>> boris johnson in inintensive care as britain rattles the coronavirus. foreign secretary dominic raab is acting in the job as required. french government announces physical exercise will now be banned in paris between the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.. this as the country reports a record number of fatalities as they coronavirus death toll nears 9000. jaile pal is freed from

after australia's high court conviction.s welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. we begin in the u.k. where boris johnson is now in inintensive ce as a centrtral -- at a central london hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened since sunday evening. foreign secretary dominic raab has been asasked it too deputize where necessary. world leaders have expressed to their support for the u.k. leader. to st. thomas hospital where the prime minister is currently being treated. benedict, do you have any updates in regards to the prime minister's condition?

>> i wish i could give you the latest update but we are all waiting with baited breath as the country is very much for that latest health bulletin. what we have learned is that he is not on a ventilator, nor has he been intubated. it was that sudden announcement last night that his health had deteriorated into that he was moved here to st. thomas for a second n night here. he was actually in the intensive care. that's quite set -- that set off quite a lot of alarm bells. thousands in this country are going through the very same problem either personally or their families or friends. this is something, if it were needed, for a very public message to be sent to the public that anyone can catch covid-19 i think this is a pub -- powerful message being given by the prime minister himself.

any expressing wishes across the political class that they will hope he has a speedy recovery. lots of questions of whether he hindered his own recovery. he tested positive over 11 days ago. should he have stopped working so much? he was working a very long hours and it was those persistent symptoms we were told about on sunday for which he was administered -- admitted to initially. -- he looked quite ruffled on -- in a video. saturday night he was at his own clapping the national health service, the national health service, which is helping him everyone hopes in this hospital to get better. annette: downing street is raab willt dominic

deputize. how is the government operating in johnson's absence? benedicte: as you said in your queue, you talked about when necessary. i think thatession boris johnson was trying to give yesterday afternoon from his hospital bed that he was in good spirits, good morale, he was in touch with his ministers, basically that he was still running the country. nevertheless criticism over the fact of whether he did take this seriously has hindered -- perhaps he would not be in intensive care right now had he socially distanced in cabinet meetings. it was noticed to the cabinet were not socially distancing. parliament is in recess now but

they were not socially distancing in parliament either. over all the political class really rallilied together and it is not a time to score political points. it is very much a time of consensus and i think of the new labor leader only elected saturday really reflects that when he said "all our thoughts are with the prime minister and his family." this is a national crisis into the labour party will work constructively with the government. temporarily by -- intoraab into the politician totish be self-isolating is gove. because hising family member has symptoms. covid-19 can reach anybody.

stay-at-home, save lives. annette: thank you. moving on, the french government just announced physical exercise will be banned in paris between 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. highest deadly toll is reported in france since the outbreak beganan. it comes as the overall death toll is approaching 9000. the health minister is saying that the country has yet to reach the peak, get some positive signs with the numbers of people being admitted to intensive care continuing to drop. >> after three weeks of confinement, new numbers and france suggest to the measures are working, the curve finally starting to flatten. while the number of patients admitted to intensive care

increased in t the last 24 hour, a net total of just 94 patients remain. it is the lowest figure since the outbreak began, alleviating pressure on french hospitals.. french]king >> but the situation remains critical with health-care workers calling for caution. though the worst hit regions are starting to see signs of hope, the outbreak could still worsen elsewhere. f french]ng

>> taking that reality into account, the health minister has warned against letting up on the isolation measures -- containment measures. french]king seeminglyr countries, reassuring numbers hit a second wave of infections, a situation france hopes to avoid at all costs. later this tuesday, discussions to support economies that have been hard-hit by thehe pandemic. the will likely turn to stephenon of shared -- joins me now. what options are open to ministers today? >> they are looking at a uruguay

parikh - -- package that will cushion the body blow that has come from the coronavirus pandemic. many plans have announced plans to mitigate the pandemic. we are talking about a meeting of eurozone finance ministers. they will be talking about a 200 billion euro stimulus. plan is a 100 million euro to shore up unemployment. for those - -- it is s the use f we areozone fund expecting to see. there are talks of perhaps hundreds of billions of euro worth of funding being able to could be the m main source of extra financing for governments that will need it. there will be talk about the idea of shared debt, but it is a

controversial idea among european governments. leaders in favor of sharing coronavirus debt bonds. it what of course make it cheaper on the market, but there are -- there is resistance from germany and ththe netherlands. annette: are they leak -- likely to reach an agreement? it is not particularly controversial. in terms of unemployment stability european mechanism we are expecting some announcement that there will be this access to cheaper funding backed by the european -- we will have to see what conditions are attached to that. it is expected to be easier for countries to access that offending. coronavirus bonds are still a controversial issue.

