migrated to italy u.s. president trump had only one message this is not a crisis but this week with record stock market losses and people contracting the virus everywhere truck reversed course tonight from denying in-laws to naming and shaming the coronavirus in america and trump says it's europe's fault i'm berg off in berlin this is the day. 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 strange that the u.k. he's not on the site and he's really trying to lay the blame at somebody else is still a sense of direction just send out a message that this is actually going to me a huge global crisis has been kony $2000.00 for another it's like the latest indicators suggest a considerable worsening of the near term growth outlook is

a belief i think beast the crisis is spreading few families as many people. know it was before this time and it's getting worse by the military coffee honest. also coming up has the world forgotten its biggest humanitarian crisis. our commitment to deliver humanitarian aid continues unabated you'll meet a german navy officer whose job it was to make warriors talk peace. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the world struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic and one leader doing and saying seemingly everything to turn that struggle into a crisis now that is how much of europe is describing the corona virus outbreak and

u.s. president donald trump today after weeks of downplaying the virus his threat and trump last night appeared on television to declare war on what he called a foreign virus that had reached u.s. shores due to the failures of the european union he then announced a new travel ban saying all flights from europe would be suspended for one month that announcement sent stock markets plummeting to new depths for a 2nd time this week and it left america's european allies feeling blindsided saying the white house had told them nothing of the president's plans. we've taken some bold steps we took the original bolder step of all when we close very early with china that help us save thousands of lives and we went very early with europe we do have some hot spots that are really bad but get them better germany i guess has some problems now france some problems some pretty big problems and italy of

corpses. probably record setting in terms of what they've gotten through it would have been a very long time now but we think we establish very quickly this and and it's just a question of time. and that's what the president said today the white house spent much of today walking back what the president said last night and we learned today that the ban does not apply to u.s. citizens permanent residents or immediate relatives of u.s. citizens ireland and the u.k. are exempt completely the ban does not apply to trade and goods nonetheless the move will have a huge impact on european and u.s. airlines that regularly cross the atlantic nearly 40 airlines operate around 560 passenger flights daily in both directions between the u.s. and europe that equates to nearly 17000 flights and 4800000 seats

in any 30 day period while on both sides of the atlantic stock markets they could not escape the gravity and today for the 2nd day this week the new york stock exchange halted trading for 15 minutes after stocks plunged after the opening bell the dow finished 10 percent down that's its worst day since the crash of 1987 record losses on european indices as well germany's dax shrank 12 percent marking its 2nd biggest one day loss in history it's the 1st major test for the new president of the european central bank christine legarde and she is warning that the economy is facing a major shock. governments and all other policy institutions are called upon to take timely and targeted actions to address the public health challenge of containing the spread of the coronavirus and

mitigate the economy impact. in particular and ambitious and coordinated fiscal policy response. of the financial losses are getting a lot of attention but on the ground this is about people's health and lives being threatened that's true here in europe as well as the united states and there are many things that we don't know about the virus so let's talk to the voice of reason and the voice of call john campbell is a doctor and he's been educating the public about the outbreak on his you tube channel dr campbell it's good to have you back on the show we spoke last week and i mean i'm sure you're agree with me it is a completely different world today than it was just a week ago when we're talking about this virus absolutely there's no question now this is an ambiguously a pandemic has been declared as

a pandemic by the world health organization and we started to see an increase in cases in you up and in the united states and actually seems to me that the european epidemic well al a section of the pandemic is that a similar stage does not in the united states with a city being quite a bit ahead of so cases ago to be increasing quite dramatically over the next few weeks unfortunately all over all over a year of there's no ambiguity about that now that we are at the start of the epidemic and we can you think now is to delay things as much as we can we need to delay this up until the summer months on the late summer months by preventing as much community spread as we can. we want to pull up a graphic for our viewers dr campbell and one curve if you can look on that graph it will pull that up you can see that one curve shows the infections without any restrictions in society the other shows a much flatter curve with restrictions that tell us why flattening the curve

is so critical. yeah absolutely and the normal course of an epidemic is that the cases will rise quite dramatically and that means there's going to be an awful lot of cases all at the same time now from all the data we have from china and subsequent studies we believe about 12 percent of people that get this condition are going to get quite a severe form of the disease they're going to be quite poorly with it and that means the probably going to need some form of medical support whether that's intravenous antibiotics intravenous fluids certainly supply entry oxygen but about another 5 percent of the people that get it or 5 percent of that the total people who get the infection are going to become critical and this means that basically their life is going to depend on the quality of medical care that they receive and we have limited amounts of provision for medical care it doesn't matter what country in the world that where we are in we can treat huge amounts of people all

at the same time with this high intervention medicine is going to be needed so the lower the peak of the epidemic the lower the amount of cases any one time then the less people are going to be severe or critical and you want time and that means we're much more likely to be able to manage it and manage these people effectively and if we can do that we're going to greatly lower the case fatality rate because we'll be able to support these people through it but no time to actually treat virus so if you are just going to say in order to get that curve to be flattened in order to extend this alex longer does that mean that social distancing has to be kept is that means schools have to be closed indefinitely i mean are we talking about some very uncomfortable realities here. well what we're talking about is a complete change in lifestyle for the next 3 months 6 months and maybe even longer we just have to realize all over the world that we are now in

