this is d.w. news live from berlin cand europe withstand the shock of the coronavirus e.u. commission president or so the founder lionel outlines measures she hopes will soften the blow to the blanks economy she says brussels will do whatever it takes and as europe becomes the new epicenter of the disease people face the stark reality of a pandemic shutdowns travel bans and calls to limit social contact to slow the spread also coming up 12 months after the massacres a last 2 seasons prime minister says the country has become

a different place. where you're on i believe you see on its people here fundamentally change i can't see how you could have intervened like this and not. i'm called last month thanks for joining us e.u. commission president or sort of phoned alliance says europe can withstand the shock of the coronavirus underlined was detailing steps aimed at keeping the blocks industry afloat as the virus spreads and shutdowns come into effect she said she believed the disruption would be temporary but that all e.u. states should coordinate efforts to ensure that it is as limited as possible alongside these overarching macroeconomic missions. the commission has also adopted today proposals to provide liquidity into our economy. we're setting up

a 37000000000 euros carona response investment initiative. to grant support to the healthcare sector to the labor market. to support a series from all affected sectors we have team coverage of the use response today joining me in studio is political correspondent hans brandt and in brussels is about reader it has been reporting all day for us there babbage want to start with you what did you make of borderlines remarks today. the commission president tried to provide some certainty that the european union is able and willing to cope with this shock as mrs funnell and put it the shock would be temporary but still it will require a common and coordinated effort she said by the member states to overcome this crisis the she said the european union will do whatever is necessary to help the

economy and to help the sick people to cope with the corona crisis and she literally opened the floodgates to put money and liquidity into the businesses and into the markets she said the stability pact and also the state aid rules the european union which normally very strict rule be relaxed so that makes it possible for many member states to borrow more money to change the fiscal policies and. to have more pop that debt in the future and i want to turn to you let's talk about that flood of money 37000000000 euros promised and investment along with loan measures is this enough to help keep the european economy afloat and certainly an important signal to the markets and to the countries in the european union but of course the european union itself doesn't have that much money to distribute that's

money that always comes from the fed from the states themselves germany for instance announced today a package for germany alone that's a welt of a 10 times the size of what's very important is that the european union placed on rules it gives. you know it rules on what countries are all to do and what not on the relaxation of those rules that bond was just talking about the fact that states are now more easily able to get money from the markets to go further into debt to relax rules on their indebtedness for the states and i think that's what's very important in the end and will make the whole thing a lot more flex. well for everyone concerned now banned we heard about these economic measures and what about a coordinated medical response for example will the e.u. be sending any sort of aid extra doctor is sue its most affected members maybe italy for example. where that's been some criticism that some

member states like germany and france don't allow exports of mosque and medical equipment to other european countries was a left on the line says that has to stop but no there will be a coordinated effort by the european commission to procure this medical stuff and medical equipment to drill it into being dispersed to the member states equally italy was very bitter about the european approach so so far the foreign minister of italy who did the most said but there's not enough what europe is doing. underline is trying to show the opposite there will be no medical stuff no doctors from the e.u. because the you does not have this it's only it's only in a common effort to manage the supply of medical goods better 223-0000 cases now in all over europe and 3 thirds of that still in italy. now just in terms of cooperation all 27 e.u.

countries have confirmed cases of the virus this really is now a europe wide outbreak how well are you countries working together in your opinion well we have to say that the cooperation really is not going very well at the moment there are a lot of how shall i say national it goes and involved a lot of people a lot of countries saying that it's sort of my country 1st closing borders within the european union and so on the german finance minister said today that in terms of finance in terms of german activity germany would think over other european countries but if you look at what bond was just mentioning this export ban on medical supplies produced in germany that is not exactly a very co-operative signal in the end i think what you have to say finding cooperation within the european union is a very very difficult we've seen how difficult it is on the refugee crisis situation and on this situation the coronavirus situation medical corp it's a big challenge through p.

and union that it hasn't yet made to i think one has to say there's a fine line stressing cooperation today in that speech political correspondent. and studio and band read it for us in brussels thank you very much to both. well berlin on friday announced its own economic measures promising unlimited credit to help companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic it's part of post-war germany's largest economic aid package it's worth more than half a trillion euros here's what german economy minister paid to that he says my mom. we're making an unlimited commitment from the smallest mid-sized business from taxi drivers to the creative economy to large enterprises with tens of thousands of employees. i've been physical and our senior business editor joins me now in studio ok maximum flexibility from the e.u. but let's talk about germany no limits from the german government in terms of aid

just walk us through how germany is responding here this is huge and analysts are calling it an aggressive response i mean the germans are so on about balancing their budgets and he never wants to go into debt here in germany right that's that's always the big thing you know it's a completely different situation to italy italy really needs this help from the e.u. germany's in a cushy position and this shows how dire the situation really is for companies and businesses and consumers because if people are being forced to stay home and not work at the local have the money to spend businesses are closing down clubs are being forced into bankruptcy and we're already seeing the big companies take on. this help lufthansa saying that it's going to apply for aid from germany not just germany switzerland austria belgium as well baritones airlines we're talking about companies in a really tricky position right now we're looking at and of course economists are all arguing about this but what we're looking at what could be the next big

