>> hello and thanks for joining us here on france 24. i'm claire pryde. christians around the world are unusualing easter in circumstances. many are beingng urged t to stay watch services being live stream the world over, including in paris at notre dame cathedral. is only the third ceremony since notre dame w was ravaged y a fire almost a year ago. >> we will celebrate easter soon celebrate life e and triumph ovover death. we will honorr love.

, , we askifficult times allou, and we entrust you, those who are victims of this terrible disease, those who are grieving, but also those who are devoting their health to otothes -- body y and soul, medical sta, .olunteers who wish to help teach us, lord, to have more solidarity. claire: i am joined by a special advisor to the archbishop of paris. >> it is good friday and it's very difficult. there is the confinement b becae of the virus. but there is nonothing to stop christiansns from celebrating accocording to the litururgy calendar this very important moment in their faith, the celebration of their faith.

the archbishop will be surrounded by, of course, the cathedral's rector and the auxiliary bishops. there was a very limited number of people for the first mass celebrateded after the fire. they are wearing security helmets. they are wearing masks. .his is good friday so they will have medication and prayers. the internet is a blessing because what would we do without it? thank god for the internet. of course, this is frustrating, but i would say that this frustration, in a way is an

askrtunity to makeke up, to for what our senses cannot allow us to get in touch with. .nyway it is a bit fruststrating but it is the celebration of the mystery. the son of god who dies to give us life. french president emmanuel macron will be meeting with a biologist who has greater lot of addressee. this is the professor who has been pushing for an antimalarial drug to be given as treatments for covid-19. we have this report. presidentfrench emmanuel macron visiting this

hospital, the workplace of a doctor who has made headlines chloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus. his claims have divided opinions. at the end of february, he was calling it the in game against covid-19 after a trial on 24 virus -- inwed the all but a quarter of them. >> [speaking french] reporter: the dr. is known as a also respected microbiologist who has already made a name for himself with discoveries prior to

coronavirus. many in the scientific community criticize his methods in the chloroquine study he has conducted and the number of patients tested. questioned the deficiency. they tried to replicate the results and failed. officials say that macron is broadting abroad -- a range of voices before giving his next statement on thursday. claire: jaw dropping images from new york city, coffins being buried in a mass grave. the latest dell see -- the latest daily death toll was 719. spain has 153,000, new york state with 160,000.

for more on the situation we spoke to our correspondent in new york city. reporter: new york is now the coronavirus capital. there are more positivive casess in thean in any country world. the virus has claimed more than the --s many lives since new york governor andrew cuomo says it is encouraging to see that hospital admissions are going down for a second day. indicate that we .ay have already reached apex but he told new yorkers not to get complacent. that they need to continue social distancing and in place.ns are nonessential businesses are closed and people are, on the whole, staying at home.

this could be the first wave of the virus. he told new yorkers not to relax, to continue doing what they are doing by staying in their homes. there will be a mass grave on heart i island --- hart island. claire: sing in the u.s., the covid-19 pandemic brings the u.s. economy to a standstill and for many people, losing their income means not having much, if any, money for basics. alison sargent reports. reporter: the line stretches for well over a kilometer. getreds of families wait to groceries from the los angeles food bank. have families, many who

have been impacted by layoffs or furloughs. they are coming through and getting shelfstable food, frozen meat, chicken, and also fresh fruit, oranges. this is meant to help these families over the next several days to meet their food needs. texas, a in houston, program to redistribute food too the families. nearly 30 million children rely on schools for daily meals. canceled, districts across country havave been scrambling to continue providing food. >> i think the problem with the district, they provide meals on the weekend and during the summertime, so they are always very helpful. 16.8 million americans have lost their jobs in the last eight weeks. the country is expected to reach a level of unemployment not seen

since the great deprpression. eu finance ministsters have agreed on a rescue package the coronavirus. there will be no sharing out of the cost of the crisis by issuing so-called coronana bonds for now. peter allen reports. it is a breakthrough. after seseveral bumps in the ro, euro -- euros in finance ministers -- eurozone finance ministers voted on a rescue package across the eu. shows what we have a observed the call from our citizens. this response takes bold and proposals that would have been unthinkable a few weeks ago. reporter: there are three main

parts to be deal, which still needs to be approved by eu leaders. 100 billion euros will be available to save jobs. 200 billion euros of financing will help small and medium-sized companies and 240 billion euros will guarantee spending by indebted countries. the euro group -- one option is the funding for the so-called eurobond. but this is a contentious issue. are countries like germany staunchly against these debts. claire: yemen has announced its coronavavirus. now, my guest from

care france. yemen's health care system is already crippled. the virusns if spreads. -- if the virus spreads? >> if the system collapses the rapidly.will go very .e have stocks available we will have prevention measures to try to tell people how to do social distancing, if they can. it will be horrible. claire: of course, social distancing and washing your

hands several times a day is very difficult for people around the world. are there particular zones you are concerned about right now? ngo's workining we share a lot. we c coordinate ouour effortsts. obviously therere is social distance. you must have access to some work daily. urbaban zones arare out. and not to mention all the people who have left going to neighbor -- neighboring countries.

