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catherine nichols. france twenty four advanced twenty four .com. the ongoing coronavirus lockdown is startiting to bear fruit in fro. save the country's top health official with the total number of infected patients in hospitals pulling for third consecutive day. good news from germany- with the government's announcingng that the outbreak s now under control certain shops will finally be allowed. it is the weekend i'm sure. the clothes only sweeps across the financial markets is in rates are made in thee combat against this virus but china still
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reports its west quarter since ninineteen n ninety nine can u.. crude oioil. it will. hello anda very well back to o the front twenty four newsroom we start this hour with those growing green boots being reported there in france shin to k kobe bryant in the in sixty one people have died. the a little early teen t thousand six. well being treated on hospital wards has fallen for third consecutive day and the number of patients in intensive care units is also a ninth in a row the country's leading health officials say is that there is reason to be positive. french nation shouldn't. it is effective no let up over national i put him about this
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well newsy flow who were you to close all combustible to see. that is it. one the best your best most investors not. if do not post three one of the four dodoor vehicle. i was friends begins to gain groround in its fight against cope with ninineteen well it's all still o provide. if equipment m must. on the mid needed to boost to the task of citizens our team has been to. of normandy to see how one company has urgently changed its normal production processes to churn out more swaps. this isn't a specializing in cotton based products is racing against the clock they're aiming to produce one point five million nasals a week should use as people for covert nineteen. the country which we make about. production line incorrect time in order to help meets the increase the
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moans. what about the- so now you will the need for a difference within the limits will not. this is do much movie in the morning in the fifth and fifth one point twenty the mobile already been approved and is being used in parades in hospitals and french defense health service the no orders from a from continuing increase. yeah yeah yeahs heads had those one- does it does to view photos you canan onlyy takes you on the line los angeles since then he's been sub pool put it about an- that. is what. what is the best. it long cat. is they'll pull out wheel because all we on on on the buy side analyst jeff tables on the box
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anyone. president the man my all the country will have the- to take every. symptoms by the level my- the german health minister had a p piece of goodod news for the nation this frididy he's a non outbreak has been controveversial that i did the healthth care system has. overwhelelmed j. t the fifth nur pulling factionons at homee at e hundred and thirty four thousand but all parties have never the less it managed to limit. the number of deaths nick schrager lines. from germany could now be to see things does focus first on toyota. with the hash browns they hashed warden sent on as if he stayed in the office to get routing that saddam does attempt. to take it yeah. he needs. to know in it's a- mass. transmission rate for the correct personal point seven in the nation on course the some
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of the largest shops. with seven. going back to school on may the fourth. be easing of restrictions is in no small part down to japanese highly anxious approach to the pound key. tested traffic mobile and earlier. was hit nations which cool people with few to no symptoms. the country now carrying out some three hundred and fifty thousand tests a week. ramped up does it stay well self possible dr leah spreading cases from keeping emergency rooms for. okay twenty eight. and jan two club of for thohousand populatition t trust that its governments and heated advice has also proven vital events on funds life. as of now i got a got to me among dozens dot. hi the couple. won the middle school income. on some of the mona from three on.
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send us. the voice yeah okay welcome jim has fed up to not only as a to many fifth million surgical masks a week before liststening restrict. of course cacan be lowerered contact up te small in under a- it was ng vigan clinical testing a potential new vaccine. it's time now to dip into the world of business and finance sour global stock markets have enjoyed a little bit of rest. heading it can only more to. come all that close to you co hwy a from all busininess desk cut just what has buoyed the market around the world i thank. well thomas globabal averagege stocks rose despitee china the report that its echo frank a ststaggering six. 8 8% in janany to marchch kooser compared to a
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year ago indeed it wasas his its five. gdgdp contraction onn. shrugged offff as it t was the tatable surprise. anand also because i'm always in that aggressive at stimumulus measurs is announceded by governmenents around the world that may actually be effectctive cabin financial. the e card virus. eighty yes clues about 3% i in the us doeoes a also havave a rg it says also rosose all hopeses that the economy at kids rear rear. the whihite house at it unveililed. in phases. momore imimportantltly at by reports tt clinicalal task by a a company a cold cold dd it's's is- all thee anti throw drug on a smalall number of patientsts well very. expect the course. so at o on a
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smalall scale b but the tests sw that needed- of a hundred and twenty five e patients who are severely ill with ththis topicic for hospital. inin the- u. k. volatility is still in the crude oil markets.. welll the u. s. cigna u us crude benenchmarke wti plunged more than 10% this for today at one point at ten eighteen let. ago believe eighty dollars per. at the international benchmark brent rose nearly 3% b but overall it has fallen by ababout 9% this week net lososs opec. othther it uses. all right do you to cut output by 10% not hasn't been to alleviate concerns of a supply glut especially the uniteded states and this is because stockckpiles and keep prprices. to fallll in denmark
