RT News - March 18, 2020 (12:00 MSK)

The European Union shuts its external borders for a month, in a bid to limit the spread of Covid-19 as France enforces a nationwide lockdown our correspondent experiences what it's like. The World Health Organization urges countries to take a leaf out of Beijing's book and impose tougher restrictions to fight the pandemic as the situation in China itself begins to ease. And with the world distracted by Covid-19, a controversial bill that critics say would practically end online privacy makes its way through the US Congress.