promises health workers a significant increase in pay as franz profess to overhaul its hospital system the decision comes on the back of multiple protests by health workers it's in regards to the status. boris johnson's chief adviser dominic cummings it releases a statement defending his breach of a lockdown trip cummings stands by his decision saying his actions were legal. and the world health organization suspends clinical trials four

hydroxy chloride keen off the alarms that study fininds the drug could have deadly side effects on patients boss not curing them m of code at ninety. hello and thank you very much for joining us in the front twenty four newsroom we start here in france prime minister edouard philippe has announced a health workers will bee given sisignificant pay raises in the coming months. as t the country prprepares to overhaul its healh system hey nurses basic wages just fifteen hundred euros making it one of the lowest salaries in the oecd group of developed countries. in recent weeks health workers have staged multiple protests criticizing the government for what they vieww ass a lack of supports particularly from a financial point of view that often leave however promised that the changeses would merit france's gratitude toward. the front lines during the corona virus pandemic. double cook about do we want to be able to

show our gratitude to our health care workers and to maintain their motivation for their calling. it it's more our country's gratitude is enormous and the president that will translate into compensation will support her details on i want to be clear that pay hikes will be significant. as will be the raising of our health budget targets in the coming years and if. france's health care system is consistently ranked amongst the best in the world but the crying of ours crisis. has affected the highlighted a growing strain on stafaff and infrastructure. aftr years of government costa saving policies so how does french healthcare comparere with other systems in europe brian quinn takes a look. a system that has so far seen france through its worst public health crisis since the second world war. is one that was already strained even before the corona virus hit. that inspite of considerable fiscal outlay

francis spends more than most european countries on health care in twenty seventeen that figure was nearly two hundred sixty billion euros. eleven point 3% of gdp matched only by germany and well above the e. u. average of nine point nine percent. critics argue that the tooth in three options so called activity based payment in which medical procedures are assigned a monetary value actually incentivized more spending. less one place where money is being saved is whatever including that of nurses on the front lines of patient care french nurses receive some of the lowesest pad in the oecd group of developed nations. at around fifteen hundred euros per month after tax their pay is below the national average wage thehe country's nursing union says that in the five years after graduation one third of friends this is quit the profession. another cost cutting measure has been duction in overall hospital beds part of a broad

international trend aimed at increasing hospitals efficiency france n now h has some eighty e thousand fewer hospital beds than it did decades ago. but so does germany with beds per thousand residents france is behind its german neighbours but well ahead of italy spain and the uk. this call saving. friends system remains some thirty billion euros in debt. as the government negotiates with health workers over revamp of that system it has so far agreed to transfer thirteen billion euros of that debt to the state's own balance sheet. time now for a word on a business the french government says it has spent four hundred and fifty billion euros to support businesses workers and the economy cheering and the pandemic. as it looked on measures on east it scaling back it's a financial aid notably and it's a partial unemployment will paid furlough schemes well our business added

to that case and moody joins us with more on this story kay thank you very much. for joining us alive on the ground k. what chananges have been announced this week- the outlook is to the government boston. it's going be reducing the amount of money thahat it contributes to that partial unemployment or state sponsored furloughs scheme. which was designed to avoid large scale layoffs employees who aren't able to go to work will still receive 84% of theieir total montnthly hey- but fromm the fit of june employers will have to pay abobo 15% of that. rather than the entirety coming from government coffers it's a progressive shift it won't apply to industries which are still required to be closed. that includes restaurants in the tourism and culture s sectos the e only be apapplied to companieies in areas that are allowewed t to go back to work. nearly thirteen million french workers more than half the pop private sector has signed on to that scheme is that was launched in march it's because

the government some twenty four billion. or three months it's the single most expensive of emerge support. that announced the economy find a and bruno maire saying my that artists four hundred fifty billion total. that's percent france's total g. also said he because the annual summer sale period. he pushed back by. this summer details best got lost the new. we will. package car three on tuesday as- but one of the best major mass. exploiting michahael the head of the french central bank meanwhile said the step that love 43% of gdp will be low during the deacon. at the decision to this person that was lost during the lockdown. kate said take us through the day he says. marketet simimon ws almostst a higher close close to major european indices as more

companies across the continent ststart t to easese their lockdn restrictions and get back to work i thihink i can offer is around 2% in paris at the jackson lee three millones for. abouout one point s six just sts in london closing slightly lower shares of lufufthansa rose aroundnd 7% as the airline came closer to o a government b bailt deal in germany airbus rose 8% here in paris no wall street's closed today for memorial day and when it reopens on tuesday it'll be turning the page on pandemic at l least in part. of the trading floor of the new york stock exchange is been closed for two months with all traders working from home about a quarter of them will be returning to that symbolic site on tuesday- they'll have to wear face masks and observe a strict s social distancing rules including plexiglas partititions workers willl reportedly h haveo sign a waivever accccepting the possible risk going back to. work as well i it's a babyy step back towards normal operating system city and state all begin.