claire: what would you like to see done now? > of course, support from the international community. there is a sign point for special aid and that will be missing under the health program or the basic education programs. we certainly hope that the national governments will contribute. we have examples already. , they are being asked by the mayor to train their staff on prevention

actions. that we will be able to do this as soon as possible. that is an issue, of course. claire: we will have to leave it there. thank you for joining us. leveque from cacare france. we believe it there. thank you for watching. leave it there. thank you for watching. ♪

♪ [speaking foreign language] >> this woman knows little about her father. birth, years afterer her gary married a dutch citizen and se herto a race -- era

past. her father was his name was mohammed. he was a soldier. it was a closely guarded secret for years.s. interesting sideshow. many people do not know about the story. for me, personally, it meant surviving the war. otherwise, i would not be here to talk to you. [laughter] ♪ india's freedom legion.he heart of this the story began in calcutta. one of those flying the flag for independence was staunchly opposed to the nonviolent stance taken by gandhi.

he was convinced that indians had to take up arms to guarantee their freedom. when war broke out, he spotted the perfect opportunity to free his homeland from brittania's shackles. we could not have wished for a better combination of circumstances for helping us. i am convinced that india cannot be free until all indians living abroad are free in this world crisis. >> t those who managed to flee india, heading to moscow before arriving in berlin. in his briefcase, a grand plan indian prisoners from the british army. he wanted to build a legion that would liberate india. >> what h happened in the early partrt of the war was the allies had fought in north africa. indian soldierers fighting for

britain had been captured by the italalians and by the germans ad these soldiers were being held prisoner in italy and germany soldiers as these wonderful material as he could recruit to his free india army. he could persuade them. this is your moment. this is when you become indians. >> a string of meetings with the command, includuding aa himmler, the head of the ss. he said he was favorable but it led to be won over. had contempt for indians. indians were an inferior race. but he was persuaded, if you like, to use those as a propaganda tool to show the germans were actctually trying o

help people who had been enslaved by the british. >> both went off to meet with indian soldiers. despite early reluctance, little byby little, they came on boboa. >> he was a fascinating speaker. he initially did not want to the fact, but he talked to him and said, you want to fight for the freedom of india? you can do that. >> he was due to be sent to the front line in russia. >> they came there and they said, you can start straightaway..

>> [indiscerninible] to joinmen signed up the legion. they were now under ththe orders of g german generarals. training lasasted for almostst o yeyears and they were taught frm the army's strict textbook. they were often promoted to lilieutenant commander andnd une the e british army, the legion s a melting pot of religions. >> it was all mixixed. the r regiments -- it worked very well. createdwent further and

indian center in berlin. >> what they were trtrying to do was u undercut the loyalty the .ndian soldiers had if he could stop the indian soldiers fighting against the raiders, that would be a huge, huge flow for the british. >> butut thehe hopes of pupushio inindia faded. the troops were fighting along indy's borders. the free indian legion was best left in the hands of the germans. were ordereded to

protect ththe so-called atlantic war. they fortified the beach and build bunkers. they had to be men. there was a gap. they did not have enough people from all sources. like the rest of the locals in this region he was not hostile to the indians. they were viewed as a family peopople also suffffering under foreign occupations. young girls would b brave the babarricades in n hopes of meetg them. >> they were nice men to be seen and to dance with. ireland were exoxotic and

always f friendly. theyey had things to tell and things to exchange. a few months after the first meeting, gary busey is mother -- she wasother told him pregnant and they decided to get engaged. >> [indiscernible] ♪ >> but winter was fast approaching and many feared that the indian soldiers would not be strong enough to stand the conditions. theofficer sent them t to south of france. they bid their farewells on the platform of the railway station. when they arrived, they were once again posted on the beaches to bolster defenses, but there

had been no new news from their leaders, and so be disheartened legionnaires no longer wanted to keep up the fight. >> he did not know what they were doing. many of them w were drunk in the streets. they behaved badly. they cost problems with the local, french population. there they were, part of a little units. working with the germans, who were told that they were going to fightht for indy's freedom ad be in a place far from i india. 1940 four, allied forces began the normandy landings. 1944, allied forces bebegan the normandy landings. thereemember in normandy

was a place in a town called inn and for once i looked for the american and on the other side, one of our people. went very fast. the legionaries were finally captured. those that were not shot dead were handed over to the british and sent back to india. they faced arches of high treason -- charges of high trtreason. led to the indians finally discoverering what happened in e war. we kept secrcret from them which led to a huge upsurge in indian thatng for i independencee should be celelebrated and honored. because of massive public

pressure, the soldiers were freed and the others died in a plane crash in taiwan. he remains a conontroversial figure. many s still blame h him for collaborating with the nazi regime. mohammed never returned -- gary waited 55 years before deciding toto go in search of him. she managed to track down her family in pakistan, but sadly, her father was already dead. >> they have childrenn. two of them are on this picture. materialized. >> gary has kept nothing from india, except perhapsps this at

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ruben martinez: a century ago, hundreds of thousands of mexicans fled the chaos of the mexican revolution, most of them arriving in los angeles, gravitating to the old pueblo area around olvera street. raquel gutierrez: they recreated a sense of home and history in the theaters of the nearby bwa