death toll here in france increases 210-006-0090 six it comes hours after the country became the first in europe to stop trying to relate the sick from an eastern province. is usual thank h heaven ninety cas. extends its corunna art this thursday twenty eight the europe second was heck is now fly you quote we'll we'll during a medical s supply. also in a program at the hour minutess his rival comomes in nw speaker of kano and the cigna a pet power sharing deal the two

men after precedent it tickle deadlock. others are tough sorry in france and a full you sam for what a- link of the current crying i'm so i'm sent. now we him from. three hundred and sixty five more death have been. include that of the six year. that to tackle tackle k. nineteen french authorities are expected to announce an extension over the initial fifteen day and can i not period. came into force march the seventh. yes we hadd from the trees agencies. that home center concerning some of the latest m measures being implemented in country s. in fact in for says know you're dealing with a major. on level which comes to get. we mobilize all of whole three. all of a public private establish. to

this what. i can do with all the all of the non urgent medical and- services. and progressively to population surveys. off with what we call the symptoms of a math from which us identify treat cons and chipips to the and rely on the barge in this. it will cool about well do you. now olson france of thought. are taking place of karan of page from the hard hit east of the country. this area alone has registered as a one thousand three hundred hospital deaths. as from twenty fours ella the assigned as of wednesday explains the move is a- figure. the two load okay canisters attached correct to this. the congo bold this french trying far from the u. buying and so. this heistst service has been. for medical use for some the shovel you'll- well position get this he'll of.

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cocountry has extended its lockd down to at least april the twelfth. madrid is now also dealing witith another battle a shortage of medical equipment health authorities i ordered four hundred and thirty two million dollars of masks gloves and testing kits from. emerald maxwell over this up to speed. every day morehouse's arrived at madrid's ice rink. the eighteen hundred square meter space has been turned into the largest mortuary in spain the country in europe with a corona virus spreading the fastest. staff toll has now climbed to more than four thousand a year partisan majorities which indicate that a thirteen daniels. stockholm sysystem they have the potential yes hello jim they y see the party indictd for you fifteen and mass this if in fact yes. the madrid read i learned accounts for more than half of the day. because like this one overwhelmed and patients waiting to be treated having to lie on thehe floor.

authorities have been setting up a field hospital at the university outside the capital. spain has overtaken china to become the world's second west affected country by the coronavirus. itsts death toll is rising much faster than it was in china at the same stage of the epidemic. number since that's- not recorded a day earlier. authoritiess are hoping it will soon become clear whether the lockdown in place since march fourteenth is having the desired effect. worldwide coverage nineteen has not affectedd nearly hoffa million people. any attention now to italy where at six ththousand one hundred and fifty three new coronavirus infections have been reported this is the country's biggest price in the last five days but six one sixty to death. all right i think that the price as per. to the south of thee country that set. off thehe more than two weeks of a nation wide locked down the government has

decided to expand the map that tree closurere as nonessential commercial activity. living under the u. k. the government has purchased three point five million tests the corona virus antibodies which are currently being assessed for accuracy. health officials say if they proved to be effective the kids would be available within days to be sent to households. this could be a real game changer the fight against the pandemic that's according to authorities. albertson recorded more than a hundred coronavirus ask in a twenty four hour period for the first time this thursday. i was on the u. k. more than a half a million people have volunteered to help the national health service. to cope with the coronavirus crisis after a governmentt appeal he's a report from france twenty four platt rush. a call to service that britons took to heart since tuesday more than half a million people have signed up to volunteer with the national health

service or nhs heeding the government's plea. an army of volunteers that will play a key role in fighting the outbreak according to the prime minister. they will be driving distance from pharmacies to patients they'll be bringing patients home from hospital. very important they'll be making regular phone calls to check on and support people who's staying on the right in. time and they will be absolutely critical in the fight against this virus. as of wednesday the uk has recorded more than four hundred deaths and more than nine thousand cases including prince charles first in line to the british throne. he has mild symptoms but is otherwise in good health according to buckingham palace. since monday the uk has been on lockdown with all nonessential businesses closed a measure taken by the government after facing criticism for failing to impose quarantines miller to those of its european neighbors.

