authorities a announce of five hundred and nine more covert nineteen desk thehese past tweny fourur hours make it the country's highehest daily increase since the pandemic began. one day dental it is up by seven hundred and twenty seven but that's the lowest daily tally in nearly a week while the number of new infections. is continuing to rise with five hundred sixty ththree more deaths in n the lat twenty fouour hours in ththe u.. the british government says it's aiming to double the number of covert nineteen tests by mid april. welcome back to the front three four museum in

paris on somebody's holes like you very much for joining us. first the french authorities announced this evening that five hundred and nine peopople f reports have died from the corrective are esther in the last twenty four hours making it france's hylas highest daily inincrease. in the number of deaths since the pandemic began. well this number only includes people who've died in hospital and not those who've died at home. or in an old people's home. the number of confirmed cases of the virus is also pop by close to five thousand. well his what the health officials jones said a man had to say in his daily operate update. let me see some top left messages with doctrinal was speeded easy. going a fictional i quit is nav c. meade rizal kathmandu. to produce yeah. the only superman. another know what i'm asking you would loop i may. what it says was on to set with diddy this call. of any mention

get aside what do i he did get it was the palmer can you say down with. i made it. when a bid to ease pressure on the intensive. unit are some of the critically ill to of ours. up trance by speed train from paris to other parts of the country. but major prepararation is needed for such a patient transfer. possible jinko yetunde tells us more. it's a journey that this train conductor is likely to never forgets. how's that getting. okay this is office building up stretches have replaced the- it's on and it's a similar picture each carriage of the specially adapted deserve a trained as these sncf agents get ready to welcome thirty six critically ill coronavirus patience. they're on their way to intensive care units in brittany in the west of the country is with us. so because could give us a fax it to me on

his phone receive news. new five c. and for us to know. as they look over the two of the journey they make sure no stone is left unturned. these evacuations are risky and the train conductors have to pay attention to the smallest of. details especially the speed. this is awesome hobbies fifty of one would recounting this off different the team's. we see commodities some on this the senior tax of. this the latest of. to take in for from that been hot hit by virus to let overall region in the- this awful is now quit school for paris as the number of intensive care beds in the capital now match the number of patients. all the essence if agents participating in this evacuation all volunteers who say they're doing it in the name of national solidarity. some don't but many of the poor people in this. room twenty two

zero p. i'm not. going to the only. local you just. a did see. these e transfer are becoming more andnd more for as for batte to free intensive unit across the country. france being in lockdown for just over two weeks now officials one the out of the- some time for the thomas to ban. the french prime and offer told committee today that the locks on will most likely come to a gradual and- for you don't pull double review published is a set away probably not heading towards the universal absolute end to the quarantine it for everyone at the same time yep so you all need for but do we currently working on and trying to understand the different scenarios for how to end the quarantine. but that is. we should remember that all first and foremost we need to discuss how best to end it fumo dove level you. the french prime minister edouard philippe

speaking that will self isolation and confinement to the home is all very well if you have a home. before migrants in those sleeping rough it obviously isn't an option all ngos here in paris are hard to try to help also it was a not a must see went to find out more. at dawawn in the parisian suburb of it wass really a hundreds of migrants are being evacuated bound for hotels and sports centers. in paris and the suburb of st st denis. they'll be sheltered in austin isolate all part of the region's fight against cove in nineteen. this is a point of this is what it as a senator the daisy the could. . defininiy make. in seven and two were about in some fat women she- but there are still several hundred perhaps even thousands of others on the streets so every evening members of the group utopia fifty six walk

around this part of northeast paris. taking note of who's sleeping rough. we got some new new lizzy suffolk food veeva systems requested- the defense wants t to fifty for me the phoe would be from all sorts. of prison at the levels of destruction pat arrived in france i in november seeking political asylum. in normal times volunteers from utopia fifty six would house vulnerable people clearly that isn't possible at the moment so instead those sleeping rough of in house here. in the local parish church. not everybody in ms often the shell. civil are also organize said. tonight they'll distribute ninety meals the vast majority of food i'm sold and donated by local restaurants. when you had your did you find yourself wrong off the mark. more time for this

