national leaders argue with thte videdeo link aboutut a giantnt economic rececovery package with front a and harard hitit s soutn nanations calalling for putting debt across the block. one in six american workers lose their jobs because of coronavirus swelling us unemployment to levels not seen since the great depression of the nineteen thirties. after one german city reports new new covet nineteen inspections since composing compulsory face mask wearing the measure is now set to be enforced nationwide from next week. welcome to the front

twenty four museum in paris i'm alexander- caught. our begin here in europe t the continent worst hit by corona virus west i'm a hundred and ten thousand people have dieied as a r resul. of thihis thursday easily does have been a video conference to negotiate a huge economic rescue p plan aftfter four hourf talks that lead me to tusk the european commission. to come back the plan early next month they were both gauge and- so the neededs to fix the europope. french president mackekerel. sad to thehe summit found a a conses on a fasast response and a strog one. your on the feet the commission basically presented the common line it also. slows common lines bring to the foreground the necessity of a progressive and gradual approach starting with schools. and maintaining a loss of connection and the constant evaluation. of having a cool approach regarding lotus in

particular about the exterior for european union. and the putting in place yes sorry a digital application for tracing. about on a voluntary basis that respects european regulatitions this picture was the line was a little bit. one of the most. issues so far has been the idea that circled kereta bonds or eurobonds did a lot of data to be shared across the block it would. hard hit southern states like italy and spain they're already struggling with high levels of. for the crisis. well making it more expensive for the rich and all the nations to borrow. for more details we cannot trust life to frustrate a force brussels correspondent dave keating. being that focusing mostly on the division so far but what has actually been agreed in this meeting. by all accounts this video some it does seem to have gone better than the previous one of the

previous o one there was so much disagreement over this issue of corona bonds of collective rising debts. that the italian prime minister just hoping they refused to sign off on a joint statement- ten eighties posted on f facebook it was a really good team and here. i know what they've group it may not sound like much but it could b be the framework. on the g globe howev. they have agreed to it- to have a recovery funds- which according to frencnch president macron will be between 5% and ten n percent. totalal european gdp. and that dot fund will be part off the next lonong termm u budget that isis the- five y yeh you will havee fininancial framework that will last from twenty twenty one to twentnty twenty seveven dave. the europon cocommission to o come o out wia new proposall f for that long tm budget bececause t there was alalready a prproposal sittingng theree theyy j just happenen toe not agreed on it yet- andnd the

commissision. to o present perct of july and s said after the video summit that willll come in they w were. six and then will e the starting point foror negotitiations butut of coursest they c could not agrgree tonigit and what i'm told they kind of stayeded awayy f from tonight..s the issuee howow that fund will finance the big question is whether it be through loans or grants-- t there spain has beeen floating this ideaea of. perpetual debtt you sound like a bad ththing but it actually meas that that would nenever have to be repaired thehe words. grab a french. mccall after. the having all find it too lowow tht coununtries would have to pay back would. see but countries in new. europe the food. is another family not so hot on the side. of grants to finance this mechanism so that's the really dorney negotiations that are yet to come. of course the

how is the trillion you're a question this does of course reopen wounds about the- previous debt debt crisis how dumb it. is it to european solidarity. yeah i mean there's a lot of the themes of the previous debt crisis are returning here of course this north south divide and the question over what was known back then as eurobonds or call alone by. other products out of the old ill well back to the surface but- today we did seem to seeing a bit of a call by a moment- the tempers don't be. as far in the previous week so have a great a lot all. they've agreed half billion euros. in spending because of course this recovery fund that they're talking about it wouldn't take effect until twenty one but in the meantime the agreed to five. billion. an employee. is to keep people. the checks are

for a loan from the european investment to biz. and for borrowing f from the europeann stability m mechanism t that's going to be o operationalal were being told- by june first uncle merkel german chancellor is particularly insistent thahat ththat mononey has to be avavaie june first- so. is a lot of already agreed- but even- commission presidedent's fundd d said tonight's chief knowledge that the money agreed so far just isn't going to be enough when you look at the sheer scale. of f this crisis and the actor. a catastrophe. back to becaususe- the b. r. is a trailr the quesestion but course e that isn't gonna start beingng spent untill twenty twenty one it shows justt how many yearsrs t e effects of this crisis are going to be with us. thank you much dave keating- brussels correspondent that we look forward to may the sixth in the european commission will come through with the next round meanwhile. dropped in mac. announced that bring face masks

