European countries tighten covid lockdowns

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A raft of Europe countries are locking down as the coronavirus pandemic returns with a vengeance. We'll be in Pakistan finding out why after just ten days the country has decided to reverse a decision to ban the social media site Tik Tok - journalist Mehmal Sarfraz in the country tells us how the app helped poorer people find employment. In India, new government farming reforms will loosen the rules around the sale, pricing and storage of farm produce - regulations that have protected India's farmers from the free market for decades. The BBC’s Nisha Patel reports. And as many of us have problems sleeping, we resort to ‘white noise’, or calming sounds to help us – but this could be doing more harm than good, says Mathias Basner, professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. We discuss all this live with economist Peter Morici at the University of Maryland in the US and journalist Jyoti Malhotra from The Print website in Delhi. (Image: A mother infected with coronavirus meets her son through a plexiglass lock inside the contenair at the Buissonets retirement home, Belgium. Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP/ Getty Images)