feel me that mr offhand you messed up and evil absolutely not in the getty well maybe got classes. that also so what i. up enough. the staff studies during mention of couldn't you may do if you woke up before dawn do collision with you to get the *-*- bag on. on the- francis up public health chief asylum thahat w with his- daily updates on the situation the french government has vowed to do everything possible. to prevent companies going bankrupt during the corona virus pandemic the economic toll of the country's lockdown is becoming clearer. and deeper with business owners increasingly worried about the future finance minister bill the mass been speaking about this. we havave a business editr kate moody standing by for more cakeke illegal do you find it's mr madden hasas been giving further details of the support he's offering the struggling businesses will they. be

reassusured if you thihink. well th statement will go some to call because- me because that already pre. forty five. euro rescue package outlined by thee govevernment is likely to be expapanded. brumamaire m makingt clear that h he's readady to dey arsesenal of support. under sevn hundred thousand french companies have already asked for emergency aid the merits and that those who are struruggling the most after the lockdown ends. up could get even more cash about five thousand euros rather than the one ththsand five hundred that slatated for most businesses-s- ththose companies will also be able to apply. to have theheir payroll taxes and social charges canceled all together rather than delayed which was the initial plan we do know that five point eight million people applilied for tempoporary unemployment benefits from the government. that's one for private sector workerers the fud that's already slated to cost twenty billion euros over the space of three months. a number of americold on insurance companies and banks join the

way the- hello. individuals workers and busininesses alike saying that the financial system d does remain a solid. yu know a airir. helello airline is asked for r some billion e euron low. from the french and dutch gov. he said that they barelyly it could expect a not. . state support package airbus all likely receive some eight as a friend carmaker. ththe other big statemement was a thehe were of course eurozone. ministers have so far f failed to rereach. on w toto install and all re laununc. at those talks are slated to continueue on thuhursday. remams he's- the. the okay this is the account f from a pay t to have.n a show process. . for the first time since twewenty thirdd. absolutely these estimates from the banank of francnce and show thth gdp growtwth shrank 6% in the first three months of the year- that's expected to be

confirmed by the national statistics agency later this month. if and when that does happen it does mean that we will think technically have a recession here- the french economy contracted slightly at the end of twenty nineteen and two consecutive. quarters of contractction do you mean a a recession keep in mind that the country was only under official locked down for two weeks outut aboutt three months. so it means the second quarter figures are likely to be even more diree it's a similar story over in germany not officially recession yet. stagnated at the end of last year but they're predicting contraction about one point 9 9% f for the f first quarterr and up to ten percent. for the second quarter of the year economies are alreaeady weaker- dealing with higher death tolls c could suffer evevn more italy in spainn for example. like thehe contract evn more meaeahile on a wider scale at the world trade organization says the international trade likely to drop. by this year.

even more if pandemic drags on and governments don't. to k keep more open the head of the w. describing the panda. as come the fuel lines the world economic engine he's that it's is really. properly a bit of. and rebound is. but not certain it needs a serious plan. for government a and from bothh privivate and public sectors around the world. k. moody how business editor thank. you very much indeed. thank u. k. coronavirus deaths of. nine huh in a day for the very first time the government announced nine hundred thirty eight deaths. among the total deathth toll of seven thousand ninety seven sie the crisis began. to develop health and social care reports of a sixty thousand p people have tested positive. the most famous of them boris johnsnson uk prime minister remains in intensive care for a sececond day he's reportededly sitting up and engaging. positively with h the medical staff that a patio is following this force in london. it's official the prime minister boris johnson is

improving- we've just launched from the child to the exchequer the minister of finances- rishi sooner. that the prime m ministr has beeeen quoted sitting up in bed that he's- talalking. to the clinical teams that arere lookig off to him and that central london hospital st thomas's where he's been. since sundayy evening originally in ward and then. moveded t to intensee c ce as you remember something the on m monday eveningng and of coe that is the point he's still in intensive cat but thihis positie news. comes on the back of the downing street statement a fefew hoururs ago. and will suit the clinical team at st thomas is saying that the prime minister remains clinically stable in intensive care. but he's responding to treatments that he's receiving standard. oxygen he that he is not on a ventilator. that he's in good spirits. and it. a new law. but the pm is not what but has the

