And australias secondbbiggest city back in lockdown for six weeks. Our correspondent is on the way with details. I am genie g godula. Thank you for joining us. Emmanuel macron is holding the first meeting of his new cabinet in. The president is selling the reshuffle is meant to create a new path to help france through its worst, crisis s since world wawar ii. Analysts say it is a way for him to call back his popularity after his party took a hitit in local election. The new cabinet does not come without controversy. The e man named to the coaoast f is aior m ministerr 27yearold who under investigation over a rape allegation. A new justice mr. Is minister is eric dupont ready eric dupondmoretti who is known for his controversial comments on the metoo movement. An unexpected face in frances up as ministers. Dupondmoretti is a political novice and a renowned critical lawyer. With over 140 acquittals to his name. Internrnationalllly, he is knowr his defense of Julian Assange and his campaign for his silence of france early this year. [speaking foreign languagage] reporter at home, he has defended clients from all walks of life. The brother of a convicted trader, and ague whos who of disgraced french politicians. Listontroversial client aside, he has been a longtime critic of the french magistrate demanding more accountability among judges. They have called his stereo nomination and declaration of war. He has also caused controversy for his comments about the metoo movement. He also called the criminalization of cap calling women on the street appalling lling. The curtain has closed on his stint as an actor. Instead dupondmoretti will make his mark on the political stage as frances new minister of juststice. The leader of hong kong is him is going to quote vigorously implement the new rules which includes sweeping new powers for the police. Meanwhile some of the Largest Tech Companies have temporarily stopped sharing user data with hong kong authorities over the new law. That gives police power to jail employees of firms that do not comply with their orders. Just by holding blank sheets of paper, they are sending a message. This position being a crime punishable by up to life in prison, activists have come up with creative ways to voice their dissent. [speaking foreign language] heels on legislation have been released. More details have been released. Executive carrie lam fallacy vigorously implement the new laws. Those not to attempt to violate this law of crossing the red l line because the consequences of breaking this law are very serious. Reporter Public Libraries have already pulled books by prodemocracy figures. After his latest court appearance, the e activist c cal for supppport from the communit. With the threat of life worried,ing, we might be but we encourage the Global Committee to let our voice be heard in the world. Reporter along with fefellow prprotest leaders, he resigned from the prodemocracy group they cofounded after the n new lelegislation came into force. It has been revealed that he has left hong kong to an unknown location. Australias secondbiggest city is back in lockdown after coronavirus cases surge. More than 5 million residents of melbourne haveve been ordered to shelelterinplace starting wednesday for the next six weeks. Many students will return to Remote Learning with Restaurants Limited to serving take away food. The entire state of victctoria will be sealed off from the west of the country rest of the country. We will talk more about the situation with our correspondent. What is the very latest frorom melbourne . A record spike in coronavirus es inn melbourne is foforce forcing the city back into lockdown. They recorded 191 neww cases ths tuesday. Stage iii three restrictions will be reinstated in greater melbourne for six weeks starting wednesday night. Bemeans that people wont able to leave their homes unless to get g groceries and essential supplies, caregiving, exercising and for work or school if it cannot be done from home. These rules are going to affect some 5 million people. They will join the residence of socalled hotspots across the city who are already in lockdown following lot outbreaks. Melbourne blocked the arrival of International Flights toto redue the ririsk of covid19 caseses m ovoverseas. It is actually Community Transmission that is skyrocketing and causing the most concern. Meanwhile, victoria is shutting its border with new south wales, the countrys most populous state. That kicks in tonight with hundreds of police and military personnel set to enforce that closure. Genie what kind of affect might just new lockdown have on australias economy in regard to tourism . Australia has been admired around the world for its response to the pandemic and for keeping coronavirus relatively under control. The austraralian governmnment hs been banking on that to get the economy back up and running agaiain in particular, the tourm industry as various states start to slowly reopened their borders and allow interstate travel once again. This situation in victoria is putting the brakes on some of that, impacting thousands of businesses in victoria and having effects elsewhere. If anything, it is a ststark remindnder to the rerest of the asntry not to get complacent we are far from being out of the woods. Meanwhile, there is a big overion m mark hovering australia and new zealand wanted to cooperate on a covid safe travel zone in a bid to revive the tourism industry. For australia such a move would inject 2. 