as political correspondent benjamin elvira's gruber is standing by at those protests in st guard and joins us now for the latest so benjamin we can just see behind you quite a lot of people gathering together what is happening where you are right now. that's right and there are more people joining this is to protest this is what the rally now just outside of the city of shots got started this initial protests started at 11 more than $4000.00 people met there and then they work towards this place there was several counter protests of that try to stop them by police is on high alert you just heard it you just said it vetting the movement that organized that have been organizing this protest over the last year have been also accused of having a mix of anti vaccine as of call that 19. and also florida action is taking place at this rally it's the benjamin want are the people exactly protesting against what is their message. their message is that the restrictions to prevent the spread of the covert 19 of the coronavirus are of violation of the bite basic rights of calling for an immediate

benjamin elvira's gruber reporting for us from his car thanks so much we appreciate it. all right let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making the news this hour italy has launched a 3 day. nation wide lockdown all regions are now classified as red zones with nearly all shops closed and restaurants open only for takeaway orders around $70000.00 police are being deployed to enforce the stricter measures police in washington d.c. are paying tribute to an officer who was killed at the u.s. capitol a man rammed his car into 2 police officers and lunged at them with a knife before he was shot dead but authorities say there is no apparently to terrorism. women's rights protesters have converged on parliament square in london to call for improved safety and to condemn sexual aggression against women a month ago 33 year old sarah ever ard was kidnapped and murdered a police officer has been charged. to taiwan now where a court has allowed the release on bail of the construction manager allegedly responsible for friday's deadly train crash at least 51 people w