♪ day two of the french lockdown. fines for anybody outdoors without a permit rise today to 135 euros as the government takes the most aggressive measures to date to fight covid-19. the eu also comes to a virtual s sndstill. movemement acrcross the e block severely restricicted and ththeu commission president admits leaders underestimated the virus. we will get the latest with our correspondent in brussels shortly.

despite the pandemic, primaries are held in three u.s. states. joe biden sweeping the poles, mountingng pressure on bernie sanders to pull out of the race. hello and welcome to our continuing coverage of the coronavirus outbreak around the world. we start for you in france, where it is day two of an unprecedented shutdown. hundred thousand police are manning checkpoints across thehe countryoday to ensure residents are only leavingg ther hohomes when absolutely y neces. thene for those breaking regulations has risen overnight from 38 euros to 135.5. >> it's a tweet that's been viewed over half a million times and its message is clear. to m make his point, aa french

astronauaut called on past exexperience and a b bit of hum. >> what happens when an astronaut is stuck at home? for provisions there is no panic or risk of a food shortage. i'm used to tend food anyway. and here it stays on the plate. to remind myself of good memories from the space station, i installed a v vertical sleepig babag. france tookl over to social media to share their first day in lockdown, like this family who have carefully planned out the cocoming days. in themorning -- >> morning, we are focusing on school activities. we have planned games and free time. family enjoys time in their garden. to them it's a few square meters of calm in the french reregion most affected by the corononavis outbreakak. >> we e feel s safe when we aret home because it's our usual environment.t. we are reaeally scared for our

health, our daughters, the people we know who could be infected. >> it's the first of at least 15 days of lockdown for 67 million french people. police officers have been deployed across the country to enforce the rule which prohibits people from leaving home except for necessary reasons.s. > with the lockckdown in frae just beginning, concerns have been raised about elderly people going out to buy food. a number of community initiatives have been spspringig up w with neighbors volunteering to go shopping for those most at risk. >> in times of desperate need, solidarity between neighbors takes on new meaning. fabienne went shopping this morning for his 82-year-old neighbor.

monique lives on the second floor of her building. to avoid taking any risks, she sends fabienne a basket. a much-needed favor for monique and the opportunity for a permissible though limited social interaction. in the coming days, he will run several such errands for monique. associationr of an which is focused on solidarity between neighbors. here he distributes flyers to help recruit new volunteers. his goal, to encourage those who can to lend a helping hand to neighbors in need.

displays of solidarity that are both reassuring, even life-savaving for some of the french capital's most vulnerable inhabitants. ofbelgium is following some the strict measures implemented here in france. there lockdown begins this afternoon. ourmore, we speak to correspondent in brussels. hello to you. first of all, i think you arere out in b brussels today. and us about where you are how this lockdown is going to affect people out in the streets today. >> i'm in froront of the most well-known symbol of brurussels and d indeed all of belgium. we just heard the c church bells rang out. at means thehe lockdown is

starting here in belgium. are faiairly empty compmpared to a normrmal time. normallyly at this timee of dayt would be surrounded by tourists. l lockdown inin belgium is wayy leless stringentnt than in itatd a bit leless stringent than in france. people cannot leavave t their hs unless they arere going foodd shopping, going to the doctor or going to essential work. companies have to prove to the government if they are going to have their employees come in at their work is essential and also that they can guarantee their employee is going to have social distancing in their transport to the office. that may involve companies having to transport the employees to work themselves. this measure is going to be in place until april 5. the prime minister telling belgians this is necessary to stop the rapid spread of the virus and we will see if other countries follow suit.

key eumber of institutions based where youou e in brussels. how is this lockdown going to affect the running of the eu? >> as ofof monday, a all of the ststf in both h the commission d the europeanan parliliament havo work from h home unless theheirb is absololutely essential. i'i'm told thehe criteria fofor determining e essential jobob s just gone way up with the belgian order. rely anybody will be going into the commission of paparliament. they are having t technical proboblems with the teleleworkio fafar at the comommission. it's an organization of 32,000 employees. trying to get everyrybody hooked online is prproving difficult. meetingsgs are being canceceledr run didigitally. next week we were susupposed to haveve a european cocouncil sum. that was justt announced l last night willll b be a videoconfere instead. just like the one they held last night when they decideded to cle

the eu border.r. it looks like the e eu institututions are not g going e runnnning atull l capacity.. the e european parliament wantso stress that it is s staying ope. they change e the schedule to ba so-called d white w week. that means there is no vote. the eururopean parliame h has postponedd any k kind of legislslative activity. no commimittee votes.. wewe will ee what they do forr next wee monday thehey are scheduled to start voting again. euroropean parliament is looking to possible digital solutions. even solutions that could allow digital voting. this is also a problem for the council treated the ruleses say that they have to vote for those measures in person so they are looking at possible solutions for how to do digital voting. the eu institutions need to keep legislating in a time of crisis.

