activistsimate change staged a protest on all the airports. forced to evacuate briefly for the first time i in over three months. democratic lawmakers in the united states sign off on a major package of police reform, but the g george floyd law is likely to be blocked in n the republican-conontrolled senate. thanks for joining us. those are the international headlines this hour. you are watching france 24. world health organization says the global coronavirus pandemic is getting worse, with the number of cases close to 10 million. in the u.s., an estimated 20

million people have or have had the disease. forced to cancel plans s to ease lockdowns. international affairs editor douglas herbert talks about howw authorities arare struggling to cocontrol thee spreaead of the . goioing to ususe the words out of control, but it is headed that way. as we know, the u.s. had a disjointed, to say the least, policy, when it came to state-by-state, how they approach this virus. member, the epicenters were in new york city and the northeast region. now, they have really switched. the places we have seen, the spikes you have spoke of -- we have seen more than 41,000 new infections reported on thursday ththis week, it is really a recd daily total. it is going up and up. the places we are seeing these new infections tend to be southern and western states, places that are far removed from

the epicenters of the early outbreaks in the u.s. we are seeing states -- texas, florida, california, it nevada, arizona. -- but also nevada, arizona. and also alabama, alaska, montana, utah. theirave seen some of largest daily totals ever since this thing broke out, in recent days. in more than 30 states, about 30 states, have seen an increase in cases. it is more than half of the states of america on the rise as opposed to on the wane when it comes to this. meanwhile, you have the cdc basically telling people that the number of estimated infections in the u.s. could be as much as 10 times higher than the official tally. t tally, 2.3 million. you could do the math better than i could. o 30 is about 20 million

million infections we are talking about in america, which is no laughing matter. still no uniform policy from state to state. the texas governor, as we reported, has paused three openings. florida is putting the brakes on a very quick reopening. disneyland california is not going to be reopening in mid july as it plan two. slamming on the brakes. the virus not under control in the united states. anchor: the virus is more under control in europe but experts are warning against complacency. the easing of lockdownss have coinincided with warmer weatheh. images from the u.k. over the weekend -- thousands headed to crowded beaches. few adhering to the rules on social distancing. warning. it's s a stark the w.h.o. says a resurgegence n the coronavirus is already beginning. aneuropean nations have seen

uptick in cases. affected countries include portugal, russia, germany, spain, and the u.k. >> accelerated transmission has led to very significant researches -- resurgence is which push health systems again to the b brink in europe. reporter: w.h.o. figures in europe so there are an average of 20,000 new cases each day, and more than 700 deaths. some countries alrlready pututtg protective measures back in place. in germany, certain areas affected by the virus are back under lockdown. the w.h.o. is recommending speedy, targeted interventions for each new virus trouble spot. berlins as paris and have expressed support. francis pledged 50 milillion eus in direct funding for the w.h.o., while its german

counterpart has offered 500 million in funding, showing a trump want after donald called it a puppet of china and ended his country's relationship with the organization. anchor: a bumpy start for paris's second largest airport as it reopened business. on friday, several thousand passengers are expected. number,on of the usuall pre-coronavirus. after a few hours, the airport had to be evevacuateted becausea protest by climate change activists. adiaassey has more -- n massey has more. nadia: this was supposed to be a smooth day afterer a three-month closure, where airport staff could show they are safe to open for business read instead, we had activists from extinction rebellion storming one of the runways, preventing fights from taking off half an hour ago.

we just got a statement from the communications team here in orly saying they were a able to get another runway up quickly, flights were disrupted. we had aame time, suspicious package found where i am, and everybody here had to be evacuated asas well. those two events really highlightiting kind of t the see of anxiety that people were experiencing here. clearly, this is not a normal time to be flying. everybody has to wear masks, for one thing. there are many more cleaners some of thening touchscreens, to try to reassure peoplele they are safe to trava. of course that really remains an open question, given the fact that when you are in a cabin, you are in a confined space for an hour or a couple of hours. many of the people i have been speaking to here say they are excited to be traveling again. many going on holiday for a bit

of a summer break although they are concerned about safety and restrictions. anchor: from the business point of view, this is the time when the airlines are really desperate to recoup some of the losses they posted over the last three months. are they confident about that? nadia: lots of concern i think, laura, about what is going to happen in the next couple of weeks. really, nobody knows what the aviation sector is going to look like in six months time. will passengers feel safe to travel again? will there be a second wave of infection and another mass lock down? , very few services run at this moment. only around 70 flights taking off compared to about 800 normally. 90% of its service is

