the week's biggest stories from our see. its borders to limit the spread of. this measures. everybody has to be pleased. to see. the. world health organization holds china an example of strict measures of the spread with the country having reported no new domestic infections since wedding day. u.s.

lawmakers. rescue deal of to save me as the pandemic pushes markets. the worst since the. financial crisis. the stories from the past 7 days on the run up to the moment of well this is the weekly an international a little welcome. well there is just one inescapable issue dominating everyone's thoughts right now the corona virus has claimed over 13000 lives world wide with the number of confirmed cases at more than 308000 asli reached a grim milestone this week surpassing china the country to have suffered the most fatalities currently more than 4800. almost $800.00 succumb

to the disease at least now shutting down all production of non-essential goods. well the european union sealed itself off to travelers from outside europe this week as part of wide ranging efforts to stop the spread of covert 90. 2 limits to support of the various google we agreed to we enforce external borders by a close coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e.u. . or 30 days. of front of the entire nation 67000000 people unlocked or army trucks have been seen in the streets of paris while large numbers of police officers have been deployed to ensure compliance charlotte dubin ski reports now and the nationwide quarantine. presence is now what

. looked to brake to lock 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 to everybody in france is to self isolate president mark warner was incredibly clear when he came to the presidential address on monday night in fact the one thing that came through . is the problem is that. we are at war war to be sure we are not fighting another army knew another nation but the enemies that invisible and elusive that decision came after the french took the calls to stay at home and self isolate too likely in fact while bowls in 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 same 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 restrictions 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 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 the existing practice tests to just state why maybe even their home for some of those reasons that i just outlined anybody who is cool flouting that law or into court 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 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. another casualty of the new stricter regime is the 2nd round the ring is a collections which will now be postponed but 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 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 thurston 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 long term began maybe late this city possibly going to see some of the time to stay friends and family anything to be isolated in this time of emergency here francis this idea of self isolation is something that many people fear many people who live below the idea of not having not social contact face to face 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 peace could be extended but many people here.

just have no idea when their lives are going to return to normal schoener people ski on sea in paris during the long time well if we go back to choose the of this week that saw the world health organization europe director urge nations to take the strongest action possible to fight the mic and said that china set a good example the experience of joining a show that this thing. called binds with social distancing measures. when put in place quickly and effectively and prevents fictions and say. well china turned a corner on whedon's think the countries reported no new domestic infection since wednesday that is the 1st time since the i predict began last also china's tough

response as the virus spread was heavily criticized but has done a quarter reports many countries are now adopting some new 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. 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 the. gatherings family get togethers and social functions will no longer be permitted 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 finds 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. michael fauntroy. 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 that's the 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 what nations can learn from china's experience with commentator chadwick moore public policy expert lex it. 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 so there isn't 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 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 the for carrying a u.s. government is moving more in the direction of china while still trying to maintain some of our time a credit 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 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 when you listen to the crowd of ira's task force that they're very calm they're not freaking out and they give it pretty. simple basic instructions to people. yeah the big question of course is what can be done what should be done the u.s. senate we know is due to vote on the stimulus package later this sunday to inject stability really into the economy after 2 weeks of plummeting stocks mass layoffs as well a bipartisan deal hasn't been reached yet but is reportedly getting close top congress leaders will get together for their final discussions later or president trump revealed the initial plan choose that. by making shared sacrifices and

temporary changes we can protect the health of our people and we can protect our economy because i think our economy will come back very rapidly one day we'll be standing possibly up here will say well we won and we're going to say that sure if you're sitting there we're going to say that and we're going to win and i think we're going to win faster than people think i hope among the trillion dollar plus emergency measures on the table tax rebate measures to help struggling small businesses one of the president's core ideas is to directly meal checks to americans negotiators are also partly agreed to boost paid sick leave that's a suggestion by the democrats that's remained a sticking point between them on the republican. markets reacted positively to the news on tuesday with shares jumping slightly mostly though those markets have spent the week struggling finishing on friday with the worst week since the 2008