a pandemic this is unprecedented we've never had this in our lifetimes before and we're going to have to live differently now we will get through this things will go back to normal but for the next 6 months we're really going to have to accommodate to preventing and delaying the spread of this virus and yes that will mean lots of social distancing that means meticulous hygiene it means avoiding crowded places especially indoors it means things like staggering the way there are times we go to work so that is not lots of people crowded together on public transport it means working at home as much as we can and of generally avoid going out it means stopping shaking hands it means stopping hugs and social kisses and we have to have this social distancing because this virus only survives inside human cells it's only go to learn to go from one person's response to system into another and if we can break that chain of transmission in as many cases as we can then we're going to greatly delay that curve push push the peak back into some of preferably back into late summer where we have less people with influenza and other chronic winter

related diseases in our hospitals and flatten that curve down so that less people are going to be sick at any one period of time that is now the aim at him let me ask you before we run out of time and you as a medical professional what do you make of the u.s. president suspending flights from europe to the u.s. is that effective at this stage in the game. it's very hard to say unless unless there's complete isolation in the countries he's probably not but to actually answer these questions is quite sophisticated a logical mathematical models that take a lot of things into account so it's quite hard to give a definitive answer to that question but given that the so many exceptions and the american citizens for example is still going to be flying but it's only going to apply to the shang going zone as far as we know it's not a complete shuts off it's not complete closed down so i would imagine the efficacy of this is going to be really quite limited unfortunately at this stage. dr john

campbell as always we appreciate your insights tonight dr campbell words valuable information that the world needs right now thank you welcome our welcome where the world is seeing a cascade of containment measures the announcements coming almost too fast to keep up with this week india took the step of canceling almost all visas for foreign visitors health experts say india a country with 1300000000 people has a huge potential for a rapid spread of the virus and yet the country has fared better than most with only 80 no cases and only one death but if the worst is ahead how bad will it get a record spondon john's wall reports. new delhi is jump but market is usually a popular stop for travel memorabilia. now it lives does that.

sound mockin squarely blames the could or no why this in 6 fields of running the shop he have never seen a slum this big over the last 2 weeks his sales have dropped by 80 percent doris what foreign an indian a student of marketplaces like this one. taking precautions can get in the way of keeping up appearances but the odd shop of who does not. credit as if we have hand sanitizers for employees in the shop but we can't wear masks because if people see us wearing them they'll wonder what's wrong with us they'll think let's stay away from him we're going of tourists don't enter the shop what's the point at. which some store owner was desperate for business awarding travel and public spaces on the subsidy part of noyon let's call the nucleus is reported across india this month the indian government is taking no chances in the

odds of what the result of all foreign nationals really up to 15 indians atoning home from affected countries will be quarantined for 14 days and the party is long that even though it's coming back from other countries can be quarantined though the onset of warmer weather means delis chronic evolution is finally clearing up mosques often every bit. the soldier in could or know why discuses has set off massive buying of bookmarks and found the. pharmacies are running out of stock with. multiple masks and sanitizers so that others can get them too many are stockpiling these items but they shouldn't do that they should think about the others to the government actually it's more indians from affected countries the doctor count of cases is nearly 13 to write. in debbie many of us who didn't already and are following all the protocols. they've got this right of the virus

was limbs will have to stop going out it's going to get up because that is it but if people take the right precautions i don't think things will get that bad it was going to do you think government should hand out free masks and install senators or stations everywhere they need to educate people about this disease. they're going to have indians wait to see if and how the current where this can be. interested in such a densely populated country many are hoping the coming months will provide but in youth. yemen is in my view at a critical juncture. we will either silence the guns and resume the political process. whole and we will slip back. into a large scale conflict there was a warning from the un that yemen is once again at a crossroads government troops and shiite who the rebels have fought a civil war there since 2015 with devastating consequences for the people tens of

thousands have been killed and millions displaced in what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis in december 20. 6th fire agreement for the city of data yemen's gateway to outside aid the u.n. also dispatched a mission to support that cease fire a team that included a german navy officer in a moment he'll join me here at the big table to talk about his mission but 1st we have this report. having endured 5 years of civil war the people of yemen are despairing they're the victims of a conflict that extends far beyond their country's borders yemen is witnessing a conflict between shiite who the rebels and government forces saudi arabia backs the government while the rebels are supported by iran but dish will tribal and political tensions further complicate the situation it would be even worse if the

un hadn't brokered a cease fire around the port of who data so aid can keep entering a special u.n. commission monitors that troops. germany contributes one soldier to that group until november last year that was commander sebastian h. . his duties included reporting on how the truce was being observed and negotiating deescalating keeping the 2 sides talking. children are under the greatest threat millions face starvation their psychological suffering cannot be calculated in all 80 percent of yemen's population depends on international aid. it's a crisis that john h. witnessed firsthand as he tried to prevent it from worsening even more. and we're pleased to welcome a commander's bastard age right here at the big table tonight and we want to let

