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transport at all. the president has been justified on french duty. son -- >> if during the six weeks, we follow the curve view, we n actively reduce the number of contacts. think we can prove -- progressively start to open up again. i am being careful because experiences show we cannot control everything. six weeks seem to be the best duration for our actions. >> let's look at the statistics in france. here are the daily cases of past month. french hospitals have now more than 1.5 -- 1,500 cases. and the number of people in hospital with cobit is up to levels that we saw in may. these restrictions had already been before the announcements so this builds on it. in paris, let's talk through this. i am interested -- nothing on transport, schools, or universities. >> -- the economic sufferers on theaters, bars, anywhere that can ke place in the evening. one of the big urban centers, paris, marseilles, they will be required to return home by 9:00. it will be a bit like confinement because i suspect there will be a rule that comes anywhere you need a bit o

and could air transport bubbles help rescue asia's beleagured travel industry? hello and welcome. i'm kasia madera. the frenchemmanuel, macron has ordered a night—time curfew for paris and eight other french cities to contain the rising spread of covid—19. speaking on french television in the last few hours, mr macron said, "we have to act. we need to put a brake on the spread of the virus." in addition to paris, the measures apply to grenoble, lille, lyon, marseille, montpellier, rouen, saint—etienne and toulouse. residents will be banned from going outdoors between 9pm to 6am, from saturday. france reported 22,591 new confirmed coronavirus cases on wednesday. and it's become the ninth country in the world to pass 33,000 deaths. this is president macron from that tv appearance just a few hours ago. translation: if during these six weeks we follow the curfew and act collectively to reduce the number of contacts, that's the point at which we think we can progressively start up again. dashed start to open up again. i'm being very careful here because experience has shown we can't control everything. we can't ou

french waters. the idea was missed due to ththe risk that the e migrants butut t capsize. >> it michael people. -- it might kill people. the idea of transportingke that, it goes back to when britain transported people to australia. >> they are basing some of their ideaeas bang -- ideas on the australian model. the guardian reported they were going to senend asylum seekers offshore. that's based on the strict australian migration model where they hold asylum-seekers offshore. other measures include a report that migrant hostiles were reported off the shore of scotland. one official said any proposal to treat human being's like cattle will be met withh the strongest possible opposition. >> how we treat migrants shows who we are and what we think and it doesn't say much about the u.k. government that they are planning that. that's my own personal view. now moving on to free the uighurs. cliques that is trending in france. it people arare wondering why instagram and twitter are filled with blue squares. it is to support -- supply support for uighur muslims. we can compare this to blackout tuesday when instagram users posted a blackck square in sup

clearly the french believe eason russia had also said that that they had detected that their intelligence had reported that fighters from syria mercenaries and geologists were being transported to fight for example by drug something that initially booth turkey and then said about judge. denied they had denied that they were using fighters that they were being deployed to the frontlines now we're hearing different talk we're hearing them accuse the armenians of 3 utilizing mercenaries under the guise of volunteers this is this is something that they've been saying in recent days armenia who always has since the onset staunchly. said the as there by john was using mercenary fighters nevertheless there is a diplomatic a as i said escalation in a rare feat comparatively 'd speaking the united states france and russia came out with a joint statement calling for peace saying that this wasn't the sort of fight the sort of war the was needed or wanted at this point in. this situation in the world the middle of a pandemic and urging urging booth sides to deescalate to pull back and to give talks another child's however turkey for one is somewhat seek of talks. the issue should be. th

or another they're being transported into this conflict into the box that is a very dangerous and considering what demon just said about the reaction to turkey we have the french president speaking very very clearly that this is a very dangerous development according to reports george yes the reports certainly credible and i don't know what extent they've been confirmed but they are those are widely. accessible reports and it's certainly consistent with everything else that no one has done i mean a great remember initially there were these jihadi terrorists who were transferred from libya to syria in immediate aftermath of the overthrow of get up here and then recently france. these from syria to libya so that we would be perfectly plausible. to one now be transferring jihadi fighters from syria as they are by just. it as you say why is there no one doing this yet because he can he figures that if he creates enough trouble than he lifts heavy defeats on the armenians then you know russia and the rest of the minutes group will have to accept realities on the ground. you know the armenians will have to give up some territory within hours or by johnson to the cha

wales as well, we've got storm alex which was named by the french met service, producing the strongest of the winds across north—west transport northern ireland, some fog patches around, they should clear quickly, one or two showers for northern ireland and north of scotland, showery and breezy for the northern isles but for the rest of scotland, much of northern ireland and into northern england it should still —— state dry and bright. feeling cooler in the wind and rain in the south coast evening and overnight more rain piling on across much of england and wales, coming in from the east, heavy in the south for a time. a soggy start to your saturday. in the south and east, drier in the north—west, many of us seeing spells are pretty heavy rain through that day on saturday. sarah, thank you. just doing a little bit of tidying up, if i am honest. it's all got to be a little bit chaotic. i was doing the tidying up, not charlie! but it is complete now, thatis charlie! but it is complete now, that is the main thing. it is 8:43am. cow manure — not something we want to think much about this early in the morning, but it turns out it

transport disruption likely and strong winds at times, earlier today we have had the strongest winds round storm alex, named by the french islands and we still have that rain round as well. it is only moving slowly northward, so still dry this evening in scotland and northern ireland, and these are the temperatures by then. now the rain may start to ease off overnight, in wales and the south—west, still going to be windy here mind you but wetter weather continues in the south—east, develops further north and the rain will be pushed into scotland. it will turn chilly overnight, there could be early sunshine here tomorrow. on the whole, it is cloud and rain on the way tomorrow, that rain pushes its way tomorrow, that rain pushes its way westwards, developing more widely across england, wales and scotland, gales still in the south—west of england, sunshine perhaps in the afternoon in the south—east as the rain starts to clear through, that will give temperatures a boost but underneath the cloud and rain temperatures are typically a chilly 13 degree, that rain will be heavy in places as well. particularly in wales, and the w

french started testing injune. but the uk has not yet moved to testing and the earliest grant shapps, the transport secretary, thinkst's get on with it. notjust the beginning of december. let's get on with it. not just testing after you arrive but let's get on to predeparture testing so that even before somebody can get on a plane, we know they are covid free and when they get to their destination they can travel without any form of quarantine. that would allow us to get the uk economy back up to some kind of normality in a world where we are living with covid for many years to come. ok, thank you, john holland—kaye, chief executive of heathrow who makes the point that if testing was regular as passengers arrived into heathrow, it would mean more people would feel confident to fly. we know that the aviation industry is one of the worst hit and i think many of us would not want to be in his shoes at the moment. thank you very much, a tough time for all ceos no doubt. there's been a second night of unrest in the us city of philadelphia after the fatal police shooting of a black man. police say officers opened fire on

french capital are being transformed. it's like a revolution. before we had a city with a car, only car and now we have the city with bicycles, with walking and public transportationeople use it. build and they will come, as they say. look at that. that is like a big traffic jam, you know. look at that. that is like a big trafficjam, you know. i started to cycle so i could avoid public transport. coronavirus encouraged me to cycle more than before. these types of changes normally take decades, because of the pandemic, there was an urgency which meant they happened here overnight. since they happened here overnight. since the coronavirus struck, the french government has invested 20 million euros ina government has invested 20 million euros in a push to get more parisians using bikes, including subsidies of 50 euros towards the cost of bike repairs. and these cycling proficiency classes are now free to anyone in the city who wants to learn to ride. further south, in italy, the regional government of lombardi has so far spent 100 and 2 million euros to stimulate cycling. but claudia, who has been driving passengers around milliron for more than two decades, what is