fonts twenty fourur correspondents around the world. yeah i'm due to smoking to life in paris world news and ananalysis from france twenty four i'm marco and these are the headlines. ten thousand new cases of the past twenty four hours the french health minister today warned. could nineteen is still active liam and niece of the late to cities take extra special measures against. the virus. who's warning countries not to cut the quarantine time. police on the greek island of lesbos dr house thousands of asylum seekers have been sleeping rough for over a week after the fire that gutted europe's largest. refugee camp. call the russian opposition leader alexei navalny say a bottle of

water with a trace of the novacek nerve agent was found in his hotel room. city of tomsk russia denies trying to kill. this is life in paris. thank you very much of the trying thank you much for being with us we start with a warning from the world health organization to w. h. o. says they're not alarming rates of transmission of covered nineteen across europe. issued a warning against shooting quarantine periods francis decided to do that cutting corentin from fourteen days to seven. in france cases anannounced soararing. the frane twenty four emerald maxwelell this. with k. the nineteen on the rise again in europe the world health organization is urging countries to wake up to the enduring threats. the

numbers a coronavirus cases reported every week across the continent and now exceeding those reports in march when the pandemic fast pete. eighty cases a currently between forty and fifty thousand compatible tape peak of forty three thousand on april first. that is at least partly down to increased testing this september case numbers however should serve as a wake up call for all of us. although these numbers reflect more comprehensive testing. it also shows alarming rates of transmission across the region. the w. h. also one countries against reducing the quarantine periods the people potentially exposed the coronavirus.. it's at its recommendation of fourteen days it t was based on the agency's understanding of the disease's transmission patterns and incubation periods. the average is five days the studydy of confirms curve in nineteen cases between january and february showed about 97% of people who develop symptoms will decide within

eleven days. last week france cut its quarantine time from fourteen days to seven and a beta encourage compliance affinity that many want to serving the full two weeks. the u. k. and ireland recommends ten days of self isolalation and several other european countriesuch as portugug currently considering. reducing that recommendations. france is a ten thousand five hundred and eighty three new cases of code nineteen ovever the e past tweny four hours. livia verrall french health minister called on the people to reduce the number of people that they meet each day. he spoke to invovolvea state the obvious to tell people the corona virus is still active. he said leon a niece will be the latest french cities to introduce tougher regulations on because of it local authorities that have until thehe weekend t to come up wiwith that plans. paris bordeax marseille lille and guadalupe already calling on people to moscow. and reduce contact liver on warm family gatherings are large points of

contamination. little once again we are seeing a rapid spread of covert nineteen in our country we must learn to live alongside the virus for a few more months. we are seeing massive levels of contamination during social events and gatherings with family members and friends i mean thisis year. the use of a ten thousand youu cover cases here in n france of the last twenty four houours i s aligning the authorities. since the pandemic hit france over thirty thousand people have died after catching virus. today september the seventeenth marks six months since france and it locked down into the sent to stop the covert nineteen pandemic for nearly two months life came to. almost a standstill. france is desperate to avoid a second lockdown but a fresh surge in cases. he fronts to follow best eco examines the matches so far deployoyed. to curb covered nineteen. days after ordering the closure of nonessential businesses schools and universities to curb the spread of cove in nineteen.. french presesident emmanuel michael

announced the full natioionwide lockdown on march sixteenth two thousand twenty. they do not need to the poconos rule more. not the personal cell phone kind of the moment. four weeks life in all major french citieis came to a near standstill. save for the daily rounds of applause to thank doctors and nurses battling the virus. yet despite having imposed one of europe's strictest lockdowns infections continues to surge across france leaving hospitals overwhelmed. and prompting authorities to extend confinemement measureses. by the end of april nearly twenty five thousand people had succumbed to the virus. but as infection rates began to drop aututhoritis announced the end of france's lockdown on may eleventh and started to gradually ease sanitary restrictions. on june second several nonessential

businesses including bars restaurants and museums were allowed to partially reopen. yet by july cases had begun to search again. on july twentieth masks were made compulsory in all indoor spaces. and by late august with new clusters forming in seveveral regions soe cities began making masks mandatory outdoors. on september first two classes resumed in schools across france with teachers and pupils aged eleven and up asked to wear face masks at all times. meanwhile cases continued to rise steadily reaching a peak of more than ten thousand daily infections in september the highest tally since the start of the pandemic. but despite the looming threat of a second wave death rates remained relatively low across the country. on september eleventh the government announced reinforced measures to cocombat the virus including increreased

