Who the latest global News Headlines this is r. T. International thanks for joining us. Lets start this hour the latest figures in the global covert 900. 00 pandemic more than 720000 cases have now been confirmed globally thats an increase of around 10 percent in just the past 24 hours 34000 people have lost their lives and more than 150000 have recovered half of them in china. Well here in moscow and now into the 1st day of a citywide partial lockdown it was announced by the just last night people are required to stay at home whenever possible to prevent the spread of the virus he said to try to reports from the city center well for a whole bunch of reasons including early border restrictions testing and quarantine measures for everyone coming into this country and also pure luck the outbreak of covert 19 in this country in this city in particular wasnt as disastrous as in some other places round this world which gave the russian authorities a chance to try and balance between a light