Skip to main content

tv   News  RT  March 22, 2020 9:00am-9:31am EDT

9:00 am
in the big stories the last 7 days something but earlier today sunday the croatian capital hit with its strongest earthquake in a 140 years seeing people flee buildings out on the streets but of course a big coronavirus. and regarding the headline news about that in a week some of the big headlines the e.u. shut its borders for a month to try to limit the spread of covert 19 france imposing the strictest measures. anybody leaving the promptness with the whole thing needs.
9:01 am
to stop so to say i think. plus u.s. lawmakers push for a cross party rescue deal to save the economy as the pandemic leaves markets dealing with the worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. by their very good afternoon my name is kevin irwin here they are to international or world news h.q. for the next half hour to recap the big stories as reported by us to you 1st offered to croatia earlier today a 5.3 magnitude quake and then 2 aftershocks struck north of the capital zagreb. details came through 1st we had a 15 year old was found in the rubble of a building and he said to be critically injured in hospital then several others reported have been home to streets across the city a little with debris in this been significant damage to sever. buildings the quakes
9:02 am
reported to be the strongest in the region in the past 140 years among the damage to the top of one of the spires of the city's iconic cathedral that collapsed of all supreme power outages and problems with water supplies in some areas but quakes all worried citizens come out of the streets despite the ongoing advice to stay indoors to tackle coronavirus the croatian army said to help the city overcome the quakes aftermath they say we talked to one resident who shared her experience of what had just gone on with us. i don't have electricity in my apartment they're all i have to come to a part of my character to be able to now be quite human. being and then i felt that in my heart breaking i mean my how bad the thought are who are 1000 out in. my apartment but you know when you're in this corona it's relation and then everybody are thinking that you are not allowed to grow are out there or if you are thinking
9:03 am
what to do that you go out and them are in my neighborhood were all in front of the building policeman were also armed fathom why do you. do when we be together in our room we keep doing this. horrible thing ration this morning want to escape from the issue dominating everyone's thoughts of the moment coronavirus the latest on that is that it's now claimed over 13000 lives worldwide with the number of confirmed cases that more than 314000 italy reached passed a grim milestone this last week to surpass in china as the country to have suffered the most fatalities curry more than 4800 people on saturday alone almost 800 succumb to the disease it to the shutting down all production now of non essential goods. in the way for european union sealed itself off to travelers from outside europe as
9:04 am
part of the wide ranging efforts to try to stop the spread of covert 19. 2 limits to support of the various bubel if we agreed to enforce our external borders by applying coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e.u. folk preview it or so to do this france has put the entire nation of 67000000 people on army trucks have been seen in the streets of paris while large numbers of police officers have been deployed to ensure compliance charlotte who bensky reports next than on the nationwide quarantine their. presence is now what. looked at strict lockdown that would be in poor 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
9:05 am
gave that presidential address on monday night in fact the one thing that came through over and over is the problem is that. we are at war the health war to be sure we are not fighting another army new 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 at 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. restriction these
9:06 am
are really centered around self isolation to people who have been told that they can leave their homes but for 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 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
9:07 am
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 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. holden municipal elections is completely incomprehensible and contradicts the measures
9:08 am
announced by the prime minister i hope that the government will take responsibility and change its mind as the lockdown began and many of you played the city possibly going to some of the homes to stay friends and family anything to want 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 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 these could be extended but many people here in france just have no idea when their lives are going to return to normal charlotte people ski r.t. in paris during the lockdown well versed the picture there of china where the outbreak originated the tide seemed to be turning for
9:09 am
a while the country's just recorded 'd domestically transmitted case this sunday but it did after 4 days without any world health organization says other nations could learn from china's example i can tell you to a good report coming up a bit later in the program on how the strict measures it seems have and can make a difference. over in the united states other efforts going on the u.s. senate there is due to vote on a stimulus package later sunday to try to inject stability into the economy after 2 weeks of plummeting stocks and mass layoffs a bipartisan deal hasn't been reached yet but is reportedly getting close top congress leaders will get together for the 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
9:10 am
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 a tax rebates and measures to help struggling small businesses one of the president's core ideas is to directly mail checks to americans negotiators to have also apparently agreed to boost paid sick leave that's a suggestion made by the democrats which should remain the sticking point between them and the republicans but seems headway made their markets reacted positively to the news on tuesday with shares jumping slightly but mostly those markets spent most of the week struggling with friday's closure marking the worst week since the 2008 financial crisis more gadgety of our senior correspondent next explains what's going on in the world economy right now than. unless you majored in finance everything that's happening may seem a little overwhelming what is going on why are markets melting down while the
9:11 am
bankers whirling around like headless chickens in 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 pending 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
9:12 am
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 specifics options. now is the time to take extra steps we are ordering the suspension of all retail
9:13 am
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
9:14 am
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
9:15 am
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
9:16 am