next is concern over the couple of months, even years, for the airline industry. in the united states, the ho calllled the george floyoyd law. itit passed a monthth to the day after he died at the hands of police in minneapolis. it is likely to be blocked by the republican-controlled senate.. calls from the street that have made it to the house of representatives, where all democrats into the can's voted to pass a major overhaul of american police. act,ustice and policing established as a a all transformative vision of leasing america. never again should the world be subjected to witnessing what we saw in the streets of minneapolis. the bill would take away legal

protections for police officers. it also includes restrictions on chokehold in the creation of a national database for incident senateat was blocked by democrats. the republican-controlled senate is all but certain to block the bill for being too extreme. >> congress started with democrats saying abolish ice. then, get rid of the department of homeland security. now we have democrats saying defund the police department. it makes no sense. in new york, the dedepartmentnt has pledged to ct funding. click to see the harm in our community. police are causing harm in ways that will decrease healing. reporter: minnesota has vowed to dismantle the police force entirely. in california, officials will redirect funds to student services.

laura: thousands of people have turned up for the funeral of presidedent, who dieded unexpectedly earlier this month. 55 fromat the age of what the governmenent said was heart faiailure. today, h h body was escorted under heavy security for a state funeral. there e was specuculation he may have caught the coronavirus. his wife h had been flown to treatment kenya for two weeks earlier. madagascar is celebrated 60 years of independence from frfrance this friday. , one ofast of east africa the first countries to fight colonial rule. these scars date back to 1947, the reminder of life as a 20-year-old forced into colonial

labor by french powers in madagascar. he paid for it with seven years in jail. >> each year, they sent us up the hill with the rifles of the french guard, and made us walk in all fours coming and going. it tore our skin. i ststill have scacars on mymy s and back. the senegalese would say, do you give in? and i would say, i would rather fall -- die with my fallen brothers. reporter: 1947 7 marked the stat

of the nearly two year malagasy uprising, one e of the earliest revolts in the colonies. the rebellion was brutally suppressed. between 30,000 and 90,000 .alagasy died after the pain stillll echoes, evenn among the young. some e people hid in the forestst. there were childldren, babies, pregnant womenen. it makes m me so sad. they shot them. they buried them alive. reporter: madagascar would have to wait over a decade before achieving independence in 1960. for this historian, the island's need for foreign aid means it is not reallyly free. >> we are still depicted, now even more than in 1960. we are dependent. we were dependent on the former colonial power, france. now we are still dependent not only on france, but on big international finance organizations. some tributes to french colonialism still stand

on the islanand, but must't've n removed. statute to970's, a the general overlooked independence avenue. in its place, there is a monument in honor of the who begannsurgents the flight for freedom. finally clenched the premier year title. the reds got off to a great start but were forced to put everything on hold with coronavirus lockdown. chelsea. 2-1 to let's have a listen to some of the fans. thank you very much, that gets in their -- there! >> it's amazing. that 1-1., only had just amazing.

just amazing. >> amazing. on top of the world. laura: stay with us. you are watching france 24. >> haile selassie, the last , isror of ethiopia considered a black messiah by the rest of fari. -- rastafari. he lifted decompression on his country. language]ng another inspirationon behind ee african union, based inin addis place homageegularly to him. he has also left a dark legacy. [ [speaking another language]

between his s supporters and those who fear the return of an autocratic regime, haile selassie's legacy remains divisive. miss the empire revisited. reporter: welcome to the france 24 interview. our guest today is a senior associate of the german institute for international and security affairs. he is the author of a very timely book called libya's fragmentation, and he joins us from religion. thank you for being with us today. thanks for inviting me. reporter: your book says libya is more divided than ever. most of the country, including by ais controlled

government of national accord, recognized by the united nations. the east is a stronghold of khalifa have to -- halifa haftar, which enjoys the support of the united arab emirates and egypt. was forced to withdraw after turkey intervened in support of the other government. forces are tracing offff -- facg .ff near a strategic townn his libya a about to ptitition? wolfram: i think that for the first time in the history of libya's conflict of thehe last 0 yeyears, there is a real risk tt things will titimately move toward partition. but we are not quite there yet. right now, the acute r rk is that t the conflict will take an

