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Today, crisis provides the excuse for a power grab in some countries.

We hear from Hungary where the Prime Minister has an appetite

for unlimited authority. In Japan their Prime Minister is accused of having his

head in the sand resisting calls to declare a health emergency

with Tokyo on the verge of a major coronavirus outbreak. Wash your hands,

a household injunction here but also backed up by friends thousands of miles away in

East Africa. And in Guinea, we meet a dictator's daughter who dreams of a dust-free capital.

First, if you impose a lockdown, it helps to give a warning.

Indians got just four hours notice, though, with their Prime Minister announcing three weeks of it. A drastic step, but in a country

with 1.3 billion people, it caused widespread panic, confusion and anger.

And says Rachaltanden, the government seemed oblivious to the plight of millions of migrant workers.

Three years ago, Renver Singh left his village in Central India in the state of Madhya Pradesh to look for work in Delhi.

It's a journey that millions of Indians make every year.

He eventually found a job working in a small restaurant,

weaving his bike through Delhi's busy and chaotic streets to deliver food to the homes of India's burgeoning cash-rich middle class.

Whilst they tucked into their favorite chicken and paner dishes, he earned just a few pounds a day.

But it was enough money to feed his wife and three children,

and for him to get alone, to start building a small house for them in his village. They were happy.

But then the coronavirus came and everything changed in an attempt to prevent the disease spreading to 1.3 billion people, the Indian

Prime Minister Naryngra Modi ordered the country into a lockdown. Four hours after his announcement, everything was shut.

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