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. as sobering assessment there from our senior correspondent infections are all supplied in the corridors of power the single lawmakers falling ill in several countries 2 governments have been working on contingencies to try to make sure the whales 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.
9:17 am
9:18 am
for. all of these testing times as it was good to get some sound thinking on it in the week resort out some perspective them from one of the world's lead leading thinkers renowned slovenian philosophers spoke to us he likens the crisis to a wartime scenario but there was some positive in there as well he emphasized the need for meaningful international solidarity. if in previous cases people
9:19 am
were thinking just about isolation and so on and on today 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 did in the same boat the big loser i think will be put aside lee and nationality racist and to want within our country took isolate itself until of course we need to get an inch and odette like for example take europe we should act in a unite that racial pink tribe or we could have great their street mosques what they would eat whatever is needed and go on and so on i think that. in this sense we should be straight re out 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
9:20 am
germany now. they may get an even stronger probably epidemic and conant to want so it can think obviously that it is something that is demand from us but he states that if we think as a national know it. will 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 gallantly and into will tell you months it will be over baby in this epidemic. in the fall that are that if the day me get out i did a full article about it and what it was i think that even when things go well but it doesn't feel normal it did not beat that same normality then really really now we're going to change our mode of life. well
9:21 am
choose day so the world health organizations europe direct to call our nations to take the strongest action possible to fight the pandemic lauding the example set already by china them. the experience of china and others show that testing and placing bind with social distancing measures and community organization when put in place quickly and effectively prevent infections and say lights as already mentioned in the program china turn the call of this week for a while anyway a wednesday recorded no new domestic infections for the 1st time since the great began and that continued until earlier today we can report among 46 new declared cases all but one came from abroad china's tough response to contain the spread of the virus of the nation caused been heavily criticized along the way but has done a quarter reports many countries are no doctoring similar measures. remember when
9:22 am
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 tricks 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 finished it working to meet friends in the park or on the streets will no longer be possible any elderly daredevils that venture out of their homes could face have to find or even a police baton and all the while militaries across the continent are mobilizing in
9:23 am
switzerland it's the biggest since world war 2 and in france army convoys are becoming a regular sight in the suburbs. to bomb front. although it's not like they have many places to go the entire european union's closed its borders anyway and on top of that they'll be under the watchful eye of those dystopian police drones just like the chinese ones that frightened more than a few in the western media the country taking some extraordinary measures to contain this outbreak police are using drones equipped with a public address system to tell people to wear face masks and stay indoors to stop the spread of coronavirus and drones are flying up to people in public and yelling at them for not wearing masks in fact we're hearing of mask shortages drones soldiers lockdowns whatever communist china does it the western media loves to call it all off thora tarion ism but what even makes these measures democratic or not at
9:24 am
a time of crisis shouldn't people be focusing on which measures are the most effective. well here moscow mayor's office has warned about misinformation spreading across the internet regarding the pandemic and the measures to contain it the mayor's refuted claims 1st of all that the capital's metro would be closed or that the city would go into total lockdown any time soon and reassure people too about the supply of essential products in shops retailers to try to calm concerns by releasing videos from the warehouses some chains say they've got enough supplies to last at least 8 weeks here and that includes the most popular items that are being hoarded further the russian industry and trade ministries also assuring the public that grocery stores will remain open supermarket chains are reported an increase in demand for grain and hygiene products especially popular among russians is buckwheat he goes down off checked out the situation in one large moscow supermarket. panic buying has become one of the key manifestations of the
9:25 am
coronavirus scare all over the world so now we've come to one of moscow's largest retail stores parts of europe the shan 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 carts 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 store is stocked itself. our 1st stop is well good old soap and the situation here is quite interesting because all cheaper ones they have they're gone like for instance here like 15 cents 30 cents
9:26 am
by 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're a if you're in a panic situation if you are 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. particularly sensitive subject lately toilet paper while. any type of budget any type of skin there's 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
9:27 am
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 mead like beef or pork while it's gone just some of the most expensive stuff is here but. nothing. well judging by the amount of sweets next to me one thing can be said with certainty children are definitely not panicking and
9:28 am
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 but 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. . shelves that we've just seen. they will be filled up there will be back fully stocked so right now it looks that the appetite for panic buying here at least among muscovites is not that strong. well good to see it for now at least a couple fingers crossed the week's big stories as dictated by coronavirus than on
9:29 am
his reported from odyssey international to you thanks for watching our weekly a recap of the big stories of the week when it was kevin 0 in but with more in just over half an hour.
9:30 am
a little bit messed up by our d.n.a. in something way over the previous i'm not sure this is such a quick thing you know i'm sure you look better now than when you had hair. well it's nice of you to say so but i do i went through 500 wasn't so great. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. right you can still hear the song. for. so have a seat at these 2 at 1st the green and the blue and then we'll do
9:31 am
a quick sound check with us.

33 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on