I have to massachusetts the 1st one is for the general population. Pleats state that holds. The 2nd message is full of whoever wants to help us we are in desperate need of both nurses and physicians. Also coming up tonight quarantined by a virus quarantined by a governments lack of action what coronavirus patients are telling us in the United States through the window. Liz burns blames the u. S. Government for not responding to the coronavirus threat quickly enough they could have done a lot more at the beginning. I think we should have learned from the pandemic that had happened and asia and. Other countries more on it very quickly and our forcefully. Went to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the dead in italy 3405 that is todays official death toll from the corona virus pandemic it is a record high for any country in the world meaning italy today surpassed china in the number of lives that have been lost to the virus it comes amid reports of scenes no one in italy thought possible just a month ago coffins stacked to the ceiling and hospital morgues that are filled to capacity. Firing 247 quarantine to patients dying alone while the exhausted nurses and doctors are now falling ill to the same virus killing so many of their patients are 1st reported takes us to northern italy tonight which is now the epicenter of this pandemic the front line between humans and a virus. The city of Bergen Mohammed ran out of space to bury its dead. These military trucks are taking the coffins to nearby cities for burial the coronavirus has hit the lombardi region like no other place in italy. Names and faces of lost loved ones filled the local papers as the death toll keeps climbing physicians and officials are appealing for help we are in full of mergers with this corona virus a media. Our personnel nurses and physicians are working round the clock countless our work to file these incredible situation we do not know how wrong the funding mia will last we are in desperate need of board nurses and physicians together with ventilators and these positives for protection efforts to build a temporary hospital in the epicenter are under way. Its top that 200. 00 intensive care units will be ready by the month and. Italy has also turned to the country where the virus originated 1st support medical teams from china have flown in to lend their expertise. Not yours its i dont i eat enough to haul the people over 2 countries will Stay Together and support each other to join to overcome the hardship. I believe the top class teams of experts will learn from each other and make joint efforts and surely will be able to subdue the outbreak very soon cheer up italy. Amid speculation that the lockdown could be extended for several more weeks italians are finding simple ways to lift their spirits. The. Oh lord god or. Man he be your. Baby that was 8 all. You know these songs of hope there in italy lets bring in our journalists sima got to she is in rome tonight good evening to you you know we have heard so many stories of sorrow from italy this week especially today i want to ask you how much more can the people in italy take would you say that youre near a breaking point tonight. I think you definitely saw it today with these fake as its edges shocking and incredibly hot freaking i mean 3405 people that have died with 19 infection in them and thats in a country of 60000000 now that siga is less than the entirety of china which has a population of 1500000000 people so the question one wants to ask is how is that possible in the authorities keep going back to the issue of the Elderly Population in the country the fact that youve got the 2nd oldest population in the world and that most of the people that have succumbed to this disease an overwhelming number over the age of 70 and that have preexisting Health Conditions and this is the reason why the country seems to be hit hard another possible reason is the fact that theyre overwhelmed in terms of the Health System east 14 doctors have succumbed to the disease and its the need to to over 2600 infected with cope at 19 making it difficult for them to treat patients obviously and then of course you have the issue of the lock down in law but he couldnt have been done should it have been done for the moment though the focus really is on the immediate merge and see and to boost the medical stuff that as we heard in that earlier report they need more doctors and more nurses so what about the patients that these grim stories weve been hearing of elderly people in hospitals theyve been quarantined and theyre dying alone i mean the biggest fear for a lot of people is to die by themselves or what is being done to prevent this. Well theres very little one can do simply because this is such an Infectious Disease that it passes on so quickly weve even heard of funeral workers getting infected because of contact with the bodies and its not just hospitals that out if the affected one is not to get it can homes for the aged as well a particularly hard hit because of course the good you have a population that is fragile being housed there its a Perfect Place for this virus to spread and that is why its very essential that they have all the protective gear the boss and so on and the respirators theyre asking for this equipment they are trying to breach produce it themselves hear it city but youre absolutely right the idea of having to die alone is hot breaking obviously for those who succumb to the disease but also for the family members the loved ones who cant even say goodbye to their loved ones at the last moment of their lives because they cannot have contact in the county even carry out the funeral you know i mean its unimaginable down you know what youre describing there and its hard its a hard story for anybody to cover