it. to come. the he needs to because your grandmother for twenty to forty eight hours we were constantly told by the government and the minister that the prime minister was still walking in and running the country that is no longer. a completely the case it is the foreign secretary who is fast actually dominic raab who is. taking care of things mostly at the moment. but anybody who. corresponded athletes on can of boriris johnson. uk prime minister remains in intensive care. at st thomas's hospital- suffering the effects of the covert nineteen virus. fifty thousand people have lost their lives across europe it is- die situation indeed there is more research. which says the situation is set to get worse. to get some insight into that research written by christopher maher he's director of the institute of health metrics and evaluation professor chat help magic sciences at university of washington. so i thank you very much for being with us it's a pleasure to have you with us but obviously the subject

matter extremely difficult and hard. to convey in many ways because from what you're telling. us things are set to get worse. well i worked trying forecast the- epidemic of code nineteen our first united states by state and nowow we've rereleased- results by country n europe and will be. expanding to other parts of the world- the uk estimates. i have a very wide range of our estimates so at the lower end of our range. we see about a thousand deaths a day. or around that number continuing until thehe middle of the month. at the higher end of the range it's possible that there would be. many more deaths than that including for example going up to estimates of nearly three thousand deaths a day. next week so- yes so huge range- and certainly- challenging times ahead before

peak it hit this is absolutely a horrific news at two cats- how. how accurate you think this is. well our you know it's hard to. the epidemic the u. k. being greeted that go into our forecast is time. of so best was income. and social. in the united kingdom a at least in terms of a stay at home order came on march twenty third- and what we've observed in italy and spain and- on some extent in china as well. david it takes about twenty three days to reach the peak. from that number give or take- so that's one factor that goes into our modeling the other factor is just the reason time trend- and so we take a statistical approach to protecting that. those two trends- are somewhat at odds with each other and that leads to a very wide uncertainty in of all in what we see that may be coming.

message extra data. your i'm not gonna say sorry that the message please people need to take from from whahat you're telling u us is that the social distancing of protocols need to be maintained people to take this extremely seriously. and the need to re look out not just for themselves but for the neighbors. that families and everyone in the community. that critical message so. to and- every we saw so work one. follow and medical bring the- to x. p. toward the end of. three e weeks. but then half ma. well after that. you know to get the number of infection in the- down to a very small mom so that. just bounce right back. can i pick up that three weeks figure j just gave us that is ae you saying that if people do the right things. it could be controlled. within a three within a three week period. no could go to that. within three to four r weeks depending on wht we've seen it'll take another

amount of that timime to get d n posted peak. down to a lolow levell so we'ree basically seeing- numbers that require- nine to ten weeks of social distancing to go from you know the academic starting. to o it being cold under control when do you think- yet some i'm asking impossible. questions when you think this could all be over. well i think that the challenge we face which is the first to of epidemic can be over you know by the end of may or- around that time period- butt then we run the very real risk in every country a second or a wave coming-g- peter quite soon thereafter by reimportation of cases. or lateter in the fall so it's goig to be just as important to get through this first wave. help hospitals take care of patients and then you've got to think about the s strategy to avoid a return- of a second wave.

christmas aylmer thank you very much for joining us- from the institute of health metrics and evaluation the i. h. m. e. r. christopher meyer the director of the institute and also professor and chair of health metrics sciences. at the universisity of washington thank you so very much for sharing your analysis off the report it may not be good news but certainly can use clear. people need to simply do the right thing in terms of social distancing and the following advice to stop the propagation spread. the covert. nineteen virus. it's been some might use a- outside of the coverage virus. a story. twenty sunday has announced dropping of the race for the white house. sun is now likelyy for joe byy to take democrats. to run again donald the us. the numbers that were just not up. benny sanders has dropped out of the twenty twenty democratic race to focus on helping his former rival

defeat donald trump in the upcoming a u. s. presidential election. i cannotot in good conscience c continue about the campmpaign they canannot win. ad which would interfere with the important worork required of all of us in this difficult our- as the corona virus pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the u. s. sanders supporters argue that his vision for universal health care and economic reform a more necessary than ever. the vision that has so far failed to convince and many other democrats off to a strong start the seventy eight year old started to lag behind his rival joe biden several major candidates drop downs and threw their support behind the former vice president. then the coronavirus crisis told voaa that campaigning. the stand as it went be the nominee. the progressive part movement has pushed party's agenda to the left universrsal health care the rise in minimum wage and a green new deal or became a

