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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020 + HIGHLIGHTS HONG KONG (China): Hong Kong political crisis deepens even as virus prompts protest lull GUANGZHOU (China): African community targeted in China virus crackdown SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina): The call to prayer from minarets marks beginning of Ramadan MUMBAI (India): Pretty in pink: Flamboyance of flamingos appear at lake outside residential towers RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil): A 12-year-old girl in a favela receives more than 18,000 books to open a library + ASIA-PACIFIC HONG KONG (China): Hong Kong political crisis deepens even as virus prompts protest lull - Joshua Wong: Beijing to "strengthen and enhance" interference in Hong Kong SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0400 GMT - Interview with former President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong Jasper Tsang SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 400 GMT -File images of Luo Huiying, Director of the Central People's Government's Liaison Office in Hong Kong SOURCE: AFPTV - FILE 0400 GMT HARBIN (China): China's northeast tightens restrictions as virus resurges SOURCE: CCTV - EDIT 0300 GMT GUANGZHOU (China): African community targeted in China virus crackdown - SOURCE: AFPTV / CCTV EDIT WELLINGTON: New Zealand PM holds daily coronavirus presser SOURCE: JACIDNA ARDERN'S FACEBOOK PAGE - ONGOING LIVE HANOI (Vietnam): Vietnam eases social isolation measures SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0700 GMT BEIJING (China): China Ministry of Foreign Affairs daily briefing SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0800 GMT PATHUM THANI (Thailand): Some residents take up fishing to feed their families due to the COVID-19 outbreak that has left many jobless - EDIT 0400 GMT BAGO (Myanmar): Physical distancing - Football pitch in Myanmar becomes huge open-air market to allow vendors more space (SOURCE: COVOD-19 PREVENTION FUNDING GROUP NATTALIN) - EDIT 0400 GMT MUMBAI (India): Pretty in pink - Flamboyance of flamingos takes up residence at a lake in front of residential towers in Mumbai as the city falls quiet due to the coronavirus lockdown SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0430 GMT HONG KONG (China): Who let the dogs out? Canine adoptions up in Hong Kong amid virus SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0500 GMT + EUROPE KOBLENZ (Germany): Trial opens in Germany over state-sponsored torture in Syria, in the first such legal proceeding in the world - SOURCE: POOL. TIMING TO BE CONFIRMED. TAPE TURN - LIVE TBA - EDIT TO FOLLOW BRUSSELS (Belgium): EU leaders hold video conference on virus economic impact SOURCE: EBS. Event begins at 1300 GMT - Press conference expected after - LIVE TBA KEMPEN (Germany): Students of graduating classes can go back to school in the state of North Rhine Westphalia after Germany decides to ease COVID-19 curbs SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT TBA PARIS (France): Images of deserted Paris during coronavirus lockdown. Views of Pigalle and Le Moulin Rouge - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0650 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW PARIS (France): While Paris is at a standstill, views from each district of the capital and key places with onboard camera. Episode 2: Images of the 3rd district - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0800 GMT PARIS (France): Hearing of the Director General of Health Jerome Salomon by video conference at the National Assembly - SOURCE: ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE, RESTRICTIONS: NO RESALE - LIVE 0830 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW PARIS (France): Marauding with the Civil Protection for homeless people - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0900 GMT PARIS (France): Images of deserted Paris during coronavirus lockdown. View of Place de la Republique - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 1050 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW REIMS (France): Without no hair salons open during lockdown, the French adapt to cut their hair - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1100 GMT RENNES (France): To help children let off steam, the "lockdown dance", created by two brothers in Brittany, is a hit on the web - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1100 GMT PARIS (France): Coronavirus lockdown may have Paris looking deserted but in the street art capital, colourful characters continue to haunt the walls - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1200 GMT MULHOUSE (France): Report at the Mulhouse morgue, epicentre of the coronavirus in France - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1400 GMT ARGELES-SUR-MER (France): How Argeles-sur-Mer with its many campsites is preparing for a summer season out of the ordinary, with many cancellations for the moment - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1400 GMT BREST (France): Report at the Oceanopolis aquarium in Brest, closed due to lockdown - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1500 GMT PARIS (France): Parisians join in nightly round of applause for healthcare workers - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 1750 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW GOSTOMEL (Ukraine): President Zelensky greets the world's biggest plane returning from China with medical supplies SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0700 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW TURIN (Italy): Auto workshop converts its production to making protective