insight into french culture and current events to understand what makes. them presented by flaws. france twenty four en france twenty four .com. a us pullout at the open skies treaty president donald trump says russian violations make it untenable for the u. s. to stay in a poultry to the permits thirty plus nations to conduct observation flights over each other's territory. china is set to impose strong new national security laws in hong kong. in the wake of last year's protest washington is done in the strong response it's that thehe

move by beijing may spark fresh protests from the pro democracy movement. please check some roses front center is a long holiday weekend on relax lockdown. people still forbidden from traveling over a hundred kilometers from the homes. of the nineteen deaths told francnce is now twenty eigt thousand two hundred and fifty that's a thursday. eighty three deaths. last four hours. and thank. thank you very much for being with us brinkmanship from trump this thursday the u. s. president is threatening to pull out of the open skies treaty. it's an agreement signed and initially by ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev to allow on surveillance flights over that two countries to promote trust and peace. trump is not saying the us copper made part of the treaty subject to repeated violations by the russians return denied violating open skies. to technical issues what began as a bilateral accord now has some thirtyty five countries signed out. it't's a troubling history this latest move to pull the us

out of a major global treaty. u. s. dollars to set stroll might not have. kind of a good. study has more i in washington. thank you says event or- has approved. our members stayay frm over certain areas of. the russian and terror treat including at the e exclave of kaliningrad which is located between. p poland and the baltic states do it is at the land mass the russian land mass closest. to europe and that's something and that and the americans are not too happy about that russia also are preventing some points over certain areas at certain moments saying that the military exercises. so they didn't want to add any member state finals that error yeah ends. the american also accusing russia of using. their own. the way to sort out out some key in. in and is in the u. s. to use it as potential

future targets for cyber attacks so really there's some form o of distrust between the americans and the russian and that's with that prompted. donald trump to- want to pull out of this open skies air treaty he said just earlier today before heading out to michigan- that. lena pointing to russia's staying at they have vioiolated the pact they ae nott even hearing at two the pact and until they do that we will pull out. this open. skies treaty. china is to new so legislation on hong kong in the wake of last year's pro democracy on breast transaction could spot fresh protests in thee territoryry which enjoys my freedoms. not allowed on the mainland. after all from fafarm demonsnstratioions at twenty nineteen plunged the city into its deepest turmoil since it returned to beijing's role in nineteen ninety seven. well the initial reaction from what is the us would react very strongly against the attempt game. the former britishsh colony. china's annual. this is

underway in beijing could you. with pomp and heightened precautions china's annual parliamentary meeting gets under way in beijing after the national anthem a minute of silence to honor victims of covert nineteen. what made it right decision she's only here sir herschel supply room wall. ththere are some friends here hi don. he known as the two sessions the meetings of china's official legislative body the national people's congress and its ceremonial advisory body the people's political c consultltative conference are happening two months late this year afterer much of the country went into lock down into a hopeless event on a virus. the session large or stamp affect decision b be taken by the com party central committee are sent it and approve. this year j. we've civil code to come first ever

that would replace a host of laws regulating marriage private property and even privacy another major focus will be the country's economy which shrank for the first time in decades in this year's first quarter. civic economic growth. even did by premier li ke showing this year the new economic stimulus measures a are expected as unemployment surges across the country also on the table potential new national security laws to address the status of hong kong. after months of pro democracy protests there. the covert nineteen pandemic has become the toughest challenge of president xi jinping's political life. being a seat to turn it into a pr victory presenting the image of a unified nation banquet the virus. had a virtual world organ is messed up. she china handling of the alps. pledging to billion dollars to help fight the disease. so the congress underway at in beijing

for france twenty four correspondent child pell grant. safeguarding at territories nationonal a and sececurity i is has always been the narrative that beijing has pushed- to explain- the- repreression against the contest a and are against thehe protest movement n hong kong in twenty nineteen and that this law will b ban any acts of sedition says chin. true thihiis intnterpreted quite wiwidely to one e particularar instance thatt thatt happenedd n twenenty nineteen whwhere- chine i mean a chinese flag was thrown into hong kong g harbour could cover other acts this butt potentntially. beingng involvedn the protest now how d does this law basically- in trapped on hongng kong's autonomy e especiy when aging actually have the right. t to enact this. ththe lw well beijing hadn't it now the

