eighty k. the woman told coronavirus locockdown appears o be bearing fruit hey in france the head of ththe country's public heaealth authority since the spread of the disease is now slowing. restrictions are set to hold fast until mid may. president trump proposed outline his plans to get the u. s. back on its feet. and back open for business this is seven states extend t the shutdowownsd as the unemployment level mamatches towardsds great depression era levels. we'll have more from a business and it says kate. and the handling

of the health crisis is kept them in office south korea's ruling party wins an absolute majority in parliamentary elections that. thanks largely to the leftist governments quick response to the e pandemi. hello i'm thomas waterhouse this is the latest world news from paris. the corona virus outbreak remains on top story this hour with the latest tally carried out by the afp news agency putting the global death toll at one hundred and f forty thousand the worldld health organization says the storm clouds office pandemic still hang heaviest over europe. and here in france the outbreak has claimed a further seven hundred and fiftyty three lights in the last twenty four hours. bringing the total number of fatalities to almost eighteen thousand but the country's health c chief says the outbreak does now appear to be receding on french soil reaching a long plateau followed by a slow down

whichh full. rather than a a pek and a sharp drop. no the *-*- would you teach we have seen the positive effects of our collective efforts only by strictly following social distancing measures the lockdown and general health and safety restrictions will we be able to get out of this situation. together news about him home to folsom. for more on the lock down here in france and how the american government is handling this healthth crisis we can bring in now as junk food stuff got a young a political scientist and a lecturer. at the sorbonne university here in paris thank you for being with us here on france twenty four now we just heard that from a french health authorities that perhaps. the bend in the road has now been reached in the things are changing it is. a manual mccollum's grounds plan to stem the spread of this virus working given that he appears to be choosing health over wealth. it appppears. with we ae

we are trying to reach- something that is far better than. activate it even though the presidenent decided that- we had t to postpone and the kind f liberation and we have something going into may eleventh for t the log on t that day anand- coronas. and that means thahat that of course everything is around i need to re. hi to table that economy. for the moment we can feel. bad during that time. television a declaration that the president is already trying to solutionons somethining for the economic issue w which is of course sosomething that y you're becom- one that probably. had a level headed very issue. at the big a big a big one because they have boosted you know- the- from

from. five billion hundred billion so that may. of course it's very issue something that has been to the taco tackle for the moment as a priority but soon very soon. and may eleventh things are becoming more common make them sanitary. looking ahead to future elections here in fronts do you think this pandemic will prove to be an election winnenenenenet the mall like it a cry you know that you feel that it a country. has to re you know when you are fighting. in power again such a crisis and that. land may it be home kind of. school violence. that kind of security issue of course the war issue. the government and plays. some kind of a positive you. know great it peel from that they of course the people will support for them at for a crisis time

why becomes different when. questions to the that probably gonna be happening and this kind of witith. then it becomes something different we can that cries. around the world that history it becomes then difficult and politically it becomes very difficult so he has tried my call. to at the same time proposed head of the national union to always upon. and at the same time creek or in some kind of- announcement that he will stay i in power cosby candidadate not only for that election coming because that's the national actionn very local election but he- hitits kind of it now that he will be there. twenty twenty t two. the kikind of f the you know- he's trying to o serve. some e kind f a- record of yoyou know- the details at least. some populalations that of cocourse everybody'y's supportingng the

french for there is no for the- negative that competition coming both of nations open send their kind trapped for the month that hunt things could be. changing enjoy that july some kind of. yeah next semester i please. occasional kristoff thank you very much for being with us here on twenty four. moving on trump is prepare to do you just how he admin. hopes get the you s. back open for. with the u. s. press eager to begin easing the lockdown in some of the country's least affected states with a further a five point two million americicans filed for unemployment benefits last week. as the economic toll of the corona virus spreads twenty two million people have lost their jobs stateside in the last month alone that'ss roughgy the equivalent of all the jobs added since the financial crisis a decade ago. the more we can speak now to our business and it's- kate's at moody kate just how do these latest numbers stack up to the record breaking totals of

previous weeks. well tom it's a sign of just how severe this crisis is- that when i say there aree five point. two five million more americans filing for jobless benefits but that actually represents a slowdown on the previous weeks never before have so many americans found themselves out of work so quickly. as you can see on our ground the weekly average before the lockdown began with around three hundred thousand per week at many state unemployment offices say t they- ababsolutely overwrwhelmed b bye nenew request they haven't been able to process all the claims they didid receive i it. so thes still a bit of a backlog there. the big question is going to be now whether the u. s. mark labor market hahas turned a cornerer is this really as bad s it's going to get. analysts we think that these weak numbers at many heat. okay sir. bring your- goldmann sachs one it's pretty some thirty eight million jobs claims the end of may. if that were to proved to be corrected within we were about half there now. right now

