plain. this is g w news live from berlin and the u.s. bans nearly all travel from europe to fight the spread of the coronavirus president donald trump claims new infections in the u.s. on a lack of action in europe. will remain in force for 38 days. also coming up as italy struggles to contain its massive outbreak of the coronavirus the doctor

there has this advice for the rest of the world. prepared. once you heard the predators they need to change their behavior their needs to reduce their social life. and a hollywood giant behind bars former movie producer harvey weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison this is what justice looks like 20 plus 3 years sentenced weinstein had been convicted of rape and sexual assault in a case that gave momentum to the nature of the internet. i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us the european union is criticizing a decision by u.s. president donald trump to ban nearly all travel from europe to the. united states

the e.u. commission says it was taken unilaterally and without consultation now the ban will last for 30 days but it excludes the u.k. and ireland and a few other countries outside the schengen a passport free travel area trumps that the european union had failed to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the disease. until now the u.s. president had made light of the corona cry says but in a surprise statement donald trump announced new drastic measures fellow americans to keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight. the travel ban will affect $26.00 european countries but will exclude britain and ireland exemptions will be made for u.s. citizens. these spanish travelers at madrid airport are some of the last europeans

to be allowed into the u.s. . but if the u.s. have to take those measures let them take them we need to be prudent to careful but there's no need to get desperate for i mean nothing but it affects me because i work in the u.s. i have to change my ticket and bring the trip forward because if not i would have found the border closed the new u.s. rules mark a sudden escalation and trumps response to the virus and they seem to catch u.s. allies and the markets off guard as well as making political waves there will be a huge blow to travelers and to airlines operating routes across the atlantic the tourism industry has already been hit hard by the virus as governments tighten restrictions and travelers think twice about whether to go on vacation in these uncertain times. following the latest developments on the story for us this is a pretty big step from the white house how is your reacting oh it is

a huge step and you used top officials have already slammed this decision and they've said essentially that the coronavirus is a global crisis it's not limited to any continent it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action this is what the e.u. commission president was alot from the lion and the e.u. council president said in a joint statement as a reaction to that decision and they were extremely unhappy about the fact that they were not consulted or they want not even informed about this decision taken by the u.s. president and then radek sikorski use a member of the european parliament and former polish foreign minister said on twitter that i'm surprised that a possible british coronavirus is deemed preferable to an e.u. one playing politics he said was health is a bad idea and that of course refers to that exemption for britain by donald trump ok so we see that this is not really going down that well here in europe at least

they felt they should have been consulted at the same time the w h o if the recommending drastic measures i mean is it time them that europe fall of the u.s. and also issue similar travel restrictions the travel ban well you always have to look at the political systems in the countries both the european union and germany for example if you want to talk about the reaction of one of the member states of the european union they are federal systems decisions when it comes to health policy when it comes to education policy etc they're always taken at national level on the e.u. level and at regional level here in germany and so it's up to local authorities regional authorities here in germany for example to implement bans on mass gatherings of more than a 1000 people and also the e.u. they have to coordinate the efforts by the various member states they're all speaking with different voices and it just takes a lot of time to. all these different actors together and decide on a more coordinated strategy when it comes to combating the virus while here in

germany yesterday we heard the chancellor angela merkel say that according to health officials she's spoken to 60 to 70 percent of the german population will be infected with this virus how are people reacting to that well that's not a number that she makes up i mean medical clearly is somebody who listens to experts this is a number that's been passed on by leading viral exists in this country who give daily updates on statistics and they look at how the virus is probably going to develop in the course of the next few weeks and months and what is clear is that the virus is here to stay it has reached germany and all we have to do is make sure that we gain enough time that not everybody gets sick at the same time to not strain our health care system too much and this is something that i'm glad machall has understood and so she wants the public to understand that everybody can do their share to help slow down that infection rate at the same time we saw the czech prime minister we should say if the czech republic sure is