in the print of o one two. it ws the hong kong's let council that hadad to activate thihis clause of hong k kong's mini.. constitution they hadn't been able to do it so far because every time they tried to pass it there was too much resistance either from pro democracy or oppositee tommy or simply. from a pro as as work in two thousand and three so what's sure this time around as this will once again reignite- the protest movement set in hong kong for the summer of twenty twenty. number watching that story's role development shell telegram a correspondent that. overer eighty people have been killed in the cyclone that struck india and bangladesh coastal towns in the bay of bengal again swarmed by tidal surges of up to five meters winds of up to a hundred and eighty kilometers per hour approached destruction to many hundreds of thousands of homes. two point six million people in the path of cyclone i'm fine they face a stark choice

staying put facing the destruction of the homes about staff we'll take a refuge in crowded shelters risking she covered nineteen. as the strongest storm in decades strikes the nearby coast room key and her family hunkered down in a repurposed school. but the storm is not the only. more than two hundred people are cramped into the small shelter despite bangladesh tripling its number of evacuation centers to help people keep their distance amid the corona virus pandemic. fufurther north in the town of called the locals were left sifting through the remains of whwhat usesed to be their homesl the way to weaken signinificanty as it approached the coaoast cyclone i'm fine still unleashed winds of up to one

hundred and eighty kilometers per hour. meanwhile across the border residentsf the city of kolkata whihich is s home to fiftfteen llllion peoplee woke p to scenes of widespread flooding and downed trees and power lineses. a government official said coastal villages in the state of west bengal are completely destroyed. i'm fine was the first super cyclone to form over the bay of bengal since nineteen nininety nine. te merger the doctors here in france or more i'm more optimistic for the second wave of covered nineteen infection has been avoided. the number of coronavirus deaths registered in front of the last twenty four hours dipped to eighty three this thursday. a patrick pollute the president of the french emergency doctors association says he has colleagues on seeing the second wave of infections in spite of the country using its lockdown.

how may the health ministry has confirmed latest deaths in hospitals and nursing homes thank you francis said total death toll from the pandemic to twenty eight thousand. two hundred and fifty. the french police have been vigilant this thursday carrying out spot checks on the roads the people exceeding the one hundred kilometer travel limits. it's a long holiday weekend many hundreds of thousands of trying to enjoy thehe hot weather. a visible police presence on france's main automobile arteries this weekend. in addition to the routine speeding tickets they're also checking documents to enforce a one hundred kilometer distance limit on travel from home. which is a significant local muka morgan did you. like this if you met with that club. good idea keeeep pulling. beth thanks ironically t to exhale it often. and starting wednesday evening police blockades in long distance railway stations. no one allowed to board without presenting their travel justification certificate.

confirms the- but truly don't disappear me for what's happened for a- modicum of. those without the proper declaration form risk a one hundred thirty five euro fine. with checks increasing over. the weekend. for those forty enough to live and zone where the is circulating last actively summery temperatures are inspiring an increasing desire to head outdoors. some municipalities have already decided to re open their public beaches here in las utah along the mediterranean coast bathers are required to respect strict physical distancing measures. shore side paddle ball is played in surgical masks to get to the water a long corridor of barriers. please hold with your tv set this bus stop was one of the men. bye says deposit of faith the only cannot the first steps need to of pleasure people z. police don't. see nicolele please yep.. do the ma. we allowed picnic and tanning

for billion new rules that are a bit vague even for those charged with enforcing them. less utah's local government says that if weekend crowds make a distancing rules impossible to enforce access to the beach will once again be closed off. the thirty nine million people have applied for unemployment benefits in the united states the trend is pointing to a second wave of layoffs in sectors not initially affected by the curb at nineteen pandemic. the u. s. labor department recorded a record high in early may this is believed to indicate businesses are not rushing to re hire a state's out re opening. after bennetttt joins s from our business desk joining us from homee as part of a social distancing measures to combat coded ninety captain it was a pleasure to see you even at a distance thanks for being with us- you were telling me that there are fewer and fewer first time applications. for unemployment benefits so what does all this mean for the immediate future of the u. s. economy. well the fact that there are fewer and fewer f firt

time applications for unemployment benefits in the u. s. is all see those in about something up but it also doesn't necessarily signal that the u. s. i is. h heading into n economic recovery all of any sort what it may be a sign on that is not lay offs will be nearing that peak soon as you said. and but of course we call no we have the people who have been laid off whether they will be able to find work again. in the short term. so we're now in a seventh straight week off decline. of numbers of americans who all applying for those unemployment benefits. so if you look at the numbers you can see that gradual decline of from at the last week of march. we reached its peak of six point eight. million people who applied to- for the unemployment benefits. to the two last week where we're down to two point four four. million people- for the first time applications. now the hopope is that that number will continue to go dodown. e especially as states across the u. s. all re opening their economies. and ozz followed w workers. a are goingo