she will still before from business as usual. p president for. business s that iss a k. maybe thank you very much of a turn us k. time for that and i was. boris johnson's she could don't coming has for calls of. him it's a resign just. his actions- a lock down saying they were legal. after driving away from london during anti lockdown boris johnson's eight has faced a backlash for his actions. of the people accused him of flouting the rules becoming says he took all the necessary precautions and acted in the best interests of his family. the u. k. prime minister has defended his eight saying he acted reasonably with integrity and calf others let's hear from dominic cummings. in this very complex situation i try to exercise my judgment the best i could. i believe the rule circumstances i behave reasonably legally. balancing the safety of my family and the extreme situation number ten on

the public interests effective government to which i could contribute. i was involved in decisions affecting millions of people i thought let's try to help as much as i could to. i can understand that some people will argue that i s should have stayed at my home in london throughout. i understand these views. i know the intense hardship and sacrifice the entire countries have to go through. however i respectfully disagree. the legal rules inevitably journal cover all circumstances including those that i found myself in. and forr all the latest on this car into a political crisis in the u. k. our correspondents in london benedict have you sent us this report. this is a very high stakes it's unprecedented a t tp adviser over portions and his top advisers. giving a a pressss conference in the rose garden of downing street. who says he doesn't. regret what he did butt he doesnsn't believeve that he broke the rulules b but if he ad sesensiblyly. and r rsonably and

legagally he didn't think to speak k to his boss becausese ultimatetely the defenenses i didn't't want to bothther himimm and i dididn't g go to many this to do all l day i think. thehe y story he said wawas for the lateness o of the opening of the presess offfficers hoffffer out. enough at fofour pm. sometimimes plan. but thehere isnsn't very h i think of finger p poiing also at the media thehe fact that a lolot of thee repororting sayss dodominic cummimings. was fulul. some o of the knowledge meant that. should have spoken eaearlier made ththis. earlrl so this summer. if i i can use the wordrd contrition or possiblylye more accurate one is regret. and of course it's been days since friday night remember at god gin and mira investigation. headline news since friday night saturday all day sunday all day up t to nine ththis afternoon bank holiday weekend to try and notot just.

give his version but to try and stop the extraordinary political damage but his has been doing not just to the government but the prime minister himself. and just won a final piece of news concerning in t the united kingdom- boris johnson has announced the old non essential shops will be expected to open on june fifteenth wast open markets and car shows. should reopen on june fast. spain has annonounced that it will not to be quarantining any tourists from the first of july on what's in a bid to reboot its terrorism industry which accounts for twelve percent. of spain's gdp authorities have said that's a fourteen day quarantine for peoeople entnterg the country will no longer be required however tourists could still find it difficult to travel abroad- several natioions have impose blanket quarantine measures some people entering. the country such as the united kingdom major flight operators such as easyjet and jet to have

announced that they plan to start flying again within borders are scheduled to reopen made choose. the world health organization has halted clinical trials for the highly controversial drug hydroxy chloride came. off to a lancet study showed he couould have deadly effects on those using it was not having any impact in curing patients of cove in nineteen. the drug has been endorsed by major political figures such as donald trump on high up pulls the nara. as well as some leading medics like dj how it's in france but say it's effectiveness against the virus is always being questioned the who's said they aree suspending the trtrials pending a review of the tests that i've already being conducted. the executive group has implemented a temporary pose of the hydroxyl hydroxy cloaking on within the saudi body to trial why in the

data this data is reviewed by the data safety monitoring board the other arms of the trial of containing. japan has lifted its a state of emergency in the capital tokyo in full of the prefectures of this monday putting the country on the path back to reopening its economy as the corona virus pandemic continues it comes a week and a half off the much of the rest of japan's so restrictions lifted. us concerns a similar over the state of the economy and further contraction i made a new perception looks right has the story. it's been almost two months but this department store in tokyo has reopened its doors. the japanese capital then for the perfect choose finally joined the rest of the nation and seeing the end of a state of emergency. the restrictions have been eased elsewhere on may the fourteenth