a boarder with germany accusing the german chancellor of spreading panic with those numbers what do you make of that well again this is something where we clearly see that europe is not talking with one voice not every country in the european union is as effected as for example italy the numbers are different approaches are different the health care systems are different but what the e.u. leaders decided earlier this week was that health ministers were going to talk to each other on a daily basis to tackle the coronavirus together and this is something at least putting the e.u. on a good path. with us here in studio thank you very much. well italy has tightened restrictions to try to stop the spread of the virus after limiting freedom of movement nationwide the government is now ordering the closure of all shops except food stores and pharmacies and they're hoping that the measures will eventually contain the disease and alleviate the pressure on hospitals the

health system in the north of italy is struggling to cut. hospital beds and intensive care units at full capacity medical staff working around the clock especially in lumbered like at milan's psycho hospital the mental luckily none of our nurses or doctors are in quarantine right now they're all working 12 hours a day to take care of our patients. with the flood of patients pushing italy's health care system to its limits prominent physicians have issued an urgent warning to the government. in only known i don't think we have the structures medical equipment doctors and nurses to cope with such a large number of sick people yet he's from fiji in the middle. of the month. the toll on the economy is also growing all shops have been ordered to close with the exception of supermarkets food stores and pharmacies. at the economic level this is

dramatic for us but we will make the necessary sacrifices. still not see the government has responded with an emergency aid package to support health care and businesses bane of the. we'll decided to allocate an additional 25000000000 euros to help the country cope with the difficulties of this ongoing emergency difficult to get basic stuff returned to work with some of. its money heavily into government can hardly afford. and we can speak now to dr jack come on he's an anesthesiologist from the university of melanie's coordinating the network of intensive care units in lombardy dr russell you know you're very busy at the moment thank you for joining us here on d w can you give us an idea of what the situation is in hospitals right but right now in. yes to give you an idea i can give you just some very simple numbers but before

this crisis we had you know longer to be around massimo 800 i.c.u. bat for people. is the start of the epidemic so in the last 20 days we have admitted to our i.c.u. were total of more than $900.00 people of these let's say $120.00 have been discharged about 90 have died and the remaining around 700 are still there so from these numbers again you can understand how how big is the stress of the system so we've been able to increase our i.c.u. beds capacity by about 50 percent something that was a huge effort everyone we have reorganized our hospital network in order to centralize the time dependent diseases like for example trauma stroke in on the if you hearts and to to free space to to to have new units dedicated we have created

a network of specialized called the 19 a units in several hospitals so until now we've been able to cope with these incredible amount of patients in a very short limited period of time but you know a lot of the little rich and modern regions already want to. reaches richest region in europe and still really struggling to to to deal with this incredible as it tsunami of patients was investing us you know we've heard reports of nurses of doctors working around the clock working past capacity to be able to treat enough people we've also heard reports of nurses health care officials having to reach almost impossible decisions of deciding because there are so many sick people at the moment to treat who to treat and who they cannot is that true and who is reaching that choice well. that's a very important that's a very important point and there are a lot of politics no need to limit but i have i want to make this very clear well

in every day's life and mr geologist when he's called to to see a critical patient has the day to take a decision whether i see a mission is proportional me for that patient condition i mean that we are meeting for the i.c.u. on a patient who can benefit from i.c.u. admission and index of treatments and if a patient cannot benefit because of a number of factors which is not only age of course but it's age is more with chronic conditions and quality of life and so on if a patient does not benefit from i.c.u. admission he will not be admitted to the i.c.u. no matter how many free beds you have now we understand it's a really difficult situation they are facing right now a lot of people are looking to italy and think with more than 10000 cases what is happened there i mean why has the virus spread so quickly there. it's very

difficult to say. apparently here in number of the pep in something similar to what happened in war and probably the virus was was was around for at least has been around for at least one of our recognized and then something happened like a super spread and that like started this fire which is very difficult to turn off and. clearly we're having a huge number of patients an increasing number of patients and what's different from a little was reported from china is that the number of patients in the i.c.u. because there are you know work a serious police that 10 to 12 percent of the patients of the body deviation. need i see what mission let's say less than 5 percent in the either trainees population so what they want to make very clear and they what they want to say to tell everyone in the world is that the solution for these is not. opening us your