call t to i agree w with you all the voluntnteers for a foreign tour to see needs how. and it doesn't take long and they spoke this group of six afghan. do you feel sick do you cooperate no no during night the to note of the location of eighty five all l the people on the streets i'll send the details to local governments to encourage them to open more. emergency accommodation. will germany is a conducting an average about half a million covert nineteen tests every week but in the u. k. this growing criticism of the low level of testing. thought to be just a fraction of what's been done in germany. will british government says it's aiming to double the number of tests to about twenty five thousand per day by the middle of april. but it's been announced that a further five e hundred sixty three peoplele have ddd there in the uk during these last twenty four hours. posted was telling games fit hospital for. it's being built in record time. learn new nightingagale hospital has five hundred beds equipped

with ventilators and oxygen. and space for three thousand five hundred if the corona virus crisis deteriorates. the open plan ward designed to give stoffel visibility ofof patient. we have gone back what floor is nice tool to switch is if we see. that we absolutely can make sure that your site okay. two more similar hospitals will be set top in birmingham and manchester. the u. k. now has around thirty thousand confnfirmed cases of covert nineteen. but with the shortage of testing kits many people with symptoms on table to check if they have the virus. the nhs workers it's a problem some having to self isolate when they needed him over streretched hospitals. this is the time when people needs us more rather than staying home if i'm short i'm negative it's better for me to go back to work rather than waiting for fourteen days at. room two

weeks ago i had. the symptoms very bad ones so it's i am do you to come back to work on a friday so i thought before i come i'm going to get checked what i'm- going to have to have an email confirmation invitation confirmation. i don't have this. british authorities b blamed the l lackf tests on a shortage of this will be needed to tatake samples of chemicals known as reagents. but some have criticized the governrnment's resesponse to the outbreak the u. k. he was slower than many european countries to implement lockdown measures to help prevent. the transmission of the virus. meanwhile in its lead the death toll from the current of our outbreak has risen by seven hundred and twenty seven today. to more than thirteen thousand but the rate of new infections is leveling off officials in the worst affected areas and the pressure is easing slightly on the intensive care units a as well. as of rome correspondent simic up to witness. for we did

see that slight drop in terms of the number of people that have died with cold at nineteen. seven hundred and twenty seven in the last twenty four oz still a very tragic figure but it is a slight drop. and brings the total number of dead to more than thirteen thousand and particularly one always has to look at the rate of new infections. it's slightly up from yesterday but that's it it's more or less in line with previous days in the sense that it does confirm to some extent. that days of flattening in terms of the number of new infections the health minister speaking earlier today saying that the drastic measures these are signs all of these numbers are signs that the drarastic measurs that the country is takaken. wih this locockdown we're now into yy twenty threree. iss yieldinig results in he sasaid it's ununrgivable go to assume that thisis means the defeaeat o othe virus with no wayay near that in fact the officials are stressing we stillll in ann emergencyy stage. and therefore

people need to stay at home. even more so now. fossel c. up to. that the us president donald trump has warned that the us could be facing what he said could be the roughest two or threeee weeks the country's everer faced well the white houe has said that before the outbreak is over they could be between a hundred thousand and two hundred and forty thousand deaths in the united states. we authorities in your your call calling in medical volunteers as the death toll continues to climb. new york city accounts for roughly one out of four r of all the deaths that in the united states. is that all right to somemeusiness news now i'm with the lockdown and its third week here in france more than three and a half million people have applied to ten pre unemployment benefits. the government is set aside eight point five billion euros to support those- if they look for work during the corona virus pandemic though some analysts say that might be enough money. well it's got the latest now from a business as a cape may

day kate at what we know about. how france's labor market is copingng with the lockdown. well totom last week just over two millllion people said they found ththemselves. tempoporarily outf a job because of the lockdown. this week the labor minister says that number has soared to three point six million. remember the- emergency a aides announced by the gogovernment about two weeks ago- allows companies. aren't able to conduct business as usual to be clear that the government- and get government help in paying ththeir employees. rather than laying them off entirely that. dense bit something that's been usused by three hundred and thirty seven thousand of french companiess now- they'y've all asked for that age from that sunday initially containing three to. eight point five billion euros economists of say that's unlikely to stretchh far enough. that the bill could rise. eleven billion euros as the e blocked drags on as it expected to do. notice a fairly generous scheme it promised. to