especially when youre on the ground words happening and as you are your before we go i want to ask you how are you doing how are you coping with so much sorrow and suffering to report. Well i think it is very hard listening and reading to these stories and having direct contact i think its almost impossible now to find someone who doesnt know of someone whos been infected until someone who has a loved one thats been affected if its bread across so which brings it home and makes it much more real but i think its important to get this message out to get this message up to other countries that they have to be prepared and thats what its and hes trying to spread not just the doctors and nurses themselves if with scene on social media but also the authorities that a sharing this information with their european cotner has at the moment the Prime Minister has said that hes looking at further measures more stringent measures in terms of the lockdown we expect Schools School closure to be extended even further the exact date we still dont know and you know the chinese experts who have been in italy now are saying perhaps now is the time for even further closures the defense minister has said hes ready to put the military on the streets to ensure that its secure because the message to stay at home needs to be heeded yes were hearing the same thing all over europe tonight similar in rome for us thank you see misty save and stay healthy thank you. Well this is a story of 2 crises the viral pandemic claiming the lives and the economic collapse created by efforts to save lives today the European Central bank announced a 750000000000 euro Bond Buying Program to help stabilize markets reeling from this unprecedented threat and it is just one of many plans designed to save economies from total collapse. On both sides of the pond the Central Banks are pulling out the big guns 750000000000. 00 euros in bond buying by the e. C. B. The Federal Reserve promising 1. 00 trillion dollars in cash loans from banks get even old that is not enough after all Monetary Policy firepower alone cant breathe life back into knock down economies they want to avoid a wave of insolvencies that would undermine the recovery but nobody can prevent the freezing of the economy and the consequences this is certainly are in the Global Economic downturn which is at least as severe as the downturn in the financial crisis could Government Spending provide the european governments are spending multiple billions of euros to keep businesses afloat and employees paid Central Banks and governments are digging deep but the only way out for businesses is likely months away when restrictions to movement and Economic Activity ease after the pandemic has passed. And join me here to be table tonight is our Senior Business editor. Ben there is plenty of stimulus now is working a lot of it but a lot of it is not seeing results this is a hard one i mean were throwing the world is throwing a huge amount of money were talking about trillions at a Health Emergency which is causing trillions in losses but again its a Health Emergency so its very mixed as far as the success of these packages go weve got the 3rd Emergency Credit Program from the fed into. Todays the bank of england out with another one today the australian straightens around with another support package as well for their economy the dollar did so john thursday but equities are all over the place theyre going crazy i mean they were up by one percent 2 percent at times down by 3 percent the dax finishing up by 2 percent the dow finishing up by one percent just a glimmer of heart glimmer of hope for something weve never done before weve never actually asked the Global Economy to polls while we save lives which is what were doing right now how serious is the Economic Impact that were talking about you know well this is its about saving lives its about saving jobs as well and saving economies as a whole as a business journalist this has been a real challenge just keeping up with the different agencies that are coming through my the 2nd a its like playing tetris and you see one thing about corporate warnings about job losses then the next notification comes through and it keeps moving down the screen. Today just some of the 25000000 job losses worldwide in the u. S. Services sector making huge layoffs left right and center is surging unemployment figures germanys Manufacturing Sector seeing its steepest full in expectations in the 70 year history of industrial surveys. Also crude oil traders from africa to america offering huge discounts because. Basically supply is swelling and demand is is plunging also in the Airline Industry one of the hardest hit at the moment because no one wants to go anywhere or is allowed to go anywhere quantas telling most of its 30000 stuff to take leave and look tons of saying if they dont get state aid and this goes on for a long time there are going to be a whole lot of failings it is unbelievable and were hearing time and time again this week you know do home office do home office is it enough though to keep the businesses from going bankrupt and everything afloat it wont be enough for me its a godsend i was never allowed to have office. And been baking cookies for the crew. With plastic gloves on of course youre also getting into some god ning i was at one of the god centers here and was picking up some seeds for vegetables and. Tomatoes and there were a heap of other people doing it as well because theyre worried theyre not going to get enough food from the supermarkets which are allowed to be open at the moment but its a real challenge getting your hands on theyre not respecting those social distancing measures either are well actually its a godsend when i move from the keening to the tomato i took a step to the left the guy next to me took a step to the left a Good Good Good well thats good then we got 30 seconds what is surprised you the most so about this this crisis i think the run on toilet paper i mean how much toilet paper do you need for how long i mean for such a personal question. In a fear of people all around the world you sort of fights on social media in australia absolutely embarrassing but people really have to think and think hard about what theyre doing because theres panic buying means sure youll have a whole lot of it but theyll be other people missing out yeah so on monday 20. 