masks for the hearing and speech impaired - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0700 GMT BERLIN (Germany): Merkel addresses parliament on coronavirus pandemic - SOURCE: ZDF - LIVE 0700 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW ISTANBUL (Turkey): Turkey orders four-day curfew in major cities but with people allowed to go shopping in the morning on the first two days - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0800 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW COPENHAGEN (Denmark): Weekly WHO Europe online press briefing with Dr Hans Kluge - SOURCE: WHO - EDIT ON MERIT - LIVE 0900 GMT MADRID (Spain): Spanish authorities give daily briefing on coronavirus - SOURCE: PALACIO DE LA MONCLOA - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 0930 GMT ANKARA (Turkey): April 23 National Sovereignty and Children's Day celebrations adjusted amid pandemic - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1100 GMT BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom): Mosque creates temporary COVID-19 mortuary in carpark. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1100 GMT MILAN (Italy): Unclaimed bodies of deceased from COVID-19 are buried in "mass grave" at the main cemetery - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1400 GMT LONDON (United Kingdom): COVID-19 funding worries see Vauxhall City Farm in heart of London struggle to look after animals and crops. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1400 GMT ROME (Italy): Civil Protection Agency holds press conference on coronavirus - SOURCE: POOL - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1600 GMT LONDON (United Kingdom): Downing Street daily coronavirus briefing - SOURCE: UK POOL - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1600 GMT VALENCE (France): Valence makes its first distribution of masks to the general public. - EDIT 1700 GMT GOLOKHVASTOVO (Russia): Visit to new coronavirus clinic outside of Moscow SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1700 GMT PARIS (France): French health ministry update on coronavirus SOURCE : FRENCH HEALTH MINISTRY - SUBJECT TO LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION BY MINISTRY - LIVE 1715 GMT BERGAMO (Italy): Start of serological tests in Lombardy and Veneto regions - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1800 GMT SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina): The call to prayer from minarets marks the beginning of Ramadan - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 2000 GMT YEREVAN (Armenia): Armenians turn off lights to commemorate genocide after ceremonies cancelled amid COVID-19 pandemic - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 2200 GMT + MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA NAJ' SUHAYL GHARB (Egypt): Egypt's Nubians revive fading language - EDIT 0100 GMT RIYADH (Saudi Arabia): G20 labour ministers hold video-conference on virus fight - SOURCE: G20 OR SAUDI TV (RESTRICTIONS APPLY) - LIVE AND EDIT TBC AWAITING AUTHORITIES CONFIRMATION - LIVE, EDIT TBC DOHA (Qatar): Construction continues with extra health and security measures at Lusail stadium which will host the final match of the FIFA World Cup in 2022 - SOURCE : AFPTV - EDIT 1600 GMT DOHA (Qatar): Qatar Sidra's Medicine and research centre unveils new COVID-19 test process. - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1700 GMT + SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA CAPE TOWN (South Africa): Food handout in township SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0700 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW NIAMEY (Niger): Local NGO raises awareness about COVID-19 among young people after a week of violence against sanitary measures - EDIT 0900 GMT BRAZZAVILLE (Congo): WHO regional webinar on virus in Africa SOURCE: WEF - LIVE 1100 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW GAMBAZA, LIMPOPO PROVINCE(South Africa): Screenings for virus in rural province SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1200 GMT MONROVIA (Liberia): Communities enforce their own lockdown SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1400 GMT BISSAU (Guinea-Bissau): Bissau's markets struggle to observe social distancing SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1400 GMT LAGOS (Nigeria): Opening of COVID-19 screening centres in Lagos - EDIT 1500 GMT PRETORIA (South Africa): Ramaphosa to speak on partially lifting lockdown - SOURCE: SABC POOL - LIVE 1800 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW + NORTH AMERICA PINE RIDGE (United States: In an Indian reservation, one of the poorest communities in the United States, the coronavirus pandemic is hitting hard residents who have limited access to health and food services SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1300 GMT ALBANY (United States): Governor Andrew Cuomo holds daily briefing on COVID-19 - SOURCE: HANDOUT - LIVE 1530 GMT WASHINGTON (United States): President Donald Trump and US officials hold daily COVID-19 briefing. SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 2100 GMT ATLANTA (United States): Views of empty streets and closed shops day before official reopening of businesses SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 2200 GMT + LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN CHILE: Referendum to change the country's military dictatorship-era constitution - LIVE TBA - EDIT TO FOLLOW MONTEVIDEO (Uruguay): A hospital in Uruguay works on the development of new ventilators, created by a survivor of the plane crash in the Andes SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0100 GMT MANAUS (Brazil): Aerial view of gravediggers