cover about 84% of most salaries. or a full minimum wage for those who are earning that. there's also money set aside for small businesses a and the self employed. there is also confirmed that it'll be delaying the deadline for filing tax returns. i try to get a little bit more breathing room. to families that are struggling to make ends meet. okay in case. they invest ought the pay almost being. the worst month index the month of my- and he saw of imprproved this wednesdaday. unfortunately april hasn't brougught much relief too investors they may be hopoping it's an april foolsls joke but t doesn't seem to be if you talk to analyst of global agrees and still lost about a fifth of their value sinince thehe beging of this year but wall street firmly in the red as the number code nineteen cases continues to rise in the united states. losses of about four r and a haf percenent across the board in nw york the dow jones lost nearly a thousand points by the closing bell us oil prices are still hovering around twenty dollars per barrel- unseeded american error energy companies

will be meeting at the white house onn friday. a record breaking three point three million americans applied for unemployment benefits last week and data showing that the layoffs do continue in the united states the job cuts would be far from over. the major european indices also closed sharply down about losses about 4% for those m majr disease in london paris and frankfurt manufacturing the eurozone crops on sururprisingly droppiping to its lowest level n seven years in the month o of march. many analysts the worst isis yet to come the markets and the broader.. economy okay wewel thank you russian fired up. from san jose. me from this desk thank you. that brings us up to the with the world needs thanks for watching state. some say it's the most beautiful language in the world and yet it is notoriously difficult to learn french the so called language of mood yeah the

language of love with once upon a time the international language of diplomacy. it's still a very important language today but just what does the future hold for french join us for this episode of french connections plus where we explore long fall says. linguists say that french is one of the most influential languages in the world just five continents and its theall native language of nearly three hundred million people. it's also an official language in nearly thirty eight nations france of course but also canada belgium and many countries in africa and remember french is a living language which means it's a vault a lot over time. let's's take a looook at some highghlig. the e story of the e french language begins in the ancient

region of call. an empire local celtic languages w were rereplad with vulgar latin. butt french is different frorom other romane languauages spapanish portuguese italian and romanian because it was also influenced by the inflation of france. and a conversion sparked a language divide in the south people spoke long dark well in the north they spoke long story which grew into. fifteen thirty nine king calls what plan you made this week only official language in france with time it evolved into modern french. inflfluence u uurled across the world during the seventeenth century that's french replaced latin as the mainly with frank up internanational diplomacy. do you need to be one of the official languages of the united nations the european union and the international olympic. meanwhile following france's colonial expansion in the nineteenth century french spread across the world. today two hundred and seventy four million people speak french mostly in africa. and experts say it's a language of the

future. the number of french speakers continues to grow every year in fact they say that frerench is the second most learned second language just after english which can be paradoxical because f french is so hard to learn i spent years at dinner parties nodding and saying save it i. really i had no idea what people are talking you're absolutely right jeannie when it comes t to french everything is complicated whether it's the grammar whether it's the spelling l. french kids learn this at a very young age because in schohool they're given something called let dick fee which is. a spelling test and it's a special kind of hell i'm not going to give you a dick the because it's just cruel and also as we just change that. and run away but i do want to quiziz you on one particular day of the french language and that is accents unlike other romance languages like spanish or italian spelling is not transparent french so what you see is not a so. what you say and that the access and this role click to tell you how pronounce. how many i we about

it now their well there are accidents appear on. you have the axle in you you have the actual have you had the plan not a you have axle flex and then the city appears under a sea it looks a little bit like a tail and that tells you to pronounce c. not cook. but so like it atat the same city okay that makes sense but the c. like in stock but how do you pronounce it either happens well the. when does our next to other r tells that you should. both of our friends the word all singles. you can see there's a- up. the and means that you. both the and the all right cool see dos instead of. quant does. when it comes to the axle. ague it's pretty. it like. this as for the excellent good of it's more. pull down your your your- a little bit go ahead like. us get. that as opposed to eighteen eighteen and then you have the party hats. axle stiff complex now historically this meant that there was an s. after the

bowels. for instance four k. is the french word for. forest and so that you pronounce it. hey okay so if i understood corrrrectly you have eighty eight. do you have and full okay with the circumflex in the middle you got a perfectly reggie all righty well as you can imagine though even with these visual clues french is still. pretty difficult to figugure out to end. people do still get tripped up. i'm on the pull this out and very heart of paris two weeks just how. the french. now let's take a look. you guys pronounce thesese words for us that's e e. which means him yeah and- the name. how do you pronounce the first two the first and then six. yeah french use. this one

