record rising unemployment here in france all linked to the ongoing corona virus pandemic everyone's now hotly anticipating the prime minister's announcements on how france will begin to move out gradually the lockdown how may the elevenenth. masks for the masses france will provide protective face all citizens for sale in pharmacies making

good on president macrons promise but does not get enough stuff to go around. first johnson tells a british people aged. when the coronavirus lockdown on his first day back at number ten after his own brush with covered nineteen he wants a second wave of infection. many people. thank you very for being with us the death toll in the corona virus pandemic here in france now past twenty three thousand on top of this francis seeing a record rise in unemployment over the month of march those out of work went up by seven point 1% to brings total j jumps to three seven million the vast majority off this sound to the corona virus pandemic. he's decided to join us live cake to you talk us through this. latest but if you what is it say about the label here in francece. well if yoyou look k e numbers for t the first quarter markrk unemployment. claims actutually rosose five point 7%r those firstst t three months its the d data for the month of marh which bucked the trend. up

fronts offfficially went into lockdown on march seventeenth. and t two hundrdred and forty sx thousand m more peoeople applied for unemployment benefits. during that mononth as a whole it's a 70% jump from februaryry. that's in the most watched category for peoplee who have woworked in over a month shop brings the totalal number of job seekers in the country to threre point seven millilion. one of the- that number remains relatively lowow is ththat there are. about ten point eightht million people onn the so called partial unemployment s scheme. that thehe government is brought in as an emergency measusure that's's what it. amoununts to state sububsidized for l low realally. the idedea was to pret more rigight let us. it doesn't cover temporary or seasonal workers into there to people who are really y out of f the jb a- good. sign to the point that. all together. your. s similar

find times thehe size of fncnce at twentnty six people have been found themselves out of the job in the past weeks or so they applied for but here in for of the car say the about how a million more people could lose their job it i mean. he's is like. . crowds and hospipitalit- at higher. about fififteen of t- coululd go backk. in the cominig weeks but despite all the emergency funding from the gogovernment. k. the aviation sector i in particular is warnig that more job cuts- could be. in store. absolutelel airbus has put three thohousand two hundred of its workers- in nororthern wales on furlough. they joined about three thousand workers here in france who are already on that partial employment schemes at the u. k. does have a similar support scheme to the one here in france. an internal letters employees across the c. e. o. i said that the company was bleeding cash and unprecedented speed. he said that more far reaching job cuts could be in order in order to. ensure the survivall of the need first quarter results this

week as well as a matter rival boeing a b boeing c. thihis thee eighty. to could take e up t to. threree yearss r recover. the u. trying to send some of its employees on furlough there were reports that it's considerining cutting upp 21010f its work force i in the uninited stateses. it's also seeking financncial aid from the americn government. it's not just manufacturers carriers are suffering as well the air france klm got about ten billion euros in bailout funds last. week this monday the low cost carrier norwegian air has said that most of its fleet could remain g grounded for a further twelve months- it's restructuring a billion dollars in debt.t. which it says is likely to wipe out some 95% of its share value it's a very very bleak picture for the airline industry. which of course includes thousands of smaller suppliers as wellll as those big names inn the u. s. alonone air traffic i is currrry only. 5% what wasas a year ago.i how the stock m markets all the-

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now anderson pressure to what we saw last week when we saw that brief plunge into negative prices. k. as ever thank you for much indeed. the francisco a furtheher four hundred and thirty seven deaths over the past twenty four hours. but there is evidence of people eager to end the lockdown with images online of more more people moving back towards that pre pandemic ways even though the world health organization as still warns there is worse to come for the next twenty four hours france will unveil its plans to gradually move out of lockdown promised at office depot. will speak in paris at fifteen hundred local time mosques are expected to be an important measure to be mentions that availability to be boarding pharmacies is already some. yeaeah keep patiet for many french people. but lost a lucky few customer at this pharmacy and so for have managed get hold of their own reusable. this is. last had to

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had the fusion is bigger than the causes and so a as they- don't know the. content of the story. teachers per. their lesson. but if this. so percent of students don't participate. the problem highlights economic inequalities and regional challenges. like rural areas where the internet is not reliable. the three hundred thirty three people died of covered nineteen in italy this monday the death toll now stands at twenty six thousand nine hundred and seventy seven this is the highest in europe worldwide the second highest behind the united states the books the number of deaths and you daily infections. well in fact the lowest in over a month. will not bring you more on that course as we go through the evening. that's not what to enter the united kingdom boris johnson there was told the british people it's too soon to lift the lockdown. uk prime minister spoke outside ten downing street on his first day back after his own brush with

