>> france warns local lockdowns are possible as the country reports that yet another spike in coronavirus cases, but how does the picture in france cocompared to the rest of t the continent? we will take a core -- a totour around southern europe as our correspondence bring you the latest in italy, greece, and spain. forced to spend the night outdoors. authorities trying to arrange temporary shelter for 12,000 people. this is after a second fire broke out destroying almost all that remained of the camp. the french president, emmanuel

macron, chairing a summit of mediterraneaean states. top of the agenda, tensions about oil a and gas and gas in waters claimed by greece. athens is expected to push sanctions against turkey. the french government is to discuss the possibility of local lockdowns to tackle rising infections in the country. a government official confirmed that today. it comes as france confirmed over eight thousand 500 8500 coronavirus cases, the second-biggest daily figure. alththough the number of cases e rising the number of people being admitted to hospital remained steady.

masks are mandatory in all indoor public spaces, and since beginning of this month in paris and major cities, they a are mandatory on the streets as well.. how do the safety m measures and francece comparedd to elelsewhen eurorope. our correspondence in greece, spain, and italy are standing by. let us go to greece and natalie. arst of all, greece was country that was relatively keen to open up and get tourists back and kickstart the economy. tell us what has happened over the summer months. aims -- it seems that the plan did not go as they originally thought. of -- at the beginning the beginning of sumummer, covid numbers were single didigits. today what we are seeing is a huge spike and -- of covid infections and they are reaching

200 or 300 on a daily basis. some are quite worried. claire:: i am sorry to cut -- >> i am sorry to cut you off but we are having problems hearing you in greece. we will hold on natalie, let us go to italy. our correspondent is therefore us who has been covering the pandemic for us in italy since the beginning. we will speak to her now. italy was the first country in europe to be really badly affected by the coronavirus, and six months on, how is the picture looking? >> in italy have the foreign ministerer speaking today saying that the infection rate in italy is lower compared to many european countries, but we still are seeing increases. saw a last 24 hours we new 1434 new infections and 14 deaths.

you are seeing those numbers, you are seeing an increase in testing since mid august. anyone arriving from spain, greece, or croatia are tested on arrival at the airport. those arriving from sardinia and returning to the mainland are masks are required outdoors, particularly in the evening around areas of nightlife. that has been in place since mid august. someone has said there has been an increase in icu admissions. authorities are keepingng an eye on it.t. the foreign ministerer believes that this will not lead to a new lockdown, and the prprime minisr expects all schools to reopen on the 14th of september. >> let us talk a little bit about schools. there has been a long break for children, some of them studying

at home but six months of not being in the classroom. how do italians feel about going back to school. >> a recent survey says that seven out of 10 parents are worried about their children going back to school. as you said, it has been six months since any child entered a physical school. school has continued online, not so much on the ground. they have schoolsls that are suppososed to open come monday. the bulk of them are supposed to open up before then. two regions have decided to delay the opening until september 24 because they are concerned that they do not have measures in place. they include having individual desks, sanitizing gel available. hand, social distancing measures as well as cameras to check for temperatures. protocols that say that if a child has a high temperature or has tested positive so they can

do contact tracing. parents a areed, many concerned about their children going back to school. >> thank you for that up date on what things s look like where eu are.e. and how does that compare to the situation in spain. sarah morris is standing by. talk to us about the restrictions that have beeeen pt in place where you are to fight the resurgence. sarah: since the end of june when the national lockdown ended in spain, it has been up to the regions to reduce restrictions. authority the madrid has stepped up the restrictitios recently because madrid has become the epicenter again of spain, and europe in terms of the rising numbers of cases. madrid had said that no one should be meeting either indoors or outdoors with more ththan 10 people. attending bullfighting is banned