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almost eight u. s. almomost. our hahappy now the lawsuit week sa. operations it days aren't the ii was l level since two a and eigt and the e crisis is to hit the . s. as shalale i industry w well becausee thehe class. oioil pris hi food produces dowown that fresh. fracking rigs as well okay you can whyhy thank youou y much. not brings you up to date this hour do stay tuned to fronts thank you for. we'e've gt a brand new show f for you on from t twenty fofour it's called the wild confine at a school about this extraordinary g globl health crisis. this touching all of our lives millions infected millions more. the our forces take you around the walls. . how different states ae responding t to the threreats al the corona v virus to join uss n france twenty four and up front
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twenty four .com. the world france twenty four en france twenty four .com. with the ban on daytime outdoor exercise jokers wait for seven pm to head to the banks of the st. eight two seven nine this is. it helps me clear my mind otherwise it's too hard. tell peoplele who don't joke a and sy confined t to one and a half or twtwo months would lose their nerves. i'm become unstable i have no such tendencies i'm still building anxiety mounted up with you. for two hundred thousand parisians flight shortly before the lockdown came into a fact. they joined relatives living outside the capital all rented homes in the countryside. shani vest being
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in the age group at risk the couple decided to go just with the children to the south of france. a costly move as they also have to o pay simply press. about getting back all the of confinement. we are n not workig from homee and this iss so key o have her kids being able to staff i i'd play outside from. n a very confined in a small apartment we do a lot of. calals soso we e don't feel as a non factor daughterr just turned sixty on the day and w we had zoom a as- i see. a lot of fun s a that a lot. back some working at home isn't an option. taxi driver facing business plummet he's still behind the wheel why doesn't she it's like being in a film unfortunately it's not a film it's real so now it's weird to powers mc with
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terrorists. we is going on of course risk at all. in the morning i kiss my wife and children goodbye if the last time one. i'm afraid everybody else. but i need to feed my family pay the rent. what else contact. and one of the vision of weeks of lockdown with no end in sight yet. self isolation is taking its toll on them around as many. seven calls or social works help to stay in touch with the outside world. butt feelings of loneliness welfare shoululd not be ignored according to psychologists. people need to listen to their fears without giving in if y you just runun ay from those thoughts then the fit grow stronger on wednesday. listenining to you this helps bringg in wiwith them and proved it. it's almost portion though to me pain much. with other people yeah. there is finding
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in these troubled times with solidarity in community spirit stronger than ever. like here in monmouth when neighbors checking on each other. what we did with the neighbors in groups of two to walk around the mamata hill and not be alone we keep to the t. me to social distancing rule when we try to follow the rules say confinement as soon as possible about not looking good. do you move to the area last year. this australian expats shas's adventures in paris on social networks. the lockdown means he now. leads to small flat. not even once a day i say once every couple of days for the required exercise just to walk around the neighborhood so- it's nice to get some fresh air when you living thirty minutes where you need to g get out a little bit. can you. just check bestst to explore the world with even h harm. a remedy to o find
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matetes and witith hisis wife la they have comeme up wiwith a new idea h how you. i see people ovr a hundred twenty wonderful. south h koreans they host a pop quiz from the living room m road cost on yoyou choose free saturday and then go g get easy all the same person when i was born. in eighteen. so some far so late and- or abroad. i've decidedd t to do it one o of the mostst positive. and briring the community together. when will stucuck at home i i think it's esespecialally people who. peope whoo live by us who have nothihg else in us sitting at the front of the computer. they probably loving parents and aunts in general and it's just a way of- giving them something. you know in fact it is well you can answer the question. people stop analysts are like everyone front to cope with lockdown and
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the uncertainty. the war k. nineteteen is far from over. it will take weeks and more. to return to normal life. hey everybody this is jackie and your watch in bronze twewenty fofour. i don't know what's. welcome to the interview went today i'll be joined by the international monetary fund managing director christina gave up to talk about africa's efforts to deal with coronavirus notot. serve international to shore up the call its ability to respond to the call all right coming from ththe i am to bank. on this have
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been the most billilion debt relilief. the could ease to on does of sub sahara african countries. race to keep that of coveted nineteen cases contained about. quickly to bring in restrictions and fight back by if only about eighteen all facts and fas numbers it could. and that could not toll only certainly be devas. the africans in sub saharan africa's growth could shrink by an unprecedented one point 6% this year. for more on this as i mentioned i'm joined by the imf chief christine gave up thank you for speaking to us. so going to that first i just know t that some. what the african countries- have done a lot over the last decade. to
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boost their growth and improve their performance and some of the african countries h have outperformed the rest of the world for quite some time. now this is sudden stop the be gonna that to me is that these game is not onlnly can be lost but they could. and bob after all the being hit by cold and that you're disasters wait can do were did to be with all the top of it many could the law the with. that this farm it's facing a health crisis we were help and it crises the disco pie by locomotive prices for those that are a commodity x. by shrinking remittance. that you on the reams. this is may