meds or keep buying ventilators this is a flu shot for people who are already sick so the only way to avoid that this becomes a disaster and when i say disaster i mean hundreds of thousands of deaths the only way to avoid these glorie of the spread of this disease and this can be done with simple behavioral measures so. you can increase your in your i.c.u. as much as you can but again if you are invested by this tsunami your i.q. back into a certain point will never be enough no matter how efficient modern set and product it really just just kind of quickly here what you're saying there is your message to other countries that are facing what your region is facing right now is please slow the spread. 1st get ready so prepare your health care who are going to the proper use of personal protective equipment for example. reorganize or frightened

think how to organize your i.c.u. network but most importantly prepare the population tell them that once you have the initial threat that they need to change their behavior their need to reduce their social life i mean easier if everyone stays at home for 3 weeks this is going to have to because no one should be no new patients should be affected ok so i understand it's relieving mediation of personal freedom but the other 2 are these is going to be a disaster all right we'll have to leave it there are doctors there come aggressively and see these are all ages joining us from the university of milan in lombardy thank you very much. and let's have a look now at 10 more of the latest coronavirus developments spain is considering a lockdown of its capital madrid saudi arabia has suspended travel by its citizens and residents and halted flights to and from several states chancellor angela

merkel c.d.u. party has postponed a special conference where is planning to elect a new leader and the many schools across europe have been closed. and for all the latest on the corona virus including information about what to do if you think you might be infected go to our website d.w. dot com. all right let's get you caught up now and some other stories from around the world in a series of early morning raids u.s. authorities have arrested hundreds of people allegedly linked to the mexican drug cartel the new generation again controls up to 2 thirds of the u.s. illegal drug market authorities are hoping to capture its allege of leader one of the most wanted men in the u.s. . media reports here say germany's domestic intelligence agency is placing an extremist wing of the far right alternative for germany party under surveillance and that group is led by firebrand who's been accused of using rhetoric from germany's nazi past european commission president was enough underlined has postponed

a visit to greece because of the corona virus pandemic she was due to hold talks about the situation on the border with turkey where they have been clashes with police as thousands of migrants attempt to cross in to be. there but also been clashes at overcrowded migrant camps on greek islands now as many as $100.00 children from those camps are being offered refuge in berlin the children have been chosen because they are ill unaccompanied or younger than 14 years old more now and how the german capital's preparing for the young arrivals. thousands of refugees among the many children are stuck in makeshift camps in greece clothing and food are in short supply and nobody knows what will become of these people. the city government here in berlin says it wants to welcome 2000 of them. we need the national government to help make this happen but it has categorically refused to help these people in need and said germany is not going to

take any unilateral action. for months we've just been standing idly by as people perish and children suffer this is a disaster. but then is preparing for the eventual arrival of some of these refugees empty portable housing units at the decommissioned tempelhof airport and being hooked up again to the mains they date from 2015 when germany admitted almost a 1000000 refugees back then the authorities were taken by surprise and scramble to cope the situation was a times chaotic and conditions with a new arrivals very poor. 5 years on the balance city government department that's responsible for refugees and asylum seekers says that it's now much better prepared . to have a cup at city where the posting capacity to help people who come to us 2015 we were

caught off guard and we then have a staff of 150 here now we have more than 500 and are allowed to hire 50 more. so we have the personnel to receive newcomers and register them and provide the services they need. most of the berlin as we talk to are in favor of welcoming more refugees to their city. we were once refugees too we survived german reunification without any trouble so why shouldn't we be able to deal with this situation. if you try to harm so we are approaching the limit in terms of capacity but this is an extreme case especially considering the children so we have to do something which unrest. there will be protests parties such as the a f t right wing extremist and right. when populous groups in our society will once again protest. but there's no reason to have right wing extremists

determine whether or not we rescue people in need. of the mention that. it's not known how many people might eventually come to. the conflict between cities offering shelter the german government and other european union countries on relocating refugees is far from resolved former hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault it was closer to a maximum term of 29 years that prosecutors were seeking a women outside the new york courthouse where he was sentenced greeted the announcement with loud cheers. for harvey weinstein's accuses it's an outcome few thought was possible. attorney gloria all read says justice has been done for her clients this is what justice

