in the headlines from all sco this thursday march the 26 fronts announces a military driven operation to clamp down on the spread of covert 19 as the global economy tries to batten down the hatches and survive an ever growing public. and reality strike a painful cold in italy as the nation comes to terms with the scale of the pandemic one church in the north has been turned into a storage unit for the dead. the u.k. court denied wiki leaks founder julian assange bail despite him not currently serving a sentence and with fears of a corona virus outbreak in presidents coming up we hear from his legal team. it was the solicitor. to the. judge this is really just

an issue maybe a little too close to. hello there this is out international from moscow has just turned 11 am here now this thursday i'm kevin o. and welcome to this 30 minute world news roundup. and 1st corona virus is spreading rapidly around the world as the current number of covert 19 confirmed cases stands at nearly half a 1000000 as of today the death toll has moved beyond 21000 the amount of recoveries is also on the rise too we can report nearly 115000 that's roughly a quarter of all known infection.

so than in the latest developments to report to the smalling the french president has given the green light to operation resilience it's a military plan that will see the army deployed to help with the logistics and medical support there in defeating coronavirus g d c d i have decided to launch operation resilience it will be entirely devoted to providing aid and support to populations as well as to supporting public services to deal with the covert 19 epidemic both in mainland france and in the french overseas departments and the new mccrone announced the plan for the army as he visited a makeshift field hospital on wednesday it's being forced to take patients says regular hospital struggle to keep up with the virus paris has also promised a huge investment for the health care system but medical workers in france feel it's been a long time coming with demands going back for more than a year already with investments being promised them by governments worldwide on the

back of mass quarantines nexus want to do bensky looks at why the money wasn't injected before and for how long the nations can keep up the spending to. economies across the world have ground to a halt kilian measures have been announced. to governments offering to pay full salaries to cannot work there is a scramble to inject amounts of money into the system to counter the economic fallout of the pandemic the costs are expected to exceed germany from economic crisis to natural disasters in recent decades as knock downs are implemented with no clear end in sight the real question perhaps is now how long could the world afford this this pandemic has brought the 3rd and most serious economic financial and social crisis of the 21st century the strict measures

applied around the world although essential to control the spread of the virus plunge our economies into an unprecedented paralysis from which they will not come out easily or automatically already we know that some $67000000.00 us citizens are worried about how they going to pay their credit card bills because of the pandemic other fears about finding money for the more essential basic needs of life accommodation and food while the multi-trillion for now will keep things taking a long and over some point that will end governments will have to choose between keeping the economy running or treating populations it is impossible to leave even in self isolation and to cure people if we do not continue the economic activity that quite simply allows us to live in this country our daily life so that eating out to restaurants going to the cinema meeting friends perhaps

for a drink or even having a haircut these are all activities that contribute to. keeping our economies taking over the money top sliced off by our governments in taxes then goes towards paying for essential services be that the doctors and nurses who are currently at the frontline of the war against $19.00 all the ability to purchase ventilators and other essential medical equipment governments need money and money comes from a healthy working economy we have already been warned that when containment measures finally and this will not be over the virus will not magically disappear. this idea that if you close schools and shut restaurants for a couple of weeks you solve the problem and get back to normal life that's not

what's going to happen this virus is going to be circulating potentially for a year or 2 so we need to be thinking on those times goes. social distancing may provide a respite from infection peak rates the so-called flattening the curve model but the impact that could have on wrong term economies could some believe provoke spikes in deaths elsewhere in the u.s. state of massachusetts a suicide prevention hotline has seen a surge in cools the majority of people called lately a mention in all talking about fear of contracting the virus economic impact and prison loneliness or isolation we anticipate and there will be an increased need for services like ours for a time to come in countries where social safety nets on particularly robust or or perhaps nonexistent this is a real concern president trump is well aware of this that despite lawmakers

agreeing on a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package trump knows like china he may have to prioritize the economy we have people get tremendous anxiety and depression and you have suicide over things like this when you have a terrible economy you have death probably i mean definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we're talking about with regard to the virus governments who they enact a draconian lockdowns now face an even bigger die lemma given that a vaccine for the virus is still possibly a year or even 2 years away and that we're being warned by health experts that kovac 19 will remain a deadly force when recess or take over the financial system becomes the more pressing issue how will they sell the exit strategy from containment before we go into this latest crisis back in january we're already. dirt

and we were heading into a recession what we've got now is it's very unusual we've got a supply and demand shock. and economic servants. i mean even the food industry if we're caught up in cotton the suit. and a car that just simply get it to go there and that only to bail out as well and that will again at the national debt and then have people come pay their mortgages because their college work and even if even if they're getting money they're giving loans they can they can't pay their mortgage and we have repossessions this is my worry right now but all of the industries will and are. getting affected by this the most just in one giant mass you know we had to for economics professor richard wolfe who believes action should have been taken sooner we are going to have a worst condition of unemployment now 100 employment goes up a little more like this every conceivable still szell problem we have i grow

