>> it's not :00 p.m. here in the french capital. headlines from around the world -- france goes back to its lockdown. president emmanuel macron announces a return to similar restrictions to those in place during the initial wave of coronavirus in the spring. joe biden talks covid as donald trump heads to key battleground state arizona. six days to go until the u.s. chooses its new president.

you are watching "live from paris." we start in france were president emmanuel macron has announced a new coronavirus lockdown. details to be announced on thursday, but the message is clear -- stay at home. also a return to the piece of paper french people have to be able to show police to justify their presence outside. >> stay at home as much as

possible and follow the rules. we will only succeed if everyone acts for the good of all their citizens. every hour counts, so all these new measures must come into effect as soon as possible, and they will do so this thursday night. they will last until at least the first of december. >> for more on the news that has been announced, i was joined a short while ago by our editor. >> it sounded like the same as in march with one or two tweaks. pretty much the same as march. >> just changing the time of the curfews or having perhaps a weekend curfew. it sounded like a full lockdown, i mean a maximum lockdown, because he was describing the

situation we are going to face in the next few weeks, which is that you can only leave home for work, for essential groceries, and for essential physical exercise, and that is it -- sorry, also if you need to go to the -- to an urgent medical appointment. it's all the same, with one exception, which is schools will be open. i think that is the main difference from the first lockdown. obviously, back then, there was no schools open. that's the one thing that is different. >> possibly more people going back to work. his talk a lot about keeping the economy open. >> that's right. he said it is important for people to keep going to work, but he has encouraged networking wherever possible, which is, obviously, the situation anyway

that companies have been asked to adopt the last few months. it really sounded like full lockdown, not some sort of halfway house between what we had before. >> for more, i'm joined by our correspondent. is this an admission the government has failed? >> yes, and it is delayed initially for quite a while, so he pretends to be surprised how fast things are going, but if you look at new arrivals in hospitals, this has been creeping up very regularly sort of exponentially since july.

more people arrived in the hospital, and the intensive care units are alreadyverfull. the solution is real a half-baked solution. we locked down for a while, things get a bit that are, then continue testing not enough, finding probably one case out of ur. tracing the contact o ts one case out of for you have found isort of a waste of energy, and then the virus continues to circulate, and keeping schools open, lettg the virus settled in. it is not a serious a lockdown as the first time. the situation is worse than the first time, and there is still

no plan for massive testing. the virus keeps entering nursing homes. >> i know you are a big advocate of mass testing. in the past, you have been critical of france and other european countries and heaved a lot of praise on the likes of south korea, taiwan. are the kind of testing regimes they have put in place actually feasible in france in this way? >> it's just a matter of buying more of these tests that can be done in 30 minutes and putting more energy and organization into testing. there are many ways to find the virus. you can find the virus in sewage

. there are all kind of ways to look for people who are infected , and it is essential to isolate them fast. in the beginning, they just let people stay home and isolate with their families. >> how do we get back out of this lockdown and avoid a situation where we will be back in another one. >> there's no other option than finding the people who carry the virus and isolate them. this is a recipe as old as the middle ages. we find the people who are contagious and isolate them fast before they contaminated people around the.

>> you don't sound like you are very hopeful as far as treatments and vaccinations. >> it's just a question of time. treatments have been improving, and the vaccine is not for tomorrow. right now, we have hospitals that are full of patients that -- and right now, it is a crisis . we need a solution now, not in three months. the aim of the people should be the same.

>> thank you very much for talking to us. >> the situation in france may be serious, but europe not alone in seeing an aggressive second wave of the virus. federal and state governments agreeing on a partial lockdown. we've seen restaurants and bars closed. >> angela merkel made a somewhat stunning confession saying the government has lost control of the situation, and they can no longer count the number of cases. they can only track around 25% of the people in germany who are using the app, which was much praised overseas as being efficient and allowing germany to get on top of things.

she spoke of the numbers here. we were reporting around 2000 cases a day, and that jumped to 4000, causing panic. they said when we get to 10,000, it will be an uncontrollable situation. we are at 14,000 now. i know they are worse in other countries, but it is all a matter of how steep your curve is, and that's why angela merkel announced measures which include shutting down restaurants, shutting down cafes, shutting down cinemas. there will be no more team sports being able to take place. she announced $10 million to help small and medium-sized enterprises get through this. one of the regional premiers where there have been a lot of

cases have said this is going to be a bitter pill to swallow, but we are a nation of solidarity, not a land of egos. >> six days to go until americans had to the polls. president trump meanwhile holding two rallies in the battleground state of arizona. one of the features of the election so f has been early voting. we have this report from texas. >> chris davis is an elections administrator. he is in charge of ballot processing and vote counting on election day. the voting forms are held in these boxes.

>> they are locked and sealed with serial number seals on them. >> chris has worked 4 elections in his current role, but this is the first time he has seen so many early vote in his county. >> we've seen more folks vote in person in this election then we have in any other election. could be that these may be the same people that vote and were going to do it on election day but decided to do it early, and perhaps election day will be very slow. we think it is more the other case i mentioned, more folks that want to vote, more passion in the presidential election then i think any other kind of election. >> traditionally, williamson county votes republican like the rest of texas. voter turnout is usually low in the state of 29 million people, the largest in the country.