testing and tracking of infected patients. in a bid too avoid a potentialally disastrous second locockdown. which reads regional council is set to reveal new anti coated meshes that wasas so cool for t the central gornmement to plplay a larger role in the fight against the pandemic spain has over six hundred thousand confirmed cases of the virus. thirty thousand deaths from the spiritual disease one of the world's highest holds capital has the highest volume of the cases country. sir marcus is that. a lot of confusion this was really because of yesterday's comments. by onene member of the regional government talking about. local knocked down so he used the expression confinement of people i'm not really a big lead to lots of people in madrid. in those affected areas of most of the worst hit areas are fearing that t they would just become the l latest- region in spain to suffffer. of restrictions and not be able to

leave as a l local area now tody we've heard. from a another member of the regional government he says tomorrow they'll be a final details announced he said that- knocked down. and confinement go people understandably worried and he said that- we're working on a proposal with the decisions on restricting mobility restricting mobility is the term he used. or reducing activity in the areas of knowledge is transmission everyone knows. that many of the so the neighborhoods of madrid at the worst affected. even the central area of madrid also affected and some of the poorest of regions which is seen as the momost populous. populous areas all of madrid all was defective if this pain is the worst hitting europe at the moment with about two hundred and seventy cases. per hundred thousand as some of thosose neighborhoods have a thousand a hundred thousand. that means essentially wanted a

hundred people are walking around in those neighborhoods has contracted. the virus is getting people are very worried that these latest figures- from madrid i have come out todayay suggests that the four thousand ninene hundred new caseses. have been addeded one thousand three hundred of those people i tested positive for conveyed in the last twenty nine and- twenty four hours. at the madrid region said it will it says it will do something about it and the health minister salvador e. yeah has said- they must. do raising the threat to the pro expect a even the sense government couldn't get involved. sarah that image. the leader alex lucas said the thursday belarus havaving forord toto close its borderr with neighbors pololand and lithuania and also to o strengthen its border controls the neighboring ukraine comments come amid the crisis in belarus following the presidential election marred by vote rigging allegations sparked mass protests that

continue some six and a half weeks l later lukashenko's been in power since nineteen ninety four he's planning the arrest. on the west continues out that'll screwless booklet should. islamic state extremist group has this thursday claimed the killing in august of six french aid wororkers. and that two local guides with a visiting a nature reserve thehe west african country of nausea. the six french military workers aged between twenty five and thirty that guide and a driver were k killed on august the ninth. the korean national park a wildlife haven some sixty kilometers from the u. s. capital niamey. statement issued in the islamic state publication our nada. and the center catered by the us monitoring group seat. said that the eight have been killed following the c capture in what was described as a blitz attack. colleagues of the russian oppositionon leader alexei navalny say a bottle of water with a t trace of the-e- novacek nenerve agent was f found in his hohotel r rm. t the siberian ciy

of tomsk fdi fell ill on a flight that from. a moscow last month. the bounty later was flown to germany where he was kept in an induced coma moree two weeks. she was treated with an anti desk and hospital in building. the kremlin denies any attemempt to murder in the valley who's a staunch critic of vladimir putin. but also of oligarchs. and corruptioion across the board. combing through alex cena valdez hotel room in tomsk siberia. the russian opposition leaders teams searched the room on august twentieth. an hour after they learned he'd fallen sick under suspicious cirircumstance. the video was postedo nanavalny's instagram accounts this thursday. the post explains in russian the german the board three found traces of another talk nerve agent on one of the bottles suggesting he was poisoned bear at the hotel and not at the airport transfers towards. germany has said it has quote unequivocal evidence that navalny was poisoned with nova choke labs

in france and sweden have confirmed the findings. d. seven nations joined germanyny andd callingng on moscow francis the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable under any circumstances that was true two years ago after the attack with a chemical nerve agent in salisbury. and it's true today in this instance as well. russia has dismissed the results and s says it hasn't b n given a chance to verify them.. this approach to music. me that was to progress. get a little bread with and you. know pretty much- he ended the night you can get a marcus tonight. he says moscow should have all the it needs as not only underwent treatment in russia before being airlifted to germany the hague based organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons announced on its website that it would be providing technical assssistance

