let's get you some business news with catherine bennett. there is an economic rebound in the eurozone in the third quarter of this year. what does that mean in terms of recovery? catherine: although this is the fastest rate of expansion since records began in 1995, the record is almost meaningless because of the current contest. -- current context. the eurozone saw a jump of 7% compared to the previous three months. gdp was still 4.3% smaller than before the pandemic. so we have not recouped the loss caused by coronavirus. these numbers refer to the summer when many restrictions had relaxed and consumers were traveling and spending money, but this fresh rate of restrictions could call the region back into contraction in the final quarter of the year. he saw similar record numbers in the u.s. but these are more an indication of how deep the economy fell this year than an indication of strong and permanent recovery. two of europe's tighe's economies go back into lockdown -- they have ueashed a raft of emergency suprt measures. france's gdp sen

i am joined by catherine bennett.f course, what will be of great concern to a lot of businesses here in france is, how was the government going to help them get through some pretty tough times? >> the government has come out with a lot of the restrictions of the first lockdown. ask the mating a cost of 50 billion euros for each month of the lockdown. -- estimating the cost of 50 billion euros for each month of the lockdown. that 50 billion euros breaks down like this. 7 billion euros will go into a furlough scheme for partial unemployment, introduced earlier in the year. that helps companies continue to pay their workers 84% of their salaries, even if they are not able to actually work. 6 billion euros goes into a solidarity fund, direct aid to small and medium-size businesses who lost earnings because of the lockdown. 1 billion will go to paying the social security charges of companies so they don't have to. 1 billion euros will help businesses pay rent. tourism, hospitality, and events are some of the sectors that w