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Euro rescue package outlined by thee govevernment is likely to be expapanded. Brumamaire m makingt clear that h hes readady to dey arsesenal of support. Under sevn hundred thousand French Companies have already asked for emergency aid the merits and that those who are struruggling the most after the lockdown ends. Up could get even more cash about five thousand euros rather than the one ththsand five hundred that slatated for most businessess ththose companies will also be able to apply. To have theheir payroll taxes and social charges canceled all together rather than delayed which was the initial plan we do know that five point eight Million People applilied for tempoporary Unemployment Benefits from the government. Thats one for private sector workerers the fud thats already slated to cost twenty billion euros over the space of three months. A number of americold on Insurance Companies and banks join the way the hello. Individuals workers and busininesses alike saying that the Financial System d does remain a solid. Yu know a airir. Helello airline is asked for r some billion e euron low. From the french and dutch gov. He said that they barelyly it could expect a not. State support package airbus all likely receive some eight as a friend carmaker. Ththe other big statemement was a thehe were of course eurozone. Ministers have so far f failed to rereach. On w toto install and all re laununc. At those talks are slated to continueue on thuhursday. Remams hes the. The okay this is the account f from a pay t to have. N a show process. For the First Time Since twewenty thirdd. Absolutely these estimates from the banank of francnce and show thth gdp growtwth shrank 6 in the first three months of the year thats expected to be confirmed by the National Statistics agency later this month. If and when that does happen it does mean that we will think technically have a recession here the French Economy contracted slightly at the end of twenty nineteen and two consecutive. Quarters of contractction do you mean a a recession keep in mind that the country was only under official locked down for two weeks outut aboutt three months. So it means the Second Quarter figures are likely to be even more diree its a similar story over in germany not officially recession yet. Stagnated at the end of last year but theyre predicting contraction about one point 9 9 f for the f first quarterr and up to ten percent. For the Second Quarter of the year economies are alreaeady weaker dealing with higher death tolls c could suffer evevn more italy in spainn for example. Like thehe contract evn more meaeahile on a wider scale at the World Trade Organization says the International Trade likely to drop. By this year. Even more if pandemic drags on and governments dont. To k keep more open the head of the w. Describing the panda. As come the fuel lines the World Economic engine hes that its is really. Properly a bit of. And rebound is. But not certain it needs a serious plan. For government a and from bothh privivate and public sectors around the world. K. Moody how Business Editor thank. You very much indeed. Thank u. K. Coronavirus deaths of. Nine huh in a day for the very first time the government announced nine hundred thirty eight deaths. Among the total deathth toll of seven thousand ninety seven sie the crisis began. To develop health and social care reports of a sixty thousand p people have tested positive. The most famous of them boris johnsnson uk Prime Minister remains in intensive care for a sececond day hes reportededly sitting up and engaging. Positively with h the medical staff that a patio is following this force in london. Its official the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson is improving weve Just Launched from the child to the exchequer the minister of finances rishi sooner. That the prime m ministr has beeeen quoted sitting up in bed that hes talalking. To the Clinical Teams that arere lookig off to him and that Central London hospital st thomass where hes been. Since sundayy evening originally in ward and then. Moveded t to intensee c ce as you remember something the on m monday eveningng and of coe that is the point hes still in intensive cat but thihis positie news. Comes on the back of the downing street statement a fefew hoururs ago. And will suit the Clinical Team at st thomas is saying that the Prime Minister remains clinically stable in intensive care. But hes responding to treatments that hes receiving standard. Oxygen he that he is not on a ventilator. That hes in good spirits. And it. A new law. But the pm is not what but has the it. To come. The he needs to because your grandmother for twenty to forty eight hours we were constantly told by the government and the minister that the Prime Minister was still walking in and running the country that is no longer. A completely the case it is the foreign secretary who is fast actually dominic raab who is. Taking care of things mostly at the moment. But anybody who. Corresponded athletes on can of boriris johnson. Uk Prime Minister remains in intensive care. At st thomass hospital suffering the effects of the covert nineteen virus. Fifty thousand people have lost their lives across europe it is die situation indeed there is more research. Which says the situation is set to get worse. To get some insight into that research