and families burying corpses of COVID-19 victims at the Manaus cemetery SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0200 GMT LA MARQUESA (Mexico): La Marquesa was the place where people used to spend their Sundays. Now it has become a ghost town because of the coronavirus SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0300 GMT LIMA (Peru): Graffiti artists turn to digital art to spread their work through social networks and generate income to cope amid the COVID-19 pandemic SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0330 GMT BOGOTA (Colombia): Threatened and displaced, Colombia's indigenous people face an invisible enemy: COVID-19 SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 0500 GMT GUATEMALA CITY (Guatemala): Guatemala's Bohemian Bar, shut down due to the coronavirus, becomes a soup kitchen for the poor -SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0500 GMT CARACAS (Venezuela): Workers at a Venezuelan supermarket wear full personal protective gear SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 2330 GMT + SPORT *AFPTV Sport subscribers only FRANKFURT AM MAIN(Germany): Football/Bundesliga. German football league (DFL) to decide when Bundesliga play can resume - SOURCE: DFL - LIVE 1015 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW + FEATURES NARTE (Albania): Birds in paradise: Flamingos flourish in quiet of Albania's virus lockdown. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0200 GMT RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil): A 12-year-old girl in a favela receives more than 18,000 books to open a library - SOURCE AFPTV EDIT 0500 GMT FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020 + ASIA-PACIFIC KOLKATA (India): Locals dress up as Hindu gods to raise awareness about the coronavirus SOURCE : AFPTV - EDIT 0430 GMT NEW DELHI (India): Live from India's capital New Delhi as coronavirus lockdown continues SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0430 GMT TOKYO (Japan): Live from Akihabara, a district known as Tokyo's modern Japanese popular culture centre, as virus emergency continues SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0500 GMT BEIJING (China): China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs daily briefing SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0800 GMT KABUL (Afghanistan): Afghans mark first day of Ramadan under coronavirus shadow SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1600 GMT + EUROPE BRUSSELS (Belgium): Belgian government to give update on first measures to lift lockdown SOURCE: POOL RTBF - TIMING WILL BE ANNOUNCED CLOSER TO DAY - LIVE/EDIT - LIVE TBA FRANKFURT AM MAIN (Germany): Iraqi Islamic State group suspect stands trial in Germany on genocide charges SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT TBA BERLIN (Germany): Robert Koch Institute for disease control holds briefing on coronavirus crisis SOURCE: RKI POOL - EDIT ON MERIT - LIVE 0800 GMT MADRID (Spain): Spanish authorities give daily briefing on coronavirus SOURCE: PALACIO DE LA MONCLOA - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 0930 GMT GENEVA (Switzerland): WHO briefing on coronavirus SOURCE: WHO - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1500 GMT STOCKHOLM (Sweden): The Stockholm museum housing the huge wreck of the Vasa, a battleship that sank in 1628 and raised almost intact centuries later, offers virtual tours of the ship SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1600 GMT PARIS (France): French health ministry update on coronavirus SOURCE : FRENCH HEALTH MINISTRY - SUBJECT TO LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION BY MINISTRY - LIVE 1715 GMT + MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA RIYADH (Saudi Arabia): G20 Tourism ministers hold video-conference on virus fight SOURCE: G20 OR SAUDI TV (RESTRICTIONS APPLY) - LIVE AND EDIT TBC AWAITING AUTHORITIES CONFIRMATION - LIVE, EDIT TBC + NORTH AMERICA NEW YORK (United States): Rockefeller Center glows blue in support of health workers SOURCE : AFPTV - LIVE 0000 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW RAPID CITY (United States: In some rural cities of South Dakota many local shops are staying open for customers, ignoring federal social distancing guidelines - EDIT 1300 GMT KEYSTONE (United States): Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the iconic Mount Rushmore National Memorial remains open to the public but the dwindling number of tourists is impacting local businesses SOURCE AFPTV - EDIT 2200 GMT WASHINGTON (United States): President Donald Trump and US officials hold daily COVID-19 briefing SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 2200 GMT + LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN HAVANA (Cuba): The daily life of Cubans under the COVID-19 pandemic - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 0500 GMT CARACAS (Venezuela): Venezuelans hold balcony concerts to liven up COVID-19 lockdown - SOURCE AFPTV EDIT 2330 GMT LA PAZ (Bolivia): Residents organise to bring food to the elderly during the quarantine amid COVID-19 outbreak - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 2330 GMT + FEATURES GUALEGUAYCHU (Argentina): In Messi's country, trans footballers fight to be on the pitch - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 0500 GMT Editorial contacts: Email: afptv@afp.com Europe (excluding France) desk: +44 207 776 2768 France desk: +33 1 40 41 81 17 Asia desk: +852 2829 6279 Middle East & North Africa desk: +357 22 391 450 Sub-Saharan Africa desk (Mon-Fri): +33 1 40 41 46 81 North America desk: +1 202 414 0664 Latin America desk: +598 2 900 5095 ext. 257 AFPTV LIVE MCR: +33 1 40 41 79 63