Hello this is Art International from moscow has just turned 3 pm this monday welcome to the program i can tell you were going to slightly you share julian place for now for the time being im kevin o. In a with my colleagues will be here every day at this time to update you on the latest in a full 30 minute will news round up whole k. Lets get on with it then 1st off new measures are being implemented across the Moscow Region to contain the spread of covert 90 residents aged over 65 and people with Chronic Health conditions are being told to stay at home russia says there are 438 known infections nationwide but theres been 71 new cases in the past 24 hours all of them here in moscow the suspicion abroad about the relatively small official figures next today that our Senior Correspondent were gadgety of looks at why the numbers are low no at least any. How ohio how of this too few infected in russia why hasnt the pandemic heat russia why arent there more infected and that is a question you hear more and more often in the western press pundits are brittany with disappointment the how is relatively simple its action world c. N. N. And others were busy Bashing Trump for his racist policies in restricting air travel with china russia shut the. Border of thousands and thousands of kilometers without no frills while western leaders politicians were busy shooting their Business Leaders and cooper abbass russia established quarantine and he would arrive in the country was self isolated at home and talk about tests russia has conducted 856000 coronavirus tests the United States up until march conducted just 4000. Instead they have grasped at straws citing fringe opposition and conspiracy theories that allege a widespread cover up of putins machinations that putin is hiding the true infection rate well even the World Health Organization has denied these rumors i am 99. 99 percent sure i get there are no hidden cases i dont think that air recurrence see some cases where people have not come forward because they didnt want to self isolation but breaking through the network that walls catch. And understand and advise such cases must relate or while russia has been fortunate soufan few expect the pandemic to completely. Russia by hospitals and clinics are increasingly being prepared to receive the infected who would be in quarantine mode about 60000 people in russia either under quarantine self isolation or the medical observation for most of the surveillance well done including indeed Community Acquired near morning as we are all other which are all lessons for all that i think we also have our vietnamese is or were around that it is because of the rapid structure in russia weve seen an increase a sharp increase in that and finally i can tell you i havent formally you know im say next where are all equal i never in russia youre now or do you look down someone who knows someone prison hospital for the hour. And i couldnt find a Single Person who answered that who could have predicted that the sanctions intended to borrow and cripple russia would save it. In these times of worldwide economic recession see the point of those sanctions was to deprive russia of this of dollars in europes looms and financing for the central bank the government or companies and businesses to what russia did was switch to this. The rule of now foreign debt is that the rec would do worse or produces almost everything it needs 90 percent of what it needs russia without euro culture produces for its not the other needs to china now russia is set up the web of a storm with a hearth trillion dollar fund that it set up just in case now is that case. Russia will be a bit better off than other countries because of its experience because of sanctions and because of reserves when the virus threat passes its possible things will come back to life foster in russia than in other countries because they wont be the negative drag of that the end result has been the childes supermarkets and shops are still packed with everything you could ever want while there has been something of a run on supermarkets and shops and hoarding well they still sell toilet paper and plenty of it. For now anyway russian medical experts the equipment have arrived in italy to help tackle the corona Virus Outbreak there italy is the worlds most badly affected country with more than 59000 people having tested positive for covert 19 and over 5400 people having died correspondent donald quarter told me more about the aid mission. Russias top contribution has to be really those 100 medical experts that were sent there just landed near rome actually were talking about russias top military veralyn just an epidemiologist highly experienced specialists who have grappled with serious epidemics in the past like anthrax and now loads of russian medical equipment and disinfection trucks were also sent there earlier we saw videos from the Russian Ministry of defense of these these trucks loaded with medical supplies rolling out onto the airport tarmac and like you said before you know italy was hit really hard by this corona virus and it actually has the highest death toll in the world from the coronavirus so in a country like that of course the leaders are very are going to be thankful for getting that kind of aid i would like to express my great satisfaction and gratitude from all the italian people for russias assistance at such a difficult time i would like to say thank you for the large amount of material and the specialists who have come from russia to eataly to help now italy has also gotten support in terms of doctors and medical supplies from countries like cuba and china but as for the e. U. Itself so far pretty much nothing i mean