enentirely new turn come up with potential intervention by egypt, which would mean that the conflict is no longer a proxoxy war, as it was until now. it w will turn into a confrontatation betwtwn differt states in lilibya itself. possibilityo the that this will become a frozen conflict, and that could eventually lead toward partition. but we are talking about medium-term scenarios there. egypter: you mentioned and i mentioned the town of cert. says thatent of egypt if the forces allied with prime minister al-sarraj were to move there, this would cause a redline and france -- egypt would inteteene. this would m mean e egypt in confrontation with turkey

directly. is this just talk, or could this talk happen? wolfram: i think the risk of direct confrfrontation iththere. i think we w would do w well toe presidenent sisi'ss strengths seriously. right now, we are in a s situatn where there e is uncertatainty n both sides, in tururkey and in egypt, about how serious thehe threats of escalation are. there is uncertaintyty about wht extent the other side is ready military assets, is able to commit military assets, is able to sustain escalation, -- the trulyly or politicalllly susubstantlllly or politicalallf it suffefers losses. turkey aregypt, and

playing a game of f chicken. they are trying toto test how fr the other side is willing to go. u uncertainty, that game involves a serious risk of escalation. reporter: were you surprised by turkey's decisive and very open intervention backing the gogovernment of national accord? let's recall that have to -- haf tar besieged tripoli for a year and many thought he would gain controrol. suddddenly, things have turneded around totally. i i think a lot of pepeople by therprised intervention of this scale, and open intervention. ,ear in mind that last year there was an entire campaign to seize controlol of tripoli,i,

suppteted covertly by the uae, by russia, by egypt. turkey t took intervevention toa different level by intervenining openly. time, very at the few people in western governments expected this kind of interventntion by turkekey. sense to which this has shifted the balance of power has surprised a lot of people, yes. reporter: i want to go back to also the fact that there is no international mediation effort. the e u.s. specialal envoy posin is empty now. you hear of european countries, the u.s., saying we need a practical solution. there is no negotiation at the

national level. how do you expect a political solution in that situation? it is actually quitee a meaningfulsee u.n.-led process, or even a meaningful political process at all,l,-under the current circumststances. on the one hand, we have russia and turkey with an unprecedented libya over which wouould exexert inflfluence over any negogotiations. , this issame time probably not in russia's info -- interest, because it could threaten their military presence in libya. states whove other want to prevent a russian-turkish arrangement on

libya from happening -- the u.s., france, the uae, egypt, and others who might want to support the um-led process against a turkish-russian process. circumstances, i can't imagine how either of the two can succeeded. it is a situation that leads us to paralysis in the growing conflict. reporter: youou mentioned franc. france officially recognizes the fayez al--- the al-sarraj, but has sometimes supported haftar. this has led to words withth turkey. what do you make a france's

attitudeis-a-vis l libya? wolfram: france has been politically aligned with the united arab emirates in f forting have to -- haftar years now. for a long time, the french policy in tripoli was to give this more a chanance, to see winin, evenar could after r it became clear that ths war is very protracted, that it would cause a lot of destruction. this was the french policy. this war that ththe french government wanteted and supportd has given rise to unprecedented foreign intervention in libyaya, to destroy y the region even n more. but instead of reviewing the policy which produced d such , , the frenchults

government persists and tries to isolate turkekey internationally while at the same time remaining violent in the iraqi inintervenention, russian intervrvention. it cannot maintain this french criticism of turkey's role seriously, given we all know about france's support over the last year or so. reporter: you mention russia, where there is a lot of talk about a private security company intervening. you mentioned the uae. how much would they intervene? obviously, tururkey is notot hig it. how about that? the uae have been supporting haftatar's war from e beginning with combat drones and with russian-p-produced airr defense syststems. deploying ints

tripoli from september of last ar onward.d. this wasas important in turningg the balalance of power in haft's fafavor back thehen. a month ago, russia deployed support haftar. it has not used them extensively yet, but they are there. there in central libya. and the efforts play an absolutely decisive role. , theut their support defense in terms of libya would fall immediately. haftarr: do you think still has a chance? people say he did not succeed militarily, so there is no way for him to stay in power in hihs

eastern stronghold. i think what we're seeing rightht now is thth on bh sides of this conflicict, we had alliliances o of convenience, a coalalition of forces. we are seeing now tensions alliances onthese both sides. in the east, i wouldld expect tt a frozen conflict that continues at a low level, with a continuing threat of escalation in terms of libya, would be in haftar's favor. certainly, he cannot lead his coalition to a settlement. inwould lose his influence libya if a settlement werere to happen. and he is not anan acceptable negotiating partner for the

other side.. thank you very much for youour time, anand thank yor watching this interview. stay tuned for more news here on france 24.

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