California will allow film, television and music production to resume June 12 if conditions permit after months of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the governor’s office said Friday.Film and television productions in the Golden State have been shuttered since mid-March.The reopening will be subject to approval by local health officers, the California Public Health Office said.”To reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, productions, cast, crew and other industry workers should abide by safety protocols agreed by labor and management, which may be further enhanced by county public health officers,” it said.However, it is not clear if major Hollywood studios will be able to resume operations from next week because Los Angeles county is one of the main coronavirus epicenters in California, recording about half the infections and deaths in the state.To date, more than 125,000 cases and 4,500 deaths have been confirmed in California.   
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice on face masks, saying they should be worn where COVID-19 is widespread and physical distancing is difficult.”In light of evolving evidence, WHO advises that governments should encourage the general public to wear masks where there is widespread transmission and physical distancing is difficult,” WHO’s Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday. It’s a shift for the agency, which had previously advised the general public that only people who were ill or caring for someone who was ill needed masks.Many major retailers have made face masks mandatory for shoppers in the United States. Many transit systems around the world are requiring masks for their riders.Speaking to reporters Friday at the White House, President Donald Trump said that the U.S. was “largely through” the pandemic and called again on governors to ease lockdown measures in their states.The COVID-19 pandemic killed more than 900 people in 24 hours in the United States Friday, according to Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University (JHU).Data tracking worldwide by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at JHU show that the United States has suffered the largest number of COVID-19 deaths by far, with a total of about 109,000, about a third of them in New York state.According to the center, Britain comes in second with about 40,000 deaths, followed by Brazil with just over 34,000 and Italy with just under 34,000.Dressed as characters from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and wearing face masks against the spread of the novel coronavirus, Venezuelan migrants perform in Bogota, Colombia, on June 5, 2020.The U.S. has also recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections – nearly 1.9 million.  Brazil comes in second with about 615,000, Russia with nearly 450,000 and Britain with about 285,000.The global number of deaths stands at about 395,000 and total confirmed cases at 6.7 million.The Group of 20 rich and emerging economies pledged billions of dollars to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the group said in a statement Saturday.”The G-20, with invited countries, has coordinated the global efforts to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, G-20 members and invited countries have pledged over $21 billion to support funding in global health,” the statement said, adding that the fund will be directed toward diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, and research and development.Earlier in the week, a report by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said emergency room visits for non-coronavirus illnesses plummeted in April at the peak of the pandemic. The agency released an analysis Wednesday that the declines were greatest among children 14 and younger, women, and for people living in the Northeast U.S.  The CDC noted a steep drop in the number of people seeking emergency care for chest pain, including heart attack, along with declines in children needing help for conditions like asthma.The Trump administration has selected five companies as the most likely candidates to produce a coronavirus vaccine. The companies have been identified as Massachusetts-based Moderna; AstraZeneca, which is partnering with Oxford University; and the pharmaceutical giants Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer.Passengers wearing protective face masks travel by boat to Petite-Terre on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte on June 5, 2020.Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert and the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Tuesday he is “cautiously optimistic” that scientists will come up with an effective vaccine by the start of 2021, saying he hopes to have “hundreds of millions of doses.” But, he added, “there’s never a guarantee.”“It could take months and months and months” before researchers find out if a vaccine works, Fauci said.Fauci also warned that a new vaccine may not provide long-term immunity against COVID-19.A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota say hydroxychloroquine, the treatment that Trump highly touts as an effective COVID-19 treatment, does not keep healthy people exposed to the virus from getting sick.The report in The New England Journal of Medicine said the drug was no more effective than a placebo in clinical trials.The scientists carried out their tests on 800 people exposed to someone with the coronavirus.Hydroxychloroquine is a malaria drug which Trump called a “game-changer” in the fight against COVID-19. He had said he’s taken the drug himself.But some doctors said the drug could have serious side effects, including heart rhythm problems or even death.The World Health Organization has suspended the use of hydroxychloroquine in tests for a coronavirus treatment. France has outlawed its use altogether.  
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National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league made mistakes in not listening to players, in a video on Friday denouncing racism in the United States amid widespread protests over police brutality against black people.”We, the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest,” said Goodell. “We, the National Football League, believe black lives matter.”The NFL has been locked in an ongoing debate with players over kneeling protests during the customary pre-game playing of the national anthem. The practice was popularized by quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who is black, in 2016 to protest racial injustice and police brutality.Kaepernick, who in 2013 led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl but lost to the Baltimore Ravens, filed a grievance against the league in 2017, claiming collusion as no teams signed him after he parted ways with the Niners. The NFL and Kaepernick settled in 2019.”Protests around the country are emblematic of the centuries of silence, inequality and oppression of black players, coaches, fans and staff,” said Goodell. “I will be reaching out to players who have raised their voices and others on how we can improve.”The NFL sent the video out just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his call for an end to kneeling protests during the national anthem.”We should be standing up straight and tall, ideally with a salute, or a hand on heart,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “There are other things you can protest, but not our Great American Flag – NO KNEELING!”The statement was a response to quarterback Drew Brees, who apologized this week for equating the kneeling protest with disrespecting the American flag.On Thursday, several players, including reigning Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, appeared in a video on social media calling for the league to “admit wrong in silencing” players and to support protests.”How many times do we need to ask you to listen to your players?” Chiefs player Tyrann Mathieu said in the video.The league also faced criticism earlier this year when just one of five head-coaching vacancies went to a non-white candidate in the most recent hiring cycle, and last month the NFL introduced rules designed to boost racial diversity among coaching staffs. 