brussels has been talking about the central bank has been talking about a possible 410000000000 euro bailout plan but hundreds of people in italy are dying every day from this virus and this still amounts to just talks and to make matters worse some leaders are even restricting the export of medical supplies to italy because they think that theyre going to need those supplies for their own responses to the pandemic so as long as at least left to fend for itself in this time of crisis by the by by the e. U. Of which its a bloc member you know its hard to see how the situation is going to. Go reaction live from rome the president of the italian conducive to think future nations spoke to me he says the nations different reactions show theres little in the way of neighborly harmony right now. Each directly between the nation inside the European Union is not sure in these situations the emergency situation the question that we ask to hold the European Union a government that would be the utility of the European Union and well the hother nations in the European Union are big 3 they didnt have so many cases of people with coronavirus like italy has the country in the state to close borders to he probably has the country decided not to help and keep the lead in the European Union and especially the European Bank at this i did not help italy but after that after a few days when the crown of i was arrive also went before on a virus right in germany arriving now for sure right although of the whole the other country immediately the European Union changes the way to react to the coronavirus so thats not possible in middle east 60000000 people we are the 3rd economy and save the European Union every year we spent a lot of money to repair you know and that we expected a response from the European Union through hell for our work on the. France has now surpassed 16000 registered cases of the 674 people have died most were over 70 years old the french parliaments declared a Health Emergency on sunday it set to last for at least 2 months it gives the government more powers during the break including the implementation of restrictive measures support for struggling businesses and the requisition of goods or Services France went on lockdown last week to limit the spread of the deadly virus people are only allowed to leave their homes for central trips but officials are still being accused of negligence in their response to the crisis a shiela do burns he reports next day from paris for you. Death rate rises the infection rate goes up but here in france we are hearing from french medics that they are unhappy that they feel that not enough was done enough to stop the pandemic in france theyve actually filed a legal complaint against some of frances top officials including the Prime Minister and the former Health Minister on you to sell what they say is that these officials knew is only is january how bad things were going to get and yet they didnt do enough some of the evidence for their complaint come to an interview with the former Health Minister herself who had talked about France Holding the 1st round of municipal elections just over a week ago and saying it was a masquerade and saying as she stepped down from her job as Health Minister she did so crying because she knew that a tsunami was coming. For the medics has told r. T. That the government was simply lying to the Google Doodle were dealing with a government thats lying to us they say well be taking measures and theyll say again we need to do this we need to do that the truth is weve lost the advantage struggle to catch back up if you want an example you must remember the president stark speeches last week when he used his war like trying as commander in chief to convince is that marched will arrive soon because mass are the main tools in this war they help medical workers where are those marks. Where the french government says its doing all it current to handle the crisis in regards to those shortages we have heard from the french Prime Minister edward phillipe requisitions have been made and requested be made to manufacture some researches to come up with new prototypes for things such as mosques this is more of what he had to say because of all see we have asked the ministry of the column in the ministry of defense to find alternatives more precisely to. Gauging wide range of industrial activities some research either to multiply the production lines or to come up with alternatives disposable or usable while another accusation from the medics that the lawyers told us about was the lack of testing for code 19 they think that this is problematic now from isnt the only country thats been experiencing shortages for the kits to test for the virus many of the countries are experiencing the same shortages that and other medical supplies as well weve been hearing about this over the past few weeks and that is why the current Health Minister says that its just not possible to test everyone. Today we dont test automatically so far we made the choice like most countries and as per the european recommendation to reserve transfer the priority members of the public the targeted people are just like in neighboring European Countries those who are most at risk well covered 19 is cause panic across the world and each country is handling the crisis in the way that it feels is best and it could of course be months before we see a fax even developed and a vaccine that usable on humans and what governments including the one here fronts are calling for is a sense of togetherness that we are all in this together this is a sense of unity so perhaps it would feel at the moment a legal complaint like this is particularly unwelcome. Well