dr norman swan my guest medical correspondent at the australian broadcasting corporation and the host of a.b.c.'s corona cap's podcast thanks again. and as always thanks so much for chaining into our to say i'll be back with that in half assed time to say that. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. problem drugs has come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we seem very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invented america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients don't do those manufacturers all the governments are. always the issue of trying to playing out in the american election cycle will trump and biden betray themselves as being tough on beijing maybe they are at least rhetorically but reality s

is in australia the australian broadcasting corporation or they demand to be say we're not going to listen to them fox news is out rights trump propaganda should we ban it i don't think so does this create a problem for of comet self because i mean its reputation is based almost entirely on the notion that it is independent that it is impartial and the decision now that would follow immediately after what's perceived openly to be government pressure would would harm its reputation. well you'd like to think so it's not a whole has a great big profile and i'm not really sure how they're going to respond to this but one would hope that they will do what they're supposed to do and don't take an independent view on it for r.t. has done anything that requires to be corrected than let let let let it be stated and let's see what it is the this kind of innuendo is mainly a political gain the new the new more right wing leadership of the labor party wants to establish a kind of narrative in the public mind that the old leftism is finished and now they're going to take a more extreme view on internat

states have now shut their borders and travellers stephen schubert is a reporter for the australian broadcasting corporation has more on how melbourne's residents are feeling. definitely frustrated but also i think understanding that this is necessary they've seen those numbers jump up just 3 days ago we had 191 new cases here in victoria and that comes after it wasn't really that long ago that we had a few days with 0 new cases so people really do understand that but of course heartbreaking for cafe owners the gym owners business people who were just getting back on their feet after their last lockdown and it is being enforced we're on a checkpoint here just out of melbourne where police are currently blocking one of the major freeways out of the city now we have called us on a shift change here of the police so they're not stopping cars at the moment but they have been pulling cars over on a random basis and asking people why they are leaving melbourne there are only 4 reasons why people should be leaving melbourne and the fines if you if you don't have a valid reason for about $1600.00 astronomy and doll

of victoria which has closed its borders well stephen schubert is a reporter for the australian broadcasting corporation a.b.c. he joins us from near a checkpoint on the outskirts of melbourne steve let's talk 1st if we can about these 9 talib locks in the city where thousands of residents are in lockdown tell us what's been happening there to them. darron the latest on these tower blocks in melbourne in a north is that 111 out of 3000 people in these towers have tested positive for corona virus now they've been in full lockdown since saturday evening and this is unprecedented in astrology its response to corona virus the whole country was looks down but people were still able to leave their house for 4 reasons and that hasn't been the case for these presidents now a large proportion of these residents don't speak english is the 2nd language there's a high population in those towers and there has been some criticism about the numbers of police involved in enforcing that looked at there were 500 police officers on the shift every hour of the day so that's one of us of every 6 presidents victorious corona

we are just getting breaking news coming from the australian broadcasting corporation.ting the border between new south wales and -- will close from tuesday. there has been pressure from the new south wales premier to close that border with victoria as they are seeing a new surge in cases across parts of victoria, particularly melbourne. we saw stricter restriction measures in place there in a number of high-rise public housing buildings but under strict lockdowns -- put under strict lockdowns with mandatory testing for the virus. fromorder will be closed tuesday night onward following talks held between the victorian premier and the new south wales premier as well as the prime minister, scott morrison. we will get more on that. there is a press conference coming up in just about half an hour's time. scoreshe tokyo governor a landslide victory in her reelection, but will she be able to check a fresh virus surge and maintain the city's olympic hopes? ♪ sophie: tokyo governor yuriko koike has scored a landslide victory in her reelection bid as the city tries to keep its v