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Khrystyna Shevchenko had her camera on Santa Monica looters, as any good video journalist would. So she never saw it coming.“All of a sudden, I felt that punch in my temple area of my head,” she said, adding that she blacked out for a couple of seconds.When she came to, Shevchenko instinctively yelled, “I’m press.”Then she began to notice the pain in her foot. Her camera gear had toppled, breaking three toes.Shevchenko has reported from conflict zones in Ukraine, and covered protests including the mass Maidan demonstrations sparked when then-President Viktor Yanukovych declined to sign an agreement bringing Ukraine closer to the European Union. She had never been attacked — until the incident in downtown Santa Monica, California, on May 31.She is one of a handful reporters working for Voice of America and its language services who came away from George Floyd protest coverage with stories of being treated roughly by police or demonstrators.“It was surprising for me that it happened with me here in America,” said Shevchenko, who was on assignment for VOA’s Ukrainian service.It’s not just Voice of America journalists. The U.S. Press Freedom tracker is investigating more than 300 press freedom incidents, including nearly 50 arrests, 192 assaults nearly all allegedly by police, and more than 40 cases of equipment or newsrooms being damaged.“I worked in Ukraine during [the] revolution and war, and I was in the Ukraine, doing some documentaries in the gray zone of the war,” she said, referring to areas just behind a conflict’s front line. But the “first time I was injured, it happened here in Santa Monica.”Khrystyna Shevchenko was injured covering looting in Santa Monica, California, on May 31, 2020. (VOA/Khrystyna Shevchenko)The attacker had said he wanted to take her camera, witnesses told her.Shevchenko said she was treated for her injuries in an ambulance and then went home to file her story.“Society has the right to know truth, and who are the messengers of the truth?” she asked. “Journalists.”“We cover all aspects [of protests] and that’s the way that people can know. And it’s unacceptable that someone attacks journalists, because it’s their work.”Khrystyna Shevchenko was injured covering looting in Santa Monica, California, on May 31, 2020. (VOA/Khrystyna Shevchenko)Jason Patinkin, a VOA journalist hit by a projectile as police in the direction of press and protesters in Washington on May 31, described the treatment of the press as “disturbing.”“I’ve covered lots of places where there’s been conflict and civil unrest. I’ve seen a lot of disproportionate response and I think that a lot of what the police around the White House have been doing certainly qualifies as both disproportionate and indiscriminate,” he said.Police had cleared protesters and media after people threw water bottles, fireworks and stones.The District of Columbia metro force did not respond to VOA’s email for comment. A spokesperson for the Park Service police said earlier this week there was no way to know if its officers were involved. The department did not respond to a follow up call June 5. Both are policing protests.FILE – Pir Shah, from VOA’s Deewa Pashto service, in October 2008 in the Bajaur tribal area in Pakistan, standing in debris of a market place razed by the Pakistani military. (VOA/Pir Shah)Pir Shah, from VOA’s Deewa Pashto service, said demonstrations in the capital reminded him of lawyers’ protests in Pakistan.“It was surprising to see protesters being pepper-sprayed and journalists attacked by the police and the protesters,” he said.“[In] Pakistan, protests can get violent pretty quick, and the police and paramilitary forces do not hesitate much to use force against protesters and the journalists who cover those protests.”“[But] protests and coverage of them is essential for the survival of a democratic system,” Shah said.Navbahor Imamova, from the VOA Uzbek Service, reports on protests in Washington, D.C. (VOA/Navbahor Imamova)Navbahor Imamova, from the VOA Uzbek Service, said she hadn’t experienced mistreatment during her coverage, and that it was critical for journalists to be on the front lines, especially when reporting for an overseas audience.“I have covered protests for VOA since the mid-2000s. It has been a learning experience and a professional test each time. How do you tell the story? You have to stay accurate and balanced while presenting a set of events where emotions run high and every expression is dramatic,” she said.“My job is to deliver these stories to an audience that has very limited experience with freedom of speech, freedom of expression, or demonstrating against the system,” Imamova said. “So, we must cover these or any protests and help people understand relevant factors.”The unpredictable nature of protests and civil unrest is not new for Eva Mazrieva, from VOA’s Indonesia service. She has covered demonstrations and riots in Indonesia and East Timor.While reporting on protests in East Timor in 1999, she had to be evacuated by military aircraft with only her laptop and camera after militias ransacked the homes of media workers.“As a journalist who grew up during Indonesia’s New Order era, under the authoritarian regime of President Suharto, and who has been covering demonstrations and riots for years before coming to the U.S., I (was) shocked and horrified when I see the same incidents … here,” she said.“I understand that being a ‘collateral damage’ in covering demonstrations and riots, is unavoidable,” she said. “But being intentionally targeted with tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets, even after they had displayed press ID, is a direct violations of press freedom.”“It’s essential for us not to be silenced, harassed or attacked in doing our job,” Mazrieva said.Mony Say, who has been covering the events in Washington for Cambodian viewers, said he was also “taken aback” by the assaults on journalists from police and protesters both.While reporting in Cambodia, Say has been verbally harassed and threatened. “I remember a time when I got stuck in between angry protesters throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails, and military police and soldiers carrying AK-47s,” he said.“Journalists should be able to perform their duty freely without even being harassed in any form, let alone attacked,” said Say, who works in VOA’s Khmer service.Khemara Sok, also from VOA’s Khmer service, said the role of journalists is “to reveal the full truth [and] let the public understand what is happening.”“Without real information, people and the whole society would have (the) wrong debate on issues, and democracy will (be) in danger, he said. “Real information kills fake news and serves the public interest.” 