to germany's investigation. the cosafa in that story very closely indeed. some to take a look at the top top business stories of the day and the clock is ticking on popular video shaharing app. tick tock. one can only mean. fine with this with us i did not agree to allow the app to continue operating the s. at the rocks this week but it looks like a new agreement may be on the cards. that is right marking and donald trump at threatened to ban it tick tock in the u. s. as early as this coming sunday if chinese owner bite dance it didn't sell it to an american company. binance propose a deal earlier this week to sell a minority stake oracle while setting up u. s. headquarters that deal apparently not good enough for donald trump. bloomberg though is now reporting that new terms for a tentative deal have been accepted by the us treasury department bytedance and oracle with walmart in the mix as well. the chinese government though will have to weigh in as well trigger has the details. negotiations over tech talk in

the u. s. coming down to the wire. donald trump on wednesday stated he wasn't ready to approve a deal for the chinese owned video after a head of a threatened shuhutdown this weekend. it has to be a a 100% s far as national securury is concncerned. and no i'm not prepared to sign off on anything i have to see the deal. we need security especially after what we've seen with respect to john and what's going on. we want securities. tech talks chinese dna has disturbed washington whwhich fears beijing c could fe its parent company point dogs to hand over data from the apps hundred million u. s. uses. an executive order spock negotiations for tech talks u. s. arm to be spun off to a us headquartered company. but earlier this week. a transplant that california business software firm oracle c could oversee technical operations as a trusted partner. instead of owningng it o out r right. thisn as q questions mounted over just hohow much worth the op would have withoutut control of its source code. tick tock has a preference algorithm- when

people are. selecting things that these little fifteteen secondnd clipsps. they're able o employ an n algorithm t that kes them online longer because they're able to give them m the content that they're most inteterested in. this algorithm is really the. crux of what tick tock is. join old it it's really of its- exports late last month giving it a say over just whahat could be e transferd and likely including tech t tals artificial intelligence algorithm. beijing's's long accused the us of seeking to strong arm it's competition for political reasons. amidd a long running trade war between the world's top two economies. here in france the government says it's exploring options to prevent the closure of the tire plant near the northern city of lille. japanese owner bridgestone said wednesday it would begin the process of closing its factory in b. tune which has been struggling even before the corona virus pandemic. nearly nine hundred jobs are on the line bridgestone has received french

state aid to help preserve jobs in recent years. it's also benefited from a government temporary unemployment program during corona virus that pays the salaries of furloughed workers and its minister bruno le maire had some strong words for the company thursday heraeus. wish to stack up a degree which bridgestone is a special case you said so yourself into japanese company that's taken according to cision within a polling method and appalling consequences. and we're g going to fifight with my deputy minister and yes penny a real shea who i talked to follow the dossier very closely every day with the presidents of the region's rd about call. with america tune and with the employees to be turned over to set up the line. it's time now for a check on the day's trading action wall street took a significant hit mostly in the tech sector thursday's jobs report was better than expected but still fairly graham. meanwhile the u. s. federal reserve's decision to keep rates near zero until twenty twenty three has many wondering at the central bank is running out of ammunition. the dow ended the day down around half

a percent the s. and p. five hundred down around eight tenths of a percent the tech heavy nasdaq finishing down around one and a quarter percent. european markekets endd the day lower as well as the bank of england says an unusually uncertain economic outlook has it exploring the possibility of a negative interest rates for the first time ever. one forty one hundred into the data nearly half a percent the cat carroll here in paris off by two thirds of a percent. franknkfurt dax down around one third of a percent at. the close. . the final for business in alliance of twenty year. cities and- apps. bars and- urged the u. on thursday to enact tougher rules on airbnb and other short term holiday rental platforms. accusing them of driving up property prices and squeezing out locals. they say that with out an e. u. wide framework the company can operate with minimal oversight. what seem corny hasas the detetails. has airbnb oveverstayed its welcome in europe. nearly two dozen cities are calling on the

european union to take tougher regulatory action on the company. for years the home sharing w website has b been accused of driving up property prices and forcing residents out of neneighborhoods. several cities have already impose restrictions but officials say that without an actual framework airbnb can escape sanctions by simply claiming that the website is there to put people in touch with the renters. in a statement the mayor of paris made it clear she saw airbnb as a direct threat to the housing market. it is time for a new european regulatory approach that serves first and f foremost the general interest which is for us accessibility of housingg and the liveability of our c cities. the twenty two cities want airbnb and other platforms to be held liable if rerenters do not obey local rules like limits on the number of nights at home can be rented out. the company hasas r responded sayayt was already working with blic auorities in europe to demonstrate the positive impact

