time to overcome ok we'll have to leave at bath unagi haven't run a political correspondent at virgin media news island in dublin many thanks and on to some of the other stories making news around the world. iran has recorded its worst day for corona virus deaths with 337 fatalities confirmed on monday there are now more than 530000 confirmed cases in iran the country's health ministry says the current situation is due to fewer people wearing face masks and more engaging in quote high risk social behaviors. police have used tear gas to disperse demonstrators in nigeria's capital abuja nationwide protest against police brutality started earlier this month amid widespread anger over a controversial police unit which the government has since dissolved protesters demanding an end to all police brutality and corruption. the 7.5 magnitude quake off the coast of alaska has triggered tsunami warnings authorities urge residents to move to higher ground the quake was widely felt in communities along the southern coast no casualties have been reported. police in france have searched dozens of homes belongi

you more on these measures i'm joined now by governor riley he is a political correspondent at virgin media news ireland a very good day to you again evan i've won i'm guessing the people of ireland are not happy about the 2nd lockdown. no i don't think anyone would ever very enthusiastically embrace a 2nd lockdown but i think there is a widespread recognition that something had to change because arnold has already gone through a lot of the other precautions that you mentioned in your reporting just about where to go the idea of going down on social occasions trying to ensure that you couldn't endure dining at restaurants that you could only have outdoor seating for takeaways and eventually then closing bell takeaways and pubs and cafes and everything like that as well but it hasn't seemed to work we still had a rising number of infections over the last 7 days in fact we've had 8 and a half 1000 new cases reported in the country and there is a real concern that if things were to continue rising the way that they were at that the health system would very quickly become overrun arnold has one of t

meaningful way from all we are joined now by governor riley he is a political correspondent at virgin media news odland good to have you on the program ireland is the 1st you're going to take such drastic measures nationwide for a 2nd time why is it doing this. the main reason is concern about arlin's health service that right now there are $34.00 people would cope with an art it's carryon so that may not sound like much but art is a country that only has around 260 or 270 permanent intensive care beds and i was in the seat next to sticks there are only about 30 more available and likewise if you look at those who are just in hospital with cope with and want to go the number was 70 for the c. think it's $298.00 it has quadrupled in the space of a month and really the concern is that if that rate continues much more of the rate that it's currently going then within a couple of weeks are tossed her system will simply be overwhelmed and that a lot of other procedures will have to be counseled and that we could be looking at something approaching the sort of circumstances that we so it is only at th

by for more now i'm joined by gavin reilly he's a political correspondent at virgin media news ireland it's good to have you with this so ireland becomes the 1st e.u. country to take this drastic step of basically a nationwide lockdown for a 2nd time why is it doing that. the short reason is that there are concerns around the capacity of the health care system right now we are lucky enough that we only have around 33 of 34 people in intensive care the c take in irish hospitals suffering from cold at 19 but there are concerns about the capacity because nationwide there are only about another 30 vacant i.c.u. beds and if the condition gets much more worse then we're going to have a situation where we will face the same fears that we had in spring time and that hospitals could be overwhelmed likewise right now there are around $300.00 patients in our hospital is in total who are confirmed to have copd 1000 that might not seem like very much but it's a rate which has quadrupled in the space of a multi this time last month there are only 74 people in hospital that is 298 and because of the

gere's virgin you're watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories we're covering this week a brutal murder on the streets of france and charlie hebdo is back in the news freedom of expression gets put to the test once again the nigerian army says it did not shoot at protesters there's a problem with that story though the evidence is all over the internet malta and the journalistic legacy of the late death make out i want to believe her story is far from complete plus sweaty topless men posing for the most powerful man in the land the. egyptian police put on a show for the president class protesters tens of thousands of them are back on the streets of france defending freedom of expression it's been almost 6 years since gunmen attacked journalists at the satirical magazine charlie hebdo killing 8 of them it's taken that long for the case to go to trial and that has coincided with the shocking killing of a schoolteacher beheaded last week after showing caricaturists of the prophet muhammad to his students when these kinds of stories make news in france one term keeps coming up like. a strict form of secularism that's in trying to enfranchise. insure the