among the nation's concerned and among the leaders of laos, which can help laos back to the pathway ofndependence, and genuine neutrality. >> mr. kennedy's first setback came when fidel castro crushed an exile attempt to liberate cuba. cuba's move toward communism caused thousands to seek refuge in. atlanta, women protested against castro's jailing of husband who dared to oppose him. castro's police quickly put down such protests. finally at year indiana castro proclaimed himself a marxist leninist that he would pattern his government after that of the soviet union. one of kennedy's bold new programs was the peace corps. here he tells its purpose in his own words after signing the bill. >> i've today signed an executive order providing for the establishment of a peace corps on a temporary pilot basis. it will be a pool of trained men and women sent overseas by the u.s. government or to private institutions and organizations to help foreign countries meet their urgent needs with skilled manpower. we'll send americans abroad who are qualified to do a job. we're going to put particular em

florists occur there for us in laos thank you very much french president emanuel tested positive for kofi 19 the president's office says it's highly likely that mccrone caught the virus at a european council summit last week his diagnosis is fuelling alarm and exile 80 among many of the european union leaders many of them had close contact with at that summit he also hosted spain and portugal as leaders in paris last week excuse me this week they are both now in quarantine. affectionate squeeze that's how french president emanuel greeted officials and heads of government last week at the e.u. summit and how he welcomed portuguese prime minister antonio costa to the elysee palace on wednesday. but now that michael has tested positive for the corona virus those close contacts may wish they dodged his warm embrace. last night the president started to experience symptoms indicative of 19 he immediately isolated and took a p.c.r. test the results of which confirmed that he is positive for coping $1000.00. dollars as for everyone who test positive in this country to contact tracing began i

. >> lao estánapoyando en su mayo tos oficinas gubernamentales n >> es necesario que las autoridadesodamos llevar a cabo servicios para todas las personas que lo necesiten >> volver a la normalidad es el deseo de muchos pero dista expertos que es imposible antes hay que parar el rebrote de covid 19 y eso será posible si usted acata las recomendaciones por parte de las autoridades. >> los latinos llevamos más del doble de las muertes que se han registrado a consecuencia del covid 19 desde que inició la crisis de salud según los expertos médicos y no cambiamos nuestro comportamiento estaremos peor ya el mes que viene por eso recalca la importancia de que la comunidad latina se haga la prueba del coronavirus. >> es importante saber por qué dejé ahortengo a mi mamá y esposo que es diabético. >> la mayor ocupación de las autoridades sigue siendo la disponibilidad de camas de hospital sobre todo en las unidades de cuidados intensivos en todo el estado por eso han instado a los residentes a que permanezcan en casa lo más posible y se realicen la prueba que todos lugares es rápido y gratis.

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in laos congress's, president said unreservedly support the goal of a neutral independent country.ied to no outside power or group of powers. threatening no one. free from any domination. we are faced with a clear and one-sided threat of a change in the internationally agreed position. this threat runs counter to the will of the people. they wish only to be independent and neutral. military operations directed from of the country. if peace is to be achieved in southeast asia. we must construct negotiation among the nations concerns and among the leaders which can help them back to the pathway of independence and genuine neutrality. >> reporter: the first setback came when castro crushed exile attempt to liberate cuba. cuba's move toward communism's cause thousands to seek sanctuary in united states and latin america. in havana, women protested. castro's police quickly put down such protests. finally he proclaimed himself's marxist-leninist he would pattern his government after that of the soviet union. one of kennedy's bold new programs was the peace corps. here he tells the purpos

. >> agency officials say they're also making final arrangements to resume work in cambodia, laos andhailand. >>> the world food program has been awarded the nobel peace prize at an online ceremony. its executive director is appealing for more support, saying 270 million people will be facing starvation due partly to the pandemic. our next story takes a look at the u.n. agency's work in one country that's among the most in need. >> reporter: there are few places in the world where the fight against hunger is more fi years of war have devastated agrictural production. one u.n. official says the middle eastern country is now at risk of losing an entire generation of children. the world body says more than 16 million yemenis may be facing a food crisis by mid-2021, half the population. up to 47,000 people could be in a state of catastrophic food insecurity. the wfp is trying hard to avoid that, providing aid to 13 million people despite the security risks. >> we have a very robust network. we are delivering food to 3,500 food distribution points across the country in every single governe

