#Macron speaking live now on French Tv - watch live on @FRANCE24 of course - I'll post some bits here.

Macron:
-Offers "brotherly support" to President Zelenskyy
-says" we did everything" to avoid this war
-Putin "acted alone and deliberately to choose war"
1/ #Macron:
-"Russia is not attacked it is the attacker"
-Putin's claims of "denazification" are an insult to history
-war is based on a "revisionist" view of history
#Ukraine #RussiaUkraine 2/

LATEST
1/ French PM Edouard Philippe announces plans on how France lockdown to be lifted after May 11:

“We are going to have to live with this virus... Until there is a vaccine or treatment, it will keep circulating among us.”

Says "we can hope" for a vaccine in 12-24 mths 2/ E. Philippe: "we must proceed with prudence. Progressively and safely"

Geographical aspects: says some French regions much worse hit than others. This must be taken into account in easing restrictions. Mayors and Prefects will be able to adap national strategy to their area

new: UK health minster #MattHancock announces that a #Covid19 vaccine being developed at Oxford uni will be formally trialled from this Thursday
#coronavirus #CoronaCrisisuk #f24 Hancock denies that UK declining to join EU PPE joint procurement scheme was a political decision
- contrary to statement earlier by Sir Simon McDonald, permanent under-secretary at UK's Foreign Office

Also says UK has now joined scheme
#coronavirus #coronavirusuk #EUcoronavirus

A #Brexit extension is “almost inevitable”
- Nicola Sturgeon to me earlier @FRANCE24

Scottish First Minister wants Labour’s Corbyn to
“get off the Brexit fence & put his weight behind [...] something that would break the deadlock”
#Scotland #SNP #F24 2/ Sturgeon on Theresa May:

“she should change her approach... 1st thing she should do is request an extension to #Article50”

“My preference then would be...to go back to the people in another referendum- bcs people have so much more information now than in 2016”#Brexit #F24