in public will only be recommended and not compulsory. as the nation has towards may the eleventh when the lockdown matchess wilill start to be eas. the president has also given more detail about how the country will slowly returned to normality. levy a at sellelers s via text. i was their heads together to account just how fronts will emerge from lockdown on thursday emmmmanuel maccoll held a video conference wiwith mess arounund france. to sketch out some of the features of life often may eleventh when the period of confinement should come to an end. thee yoyoungest children will start returnrning to school as well as those at greatest risk of falling behind in their studies but it will be voluntary parents will not be penalized if they choose to keep them at home. cation ministers only said blockchain has said. is it will be limited to fifteen students. it's also likely that wearing a mosque will be required on public transport

and president michael urged local authorities to extra supplies of non medical great ask for that. even i if tractio. on may eleventh restaurants cafes and cinemas will remain closed and large public gatherings will not be allowed to the family. of all the president underlined that any lifting of confinement rules would be adapted to each area based on how hard the covert nineteen o outbreak had hit tha. i'm not sure if i'm to normal daily lot will definitely. wherever to francece. the twenty four million americans filed for unemployment benefits last week alone this brings the total since the carnivorous lockdown began to a record breaking twenty six million. the listening state of the economy spread protests in some cities meanwhile with the demonstrators calling for businesses to re open against the advice of health care professionals. our business editor kate movie is on the line for standing by kate

festival what is the latest numbers. about the state of the us labor market. what we scaled back those record breaking we sought end of march but when nearly seven million people applied for unempmployment benefits within one week- these numbmbers though stillll would e been unthinkable just a few montnths ago. when the weekly average was around three hundred thousand in the last week another four million four hundred and twenty seven thousand americans applied for jobless benefits. that means to twenty six point four million in the space of five weeks. more than the total number of jobs there's been added u. s. a. meet since e the of. a decade ago a reminder many's. have now found without health insurance as well as no income i know there's been a backlog in. in getting some of these applications process the system has just been so overwhelmed. many of these claims may have actually been filed a few weeks ago but they're only making their way through the official day and now. states are a also o accept applications from people

who wouldn't have been eligible before- the self employed. people who work in the e so called gig e economy were brougt into the- fold out with to trillion dollars. and it was passed at the end of march. percent of the country's fourth has now been. apprproved unemplployment benefits. that figure is expectedd to double before the crisis brought under control it would bring it clcloser. the all time high of araround twenty sentntence all during the great depression a century ago. the wave of newly eligible claimants m means that we're lilikely to seee these weeklyly numbebers continued a fairly steady pace for some time. although most economists are hopeful that the overall trajectory will now start going downwards. huge consensus states that meanwhile hip inn frontt just t as growing scrutiy of the big corporations that are in linine to receive state aid. that's fine mr r robert ha. who are in or to have some in tax havens will not be eligible

for state aid a d denmark and poland have already announced similar restrictions the merit telllling. build out funds wilil footot prints will also be banned. from issuing dividends or share buybacks most of france's emergency support measures as s stipulated the money really be used to prevent layoffs and keep afloat not as an opporortunity to get rich.h.o earlier the- possible air france's ceo still receiving. will bonus has sparked an outcry the dutch finance minister saying that should exclude the lines were getting state aid. hello i'm trying to get a ten euros from the french dutch. combined execucutive ben smith now confirming that he will give up his annual bonus he's also taking a pay cut for the year. of the car would make a renowned well says it's closing in on state backed loans of around five billion at your its its first quarter revenue tumbled by nineteen percent. it's going to reopen. in the days of reno's top