>> you have a photo id, you are going to go down this hall. >> 19 polling stations are en to voters in the county, but cameras are not allowed inside the buildings. >> usually, i wait until election day to vote. but it is pretty important to get out and vote. if tru has done anythg, he has motivated people to get out and vote and make sure the cotry is headed in the right direction. >> texans do not register by party, making it difficult to say who is leading in early voting. if a democrat wins in texas, which has not happened since 1976, it would end any chance of donald trump's reelection. >> there has been culture war between liberals and

conservative government and catholic clergy. >> protesters shout "shame" at poland's government. since the constitutional court ruled thatbortion should be banned, there is a feeling that line has been crossed. protesters and counter protests -- protesting counterprotests are happening daily, including in front of churches. the -- only a small minority support a total abortion ban. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> he joins other pro-lifers for weekly prayers outside this clinic. >> this hospital happens to be the one that performs the most abortions in warsaw. >>ospital staff are not happy about the court ruling. >> [speaking foreign language] >> if and when the ruling becomes law, medical personnel will raise up to four years in prison for performing terminations for abnormality.

>> the latest development escalating between turkey and france broke out over president macron's comments on medical islam. >> adding fuel to the fire, this cartoon mocking president erdogan in charlie hebdo has sparked fuel in turkey, accusing them of throwing fuel on the fire. in a speech, his ak party members in parliament. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> prosecutors in ankara said they've launched an investigation into charlie hebdo . a more antagonistic response came from turkey's cultural minister, who insulted the satirical magazine in french on twitter. the french government responded, saying it would not give in to intimidation. >> [speaking foreign language] >> the cartoon is the latest development in an escalating feud between ankara and paris over france's pledge to defend itsecular vues and freedom speech after a teacher was beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the prophet mohammed during a lesson on freedom of expression. turkey has led the charge against france as the muslim world condemned the nation for

such caricatures. erdogan has also called for a boycott of french goods. >> france has asked for backing from its eu partners. we can talk to our brussels correspondent. how far does it actually go? >> we have heard words of support, particularly, for instance, the dutch prime minister, and from the corners of europe, where you would most expect support, they have been asking the eu for protections from turkey for unrelated violations of their borders. so far, other eu leaders have

not been addressing and supporting them on that. they have put off the issue, but now, having france as an ally, for different reasons, it will be helpful for them. the question is -- what can actually be done? the french minister suggested some kind of sanctions but was not really specific. there's a feeling that this way can't -- this boycott erdogan has called for -- turkey is the only third country to enjoy a custom steel with the eu. it is worth a lot of money to them. greece has long called for a suspension of that deal as punishment. if they did, it is unlikely germany would support it because so many companies are really relying on the custom steel for

the immense amount of trade they deal with turkey. there's really no prospect of turkey joining the eu, so such a rule would really be symbolic and not have any practical applications. right now on the eu side, they are looking for what is actually feasible in terms of sanctions and what could get past. eu leaders might do something similar to what the eu has in place with russia and belarus. it could be, but it would be awkward to have that at the same time as having a customs deal. >> you're watching "live from paris." the big news -- the country of france going back into coronavirus lockdown.

to discuss the political implications of it all, our business editor. >> they will be huge implications. he said protecting the economy is a priority, but still not his top priority. restaurants, cafes, and nonessential businesses closed for at least the next month. about 1/3 of france's labor force is expected to work from home. unlike before, schools will remain open. factory and construction projects will continue. like much of europe, france is already facing its deepest recession since world war ii. gdp dropped nearly 6% in the first three months of the year is the first effects of the lockdown were felt in march. we are beginning official third quarter data earlier this week.

it is likely to show a fairly strong bounceback earlier in the summer. president macron confirmed that state-sponsored furloughs will be extended. analysts have long warned that a wave of bankruptcies could be on the horizon. >> [speaking foreign language] >> the stock markets tumbled as those tighter restrictions loomed. major european sessions finished sharply lower before micron's speech.

we saw losses of well over 3% at the closing bell across the board there, the dow jones sinking in its worst single trading days since june. earlier, i spoke to ltg's head of research in london. >> we hear about those lockdowns. obviously, there is much more going on. the fact that as an analyst, and economist, and the way we price ourselves in the market, it is all contingent on a certain scenario, and i think we were on a steady recovery. we had the worst of it in march, and since then, we have seen economic data improve. we have seen corporate earnings improve, and the idea was there was going to be some form of recovery. the recovery was the main point.

if you do introduce a new lockdown, the result is going to be similar to that in march. we are probably going to see a double-dip within the stock market if they foresee a double-dip recession. >> boeing is reviewing production levels and could cut 7000 jobs before the end of next year, bringing total job losses, buyouts, layoffs, and early retirement to some 30,000, reducing the country's global workforce to 130,000. the aviation giant reported $166 million in losses, its fourth consecutive quarter in the red.

boeing shares dropped about 4.6%. the united states says it will not endorse nigeria's representative as the next director of the wto despite consensus from the other states. wto said washington was the only delegation to not support the nigerian finance minister. the resolution does need to be approved by all wto members. the u.s. position sets the stage for more intense lobbying and what a spokesman described as frenzied activity. that falls a few days after u.s. presidential elections. it's not clear if the outcome of the domestic vote could affect the leadership contest in the election. either of the candidates would be the first woman to lead the wto.

glaxosmithkline has pledged it will reserve 2 million doses of a covid-19 vaccine for equitable trials. there's concern about who will be able to access vaccines, and french and british companies have signed a statement of intent to make sure developing countries can be vaccinated, this as the world health organization has warned against vaccine nationalism. >> thank you very much. news headlines coming up shortly.

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