a little child that you did poorest you name it gold's read it that's one of the reasons you can't i have to believe predict the next fall out of all of this everything that government has done since we 1st learned about the a coronavirus in december of last year has been too little and way too late and my judgment as best i can see it now is that this bill are still madly in the form it takes one and finally there will also be true little and too late. on the expected here and now authorities in italy are hopeful they've started to turn the tide on the pandemic the number of confirmed cases has gone now for a 4th consecutive day but still the country seeing hundreds of people succumb to the virus on a daily basis with italy remaining the hardest hit nation in terms of teletubbies and desperate times of call for desperate measures in one northern town where

a church has been turned into a holding place for coffins as a group say it isn't it the situation is so bad there that there are queues forming around the province for funeral services a priest for the church said they are expecting many more coffins into in the coming days meanwhile ever more countries are coming to italy's aid to help as best they can with a crisis a convoy of 22 trucks with russian medical experts and special equipment has reportedly reached burgerman now considered to be the epicenter of the outbreak there in italy as rome reached out for support it's not only russia but also let's remind ourselves china and cuba 2 that have responded we heard from residents in milan who seem surprised by the day it was known e.u. members have so far shown greater solidarity in the fight against coronavirus in italy. we should be thankful to russia but also to china and cuba as well as to other countries outside the european union as it is right to help each other in

this instance we too will be ready to help other countries when the need arises. events of in with that agenda i think in such circumstances any kind of help regardless affords you know ideology must be accepted from my. must unless it's a welcome hand because italy has been left alone so for me they did good. on european aid has been greater than aid that came from within the e.u. community see what i mean when germany or france need help we're always there for them when it's the opposite not so much while many people stand in solidarity afraid of the rapidly growing health crisis some are going out of their way to capitalize on a shortage of those facemasks our europe correspondent peter all of us got the latest on the. the coronavirus brings the world to its knees we all seeing some exploiting fear and scarcity to try and make money out of protective equipment like

these face masks a hospital in cologne was looted of thousands of face masks and 6000000 yes that's right 6000000 masks that was supposed to arrive in germany last week from kenya failed to show up and seem to have disappeared without a trace in moscow over 800000 was stolen from a warehouse while in ukraine gunmen masqueraded as security services to rob thousands of protective facemasks police in the united states were able to recover some stolen masks and sets about donating them to those in need there's also major concerns about fakes coming on to the market criminals will stop at nothing to make a profit the illicit trade in such kinds of fake medical items during the public health crisis shows their total disregard for people's well being or their lives while of front line health care workers are scrambling for functioning personal protection equipment fashion houses and social media stars being slammed for trying

to cash in on this crisis. in france the government to step in to regulate just you should have access to face masks saying that it's only those in high risk groups all those that are confirmed to be infected with covert 90 that actually need to wear them in the 1st place and they are the only things in high demand and it's a cargo ship bound for tunisia has in the words of that country's trade mint. being pirated now the cargo ship in question was full of vital equipment and supplies needed for the manufacture of hand sanitizer then there's toilet paper

despite being made from recycled paper and produced by the millions of rolls in almost every country around the world people keep stockpiling it. i just repeated it it's being used as a currency gimmick by one australian cafe it's been described as the best gift in these times by lifestyle magazines and more seriously a man in sydney australia is being sought by police after he held up the store at knife point and made off with $500.00 toilet rolls really it's unbelievable how things that had being so commonplace become so sought after in times of crisis peter all of our r.t. early. is crazy in the wiki leaks editor doing this news on him has been denied bail in the u.k. as health concerns of

a covert 19 strike fear into prisons use trailing whistleblowers lawyers say that he's a great risk in britain's high security belmarsh jail we kill leaks has spoken out to claim at least $100.00 workers at the facility are off sick with symptoms of the virus. it was 30 solicitously. to the. court judge relayed in. the prison authorities reliable records of the no call the 19 pages of inside the almost prison while we look for the last 100. years our lives religion 10 years of detention. in a very poor health is a very vulnerable individual of this moment it is unjust and inhumane in light of the cries of the police. while adding to that amnesty international is now calling on the u.k. authorities to release julian assange if he is at risk he's currently awaiting

possible extradition to the united states after british police forcibly removed him from london that quote or an embassy after 70 is holed up there and sound just lawyers say that on top of existing health conditions connected to isolation he's also got a lung problem right now we spoke to a member of his legal team. considering the possibility of an infection outbreak an overcrowded belmarsh prison under sanjay's health condition after almost 7 years of imprisonment he should be released immediately besides sondra is not convicted officially in britain he's just going through the extradition process he hasn't been convicted he is not serving a sentence. worth paramatta course if julius is extradited to the united states he could face up to 175 years in prison for leaking confidential data lawyers fears hearing and possible trial there could be politically motivated over