place strict sanitary measures wiwill remain in effect moving forward. temperature checks and hand sanitizer amanda terry and even the court uses wrapped in plastic. let's check out stuff is separated from customers by plexiglalass screens. restarting the economy is a major concern for authorities which sold the world's third largest economy slide into recession in the first quarter. prompting the government to scramble to bailout crumbling businesses. i thought there. he sales how. kit day that's a must. some bundle deals on i'll say. your cable next door handle put a mortal nemesis. the restrictions will be lifted in stages schools museums and libraries will reopen progressively less restaurants to can stay open for longer i in the evenings. cinemas and theatres will have to wait for november with night clubs and gyms ordered to remain closed until further notice as with

japan's borders which will still close to florida's. properties across the rest of the population to limit travel as much as possible at least until the end of the month. you sasave it in the east me a the time of the chosen by president. yet new grin zeese- in in burundi to replace him has it being declared the winner of the country's presidential election. oppoposition parties have alreay promised to contest the results of what t they branded has an electorall farce. national election commission announced a nd she had one sixty eight point 72% of the vote. while opposition leader i guess on wawasa came in from behind. w wh just a twenty four pointnt. 19% also in use we have thank you for much for but. hello and

welcome to the friends twenty four interview our guest today is he brought him calling he's as special adviser and spokesperson for turkey's president. recep tayyip erdogan he joins us from the turkish capital ankara thank you very much for being with us today. thank you glad to. visit callin- turkey has over a hundred fifty six thousand conf cases of covert nineteen some four thousand three hundred forty death. do you believe the epidemic is under control in your countries- we just want to add that the authorities have the terror for daily. nationwide core few during the k. golf each celebrations. . wel the numbers are going down we have- the situation under control mostly but we are being veryry careful becauause of you still don't know the exact- pattern of behavior for this virus- you may all you havee to be.. ready f for a second waitit that's why we are emphasizing

this- measures to be implemented carefully compared to other countries i think we have done extremely well. inter of. measures early all. implemented people have. it does measure and they are inviting. by then and- the art of course are goingng intnto a gradual phase of- easing up some of the restrictions- but of you're going to be careful because i think a common traiti. of this call nineteen in which we live right now is that you're going to have to live to live with it for some time. right now i want to turn to yeah- chili- turkey's intervention there has upended the situation on the ground it has given the upper hand. to the government of fayez al seraj against his arch rival holy *-*- haftar. essentially he'd been holed up in the capital tripoli it seems now- that after hours troops and allies are fleeing away is this

what's happening right now as we speak i in libya. wewell the stationn remains very critical and d fragile i i love v. sign n agreement with the libyan government- which is recognized by thehe u. n. as the legitimate represenentative of the libyan people- back in- in. december of two thousand nineteen upon the request of the libyayan government of national accord. i will be provided them but what's that someme help advice. and send some advisors- dare try to help them and bring a degree of- b balance to the conflict in fact our intervention. an argumument within another quarter government has indeed brorought the degree of violence to conflict there. okay hosters behavior the last two years s h- brokenen at least. in sipip six five. up putut together andope to be implplemented by thehe inn community has notot. recognizedd any of the u. n. mandate stay actually he has broken the

ceasefire agreed in the berlin confererence. are he continues o attack on his own people and they'll be believe it's time for the international community direct. how it is and that he is not a legitimate represenentative of the libyan people he's he's brought more sufferining. and exhilarated the violence in- in libya withh the supptt of a number of countries obviously from the gulf region and will present the- brush but- we believe that. the minute school division is s solution in libya what do youu w what later the number okay post lynn. canan. gather it's aa to be m more. the supported this is going has been very risk and because from the very i have implemented is far a dayay havee worked the internet can. so now it's time for haftar's backers to understand a topic that is not a reliable partner in league right up but it's- there's not so much a political solution as

a military one that's being mean reports of a russian person very syrian repairr is leading away. from the also report s says senending more ply it's that the thrust government with decisive so it it pushehed for a militaryry. victory againt haftar. they are the their- there. in libya's capital they are responding to o haftar's aggressive behaviors and- the mercenaries that- were brougught to levy- from- chart f from- the sudan. from s syria most recenty the wagner group which is the russian- military company are they all- fought actually on the side of cough that and now they- are they are realized i'm off to. reall it's not it's nott woworking. and thisis era govern fact has said many many times- that that they want a political solution not a mililitary solution but obviously they have a right to defend themselves. are they ready to push- onto territory controlled

