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Appearing at a press conference for the presentation of a key report on the climate by the United Nation's World Metereological Organization via video-link, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls the global energy system "broken", urging a swift transition away from fossil fuels "before we incinerate our only home". IMAGES
Harare, Apr 17 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Aaron Ufumeli) Some 3,000 prisoners were released on Saturday from prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, thanks to a presidential pardon.FOOTAGE OF THE FREEING OF PRISONERS.
Optimism that new vaccines will bring the pandemic under control and allow economic activity to resume coupled with stimulus in major economies has boosted the growth forecast this year to 5.5 percent, the IMF says in its latest World Economic Outlook. SOUNDBITE
Manaus, Jan 14 (EFE).- Manaus, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, was placed Thursday under a curfew of eleven hours a day, between 7 pm and 6 am, after the city's health system collapsed due to the Covid-19, forcing authorities to transfer patients to hospitals in other cities. (Camera: RAPHAEL ALVES).B-ROLL OF A HOSPITAL AND THE ALMOST EMPTY STREETS DURING NIGHT CURFEW IN MANAUS, BRAZIL.
Geneva (Switzerland), Dec 2 (EFE), (Camera: Antonio Broto).- The International Labor Organization (ILO) has released the annual Global Wage Report, which shows that Spain is the second country in the European Union, behind Portugal, where there were more losses of wages due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy.FOOTAGE OF THE ILO HEADQUARTERS IN GENEVA.SOUNDBITES OF ROSALÍA VÁZQUEZ-ÁLVAREZ, MAIN AUTHOR OF THE REPORT:"Spain is one of the countries with the highest income inequality in Europe. At the moment, due to the Covid-19, the approved subsidies have helped a lot to prevent a collapse of the wage average.""So far we have data on Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Mexico. What we see in all these countries is that there is a rise in informal jobs, mostly among women, mainly for those who are working as domestic workers or in agriculture."
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls for building "a European Health Union" in her first State of the EU address to MEPs. SOUNDBITE
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