, anand even smoking on an outdr cafe is also banned, all of this designed to stop the spread of covid-19, which of course in spain has risen back and is being talked of a second wave. perave 230 three cases 100,000 which puts spain at four times the european average. claire: -- >> despite the restrictions we are seeing alarming new figures. it is now the first western european country to surpass 500,000 total case numbers. right, and the spaniards are scratching their head and asking why is that because they have been obliged to wear a face mask for many months across spain. they believe they have some of the totoughest restrictions

against covid-19 when compared to european neighbors like france, and experts are saying that t tre is no s simple answe. a group of scientists in an open askingin the "lancet" for an indndendent investigation to find out why spain is doing so much worse in the second wave than its european neighbors s ad the answer might have somemethig to do with t the spanish way of life. young people a are meeting up ad gathering, and drinking on beaches. it might have something to do with that socializing spirit of the spaniards, and also the finger is being pointed at the regional system. the regions are too busy blaming each other and the central government to actually start hiring enough tracers and doing the important job of containing clusters when they break out. >> talking to us s about a secod spike of cases in spain. thank you. let us return to our correspondent in greecece.

she is still with us. natalie, you are telling us about what happened over the summer. mind is what has been happening. -- remind us about what has been happening. natalie: there has been an explosion of cases which has led to authorities wanting to take drastic measures. for greek standards that means an all indoorely spaces including kindergartens. all schoolchildren will be handnded three masks to wear i n school. areas,rere, in high risk the greeks will be required to wear masks and social distancing is applied e everywhere andnd tt isis especially at bars, restaurants, and clulubs where ththere have been a curfew introduced from midnight until 7:00 in the morning. that is not good news for greeks who have gotten used to going

out late at night. it is a series of many such measures, that the administration is taking in an effort to curtail the spread of this pandemic. and, it has them worried because at the startrt of the summer, we were seeing single digit numbers appear on an everyday basis. 200 it has spiked between and 300 on an everyday basisis. in total we have over r 12,00000 confirmed caseses, and around ls than 300 deaths which, in the grand scheme of things, iss not comparable to other countries like the or france, but for a ase, which saw itself having been vanquished the coronavirus, they feel like they are farar behind. it remains to see what other measasures mightht be introducey the administration.n.

at the moment it is on a day by day basis, reassessssing how bet they can address this from being contained. > reporting force for greece. i i want to thank all of our correspondents breaking dodown what has been happening. and in greece., let us stay in greece and take a look at what is happening on the lesbosof lese boasts -- because another fire has broke out. this is after a series of blazes forced 12,00000 people to o slen the opopen air. it is unclear what caused the latest fire, nor were there injuries but it has redoubled criticisms of overcrowding. among the urgent questions are not how the fire broke out, and whether some 12,000 -- where the

12,000 people will be sleeping. steel andsteland of tents. by thursday morning, little remains of the migrant camp. it was rocked by an overnight fire for the second day in a row. flames forced the residents to flee and came less than 24 hours after a first-place devastated the settlement. the largest increase it had set -- it housed over four times its capacity. w was injured in either firere, it has left thousands in need of emergency shelter. an investigation is underway to determine the cause, although the migration minister has pointed the finger at the residents. >> [speaking foreign language]

carl: of the thousands made homeless, many have been left camp on streets without tents or basic bedding. greek authorities say that a ferry will shelter the most vulnerable and two navy vessels will provide additional space thursday night. the governor says it has transferred 400 unaccompaniedd minors to the greek mainland. >> t this afternoon emmanuel macron is set to host a summit of seven mediterranean leaders to discuss growing tenenons betwtween turkey andnd e.u. sta. turkish representatives will not be attending the talks, but turkey's hunt for gas and oil reserves had severerely strained relationships between greece and turkey. pegged the club med, the

talks are far from a holiday. spain, italy, portugal, greece, cyprus, and malta might be meeting in a luxury hotel but they have a packed agenda. thth will bebe discussing the coronavirus, the state of emergency in lesbos a and situation in libyaya, and t they will be putting their headads together to talklk about the tensions between greece and turkey over energy rights in the mediterranean. a crisis shifted d into vascular august 10 when turkey sent an exploratory vessel escorted by warship to the waters around a greek island. the vast gas and oil reserves are thought to be there. athens staged naval exercises with thehe support of f european natitions saying thatt ankara ws breaching sovereignty.y. the turkish h president threread saidflict and brussels

that they would respond with sanctions. it is a means of strategizing and coming up with a response, one that they willl argue for at ththe larger europn summit later this month. >> l let us bring g you developg news thahat we are following off of beirut wherere a large fire s broken outut at the port. after that month or so massive explosion at the same port that devastated almost half the city. you are looking at live images from beirut port. but ause is not known, military -- but someone told the news agency that a store of oil and tires cauaught fire. the red cross is urging thahat - reassuring people who -- that there is no chance o of explplo.

