citizens stranded in lebanon because of coronavirus restrictions several 100 people arrived in addis ababa from beirut on thursday thousands of be the opium workers have registered to return home and all but lebanon's high ticket prices and quarantine fees are making the trip difficult. in italy the via. on lake como has welcomed more than 1200 visitors since reopening a few days ago major tourist attractions and nationwide are slowly coming back to life after an easing of a week's long coronavirus countdown the 18th century villa is now a museum home to rare artwork and a terrorist a tentacle garden. friends has approved a track and tracing as the country begins to refer to relax its stay at home restrictions from next week the app is voluntary and warns people when they come near anyone with a coven 1000 virus but critics say it could have been more effective if france had teamed up with his neighbor germany on a joint op as originally planned. the english premier league is to restart its season on june 17th after it was put on hold in march because of the coronavirus pandemic premiershi

citizens stranded in lebanon because of coronavirus restrictions several 100 people arrived in addis ababa from beirut on thursday thousands of ethiopian workers have registered to return home and all but lebanon's high ticket prices in quantity and fees are making the trip difficult. pressure is mounting on u.k. prime minister boris johnson to fire his chief advisor for breaking pandemic lock down rules dominic cummings travelled while the country was under a stay at home order police say that might constitute a minor breach but have ruled against taking any action. easyjet says it plans to cut $4500.00 jobs the london based budget airline says the coronavirus pandemic will affect demand for years so it's aiming to shed 30 percent of its workforce the company says it in to suppress demand will return to prepare demick levels in about 3 years. and italy the village. has welcomed more than 1200 visitors since reopening a few days ago major tourist attractions nationwide are slowly coming back to life after an easing of a week's long coronavirus walk down the 18th century mansion is now muse

my name is sally mommy son of renowned photojournalist mama to me dad was a regular commuter to addis ababa one reason was that he published the in-flight magazine of ethiopian airlines we still do. data business colleague brian todd lee checked in on november 23rd 1996 flight 809612 nairobi a saturday dad flew in 1st tightly in business. it was a last minute decision to take brian along he hated flying. captain lola but it takes me aboard a flight simulator. it's programmed to reenact what happened to flight 8061 was anything unusual that any any premonition you had about this flight. now it does my daughter's birthday. i celebrated her birthday i tom and i came out for the flight to the beautiful day sun it's guys claire. started out very nice . when we took off when the plane took a. before it even leveled out. we heard the i heard some noise coming from back and then i noticed 2 gentlemen running up the aisles towards the cockpit so they came into the cockpit take a moment on i mean there are 3 of them they took the fire extinguisher and they started beating the copilot crawled along. i

unemployment rate is if you appear shortly before the corona virus outbreak i traveled to the capital addis ababa to speak with an inspiring bunch of people and i asked them what can be done to get more young people into the workforce. the 77 percent has explored many subject matters across africa but one word keeps coming up unemployment and we're here in the capital of ethiopia to try and figure out why it is that africans just can't seem to crack the code when it comes to hiring young people and i'd like to begin with it was actually an economist hearing and just to give us an overview of the situation here in ethiopia what's the current rate of unemployment we have recent data that shows and employment is just like most 25 percent all right let me now come to dulwich who works with the jobs creation commission which is part of government's mandate i read some interesting statistics that you've created a lot of work and jobs for people within a short span of time but we're hearing 25 percent unemployment that's not good that's correct of course we've been doing this for the past one year for t

citizens stranded in lebanon because of coronavirus restrictions several 100 people arrived in addis ababa from beirut on thursday thousands of ethiopian workers have registered to retell it return home but lebanon's high ticket prices and quarantine fees are making the trip difficult. german carmaker volkswagen says it will invest more than 2000000000 euros in china the targets are 2 electric motor with the company's v.w. will become the biggest investor in the battery maker will shun both slackness also increasing its stake in the chinese electrical electric vehicle maker j a c motors. and let's talk about that with our financial correspondent only bar is in frankfurt for us hi ali so v.w. is putting even more money into china as we heard it's coming at a time where there's a lot of tension with beijing politically so is this a good move by folks back and. well long term it seems to fit a volkswagen strategy after all her birthday is to see your folks wagon worldwide has called out that he is wanting to make a volkswagen the world's number one electric car maker and also batteries which

citizens stranded in lebanon because of coronavirus restrictions several 100 people arrived in addis ababa from beirut on thursday thousands of ethiopian workers have registered to return home in all but a lebanon's high ticket prices and quarantine fees are making the trip difficult. in washington d.c. restaurants are getting ready for limited reopening on friday they're allowed to offer outdoor seating only now that the city has partially lifted kopek 1000 distractions the food industry has been particularly hard hit as a result of the lockdown. in german carmaker books martin says it will invest more than 2000000000 euros in the china the targets are 2 electric mobility companies v.w. will become the biggest investor in the battery maker. folks back in is also increasing its stake in the chinese electric vehicle maker j a c motors. and let's talk about that with our financial correspondent only bar is in frankfurt for us hi ali so v.w. is putting even more money into china as we heard it's coming at a time where there's a lot of tension with beijing politically so is this a good move by

