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 has 840 cases with more than half of those infected here in moscow all International Flights are said to be grounded from tomorrow except for those bringing citizens home moscow and regions across russia have started introducing a series of tight restrictions now to hold the spread of the deadly virus our Senior Correspondent rick astley of explains more well unfortunately they were in the demographic that is most vulnerable to the. Virus a 73 year old and an 88 year old with Underlying Health conditions so they developed severe pneumonia and all of their other illnesses came forward unfortunately both of them died there had been reports of another casualty earlier on the victim of the virus but doctors later reclassified that to. Do a blood clot so so far 2 casualties to the world of virus in russia 840 people confirmed infected russia has so far carried out more than 200000 tests coronavirus tests and 140 about 140000 people remain under medical observation in self isolation and quarantine much from the initial from the get 2 to took the entire. At the democrats he says it was among the 1st countries that clues that border with china restricted air travel and now they have ended all air travel with every country in the world aside from charter flights that are bringing back russian citizens from 2 abroad people who have been stuck in stuck in other countries moscow itself russia itself is going down on something of a quarantine Vladimir Putin came out yesterday with a wide variety of proposals on how to limit the spread of this virus so far russia has been spared the worst of it it isnt suffering anywhere near what europe or the United States are for example and the government seems determined to keep it that way so starting in the 30th of march there will be a paid week of the everybody so everybody stays at home and the government guarantees by law that theyll be paid for it and federal employees employees of other. d businesses and organizations that are vital for the functioning of the country will continue to work but as many as possible of them will work from work from home as is the practice internationally by the way that the World Health Organization is welcomed what russia has done the said that russia has prepared for really full for the epidemic and mitigate the damage as much as possible obviously the you cant completely barricade yourself away from the rest of the world and escape the epidemic entirely moscow itself some some of the harshest measures in russia coming into effect in moscow so started on the 30th of march all restaurants will be shut down shut down all cafes and detainment venues james and swimming pools of already being closed down parks as well for the 1st time in living memory parks shuts you know at any time of the day youd find thousands of people in moscow. Pogs now its a goose down the traffic either but theres also the International Response which is so far been lacking to say the least the United States and china. Is now being in gage in a propaganda war about the origins of the code of ours and there will be a g. 20 for the 1st time ever Video Conference in which leaders hope to come to some sort of. A joint response to this crisis see if they couldnt Work Together but russia for now preparing for the worst but hoping for the best indeed thats all you can do the moaning and so on chris solve ski host of the epidemic series on r t spoke with people returning home to russia from viral hotspots about what theyve been through in their quarantines. How did you end up in this hospital. I write by plane at 11 am from bologna to moscow and i went into self isolation the next day 8815 i opened my door and was met by medical school board i was really afraid very prominent you people in plague suits yeah exactly i noticed i had a message at 8 in the morning which i only read later that said al flight had people infected with chronic virus they moved promptly to give me just 20 minutes to get my stuff and then shoot me away in a medical vehicle not scoring an ambulance. Yes and i was taken here welcome and sold and documents then they made me under arrest and all my clothes were put in a bag and disinfected all my things were wiped clean i pads telephones everything i had on will they give me temporary clothes for a day while my clothes were being disinfected. So you were here for how long this is a 6777 say you are here what exactly do you do. In the evening and i have a class with my students online i teach painting at this work of art institute. In the morning i have an Online Sports class i do that every day with my personal trainer i think im already thin. I flew out from italy because my friends and i couldnt get through on the phone to hospitals even the ones not dealing with the coronavirus i thought it would be safer to just get out and back to moscow im currently in the safest place to take care of yourself sit home those of you who can. Actually the world as you well alexi did you wear your olympic track suit on purpose your love of the dont dont shake my hand youre in quarantine tell us how did you end up sort of isolating most of the worlds problems we still had 2 stages of world cup left one had already taken place in luxembourg theyve been postponed a 1000 times already. Initially it was supposed to be in rome and then only luxembourg could take us later cyprian also news of all these delays were because of the coronavirus to move up into the you know we train for 4 days fenced then the whole team got on the coach. We arrived in frankfurt and flew back to moscow. They called me later saying you were in frankfurt you have to self isolate the police some incidents develop so you got a phone calls we have to put it to technical to muslims i cant argue with that its quite normal and i want to use this one who if i can save myself then in this epidemic i can save dozens more or maybe even a 100 more people which is the french president giving the green light to operation resilience meantime a military plan that would see the Army Deployed to help with the logistics and medical support there in defeating coronavirus. I have decided to launch operation resilience it will be entirely devoted to providing aid in support of population this as well as to supporting Public Services to deal with the covert 19 epidemic both in mainland france and in the French Overseas department among your mccraw and now is the plan for the army as he visited a makeshift Field Hospital on wednesday its being forced to take patients is regular hospital struggle to keep up with the virus paris has also promised a Huge Investment for the Health Care System but medical workers in france feel its been a Long Time Coming with demands going back for for more than a year already with investments being promised by governments worldwide on the back of mass quarantines shallow do next that looks at why the money wasnt injected before and for how long nations can keep up the spending. Economies across the world have ground to a halt kilian measures have been announced. To governments offering to pay near full salaries to cannot work there is a scramble to inject. Money into the system to counter the economic fallout of the pandemic the costs are expected to exceed germany from economic crisis to natural disasters in recent decades as knock downs are implemented with no clear end in sight the real question perhaps is now how long could the world afford this this pandemic has brought the 3rd and most serious economic financial and social crisis of the 21st century the strict measures applied around the world although essential to control the spread of the virus plunge our economies into an unprecedented paralysis from which they will not come out easily or automatically already we know that some 67000000. 