where countries like spain and italy had very strict lockdown measures let's talk about that with aaron greenberg he's a europe regional advisor for child protection with the u.n. children's fund unicef and he joins us from geneva hi aaron if you look at the situation here in europe what is the biggest threat facing children here. well it's certainly the lockdown is a big threat to children because it's important to step back and remember that that creek obit close to 300000000 children young children ages 2 to 4 experience some form of buying this regular basis globally a whole one in 4 children that when the mother was going to have an intimate partner violence and intimate partner violence and how to listen girls 15000000 global that subjected to to force sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual abuse so you layer on top of a locked up where children are not able to be in contact with friends with teachers over the support services that they need and the families who are stressed for various reasons been coping with mental health issues interesting support to care for their child a disabili

countries like spain and italy have had a very strict lock down measures that speak about that with aaron greenberg she's a europe regional advisor for child protection with the u.n. children's fund unicef and he joins us from geneva aaron good to have you here on if we look at the situation here in europe during this current covered 1000 crisis what is the main threat facing children here. well i mean certainly the confinement is a big threat because most of the channels that children would usually rely on to be detected or to report them so. problems at home are not available. we have to remember i think how high the levels of overall violence and i'm talking about everything from from hair pulling it in and you're putting psychological violence all the way through to real severe forms of violence are in the general population pre-code it i mean anywhere between 40 to 60 percent of all children experience some form of psychological 'd or physical violence so so in that confinement period where a lot of the basic services aren't available to children and the stresses on the household are growing w