alessio perona is covering the story and joins us now from milan the capital of lombardy in italy alessio what's the latest what's the situation at the moment in lombardy. hi good morning and thanks for having me i think the situation is there's a lot of death and trauma lately especially in the provinces of the more pressure more not to the east of milan to the east of here spoke to a priest recently. and so many people have died in the community where he's. been member or that he told me it's going to be difficult to even imagine what life would be like when this is over because so many iconic people of their village are gone. and so we've all seen the pictures we've all seen the pictures of the trucks carrying bodies away from we've seen the pictures of the rows of caskets waiting to be buried in the city's symmetry and i think at this point all of them but he's wondering when does this stop or when will it slow down when do we see the effects of the lockdown that's been in place for over 2 weeks already we were told in the beginning that we would see the effects in 2 or 3 weeks time s

prime minister shinzo said that drastic measure was necessary after a meeting with the country's perona virus taskforce on thursday you know there are many efforts being made to stop the spread of infection among children in various regions and the next one or 2 weeks are crucial. the announcement took local government and health officials by surprise they've been scrambling to come up with guidelines to implement the closures and some politicians have warned that the risks posed by shutting schools also need to be considered the mayor of chiba tashi he took a mag i said it was about parents and occupations that support society how will they manage society could collapse. but with opinion polls showing public dissatisfaction with handling of the corona virus outbreak is appears the prime minister is betting on school closures as an effective strategy to bring new infections under control. for more joining me from journalist michael pan michael thanks for being with us the 1st day of the school. hours have been. it's been a little chaotic. lots of companies and lots of their children are

correspondent alessio perona is following developments in milan earlier i asked him how people are dealing with italy's rising death toll and the national lockdown. as a matter of fact most of us have been a home for a couple of weeks thousands here now milan is not as badly affected as the provinces to the east of milan not such as a more cremona and pressure where the priests some of the priests i spoke to that told me you know it's going to be difficult for this town to even restart life because so many people that we knew so well have died. so we were mostly staying at home it's a nervous game of of of waiting there are long queues to get into the supermarkets and we're doing as we're told. well the death toll keeps climbing in italy what more can the authorities do now to contain a further spreading of the virus. i think we know most of us don't know because a lot has already been done. and we i think we're entering uncharted territory here is this is a full blown lockdown only essential. such as pharmacies grocery store supermarkets are allowed to carry on so it's not clear what else

well journalist alessio perona is in milan covering this story alessio why has the government decided to extend these emergency measures to the whole country it's a big big step. good morning and thanks for having me and yes it's a huge step let me just remind remark this it's only had not close schools across the country not even during world war 2 when it was conflict told over the country now we're talking about quarantine for the for the whole country it's it's it's must save. obviously the very concerned i think one thing one issue that has been out that that the government has not mentioned but talking to doctors in intensive care units and hospitals here in body there's a lot of concern have doubts will there be enough resources to cure everybody will we have to get to a point in which we have to decide who to catherine who to leave behind and i think that this that the fear of that scenario plays a role into into the into the measures that have been taken. how will these measures be enforced or is compliance with them purely voluntary well waking up to this so. my answer is we

buyers rights and death violence with this of these prisons after the state's strict response to the perona virus and commonwealth but for the u.k. army 3 years slammed what they call the grave injustice of facing deportation from britain due to costly and complicated immigration. hello good afternoon just gone for a clock here in moscow you with r.t. international now after wall street suffered its 1st automatic holton trading in more than 2 decades with stocks falling nearly 8 percent world markets do seem to be slowly recovering today was the biggest collapse in the old price since the ninety's and was triggered by saudi arabia stepping up its price war and in the u.s. the dow plunged more than 2000 points the worst one day point drop ever prompted by oil price war that stunned markets around the world we had a huge market event yesterday as a lot of investors repriced out all the shock the crash restart markets the no 2000 point swing on the dow since the scene for what happens today business news now starting with the crude oil markets as they try to bounce back from their worst day si