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France said Friday that its military forces had killed al-Qaida’s North Africa chief, Abdelmalek Droukdel, a key Islamist fighter whom its forces had been hunting for more than seven years, during an operation in Mali.”On June 3, French army forces, with the support of their local partners, killed the emir of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, Abdelmalek Droukdel, and several of his closest collaborators, during an operation in northern Mali,” French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly wrote on Twitter.The announcement of the death of Droukdel came almost six months after former colonial power France and regional states combined their military forces under one command structure to focus on fighting Islamic State-linked militants in the border regions of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.Droukdel was among North Africa’s most experienced militants. He took part in an Islamist militant takeover of northern Mali before a French military intervention in 2013 drove them back and scattered fighters across the Sahel region.Once a dominant forceDroukdel was believed to be hiding in the mountains of northern Algeria. Al-Qaida North Africa was the dominant jihadist force in the region until 2013, when it fractured as many militants flocked to the more extremist Islamic State.It remained active in North Africa’s largely desert and often scarcely governed Sahel region. In Mali, it focused its activities to the north in Libya and Tunisia. As Islamic State waned, it has sought to lure new talent from among IS veterans.Parly said that French forces, which number about 5,100 in the region, had also on May 19 captured Mohamed el Mrabat, a fighter she identified as a veteran militant in the region and member of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara.”Our forces, in cooperation with their local partners… will continue to track these [people] down without respite,” Parly said.Critics in the region have increasingly scorned Paris for failing to restore stability. Anti-French sentiment has grown as militants have strengthened their foothold, making large swaths of territory ungovernable and stoking ethnic violence.Parly said earlier this week that about 100 special forces from other European countries would be deployed to the region to support French and regional troops.
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The Trump administration’s campaign to keep Chinese tech giant Huawei out of its allies’ 5G networks appears to be gaining ground in Britain.  Last year the British government concluded that although Huawei posed a “significantly increased risk” to British communications, the government decided to ban Huawei only from the country’s so-called network “core,” but otherwise allow it to attain up to 35% of Britain’s  5G network market.  That position changed after months of lobbying by U.S. officials, when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said last month that the country was examining possibilities for completely excluding Huawei from its 5G network by 2023.  Now, British officials are trying to Mobile network phone masts are visible in front of St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London, Jan. 28, 2020.Experts say Britain’s change of attitude is partly due to concerns that refusing to cooperate with the U.S. on Huawei will pose a threat to intelligence sharing and joint defense capabilities with its major ally.  Others caution it’s unlikely that the new alliance will become a reality since telecom operators in European countries are unwilling to “rip and replace” Huawei components from their communications systems because of the high cost, and are lobbying their own governments to make sure Huawei remains an approved vendor.’D10′ club of democratic partners The countries in the group are the G7 countries — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S. — plus Australia, South Korea and India. The proposal includes providing financial support to tech companies within the alliance.Justin Sherman, a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, said that Huawei’s major competitors, Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson, are both unable to attract enough capital to compete with Huawei’s massive 5G network infrastructure division, which gets financial support from the Chinese government.  “So there are lots of fronts on which this democratic coalition could presumably work, including more robust government investment in 5G research and development projects domestically, greater advocacy for open 5G standards in international bodies to contest the proprietary standards that Huawei continues to advance, or even the development of some kind of industrial policy to help promote 5G innovation,” Sherman  told VOA Mandarin.   FILE – Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 5, 2020.U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican who is one of Huawei’s leading critics in Washington, warned the British Parliament on Tuesday that China was trying to use the telecom equipment maker “to drive a high-tech wedge between us.”  He added that the U.S., Britain and other allies could team up to develop their own superior 5G technologies. Meanwhile, the White House launched a major review of Chinese penetration of Huawei’s 5G Product Line President, Yang Chaobin, speaks during a 5G event in London, on Feb. 20, 2020.Lee-Makiyama added that telecom operators in Europe are owned by financial institutions, pension funds or governments, which means they are not as interested in investing in new networks or reinvesting in high-end networks.  “5G for them is just a cost,” he said.   He also pointed out that compared to the U.S. and Asian countries, the demand of European telecom users is not as high. “Consumers are not demanding higher speed. Shareholders prefer to see dividends rather than investments in the networks,” said Lee-Makiyama. “So, all in all, they are big fans of Chinese suppliers and they are lobbying very hard against their governments to make sure that Huawei continues to be allowed in the European markets.” Chuanqi Xu and Lin Yang contributed to this report.