our viewers know for security reasons we can't disclose the commander's complete name so we're going to suffice with commander commits good to have you on the show if you were chosen out of all of germany's military personnel to help oversee the cease fire in talk to me a little bit how did you prepare for this. mission specific preparation last a couple of weeks prior to actually going there but also in the choosing of the personnel that you sent to such a mission you have a look at that they have a certain set of training my case for example was a u.n. stuff off this course which teaches you to work and un stuff. that was a couple of years ago but still you have the training for this mission the training included a week of medical training with a paramedic and a doctor. driving training driving in difficult conditions driving under fire driving in homage vehicles and one week of

a land survival course so basically like to survive and get to somewhere when you're cut off or something like that is important for a navy man right exactly yes also the riving cause if i had been in a an army officer they would not have sent me to that driving course but i'm a navy officer and for that reason it was necessary to do that when we hear the name yemen and we know about the humanitarian crisis there was this a mission that you looked forward to. oh yes it from start it seemed to be very interesting to me very thrilling in a sense. and therefore despite the fact that of course you have certain. negative feelings as well if you're afraid of something or you think you don't know what it's going to be like but of course it's interesting to go there and it's my profession as an officer to do such things we just heard in that report that yemen is the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe i think it's more than 14000000 people face hunger and starvation how important is the port of data for

alleviating that suffering the poor of what it is critically important to that it's the one port in yemen that 1st of all has the right infrastructure to handle a lot of cargo and has a good connection to the. population centers in the highlands around santa the 2nd port addon in the south is too far away and of course it's in the government of yemen is territory so you'd have to cross a border or a front line between the parties and that is more difficult was the. data is in the hands of the. some call them party and therefore that's where most of the population live that makes it easier to use for the data you know you had you were in brokered cease fire agreements there that it was you were tasked to implement that how did you implement it i mean talk to me about the practical challenges

because you're trying to get groups that are rouer to come and sit and talk peace yes indeed exactly so one element of this is going on patrols and being present and having a look at what's going on and then reporting for example to the united nations security council to have some presence on the ground and see what's going on but in terms of changing things in yemen. i think the part of bringing the parties together to talk was more important and that was a critical element of the mission. so every 6 weeks 5 weeks maybe the parties would meet on board of our ship you seen the ship in the small trailer and we would sail outside in international waters so that they'd have a ground to talk and they would do some talking. and you were the only german on this mission correct. yes the only german official there was one german national

who was a part of the united nations. she was there for a while but from the german military of the german government so to say. i was the only judge was an advantage for you when you were trying to bring these people together to talk. i think. generally speaking yes germany is a country that is respected by both parties in that conflict. and therefore you're probably in why it was germany respected by the parties. there is little of a colonial past of germany germany is not very much engaged with. some things that people think negatively about the west in in that region. many people in the region connect germany to football mercedes benz and things like that so generally speaking i would say that in the middle east people have a positive attitude towards gemini and they think they think germans are also very

punctual yes. on the german watch became a sometimes a something then when they said it was 10 o'clock it meant 10 o'clock exactly right yes you know that's a good case of a stereotype being at an advantage and before you talk to me a little bit about the ship that you were own i mean was it would you call it a ship or would you call it more like a large boat that's called ship it's 90 meters long it was built in 153 and. the united nations chose the ship to have infrastructure at the place in a short time so due to the fact that many much of the infrastructure is destroyed it's a war that was probably a sensible decision but the conditions on the ship are crammed it's difficult you know many people living there the mission is now some 6070 people and. the ship is old it's loud it's noisy. difficult why what is that i think probably the public if

they have a conception of what the mission would be like they would think that maybe if the u.n. is sending you that the conditions would be fairly good but you're saying you know they weren't the best were you surprised by that you know we may not know me personally i knew enough about yemen and i had a skype interview with people and data from the u.n. before i came so they told me this is what to expect so and i was not surprised and the mission and the port of her day to talk to me a little bit about how important it is to basically making sure that people there don't store. think yemen is very dependent on food import being in humanitarian aid or even normal commerce yemen is not a country that is growing much of the food that people need there or any other goods for that reason so they are heavily dependent on imports and. because all the other

borders are mainly closed due to the war there is also no air traffic into or out of yemen. so that. port of data is critically important to the entire economy of the country how successful has the mission been. the mission has achieved a couple of good things the mission has avoided an escalation that was due in 2018 when 2 parties were standing outside the gates of a date on there was the they were going to go to battle over the town house by house so that was avoided by the stockholm agreement. the amount of violence that we saw there was reduced by a presence and by our for example by deescalation mechanism where we got the people together with liaison officers to to talk through incidents as they happened. people started to return to her data so internally displaced persons because it

became more safer than it was before the un came there and before the mission came there. and then of course this mission has brought the parties to the table to discuss things which is always a good thing and i think it's the only place. in this conflict where they meet so regularly. so there are a number of good things that the mission is achieving or has achieved the it's good to hear if you could be here you know stories of success from human missions and we appreciate your time tonight appreciate you coming in thank you to hear your story thank you it was a pleasure thank you. are the days always down the conversation continues online and don't forget whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you get it.

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