his publishing of alleged u.s. war crimes on wednesday the judge looking into his songes bail declared that he still posed a flight risk but a former u.n. expert an opportunity tension told r.t. that the coronavirus pandemic means that that argument falls flat. 1st of all she sought refuge asylum in an at an american embassy well. is it likely that he could seek refuge in refuge in any similar embassy and now i don't think so and secondly it's free movement much more restricted today than it has been only a month ago so the likelihood of somebody being able to to flee the united kingdom under the extreme form of political police surveillance that mr sonner misleading would be in addition to choose it was a site in press following him it's not very likely he's house has the tenor it is going to tear it that's not a question of finally real argument it's

a question of the man being in a situation where his health is well he's life he may not survive this the extra added risk of the current and b. demick is extremely serious this man should be kept in isolation in a private facility and not in a prison. you're watching out international live from moscow with me kevin now in hi there good morning head there with the u.k. bringing in strict new lockdown measures monday britain's it seems are still ignoring those warnings we take a look after the break. you. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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against 20 past the hour now thank you for being with us the morning or if you choose to run the world write us about russia now what's happening here and a move to halt the spread of coronavirus here all international flights are said to be grounded from tomorrow except for those bringing citizens home again it comes after vladimir putin announced a week long paid holiday for non-essential workers another new measure that starts on monday the president explained that it's because of russia's geographical position it's near impossible to lock the country down totally but did vowed to do everything to minimize the effects. but it is right now it is important to prevent a pass spread of the disease that is why i am a non senior the next week as the week that i will not see anyone working and everyone will have this seller it's as dear in our priorities here is the health of

our people well we brought you the whole thing live here stay more that came out from address the nation putin and those various benefits many explained were not simply because of the crisis there's a boost for sick leave in unemployment payments russians who suffer a sharp drop in income can request a suspension to credit payments to similar support would be given to small businesses with tax breaks and protection from bankruptcy wealthier individuals and big companies are expected to cover some of the cost of the measures the changes come in as russia's registered its 1st $2.00 deaths from cope with 19 so far it currently has 840 cases of the coronavirus with more than half of those infected here in moscow and so chris of ski host of the epidemic series here on this channel spoke with people returning home to russia from viral hotspots about what they'd been through in their quarantines.

how did you end up in this hospital. i arrived by plane at 11 am from bologna to moscow and i went into self isolation the next day 8815 i opened my door and was met by a medical school board i was really afraid that i would like people in plague suits yeah exactly i noticed i had a message at 8 in the morning which i only read later that said al flight had people infected with corona virus they moved promptly they gave me just 20 minutes together my stuff and then to give me a way in a medical vehicle i scored an ambulance. yes and i was taken here welcome and filled in documents then they made me under arrest and all my clothes were put in a bag and disinfected all my things were wiped clean i pads telephones everything i had on me they gave me temporary clothes for a day while my clothes were being disinfected. as you are here for how long

a day 6777 say you are here what exactly do you do. in the evenin i have a class with my students online i teach painting at the circus art institute. in the morning i have an online sports class i do this every day with my personal trainer i think i'm already thinner. i flew out from italy because my friends and i couldn't get through on the phone to hospitals even the ones not dealing with the coronavirus i thought it would be safer to just get out and back to moscow i'm currently in the safest place to take care of yourself sit home those of you who care. or is words indeed well as the u.k. braces of me time for those 24 hour health updates on the effects of the corona virus across the country or wednesday it was confirmed that the head to the british throne had been infected himself prince charles it seems tested positive with reported mild symptoms and is in isolation the 71 year old prince of wales is self

isolating after the u.k. prime minister boris johnson's and president step to set a nationwide lockdown for at least 3 weeks there but some britons of fall of the measures are necessary they think an inconvenient continuing to go outdoors it's being called reckless by fellow citizens starting a hashtag called call vidiot on twitter. but you were there. and it was great because. you're playing. these bloody idiot seem to think they're enjoying a summer's day in the park the u.k. is in lockdown for sake it's a lockdown people not a holiday still at home the longer you persist in behaving like idiots the longer this is going to continue people ignoring the key log down and treating it as a special holiday event can video it's. well me time in the home for some

paracetamol ati's polyploid core about how people are trying to keep up with their day to day life after the lot. i'm going out some essential and some painkillers if i can find them. standing outside. the reality. so you have power thinking while. you know paris see tomorrow. there are no cars on the street. it's tough to wardens. it seems to me you fight so well. and it's a very considered essential what is the one.

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weeks thanks he ever see tomorrow. again is the small thing isn't it life really turned on his head right now keep smiling best you can it's not exactly 27 minutes past 11 the morning here in moscow whatever time it is with you around the world thank you for watching this update my main studios this time every day we'll continue to bring you live bulletins from here in russia and also throughout the rest of the day as well later on the teams in london and stateside in d.c. we'll be updating you as well around the clock you can find the latest headlines. if you don't call and check it out social media as well this is. international.

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