covered nineteen that landed him. in intensnsive cat he won't reopen business t too soon could prove fatal to many people and a second wave of infection. position that t goes againinst e stance of many of his own mps advises. back on the job after three weeks recovering from calvin nineteen. britain's prime minister paiaid tribute to the nation'n's efffforts to pret transmission of the corona virus and for thatt social distancing of the stringent lockdown would enjoy a- we must also recognize. the risk of a second spike because that would mean ultimately. a new wave. of death and disease but also an economic disaster. and we would be forced once again to slam on the brakes across the whole country and the whole economy in johnson's absence the government has come under increasing pressure over its response to the pandemic a lack

of protective equipment for healthcare workers more than twenty thousand dead. putting us in instituting the nation's lockdown and now the vision on how that same look down could be lifted for now the country isis on course to see restrictions reviewed on may the seventh as long as a day on which trend in numbers continues you can see that the benefits of social distancing is beginning. to be reflected in the number of use cases determined by texting i think it's highly likely that there will be different combinations of measures- some of which are in place at the moment those heard about such moves. to track and trace. he's said they'd ramamped up. too a hundrd thousand people a day by the end of the month. however with just days to go capacity was running at just a third of fast over the weekend. now famous paris landmarks- usually swamped by visitors. at well almost every time a year but especially now with spring arriving.. swiftftly gruesome

images of the most famous out of the mold. okay let's go back sorry that says go back to- another i issue that we talked about- the guest- that we have- to speak about the situation in italy italy is to remind you-- is starting to come out of lockdown. in some way shape or form- the- number of deaths and new. dating factions the lowest in over months i would jumump by stefano vella- so health a professor at the catholic university stuff out of it thank you very much for joining us. is it right to say now that it today. is g getting it righgt and doing the right things. yes are you are you i really think so- although we did a few mistakes at the beginning like. it a lot of all the recounts please just let me say- you you know did the change of mood of

the u. k. a. and alders- unfortunatelely where he'd very. wordy as strongly. by the virus and now we are looking at t thi. it kind of- decrees in new cases but it's not- let's say the- in in in in. it's not a most in an old the country- regions so w we need to be careful actually now the government- decided to unlock it early a little bit by- with some grading is. it measures soul for example to twenty seven a few i mean mainly the factories will start to working gain the constructions and then from may for we will have some

unlocking. of selective it is. which is actually- needed i understatand- if not you know te economy will will end and not only is it going to be a call to me but also the social life me. suffer very much- however we decided to close the school. so schools re in the fall- because we know that the you know the schools are away for- that m makes to. it even for- let's sasay the year the flu epidemic to expand. so d dont swallows them highlyy criticized a measure. because we know that keeping kids at home. without seeing all the kids and- is very tough for famamilies for te

kids and the families but dr that's what the scientific committee- which is saying a sense of helping the prime minister to take decisions decided dental dot some might say some m might say it't's r. . tougher if you catch the virus covered nineteen which clearly is taking lives not just in italy but similar numbers in spain and france in the uk- of the united states is a different case with. the largest figures- worldwide a different style size different scale of course do you feel that other countries- i'm talking sort of u. k. spain france come learn from italy. is done do you think there's an example to follow. i think that tweet we all did some. that crazy old hold this- congress did some mistakes at the beginning. in a sense now own grading this severity o or duration- we thought it could be easier- but then we realized

that- the program is serious. and actually we have the same numbers- easily fryer thanks eight eight. not available thank you very much indeed we lost a link that to our guests which happens in live television we apologize for that but i think the message clear from stefano validate it to the now perhaps getting it right maybe not get invited to stop that's this is this is that this that that the statistics prove that but certainly- maybe some examples of that he's now come from that we can see you musical sets throughout the evening beyond what most of us. hello and welcome to the friends twenty four interview our guest today is the prime minister of iceland katrin jako stitill tear she joins us from reykjavik mrs

prime minister thank you very much for being with us today.. all right we have to be with you. this is prime minister iceland has. thousand seven hundred ninety two confirmed cases of covert nineteen ten death so it means both an infection rates and the mortality rate of less than zero point 5% before we get to how you've reached result i want to ask you a very simple question do you consider that in your country the pandemic fully. under controlol. i would say that the pandemic is not over the we have it. the relatively good control. and we have from the beginning- in separate taken. just over f fory six thouousand tests and we have used the method of tracing infections so new infections now are very few they have been

from zero up to in the last few days so yes i think we are gaining control over the pandemic but o obviously there have been. a strong social restrictions- and we're planning to opopen up again lifting the first restrictions next weeeek and t then we will follow the procedure very closely with. right us. the message there's been no on the schools and shops have been open- air travel is ststill up and running but no other country in the world has tested as extensively you just mentioned this over forty six thousand people have been tested this is some 12% of your population- compared to let's say germany which has been heralded as an example of mass testing it's only 2% of the population why did you decide to do this from. the very beginning. well i saw the eyes