5 billion euros into the local e economy. There is talk that now with this second wave scare unfolding in victoria, there is only uncertainty. Genie Michelle Harrison reporting from sydney. Situation in south africa where schools have gradually reopened as the lockdowns start to ease. The countrys Health Minister is thinking about reimposing restrictions because of a new surge in cases. Here is more. School after ato four month hiatus, children in the sixth and 11th grade headed to class on monday as south africa kicked off the second stage of its reopening plan. Parents with a sense of excitement and relief, it alsoo anxiety that the return was happening g too soon. It is really a scary feeling because i am still working from home and to bring my daughter back to school, she is also scared with all of the regulations and stuff. Enter,r for they can pupils have to show a consent form signed by the parents. A symbol of the unease surrounding ththe return which comes as south africa faces a fresh surge in covid19 cases. Health authorities said they were reconsidering imposing sanitary restrictions in light of the recent spike, meeting schools may not remain open for long. A complicated dilememma for the government especially as heaealh and education are not the only issues at stake. If the school is closed, that means therere is no fooood for. Reporter one of the worst hit countries by the pandemic, south africa had over 190,000 registered cases on monday. Around 40 of all reported cases on the african continent. New f forecasts in europe say the economic slump due to the outbreak will be worth than previously expected in the european u union. The commission sayays italy, france, spain, andd croatia will see the deepest recessions this year and will not recover fullly in 2021. Another study says the impact on jobs is 10 times wororse than te financial crasash of 202008. Lets bring in stephen carroll. It seems the economic picture keeps getting worse. We have had a couple of bright spots as economies have reopened an activity has taken off. This is ththbroader pictuture which remains grim. The European Commission leasing this forecast taking into account the period of lockdown across the continent and the figures are bad as we had been expecting and worse than they painted earlier. The Commission Says it will be the worst recession since world war ii for europe. It expects growth to slump by 8. 7 across the 19 countries. Spain, france, italy and croatia will see the big drops as their economies shrink by more than 10 . Armanys economy will see lesser contraption. It will contract by 6 this year. You look ahead for next year, the commission does not see the lastmies making up that branch in 2020. The picture is worth than the commission painted earlier this year and that is because the lockdown has been longer than expected and the listing of restrictions have been slower than the commission thought it would be. This forecast coming as the eu members are discussing the 750 billion euro economic Recovery Plan that will include loans to countries worst affected by this crisis. That is still under discussion by Member States not signed off by either. It is to try to maintain employment as much as possible to limit the amount of jobs lost from this crisis. Showing that the impact of this crisis on jobs will be 10 times worse then the financial crisis. Onse in precarious jobs or low incomes will be worst affected and even in the optimistic scenario that the virus is under control, the unemployed race will be the highest date it has been since the great depression. There is a warning of a wave of bankruptcies that could come later this year. Just as companies wean themselves off government support. Things look like they will get worse before they get better. Genie a bleak picture. Stephen carroll, Business Editor talking about the economic effect of coronavirus. Thank you for watching france 24. I will be back in 15 minutes with more headlines. Is an iranianoday activist and the author of a book that was published in france. Freedom is not a crime. In it, you account your journey from an uppermiddleclass woman living in tehran to an activist jhijab. He job you were arrested and sentenced to prison. Before the verdict was handed tehranou decided to flee and you live in canada. A simple question, how does one go from being an uppermiddleclass woman t to being an activist agagainst t te islac veil . Was fed up with l living this double life, living a lieie and pretend eveverything i is ok for many years. And thefacing violence other thing is i knew a little about a Womens Movement in the west. I was very fascinated by those women whwho made thosese changed it anden in west can use they have almost the same rights as men and equality. I realized that those women were successful in their movement because eventually they had the support of normal ordinary women workers. In iran, womens rights activists did their best for years but he did not t go anywhe becausee they didid not have the support of us. So when the campaign came,e, i realized this is the moment for me to join. The socalled white wednesday campaign. The principal was to wear white and film yourself. Or to be e in