financial crisis rock has been breaking down what is going on in the world economy . unless you majored in finance everything that's happening may seem a little overwhelming what is going on why are markets melting down while bankers whirling around like headless chickens and a few minutes with this monopoly set i'll explain my everything seems to be crashing and burning what the hell is a fiscal stimulus and why is everyone crazy about rate cuts 1st that said the pieces here are investors meaning millionaires you're middle class with modest savings your pension is here all of them have some money saved up these days you don't keep your money under your mattress you want to return it right interest a pretty good pension so you take this money and you put it in the banks depending how smart they are all how greedy they are they promise you x.

amount of profit per month the banks then go ahead and loan out this money to whoever needs it they drive our entire economy the new hotel built in your city the new jet purchased by british airways the new hips the bar bill down the road from you your mortgage to buy your house comes from the bank so all this money goes into the economy to keep things running and here is how it runs every month these people make payments to the bank here every month the same payment goes back to the bank the bank then pays the investors the investors then put the money back into the bank this is obviously simplifying things but you get the gist of it it's a cycle it all works great while it works but then something unforeseen happens like a mortgage crisis or

a pandemic virus clubs and pubs are to be closed along with theatres museums do sports centers and similar establishments and retailers with specific. sanctions. now is the time to take extra steps we're ordering the suspension of all retail activities with the exception of groceries pharmacies and other outlets selling fancy goods. suddenly mass shut down quarantine factories businesses come to a standstill people lose jobs stop paying mortgages suddenly people aren't paying the banks back and the investors the markets your pension manager they start panicking that is their money stuck potentially lost they see the news pandemic they call the bank they say they want their money out pull my money out of the markets out of the dow jones out of b.p. out of up all the markets crash but the banks don't have it here is where the

government step in before this mass panic and a run on the banks the government say the magic word bailout fiscal relief lots of words but it's the same thing the government pulls money out of thin air the money presses and gives it to the banks so that they can keep paying investors it's all pretend play they just simulating that everything's fine by printing ridiculous amounts of money and passing it back and forth between each other the real economy the factories in the businesses these guys are in quarantine and shut down but the entire point of this little show is temporary live this illusion has to work for a little while weeks months to allow the economy to recover to prevent the banks from going bankrupt and recalling all this debt to help these guys get back on their feet and start paying their debts back you don't need to be

a new to the economist or an economist to realize how how fickle how fragile this illusion is the collapse of the markets is a clear. very profound statement the entire investment community which is not the small people who have a few shares i'm talking about the people who manage ancient bonds who manage banks what follows 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 we're running on borrowed time they can't keep printing money for too long or inflation goes through the roof money becomes worthless the illusion will eventually wear off even the most optimistic investors can only live in denial for so long and will realize that banks are living in a dream world then it all collapses see the world up until now has been weighing lives vs the economy for all the criticism and ridicule of the world through

a child that they shut down everything sacrificed their own economy to keep the virus from spreading the west didn't the west ridiculed that dismiss china's response as incompetent they tried to keep the markets happy rather than the people safe and what they got america and europe is the worst of both worlds and economy on the brink of collapse and the death toll fast eclipsing that of china infections are also blighting car odors of power with senior lawmakers falling sick in several countries governments of been working on contingencies to make sure the wheels turning.