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kidnapped from their school in northwestern nigeria last week, crossing out to our correspondent in laos with the latest. man u macro has tested positive for cova 19 currently isolating at the palace where he is reportedly still able to work, he caught the virus at a meeting with european heads of state. 10 years on, the impact of the arab spring, we will be visiting the place where it began in tunisia where in angry market trader burned himself alive in protest of police brutality triggering a movement across the arab world, this is life in paris. ♪ thank you very much for being with us, around 300 schoolboys have been freed in nigeria, they are reportedly among the group kidnapped by terrorists last week. video reported from boko haram published in it, a teenage boy surrounded by younger boys said they had been taken by the game -- gang, this the first proof of life of the boys since they disappeared. they were snatched from their school last friday, these are the chilling images of the school after. they had been taken away, at first they thought they were local gangsters, later there

ros: canada has become the lao st country tapprove the pfizer vaccine.n the u.k., the roll out continues. indian farmers have extraordinary protests for almost two weeks now. >> [singing] ros: cher singing ton a elephant, we will see why in an exclusive interview with her. ♪ ros: a warm welcome to those of you watching in america and everyone else watching on bbc world news. 'les go to brussels. boris johnson and the president of the european commission have been beating. their goal is to unlock trade talks when time is running low. these pictures show both of them meeting at the european commission headquarters in brussels. we will hshe more on that tly. first, both sides have been laying out there red lines. >> our friends in the eu are currentlyti ins that if they pass a new law in the future with which we in this country do not comply or don't follow suit, they have the automatic right to punishs u and retaliate. secondly, they are saying th u.k. shod be the only country in the world not to have sovereign control over its fishing waters. i don't beli

if anyone knows the origin of a particular glass ornament it's the people of laos they've been blowing glass here since 5097 and producing ornaments since the mid 19th century. and is the 4th generation to take over his family christmas business. he had makes and sells glass ornaments including the christmas pickle to buyers world. i. but actually he only learned about the tradition in recent years on a visit to california. i was asked also you also make christmas pickles and i just laughed but then someone else asked me the same question until a 3rd time and i started wondering what is it with these christmas pickles and then someone explained that it's tradition in germany town a pickle on your christmas tree and that every american knows this i thought lee nobody in germany does. that needed curious so he came home to search through his grandfather's glass molds from the 1930 s. not these and i found this broken mold since then we've been producing these glass pickles. now he sells pickle ornaments to customers in places like japan norway switzerland and of course the united states.

here and not in 10 overs 22000000 in especially in the basin not name it is to declining but to say laos i mean it should be you know it has to be the human. perspective you know we're here to do to save. what other aspect of krona fire is the overuse of antibiotics to fight cope it could accelerate the spread of so-called superbugs the world health organization has highlighted a significant rise and gone a rare a sexually transmitted bacterial infection warning it could become incurable. microbial resistance may not seem as a pandemic but it is just as dangerous it threatens to unwind a century of medical progress and leave us a defenseless against infections that today can be treated easily antibiotic he has forgotten a rare have been given out to treat inflammatory symptoms following an infection not supported he allowed to other bacteria to build presidents creating superbug that could become untreatable as i said now we talked to a need in your wallet just about the over use of such medicine. viruses not stupid . and or a bacteria is not stupid it gets no it gets used to a certain a

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has this report from laos nigeria where the economic fallout of the pandemic has made things even worse. chris west is in lagos is always packed with all kinds of parties festivals and events but this year is going to be more quiet than usual because of the recent spike in $1000.00 infections the government has introduced. patsy's county vows and music out shows and now beyond throughout the state of another major highlights of christmas shows here. is the i'm amazing food unfortunately nigeria is going through an economic recession as a result of the pandemic so food prices are the highest they've been all year. so. last year we were not selling this one for up to 300 you could even get 2 of these for 500 but this one goes for 1500 now this is not like last because. there is no more no markets. so. people are no buying my kids very. very. desperate chiefs nigerians a great food to be. swayed. and the 2nd round of the german cup continued on wednesday with 5 bonus league teams in action. second division side bo home shocked top flight main lines after beating them on penalties got elimi