by haftar and maybe- as far as hihis strongholdld benghazi. the needs to be. a political solution which will apply to all of libya not j just a single orderr c ctain parts of libibyan territorieies. t that is not one intercolollegiate all sincere to in benghazi and other places your recent actions by. the hostile forces in f fact have tuturned people in. benghazi oky alii a and otherss also agagaint tough there so i don't k know whatat the military p plans aret they they are entitled d and i see determimine. fofod themselvs against. if needed militarily right but- you're encouraging the suraj governments- two defeats haftar militarily if he doesn't wantt to liststen to any consolation cocoect. we'v've ben in. ththem to- i applied thehe principlples of thehe berlin conference as well as t the u. . plan s. it also military force. i know actually the berlin

conference- calls for a cease fire- f for a politicalal reresolution if you remember it was out of the berlin conference- that a military council decision was takak to be established five from t the side right side far from thehe- off their site to talk about. deconstrtructing right here but i'm kind of the hotter side has refused to sendnd even prpresentatives to that military council instead they increased their military attacks so i in response to that the suraj government is responding to that- to push off their military offense right- i want to ask you about- some news that just came out- from- you an expert's report- talking about. private western forces- that had been- sense- to libya a few a month ago to prevent turkey from- giving us a military- health. too this the russian government and he said this was coordinated from companies based in the united. it's what reaction to this report from you and experts the

abu dhabi good month been providing the minutee and financial a support. in i its bg with yes it war me by prop using up oil becoming for the libyan oilfield. constant good bye their- cell ending. probablyly t talking u up. thee russian mercenaries well a as other person is cocoming from. the hi jennififer. and plplace t mrmr nye merson the appears. yeh at it actually clearly shows who is really a the violence there right there been some tensions- with friends- over- libya over syria in a statement just two weeks ago- the foreign ministry of turkey accused of friends of being- the patron of the axis of malice- what's the situation with frances this. is still a very tense relationship

because of disagreements over libya over syria and all the things. well in libya wee h had extensive discussionsns- the berlin confeference as well as before and our presidedent of a number of discussions with the president mark wrong about finding a political solution. to the libibyan conflict- but ununfortunatelyy france contitis to s support staff that would turn out to be not reliable t te onone- frienen with e everyone o support him that's what y yes of course we do that. anyone who's supporting half that is on the wrong side- into libyan conflict in syria we have our disagreements- as well- not ononly with friends but also wih the uniteded states becauause bh of them a are supporting pydyd g which is pkk syria branch and pkk is listed ass a a terrororit organization indeed recogninizes a terrorist organization in france.. and we believe that supportiting pyd ypg in the name of fighting dice that was a justification couple of years ago and now the dice b but has been mosostly eliminated as it was declarared by. the president

of the united states but a number of other western allies they still continuee to supportt pyd ypg we have to then why do you did you. jan degree iraq's kurdish. in syryrup and that again. i do. thanank you at t te end of the calll unity with the that a all the arabs c come on muslim christian alibi t to need evererybody be at the at the negotiating table against the s. regime and its a- andd brutal- war- but you cannot to pick and choose one particular ethnic or ideological group- and tgive thehe some privileges it really undndermins all the efforts that you're putting together to keep city got together. at dition possiblen syria thehe c cake is agenda inn syria is clear it's to create theirir own cessatation of state right on right but of course we will not allow that because said thahat poses a national threat to our national security but also it's on the mininds of the basic goal

of u. n. resolutution two two five four which calls for. serious territorial integrity and political unity i just ask a question of error are gone and us to a few days it was a really. moving it a group suspects because. yeah our presidenents have good relationship they had a good coconversation about levi-i- a t ria aboutut colgate nineteen about bilateral relatioions you knknow they seset a goal of reaching a hundredillion dollar trade gold. we are working on all of these e areas but we have disagreements over again who are thehe united stats is s supporting in- inn syryrian just as for h hundred it. is al. many efforts to o acquire. missile system. but unfofortunately sincece thehe oa presidency i it didn't happepene alternrnatives when n ourok for

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05/05/20 05/05/20 democracy now! test [captioning made possible amy goodman: from new york, the epicenter of the pandemic, this is s democracacy now! nonoam chomsky: we have a tototy dysfunctional gogovernment which is causing enormous problems. it is not that nothingng was knknown. the pandemic wasas anticipated. his reaction was to o cut back preparatitions. amy odmaman: how d did the united states, the richest country in the world,