u.k. department of health the infected blood inquiry is a cabinet of its leaders and therefore they will be the ones best placed to answer your questions beyond that initial acknowledgement the cabinet office has not responded to our request. and all we could find on the official u.k. national health service website was a report mentioning that victims are entitled to apply for compensation. 2019 and for the 1st time the u.k. government agreed to hear what the victims had to say a public inquiry was opened in london and jason evans group factory is taking part in it is finally happening it's been. a long road and this is a this train journey is one that i say him countless times over the last 34 years. even before jason was born his father was aware of the deadly disease. in spite of the risk of passing on the contamination his baby was born. after i think about how would i have dealt with what my dad went. next year i'll be the same age my dad was when he died. i think about if i was to die i didn't a share that age that would have been really a very short life. that weighs heavily on my m

of british diplomacy at least that's what the u.k. government hopes its new foreign commonwealth and development department will deliver at a time when the world is fighting one of the most severe health and economic crises in generations $50000000.00 people are projected to fall into extreme poverty this year the united nations has warned that the world faces its worst food crisis at hof a century and in a climate of rising hardship the risk of terrorism and migration flows are higher than ever in the past 23 years the department for international development to fit has become a beacon for expertise and transparency its influence in alleviating poverty around the world made to britain a global leader in the aid sector but the move to hitch developments to diplomacy has alarmed many organizations it's feared it will roll back to fits effets what we haven't seen i'm afraid with the. aid of the foreign office has been spending the last. person experience of this used to be in the for what we haven't seen in the foreign office is that really laser like focus on spending that money in the poorest countries so i think it's really important that we do that the u.k. isn't the only country to

of the population. even the health department has not ruled out the possibility of asking students not to go home to visit their families over christmas. the u.k kinds of rules and regulations when it comes to coronavirus. the prime minister is facing somewhat of a revolt from within his own party. a group of mps is pushing an amendment in parliament which would require parliamentary approval, a vote on any new covid-related rules. in march the parliament voted to give the government the power to make new rules without actually consulting them. one mp said this weekend that is precisely how liberty dies. will it pass? one prominent labor mp said he is sympathetic to this cause but would not yet commit his party to voting for him. >> scott mcclain in london this monday morning. thanks, scott. >>> french authorities responding to coronavirus resurgence with new restrictions. the country surpassed half a million cases on friday. as of today bars and restaurants in big french cities face a 10 p.m. curfew. joining us from paris is cnn's melissa bell. nice to see you this morning. how are folks responding to the new restrictions? >> reporter: they p