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twenty four i'm from twenty four .com. the powerful cyclones at the bay of bengal two point six m million people live in its path most of moved to seek shelter with the risk of cope with nineteen infection is hi. still there is it india and bangladesh and now on high alert. frantz might have avoided a second wave of the factions of cautiously optimistic statement from public health officials. as the number of new patients hospitalized fulls fronts though still has an overall death toll with more than twenty eight thousand. seven nineteen is devastated the fishing business in the gaza strip w we have a r report on te
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people now struggling to put food on the table. the fish they catch sell for less and less. if i told. thank you very much for being with us people in the bay of bengal of facing a double threat. this tuesday the- the death toll is twelve is expected to rise much higher cyclone i'm fine has struck the coast of india and bangladesh. there are those people who chosen to o take that chance and stay put. others who evacuated their homes and movoved to shelters face another global risk. perfect nineteen fifty six million people are now right in the path of the storm. and its one hundred and seventy kilometers per hour winds. an event like this is terrible at any t time b but right now in te middle of a national locked down. and a pandemic it's just so much worse like you said. so about two million people were evacuated beforehand in bangladesh and about three hundred thousand in india. but finding shelterss for evacuees
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duduring a dyiying brand social distancing is vital h has been a real challllenge for the state government not just to keep people apart but because most of those shadows. already you being used to acquire and dying people. transport services have also obviously still being limited. and even special trains to transport migrant workers back home. because these are regions where a lot of spam regionally come from. happy holidays so disbanded in cities across india. waiting for the storm to bus. so this is a really precarious moment for holding india in bangalore the sherin indio we've crossed the one hundred thousand mile old school the cases. and we're bracing ourselves for a second we've often section. so this really makes the news of the cyclone all the more devastating. a correspondent that in india watching full develops a course on that situation in the bay. of bengal twelve casualties so far- but a
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closer expecected the death toll to rise. very quickly sadly. in that area. the card nineteen death toll herere in. reason to eight one hundred and two. but public health of the a call. up statemement. as the number. of hospitals has fallen. indicative they hope that a second wave of ininfectionsns hs been avoided. nine dayss after confinement measures were lifted in france thehere's cause for hope i see you hospitalizations dropped by one hundred in the past twenty four hours. down to one thousand seven hundred and ninety four on tuesday compared with one thousand eight hundred and ninety four on monday. for public health experts it's an encouraging t trend. posted the only a semana the suguggestioion images and you for that procedure. carmichael need to be. but officials caution it's still too early for total optimism the first symptoms appear on average f fe days
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after infection. complication showing even later. for more meaningful conclusions the countryy will still have to be patient. the littttle disispute thatat is still not. yoyou may o lead t t last sundayay. . you should not. a a ngle beds s yea. c. what led this message. and so youou troops. some cluster have been detected since the lockdown was lifted for authorities it's a sign that tracking and tracing measures are working as soon as symptoms appear patients have been advised to contact their doctors then prescribed test if the tetest is positive officials then trackeded dowown a testt contacts that could have been exposed. testing coupled with social distancing measures are essential to keeping the epidemic under control lucy's deliveries if you do need eleven thirties the pope is
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going to be the most when he got no compatible you might get a new news i don't agree well dimitri's the. lead they didn't but for now only one is. the is still circulating. fishing is a key sector in the life of the people of the gaza strip the cover nineteen pandemic has brought it all to a standstill prices have plummeted taken t to see the sun not birth the sale price of the fish court. fronts twenty four boston clinic has the story. gaza's fishing sector is the latest victimm of the corona virus pandemic. twenty t twenty is shaping up to be the worst fishing s season there in many years. base prices have dropped dramatically leading to a loss in revenue for fishermen. they in turn no longer have the money to buy enough fuel. which means they've had to cut down on how often they go out to see. a l little visit fedex c coronat
