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Added on the 19/05/2020 17:43:05 - Copyright : France 24 EN
French Prime Minister Jean Castex affirms to the French National Assembly there is a delay in the delivery of Pfizer vaccines but assures "it will be made up for". IMAGES
Britney Spears has swapped her lyric to mega-hit '...Baby One More Time' to fit the current coronavirus pandemic, by replacing the line, "my loneliness is killing me" to "my loneliness is saving me'.
At the start of his appearance at the UK's Covid-19 inquiry, Prime Minister and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he is "deeply sorry... to all of those who lost loved ones, family members, through the pandemic." SOUNDBITE
Indian PM Narendra Modi says that the entire world is "with Morocco" after an earthquake killed at least 296 people earlier Friday. SOUNDBITE
Ambulances can be seen outside the emergency department of the Royal London Hospital, as drivers and paramedics stage a second strike, calling for pay increases that more closely match high inflation, joined this time by emergency call handlers. The government has introduced legislation which will enforce minimum service levels from striking workers. Unions say life-threatening emergencies are still being responded to, and that the new law would be unworkable. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges the world to hold President Vladimir Putin accountable for the Ukraine invasion, at a Security Council meeting attended by Russia. "The very international order that we've gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes. We cannot -- we will not -- allow President Putin to get away with it," Blinken says. SOUNDBITE