the streets and send your message to the journalists who started the campaign. The campaign was simply askingg normal women and men to come foforward and bebe their voice. That was the m moment for me e o jojoin the campaign. Civil disobedience and nonviolence campaign. There was a turning point. Woman goes 2017, a in a very wellknown place in the center of tehran, decides to take her veil off, put it on a stick, and this created quite a stir. For you, this was a turning point because it was not only about wearing white, it was jhabt taking a he job ji and putting it on a stick. For a few months, everybody was talking about protesting, but this lady performed and she quietly and there sending a message to the authorities that i am peacefully protesting this law and it was very beautiful for me. Andas the most beaeautiful peaceful civil disobedience in the world and i was one of the first women who followed her past. So you started doing the same. A few days after her. Dimesew days, quite a fewew cash quite a few times. You were arrested. Humiliation, the violence in prison. Also accususations of spying. Yes. I never wenent to that spot in e center of the city. I did not want to get arrested. Other same time, i wananted women and men to join our campaign, to see me in my neighborhood and join us. During the interrogation, i faced the most horrible pains in the world. The scariest thing g that you realize that t they can do anything with you when they capture you. You were lucky because you were able to be defended by a wellknown lawyer who defended jailnd is now herself in for a very long time shortly after defending you. This h has allowed you to have someone on y your side tellll yu what to do. I imagine there is a lot of intimidation and you dont know whatat to do when you face those situations. She was my only hope. E. Although i wasas not able t to k to her or contactt her during te titime i was detained, but the thing that she had done for me to brought to justice in the publics eyes and told people the things that happen to me and also to the other women. I own my life to her, my familys safety and myself. So you were arrested three times and at some point you decide because you have a husband obviously, a young son, you say in the book that you if i stay, im ee. O die t was it the best decision you made . It is complicated for me. Rightsate for womens which is great but i cannot enjoy freedom as much as i want iran andy mind is in my heart is with my friends and my lawyer. Right. The sentences after you fled has become have become harsher and harsher. There is this group of women who decided last year to hand out flowers in the subway in tehran barehanded. Headed and now they y are arrested. It may be a consequence of what you did. They were m my frieiends. Ey were adadvocating for me duriring the time. The whole thing i is, womenen ae getting braver even though h thy arare seeing that what they have done to me and other women and the government wanted to send a message to all the women, iranian women. At thehe same time, if you see e news, if you see the videos, 24, women we are 23 are getting bolder and braver even thoughont obey the Police Officers asked them they are telling them to their face, i dont believe in obeying and i am not sexual discrimination. Do you belilieve this is stsl going on . Not likee that. They are doing another campaign the oppressors, record the Police Officers who want to arrest them and they are brave enough. Ronin. Oted for you would not do the same today. Of course not. Why not . When i voted two years ago, i did not believe in any reform back then. Promised to have rights for animals. Reform before in 2009. Who want of the people changes in the government. After 2009, i realized there was not going to be any reform in my country. Andle were just working choosing between the bad pararty and of the worst party. Iner the demonstration december 2017 when the reformimt party killed innocent protesters they saw that in 2017 all of the later movements, teachers movement, womens novemberand also last when you saw the horrible news based on reports t they kikilled more than 1500 0 repors and arrested thousands of f peoe in just three days. You see there is no difference between the reformists or t the fundamentalists. We are running out of time. Advocatingou are regime change and some are saying that you are being used or allowing yourself to be used by those especially in the u. S. Pushing for regime change. Are you being used, you think . I have not been in touch with anyone from the u. S. This is the mindset of people who think women do not have a voice. This is me. I wawas always believiving chane and wanted change in my country with other iranians. But i did not t have the chance. And youve the chance think the violation of human rights is getting worse and worse in my country. What am i supposed to do . Now i have a platform as a human rights activist, as a womens rights activist and i will use world that this is happening in iran and open your eyes to the violation of human rights in iran and support the iranian people and not the government. Thank you very much for coming on this interview. Your book is published in french right now. It will probably be published in english at some point. Thank you for watching. 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