a chchange in slot regulation tt is supposed to help airlines from going out of business needs to be voted on and approved by the parliament and ththe counci. right now the rules have to take place in person which seems not possible so they are looking for digital solutions in how to hold that voting. >> thank you for bringing us up to speed. coronavirus has been confirmed in all 50 u.s.s. stat. despitite that, some democratatc primimaries were held on tuesda. it was joe biden who came out on top, claiming victory from florida to illinonois and arizo. pressure of course mounting on bernie sanders to drop out of the race. justis biden speaking after those results came in. campaign has had a very

good night. we move closer to securiring the democratic nomination for president and we are doing it i building a broad c coalition tht wewe need to win in novevember. senatotor sanders and i may disagrgree on tactics,utut we share a common vision. for the need to provide affofordable health cacare for l americanan reduce inincome inequity that has risesen so drastically, to tackling the existential threat of our time, climate change. senator sanders and h his supporters havave brought a remarkable passion and tenacity to all of these issues. with global markets tanking, president trump is taking decisive action to stave off a possible u.s. recession. thth looks like a rescue package with up to $1 trillion, including checks to be sent to individual members of the public within weeks. here's the full details. >> ready to bring out the checkbook to save the american economy. donald trump announced a massive stimulus packet to offset damage

done by the coronavirus pandemicic. >> we are taking aggressive action so that america can rebound stronger. frankly stronger than ever before. while manyynize that american workekers can work from home, many others cannot. >> the plan could surpass a value of $1 trillion. in addition to $300 billion in deferred t tax payments. $50 billion will be handed out to airlines whose industry has taken a blow amid travel restrictions and border closures while e all businenesses are set to receiveve $250 billionon of loans. the governmentnt says it wants o send checks to americans as soon as possible which could be worth $1000. >> what we have heard from hard-working americans, many companies have now shut down. americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now in the next two weeks. as steps announced by

the federal reserve to boost liquiditity, the measures will well-received -- were well received on wall street. u.s. stocks s jumped. the dow jones rising 5.2%. the government in tunisia has announced a 6:6:00 curfew startg tonight as it tries to spread the advance -- stem the advance of covid-19. 24 cases have been c confirmed. the country has closed land borders and international flights have been suspended as well. beendent trump has describing covid-19 as the chinese virus, increasing tensions with beijing. china has announced it will expel american journalists from three u.s. newspapers. beijing sasays t move wawas in retaliation for the e expellingf chinese journalistin t the

united states as our china correspondent reports. b beijing explainined these expupulsions which wililconcernt leleast 13meririca journalists based in china and beingngn retaliatation for the american decisision to label chinese stae media outlets in the u.s. as being foreign agents and requiring g them to cut down soe of their staff. that particular amamican decision was t taken in retaliation for the expxpulsionf 3 wall st journalists, wall after journal repeporters an op-ed heaeadline inin the jol that wasas considered racist by the beijing auauthorities. worth h noting t that none of ee three reporters had any role in writing that particular headline. on a deeper level, this shows increasasg concernn over the growing chinese influence over the global discourse and the lack o of

independence of those state media outlets. at the end of the day, journalilists are caught in the middle between washington and beijijing and paying the price. this alrlready in a veryry hoste environment in n 2019. 80 2% % of foreign jouournalistn china have said they experienced either interference, harassment or violencnce while working in e country. there isg with china, some potential good news out from the country. it appears that thee extrememe quarantine measures being taken there are working at least for now. across the country j just one nw case was confirmed on tuesday. in south korea as well which has conducted regular testing and employed social distancing measures, new infections are leveling out as well. that's the round up of the top stories we are following for you this hour.

before we go, let's showow you some images from here in paris wherefrom in confinement in their homes, people have been breaking out into applause for doctors. we will leave you there with some of thosose images. ♪ >> hello and welcome to our weekly film m show with ouour critic, lisasa. bordeaux in the south of france at the animation

pitching event cartoon movie, hearing about dozens of f featue film projects at various stages of conception. tell us about cartoon movie. >> it takes years upon years to make an animated film. gave 900 animation professionals from 40 countries a chance to see what animators all over europe are working on or hope e to be working on if ty can get up funding. there were 66 projects from 20 countries. it was six years ago at this event that i was wowed by the "i lost mys from body. it was the only independent animated feature to make it all the way to the oscars this year. fewew projects cacaught my eye. women directors, screenwriters and animators are involved in all of them. >> what stood out for you?