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will with the vive sucked in in their lives were lost you've been books a college educated people are gonna. get better content. really. management didn't know i hahad. nearest because of the crew panda mean explore from gaza have been put on hold and amid weak demand as well as a lower purchasing power the price of everyday produce like vegetables fruit and fish have dropped between fifty anand 70% through the levels of the but in this other sort of ism like machine mode uses of a- it on into a hundred thousand a little of the little gem of a sinner. to we are so lucky on this movie is just the latest harmless. envelope as well. . the v virus is not the . behihind this downturn in continues to prevent the entry of f fishing equipment as part f its blockade on the gaza strip. and in february d decided to
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reduce gaza's fishing zone by a third f from fifteen to ten nautical miles. the average income for a fisherman now stands at around one hundred and seventy dollarsrs a monthth leading to concerns t that the fishing industry will n never fully recover. the fish production today is just half of what it was fififteen years ago. the fishing industry in the gaza strip suffering in the sub pump that make. berlin exit east africa's held an election in spite of the risks of covered nineteen affection for potus election comes after five years of turmoil sparked by president pierre nkurunziza's bid for a third term which unleashed on breast left at least one thousand two hundred people dead. the server for a hundred thousand people fleet of md. as well as the coronavirus riske selections taking place without international scrutiny social media has been blocked covover ninety numbebers though imprinting hello. one death so far out of forty two cases. a
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new w report warning lockdowns being lifted will meet a quick return to a dangerous level of emissions. reports in nature climate change says at one poinint- this month it'll felt some eigighty three million that's a drop of 17% last year the world emitted a hundred million tons of carbon dioxide per day. if i was to the fore in an uncharacteristically unpolluted paris. reporter peter o'brien has this. mt streets means clear skies accocording to a report by natue climate change global co two emissions could drop by up 27% this year if restrictions and socicial distancing measures possessed. the sharprpest declie since the end of world war two would use transport and industrial activity meant that on one day in april the drop in co two was around 17% compared to the same time last year. in the first four months of twenty
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twenty emissions fell by almost a third in us by around a quarter i in the e. u. and chin. the researchers warned however that the change is likely only temporary. the social trauma of confinements and associated changes could alter the future trajectory in unpredictable ways but social responses alone would not drive the deep and sustained reductions needed to reach net zero emissions. some experts have suggested the pandemic could speed up the transition to renewables. but many fossil fuel companies are benefiting from multichannel in dollar r rescue p packages particulularly in the us. on the twenty fifteen paris climate treaty nearly two hundred nations pledged to o try and limitt global warming to below one point five degrees celsius. the u. n. says emissions must fall by more than seven and a half percent every year this decade to preach this targets. in line with the drop predicted in twenty twenty if coronavirus restrictions continue all year.
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time to decide about the business- was the start of the u. k. with the jet engine and luxury comic a rolls royce. announced plans to cut nine thousand jobs its latest blow to the u. k. aviation industry coming as the corona virus pandemic has led to a collapse. in both passenger to moms and you at croft orders. by cohen's from a businesess desk he sat at his desk at home though respectingng the social distancing recommendations here in francee bririan greatat to se you- tell us more about what we knowow so far about t this d den fromom rolls royce. well mark as you said ninine thousand jobs ae expected to get the axe that's nearly one fifth o of the company's total work force. it's rolls royces biggest one time staff proroduction inn some three decades. most of the cuts are planned atthe company civil aerospace divivion. the bulk are expected to hit its sisite in derby england where they make jet engines. rolls royce is looking to cut other costs as well the company's trying to save around one point
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three. billion pounds. that is just the latest blow to the aviation industry admits this coronavirus crisis. a passenger demand for air travel has fallen by some 90% of these lockdowns and travel bans. global air traffic overall is expected to drop by at least 45% in twenty twenty as a whole. the airline industry overall is projected to lose over two hundred eighty billion euros this year. all that trickle down very quickly to manufacturers boeing and airbus both use rolls royce engines both seen their orders drop sharply boeing and zero orders in april airirbus. delivereries were down 80% in april as well. thank you need h have sharply criticized over prices latest announcement there are.. pointing to its willingness to take public money f from the uk to copper. their workers salaries as theirir furloughed- during this crisis. have been someme sigigns of hope recently amid the airline sector and dealt- particularly in the u. s. it's adding flights as domestic travel. demand to pick up. but in the industry's main