will --nce minister common debt could be issued to help shore up the economy. recovery that was babalanced across european countries and not have a richer country recover faster. , thank: stephen carroll you. to the states where governors of the various states across the country that have become hot spots are urging continued vigilance amid signs that new cases may be leveling off. inal confirmed infections america have topped some 360,000 although the real number of cases is likely to be higher. with the death nearing -- 11,000, this makes the u.s. the hardest hit. >> as america's covid-19

outbreak continues to rage, president donald trump expressed hope monday that the spread could begin to stabilize. in a rare sign of bipartisan unity, president trump praised joe biden. >> we had a warm conversation. it was a nice conversation. we talked pretty much about this. he gave me his point o of view d i fully understood that. now become the unchallenged global epicenter of the viral outbreak with more than 360,000 confirmed cases into nearly 11,000 d deaths, its mortality count surpassed only by italy and spain. governors in three american states hardest hit by the outbreak on monday pointed to signs that the outbreaks growth as be slowing with social --

social distancing measures begin to flatten the curve. over 90% of americans are now under some sort of stay-at-home order. andrew cuomo has extended the leisure of non-essential businesses and doubled the fine for violating social distancing rules. hospitalizations and intensive care admissions declined in new york. while the crisis is far from over officials hope it may soon reach its peak in the u.s.. federal medical experts have warned that the viruses final virus's final death toll can reach anywhere between 100000 and 200,000. annette: george powell has been freed from jail after australia's highest court overturned his conviction for child sexual abuse.

peter o'brien has more. >> the highest profile child sex abuse case faced by the catholic church has been turned on its head. after a year behind bars cardinal george powell has walked free from a prison outside melbourne. -- george pell has walked free from a prison outside melbourne. -- pell said a serious injustice has been remedied. >> my trial was not a referendum on the catholic church. the point was whether i had committed these awful crimes and i did not. ♪ prosecution relied heavily on the testimony of the one surviving accuser who said pell sexually assaulted him and another boy in a melbourne cathedral whilile he was

archbishop there. the judges found a lower court failed to consider whether the offenses had not taken place. a support group said the decision would be crushing for abuse survivors. freedom andhas his many abuse victims have never been free, trapped in the crimes that ruined their lives. >> once regarded as the vatican's third-highest ranking official, he -- pell still faces other potential lawsuits. concludes our coverage. please stay with us. ♪

>> part of his flock did not survive. winter -- nobefore luck. i only have 400.

worstis every nomad's nightmare -- a glacial winter. the ground freezes, stopping the grass from growing. animals are too weak to survive. a disaster for herders. the animals are the only source of income for us nomads so if we lose our animals, our income plummmmets into this hasn effect on our way of life. it is a huge challenge for us nomadic herders. ♪ this weather phphenomenon is not new but in the past few yearars i it has becomeme more frequentnt and intenense. in the past 20 years hundreds of thousands of herders have left the steps, a massive rural unable tot they are

cope with. it's population of 1.5 million to deal withs have poverty as well as water and electricity shortages. to keep warm, they burn coal. through 300urn kilos per month. >> a at night you have to get up twice to fill the stove and during the day you have to do it every five or six hours. anyone who lives in a euro to knows it is impossible to live without coal. sometimes temperatures can go below -40 degrees celsius. upee times a week she stocks at the market. -- >> three times a week she stocks

up at the market. >> how much is a bag of call today? -- coal today? >> 120. >> and a bag of wood? one the euro. >> every day i go through one bag of coal and one bag of wood. euro aotal she spends 35 ofth to stay warm, a third the household income. heating,use electric but i cannot afford it. ♪ >> all the f former nomamads doe same. neighboborhoods, there are 200,000 families s and as m many chimneys. winter, breeding is hard.

hard. breathing is fine particle levels can reach 130 times the maximum .ecommended level by the who the consequences for the children are dramatic. the city's hospitals, pediatric respiratory diseases are the number one in --ty cause he hasix months old and been in the hospital for a week with pneumonia. >> is your neighborhood very polluted? what are you doing to help your child breathe? >> when i go out, i try to cover him up with scarves. >> but the air is still polluted.

>> it is hard to see my children get sick. seeing my son sick like this and suffer without being ablble to o anything, it pains me. >> the number of sick children has increased so much that in a year, they had to double the number of beds. the children who come here have reaeading problems. there respiratory organs are very d damaged. when they fall ill, it is difficult to treat them because they quickly get complications. to protect the -- theo protect the children government has taken a radical step. schools willll the close their doors for longer than usual.

the students here are taking their last classes before the holidays. the children in primary school and high school will be in -- on holiday by mid-december. it is the first time holidays will be this long. usually it is two weeks. the decision was taken to protect them so they do not leave the house and breathe and bad air. inall of the 38 students this class say pollution affects them on their way to school. >> it hurts my throat and makes me want to throw up. >> when you walk and you feel the pollution you feel bad. headauseous and your starts spinning. when you leave the house you really have to wear a mask.

>> authorities in mongolia are not able to reduce pollution. --y call on ngos like ncf unicef. one of their projects is developing garretts with better insulation so they need less coal to keep warm leading to less pollution. project is gerecht -- jeremiah from zimbabwe. can -- on this property 40 kilometers from the city, every yurt is testing a specific innovation. the door looks like this one. the plane door without anything.

insulating this heat fromo prevent escaping. >> inside a device measures temperature, humidity, and carbon monoxide levels. aremiah is full of prpraise for project that preserves mongolia's natural habitat. modify other things but we really have tried to maintain the traditional stick -- design. we are maintaining the shape and to the kind of material they are using because it is important. aspreserving traditions sedentary lifestyles are replacing nomadic culture. 15 years ago herders represented half of mongolia's population. today only 30% still live on the

steppes. this shepherd believes he will still look after his flock for a long time. he and his wife worry about the