like 5 times this amount would be needed also metally over the next year maybe year and a half or so brigid put that in proportion if you think about it what all of the central banks around the world governments around the world have been pumping into economies there to deal with the economic and social impact of the coronavirus that really dwarfs this amount of money that we're talking about here i mean the european union for instance is looking at a recovery plan for after the pandemic the numbers bandied around there go up to one and a half trillion euros so that's $200.00 times as much as been as was pledged today . and so i think it's clear that every penny invested in the medical efforts to tackle a coronavirus will be paid back many times over or either rich walk around destroyed wards in brussels richard thank you. all right here is a brief look now at the other stories that are making headlines this hour the leader of lebanon's program radian hezbollah a group says that germany is succumbing to american will by banning his movements last week germany banned all of hezbollah's activ