00 for one roll of toilet paper and about projects couches of it you know it was all it has always been thank you. Whereas if the race to save lives and the Global Economy were not enough there is another very different but all too familiar threat attached to the coronavirus in a report prepared for the European Union russia is singled out as the main source of what is now a tidal wave of misinformation about the pandemic the report points to fake news most of it online designed to inject fear and discontent into societys already jittery from the virus take a listen to what the European Unions Foreign Policy spokesperson said. Would be the start of spreading call folk around a virus or could be 1000 v. Of course nor with these that was increasing was also done a number of this information misleading information. Outright lies and wrong things which have been cool 88 we know is that there was because in amount of this information fed from outside of the e. U. Among others also from russia or from providers which are based in russia or a linked somehow to broker and lean sources and while these are very important its also like to inform the public and to keep the people to be aware about these because whoever i mean and its not only coming from from russia this is not the only source of the misinformation but whoever is spreading that this information is essentially playing with peoples lives playing with peoples lives serious stuff there lets pull in roughly 0 golds fight he is research in social Media Coordinator at Democracy Reporting International he is here in berlin tonight or here i want to ask you how do we know that so much of this misinformation how do we know that its coming from russia. Thank you for having me brianna basically the report was written by the use tracked task force which was founded in 2015 to basically controversial disinformation so irises they have been doing a work on countering online disinformation coming from russia going through different aspects of russian interference in political life in the basically elections are also yellow vast movements in france independence and in the specific case of the coronavirus related this information the report states that they collected 110 pieces of disinformation directly or in directly related to russian and my directly and me basically the outlets as we know russia today sputnik and their online versions but also other outlets contribute to spreading this narratives and when we look at something online that is deliberately meant to scare us or to misinform us i mean how can we identify how do we know what were looking at. Yeah i think we have been hearing a lot these days wash your hands and i think on the internet the same goes for check your sources so the 1st thing is to look into where the information comes from whats this news outlet isnt reliable so this is the basic rule for checking your information but of course those campaigns are much more complex than only looking at the sources mostly they use videos and images to actually play with peoples beliefs and feelings so really doubt whenever it relates whenever an enemy more and information that comes in a visual way tries to trigger peoples insides and few years those are. Techniques used very much for from disinformation from things youre talking about online hygiene and youre right everyone should practice more of that what about the European Union there now its got this report what if anything can it do to protect itself or to retaliate. Yeah i think basically you have basically a short term and a long term role in trying to fight this types of contains the short term i think the you could actually. Recent experiences fighting disinformation around big political events such as the 2019 and european parliamentary elections back then they agreed with this social Media Companies code of conduct against disinformation which basically 8 made the social Media Companies. Liable for looking into what was going wrong in social media and actually which measures they were taking to take down alicias compensating the you has experienced on that already this is the time to use this experience on the short term and i feel that in the long term we need more Sustainable Solutions for that such as legislation or legislation. How can the e. U. Protect its citizens from this is the only way. I think on the one hand legislation and by that any and 2 pieces of legislation that right now are being discussed at the you what is the Digital Services act and the other one is the european democracy action plan both of them are aiming to make this process is off reacting to online contains massive online campaigns aimed at this informing people in a faster way so basically setting up what are the pros this is a procedure that needs to be in place for that so i think we need to make this notion that you need to make the social media to have companies more accountable on the one hand but we also have this responsibility of doing our social media our online hygiene as you mentioned like really looking for sources understanding how theyre there to deceive us and really do our part is off side trying to keep it clean and its not as easy as we might think. Dem