>> something that blends eco-consciousnesess with delightfully city animation. critterers inspired by the inuit's that have been adopted the world over. incorporated into live-action footage to sensitize us into a natural beauty. -- on nanatural beauty. >> a french animator has been working on -- for 12 years. >> unfortunately her topic has only grown more urgent as she has toiled over a story dedicated to the over 30 million live far from their original homes. it will be released this coming september 9 in france. >et's take a l look.

also focused on how history mistreats children, a fascinating project from spain revisits the artificial town the nazis set up in czechoslovakia to full the outstside world into ws were beinghat je treated really well and had art and music for their lives. the filmmakers met with an elderly woman who had been interned there. the animators will incorporate real drawings that managed to survive.

another french project is the black swallow. prize figighting boxer in 1913. flew as a fighteter pilot with e allies. he ended up as an elevator operator back in the u.s. they determined television reporter in the film tracked him down in 1959. lelet's take a look at a a rough draft. >> the story of the first black firefighter in modern history. as a teenager he fled the racist deep south to later become a woworld war i he. a jazzman in paris. a civil rights activist back in the usa. only to fall into oblivion. young womanightful leading an epic investigation that sweeps an entire century across the atlantic on this -- unveils the mystery of a man who

lived a thousand l lives. >> lots of animation to look forward to. now to a french film out this week. de gaulle. the 130 years since his birth. 50 years since his death and 80 years since his appeal of the 18th of june delivered on the bbc from exile in londonon. >> this movie is set mostly over the course of a few weeks in june of 1940 when the germans were running r roughshod over france. the french government was broker to eagerness to an armistice with the enemy and de gaulle was trying to convey his belief that france should keep fighting and not capitulatete. remain prettys staging and declamatory even though the film shows us lesser-knownwn aspspects of his life. it starts with him and his loved wife waking up together in bed in april of 1940 and we are given reason to -- believe t thy

enjoy y having sex on a sunday morning before going to church. they have three children. two teenagers and a two-year-old girl with down syndrome. both parents refuse to center to anan i institution -- send her n institution which would have been standard practice at the time. his stubborn belief in the french nation will permit france to sit at the victorsrs table in 1945. >> let's take a look. >> we must build up our own forces. >> given the raw materiaial, it

should be thrilling. why did it fall flat? nott's earnest but somehow involving. i learned i could be an ever great men of history because unlike churchill and call, i don't smoke constantly. a radio operator approaches him and asks him if he can repeat something he has just said to his men for the radio. we see them recording in a sundeck field field and how to call hit his stride in this new medium. we see him crumpling draft after draft of that appeal that set the tone for the french resistance.. it's interesting that the british government was worried that his speech would come across as a declaration of war and the bbc would be providing that -- to do so. everybody thought defeat was inevitable except apparently de gaulle. words are the only weapon i had, he says to churchill. would we all be speaking german

in paris had it not been for de gaulle? tackles the surface lurches from episode to episode without that essential flicker that brings a genuine life to life. another film by a first time director just after the arab spring. >> this is one of the most exciting movies i've seen recently. it proves the power that .nstitutions continue to have a successful bususinessman is driving back from a vacation ambushedtheir suv is by armed islamists. shots are fired and managed to go through the back seat window where he is sitting in a bullet punchers his liver. vitaliver transplant is

and fast. only direct family members are permitted to be organ donors. modedern medicine is amazing. it tells you things you need to know and rather not now. blood tests to determine which .arent is the best the doctor privately tells her that -- can't possibly be his biological father. she knew she had committed adultery but had no idea the child was not her husband's. how can she confess her unfaithfulness with nerves already frayed by this pressure cooker of his condition? >> let's take a look.

>> it looks and sounds utterly compelling. >> it is. i'm nonot tunisian. i don't havave a son. i absolutely felt as if i was sharing t their compound dilemms as they happened. it's a time sensitive ninightmae that shows how everything we think we know and hold dear can change in an instant. so what would you do if your son isis fading fast, your wife ca't track down her long-ago lover and you need a human liver? people are constantly advising other people to trust in god. i am dazzled by how well this film explores the expression, a matter of life and death.

film blueest velvet. does it still stand the test of time 34 years o on? >>, cloth h and and laura during freshly minted. isabella rossellini is ravishing. before twin peaks got audiences accustomed to his unique 1986, this was so startlingly original that most people had no idea what to make of it. it is set in this picture-perfect t small t town,t the sordid underbelly is the size of moby dick. lylynch started out as a pennils independent artist. statements --lder statesmen n of peculiarity. there's more news coming up

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