looks like 20 plus 3 years sentence handed down by judge burke this morning. just raced movie mogul who faced his final appearance in the same new york courtroom where he was convicted of rape and sexual assault against 2 women. since his conviction last month the former head of merrimack sa underwent heart surgery arriving at court in a wheelchair. weinstein's lawyer is asked the judge to take his poor health as well as his age and young children into account and was scathing of the outcome. i mean i think we all know that sentence that was just handed down by this court was obscene that number was a noxious there are murderers who will get out of court faster than harvey weinstein will that number spoke to the pressure of movements and the public

weinstein has denied any wrongdoing and his lawyers plan to appeal the verdict prosecutors had sought a lengthy sentence given the foreman produces abuse spanning 4 decades and lack of remorse. old read who represents accuser just a command part of a testimony outside course she said i've never felt vengeful and going into this initially i didn't even feel anger i just felt sad sad for myself sad for everyone he hurt and i even felt sad for him for having done this to himself but i have observed and indifference a lack of remorse it seems like the final scene in harvey weinstein's fall from grace but the drummer is far from over weinstein faces further criminal charges in los angeles also for right and sexual assault that case could bring a maximum sentence of 28 years. all right back to

our coverage of the coronavirus again and the toll it is taking on sports let's take a look at some of the latest developments there a real madrid's football and basketball teams have been put into quarantine the spanish football league has suspended play in its top 2 divisions for the next 2 weeks basketball's n.b.a. and euro league have both suspended their seasons and in formula one mclaren has withdrawn from the australian grand prix after a team member tested positive for the coronavirus in champions league football paris got the better of brazil dortmund on wednesday the french team winning 2 nil to reach the quarterfinals 32 on aggregate and thousands of p.s.g. fans gathered outside the stadium to cheer on their team after being banned from going inside in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus after the final whistle the p s 2 players climbed onto a balcony overlooking the street to celebrate with their supporters.

in the night's other game defending champions liverpool crashed out of the tournament they looked set to make a comeback against i'd like to call madrid after taking the match to extra time but unfortunately for you can club steam the spaniard scored 3 unanswered goals to advance for 2 on aggregate it is safe to say the clock was less than impressed i said no or it would be very much all t.v. stations i'm reading. on that i would lose that to be honest at least tonight if i would say all the things i have in my mind i would look like the burst losing the world so it ends up as a. stop you will know one of the what's funny i don't say that it's just about 50 at the way they play i just don't get it. i don't get it but it's right there when is right that's hard. in the bundesliga parisienne mentioned glad to be cologne by 2 goals to one and the match made history because it's the 1st german

league clash to be held behind closed doors fans were excluded because of the coronavirus goodness league of fans have dubbed matches held behind closed doors like this one goes to games but that didn't discourage thousands from gathering outside the stadium in gladbach to peek through the cracks inside only a handful of club officials were waiting for this historic match to kick off despite not having fan support the home side struck 1st patch or come on to brazil in below who bit it like that them from inside the box 5 not sure what envelope was listening for with no fans but blockbuster half cheered him on for the early lead in his 7th goal of the campaign. things didn't improve for cologne after the break sitter defender miri attempted to clear the ball but instead fired right past his own goalkeeper tim owen doubling the lead for glove box.

10 minutes later cologne did manage to pull one back after yon summer had his own blunder the bad pass found mark who didn't waste the gift weaving through traffic in scoring colognes only goal of the match. though held on to the lead and got the 21 victory moving up to 4th in the standings. right while amid the coronavirus lockdown the olympic flame for the 2020 tokyo games was lit in a limpia the ancient home of the olympic games spectators were banned from the ceremony as an actress dressed as an ancient greek high priestess the plane used in the race of the sun the flame will travel around greece on a weeklong relay the forehead being handed over to the tokyo organizers next week and so far going eyes ears and tail and international olympic committee have insisted that the games will go ahead as planned. coming up next on

news india's government announces a new travel restrictions as coronavirus fears gripped the nation. and the harsh and dangerous life can asylum seekers deported from germany back to afghanistan. has those stories coming right up thanks for watching.

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