The global headlines this is r. T. International thanks for joining us. Well begin as usual with the latest figures on the covert 1000 pound make the number of cases worldwide has now surpassed 1400000 802000 people have lost their lives the United States has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy and worldwide 303000 people have now recovered from the disease. Ok lets start in france where the death toll from covert 19 has passed and thousands the Health Ministers warn that the peak hasnt yet arrived and that the nationwide lockdown will have to continue and the World Health Organization has supported that view saying any countries that lift restrictions too early could trigger a new wave of the pandemic charlotte reports for us from paris 4 weeks into lockdown in france and the countrys economy is being brought to its knees will probably be more than the minus 2. 2 percent in 2009 versus the magnitude of the economic shock. As the pandemics taken a stranglehold