executives of all taking a temporary pay cut for the year. governments around the world are really blowing through their budget rurules- to make hundreds of bibillions of europe mailbox they're struguggling bubusinesses. b but we got it certainly going to come to a certain degree of scrutiny and to makee sure that those funds are really being channeled in the right direction. thank you for all the latest decade needy business editor. moving on to germany everyone will have t to wear face masks on public transport and shops among other public spaces from next week onwards. is following one eastern city that already started game several weeks ago on april the sixth. the industrial town of jena made six manda tree along with measures for sir distancing and confinement. and the citity hasn't reported a single new infection next bisa ripple. in the eastern town of yen and selling at ten days are on the frontline of the battle against code nineteen. since april the sixth in the city law making masks compulsory and if y you

deeply has been on her sewing machine e nonstop. selection and we can now make six and that are in the foot at the start it took more time trialist at once because most of your- after city hall contacted the workshop it's bebeen swamped by ordeders. and c confused in thee beginning o of the month i've been getting calls all day asking me if i could still make mass emissions enough get the feeling people are. assured when they wear them. it was the first city to. mask wearing in stores public transport and the workplace. with the measure came in intense public prevention campaign. the same without thehe company lost money we also called on people to make their own masks he says because it was in the hall we can provide thehem to medical personnel but not the whole population and- the measures paid off. in the social distancing and mask wearing appear to have stopped the spread of the virus. this one on the ninth of april he says we had a hundred and fifty five code nineteen cases per hundred thousand inhabitants and since

then the number hasn't changed. i still have a hundred and fifty five but not a single one more. city officials say people are wearing masks without exception no fines have been isissued. like it or not people here except the new normal. mr of us. for the most goals allowed nine eleven three eighty seven. a scientist i know most of what. you mean. as it is so yes. in a show the wayy the rest of germany is follllowing suit.t. as off nextk all germans were half wherere mask in public t transport in shops in all sixteen german regions. south africa's president serum cyril ramaposa has announced that the nation's lockdown will start easing in a week's timime. he said the government will implement a risk adjusted strategy. courses approach is strict. third includes t the compulsory wearig of face masks some ongoing restrictions on movement. and ate the logic at bat on large other things will also continue

to be back. south africa too being one of the worst effect on the car and triple almost four thousand. and seventy five deaths. hello tom time for on this edition stay tuned to trust what people. hello and welcome to from twenty four and r. five radio. we have with us and the reason i think it was a former minister for foreign affairs the london. current secretary general of the front office we have because of bullllies but you know that's an option available through six general heller. hello man that's does items vision. in the virus has not. the african continent browns but what we d o know is t that the economic crisis already taken out could you put up in once your phone is that you would fit economic crcrisis throughout the continet

and the second question is what kind phone company do to mitigate the economic fallout. good day- well. the phone is- francophone world and the world at large agent that comes close africa- it's really hard hit by this pandemic first of all from a health pointnt of vieiew and n quite cleararly from an economic point of view but africa can't be said that. yeah four k. probably by the ifi is a if you look at statements made by the governor of the french centralal bank today saying that the french economy. is running on two thirds of the seller is. no okayay but a africa so far hasnt been as a massively hit as have europe and the us. africa has also been extremelely cautious

for since this crisis started practically all countries on the african continent to adopt measures to limit the spread of the disease. la la a and thihiss a key existed all seven and light. longer deliveriess of. a number of economies in africa because there are huge variations between countries there were- sure that at the end of this crisis there will be a lot of damage to contend with. it is going to focus on what. i think of a n need to. good the front name as you did or did you do- came in. one way is it's me from day one very early on we put a number of

educational materials online in french targeting those children who were currently not able to go to school but it's quite clear that i in our countries and- other of f these. young people don't have internet connections so we're looking into t this with a number of other players howow were. you cacatia listed to the states to dakar- and you don't w win thehe agency for university studies and the ministers o of the photographer you need to try to find another way. well at best serve of the hunt you may be using radio waves or some other means that's a man dowown you have a late last week. twenty countries quoted at one. am on the debt repayments for african states. and you have a co signed an open letter with