authorities have also announced plans to convert a london convention center into a hospital with four thousand beds dedicated to corona virus patients. amid the lockdown some parts of the capital have come to a standstill but some residents are still adjusting to the new ruleses to stayay ho. carrousel without report will see this ass the leaders of the world's most powererful economis convene to that truly this in a bid to coordinate a response to the false spreading coronavirus the toll for which at the moment stands at five hundred thousand globally. thehe heads f ststate madee a pledge t to injt five trillion us dollars into the global economy. they also announcedd that they will tosca health ministers to stand the best possible practices during this crisis whilst ensuring the cross border flow of vital medical supplies. the meeting comes amid criticism that the world's w wealthiest countries have not taken enough action to combat the virus or its economic impact globally. over

to the us where the federal government has pledged to give the unemployed an extra six hundred us dollars a week for four months. this is part of a two trillion dollar stimulus bill the senate passed a house of wednesday. as w well as the expansion of jobless benefits the legislatioion provides for direct transatlantntic. to millions of americans now the bill came as a blunt coronavirus tracker showed that us cases o of kids at nineteen had passed. sixty nine thousand. some deaths. it's a shattering record for joblessness in the united states in the past week over three million americansns filed for unemployment benefits a 15100% increase from just three weeks ago. the skyrocketing numbers are a reminder that the relief bill unanimously approved by senators couldn't come soon enough. i'm proud to announce tonight not a single center voted against. this two

trillion dollar rescue bill. the two point two trillion dollar bill is called the carers act for corona virus aid lief and economic security for u. s. households the main sources of support to our expanded unemployment benefits and direct payments. individuals making seventy five thousand dollars a year or less will r receive a single payment of twelve hundred dollars and an additional five hundred dollars for each child payments that would gradually phase out fofor higher earners the plan also includes grants a and loans for small and large businesses and airlines and over a hundred billion dollars for hospitals and medical supplies right now the reconnaissance. they're keeping lalay off everyry day they're people who are worried are they going to have enough money to buyy groceceries at the end of the week and economic relief bill as important as it is. is not a health c care vovoucher. and v. a lot a a lotf

what happensns is going to deped on the course which the virus takes thehe u. s. house of representatives is expected to approve the bill on friday before the u. s. president signs it into law. in otherer world newss this thursrsday israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his chief rival has been chosen as the new speaker of parliament. this is an unexpected step that could pave the way for a power sharing deal. between the two men. the move comes a after months of the political deadlock and as the country grapples with the worsening coronavirus crisis. i know i spoke to our correspondent errors might play in jerusalem i asked if benny gantz. had any incentives it's about. he will be the speaker- he's hot he will have important. portfolios susuch as the justice ministry the communications ministry both of those are relevant to the corruption trial and that benjamin netanyahu is facing will face in the upcoming months. as well as they are

running the government during the current crisis so those are the- things what it means of course is that he has had to. give up a very important thing up that's the reason that he came into politics was to see benjamin netanyahu's. government and he promised he wouldn't serve on the internet yeah so in his speech just an hour ago i think i heard the word. morere than five times and he was right. thank you chris. a difficult. and palatable decision and took it to the good of the country. as we made about. people are so. there's no money here as there is in the whole world but there's no stimulus package here either becacause there isn't a budget for it. and he said the good of the country what made me make the terribly difficult decision but you have to also say thatt he d didn't blink kirsten the longer us. and that netanyahu has won another round. he just mention some of the positives for benny gantz of course zoomingg out here that's another

positive this spells the end of this r rather. unprecededented f polititical deadlock. if yes if this goes through there will be a majority f for nintendndo in addition yeah they'd coalition you know banning guns hasasad in fact broken a pot he's coalition the blue and white coloration he isn't bringing everyone with him if only bringing his own he from within that coalition said fifteen states tennessee's rocky majority of seventy three you know house is a. hundred twenty that'll do it. we'll see. yoyou're not thank the nice is crying out for that but a personal level i think he's lost a lot of sense many of the people who voted for him in the hope that he would on netanyahu now see benjamin yeah hearing not only israel's longest serving prime minister but the first prime minister charged with corruption who can. handle with extraordinary processes that israel and the world is now going for well that's it from us at the south thank you

philip in france and a full. no macedonia has been waiting on ththe e. u.'s doorstetep for fifteen years. mamie was a child when her country obtained candidate status. are people in my generation it's just like- fairy tale thing it's something that might happen and it would be really nice but- we i don't know we e freeze so believe that it's going to cacatch our generation. is a committed environmentalist she does see one big benefit team membership it would bring the country into alignment with european environmental standards. in school p. become the newest member of the european club. don't miss a new episode for portions on fronts twenty y four i'i'm from twenty four .com.

