Manufacturer of the drug supplies. Portugal hospitals continue to bow under the pressure of the virus and intensive care unit harder to find. Some of the sick have been airlifted off the mainland. The french Prime Minister has told the country there is still a chance to avoid another nationwide lockdown. He says the coronavirus outbake is still worrying and while a third lockdown is off the table for now at least, further restrictions are being ushered. 23,000 new infections confirmed in the past 24 hours. Our duty is to do all we can to avoid another lockdown. And in the coming days, will be decisive. We must remain very vigilant. But having confidence that at every step, it is our collective and individual efforts that will pay off. For more on what was announced in that press Conference Im joined by International Affairs editor. There will be no third lockdown for now at least for people in france. People watching that speech at home may be breathing a sigh of relief and may not hav
Is a catastrophe civil war proxy war coronavirus islam is tara from syria that alone the drowning of those seeking asylum only this week and now compounded by bitter political strife in tripolis u. N. Backed government joining me now via skype from rome is acting special representative and head of the United Nations support mission in libya 70 Turco Williams 70 were going to going underground before i ask anything about the political situation obviously people are going to want to know how coronavirus its obviously impacting hard on britain when the highest per capita or death rate how is it affecting libya which is obviously the subject of civil strife and a proxy war well the coronavirus situation in libya is quite so worrying you know we we believe that it is stired clean out of control in the country the number of confirmed cases is close to or at 25000 today which over Something Like a lab and 1000 cases are active and there are nearly 400 deaths that have been recorded houser hun
Recorded housing hungary figures how are they getting the figures given that its libya is itself divided into 2 or 3 countries im not sure defacto so we are so that the figures are produced you know by the authorities w. H. O. Works across the country it is youre right there are divided institutions but w. H. O. Is a lead said a nationwide response and liaises directly with the different institutions the ministries of health and their National Committee that is in charge of the covert response but youre right i mean we do believe that the pandemic in terms of the numbers is there is underestimated and this is because there are also things like there are persistent shortages and testing capabilities of course you know the Health Care System has been devastated over the last 9 years beset by you know cant for. You know infrastructure deterioration and that has meant that you know its sort of helps crippled the response the humanitarian agencies are working in these very sort of difficult
Force here on the louisiana coast. The hurricane just making landfall just a little while ago so were starting to get and a portion of that northwestern corner of the eye wall which is filled with 8090 Miles Per Hour wind gust. So not a good situation for the lake charles area as you mentioned they just dealt with a category 4 hurricane not even 6 weeks ago, so this was a bad set up to begin with when he had that storm and now you have another hurricane coming on shore here and in virtually the same area impacting the same communities there are still tarps on roofs which i know will not withstand these winds there are large debris piles, thousands of them some not talking about a few brief hours here and there are thousands of debris piles still packed along the roads and all of these communities along the louisiana coast. Just not a good setup here luckily, a lot of those residents taken shelter or gotten out of harms wind is blowing this rain across the parking lot luckily, were prot
The u. N. Support mission to libya and going underground and for those of you watching in the u. K. And ireland this next. Time Afshin Rattansi and were going underground as u. S. Secretary of state and former cia boss michael meets ivan duke and marcus president of alleged narco state columbia as he wraps up a latin american tour still feeling the shock waves of successive u. S. Interventions coming up in the show 9 years after the formation of a un backed Transitional Government in libya in the wake of a nature war that devastated africas richest recovered a nation what hope is there for a country facing political turmoil civil war and no Global Pandemic we all saw the acting special representative and the head of the u. N. Support mission in libya and we investigate the page of the burden you fill. That explores the naked brutality faced by jill dran in war thats causing apparently mass walkouts and film festivals from venice to toronto with one of its lead star of the killing field