be returning to the workrkplace. nine weeks looks as you said we've reached t thirty eight pointt six mediaia. nearlyly a quarter of the u. s. the work force and even thougugh it stats all re opening as you said economists alsoo estimatining tt over 40% of those people thatt went. over for set of these job cuts sorry will perhapsps be permanent to job cuts so of course thehe crisis is f far frm over and the worry is that unemploymentnt- may lingerr even as the u. s. starts to step into an economic recovery. so kakathryn st sorry opening their economies which means many employees are returning to the work place some companies that were thinking of extending. what in what you're doing and working from home how are some of america's biggest companies reacting that is locked on measures being lifted. well of course there is a variety of reactions to the easing of lockdown measures you have on one siside of the spectrum you have a tesla for example tesla

the- electric vehicle companyny. and now they hahave been quite bullish abobout making sure that workers r returned to the factoy floor as quickly as possible. and they said in a memo to employees earlier today that they are planning on resuming normal o operations at two plans in the two u. s. states- this week. but it also means a return to that very strict attendance policicy so for instance if a tesla employee is worried abobout contracting the virus. welcome to actually bringing it back to a vulnerablele family member.r. ts simple you can apply for unpaid leave but only up until thend of theonth and after thahat he willll have to return it to the factory flolo.nd now on the other end of thehe spectrum you hahave a facebookk which is reay pushing. a continuation of these remote working. situation of these netwoworking possibilities- the ceo mark zuckerberg said today in a call with employeyees. that he's even thinking about 50% of employees could be working full time in the next five to ten years so we're e seeing a diffeferent a

difffferent variety of reactions from companies across the u. s. katharine thank you very much today cathy about that from our business desk. thanks again. and that's this bulleletin. for more stay with us you're watching france twenty four. hello and welcome to the interview hey on france twenty fourur my guest today is among the red lyrical artists. to have graced the stages of the paris opera the met in new york and the scala in milan. as well as headlining a at the montclair jazz festival. and lending her talents to the world of musical theater. yeah barbara hendricks has not only use her voice in the service of a superlative musical career. she's also been a staunch defender of human rights in her role as an ambassador. to the u. n.'s high commission for refugees. she joins us now to tell us more about a one off concert that she's giving full not very close. bob hendrix t thank you o

mumuch for joioining us. hello w are you now you currently preparing for an online concert staged at the varsity essen install chrome which is called the road to freedom you'll see as well as that of your fellow musicians will be going to the u. n. h. c. r. and given the current circumstances that show wiwill be l live streamed now is been a huge part of your life defending the rights of refugees from more than three decades so why is this becauause it's so important right t now. right nowow all of the refugees find themselves really. among the most marginalized and vulnerable parts of our society- theyy are m mostly and very crowded to refer to sitete. wherere they have little access to water. to soak and sococial distancing is almost been thinking since being ini ie and confinement. of with all the uncertainty that w we allll have in our lives. then this is how w we're for do you still. al of the time. there are wondering when will our kids get to school again- what's o or

life's going to be like when can we start.. a normal life. so it's so you know they have b ben forced to flee wars persecucutin complex. but they have the same concerns and sinking what m maye people can feel little bit just a little bit what it mighteel like to be a refugee- and- and- and to. realize how they are. really m menaced by at school that. my team. now the of this before the ray to free brings to. most luther king only road to freedom. the civil rights movement of the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties in america is something of a an influence here i believe. oh absolutely thohough the room was compmposed of songs thahat playr importantt role during thahat movement- and also i would like to see because it was led by martin luther king but would not have happenened and beeeen a success without the meanie unknown. men who consumed

tainted that movement i mean you know we know rosa parks because she was a great inspiration to the movement but there were other women that diane nash daisy bates of spendingng a lot m more. and ths what this is a movemement with lots o o insulin women at and the- s. thahat. is one of lovee and sellingg. and i've b been seeing so many exaxamples of people being generous a a helping others and kindness during this during this pandemic these uncertain times. and thehe and he gives me great states after when things calm down andnd we are able to get back to normal but maybe wee can think k life a littltle bit differently we e going to. we value. a reaching out to one another those who are close to us and our neighbors- so in this concert i w will be dodoina quite a few quotes from martin