the two trillllion dollars emergency stimulus package that was passed by congress a few weeks ago- expands the pool of americans were eligible for unemployment benefits. it means self. employeyed people. gig economy like uber or deleliveroo were. right now a all right. for ththose kind of so that's gonna see no climb. up millions of should start with those individual ones. two hundred stimulus c checks. o on which we know donald trump has askeded to have his name is featured. anotother sigign of just how muh u. s. economy suffering that- is that the three hundred and fifty y billion dollars that hae been set aside to help struggling companies. has been used up already at the small business a administration sayayg a million and a halalf c compans have askeded foror loans and ben granted that. congrgress is now debating if and how to top that funding up. this week we've also seeeen historiric drops in retail mananufacturing industrialized. h housing s stas which droropped again a newew da releasased today.. coupled with the jobless numbers it's very easy to see why the us

president is so anxious to re open the economy again. you can his newly y formed b business ts force about the- growth. of this. executives there are reportedly told them they want testing to be stepped up on a really massive scale before they're ready to tell their employees to come back to work or statart the processss of rere hiring those who had to be letet go. okay kate moody thank you very much. weaving on the seventy fifth anniversary celebrations of the soviet win over the *-*- regime have now being spurned. the russian president's is given a televised address to the nation. say that the risks linked to cope at nineteen all extremely h high. and that the preparations for next month's victory dayay parades and other commemorative events nationwide can noww inotess begin. the country has registered close to twenty eight thousand coronavirurus cases and- hundres in third deaths date of the law. that been in for t three. . with

more from moscow his own correspondent nick holt's with. it's a major blow for vladimirr putin- he looked more somber than usual when he was speaking to the national television early this evenining. we had expected this decision it's hard to say. but he's been putting all four he made an announcement yesterday on some economic meaeasures d didn't mention it then he has been pushed by veteran organizations to counsel it this was due to be a big show p pace it t was ga be the seventy fififth anniversary it isis it's a different one of us to the end of the war. and this was probably going to o be the last time the trims. ththe dwindling band of veterans marshshall one of whom are over ninety threee point fouour yearars of age woud be in attendance themselves that included the cbi counseled. up the organizations including civilian organization called immortal regiment what people up book launch columns holding portraits of a grandparents or great

grandparents who fought during the war also. during thank you being for the- council i'm puputting finally. to the- is nw because on the day that rushes cases reached in peak twenty sep. all three hundred ninety eight of which to a thirty people died that may sound for. low but- europe's. but russia's at least a month behind. up fronts it's early in the u. k. under those. figures are rising. day by day. neck the government to tokyo mother over to dish out of- a hundred thousand yen or nine e hundred and thirty dollllars to every. japanese citizen with a view to questioning the financial blow dealt by this outbrbreak. prime minister shinzo ave is set to hold a news conference this friday to discuss the outbreak. after announcing ann extenension of emergency measures to. cover the entire country simon harding explains. after initially declaring a state of

emergency in seven regioions japanese prime minister shinzo ave has now extxtended the measure to the entire country allowing regional governors to implement strong social distancing measures. include on businesses but without any punitive measures obey said it was critical to avoid traveling within japan during the golden week holidays that begins in late april through. early may the home although the vehicle to get there we asked local governments. feel loads residents to refrain from takingng nonessential non urgent trips back to their home t towns or any trips that involved travel between areasas and prefectures. to avoid registering. class japan corona out is well wee in n fact in rapidly. the island of. which was the first japanese region to report the case of covered nineteen lifted its state of emergency in march but local authorities have now re imposed

the measure after a second wave of cases. infections have also spiked in tokyo with health officials warning that the health system could collapse under pressure. south korea's rapid response to this outbreak has secured the ruling party a landslide to parliamentary election win results show that president moon jae in's democratic party has backed the biggest absolute majority that since nineteen eighty seven one constituency in particular that has been thrown into the spotlight as luke shrink explains. your home is just one seat representing since wealthy gangnam constitituency the district made world famous by the twenty twelve k. pop hit by sci. but what makes this a victory unlike any other. hazen korean defector and he's the fifirst to indirect election in the south in seventeen years even though it is the first