written by Christopher Maher hes director of the institute of Health Metrics and evaluation professor chat help magic sciences at university of washington. So i thank you very much for being with us its a pleasure to have you with us but obviously the subject matter extremely difficult and hard. To convey in many ways because from what youre telling. Us things are set to get worse. Well i worked trying forecast the epidemic of code nineteen our first United States by state and nowow weve rereleased results by country n europe and will be. Expanding to other parts of the world the uk estimates. I have a very wide range of our estimates so at the lower end of our range. We see about a thousand deaths a day. Or around that number continuing until thehe middle of the month. At the higher end of the range its possible that there would be. Many more deaths than that including for example going up to estimates of nearly three thousand deaths a day. Next week so yes so huge range and certainly challenging times ahead before peak it hit this is absolutely a horrific news at two cats how. How accurate you think this is. Well our you know its hard to. The epidemic the u. K. Being greeted that go into our forecast is time. Of so best was income. And social. In the United Kingdom a at least in terms of a stay at home order came on march twenty third and what weve observed in italy and spain and on some extent in china as well. David it takes about twenty three days to reach the peak. From that number give or take so thats one factor that goes into our modeling the other factor is just the reason time trend and so we take a statistical approach to protecting that. Those two trends are somewhat at odds with each other and that leads to a very wide uncertainty in of all in what we see that may be coming. Message extra data. Your im not gonna say sorry that the message please people need to take from from whahat youre telling u us is that the social distancing of protocols need to be maintained people to take this extremely seriously. And the need to re look out not just for themselves but for the neighbors. That families and everyone in the community. That critical message so. To and every we saw so work one. Follow and medical bring the to x. P. Toward the end of. Three e weeks. But then half ma. Well after that. You know to get the number of infection in the down to a very small mom so that. Just bounce right back. Can i pick up that three weeks figure j just gave us that is ae you saying that if people do the right things. It could be controlled. Within a three within a three week period. No could go to that. Within three to four r weeks depending on wht weve seen itll take another amount of that timime to get d n posted peak. Down to a lolow levell so weree basically seeing numbers that require nine to ten weeks of social distancing to go from you know the academic starting. To o it being cold under control when do you think yet some im asking impossible. Questions when you think this could all be over. Well i think that the challenge we face which is the first to of epidemic can be over you know by the end of may or around that time period butt then we run the very real risk in every country a second or a wave comingg peter quite soon thereafter by reimportation of cases. Or lateter in the fall so its goig to be just as important to get through this first wave. Help hospitals take care of patients and then youve got to think about the s strategy to avoid a return of a second wave. Christmas aylmer thank you very much for joining us from the institute of Health Metrics and evaluation the i. H. M. E. R. Christopher meyer the director of the institute and also professor and chair of Health Metrics sciences. At the universisity of washington thank you so very much for sharing your analysis off the report it may not be good news but certainly can use clear. People need to simply do the right thing in terms of social distancing and the following advice to stop the propagation spread. The covert. Nineteen virus. Its been some might use a outside of the coverage virus. A story. Twenty sunday has announced dropping of the race for the white house. Sun is now likelyy for joe byy to take democrats. To run again donald the us. The numbers that were just not up. Benny sanders has dropped out of the twenty twenty democratic race to focus on helping his former rival defeat donald trump in the upcoming a u. S. President ial election. I cannotot in good conscience c continue about the campmpaign they canannot win. Ad which would interfere with the important worork required of all of us in this difficult our as the corona virus pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the u. S. Sanders supporters argue that his vision for universal health care and economic reform a more necessary than ever. The vision that has so far failed to convince and many other democrats off to a strong start the Seventy Eight year old started to lag behind his rival joe biden several major candidates drop downs and threw their support behind the former vice president. Then the Coronavirus Crisis told voaa that campaigning. The stand as it went be the nominee. The progressive Part Movement has pushed partys agenda to the left universrsal health care the rise in minimum wage and a Green New Deal or became a mainstream topics in this years democratic race. The sentence for the