if anyone knows the origin of a particular glass ornament it's the people of laos they've been blowing glass here 5097 and producing ornaments since the mid 19th century. glass. is the 4th generation to take over his family christmas ornament business. he hand makes and sells glass ornaments including the christmas pickle to buyers world. i. but actually he only learned about the tradition in recent years on a visit to california. i was asked also you also make christmas pickles and i just laughed but then someone else asked me the same question and then a 3rd time and i started wondering what is it with these christmas pickles and then someone explained that it's tradition in germany it's on a pickle on your christmas tree and that every american knows this by thing oddly nobody in germany does which is. that needed curious so he came home to search through his grandfather's glass molds from the 1930 s. not these and i found his gherkin mold since then we've been producing these glass pickles. now he sells pickle ornaments to customers in places like japan norway switzerland and of co

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perspective and there are thing you know if you were here to do to say laos and similar concerns in south korea 2 or 3 people have come from the u.k. or been diagnosed with a new strain of corona virus they comes amid a rising covert infections in that country as a whole leading experts to one of the 3rd wave of the virus. it is a positive sign that we have suppressed the sudden increase to around $1000.00 cases but we are also failing to lower the number to turn the situation around we are going to set a special quarantine period until january in the 3rd call i'm confident we will be able to better the situation of. the virus is spreading whenever and wherever it wants as we stand at the crossroads of the 3rd wave how we stop the spread hinges on how we spend this year and a new period. compared to the 1st 2 waves that south korea had in march and then in the summer the recent infections aren't cluster infections like the other ones there are not as geographically specifically it's more difficult to track and trace because right now the infections that we're seeing are popping up all ove

kidnapped from their school in northwestern nigeria last week, crossing out to our correspondent in laosh the latest. man u macro has tested positive for cova 19 currently isolating at the palace where he is reportedly still able to work, he caught the virus at a meeting with european heads of state. 10 years on, the impact of the arab spring, we will be visiting the place where it began in

change here and not in 10 overs 22000000 in a stress in a basin not name it to suit economy but to say laos i mean it should be you know it has to be the human. perspective you know it we're here to do to save. many of us can only imagine but treating covert patients can be exhausting as you can see from this image of russian medical students who were helping out round the clock out of hospital misapply to spark the photo has now gone viral one of the students spoke to us about the story behind it. but you know our. fire. department. couldn't make. good morning refrigeration because. it was played. in court all. right sure. enough when i'm. with. you for once you. must. make. money there always will push things on. a level. 2020 has been a challenging you have to pretty much every wanting to take her in a hollywood film stars that are rushing to say sorry for that performance since not being telling fast enough point copecks. 2020 has been a hard year fact is no one suffers more in the world wald than act is and celebrities. professional pretenders trying to engage with intellectual debate

virus as they try to evade authorities that's prompted the government to allow workers from cambodia laos and man mark to apply to work in thailand legally for 2 years tony chang reports from a popular beach east of bangkok. and this is where ben aaron a half way from bangkok you would normally be absolutely jam packed with people here for the new year holiday the big holiday of the year in thailand but while some people have come out most people are heeding the prime minister's advice which is to stay within your own province now he spoke to the nation today after the cabinet meeting he said the government wasn't going to impose a nationwide lockdown they put in place a series of red amber and green alerts in all of the different provinces at the moment most places are on amber but we are still speaking seeing these little clusters of infections coming out 22 more in bangkok $45.00 in the populated province around and then now in $45.00 provinces across time and that's a huge problem for a country which had seen 0 chance mr transmission in the country for months and it's got many people

vaccine production should they give up their kind of their copyright over all these are made in the lao other countries to see how they're made and then create their own generic brand oh no question i think you know it really raises ethical questions that we allow the a pharmaceutical corporations to have you know for quiet make these things proprietary in the 1st place because health is something that impacts everyone around the world when it comes to infectious diseases they don't know borders as we say to the spread over 19 spread very quickly throughout the world and it was thanks to china being able to sequence the genome very quickly and share that out that allowed this kind of you know collective reach 3rd trying to address the problem that germany was a was a develop a test really quickly and fortunately the united states because it has a habit you know developing its own test that means it's grown for gratian and profit from it is best to the test of the world health organization and that delayed our ability. to identify cases and that was you know really put us behind the ball