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Національний банк України встановив на 9 червня курс 26 гривень 60 копійок за долар. Це на 10 копійок менше за офіційний курс на 5 червня.

На міжбанківському валютному ринку посилення гривні тривало весь день, торги завершилися на рівні 26 гривень 58–61 копійка, свідчать дані Finance.ua.

За даними експертів сайту «Мінфін», НБУ виходив на ринок тричі впродовж сесії і викуповував долар за 26,62, 26,60 і 26,59 гривні за одиницю американської валюти. Зважаючи на те, що регулятор купив близько 200 мільйонів доларів, аналітики припускають, що валюту продавав «Нафтогаз України».

В Україні через святкування Трійці неробочими днями будуть не лише субота й неділя, а й понеділок, 8 червня. Перший робочий день наступного тижня – 9 червня.
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Japan intends to roll out coronavirus vaccines to the public by June 2021, the country’s health minister said Friday.Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said the government aimed to accelerate deployment of a vaccine by building the production infrastructure before research and development of the drug has concluded.”We will be securing production facilities in parallel with expedited vaccine development,” Kato told reporters as he explained the planned vaccination timeline.Vaccine production plans are typically not made until after a vaccine has been fully developed and approved for use.Pledge to GaviThis announcement came shortly after Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo pledged $300 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, toward the development of a vaccine.”We need to be well-prepared to deliver them speedily to developing countries once they become available,” the prime minister said during the virtual Global Vaccine Summit on Thursday.Japan is not the only country looking for creative solutions during the coronavirus pandemic. Pharmaceutical companies across the world have expedited their vaccine research and development to combat COVID-19.In the U.S., investing in multiple stages of research simultaneously has accelerated the development of a vaccine. Like Japan, U.S. officials and scientists are also optimistic that a vaccine will be ready by the first half of 2021.Trump Administration Selects 5 Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates as Finalists: NYTThe selected companies will get access to additional government funds, help in running clinical trials, and financial and logistical support, the paper reportedCOVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the highly infectious coronavirus, has killed nearly 400,000 people around the world and crippled economies.Britain Hosts Global COVID-19 Vaccine SummitMore than 50 nations expected to raise funds to ensure global access to COVID-19 VaccineThe coronavirus crisis has also crippled immunization infrastructures, and experts warn that rebuilding these production and supply chains is essential for the rapid deployment of a COVID-19 vaccine. 
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The Pentagon will be sending back the remaining 900 active-duty troops who were sent to the Washington D.C. area to potentially respond to civil unrest, and they are expected to start heading back to their home bases, a U.S. official told Reuters.The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the order had been signed by U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and that the troops would be heading back to Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York.While the troops were in the National Capital Region, they were not deployed to Washington D.C. and were on standby in case they were needed.
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Національний банк України вже сьомий день поспіль посилює гривню в головній валютній парі. Опівдні 5 червня регулятор установив довідкове значення курсу 26 гривень 60 копійок за долар, це на 10 копійок менше за офіційний курс на сьогодні.

На українському міжбанківському валютному ринку котирування опускалися нижче за орієнтири НБУ, але станом на 13:15 є подібними до даних регулятора – 26 гривень 59–61 копійка за долар, свідчать дані Finance.ua.

Нацбанк уже в першу годину торгів виходив із викупом надлишку долара – спершу за курсом 26,62, згодом – 26,60 гривні за одиницю американської валюти, інформує сайт «Мінфін». НБУ поповнив свої резерви щонайменше на 100 мільйонів доларів, вказують експерти.
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