the week's biggest stories from our. borders to limit the spread of. measures. leaving the mississippi. to see. the. u.s. lawmakers push for a cross party rescue deal to save me as the. markets dealing with their worst week since the. financial crisis.

the world health organization china doesn't example of how strict measures can counter the spread of the country reports its 1st semester. base and. with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments this is the weekly an hour to international hello and welcome to a developing story from croatia in south east europe a 5.3 magnitude earthquake has struck north of the capital causing significant damage to some buildings let's take a look at the latest footage we've been receiving from the debris scene on the streets here appeared on a number of buildings of one of the spires. unlike

cathedral collapse there are also we're hearing power outages and problems with water supplies in some areas at new reports of any casualties but i've seen worried citizens come out on the streets despite current advice to stay indoors to tackle corona virus the interior minister has appealed to people yet again to practice social distancing the spikes at what happened in the early hours as much as possible particularly in the current situation in zagreb. ok moving although of course 2 thoughts will issue dominating everyone's thoughts coronavirus has no claim to over 13000 lives world wide with the number of confirmed cases of more than 308000 it's only reached a grim milestone this week surpassing china as the country to have suffered the most fatal if he's currently more than 4800 people somebody alone almost 800

succumb to the disease at least shutting down all production of essential goods while the united states is now the 3rd most affected country in terms of infections the number over 26000 of this current stage half of those in new york. the european union sealed itself to travelers from outside europe this week as part of why grange in efforts to stop the spread of covertly. 2 limits to support of the various beliefs we agreed to we enforce all external borders by applying a coordinate temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e.u. folk preview it or 30 days just concentrating on one country in particular from the entire nation of 67000000 people a lot down army trucks have been seen in the streets of paris while large numbers

of police officers have been deployed to ensure compliance from charlotte he reports on a nationwide. problem is now we're all on lockdown to break to lock down that would be in school the government is 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 came to the presidential address on monday night in fact the one thing that came through. these problems 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 after the french took the calls to stay at home and

self isolate too lightly in fact while bolzan 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 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 have one of this in pakistan to say why he'd been leaving their home for

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 those in spain and italy all persons traveling 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 collection 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 losing thursday in today to the point of closing almost all businesses in makes no sense to hold these municipal elections they must be postponed because they cannot be held fairly. holding the municipal elections is completely incomprehensible and contradicts the measures non's by the prime minister i hope that the government will take responsibility and change its mind as the marked down began many played to the city possibly going. to state friends or family anything to want to be isolated to give this time to see here france this idea of self isolation is something that many people fear many people who live below the idea of not having enough 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 peace could be extended but many people here in france just have no idea when their lives are going to return to normal shona people ski. in paris during the long time. you know those from china were the brick originated toit seems to be turning the countries reported its 1st domestically transmitted case after a 4 days with the world health organization says other nations could learn from china's example we'll be reporting later and how strict measures can make a difference. in the u.s. senate meanwhile is jus to vote on a stimulus package later the sun to inject stability into the economy after 2 weeks of plummeting stocks mosque in the us

a bipartisan deal being reached yet but is reportedly close top congress leaders will get together for their final discussions later president trump revealed the initial plan on tuesday. 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 rebates on measures to help struggling small businesses and one of the president's core ideas is to directly meal checks to americans negotiators have also apparently agreed to boost paid sick leave a suggestion by the democrats which remains a sticking point between them on the republicans. the markets reacted positively to

the news on choose the which shares jumping slightly mostly though those markets spent the week struggling with friday's closure marking the worst week since the 2008 financial crisis rocco's the 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 why a bankers whirling around like headless chickens in a few minutes with this monopoly set i'll explain why 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 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 that. 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 the museums who support centers and similar establishments and retailers with specific. sanctions. 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 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 all 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 ones 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 well infections are also blighting 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 i've.

for.

a we saw its perspective from all of the world's leading thinkers renowned slovenian a philosopher a slow voices chick likens the crisis to a wartime sonority you but emphasize the need for a meaningful international solidarity. east in previous cases people were thinking just about isolation and so on until one day i sure hope we are becoming aware that we kept cool in the unite that coordinate that way we are all the entire humanity in we seat in the same boat the big loser i think will be but if sally nationality racist and you 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 united through

a shell pink tribe or we could rate them straight in mosques what they would eat whatever is needed and go on and so on i think that. in this sense we should be straight if reality in the middle of the military operation we should be i'm not here appealing to some kind of abstract sense of solidity even in our interest it germany now. they will get an even stronger probably epidemic and go on until one so it can think obviously that it is something that is demanded from us but if sadly if we think as a national it. will gather recruits 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 into the month it will be over baby this epidemic. in the fall that if the day make