we w will try to bring yoyou moe later on in the program. news, a new book that claims in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, u.s. president donald trump was aware of how dangerous it was but played down the threat. the justification, trump said he wanted to avoid "creating a panic." since january the virus has almost claims 190,000 lives in the united states and with 54 days to go until the election, joe biden is trying to capitalize on the claims, accusing trump of betraying the american people. admission from donald trump, in advance of the release of " rage" by bob woodward, he released audio of an interview he conducted in fefebruary, less thahan a momono ththe epidemic. i wanted d to always

play it down, i still like playing it down n because i do t want to create a p panic. it is also more dedeadly than en your strenuous flus.s. > he also told woodward of te stuff, ais is deadly different story than he was telling the public. pres. trump: it will disappear one day, like a miracle. the firstof times in three months, he downplayeyed te virus or r set it was u under controrol. thursday, trump p himself addres the controversy basically restating what he had told woodward. pres. trump: if you said in order to produce panic, that is how it is. i am a cheerleader for this country, i love this country, and i do not want people to be frightened. at theeiden jumped chance to make it a campaign issue. >> he knew how deadly it was, much more deadly than the flu,

he knew and purposely played it down. where's, he lied -- war's -- worse he lied to the american people. >> it has claimed the lives of 190,00000 people. thestudy said that if country had imposed social distancing measures in march some 30,000 lives could be saved. >> hundreds of people have been killed as a result of flooding in africa. rainwater turned roads into rivers and in senegal, almost a year's worth of rain fell in a single day. we took a look at the situation as well as niger and other countries. region, thehara worsted country has been sudan. floods heads -- have killed hundredsds of people. >> [speakiking foreieign langua]

>> another sahara country is niger. more than 60 people have died. in the capital, those who have lost their houses have gathered in this camp. --[speaking foreign language] deforestation is one of the causes of the floods, as people cut down treeses to make charco. ananother problelem is s that te floodsds destroyed more than 500 hectares of crops, especially rice fields. in senegal, officials said six pepele have didied. the president has been criticized for thehe governmen's response. on tuesday evening he defended his actions and promised a

package of 5 million euros to those who had lost everything. >> time for some business news and we are joined by stephen carroll. you're going to be starting us off with a warning from the airline industry about transportiting a covid-19 vaccie once it is approved. stephen: the international air transpsport asciatation s says e preparatations must t start nowr ththe biggest ever transport challenge for the sect there. -- the sector. the organization estimates that thousands of planes will be needed to ship the vaccine along with -- and they say that the government should start working now on the technical and legal steps necessary as airlines have reduced their flight networks during the pandemic and put planes into storage because of the downturn in travel. that curtails capacity for cargo as well. the parent company of britith airways sasays it is cutting moe flights between now and the end

of the year. 2g says that it september december -- to december schedule will see capacity at 40% capacity. they are blaming quarantine restrictions for a delay in airline travel. it is not expected for flights to return to 2019 levevels until 2023. that is affecting both leisure and business trips and it is n t airlines. the frenchh railroad operator is losing off on a key part of its revenues. this line, rose of empty seats. the sameain to lyon, story, a worrying trend for transport companies w who have seen business travel fall by half. with the summer holidays over, the question remains what has happened to the business trips? >> [speaking foreign language]

>> the cost t is higigh for stae rail operator smcm. business travelers account for 60% of its revenue. it is a similar situation at air france where if travelers aree checking in. >> [speaking foreign language] >> businesses are worried about having their employees travel fofor work. >> [speaking foreign language] >> companies instead opting to use videoconferencing like zoom or skype. oo back business travelers, air france has announced no fee ticket cancellations. others have announced more programs for card holders.

>> [speaking foreign language] >> even if thehe health situatin improvoves, travel c companies y that bususiness travelers y y nt rereturn. stephen: facebook is s facing a handlesiry on h how it european users'

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