ofof holiday rentatals. airbnb s already e experiencing a difffficult year due to a coronaviruss t travel restrictis nineteen hundred employees were laid off last month a quarter of its workforce. real pickle for some of the city's mark because they'd really like to have that- tourism revenue back error being be a big part of that but it's obviously- obviously a bit of a- but if the vehicle is what can you say. supply have a spicy brian quinn the bubusiness thank rigight to these are great toto see to. cross the studio catalina motion deborah's way to meet you what's good evening to you. right now that- the retail store hm announcing their- cutting ties of one of that- big supplies of a certain typess of allegations pleasee explain more. yes the retailer h. and m. has cut ties with one of their yarn providers over allegations of forced labor in one of their factories in china and the- chinese province of xinjiang. many people have applauded this move saying we

applied it to them and their move away from oppression of uighurs we will be shopping there going forward. others saying it's about time but what about all the other brands who will continue to contribute to the massive human rights abuses torture forced labour brainwashing and killing of uighurs in china. so this dates back to- this article by the australian strategic policy institute titled readers for sale. in this article they mention that there are at least eighty two well known global brands and technology clothing and autumn of its out how to move it centers the sectors. that use forced labor in china including nike bmw gap- awhile away and many others this report e estimates that more than. eighty thousand uighurs were transferred out of shenzhen to work in factories across china- an agency statement today they say that they strictly prohibit any typee of f forced labor. in their supply chain but they also say that contrary to this report

they have never had a business relationship with this mail that they mention. saying that they do however have an indirect business relationship with one of the mails. which they have phased out their relationship foror now until thy can get more clarity regarding these allegations. mark that it's moving us live on the line she. of the european commission as a condemned l. g. b. t. zones in our poll. tell us what the arms are all about. yeah so i'm these statements from yesterday main many may be wondering what these songs are about there is an atlas of hate- map which is created by what's was created by lgbt activist groups this map- it maps poland's anti lgbt q. a government's. it's states that a third of the country is now declared an out and l. g. b. t. free zone and that more than

ninety polish municipal and local governments. are have announced themselves as free from l. g. b. t. ideologies so here we have the map in red we can see the regions that have adopted the anti lgbt declaration in green are the regions that are have rejected an hour anti lgbt declaration and yellow. are the regions where extremist lobbying activities are being conducted to adopt anti lgbt declarations this map was created in two thousand and nineteen and it continues to be updated as regions continued to adopt or not adopt. these declarations but in fact there was an index- published this year that has occurred poland as the most homophobic country in the u. this was an index created by the i. l. g. a group in europe. they do a yearly a rainbow map and- that illustrates forty nine european countries and

their respective legal and policy practices and here on the map of poland has received a score of 16% compared to their- neighbors germany 51% france fifty six spain. sixty seven there for l. g. b. t. q. issues still on the headlines when it comes to eight. pointnt i'm mark andnd cancel netetflixs still trending telll us all about that it's still trending over backlash frorom the from te cuties which many consider that over sexualized as a young woman. this was already trending next last each week but there was this are. by the washington post it is an opinion piece. written by the director of the film ammonia and do great and she explains. how the film came to be conceived she says that i was at a community event in paris. a few years ago when a group of young girls came onstage dressedd and dancing in a very risky way they were only eleven years old so she was curious to

understand why this was happening and she interviewed. over one hundred girls between the ages of ten and eleven- and then her findings she found. remarkable similarities between many of these girls saying that they saw that the sex you're a woman is on instagram or tick tock the more likes she gets. and they try to imitate this in the belief that this would make them more popular on social media many people do you agree with this there is a counter hash tag for cancel netflix which is cancel tick tock. which is also trending many users think that i think it brings awareness to what's actually happening in society with kids what those kids are doing and that movie happens in real life on tick tock and instagram wherere are thehe coul to talk or cancel instagram- trends here we have an- instagram. page so many viewers could probably and judge for themselves this is true or n not and if this does apply to real

life but the- author of the director of the film stated that in fact this is why she created the movie. in order to create this debate of the six realization of a young woman. but she does say that she does hope that this debate doesn't get drowned by the thought that by what we call today's cancel culture on t. and date on the cost of the fact thahat it's succeed is the fat the way here talking about it which is gonna be something that's good because it's been going on for many many years. before the film was even madade this over sexualisation of children. and it's good to be get out the open chat about and hopefully thing will stop to change because chow. should be achievement that's why i feeling it is generating the debate should wanant excellent. catalina thank you kathleen we do watch prime business. thank you both and thank you for what you do stay with more complex repairs.

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