00 us citizens all worried about how they going to pay their credit card bills because of the pandemic other fears about finding money for the more essential basic needs of life accommodation and food while the multitrillion paid for now will keep things taking along over some point that will end governments will have to choose between keeping the economy running or treating populations it is impossible to leave even in self isolation to cure people if we do not continue the Economic Activity that quite simply allows us to live in this country our daily life so that eating out to restaurants going to the cinema meeting friends perhaps for a drink or even having a haircut these are all activities that contribute to. Keeping our economies taking the money top sliced off by our governments in taxes then goes towards paying for essential services be that the doctors and nurses who are currently at the frontline of the war against 98. 00 all the ability to purchase ventilators and other essential medical equipment governments need money and money comes from a healthy working economy we have already been warned that when containment measures finally end this will not be over the virus will not magically disappear. This idea that if you close schools and shut restaurants for a couple of weeks you solve the problem and get back to normal life thats not whats going to happen this virus is going to be circulating potentially for a year or 2 so we need to be thinking on those times goes social distancing may provide a rest spike from infection peak rates the socalled flattening the curve model but the impact that could have term economies could some believe provoke spikes in deaths elsewhere in the u. S. State of massachusetts a Suicide Prevention hotline has seen a surge in cools the majority of people colon lately im mentioning all talking about fear of contract in the virus Economic Impact and prison loneliness or isolation we anticipate and there will be an increased need for Services Like ours for a time to come in countries where social safety nets on particularly robust or perhaps nonexistent this is a real concern President Trump is well aware of this that despite lawmakers agreeing on a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package trump knows like china he may have to prioritize the economy we have people get tremendous anxiety and depression and you have suicide over things like this when you have a terrible economy you have death probably i mean definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that were talking about with regard to the various governments who they enact a draconian lockdowns now face an even bigger di lemma given that a vaccine for the virus d is still possibly a year or even 2 years away and that were being warned by Health Experts that kovac 19 will remain a deadly force when recess attention of the Financial System becomes the more pressing issue how will they sell the exit strategy from containment. Wiki leaks editor Julian Sanjay has been denied bail in the u. K. Is Health Concerns over covert 19 destroyed fear into prisons just recently one prisoner has been confirmed dead in the country because of coronavirus the australian whistleblowers lawyers say he is a great risk in britains high security belmarsh jail we can lisa spoken to clemmie at least 100 workers at that facility are off sick with symptoms of the virus. It was 32 listen. To the. Court judge rely on the prisoners who were released. Or there was no call the 19. Almost prison while we look for the long. Hours religion 10 years of the. Very poor is a very vulnerable individual this moment it is only just an issue made in light of the cries of the. Anderson transitionals now calling on the u. K. Authorities then to release if he is at risk is currently waiting possible extradition to the United States after British Police forcibly removed him from londons Ecuadorian Embassy after 7 years hold up their lawyers say that on top of existing Health Conditions connected to isolation he also has a lung problem we spoke to a member of his legal team. Yes. Considering the possibility of an infection outbreak in overcrowded belmarsh prison you understand his Health Condition after almost 7 years of imprisonment he should be released immediately the peculiarity of the prison is that there is a large turnover of people besides its overcrowded already so prisoners are in close contact with each other the British Government itself warns about the situation can appear in prisons in all countries besides a sound is not convicted officially in britain hes just going through an extradition process he hasnt been convicted hes not serving a sentence. If julia sanjay is extradited to the u. S. He could face up to 175 years in prison for leaking confidential data lawyers fear is hearing our possible trial that could be politically motivated over his publishing of alleged u. S. War crimes on wednesday the judge looking into a sanchez bail declared hes still going to pose a flight risk too but to counter that a former u. N. Expert on arbitrated tension told us that the current coronavirus pandemic means that argument falls flat on its face. 1st of all she sought refuge asylum in an at an American Embassy well. Is it likely that he could seek refuge in refuge in any similar embassy and now i dont think so and secondly its Free Movement much more restricted today than it has been a month ago so the likelihood of somebody being able to to flee the United Kingdom under the extreme form of Political Police surveillance that mr sonner misleading would be in addition to choose it was a site impressed following him its not very likely hes house has the terror it is going to tear it thats not a question of the finally real argument its a question of the man being in a situation where his health is well hes life he may not survive this the extra added risk of the current and b. Demick is extremely serious this man should be kept in isolation in a private facility and not in a prison. Well ok post if we hear any more at the time now its 19 minutes past 3 in the afternoon here in moscow what we got ahead of this for one with the u. K. 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I guess this is Art International more updates from around the world authorities in italy are hopeful that theyve started to turn the tide on the pandemic the number of confirmed cases has gone down now for a 4th consecutive day but even that said the country is still seeing hundreds of people succumb to the virus on a daily basis with italy remaining the hardest hit nation in terms of fatalities and desperate times of call for Desperate Measures in one northern town this is a grim scene isnt it where church is being turned into a Holding Place for coffins row upon row a situation so bad that theyre forming queues around the province for Funeral Services a priest for the church said theyre expecting many more coffins in the coming days meantime ever more countries are coming to italys aid as best they can because of course theyve got their own problems to deal with but a convoy of 22. 00 trucks with russian medical experts and special equipment is reportedly reached pergamos now considered to be the epicenter of the break there rome reached out to support but its not only russia helping also china also cuba you may be surprised to hear too we heard from residents in milan who seemed surprised end of the day that it was not on e. U. Members coming to the frontier and helping when theyve not seen any support or very much support from their neighbors in the e. U. Im going to let you know that we should be thankful to russia but also to china and cuba as well as to other countries outside the European Union as it is right to help each other in this instanc