another seminal personality and you said it's a good start but more needs to be done and then you're not alone at the same time it mackerel and matisse all have. any personal highly even post realistically won't give most of the debt is. held up by china. hello the double well first of all as regards the debt. i personally w with this is a a team of others. and then as soon as summer r really the very well known in the field of international finance- i would rather be in favor of a dead freeze a moratorium on debt because africa just l like otheher countntries needs both e space and time. hello to address are hell of. a deeeep issues. and then and then to

putt itt it's very easy kind of these back on track in other words because not demanding any spececial treatmentnt africa jut like other countries. in europe has adopted. a number of. very strong measures has changed its installation manager of the crisis and to help the economies get back on track t to afterwards so for us what's important is a freeze on deck to-- that't's what we publishedn this open letter political scene depicting. because first of all helello there is more to be done in terms of space first of all. for the tribibe the freezer cover kind. and i it needs to discusss. really be applicableles to all couountries because there is no discrimination possible. and then- the freeze so far has been decided to go to be valid until the end of twentnty words

we would like it to be extenendd to the end of next year twenty one and we also belilieve have veryry frank ageges are no- the future of the private sector in africa. you know that a number of years have adopted measures. to make sure that the business is small hello lar.. enough people join get this away we knew that in africa as well a new system this is something- that's also very important from an emploloyment bordrders you. a lot of africans working in the informal sector are without a job and this is another issue that we would really like to see addressed. everybody knows that there's any other madam secretary general some ten days ago there was images that came out. of china whenever african citizens was being kicked out

of their home base in what you thought in reaction to that. the wells says my was shots were really very shocking if you could play often follow withth the whole issssue very clososely i know the very privileged relations t that exit between chinana and the african continent and the heads of state of the african union at the commissision thehe love isl. the of 0% is currenently chairig the news inn a contacted chinese authorities right away we in africa hope that this is not. somemething that's going to become a trend this only an exception a blip- june. june action of a new maybe some trade frorom china butut africaa concerts not tolerate seeingg as

this is when the students so- treated in such a- mess of it doesn't i don't think. i would just like to take this conversation back to la francophonie. i and the seventeeeenth of febrbruary and rwanda give it to me whose-- and artitists dieied in n prison officicially it t was a suicidet there is suspicions around actual events. and we take a trip back to the declaration in november of two thousand and four different turn yeah it says that you to protect human rights then in october. twenty eighteen year old. he isn't as general do men and some say the this can. following the integration of the auto as a gives he goes. but does not have the recent death in prison. doesn't alslso put you n a difficult situation especially in light of all the major promisises of your organization h hello hello. the bundle now well. let let's not blow this out of alll proroportn first of all i'd like to set the recordrd. straight may be.

five differently of this my own. had nothing to do with the freeing of that young man he was freed along with. hundreds maybe two or three hundred other. people who had been detained it's a pleasant coincidence but that's it i know. function this whole business suffered following it i had met the young man in question. in my previous jobs it would surprise me however is the idea that a somebody committing s suicide is necessarily something fishy if that happens iran. i may be answering your question that as rhonda said and then then i'll answer secretary general of the but he said but thehere is certainly part. of the e media and- memedia in our regionn in r country that will at t some poit

in time i have to o acknowledge the fact thatt somee people rhonda do die of natural do commit suicide- heard of a number it was side so. this is the beginning off the year and rhonda and each anand every. occasion people were trying to see whether the government wasn't involved in this is somethingg that really has to be corrected at some point in time. triggers the francophonie issues writes whahat you still own the rights for individualsls right to my dignity are things that we value tremendously- these are valued in aroundnd otother valued by station and we're remaining. . i was looking down long long gotten children that i'm sure that if we were to look at j. dennis actuallyy what's going on in all of our members. we would probably find things i was addressed on t the

same topic by some of your colleagueses from david psych melinda a few weeks ago and- in light of their questions i want to try to investigate. the situation here in france and i came to realize that a couple of. years ago in franance there were a hundred thihirty suicides in jail no one up here in france so why don't you run. it's a unit her leave. is inn the but we are keep these bad and my very. on the circuit to madam secretary general thank you very much for your time. in this year and thank you all for joining into a r. five radios and from what you

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