thing i think the change of mentality is the most important thing so we can have lost we can change laoswe can make resolutions but if people don't change don't act differently against people of color against that people will still have reason therefore it is still important to go in dialogues talk with people and hear like teach them about about history teach them about racism and teach them about the impact of racism on black people because a lot of people don't understand that facing racism is a traumatic experience i'm seeing that scene for instance much less a last one of the bigger problems you've got when it comes to changing laws we need to just want to tell you when you're talking about politicians is actually in europe there is this rise of the far right there are politicians who may not be far right but i certainly listening to their constituencies and suggesting that actually if we do something about black paint we are going to anger a number of our constituents who don't see this as being rice and so you have a political problem here as well then absolutely absolutely and i'

the lao government al-jazeera where every. to. bookmarking watching al-jazeera with me still running a reminder of our top story news millions of people across the u.s. state of california are preparing for harsh new lock down walls to come into place in the next few hours the state has reported its highest number of new covert 1000 infections more than 30000 in a day south korea's military will be deployed as the president calls for expanded coronavirus testing and tracing more than 600 cases were reported on monday the 30th day in a row of daily triple digit increases. and venezuela's opposition leader one why doe's has slammed sunday's parliamentary vote as a fraud counting is underway for the poll which was boycotted by the opposition it's likely that present nicholas material will consolidate his hold on power. because between the united kingdom and the european union are said to be on a knife edge as they struggle to secure a post breaks a trade deal they can't agree on 3 key issues fishing rights resolving future disputes a

to come down in flames attempts fighters in september 2011 the guy arrived in laos. back then not many people came to largo's to invest. internet business as. i told the guy a sort of small american. he said karma boys show me your office boys. we said ok let's go to the market. we had our office there. it was a 10 square metre room with 16 employees all crammed into it. he said interesting show me your numbers. side so we did we were pretty proud of the numbers. we were clearing about $30000.00 profit a month. this intrigue look things over and said this is interesting we talked for about 45 minutes and then he said ok i'll give you a term sheet. we didn't even know what a term sheet was ok that's good we found out that it is the 1st step towards a concrete investment the next day he sent the term sheet which valued our company at 9000000. and that was just incredible. as even there we were making about $30000.00 a month and that was ok but then this american comes along and says your company is worth $9000000.00 make something of it he said here is 9000000 take ano

cambodia,in laos, south vietnam -- they had all fallen to communism. we were retreating. the american economy was in a horrible shape. the worst economy since the great depression. we were contracting, jobs were disappearing. combined with that was we had an economic condition with economists say in the book did not exist. we had an economy with high inflation, which it they said was impossible to exist. 60%, 20%was upwards of 20% a year and the value of the dollar dwindled down greatly in the carter administration. so, carter -- or ronald reagan was confronting a depressed american morale, an awful economy, and soviet advances, yet eight years later we created 18 million new jobs, interest rates -- the high interest rates were eradicated. and within two years, less than that, within a year it was the beginning of the end of the soviet union. so this is one of the greatest achievements in human kind, but one of the greatest of the 20th century and one of the great achievements by an american president. he brought the soviet union to its knees, crushed it. the baltic state

former treasury secretary larry summers, lao of harvard. more of my conversation coming week." street that airs tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. this is "balance of power." ♪ ♪ this is "bloomberg balance of power." for first word news, we go to ritika gupta. : the deal is done, those words from boris after the u.k. clinched a huge deal with the european union. ursula von der leyen called it the right and responsible thing to do. >> this agreement is in the united kingdom's interest. it will set solid foundations with a long-term we can and it means that finally put brexit behind us. agreement comes days before the u.k. is due to leave the bloc's single market and customs union. house republicans have shut down democrats move to boost payments to americans as part of the coronavirus relief package. president trump demanded the payments be increased to $2000 and democrats hoped to get that approved by unanimous consent, but republicans blocked the attempt. will try next week with a roll call vote. the u.s. leads the world with the number of people getting the coronavirus vacci