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trade body says trade body rather says it expectss a air traveled be at. to of its not level. the role. obvious buckle upup for couple years back upon the right to then. so i had to in a- this instance for the- nope is that can set the some big changes here in front still small. well mark french newspapers includiding the mold enemies echoo are repeporting i don't know is considering a major shake u u of its f french operations and that company looks to save around t two billion euros in costs of the- production factory inn lowndes of francee which has a twenty six hundred d employees iss rumorered to be in for a b big restructcturing. incncluding potentially an end to itt total companies overallll vehicle assembly productction line and three smsmaller factories here n france are reportedly being considered for total closure as well nothing is officiaial yet
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what's not in question though is that the european car industry is fafacing its worst crisis in decades. s sales order and unprecedented 70% on the month of april is dealerships were closed just over two hundred seventy thouousand cars were sold out the continent last month that's compared to over one point onene million for the same month last year. here in france it's clear down eating i am. riright now know is sesealed a deal withh on a five billllion euros state back on loan to help through the crisis the french government is backing that loan it so holds a 15% in now. it's the whole david paying i will are of that own but it's sayingg this is strongly oppose to the come closing any of its plants here the france and prime edward for read that point in fact and that just today. at the renault nissan alliance that they will be holding a press conference on the meat twewenty seventhh to unveil its st jude researchers so we'll see what the exact.
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and just about a time brought at that left to give much indeed i i've been from the old i'm so did. and he's about to a man who once that let the company u. s. police arrested two men over the escape of carlos ghosn. from custody in japan. federal prosecutors in massachusetts say the former us green beret michael taylor his fifty nine. and a some pizza who's twenty seven help going to. last year flew to lebanon to avoid trial in japan of the alleged financial wrongdoing. former head of the whole no nissan mitsubishi was allegedly smuggled out of the country and carefully planned staying. going apparently hidden in a large instrument case to evade. the japanese. police more on that as a develops more news to stay with us you wantnt to.
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twenty four. arctic is going to be exploited. and the scale of this expectation willl only grow we have a beautiful planet we need to protect it so. thahat we can use space exploration to better understand it. we we've moved from. that really to do but- john and down to earth we're explored the incredibly complex relationship between humans and ourur plan. we're hee to the tough questions and find answers t that might just surprise. down to a constant four i'm twenty four .com. twenty twenty was meant to be a middling year for the global economy with slowing but continuing levels of growth in just a few months things have been turned on their head by the corona virus pandemic and now we're heading for the deepest recession in ninety years. so how should policymakers be handling this and are there opportunities in this crisis to improve the
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lives of citizens to talk about this and more i'm joined by the head of the organization for economic cooperation and development which is lines policy for its thirty seven soon to be thirty eight member countries i'm hungry thank you very much. for joining us on the program. thank you. there are many parts of the world we're looking at the stars of lifting of lockdown measures in economic terms does not mean that we're at the beginning of the end to this crisis or we just simply entering a new phase. i it's a new face- we wil never know. whether they'll be- recurrencece but- it's good that we are moving into the re opening- i can imagine approaches where maybe we will be you know. stop and go stop and go- b but then. it's good thatat we're going to we're opening because already t theres been this very. hard combmbed. and up from in our group. . we
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say that for every month o of. y there is a drarawbridge drop. in the g. so these. of the but the- a the virus. in that last week it as a direcect bearing on the economic culture. of the post cold. we're hearing this expression near the recessions the great depression can you put that in terms that to our viewers can understand how would bite is this economic crisis going to be. pretty bad- it's difficult to compare it with the depression because you know it's in the thirties and it's- it's eighty years ago ninety years ago whatever you know it's v vy. conditions were different except. a a lot we now are seeing first quarter racked.