luther king. and the- one one of them that always touches me so is it. hates cannot reduce state or get rid of hate. only love can do that nowow speaking of the civilil rightss movement you wewere born in arkansas at a time when thth jim crow lawaws f segregation w was still in plac. and you said it was like being born a refugee in your own country since you didn't have the same rights as white people growing up did you believe that as a black woman you would go on to be one of the world's most famous opera singers that you would see a black man elected president of your country. of no i dididn't i did as well growing up i w was. my i was mostly focused on studying science mathehematics and- and physics-s- and i was singiging n the choir as is that and i love ththat and i think. my father's judgment farms pastor. and me i knew that means what's going to be a part of my life. for all of my life bebecause i loved itt and i love singing- but does. the idea of becoming a s standig

on the stage of. of the last color- the paris opera. w was nt even part of my minind that nanation my dreaeams. so. w whe. it came about because- i g got a talelent i receiveved the talalt and my knowledge that talent and i. followed it and that's what led me to give up the science and chahange the music when i finish my university studies- no i didn't know that a black man will bebecome president. and it's onenef the really the great milestotones in the american hisistory but there have been so many setbacks to whatat was gaiained by the movet of m martin lutherr king. of the gutting of the voting rights deal that was done by the supreme court some years ago which is now because manany many cases of voter suppression there were many people who died trying to- help people in mississippi. vote r register t o

vote. and thehe so we've taken o many steps forward. and some stepep back w woods but that is life we must keep p up the fight of martitin luther king said if you can't fly. run if you can't run walk if you can't walk crawl whatever you need to keep moving forward so that's how nice he is we move forward sometimes we move backwards but the site you never give up. we never had we must nevever giveep becaususe democracy and freedom is not given it is e earned. and that i believe that and so i enjoyed t the positive things that happen and then when i see. the inequality that this r randm it has sort of jojonas and model of a modern societeties. we see that we have a lot of work to do. and then. w work because i see exaxamples o of l le and gegenerosity all around us and

the- love. always wins in the end. no u. n. agency have read was with high profile from the ons good we and- with the idea that these very well known. will bring visibility to that work and when you started doing this the platforms were much more limited for example you campaigned against apartheid as guest editor of vogue magazine in the nineteen eighties. but now with social media everyone seems to have a platform following anna cools is there a danger that the key messages getting lost here well. recognized forms or- really it's i mean i sortt of f come to the social media quite late- i think that. i i will i cannot judge other people's woror i think k e most impmportant thing for r . was to be able to gett the message thehe importatant message.e. across which means that i have to keep the noise

about my own life and the- up. quiet because there's so little time given t to getting out t tt very important and s sometimes very complicated message. refugee called refugee situations arere different t the world over- they are usually caused by. abuse o of human rights. and their solutions are always political. and that makes it quitete complicated to get the message across now looking back at your mususical careerer as i mentioned you've moved between and across it classical repertoire which we often associate with the european tradition. to the world of blues and jazz which is perhaps closer to american musical traditions can you tell us more about this eclecticism and how you reconcile. those two difffferent musical worlds. well for me mumusic is me i dont have any divisionsns i've- r. o. growingg up i i was always s sig in choir in school- and u using

alll kinds of musicc we had that one boy. choir directors was one of the best jazz musicians in the state of arkansas and s o we sang somee jazz but we also single box we sayiying is bahkan titles at the are we staying in. our the moment sir and sing some of the most science always saying m. and i just neneed you to them the first operator who did was an- offer by a month not to wear played a boy. let's call the mall and the night visitors to christmas supper and so but there were no divisions no between the music that was saying it was just music and so always kept t that. that feeling about music that openness to ththe. curiosity but the- this two different. ways to do. really rare. two cultures that i. myself i mean i grew up in america i had carried those roots very deep my- feet rooted deeply in the dirt of arkansas. where i grew

up and but i know most of my life in europe. i feel verery europepean- european citizen- ad the- at i'm justt very blessed to have been able to. trace all the kerryy the those two cultures in me e but- in the end we're all africans so we all. carry o over all of it we have access to so much culture therere's so mumuch richness. ad but for me the value of arart in ouour lives that it connects us because he needs the ongoing conversation about. the human condition all human beings the mandate so well. i i still reach the night these into languages that i'm able to speak thehe classicall one as well as- the jazz and- that has its roots in. in a africa so what it's a blblessing for me and- and also ththe possibility

05/21/20 05/21/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york city, the epicenter of the pandemic, this is democracy now! have been very worried ever since hearing news of the coronavirus infection in the rohingya camps. there is no end to the worry. amy: i major cyclone hits india and bangladesh amidst the pandndemic, this listing 3 milln people and unleashing heavy rain on cox's bazar, home to one million rohingya