mainstream topics in this year's democratic race. the sentence for the launch told his supporters that though his campaign is over the fight for justice continues. reminding them that they can still vote for him in upcoming primaries that says you use not to beats by dan but to encourage the democratic party to take into account the voices of them more progressive voters. when you stay with us you want to foster the for. france's national education system the systemm school there is a source of fascination around the world some say the quality of learning is exceptional and indeed studies show that france is over twelve million students are smart and well educated so some say the systemm should be copied by other countries. but others say the system is rigid strict old fashioned it only encourages people to be the same instead of promoting

individuality so what is it like to really go through the french school system and just how smart. or french kids grab your book bagss and join us for this french connections plus. france's education system is highly centralized and organized just like in other countriess it's divided into three stageses so you have all thee normal pre met. p primary education also anymore circle that secondary eduducation andnd also normal supererhero h higher education a whole other kettle of fish will explore another show. that primary and secondary education that we're focusing on tododay are regulatd by the all powerful ministry of national education and the ministry's chief objbjective is to set the national curriculum so that goes for. public

schools of course but also the vast majority of private schools in france at the primary and secondary levels the core curriculum is the same for all. studedents a any good d great the idea is for people to get an equal chance at life by.. starting out with the same educationn. . former minister yu for is. credited the creator the more french school. in the eighteen eighties he passed laws making it free public a and secocond place. schooling today as of like a tory for between the ages of three and sixteen if you're familiar with the facts and system the names of french grades might seem confusining primary education is divided into two sections the card but the lead with great. when six months. and it goes it a month this. zero so you do see him since. secondary at iss the int t two other sectionons cocould middle that goeses from season to twice the end and at

least see school three years ago yeah and the final. in france students or gray out of. in the system is not harsh. t.t. in public primary and secondary schools s are s supposed. nearly millllion members of staff of e mininistry of national education is frae'e's largest employer in education the government's biggest budget the driving philosophy behind french education is in getting everyone should have the same education and that g goes as far as everyryone having the same hand right it's funny g. because that's something that foreigners tend to pick up on french people don't really seem to notice the fact that they have the same. handwriting at least when they're but when you grow up you kind of grow into your own handwriting but when you're learning how to write there's a special kind of hand writing you learn and it's a special kind of hand writing the teachers use as well. and moreover everyonone here learns to write in ink not even in its right in france if you use a fountain pen and all your homework is hand written it's not written on the computer and then printed that goes for a

season high school as well in fact is a special kind of paper. that you use in france that happens square descent and line that you basically have take your hand right. to and this is one of many scschool supplili the french. take very seriously. i'm with a live and- to. so lived g going into say. f the equivalent of second grade and savannah you're going into c. m. do. the equivalent of fiftfty grade- and you're gonna show us what's in your backpack you mind if i take a look. by actually have your list of school supplieies foror this yer and i think it's- it quite long here and quite detailed i have totonight p pencil cases. the ft one is for fans to write with and the second one is for colored pencils. one two. three.

for the books andnd engine that right down your homework the prococess paper holders. two folders on your list yeah never end. very cool as. actor paper to write on this kind of thing. to the album was important one thing knowing bag. books so on top of on top of all this you'll have book as well it seems like you've got a heavy for one you get. school so good luck. thank you. at the end of high friend students this exam called the- or the back for short now this is a money of french education t that's beenen around for more than two hundred years and press people love to brag about the baccalaureate and just how difficult it is because it implies that french chihildren. arare very smart nowow there are

three kinds of baccalaureate so that youou can pass there's the professional baccalalaureate that. prepares you for about eighty feet wide ranging professions from cooking and carpentry and also dentistry so many professions you also have the technological baccalaureate that focuses on sciences and computers and then you have. the general baccalaureate as well the back has a few core subjects that everyone has to take things like philosophy or even sports but for those students who take that last back to back jenna hotter. they have to choose one of three tracks and these are called. yeah in french at you can see the three of them here you have the- s. which focuses on sciences and math. test which focuses on economics and social sciences and then you have l. it which focuses on literature and the humanities and a arts ad what's interesting is that here in france there's an unsaid hierarchy between. these three cds s. is considered to be the most prestigious followed by the us which is which is very good- for the smart students but perhaps not the nerds in