citizens stranded in lebanon because of coronavirus restrictions several 100 people arrived in addis ababa from beirut on thursday thousands of ethiopian workers have registered to return home but lebanon's high ticket prices and cornered fees are making the trip difficult. south korea has reported its biggest spike in corona virus cases in almost 2 months prompting the government to reimpose a number of social distancing measures including. closing any schools that opened just a few days ago parks museums and cedars in the soul much paul in the area are also closing for 2 weeks in an effort to slow the spread of the virus it comes after officials announced more than 130 new cases in the past 2 days some of which came from an outbreak in warehouses of an e-commerce firm. well for more let's bring in journalist frank smith in seoul frank why are authorities so concerned about these flare ups because the infection numbers relative to population don't seem very high. yes they are pretty low relative to the population but we need to remember the previous outbreaks that took place here in south

colleague is working on fighting covid-19 across all countries and with the african union is located in addis ababa to answer these questions myself. what i'velearned so far is very similar to what you'd said which is there's a couple of problems that are occurring .one endodontist wrote a piece that i commend to you. i think it was in naturebut i can double check . look at the access of the african continent to test and it's really a huge challenge that they are not able right now to access diagnostic test kits in a way consistent with being able to test enough people so there is definitely underreporting of covid-19 so that's first. second, it is possible that some of the underreporting for death rates is simply a function of lack of reporting capability in general and just not being able to know what people are dying of there being so many confounding other factors and disease threats in many countries on the continent. so the answer is it is one of the big conundrums that the global health and global development community are facing and i think the most important thing from a global health secu

well, to discuss this further, i am joined from addis ababa byjohn nkengasong, the director for africaon the programme. john, i will begin with you. when this pandemic — we really understood the scale of it, it really — there were many people who were worried about how it would hit africa. just give us a sense of how things are on the ground now. thank you for the opportunity to join your programme and contribute. on the ground now, as we speak, today there are 44,000 people that have been infected on the continent. and that has resulted to about 1,800 deaths. we continue to see moving numbers increase. compared to last week, this week we are around 39% increase compared to last week, so i think we are still on an upward trend. it might delay, but i don't think we are on the peak of it yet. so it is an upward trend, but are you seeing hospitals across the region overwhelmed? not so. as indicated, we currently have about 1,800 deaths and i would not characterise it as an overwhelming situation, butjust the number of hospital attendees is increasing and countries are beginning to make al

border we've seen sudanese and if you can officials meeting here in khartoum and in the capital addis ababa over the issue of border security to make sure that such tensions to not occur and to try to do market the border which is largely under market that there's been lots of issues along the border even in areas where they are where it's known there is no clear boundary there is no station that shows that this is where the border starts and this is where the sudanese border and so this issue of demarcated borders has been causing a lot of tensions and we've seen lives being lost over here as we've been reporting here on al jazeera sudan and ethiopia also involved in discussions about the grand stand how might this affect that relationship. also there has always been saying that it wants to take the diplomatic path to solve all the issues whether it's the issue of the border or whether it's the issue of the ground if you can run as on stand now with regards to there has been a deadlock and sudan has been trying to bring both sides egypt and if you along with itself to the negotiating table

they're offering an addis ababa count and coal hardware is offering 20% off to legacy businesses.re still going on the bronze plaque and we can do some planning on that. so, just to let you know about some of the businesses that are -- that have closed, slims closed. they said it was not related to the covid-19 crisis but the timing just worked out that way so they're one of the businesses that closed. cafe closed in december and they're looking for a new space when the crisis occurred so they're still looking for space so we'll see what happens after things start opening up again. we did lose the laundry mat. that is in the richmond district. that closed and that was not related to covid-19. that was just a disagreement they have with the landlord and the timing was such it happened in february and end of february. and then i understand the saint francis fountain who wrote a letter to the small business commissioner there struggling. i would say all of the legacy businesses, even those open right now are struggling just like all of the small businesses in the city so we're doing

somebody from addis ababa will pass on the baton, and then we will pass on the baton, and then we willow with people posting pictures of them sort of exhausted, dogs on the way, throwing bananas and other inventive things, and then some of us have to run it with a mask, because that is the rules in a particular country. so it is actually a great community spirit and the reason it came about is the ambassador in afghanistan, ian collide, is separated from his wife. so lots of us have had to send ourfamilies wife. so lots of us have had to send our families and kids wife. so lots of us have had to send ourfamilies and kids back wife. so lots of us have had to send our families and kids back to the uk, so we are here without them, and this is a way of bringing the whole network together and crucially fundraising for nhs charities and unicef. i suppose in a way, part of this is of course the work from the diplomats and in various parts of the world, you will be helping many british people with problems with the logistics earlier on in the crisis, but i imagine your own staff and their fami

they're offering an addis ababa count and coal hardware is offering 20% off to legacy businesses.re still going on the bronze plaque and we can do some planning on that. so, just to let you know about some of the businesses that are -- that have closed, slims closed. they said it was not related to the covid-19 crisis but the timing just worked out that way so they're one of the businesses that closed. cafe closed in december and they're looking for a new space when the crisis occurred so they're still looking for space so we'll see what happens after things start opening up again. we did lose the laundry mat. that is in the richmond district. that closed and that was not related to covid-19. that was just a disagreement they have with the landlord and the timing was such it happened in february and end of february. and then i understand the saint francis fountain who wrote a letter to the small business commissioner there struggling. i would say all of the legacy businesses, even those open right now are struggling just like all of the small businesses in the city so we're doing