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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
RFI

Paris Live, Tuesday 24 March 2020

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed. REUTERS - ISSEI KATO

France enforces stricter lockdown measures to comabt the coronavirus, while the UK puts into place a nationwide shutdown - with leader Boris Johnson telling his people the country faces a "national emergency".

We'll be hearing from our Spain correspondent as the government there asks the parliament for an extention to the lockdown, and we cross over to Seoul as South Koreans fear a fresh outbreak, despite their overwhelming success in containing the virus.

We finish the hour with a 1997 interview with Afro-jazz star Manu Dibango, who sadly passed away Tuesday after contracting the coronavirus.

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