we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar with one of our producers and actually rafi mena news broke this week that the chinese government is expelling at least 13 american journalists from the country let's start with who is getting deported richard these are journalists who have covered china for years people like amy chin and palmer sort of the new york times the other newspapers whose journalists are being expelled are the washington post and the wall street journal now china's foreign ministry announced on tuesday that these journalists would have to turn in their press cards and have to leave in 10 days other media organizations such as time magazine and voice of america which is a u.s. government funded outlet have been allowed to remain but must adhere to strict rules they have to provide in writing key information about their staff finances operations and real estate in china now there's been plenty of tension between washington and beijing over the covert $1000.00 pandemic and its origins trump for instance has labeled it the chinese vitus but this battle ov

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concerns the pandemic could overwhelm health facilities and the economy struggling under sanctions amos rafi joins me now from tehran zain. leader is there a saying that the country has passed the peak of the virus what more can you tell us about that. that's really the most interesting thing to come out of the briefing or the statements from president hassan rouhani is office today now what mr rouhani said is that the figures the way he looks at them shows that the country is past the peak of the virus if you listen to the experts that have been going on about this for several weeks now we're about a week or 10 days too early now why would president hassan rouhani make this is a clear contradiction of the rise in the number of deaths another record setting day here in iran why might he say this well the government here knows that no matter how the virus goes at this stage and perhaps it's already out of their control they know that no matter what happens with the spread of the virus the stability of this government depends on the economy they will live in by how much economic stability they

pollution traffic hunger and disease the threat of coronavirus is one more thing to cope with mohammed rafi says he's received no advice about how to protect himself from the disease my own. i've been living here for years no one has told me about the corner bars i suffer from breathlessness. right josh goutman help some of the city's estimated 200000 rough sleepers he's running workshops on the importance of handwashing say szell distancing and spotting common symptoms of the virus. initially people are reluctant to know about the corona virus but now they are very much cooperating our aim is to prevent the spread. in europe activists say the number of homeless people has increased by 70 percent to 700000 over the last decade mainly because of the stairs he measures and high rents. in the french capital paris the m a o solidarity emergency shelter office homeless people somewhere safe and warm to stay but the staff who provide the service fare the spread of coronavirus could mean they have to shut their doors to let you need to do to say. that ultimately we need to keep the shelter open fo

been with the virus was 1st detected the city has been on a strict quarantine for 2 months but the rafi has a 2nd wave of infections in china as people carrying the virus returned from abroad . and south korea is going to make emergency cash payments to the 2 thirds of households to ease the economic pain from the virus soul has also imposed a compulsory 2 we quarantine on anyone arriving in the country from of the scenes. more than 17500 people have now died in spain and it's me that's about hof the number recorded in the whole world but there are glimmers of hope it could be slowing italy has recorded a drop in the number of deaths for a 2nd day an infection rate in spain has declined. in the u.k. meanwhile health officials are warning it may be 6 months before life returns to normal the government introduced type destructions on movement last week. australia has toughened up measures to contain the spread of corona virus banning public gatherings of more than 2 people in the southern state of victoria people be fined almost $1000.00 for breaching the rule the prime minister says the

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