cambodia and laos saw their sovereignty recognize it was the end of french indochina. domino pieces falling, one after the other. the loss of indochina had immediate consequences. it forced france to give back to india trading posts. it had administered for nearly 3 centuries in my take on any in october 1954, france withdrew from asia to the apparent indifference of most french people. france had lost nearly 80000 soldiers, thousands remains to be evacuated. fighters from the 4 corners of the empire, prisoners, the wounded, damaged for life. french citizens who had settled in indochina, thousands of indochinese auxilary s. who had chosen to defend the french wary patry did to france often in different conditions. they had lost everything reports of the defeats echoed across the whole empire. so the key to wanted to dollar cool english comb. all our news live more in the a.p. knows, i mean, if one laid the new rule until she knew us, not the t.v. ha but could offset it in part with france's destiny turned upside down. the authorities still strive to preserve their colo

let's get more now from our correspondent in laos nigeria fluster cora has more for us on what's going on down there now the governor there saying unharmed the boys are what more do we know about their condition well as you heard from the interview we don't really have more. with regards to the condition of the boys what we know is that according to the on we. see a nasty where the wreckage from to be reunited with their families parents and. this is the huge sigh of relief to the whole country. how much more do we know about what led up to this release of the boys. so what we know is that. this was a joint effort between the police the army and the. security agencies in negotiating the release. of these boys. has claimed responsibility for kidnapping this boys however the authorities and even the local people still insists that the key was not done by this was. the work. in the area which of course the bandits have been trying to. foil while now many people are very fair to their muscle groups of. what regardless of the kievan ups i think the highlight of the woman's right now is that

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right now, president trump is on his way to florida to ma r-a-lao for the holidays leaving behind quite a kchaotic scene in washington with the stimulus bill, his aides worried about his bid to overturn the election. "the new york times" reporting erratic behavior and detachment from duties have some of the most loyal aides and advisors deeply concerned. one of those behaviors out of the blue suggesting that he would try to blow up the bipartisan stimulus package, which we should note his own white house negotiated and agreed to. >> i am asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 and to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a covid relief package and maybe that administration will be me. >> trump also issuing those controversial pardons for corrupt lawmakers, convicted felons. we'll have more later in the show and there is trump's continued attacks on democracy itself. trump is coordinating a final ultimate loyalty test for his supporters to lodge objections in congress during biden's certification on januar

if anyone knows the origin of a particular glass ornament it's the people of laos they've been blowing glass here since 5097 and producing ornaments since the mid 19th century. glass. and it is the 4th generation to take over his family christmas ornament business. he hand makes and sells glass ornaments including the christmas pickle to buyers world. i. but actually he only learned about the tradition in recent years on a visit to california. i was asked to also you also make christmas pickles and i just laughed but then someone else saucily the same question and then a 3rd and i started wondering what is it with these christmas pickles and then someone explained that it's tradition in germany it's on a pickle on your christmas tree and that every american knows this i think oddly nobody in germany does. that made him curious so he came home to search through his grandfather's glass molds from the 1930 s. . not the that i found his gherkin with mold since then we've been producing these glass pickles. now he sells pickle ornaments to customers in places like japan norway switzerland a

james: he sought help from mckellen thompson, who had been working with refugees in laos and vietnam.979 we sort of doubled up the problems on the thai government with all these very large numbers of people coming in, illegal aliens. they were essentially starving. it looked like people coming right out of auschwitz. what were they going to do with them? many died on the way. james: by the time my father made it to the border, the thai government had agreed to allow some survivors to be brought into makeshift border camps. bunseng: we escaped that day with thousands of people that poured into the border. i remember before they put us in the pen, they would bring the truck to the border and help us get on the truck. the truck drove into the city. this was the first time that we saw electricity. we were so happy. we all threw our hands up in the air, it is freedom. it is freedom. >> we couldn't believe our luck. our spirits were high, we were hopeful. we had been cut off from the world for four and a half years. [flute playing] bunseng: we make it to the refugee camp. surrounding it was

toy also tried to travel laos. all these little islands, they're going to play an important role. i would say the main players in this story are the islands. david: i'm going to give you one last question to take a crack at if you will and then we will pull this to an end. in this engine of capitalism that is growing and growing in the 19th century all over the atlantic world, western europe, the americas, africa, brazil, south america, all over. this trade never ends. it never ends. it does finally, finally, and though it is transferring over to the indian ocean and that goes into the 20th century, and despite the hideous scale of death from disease in the story -- would you document and you show -- why did it keep running? is it just the profit motive? is that how we explain it in the end? manuel: yeah. it is a need for cheap labor. david: it continues through the 19th century. manuel: it would have continued. it stopped eventually because people came around to the idea of stopping it. it would've continued otherwise. there were people ready the americas, europe, and africa. we