launch told his supporters that though his campaign is over the fight for justice continues. Reminding them that they can still vote for him in upcoming primaries that says you use not to beats by dan but to encourage the Democratic Party to take into account the voices of them more progressive voters. When you stay with us you want to foster the for. Frances National Education system the systemm school there is a source of fascination around the world some say the quality of learning is exceptional and indeed studies show that france is over twelve Million Students are smart and well educated so some say the systemm should be copied by other countries. But others say the system is rigid strict Old Fashioned it only encourages people to be the same instead of promoting individuality so what is it like to really go through the French School system and just how smart. Or french kids grab your book bagss and join us for this french connections plus. Frances Education System is highly centralized and organized just like in other countriess its divided into three stageses so you have all thee normal pre met. P primary education also anymore circle that secondary eduducation andnd also normal supererhero h Higher Education a whole other kettle of fish will explore another show. That primary and secondary education that were focusing on tododay are regulatd by the all powerful ministry of National Education and the ministrys chief objbjective is to set the National Curriculum so that goes for. Public schools of course but also the vast majority of private schools in france at the primary and secondary levels the core curriculum is the same for all. Studedents a any good d great the idea is for people to get an equal chance at life by. Starting out with the same educationn. Former minister yu for is. Credited the creator the more French School. In the eighteen eighties he passed laws making it free public a and secocond place. Schooling today as of like a tory for between the ages of three and sixteen if youre familiar with the facts and system the names of french grades might seem confusining primary education is divided into two sections the card but the lead with great. When six months. And it goes it a month this. Zero so you do see him since. Secondary at iss the int t two other sectionons cocould middle that goeses from season to twice the end and at least see school three years ago yeah and the final. In france students or gray out of. In the system is not harsh. T. T. In public primary and secondary schools s are s supposed. Nearly millllion members of staff of e mininistry of National Education is fraees largest employer in education the governments biggest budget the driving philosophy behind french education is in getting everyone should have the same education and that g goes as far as everyryone having the same hand right its funny g. Because thats something that foreigners tend to pick up on french people dont really seem to notice the fact that they have the same. Handwriting at least when theyre but when you grow up you kind of grow into your own handwriting but when youre learning how to write theres a special kind of hand writing you learn and its a special kind of hand writing the teachers use as well. And moreover everyonone here learns to write in ink not even in its right in france if you use a fountain pen and all your homework is hand written its not written on the computer and then printed that goes for a Season High School as well in fact is a special kind of paper. That you use in france that happens square descent and line that you basically have take your hand right. To and this is one of many scschool supplili the french. Take very seriously. Im with a live and to. So lived g going into say. F the equivalent of second grade and savannah youre going into c. M. Do. The equivalent of fiftfty grade and youre gonna show us whats in your backpack you mind if i take a look. By actually have your list of school supplieies foror this yer and i think its it quite long here and quite detailed i have totonight p pencil cases. The ft one is for fans to write with and the second one is for colored pencils. One two. Three. For the books andnd engine that right down your homework the prococess paper holders. Two folders on your list yeah never end. Very cool as. Actor paper to write on this kind of thing. To the album was important one thing knowing bag. Books so on top of on top of all this youll have book as well it seems like youve got a heavy for one you get. School so good luck. Thank you. At the end of high friend students this exam called the or the back for short now this is a money of french education t thats beenen around for more than two hundred years and press people love to brag about the baccalaureate and just how difficult it is because it implies that french chihildren. Arare very smart nowow there are three kinds of baccalaureate so that youou can pass theres the professional baccalalaureate that. Prepares you for about eighty feet wide ranging professions from cooking and carpentry and also dentistry so many professions you also have the technological baccalaureate that focuses on sciences and computers and then you have. The general baccalaureate as well the back has a few core subjects that everyone has to take things like philosophy or even sports but for those students who take that last back to back jen