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the situation in africa particularly serious and this is why in our spring meetings. focused attention worse and- africa. what are the key does that that focus attention mean what's your m. s. offering in terms of how out foror as the continent tackles the spread of coronavirus. well what that is up to look at very seriously the financial needs of africa. and we can call that there is a very sizeable a hundred and fourteen billion dollars needs to support the off. what it have come up along way. i met has rapidly approve emergency financing we got over forty countries that came to us asking for urgently for support. already we are delivering for just about one third of these
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requests we will continue in the next week a total of eighteen billion dollars that come from the imf. on top of that we also into our shekel and said we need more f. here this meeting so requested. yes to get. triple of the concert for is fine gone which we up rely and we got 70% of our us we ask for seventeen billion dollars seventy perfect is all. in our hapappens and they to me is can boost for what to delete for africa and the third we have done he we were that the discount. what time to o sit. there that the obligation to the- so with the gen of our- we provide the- immediate day
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relief tool so twenty nine k. of which twenty three are in africa. s. as you have heard get a with the i into the world we call for more. on offfficial bilateral. that at that more thought actually go the pro. in the record that i'm g. twenty together with the body come up. maybe just unite every all of this means that they when we the country to a fourteen be. the i. the relief the world group stepping up very strong i'm the developer organ it shows we went we have a long way. to me the needs. but we are still forty four billion dollars she- and that was purpose of the bay me to bring together and seeee we do more we
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pledge from the bathroom. by you think marcus out the four. we also call on credit. to match what the fish. bilateral creditors do you think and we are very hopeful that there would be progress in that. last but not least we would like to see everybody coming in a coordinated manner so we can not only fun. but fun with high utility because we work together and that the meat. certain because they ob i want to express my gratitude. to president also. present the so africa also a chairperson of the african you can for. a for of four africa and i can tell you i was very impressed. how much. case to get to is this a.
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i crises in much part five. are e. d. dot e. d. we africa so you're saying you feel that african organizations in our african voices acts plalay a a a role into the to say about what happened with that debt at this time of crisis. i have seen not sure the african union. chairperson the i union could the chair to of the uninion cou. the econonomic commimission for- i they were today a days not only with conviction of the need for unity but also with very creative idea. i bet you will take on board the c. how we can do morere and how we can do better. these are. so this
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managing director in all the calls more to be done and i it looks like the i'm a is receiving spare has been leading the charge whehen it comes to show. . after trying to pull africa it do you with its finance need with the media. of the crown of our fight back but one of the things that been right. is the idea of debt forgiveness is not so thank is feasible part of that. nations may. be m. f. what we would to with the world bank ease tool thank dispute of day tomorrow to. and look at country one by one to us that's- to on this what more to be done. i am also how can get could the- to take
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charge of their heads place. by providing more information you know the word going to a direct of full trust. and be more pro. in making sure that t that is well manage what it comes down to. they be cases when they may be need for that for gate forgiveness as we do this assessments that would be a conclusion that is expected from us- a droll i was a set up for the- out poor countries at the imf we already taken. a step. so they really from service their gaze tools for the- s. the most period as we go through this crisis. when he tees up time to look at where we a are more to be a needs to e done because to be done thought carefully or not case by. this
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country so different it's just a probe are different so the that differ so what happens. the of the of our fight back is i a what is required to what could be a after. to the call re that from this. what great question thank asking god it yes right now we are i. to life to countries at the time when economy started stay still. but is a also the time to think abot the recovery and that means two things one. are the risks that may come on the other side. for example- e. *-*- there more spending from the budget that would lead to more burden. i would betet be bestst handled we need to look at. we is the tax structure when we come on the
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other side- what may happen need there are bankruptcies and there is more unemployment what can be done to date. to make sure that eight less of this is happening d. we can. quicickly repair the damage that is being done we also need to think of this crisis as an opportunity. look at what is happenining in the digital space and think about i got. a free kick can leap. by the virtue of this crisis in terms of digital payments in terms of use of- e. learning in terms of shifting gear foster what's e. governance and as we know. governments are not more if there are mortars better and therefore more fair to the
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cities as will be a chance for africa to o mobilize and move in areas l like pharmaceuticals so. up in
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