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| - Go to to consult AFP Agenda Contact us on contact-agenda@afp.com HONG KONG (AFPTV) - We plan to file the following videos: TBA indicates that times are to be announced, but coverage is confirmed. TBC indicates that coverage is to be confirmed. For all editorial requests, email afptv@afp.com or contact the appropriate regional video desk. FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2020 + HIGHLIGHTS BEIJING (China): National People's Congress opens HONG KONG (China): Protest expected as China pushes security law VARIOUS: Muslims around the world prepare for Eid al-Fitr MANAUS (Brazil): Amazonas state organizes COVID-19 tests for indigenous communities + ASIA PACIFIC BEIJING (China): National People's Congress opens. SOURCE: CCTV - LIVE ONGOING BEIJING (China): China National People's Congress opening ceremony. SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE ONGOING - EDIT TO FOLLOW BEIJING (China): Li Keqiang says China has made "major strategic achievements" in its COVID-19 response. SOURCE: CCTV - EDIT 0200 GMT HONG KONG (China): Pro-democracy lawmakers hold presser as China pushes security law. SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0300 GMT HONG KONG (China): Protest expected as China pushes security law that pro-democracy lawmakers and activists have decried as "the end of Hong Kong". SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0400 GMT HONG KONG (China): Citizens presser -- held by a few masked protesters -- as China pushes security law. SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0630 GMT KARACHI (Pakistan): Pakistanis throng markets, malls to prepare for Eid - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0300 GMT KABUL (Afghanistan): Afghan cyclist in 'door-to-door' campaign to curb virus spread - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0400 GMT NAKHON PATHOM (Thailand): Molded from cemetery clay, mixed with bone-dust, painted with sacred oil and powder, the monks of Thailand's famous Sam Ngam temple cast a spell on tiny little dolls - Buddhists believe the figurines could bring fortune and help protect them from danger. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0400 GMT NEW DELHI (India): Live from New Delhi as lockdown persists. SOURCE : AFPTV - LIVE 0400 GMT BEIJING (China): Ministry of Foreign Affairs holds daily briefing. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0800 GMT KHULNA (Bangladesh): Bangladesh cleans up after Cyclone Amphan. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1200 GMT KOLKATA (India): India cleans up after Cyclone Amphan. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT - Delivery TBA (dependent on network) + EUROPE PARIS (France): Day and night, nursing staff is mobilizing to ask for more resources for the public hospital. - EDIT TBA STRASBOURG (France): With indoors still out of bounds, sportsmen and women in Strasbourg practice outside. - EDIT TBA LYON (France): Illustration images of the Tête d'Or park during the Ascension long holiday weekend - LIVE 1050 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW BRUSSELS (Belgium): Sex workers struggle for survival as pandemic leaves them without clients - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0300 GMT MILAN (Italy): One-star Michelin chef Davide Oldani decides not to reopen his restaurant yet - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0700 GMT ROME (Italy): Bars are now open for the traditional 'aperitivo' since Italy eased its lockdown measures but fears remain of a second wave of COVID-19 - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0800 GMT ISTANBUL (Turkey): Coronavirus disrupts Turk's burial rituals -SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0900 GMT OSTSEEBAD BINZ (Germany): Residents of northern Germany can travel within the state and enjoy the beaches of the Baltic Sea after weeks of lockdown - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1000 GMT ROME (Italy): High Institute of Health (ISS) holds a press conference on the pandemic in Italy - SOURCE: ISS - EDIT ON MERIT - LIVE 1000 GMT WARPUNY (Poland): Known for its many large lakes, Poland's Masuria region is home to more than a few small independent farmers as it offers fertile land perfect for the production of artisanal cheese - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1000 GMT GENEVA (Switzerland): WHO executive council meets after following global assembly - SOURCE: WHO - FURTHER DETAILS TO COME ON THE DAY - PRESSER TO BE ANNOUNCED - EDITS TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1000 GMT MADRID (Spain): Inside an intensive care unit - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1200 GMT FLORENCE (Italy): The Duomo reopens to the public, with visitors wearing social distancing devices - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1300 GMT NAPLES (Italy): The artisans of Via San Gregorio Armeno, famous for their art of making nativity scenes and small figurines, are unable to open their shops for business as the street is too narrow for social distancing - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1400 GMT HELSINKI (Finland): Commuters from Estonia begin returning to Finland to work after government partially reopens border - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1400 GMT GENEVA (Switzerland): WHO briefing on coronavirus - SOURCE: WHO - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1500 GMT REYKJAVIK (Iceland): Stockshots of Icelandair planes and offices - SOURCE: AFPTV - STOCKSHOTS 1500 GMT MADRID (Spain): Spanish authorities give daily briefing on coronavirus - SOURCE: PALACIO DE LA MONCLOA - EDIT ON MERIT - LIVE 1500 GMT LONDON (United Kingdom): Downing Street daily coronavirus briefing - SOURCE: UK POOL - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1600 GMT + MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA TEHRAN (Iran): Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei delivers televised speech marking Qods Day - SOURCE: IRIB (RESTRICTIONS APPLY) - LIVE 0730 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW BEIRUT (Lebanon): Lebanese gather for Friday