the class and then you have l. which is considered to be the back four. slackers which is really unfair and the complete exaggeration but what is true is that you have to bebe very video you take e because inch france youou put on an academic and then. a capri much a careeer track and it's really hard to jump tracks afterwards soo you pretty much have to o decide wht you want to be when you are just. sixteen years old. the back course a critics some people even it's lost its v vale over time is almost e everyone who takes it now seems to pass will think a look a at the statistics in thee nineteen. 60% of people taking the baccalaureate past where is these days it's closer 290% so a lot of people say what the world is the value of the back. over it is evevery. seems to pa. changing the national. system is a hot. issue six go. have to refer. what's called not mad. but just how hard is it inside of. class flow he went to find

a more. it is. so i'm doing withth a peter he were at the they cut a school in the heart of and peter you some books about the for educ so out there shook up school don't friends leave academy french schooll a without tears what would you say characterizes the french style of teachching one one hand free schools all veryy d demandg they have a veryigh standards if you come out of a french school withh t the bottlee out e classic school leaving exam. you're very good at lotss of things you could've alslso feed at mass you have a good general education on the other hands- you also have a very high failure rateses a lot of kids always wanted for- really strugglele at school and when yu look intnto why that is you discover quite quickly that they're important differences between the culture of french schools and culture in many other countries particularly in

the anglophone and those differences are pririmarily the rorole of the peoeople and the relationshipip. witith the teacr for example the classics that encouraging motivatining helping kids progress and s saying youu know y you can get that whichchu find in n the nation american schools is really quite read you have much more this idea that you have to fit into a momold in france you play y a mh more passive role in the classrsroom as a child you're there to see been in from. from a from the teacher whahat consequences does this have on french students there's a lot of stresss in the system as someone. as tests by the end c. d. the- tests. which the french kids more. than anybody elslse n the about f french. is my andnd- overruleled you can see that o r kids come out of french school.

less willing to o place. lett se about rather than a- and this. plays a role this this a toll on. egos and- that we call is a drive force in french. and yet there is massive i inequalities within the system what do you think this is due to. well this is one of the great paradoxes of the system is not the words. eighty two eighty qualities actually wriritten. on the front of many many schools around the country- and yes when you l look at the statistics. the number kids who f fail- it't's particicularly kidids w who arem disadvantaged backgrounds who do badly- and there is aa sort of a- situation in the system in the school system. off the cost strucuctures of if you come from a relativively well off family you're going toto do relatively well. in in school and if you don't then you weren't in fact if youu look again at ththe at the oecdd ststatistitics national statist. you'll see that the french school system is one of the most unequal in the world do you think it's possible to change thehe french education system. what we've seen is thatt over the l last twentnty years.

there's been a realization that the system isn't working you know educacation everywhere. i s incredibibly difficult t to chae parents and teachers have highgh expectations they have memories of theheir education. so changig anything it's always complicated. but what's important is that the french themselves on the stand the system doesn't work the failure ratete is too high it's embarrrrsing and more it't's seriouously damaging to society. to have an education system where a quarter of the kids are failining. and send peoplele all saying we need to change and finally we need to get on with it.. but we'll have to o leave t at that peter thank you so much for being on our show front. sections plus. many of use in question about french to. system statarting with h raw. skeltoton he's- even though for is a- state can. are to send their- this do existing for and they are course try the majority of the are k. but also have distant. and muslim. now a public schools meanwhile are of

course secular which means there aren't religious classes but students learn about religion world religions in a kind of trance disciplinary way through. history civics and philosophy another question now from a web she says can parents choose to home school theheir kids in france homeschooling does exist in france it's very rare and it's highly regulated in fact families that home school their children. are subject to inspections from the state they have to prove that they're giving their children a proper education and if they can't prove that well they could be subjected to a fine and in some extreme cases they can actually spend some time in jail well. i guess it just shows you how seriously people take education here in france that wraps up for today show thanks so much for watching surere to tune in next time when we'll graduate up to a special on higher education and in the meantime please keep sending us your questions you can tweet me at. lowville minnow or you can check out our facebook page and we'll see you see you for the next french connections plus

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