step i think t these. can leave to reconciliation process between north and south korean people and my election can b bea good signal to deliver the real made several free democracy of south korea to north korean people and the only. tell you peeling and deputy m. to the united kingdom managing secret funds for kim jong un. i became disillusioned with the regime and defected to south career in twenty sixteen- verity first someone say high out. and to the main opposition conservative united future policy which calls for a phone hotline on the north's nuclear program and human rights abuses. with thirty three thousand north koreans having fled south over the last two decades. tay's running through in hugee levelels of participatn from the community you see president moon jae-in's policies towards pyongyang is too soft. however saw the political tide e turned in his favor. is rooting democratic

party won by a landslide with a hundred and eighty six in the three hundred seat national assembly. for the ballot widely being seen as a referendum on his handling of the corona virus pandedemic. off north stae media took a dim view. the label tay as human scum accusing him of embezzling funds raping a minor. and. spying for the south the money. finally we end policy on a more home warming story to have come out to this crippling pandemic a ninety nine year old british war veteran has managed to raise a almost fifteen millionon euros. to help the uk's national health service after completing one hundred laps of his garden with the help of his trusty walking frame. thousands of people havave to natives to tell moree schools to bobolster the finances of the nhs. the veteran has told local media that that he's fought so many battles during his life and his sidede h has always won and it's

going to win. this againn when it comes to o this. deadly viru. not brings you up to date do stay with us here on fronts twenty four. if you have a new coach welcome to the frontier on france twenty four. from today. this is a region it's foreign affairs with the while minutes thank you for being with us good. how do you feel about the wrist to the coronavirus crisis. use responses- and the scope of this response. is sometething wewe're g going to be assessing these weeks these days it has to be very significant we have high expectations we hope to see you will be proved to be. on par with the challenge it

has to live up to. she also the next european council meeting is coming up. what will be his position because you. i believe he is not as- for anybody to pay its own debts it'll be that is not our goal you've been doing yeah we are asking other members states as you set up with us the procreative market conditions that will allow each and every. member state spend what it takes to put its businesses. its workers. unemployed you'll- citizens cetera used in order to do we instead we need to were going in the right to we to make sure that on april twenty third we can really set to the e. u. on a new course. he he is divided. over the possible of- fooling

the deaths of member states through corona bonds. one second please what those are and why it's it is requesting. eight there are differences in viewews regarding how long we have to solve and address the health of the economic crisis but everybodody agrees that this is an unprecedented crisis what we're asking for today is that we define instruments that don't necessarily have to be called corona bonds or eurobonds but that will allow us to set. up the market conditions that will allow all members states to spend what it takess to o help their fellow citizens. and we're not asking any other country to pay for our debt we always lived up to our commitments twenty nine did we had done a targeted- deficit at two point 2% we clocked. in

atat one pointnt. what's your really important day is we have to be. we add. a novels. with all instruments is to prepare to leave the eu if your request is in. current circumstances that have to be very that. and italy. c. i. two if country falls kind will there is there can be no you'r're union we france without a- i'm not going to bad yours might. on antique usually the. we're of the european fab. we founding. and we put in found prince. and one of is solid. some it has to be like the name of the game what we'll be doing until the very last second of the negotiations are under way is fight. for the

best possible results for europeans and for the italians. but the u. has already. on press measures such as suspending rules for budgetary discipline there is talk of creating a a five hundred billin euro rescue package for it today why are these measures not enough i think that- those steps were very good. but today i think everybody agrees that we need a lot more. we have to live up to the challenge of. programming it. he inter for next years and this is not something that has to give rise to political strife this is something that regards the future of our grandchildren. once been decided so far with regarding the stability pact is fine it's great but we need to develop the market conditions that will allow. countries to see. you u recently p purchased emotion of tatax havens in in.

eurorope he spoke of double standards with specific reference to the netherlands why is that. when you talk about solidarity with talk about single market- you also have to understand that at the center without. this company. tax rules have to do with the competition between our companies they don't concern one countries and not the others you have to reason for the whole union we setet up a single market and we have to make sure is that c countries don't start. acting as the wraps up before the corporations of their countries we want everybody to participate in. the economicc development of thehe u. t the fe starss a movement that is hard to place we- city on the- but the left and the right hand side of the political. spectrum a number of five star members of representatives of welcome the medical aid sent it to me

by china and russia meanwhile they have criticized his lack of solidarity. to concern that these ideas could surgical level can cause a surgeon i have to say is that i r really thank on behalf of my government the french authorities and french people for the solidarity. they showed us in very concrete. i thank germany that hosted the number off a lot we're seeking his hospitals. i wish to thank so many other europeaean couountrii wish affecting your west china russia and the thirty other countries that helped us- with doctors nurses. and we been helped by country so over the- what i mean and quite clearly. this is not. that to rise to polarizing and terms i want to say every because without this foreign help we would never have made. but because the

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