prayers ahead of Eid al-Fitr holiday - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 0900 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW RIYADH (Saudi Arabia): Saudi Arabia imposes a 24-hour lockdown during Eid al-Fitr holiday - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE during the noon prayer (Zuhr) filmed outside a mosque in Riyadh amid empty streets - EDIT 1100 GMT TBC RIYADH (Saudi Arabia): Saudi residents go to shopping malls ahead of Eid al-Fitr holiday - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 1200 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW IDLIB (Syria): Syrians pack Idlib market ahead of Eid al-Fitr holiday - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 1900 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW RIYADH (Saudi Arabia): Saudi's Ministry of Sports launches a Home Run to keep residents active during the lockdown - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1000 GMT CASABLANCA (Morocco): Casablanca prison makes masks to fight coronavirus - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1200 GMT UNKNOWN (Lebanon): Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivers Quds Day speech - SOURCE: AL-MANAR (RESTRICTIONS APPLY) - LIVE 1400 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW + SUB SAHARAN AFRICA LAGOS (Nigeria): Lagos slums struggle to work and eat despite lockdown ease - SOURCE: AFPTV Images of Iwaya slum, where the population struggles to work and feed itself despite the partial lifting of containment. EDIT 1000 GMT CONAKRY (Guinea): MSF doctors repurpose Ebola treatment facility to fight virus - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 1200 GMT DAKAR (Senegal): Senegal TV produces series on virus and Ramadan - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 1400 GMT KANO (Nigeria): `Shariah police' deployed in mosques to enforce sanitary measures on prayer day - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 1500 GMT HARARE (Zimbabwe): Human rights group coalition holds press conference after opposition politicians beaten - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 1500 GMT CAPE TOWN (South Africa): Residents in Muslim Bo Kaap suburb break fast on their verandas - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 2000 GMT + NORTH AMERICA HOUSTON (United States): Bars reopen in Texas. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0400 GMT ALBANY (United States): Governor Andrew Cuomo holds daily coronavirus briefing - LIVE 1930 GMT CAPE CANAVERAL (United States): SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 pre-launch briefing. SOURCE: NASA TV - LIVE 2200 GMT + LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN SAO PAULO (Brazil): Interview with Bruno Covas, mayor of Sao Paulo, the hardest-hit city in Brazil - SOURCE: AFPTV / COVERAGE CONFIRMED, AWAITING OPERATIONAL DETAILS WITH TIMINGS EDIT TBA MANAUS (Brazil): The State of Amazonas organizes tests for COVID-19 in the indigenous communities of Três Unidos and Aturiá-Apuauzinho two hours by boat from Manaus. - EDIT 0600 GMT SAO PAULO (Brazil): Scene outside Clinicas hospital as Brazil records third-highest coronavirus infection level - SOURCE: AFPTV LIVE 1200 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW BRASÍLIA (Brazil): Brazil Health Minister daily press conference on COVID-19 pandemic caused by new coronavirus - SOURCE TV BRAZIL/ NO RESALE -- LIVE TO BE CONFIRMED, AWAITING DETAILS LIVE 2000 GMT TBC RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil): Largest Rio's cemetery buries daily COVID-19 corpses as coronavirus hard-hits Brazil - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 2100 GMT + SPORT HAVANA (Cuba): A world redrawn: "We will get through this," says Cuba's high jump star Sotomayor - EDIT 0500 GMT MUNICH (Germany): Football/Bundesliga. FC Bayern Munich-Eintracht Frankfurt. Bayern pre-match presser - SOURCE: FCB.tv - EDIT 1730 GMT + FEATURES ARMENIA (Colombia): Coffee industry severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 0500 GMT KORÇË (Albania): Thanks to coronavirus quiet, Albanian beekeepers expect a 'golden year' for the honey harvest. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1000 GMT SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020 + ASIA PACIFIC JAKARTA (Indonesia): General view of Indonesia capital Jakarta during Eid Al-Fitr. SOURCE: AFPTV. LIVE 0000 GMT, EDIT TO FOLLOW - TBC pending official Eid date from the government - LIVE 0000 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): Muslims in the city of Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia's only Sharia-based province Aceh, perform Eid prayer to mark end of Ramadhan. SOURCE: AFPTV. EDIT 0800 GMT. - TBC pending official Eid date by government. - EDIT 0800 GMT BANGKOK (Thailand): Medical waste decreases in Bangkok as people have been avoiding hospitals. SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 0100 GMT + EUROPE KIEV (Ukraine): Open air sports sites reopen as lockdown eases further - SOURCE: AFPTV - LIVE 1200 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW CAPACCIO-PAESTUM (Italy): Paestum, with its unique greek temples, is the first archeological site to reopen in Italy, as the country eases lockdown measures - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1400 GMT MADRID (Spain): Spanish authorities give daily briefing on coronavirus - SOURCE: PALACIO DE LA MONCLOA - EDIT ON MERIT - LIVE 1500 GMT LONDON (United Kingdom): Residents of a London square undertake a 12-hour exercise on their front steps to raise money for charity - SOURCE: AFPTV - EDIT 1600 GMT LONDON (United Kingdom): Downing Street daily coronavirus briefing - SOURCE: UK POOL - EDIT TO FOLLOW - LIVE 1600 GMT + NORTH AMERICA GALVESTON (United States): Texans hit the beach on Memorial Day weekend - LIVE 1600 GMT - EDIT TO FOLLOW + LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN CÓRDOBA (Mexico): Two cougars born in a zoo in Cordoba, Mexico, were named Pandemic and Quarantine - SOURCE: AFPTV EDIT 2330 GMT * SPORT : AFPTV Sport subscribers only 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
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