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 i've.

so it was. always sort of some perspective from one of the world's leading thinkers were known

slovenian philosopher. likens the crisis to a wartime scenario but emphasized the need for meaningful international solidarity . in previous cases people were thinking just about isolation and so on until one day i shook we are becoming aware that we can't go in there unite that coordinate that way we are all the entire humanity in we sit in the same boat the big loser i think will be pretty sally and nationality racist and so won't within our country to isolate itself until of course we need to get an inch and like for example take europe we should act in a united through a shell pink tribe or we could rate them straight in mosques what they believe what they what is needed and go on and so on i think that. in this sense we should be

shaping 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 may get an even stronger probably epidemic and go on and to want so it can think obviously that it is something that demand from us but he decides if we think as a national. step we'll get that big step back and reflect what this our mole go through life how should we change it because we should be aware of why i don't think it's not let me just go on galilee and in talk to the month it will be over baby in this epidemic. in the fall that i doubt if the day may get out identical article about what it was i think that even when things

go well that it doesn't normally it would not be the same normally. because we leave now we're going to change our mode of life. turning attention to the u.k. where no one and factions have surpassed $5.00 and the health secretary's evoked a wartime appeal to boost the overstretched health service. we are writing to over 65000 nurses and doctors who recently come off the register recently retired or left the n.h.s. and saying that your country needs the n.h.s. and the n.h.s. needs you. well let's break down without means professional help bodies or prost you care directly appealing to former colleagues who left the n.h.s. in the past 3 years to come back to help tackle what they call the world's greatest health threat in a 100 years also final year medical students will be offered temporary paid

jobs there are enough trained who are who are experienced to do to deal with with the issue with coronavirus patients they're bringing in student nurses they're bringing in retired nurses a lot of doctors and nurses were concerned that it wasn't. appropriate p p e e p s the protective equipment like mosques and surgical gowns and the base there is that cover you from droplets the protection that you have when you're dealing with queries isn't enough you're literally just hoping that you will test negative i mean these days tests come back 3 days $3.00 to $5.00 days is fair enough if they come back 2 hours 8 hours after they've been tested but the fact that we're not getting the appropriate p.p. and the government is addressing that and i'm hoping they do address it quickly because it's just and then going to encourage the spread of the the disease if the

nurses and doctors are protected and that wouldn't further lower the staffing levels. you know while britain's n.h.s. tries to cope prime minister boris johnson has tried to reassure people in his daily public address seeing the country can turn the tide within 12 weeks are not british people are being advised to heed social distancing advice that means no all necessary travel working from home no going out to restaurants and bars but before those closures were enforced on people really being advised not to go on even the prime minister's own father ignored his son's advice insisting he'd still be heading to the pub here's our tea shaadi edwards. most brits are treating coronavirus very seriously he took advice to stay at home avoid social gatherings and avoid travel completely when the prime minister advised against going to pubs

the so that was fine we need people to start working from home where they possibly can and you should stick to pubs clubs. and other such social. well london's liquor lovers are waking up to a new how to have a free reality but for others if you need a drink you need a drink especially if you played a part in creating the man behind this very strange change of sobering rules when you go to the pubs are not. the problems you think you know what you think you sound going to sideline just told you not who he said before going to pubs but if i had to go to a pub i'd go to a bar so the p.m.'s does go to plan for that one stand but then say use a bring up the storm online some of questioning why the prime minister very own father is questioning his own coronavirus meshes is he wrong whereas i was a saying well actually the situation has been blown up i mean launch a proportion. which creates

a need for want to go to the pop. after consulting with my father stanley johnson we are updating our coronavirus advice from now on anyone who developed symptoms must head straight for the pub can we stop bringing stanley johnson on to the t.v. he's not an elected official and he's a danger in the current climate well we tried all day to find a single punter in london but to no avail well tonight might be a bit more fruitful at least not at this prop because there's no one here and check out this right in the heart of london it's wind time brews a clock and not a single boozer insight on the story is no different in this pub either not exactly having a whale of a time with all of my friends holiday the world's greatest pub crawl but with a general u.k. lockdown looming it seems like pubs like this will be calling all stores anyway though it does seem that started johnson is the last man standing. filing the story

before friday's inforced which are of pubs restaurants gyms all right stub is the week's big stories as dictated by coronavirus we'll keep the recap going at 30 but 1st let's move away from all things to a program of a totally different nature it begins.

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