As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, putting the country technically into recession. The World Health Organisation says up to a quarter of a billion people in africa could catch coronavirus this year. But says the outbreak is likely to be less deadly than in europe and the us cafes a nd restau ra nts have begun reopening in many parts of australia, but with limits on the number of customers allowed in. And calls for nhs workers in the uk whove treated coronavirus patients to get the same Mental Health support as soldiers returning from war. It would be like having, you know, 15, 20 patients who are really on the edge who are going to die in the next few hours if you dont do anything every 12 hours. That is how bad it is. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im Annita Mcveigh with the latest developments on the coronavirus outbreak in the uk and around the world. Here, unions representing teachers and school staff will meet the governments top scientific advisors today, as they dem
We will find out in this edition with their International Affairs editor. With our International Affairs editor. Thank. You for joining us we begin in france where the prime thank you for joining us. We begin in france where they have begun to relax lockdown measures in n place. Bars will remain shut until further notice. The measures would be reviewed every three weeks but it was warned that easing of the lockdown would not happen if the numbers in france started to spike. Protect, test, isolate. Frances threepronged strategy to progressively lift lockdown measures starting on the 11th. They presented the governments roadmap for easing the quarantine. The key announcement regarding businesses. French]g restaurants and bars will remain closed until early june. As for school, students will return on a voluntary basis and reopenings will be gradual. Days and Elementary Schools will be t the first too reopen starting may 11 with middle schools following a week later. There e can be no mor
Hardhit hospitals to other parts of the country as officials brace for even more serious cases. Im annette young. Welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. Hasn in spain, which tightened its measures against the coronavirus, during a halt all nonessential activities, and telling the spanish stay home for a further two weeks. The country has the worlds secondhighest told, toll, with thats over 7000, the infefection rate at 85,000 case. Morrison, take us to the latest figures. you mentioned the death toll, which is becoming grim news for the spaniards, 812 people dying from the virus in the last 24 hours. That is 26 fewer than yesterday. We have seen three days of record rises on that figure. E. That is some good news. The number o of cases that are 85,200, that has slightly the rise in the number of cases is coming down. The Health Authorities say that about 10 days ago we have been seeing daily rises of between 20 rises, and those daily now are coming down to about 8 . They see this as e
Of expedia said there were strategic differences with the current leadership and the ceo and the fo are now gone cfo oregon. Down 3. 1 percent, the worst performer in s p 500. Higher,opean stocks are the pound trading north of 131 against the u. S. Dollar. We have a stronger rate against brent crudel, moving higher, up by nearly 4 in todays session. Opec is just around the corner. We will talk about that later on in the program. Lets talk more about the trade story, affecting markets over the last 24 hours. Economist is a senior , we have been jostled by the trade story. Todays story is maybe we are inching closer. The president talking about the idea that it can wait until after the u. S. Election. If we dont get a deal by the 15th of december, if we dont get additional tariffs what does that do to the Economic Data . I think the Economic Data improves beginning next year into spring if we can contain the current trade tensions. If we get a phase one deal before or after christmas tha
Not with beijing tightening its grip on hong kong more and more one really has to ask wouldnt such a deal mean that in the long run at least europes most important market operator in london and one of the u. K. s the united kingdoms most important strategic assets would be dominated at least indirectly by beijing the communist government there remember a few years ago frankfurt the stock market operator here tried to merge with the London Stock Exchange the deal finally did not happen because london refused to be dominated by the germans its very very doubtful whether the proud people in the city of london would prefer to be dominated by the communist government in china instead for frankfurt the market operator here and also of course for euro next to the other big market operator of the european continent such a deal would mean a huge new competitor at especially in terms of i. P. O. s you know initial Public Offerings so something that people here are not particularly looking forwar