the week's biggest stories from our. borders to limit the spread of 19 with. anybody. to be. the world health organization holds china as an example of how strict measures can be spread with the country having reported new infections since.

u.s. lawmakers pushed for a cross party rescue deal to save the economy of the. markets to their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly are to international of the welcome. there is of course just one inescapable issue dominating everyone's thoughts at the moment. claimed over 13000 lives worldwide with the number of confirmed cases at more than 300 on a and it's reached a grim milestone this week surpassing china as the country to have suffered the most fatalities currently more than 4800 people have died on saturday alone almost 800 succumb to the disease italy is now is shutting down all production of

non-essential goods. we hear a pin union seal that self 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 bullet we agreed to we enforce external borders by applying coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e.u. folk preview it or 30 deuced from the entire nation of 67000000 people are locked on army trucks have been seen in the streets of paris while large numbers of police officers have been deployed to ensure compliance shala toobin ski has been reporting on the nationwide core and. france is now what looked to break the 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 everybody in france is to self isolate president mark one was incredibly clear when he came to the presidential address on monday night in fact the one thing that came through. in that promise is that. we are at war to help war to be sure we are not fighting another army new another nation but the enemies that are invisible and elusive. that decision came to the french took the calls to stay at home and self isolate too likely in fact while balls 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 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 even some of those reasons that i just outlined anybody who is cool flouting that law or who is going out for a walk just socialize with their friends roll them 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 now 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 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 losing 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 announced by the prime minister i hope that the government will take responsibility and change its mind as the lockdown began and many played to this city possibly going to see some of the homes here to stay friends and family anything to want to be isolated in this time. see here in 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

they just have no idea when their lives are going to return to normal charlotte people ski r.t. in paris during the long time. of shoes they saw the world health organizations europe director urged nations to take the strongest action possible to fight the pandemic and so china set a good example. the experience of an older showed that this thing. called buying if so should be distancing measures and. then put in place quickly and effectively and put events in fictions and say. well china turned a corner this week on wednesday and recorded no new domestic infections for the 1st time since the eye break began that continued until earlier this sunday among 46 new registered cases all but wall came from abroad china's tough response to

contain the spread of the virus has been heavily criticized along the way but as double quarter reports many countries are no adopting similar 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 you know. gatherings family get togethers and social functions will no longer be permitted 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. 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. when we discuss what nations can learn from china's experience with commentator chadwick public policy expert. 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 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 the for carrying a us government is moving more in the 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 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 not just scary. but consequential given the nature of the threat it is

reasonable for the government to intervene in reasonable ringback 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. now the u.s. senate is jus to vote on a stimulus package later this sunday to inject stability into the economy after 2 weeks of plummeting stocks on mass layoffs a bipartisan deal not been reached as yet but is reportedly close to top congress leaders will get together for their final discussions later in a president trump revealed the initial plan back on choose day. 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 appear 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 rebates on measures to help struggling small businesses while all of the president's core ideas is to directly meal checks to americans in the hole so i partly agree to boost paid sick leave it's a suggestion which democrats brought in and how did remained a sticking point between them and the republicans. on markets reacted positively to the news and choose they were jumping slightly mostly though in those markets how spent the week struggling with friday's closure marking the worst week since the 2008 financial crisis rutgers day of explains what's 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 wording 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 big good pensions or 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 sections. now is the time to take extra steps we are ordering the suspension of all retail activities with the exception of groceries pharmacies and other outlets selling 1st of 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. around 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 funds who manage bank warts on wheels 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 lighting the corridors of power with senior lawmakers falling ill in several countries governments have been working on contingencies to make sure the wheels keep 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.

so. we saw some perspective from all of the world's leading thinkers were none slovenian philosopher a slow boy likens the crisis to a wartime scenario but emphasized the need for meaningful international solidarity

. east 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 precisely a nationality racist and to want 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 unite that racial pink tribe or week that great that street mosques whatever whatever is needed and go on and so on i think that. in this sense we should be shape riyadh in the middle of that military operation we should be i'm not here

appealing to some kind of abstract. you keep winning out in it your money now. they may get an even stronger probably epidemic and conant to want so it shall think absolutely that it is sound think that demand for a mass but he states that if we think as a national it. will get better recruits step back and reflect what this our mole go through life how should we change it because we should be aware of why and think it cannot grasp let me just go on galilee and in thought that a month it will be over baby. in the fall that i did it the day make out that it will articulate about what it was i think that even when i think we'll go but it doesn't look normal it would not be the same normality

. we leapt now we can't change modes of life. stuff is expecting to r.t. well in the u.k. were known infections have surpassed $5000.00 the health secretary several to wartime appeal to boost the overstretched health service. we are writing to over 65000 nurses and doctors who have 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 professional health bodies across the u.k. are 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 threats and 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. the appropriate p.p. it be the protective equipment it's like mosques and surgical gowns and the bases 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 it will test negative i mean these these 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 people and the government is addressing that and i'm hoping they do address it quickly because it's just been then going to encourage the spread of the disease if the nurses and doctors are protected and that wouldn't further lower the starving levels. well while britain's n.h.s.

tries to cope prime minister boris johnson has tried to reassure people in his daily public address saying the country can turn the tide within 12 weeks for no british people are being advised to heed social distancing it means no one this is travel working from home going out to restaurants and bars but before those closures were enforced and people were only being used not to go even the p.m.'s own father ignored his son's advice insisting he'd still be going to the pub you're . most brits are treating coronavirus very seriously heeding advice to stay at home avoid social gatherings and avoid travel completely so when the prime minister advised against going to pubs the sound was fine we need people to start working from home where they possibly can and you should stick to pubs clubs theatres 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 down it's got a plan for that one stand but in saying use is a bring up the storm online some are questioning why the prime minister very own father is questioning his own coronavirus meshes is he wrong whereas all the saying well actually the situation's been blown up i mean larger than 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 pub because there's no one here and check out this park right in the heart of london it's wine time brews a clock and not single insight on the story is no different in this pop either not exactly having a whale of a time with all of my friends hardly 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. you know allowed into any of those pubs at all well after the shores the bricks we are putting pandemics to one side to tell the tale of a quite extraordinary woman stay close her story begins and.

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