is very tricky year. are you or or or- is this. what does that mean one of eight yeah and i. this is do ii well it's always. in order. to do that. have you ever tasted good. french take their land very c. g. they even a special dog of the frame language the for says created a sixty thirtyty the i get a new process or for k. is the official authority on the

grgrammar and vocabulary of the french language these days their main role is to defend french from english are the famous english invasion but some english speakers might be surprised to find out there speaking french without even knowing it. i'm here at the bank which is a boat located near the academic process so just a stone's throw from the guard dog of ththe french language and i'm joined by also didn't like- the who's written a book about the english language it's called the- incredible history of french words. in english or how anglophones speak french without knowing it now we tend to say that e english is a hybrd language with roots in german and in latin a but you disagree with that you say that. half of english words actually come from french you're talking about twenty five thousand words tell us a little bitit about how this happened what's the history behind this v. linguistic invasioio that say is ststarted in ten sixty six when

williamm duke. of normandy invaded. the england at ththe time people in the fees andnd haroldld became. . suppressed he spoke foror english and only english was say germany language a and entirely. and william and spoke- norman but about time norman was basically french with a strong accent. and so french became the official language of- figment among the very first words that were brought in by the normans if you once you find- words like off the cardinals crime because in a prison- h. april everyday work yeah every day were table evevery day where its you mentioned that this example car which is the- the english word for a- vehicle. which comes up from the french word shah but there's something about the pronunciation yeah right exactly we just mentioned that- the norman soo spoke french w with a strong accent ad one of the- characteristics of

the saxons. what's that their french l lentils c. h. show pronouncnce sure in in paris where pronounced kerr in normandy so just to give an idea during the middle ages ten thousand french words were incorporated into old english. and during the renaissance we have- even more than that twelve thousand-d- and-- one author who conontributed- massively to the imports of five french okay very wisely- shakespeare- so hehe introduced wowords like that o obscene monumentntal event d due to a frugal you know. and mostt people thought they wewere inventions but they were not inventions they were clearly french people and you have a some everyday examples- as well in fact you have a facebook page where you- you put snapshots of everyday examples this is actually. a sign it's right thing which is aa lot of these words actually- from friends so no trespassing postal e employees only do not enter absolutely trust passing both of them p pase enter our french. by down for you all on.

and only know only and do our. own or so it's a good for many words in english come from yes is that me that in the more so. language yeah we have some some argue. and indeed there are more more in that french. and one of the reasons for that being. you have a good distance into englishman between. words of germanic origin and the f. french words. for instance against you can say shot you need you can say- vegan- demand so monumental- intnto it and soo it's t thanks to this greatat didistance.. you have a richness of a career in english that is unique so i guess the english speakers to thank french speakers f for a for their language for them absolutely well thank you very much to. ease in the leg with a message- and just to remind you this is his book thehe incredible histoy of french words in english but also. in the like with thank

you so much thank you. the french language is beautiful and also beautifullyly c comples many of you told us thank you so much for all your great questions and comments conrad had a really interesting comment. about non verbal language and how in french you can say so much without using any words and it's true jeannie there are so many. facial expressions and noises that you can make to communicate and i want to quiz you on some of my favorite body language for ininstance what does this mean. that means monday or my site which means i don't believe you and then there's a very important sound that yoyou hear everywhere. as an you forgot the baguette again. in this one- that means let's get out here you also said this in many questions about the difference between two and route angel wanted to know if two in view is similar to spanish and i must admit i don't speak spanish but it's very important to talk about two invalid traditionally two is the familiar form it's a form that you use. with your friends and

with your family and with people who are younger than you while vu is the polite form it's the form that you use with people you don't know figures of authority people youou respet and people who are older than that don't worry if you don't understand the difference between to and- especially if you're just learning french most people here accent and we'll give you a break anyway they'll probably even think it's charming. and there was one last question about the most common mistakes that french learners make i'd say that after pronunciation it's mixing up masculine and feminine now this is definitely a tricky thing in french because remember pronouns nouns and adjectives all refer to the gender of an object- but why is something maslen why is something feminine. there's no real logic behind it's just something that you have to learn in fact sometimes it can be quite confusing for instance the word box ical it's the success of feminine and also. video it doesn't really seem like there's much static that's unfortunately that's all we have time but thank you so much please keep them a questions

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