thats a view from slows continue to go around Europe Germany next the german chancellor Angela Merkel we hear is no self isolating after finding out that shed come into contact with someone who tested positive for covert 19 it was on the same day she introduced tougher measures to curb the spread of infections arties people all of a reports on the latest news coming in them from germany. Well monday morning we had our latest briefing from the head of germanys Public Health institute the robert cock institute now. He said as it stood at the moment the exponential growth curve thats the way in which the virus grows and that that seems to be leveling out right now he did go on to say the it was too soon for real optimism about that but if i continued through to say wednesday and they would be looking at it as something particularly positive he also said that testing is crucial he also pointed out one interesting fact thats come out from d this testing is that the the average. In fact 57 percent of those whove tested positive here in germany have been 45 year old men so thats kind of different from other countries that weve seen where it seems to have affected the elderly or all those with underlying Health Conditions now. So far around 25000. 00 cases of being confirmed in germany with just under 100. 00 deaths confirmed what we have heard coming out from the government are new well strict guidelines strict instructions when it comes to social isolating often in Public People are only allowed to move around alone or with one other person who is not a member of their own household or they can move around with members of their own household in Public People must keep a distance between each other of a minimum of 1. 5 meters preferably 2 meters or one person who is self isolating at the moment is the german chancellor Angela Merkel she went into quarantine it was found that a doctor who did ministered a vaccination for Something Else that later tested positive for covert 19 is absolutely no question of being unable to care. Duty is chancellor while shes in self isolation its worth noting in fact though that her party the Christian Democratic Union currently should be well fighting it out for whos going to essentially be her replacement theyre supposed to be having Election Campaign to see who would be the next leader of the party thats of course on suspension at the moment due to the covert 19 and will break in 51. 00 of the front runners their friedrich mayor tikhon well it was confirmed last week that he actually has the coronavirus no before herself a salacious there was a picture doing the rounds that seems to show the german chancellor Angela Merkel doing a shop if this is the chancellor pushing a shopping trolley around of burley in supermarkets quite a frugal shopping basket she has there not an awful lot in it if thats what shes taking into well potentially 2 weeks worth of self isolation she might be giving some of the secret service a call asking them to to drop her off a few extra things thats the way it looks at the moment Angela Merkels in isolation but the good news it would seem if were allowed to call it good news just yet comes from the Public Health institute which jests that if Current Trends continue well the exponential growth of the virus in germany appears to be leveling out here all over europe correspondent with a view from germany greece now grief thankfully has a relatively low number of fatalities it still 70 but only 17 at the moment but the authorities are implementing restrictions nationwide which come into force today. And also a ban will take effect on all unnecessary movement by citizens across the country its perhaps the last step of an organized Democratic State but one which must be done in time so as not to be in vain because time is no longer measured in days but in hours and bold and quick initiatives are needed. Theres now a National Lockdown in place then sunday saw the largest leap in daily infections with almost 100 more cases people are being told to stay at home or face a 150 year or find the exceptions of those who need to get to work visit a doctor or shopping for essential lets go live to afghanistan as a little later a year from for greeces opposition sirius a party thank you for making the time to be with us today yeah how are things where you are sir and what you think about the measures being taken in your country to try and combat coronavirus enough turn or not. Whether you know look down. We have a limited to knock down blow but its necessary its not enough though its not enough and neither greece nor in any country of the European Union we need all shook to fight the virus we need to detect every people every every citizen huge could that we needed. To to cover much more testing that we have you know in greece production runs almost everywhere with the exception probably of germany. That. A lot of tears are going to be got that otherwise we looked out. For the moment you know or. How did this situation but in the future we were tracing the digital or the virus to jump up again but what about the economy i mean its pretty ropey for a long time really rocky for the last 10 years or so in your country if the cloying back again this is really going to knock it isnt it especially if you go into even even more of a severe locked. Or yeah the economy is very much hurt by the the measures you know. They know the euro but also especially in greece where be a quandary was or was just recovering from the grace is the big rage we got the last 20 years so new measures are needed. A specific grades use measures to tackling the problem other ways will cause Major Economic and social crisis if yours are regardless of