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every singlele in the red. and n most couountries y you will see worst numbers in the second reporterer why becauause the ful impact. of april dr may accept it will be seen there. so in terms of ththe numberss that you know we have not yet gone through the worst parart. in terms of the recovery what what do you see that one of t the conseqequences of f the virus in the up the pandemic. mass unemployed. all of the best. we already hadad v very sererious problems with the trade tensions. the trade tensions were crossing the uncertainty was crossing a drop inn investment so we already have dropped o one point one and a half points of gdp growthh. even before the presidentnt but then
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we had t the but that and now we have. a a say said- your red. read numbers all over the place but- mass on a blblog like euroa thirty thirty million i in a f w weeks and that. after the war force. in the- in front it their shamash yeah the are a bi the drum except up. in in the uk so you seeee everyrywheree te new. for gun to reducece. the m. m. and n not through the song. lake via links but the comp. and the employees last week will be a- eighty up longnger last in. then there is you know qualities because it is hard to. the most vulnerable the most then there is a question
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of opportune then there is a questionon of j. so you you you buy. i think it just take the state example one angle not often a seaeat one point five. billion with the. in other school whether we c create schol l. many themm no problem never seen a tablet because developing and many of them do not h he the- that are qualified. to teach online even if they did the call which many of them don't h hop so you're you're just woke up these. so a multi faster crisis there utah to some of the elements are b. a fat what sign. should we be looking for when it come to erica where should we see green shoots start kind of much beloved by of when things start going just to and. yeah the
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firsrst day we got a do is we- ththe enemy is we virusus throw everything we got that's it. d includingng throwing out rule in terms of you know at depths in the x. because the showrunner you read it. you have to do because there's no the so called dilemma at the say that you have to choose between lives a and livelihoods. it's a call to l let my because ththe show you. with the questin of who. the better you will we the questition lightning. going for but also your to keep ann eye. on how youou going t to del
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with the roooot. later in the meantitime i. we're out of the woods yet we're still dealing with that you knonow the first and the second stage whihich is of course this is real pretty cautious real putting in many caseses carefully opening and some others. you know w somethig not as organized not as coordinated you talk about some of the government support schemes in place for allowing employees you know more than half of the private sector workforce here in france on government supports it. income subsidy. is there going to be a debt crisis after they crisis can see how much go. money going and supporting the economy. there is going to be much more d debt on the books.. that means there's gonna be more debt. . the government's more debtt wititthe c companies with the enterprises anymore depth witith a house holds. however what they should do is
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give us- you know someme soberer riride p. in termsms of. how you know follow out class are we gonna recover are we gonna have a v. shaped recovovery i don't think so i think we're gonna hahave a u. shaped recovery and the question is how long is the lower part of the u. how long does it take why because among other things imagine that your to run when you're trying to take off your trying to fly. and suddenly your discover that your wings arere every where we were that. so the call is going to take longer. you're gonna a longer. i need more popower. in the engineses in order to take all. this is going to. it's not that it's the all yes going to have a recall. among other because the numbers going to be sold. that you gonna come up and it got be looking good..
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almost regarardless but are we going to be a to. very often last the is whwhere t the queuen of the day debt in i don't think we in for that crisisis like we in the past. or l like e had the eighties nineties. it's not of course everybody is very aware of what is going on everybody is very aware of the consequences of f at we're doing. everybody a agrees that t this stage we have no choice but there's gonna be a p price o eight l. we also have to be aware. and therefore we jusust don't know the work. is going to take longer than we would have wanted simply because of the consequences of the measures we have to take. in order to deal with. the problem today. government that okay. i'll be dealing this car cry.
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dot may other being asked by the wayside i'm interested in what's hotot with a major projects organized. gonna with the roof of internet tax real particular and tax. digital companies the french government has said that despite this crisis it needs to be pushed to had is there a risk of that project being sidelines now. well firstst of all let me say. in terms of the kobe itself.. at the always d. we are focusing all l our c competencies all our skilills all o o expertisese. at all our experience. in w what we call the digitalal hub. which hs alreadady produced upwards of eighty eighthty pieces- having o deal with policy briefs. a at ad ththen the s state taxes under.d then you say you know worry that helped in the them into the publblic t to escape me. tes
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you know to deal among other things w with the with these upi do. at up it's good for evevery including the- gump that are inn here to haveve legal sir so o wy as welell store you know all during the up point people will be best for otherwise you'll hop does of countries it one of going there all thehe way. and they at a particularar group fel already we have seen this the is addressed to own not got there they have right remedial. they take they will be we- okay. ninety four thank you to your home for watching stay with us the latest news headlines are
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