of the jailed kremlin critic alexa novelli has announced he is going on hunger strike the valley has been detained at a penal camp since february he survived a near fatal poison attack last week. and france has extended its current virus lock down for one more month present in many mccraw warns the country risks losing control of the pandemic if action is not taken cases are rising in france with almost 60000 new infections reported in the past day. intensive care units at hospitals all over france are running out of free beds at this medical center an hour north of paris there i.c.u. unit is full and they've been forced to at temporary beds to cope. feel this wave hitting us hard and we're hanging on people need to be explained that they should not gather we had a mother and her son die at the same time in 2 different intensive care ohm's all because of a family gathering it's unbearable for us as it's a very difficult situation to manage. spring weather has drawn people on to the streets despite the dramatic surge of covert 1000 cases images like these led medical experts to demand