Serving a sentence i mean fears of a coronavirus outbreak in prisons coming up we hear from his legal team. It was good to listen. To the. Court judge it is just an issue maybe a little too close to the village. And the horrors and reality strike a painful cold in italy as the nation comes to terms with the scale of the pandemic one church in the north has been turned into a storage unit for the day. Hello this is Alex International from moscow has just turned 3 pm here now this thursday im kevin well welcome to this 30 minute world news round. And 1st corona. Iris is rapidly spreading out around the world the current number of covert 19 confirmed cases stands at nearly half a 1000000 as of this out today the death toll has moved beyond 22000 the amount of recoveries though is also on the rise over 117000 roughly a quarter of all known infections. So let me round up the latest developments to report back to you russia has registered its 1st 2 deaths from covert 19 so far it currently h