities stop or tracking once the pandemic is over i'm afraid. after this one time that the government played it for days. it would be. slipping away to using it again in august 2nd stan says which
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i'm not sure. i will agree with your 1st corner much 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 nothing 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 you will see about. all our political analyst amir oren things the lack of public trust in prime minister benjamin netanyahu will make it difficult for the government to implement any containment plan. these really probably in this particular crisis would prefer health and prevention
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of contagion epidemics over almost anything but this is not the cure for these really public but then you know government has lost its credibility and therefore suspect in its handling of this crisis in a time you know him self 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's suspect of trying to play for rezone personal or political advantage. ok let's bring you some other world news on the program now old computer purchased on e-bay by a group of german cyber security experts for just $100.00 has turned out to be priceless this because buried in its data was a step by step guide on how to use one of the country's or defense systems.
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we've discovered something exciting the german army hasn't lost any of its classified data or only by. the buyer claims the laptop contained a set of instructions on the use the maintenance as well of advanced aircraft systems the documents also give guidelines on how to destroy the system so enemies would not be able to deploy it well the unit in question is currently in the arsenal of the national army it was 1st introduced almost 20 years ago and still serves as a defense barrier for a military personnel against low flying enemy bombers and helicopters its missile eyelets can reach targets of up to 6 kilometers away the german defense ministry admits there may have been a misstep in how it deals with its old computers the old computer is used for the
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fasces have all been decommissioned and sent for recycling with orders to raise or render existence storage media usable it can be assumed that america during the recycling of the computer in question it's very embarrassing your that up top was really quite old it was running windows 2000 the about time cybersecurity wasn't as big an issue as it is today and putting it into context it was at the lowest classifications but none of that's an excuse this should not have happened hard drives are usually taken out of military computers before they're sold on the hard drives were destroyed separately this clearly hasn't happened here there is a danger posed definitely because it's giving away some of the technical background to the air defense system and people don't realize how much can survive for long periods of time i'm short cuts are taken in the disposal of certain equipment that makes it. fantastic for it could be germany's enemies in wanting to look at ways of potentially country these are defense systems. you know you never know what $100.00
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will buy you these days just a reminder for up to the minute quite literally updates this hour our twitter page house you covered well worth some of your scrolling time and i'll see if. the outbreak in the spread of the coronavirus has become a black swan event for the global economy is no longer whether the u.s. and other economies will slip into recession the question now is how long the recession will last it's going to get worse before it gets better.

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