what will happen with the so youre calling for more a headlight if i happen any time soon. Big about an idea you calling for more more stringent lot more testing a bigger clampdown is it likely to happen though. Depends on the availability of the tests for the time being me it looks like there are no enough tests to conduct a test to do all these cities is there a suspected or they are there are secret you know but the we have to do that this is the only way to late and attack the bio researcher and then not only the be dipping the pond that we thank you for being with the screen chemistry stellas killer glow on the line there from athens take care of yourself and i come back on the program soon you have a good day thank you and thank you for watching as well will continue to report world wide us countries work to try as best i can to fend off the coronavirus attorney on the way off the break here not international with me kevin now in the struggle to get emergency measures in place in the United States. Join me every 1st day on the Alex Salmonds show and ill be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you that. Easy. Again very good afternoon from russia kevin owen here today let me bring you up to date on some more news will go stateside now u. S. Lawmakers have failed to pass the Coronavirus Response spill House Republicans said it would provide assistance to families and businesses but the democrats said it wouldnt go far enough because it fails to protect Health Workers or people whove lost their jobs because of the pandemic will be a 2nd vote later monday among the most vulnerable americans of those sleeping rough who measures like self isolation is simply obviously not an option or very difficult to achieve while donald trump plans to deploy the National Guard in 3 states including California Charities for the Homeless People on the street need help too. We are not prepared yet for a crisis like this individual who we are doing everything we can but we will be listen precious souls house on the street if we dont take immediate action. California is one of the most affected states for corona virus but also has the countrys highest number of homeless 2 estimated last year at around 150000 support groups say the squalid conditions many living in could worsen the spread of the disease its not a problem that restricted just to california europe has thought of more than 700000 people who are homeless an increase of around 70 percent compared to 10 years ago france is open to self Isolation Centers which can accommodate up to 300. 00 while the mayor of london now saying the city will secure 300. 00 hotel rooms for the self isolation of Homeless People specifically the investigative Online News Team at red fish you can tell its been very much across this story theyve been hearing from people sleeping rough across europe. To be the bad part of the day when a member of the public. But. What did they use Operational Police to go on. And on told me told me he was armed or never see this bizzle quite a. 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Its a 1000000000 where were so the virus originates in china but its transmitted by touch truck scientists a scrabbling to develop a vaccine check points are abandoned shops are ransacked and doctors are repeating the same mantras to try and hope the pandemic check check check the average person to use the feeds 3 to 5 times every week between touching. And each other today start working on not touching your face because one main way viruses spread is when you touch your own mouth nose or eyes and the Entertainment Industry as it were a forsyte and that we know that the simpsons has developed a reputation for predicting the future like donald trump becoming president the invention of autocratic and smart watches and even and about price when i bought hardcore fans allow convinced the show anticipated tom hanks is a recent Coronavirus Diagnosis but. On top of another episode where an asian worker coughs into a box sends it to homer and causes an outbreak in springfield. And if you are a disney fan you might remember 20 tens tangled while turns out our golden had beauty was self isolating and a kingdom called none other than corona wait a minute here in tangled rapunzel is trapped in the tower quarantine and hidden from the kingdom in corona did anybody else realize this tangled the disney movie about a girl whos isolated from the kingdom of corona well played. So we are all stuck at home like rapunzel trapped in her tower and tangled the kingdom of corona and for you boss get both fans out there wondering how your past your time now that the n. B. A. Has temporarily shut up shop well if youd watch space jam you might have been better morally prepare sure it was a villain the savior who brought the Sports League to its feet up close enough its not just hollywood which is almost silly on point 981. 00 novel the eyes of darkness touches on a Deadly Weapon developed in a city few had heard of until 2020 but which now for better or for worse will go down in the history books. They call the stuff 10400 or it was the 405 strain of manmade marco organisms created our Research Center we hunted for hundreds a perfect weapon and in this new pandemic self quarantining reality we finding ourselves that the delivery guy has gone from the man who never got to fast enough to the man who might need it to save you pick to audience all the snacks well if youre a gamer with an eagle why 29000 deaths strontium delivery man is 20 twentieths hero willing to climb any mountain to get you your supplies. So it seems that maybe life isnt actually that much stranger than fiction tell us about it so i could tell im making up