out that it will article about what it was i think that even when i think. that it doesn't look normal it will not be the same normality. we leave now we will have to change our mode of life. continue or look back out they went to was choose they saw the world health organizations europe director urged nations to take the strongest action possible to fight the pandemic and sent china and set a good example the experience of china and others show that testing and placing gold bind with social distancing measures and community mobilization when put in place quickly and effectively and prevent infections and safe lifes. well china turned a corner this week it recorded no new domestic infections for the 1st time since

the break began that continued on till earlier this sunday among 46 new declared cases all came from abroad china's tough response to contain the spread of the virus has been heavily criticized along the way but i stole a quarter reports many countries are no adopting similar measures remember when only china had to deal with the corona virus 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 the. gatherings family get togethers and social functions will no longer be familiar to walking to meet friends in the park or on the streets will no longer be possible any elderly daredevils that venture out of their homes could face have to find or even a police baton and all the while militaries across the continent are mobilizing in switzerland it's the biggest since world war 2 and in france army convoys are becoming a regular sight in the suburbs. 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 to stop

the spread of coronavirus and drones are flying up to people in public and yelling at them for not wearing masks in fact we're hearing of mask shortages drones soldiers lockdowns whatever communist china does it the western media loves to call it all off thora tarion ism but what even makes these measures democratic or not at a time of crisis shouldn't people be focusing on which measures are the most effective. we discussed what nations can learn from china's experience with commentator chadwick public policy expert 1st. 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 government and authoritarianism the u.s. 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 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 close in 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're giving pretty simple basic instructions to people. well talking locally about us here in moscow the mers office has warned about misinformation spreading across the internet regarding the pandemic the measures to contain it the mirror has refuted claims that off the capital's metro would be closed or that the city would go into total lockdown reassured people

about the supply of essential products in shops retailers have tried to calm concerns by releasing video of their warehouses some chains say they have enough supplies to last at least 8 weeks and the most popular items are being hoarded the russian industry and trade ministry is assuring the public that grocery stores will remain open with supermarket chains have reported an increase in demand for grains and hygiene products especially popular among russians is weight of checked out the situation of a large school supermarket. panic buying has become one of the key manifestations of the coronavirus scare all over the world so now we've come to one of most schools largest retail stores parts of europe chain just to get an idea as to how badly this thing is affecting the russians in fact we're in the very same store that had previously introduced so-called apocalypse shopping carts pre-selected

bundles of essential goods for about $45.00 per cart was a one time action but it turned out to be a clear success because those cards have been already swept and they're nowhere to be found but now let's have a look as to how well this particular and a very large school is stocked itself. first stop is well good old soap and the situation here is quite interesting because all the cheaper ones they are gone like for instance here like 15 cents 30 cents buy the i'm not making up the prices these are actual prices on the soap here they're gone but the more expensive. stuff over here. in abundance in fact let me show you one thing you can literally if you were if you were in a panic situation if you were in a panic mood you can literally buy soaps in canisters like this is liquid soap 5 releases of liquid soap but we're going to be opting for something different

something. so. now to a particularly sensitive subject lately toilet paper while. any type of budget any type of skin is clearly enough for everyone and i feel like a plenty at home but for the sake of the experiment let's get some why not. well this is trouble all right because we're in the poultry section and the well it's been ransacked there are people all around filming on their phones as well together with us what's going on here but the store has put up a reassuring messages reassuring sign saying essentially that the products the products are on the way don't worry if you haven't found what you wanted here it will be here we will restock it in the nearest future together with the supplies

we're doing everything to maintain the needed stockpile. cheaper me like chicken or turkey more expensive me like before the poor while it's gone just some of the most expensive stuff is here but here nothing. well judging by the amount of sweets next to me one thing can be said with certainty children are definitely not panicking and can be an example to us all. well this is of course just a symbolic cut it's not really serious but if i were to go all in and defy wanted to get everything that i needed for a nuclear winter scenario so to speak i would have had very very few problems with doing so and even with that said supply is have been talking

a lot and posting photos and videos of their storage is really filled up to the brim with produce saying that there is literally no reason to panic about whatever whatever m.t.v. . show that we've just seen well they will be filled up there will be back fully stocked so right now it looks the appetite for panic buying here at least among muscovites is not that strong. ok and updates on our developing story from croatia in southeast europe where a 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck just north of the capital on sunday morning one person is now known to have died and a 15 year old found in the rubble of a collapsed building no other details have yet been given this is the latest video we have from zagreb debris seen on the streets appear.