remains a nation of literature. childhood dream i wanted to be an author since i was ten. in nineteen eighty four price goes to. welcome to immunization i'm not a shelby this week to join us at the famous kathy the flow of information andnd let. sosous to talk about the french well publishing this is the place to be for the country's metropolitan facts i can't say even the studies it's so much coveted naturally price. take a look at it blueprints and come a long way from being. evokes yeah today. france is home to an estimated t thousandd

publishehers from m mor houses o tiny presses the majority are independents all this belong to groups like cash a at eighty t. together they r rang up t two pt sisix billioion euros in n salen twenty eighteen so that's a 4% drop on the year before a total of five hundred and five billion this was sold in t tweny eighteen. this printer two six ten copies of it and this average as some presses seven the success of the bestsellers. marc levy is the m most w widely read contemporary french author with sixty novels translalated into forty nine languages selling more than thirty three million copies some sectors are doing better than others. fiction sells best in france bubut faces increreasing competetition from genres like young adult graphic novels and self help. meanwhile evokes represent more than 8% of publishers to saleles pririze wiwinning books are a goldmine for publishers the winner of france's most prestigious literary pririze the g goncourt

usualllly sells ovever five e nd thousand copies. in order. sixty comes in the publishing world annual awards season among the high profile prizes up for grabs is the clean the floor it was created around one of these cafe tables and is now celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary. prizes off again in the coming off as a chance to win a sizeable check but above all types of media coverage that consumes thank ria a and with it that t publis. in c creating hisis eponymous literatuture prize in nineteen h three. edmontonn c concord s set out to fostster the blooming of literary talent. illustrious award elevated the status of novels and authorship in french society. and made a national ritual of the autumn publishing season. cool cool. the goal rice is prestigious first

because it is the oldest of such awards was recouping and in more than a century of existence it's winners have been equally prestigious yeah well in the past fifty years most of the going cool prize winners works. have been systematically translated into twenty or thirty y languages dimensional. . french literary awards are often born in opposition to earlier prizes. the goncourt prize counter the prizes awarded by the academy francaise the official authority of the french language. the firm in a prize in turn countered the gone core which often favors male authors. and as for the renault door ward it offset the view that the juries of the prestigious prizes were influenced by the major publishing houses. a perspective further thrust into the spotlight with the release of selene's groundbreaking but controversial novel journey to the end of the night. yes the- people. about collusion in nineteen thirty three. adding to knowledge when full rifle

school not because members of ththe- technology genius. that s because you were considered that outside the realm of hhs because if i have to lose weight they send them to give a price to a different. more tame hold the proof of the prison system. the use of in may nineneteen sixty eigight riots o shook the french literary world. for many the ward giving juries will too opaque in their decision making and ignore the literary tastetes of the majoroy of readeders. to democratize. te media in in car fewer and re. to on favorite novels. but widespread criticism of literary prizes remains. low monthly literary prizes essentially ten books intnto bet sellers. they give a lot of publicity to winning office which in turn benefit the publishing companies. theyy spececialize ation is dangerous because it could eventually make either one of the oldest invisible. writers on producing lack of a lesser quality today than the full it's just that we don't hear as much about them. we appreciate. the prizes may help authors sell their work

even transnsforming them into a brand's themselves. but the ritual continues to shape french intellectctual life. to get the inside story of the french publishshing world i've come to o me to woman who's been dubbbbed a modern bestseller for her ability to spot a successful sir because the publisher. i it just. she just had a hello thank you very much for talking to us. do you think there's something that sets fromom his publishing induststry apartmtment. was it a full size you knonow who runs like the fetal physical cultural exception of engine and i have to say that's somewhat true inn publishing but they're proud that sounds a littltle pretentious yeah that sounds really doeoes have an appetite real respect but it should show up in the new book still hold high symbolic value. which explains publish like i said i get a sense perhaps twenty thousand manuscripts em is a considerable number anything thank you david pulled into his cabinet on wants to write to chit chat is held in high regard in the front t seat so ys