recession we had one it's still in the rearview mirror right how would you compare the financial situation now to what we saw in the latest crisis of the global financial crisis was all about dodgy loans the banks were bailed out the if you go . even further to the asian financial crisis in the ninety's i don't know if you remember that it was a ridiculous situation where we saw economies but looting and asset prices out of control those bubbles burst the i.m.f. stood in this case if we saw an asian financial crisis these days it would be so so different because the world is completely different out global economy operates on a completely different level and china is the center of that china is becoming the world's biggest economy and will be soon it will overtake the u.s. it has become so important to companies and companies and countries and economies can't do without it do you think china will start to recover was that is that

really the key here briefly with china is trying to get things back up and running as quickly as it can because it knows how important it's become it's sucked in all these economies and businesses into it's fear but this is a virus we're talking about a health emergency you can throw as much money as you want at it but that's not going to be the circuit breaker sure these companies in these economies need the help but firms are going to stop pulling out and have already started pulling out of china and the looking at a plan b. other bosses i've talked to say there's no say in china and i've been physical in senior business editor thank you so much well one measure that's about to have a drastic impact on the markets as the european travel ban imposed by u.s. president donald trump it is set to take effect in just a few hours now travelers from $26.00 european countries will be barred from entering the united states let's look now at how many americans in europe are scrambling to return home before the ban and likely flight cancellations come into

effect. a rude awakening for many americans in europe departure halls were packed as travelers scramble to get home after hearing that the u.s. is restricting travel from the european union starting at midnight eastern standard time on friday is pretty crazy because it sounded like 2 am we were on a. train to the airport 3 flights were running on a 5 by like 9 am yeah i thought a little bit more heads up would have been nice because we freaked out and we found out so i guess communication wasn't great trump has restricted travel for foreigners to the us from e.u. countries in an attempt to get a handle on the covert 900 outbreak but some say his decision will do little to stop the virus from spreading he is facing a lot of criticism because of this travel ban not only you knew you were out but you were but also here in the u.s. with many experts say that it's too late that the virus is already here across the

atlantic in italy more than 12000 people have been infected and around 1000 have died this picture of an exhausted nurse taken earlier this week has become a symbol of the strain medical staff are under doctors are having to make tough decisions there aren't enough mechanical ventilators in hospitals to treat seriously ill patients the e.u. has expressed solidarity and promised the crisis stricken country billions of euros in aid. well here in germany officials say most schools across the country will close starting next week as an effort to stem the spread of the virus the measure includes kindergartens as well now in many cases schools are likely to stay shut in till april and then baths when the 2 week long easter vacation begins schools in the capital berlin will also close. i let's discuss those issues now i'm joined by the science reporter derek williams derek several german

states though not all of them including here in berlin they're closing schools and kindergartens is this the right move and the right time well it's interesting lee the experts have kind of gone really back and forth on this question the truth of the matter is is that we don't really know because we're kind of in this uncharted territory there's no modern precedent for this kind of fast moving pandemic so everyone is to some extent sort of just kind of making it up as they go in the general opinion among most experts here in germany up until very recently was actually that closing the schools in preschools would be a counterproductive measure as that would also force appearance of school the parents of this school a show and just to stay home with them and that would obviously then also have a serious knock on effect and the health care sector you know the frontline staff

that are treating people you can't have nurses and doctors who have small children themselves you can have them staying at home and get and being caregivers for their kids when they're really needed at the hospital so that was the conviction up until now but more who are they seem to be the experts seem to be moving away from that conviction and many more are saying that in germany at least at this moment it might make sense after all to shut schools for a while to slow down the spread of the virus that kind of flatten that curve which we've all been hearing about and some german states have done so already and and i think that probably the rest of them will follow very soon at the latest by next week i want to ask you about the move that u.s. president donald trump made recently he shot u.s. borders soon europeans that will take affects soon is that a scientifically sound decision. i don't think it is not i haven't heard anyone say that 'd from a logical viewpoint really doesn't make a lot of sense it's well it's true that in europe and in italy in particular we're

struggling with mortgage very large numbers of infections it doesn't mean that people are really better off of it 20000 tests every single day so i think that pretty much every every expert is saying that a significant number of infections is already there in the population it's kind of a gray number and it simply hasn't yet so it doesn't really make any sense i think to shut europe off in this way or any kind of scientific sense it's kind of boils down to the politics well one way or another that affects the ban will be taking effect in just a few hours derek williams with science thank you very much for your reporting let's have a look at more of the latest coronavirus developments spain's prime minister pedro sanchez has said he will declare a state of emergency on saturday due to the spreading of the virus and u.s.

