earlier we spoke to gustav gresson senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations we asked him for an assessment of russian president vladimir putin's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. well. he tried to just sort of get the responsibility to the local governors quite early on in a crisis which is if something sepia in russia happens to be a domestic crisis he tries to dedicate this to other people and especially too many other people show he can try out and then basically the fire the incompetent all them promote the more competent members all over the tuna greats in government. coronavirus is no exception let's have a look now at the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the number of confirmed covert 1000 cases has passed the 4000000 mark according to johns hopkins university in the u.s. former u.s. president barack obama has called donald trump's response to the pandemic and quote absolute chaotic disaster obama made the comments about his successor during a leaks call with former staff members egypt's president of bellefonte has approved amendmen