and i t think publishing is especially i important. to him. with end. angel a s sometimes seenen as robin naval. why'd you that'd- becausee thehe of. those when was tree there was a whole. during which ought to fit. was trend. and it became a huge part of our and it should it really i iis with broken if. a sub there was some great flux and door but it didn't have taken over and somewhat. unique toto the world of publishing it became central. backed frerench literature is far more divestment truckcks quitting tht assessmeme is no longer true today. a and if i enjoy this everyday brunch downs and the variety on offer the hammer is the trulyy exceptional exceptional. as i can see behind you that there's a number of french- novels that have been translated f for this is the only practically in more and more as you mentioned there was a time when french literature was seen as self absorbed. indianapolis formal and elitist j. a. but today it's one of the best t. it's-

becoming. less prone to exit. we're talking about. additional don'n't forget the sububject completely helpless with amongg those life published i'd mention the braids i need to get going on that in. that field translated into. the language now i think he is and it's an interesting case because it broke that was successful improved faster than him so thahat the two a dozen forereign publishers even before we publish it here in front with was it. a moment that so it turned into a success story thanks to the response party publishehes. it really had an international law. not to mention a and can. other french. in foreign lititerature really simply the french always read a lot of our nation's children having said that it's hard right nowow for foreign books yu can see that it't's the publishing sector as a whole that facing difficulties that's been struggling to keep up with. the types of culture in japan you mentioned the

difficulties what kind of an impact has the jobs such as amazon had on. publishing houses s such as yours. this is. this is a solid. of people and you can i know that. is real biggest problem you will not see the kid doesn't have cause the concerned back it's going. to work with amazon because of its monotheistic position i can't sit by and it's not like you just told us that the dialogue with publishing companies- about thirty something number of issues including the bookstore. themselves the party is that the one that active the gate. discover new authors and- that recommendations may not reaeally mean we caught to do odd jobs. the clinton so what are the biggest difficulties than. normal today the main issue is ththe amount of time people sped it reading. we're all against a- sense of. tv s sws enjoy wawatching. back that'llll fictn is every and independentnt it's nothing new thahat now. you can either on n lives because we close. him on it with me and- out to get. him into treatment thank you very much. but i

think it's look now at the for take on health. this growing market this gaining ground on the more interesting. publishing model the number of incredible success stories like this one. adding to its appeal and the complete from the internet. to bookshops as a result of a number of established a publishes. decided to build bridges with this type of independence initiative. her novels stock the tables of this bookstore where she's officially a best selling author. laura my nails long held dream is now reality. the battle going i don't know how to explain what happened but it happened. after publishing two novels online lore otherwise a teacher self published her third one on amazon's kdp self publishing platform it was almostst an immediate succecess for novels and vance from cyberspace to the bookshelves just a year later. the commissssion on the first day was already in the

top one hundred best setter and hit number one within three weeks that's i it it was incredible and i sold ten thousand e. books in two months on the one. and yes my only goal or leave alone you. well the success of all of these burgrgeoning offers started online and thousands of others are on a similar path several sites now linkk writers andnd readers without t the more traditioional intermediary of an established publishing house. while uploading a manuscript may o only take aa few clicks transforming the text into a finalized novel is no easy task lolook the- authors who use our platform are also entrepreneurs when they placed several different roles that of a writer and editor. zero he alsoo estatablished contact witith tho called beta readers who read the manuscript and provide feedback yeah so it's a lot of work. definitely don't. contrary to the- publishing process where the publication and distribution of the novel are both covered by the

publishing house self publishers bash several costs on their own. from editors to district. to book cover designers in france self publishing emerged as a career of its own in twenty eleven. charlotte kelly barrett is a literary agent and coo founder of a self publishing business. her company guides right through the independent publishing process and links them with editor. trudeau on top of the british and not all of our wisconsin published line editor although it is- for some of them include especially those who write novels. the hope. i is fine with him so and they have a audience. do is the case for many professors. utility built in of readers without the help of an anti theft throwing bags that i taylor youth off the disheveled look. although i was on the agenda. the self publishing industry may have taken some time to prove its worth but it's an increasingly fierce competitor for regular publishing houses. today in france one in five books are self published. and it's a

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