> the pardons that you just mentioned included confessed liars in the russia probe, george pap dop laosupt poll significances, chris collins, duncan and also murderers, convicted murderers, blackwater contractors convicted of killing iraqis in a massacre there. what do you see as the through line with these pardons? >> well, 88% of them a study was done of his pardons are somehow related to donald trump's interests or to his own political interests. so when you look at them, even though they all seem different as you point out about murderers, about money laundering, about a congress using campaign funds to send his pet rabbit on a trip -- true fact -- when you look through all of them what ties them together is corruption. it is corruption. so when you think of the pardon power, that is supposed to be about forgiveness and mercy. it's like when president obama pardoned josephine, a woman i had gotten to know who basically was given a life sentence when she didn't sell drugs or use drugs because she was in the middle. president obama pardoned that woman and she now says her goal in life

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desperate for infrastructure if they want to meet their economic needs there is a death problem in laos perhaps cambodia. but broadly speaking's not so much about opposing china but managing china's rise. they also recognize it's here to stay to issue their own kind of language last are they issued a document called the outlook on the indo pacific. as more of a centered approach strives to make it be the end and core or the foundation the main emphasis of his inclusiveness or should not be about about excluding china to pick up on some of the themes of center duckworth on economic development. it's coming in in january think there is a sense of relief with that experienced diplomat here this is on the op-ed's and so on in the hope it will reengage with doubt these asian mark, rebuild ties. think one of the most important things is they will show up for regional summits at a high leve level. for southeast asia companies that is really important. but just as important as that, they want the biden administration to know the region has changed. i think the incoming diplomats know this. they

virus as they try to evade the authorities it's prompted officials to allow workers from cambodia laos and me in mar to apply to work in thailand legally for 2 years well thailand is one of the world's low it has one of the world's largest infection rates and the government wants to keep it that way al-jazeera tony chang reports on this now from sun sun in eastern thailand. this is we're back in there and a half away from bangkok you would normally be absolutely jam packed with people here for the new year home with the big holiday of the year in thailand but while some people have come out most people are heeding the prime minister's advice which is to stay within your own province now he spoke to the nation today offered a cabinet meeting he said the government wasn't going to impose a nationwide lockdown they put in place series of red amber and green alerts in all of the different provinces at the moment most places are on amber but we are still speaking seeing these little clusters of infections coming out 22 more in bangkok $45.00 in the populated province around and they're now

if anyone knows the origin of a particular glass ornament it's the people of laos they've been blowing glass here 5097 and producing ornaments since the mid 19th century. glass. and it is the 4th generation to take over his family christmas business. he hand makes and sells glass ornaments including the christmas pickle to buyers worldwide . but actually he only learned about the tradition in recent years on a visit to california. i was asked to also you also make christmas pickles and i just laughed but then someone else asked me the same question until a 3rd time and i started wondering what is it with these christmas pickles and someone explained that it's tradition in germany town a pickle on your christmas tree and that every american knows this i think oddly nobody in germany does. that made him curious so he came home to search through his grandfather's glass molds from the 1930. days of my found his gherkin old since then we've been producing these glass pickles. now he sells pickle ornaments to customers in places like japan norway switzerland and of course the united states.

sure fair for us in laos thank you very much french president a man you're mccrone has tested positive for the corona virus the president's office says it's highly likely that mccrone caught the virus and a european council summit last week his diagnosis is fuelling alarm and exactly be among europe's leaders many of them have close contact with micro to at that summit he also hosted spain and portugal as leaders in paris last week and they're both now in quarantine. an affectionate squeeze that's how french president emanuel not home greeted officials and heads of government last week at the e.u. summit and how he welcomed portuguese prime minister antonio costa to the elysee palace on wednesday. but now that michael has tested positive for the coronavirus those close contacts may wish they dodge his warm embrace. it was last night the president started to experience symptoms indicative of covert 19 immediately isolated and took a p.c.r. test the results of which confirm that he is positive for coke in $1000.00. cinnabon as for everyone who test positive in this country contact tracin