of the population is around three hundred and sixty sixty thousasand so yeses forty six thousand just over forty six thousand people have been tested and the this is both being done. to people with symptoms but also with the general public and has been done in cooperation. the for the public health authorities on one side and then the a company. called decode genetics that happen actually collaborating on this extensive testing- this was decided early in the beginning. to start this collaboration. and did this given those the really a very because we are not islands- you mention air travel fears the air travel to and from the account is very limited we arare the outer borderr o off the secd area w with. a in europe so it's her husband l limited we have been verery much h focusing on containing the virus and

reaching a and aiming for it nation here. in austin. this was actually of the plan from the- right. front for the beginning there has a cop be the public health of tall. and the price sector as you just mentioned. how many tests are you planning to conduct our youth because you have tested people with symptoms that also without- symptoms which hasn't been the case in most other countries. a lot of testing done. we have done a lot of tracing so most of the people actually who are. being analyzed this call rates. and they are already quarantines when they are analyzed because we trace the infections are wrong and content contact everybody who has been in contact with infected persosons- what we plan to do- hoping to be able to do in the next few weeks is to have a- large scale

testing on. if the population has doubled down at t the bioteh in their blocks agagainst the cocodes this might happen in the month of may and then we would like to do a large scale testingn that's-- but then we will just see what happens. asas the weeks go by because it's very difficult to predict. the devil of nuts off the wires of uc. right you mentioned- contact a trusting this has also been a key obviously it's easier to do when you have a small a population and you're on an island- but- you've done this partly through an application on. a smart phone has this been- efficient and have there been some privacy issues there there's a debate in many countries including here in france about how much- privacy- do you pray on by by tracy. everyone and it contatac. yes obvioususly there are benefits in being an island and

being a small population so its- relative it a lotot e easi. to trace people who have been come in contact withh infected persons i think w we have about 93% success r rates. when it comes to that. and then we have beenen using quarantine and actually arounund eighteen thousand eight hundred people have finished quarantine in iceland which is quite a large chunk of the population. we still have a current seven hundred people in current time. and the tracing ask this- the something that we designed and all features three. there was a discussion about the privacy issues- and this is not an obligation will ask this is something that you can just use to use- quite a lot of people have decided. to download that app and use it- it is a strictly is. under the aids under strict supervision off of.

did you. privacy and- the information that it are gathered t there are not to be used are to be really destroyed it after a certain amount of time enough to be used for any other purpose than tracing infections but it's vevery. it's a vevery. obviously it's something that needs to be discussed in society and it was discussed and it's not obligations right- you mentioned earlier- that there would be a lessening of- the restrictions on may fourth or for instance a public gathering which were limited to twenty people until now- now will be up to fifty people- preschools- grade schools with operate as- usual are you confident- that- this will not- createe second wave of- the virusus infection. of instance- you had n not quarantine people coming into iceland and you'v've d decided a fefew days ago that there will e

a two week quarantine for the people coming in so it shows that you are still concerned about a potential second wave as it's now. well obviously was still much we don't really know about this virus and we need to take every precaution. we're lifting restrictions as you mentioned the on the fourth of may. then the preschools and the ends primary schools will go back to normal operation they have been operating though- becausese we haveve trid toto. follow strict- streaks deregulation is s really coming from the- world health organization. in mainstream musisic. yeah the society in hopefully this will also help us to restart the society is more. we are now yes and we have a quarantine planned f for two weeks f for eveverybody who comes to iceland and we will

revise that decision on the fifteenth of may then we will see how it's developing. and we will obviously followw the purses proces off the wires very closely after the restrictions are lifted on fourth of may if itit will go of again. and we migight have to have more restrictions again again- you might have noticed that- from germany to taiwan to new zealand to northern europe- women leaders have been hailed as doing actually a better job of handling the- pandemic then they're masculine counterparts- to share. as and if so. well you can find examples of male leaders who are doing a good job i think what we see here in this town that make is that leaders who follow the advice of scientists and is take transparent decisions is insist it's really about what measures

to be taken because of the pandemic they are doing. well i think it's very important in a pandememic like thisis thatt wee a opened in i stitill do an open liberal democracy and follow those rurules we are n n just fighting the waters were also along with the rules of democracy and check if you have tried to keep everything we're doing is transparent as popossible so what happens here is. that people. i've taken a the risk. in the virirus we dodt the pull on the streets following that very seeing after that you're all followingg the ruless i it's people themselves who are really doing this because we are all part of the solution really right adjusted a last question was the prime minister you're the leader of the left greenen part- climate change has priority of yours are you concerned because of the and then- this agenda out will be- pushed back in your country and in. other

countries as well. well in iceland the- we will continunue what we were to have been doing it when it comes to climate change they're aiming for. a carbon neutrality in two thousand and forty and also aiming to

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