treasury secretary steven minutiae and says he expects the u.s. economy hit from the coronavirus outbreak to be short term in france officials they're promising to compensate by overspray lated salary losses for quote a 99 percent of workers as travel manned school closures and other measures are taking a heavy toll on the economy iceland joins other european countries now in banning public gatherings of more than 100 people and closing schools and colleges as well . one via mental activist great to tune called on campaigners to avoid mass protests as the corona virus spreads but she says her fridays for future movement will organize on strikes instead the coronavirus is having an impact on pollution in china where the disease originated there it has led to a decrease in carbon emissions as economic activities slowed but as we were ports many believe that effect will be temporary. surgical mask

a popular home remedy against airborne threats until a few months ago smog and car fumes were the greatest concerns to urban dwellers such as those in vietnam but now the corona virus has taken over as the biggest worry for many as air pollution has dissipated the virus has emptied the streets of china's megacities and manufacturing has slowed. drastic quarantine measures implemented by chinese authorities have resulted in significantly cleaner air as this graphic from the world meteorological organization shows china is now emitting 25 percent less greenhouse gas a small victory against global warming. we've seen with the drastic measures that china has taken with regard to corona that the missions have gone down seriously so people are working from home and manufacturing a slowdown so these are the kinds of drastic measures that we will have to take for climate change and it's better to do is kind of sooner rather than later because of

the more painful the longer we wait. scientists have long been sounding the alarm on climate change. 2019 was the 2nd top to see it on record with the boss that gets the hottest in human history. believe the house gases concentrations are at the highest level in city 1000000 years but while countries have been slow to act in the face of global warming many have now implemented drastic measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. the climate crisis is somehow much more abstract than the virus and that's why i can't tell you how many people will die because of climate change but the virus you can calculate it that's why it's a bit closer. to my office well hey if humanity dies off from the corona virus what does the climate. my hope that we have a vaccination against the virus in a year and a half but the climate crisis is the most important task of the millennium i think

without exaggeration when we were taught. many people in china have already recovered when the coronavirus crisis passes experts say manufacturing will catch up on what it had not been able to produce that means the groan effect on the climate is probably just temporary. and of course for all the latest news on the corona virus outbreak including information about what to do if you think you might be infected check out our website that's d w dot com our here's a brief look now at some of the other stories making headlines at this hour wiki leaks source chelsea manning has been released from a u.s. prison and had been in detention since last may for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating wiki leaks manning's lawyers say the release comes after she attempted suicide. officials in egypt say heavy rain and floods of killed these 14 people across the country and inundated roads in the capital cairo further south

a driver was killed when his car was blown into a canal and several people were injured when floods demolished their homes. well new zealand has been holding events to mark the one year anniversary of the christ church massacre 51 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a white supremacist targeted the city's muslim community prime minister just into our dern has said the attacks fundamentally changed the country the suspected mosque attacker an australian is due to go on trial in june facing terrorism charges plus $51.00 counts of murder and 40 of attempted murder here's a look back now with the tragic events that took place in christ church one year ago. the mass shooting was something new for new zealand the country had been proud that it hadn't had such massacres and its response was novel in many ways the gunman had live streamed his massacre of worship is at the christ

church mosque online he wanted to become a global figure the prime minister just into our dern took an unusual step and refused to give him the notoriety he was looking for. he is a terrorist he's a criminal he's an extremist but he will when i speak be nameless. she also quickly showed solidarity with the muslim community and donned a headscarf to lead a nation in defiant morning. many of those who were being directly affected by this shooting may be migrants to new zealand they may even be very few genes here they have chosen to make new sealing their home and it is the home that i r s. new zealand also stood out by following warm words with concrete action. within weeks the government launched a gun buyback scheme

a month later it banned semi automatic rifles. well since the end of 2016 germany has deported failed afghan asylum seekers back to afghanistan it's a controversial policy that's opposed by some rights groups which say that afghanistan is still an unsafe country now through the end of last year around $800.00 rejected asylum seekers were returned to afghanistan most were taken back to kabul a city that many have never been to before and that comes with its own set of challenges for returned asylum seekers like buddha. this is not people of shares a place to work and rest for 4 months last summer this was his home that's when he was deported from germany to kabul a city he'd never been in before. he knew he couldn't live in the shop forever for being a single man in kabul comes with its own challenges martial law and i will fall do

you have a room for a single person or don't you. know so many rooms for single people here. plan for storage or rent just in. case a single people. eventually his friends help him find a windowless old storage near the butcher shop to live in. he now has 4 walls and not much else to shelter him from the elements the cramped room provides him little protection from the war and the daily threat of violence and called. what i wake up in the morning and go outside i really am afraid if i don't know i think the end of the night i'll be back in this room. these suicide bombers have no mercy and the mosque in the schools they have no mercy anywhere. it's

a life in stark contrast to his time in germany he was comfortable and worked hard he even met his fiance there. but they began to change he says after his immigration lawyers failed to file proper paperwork for his asylum application eventually a deportation order arrived when the police came for him he resorted to drastic measures. i slit my wrists. i had to get 40 stitches. but they still deported me in that condition. you know. not people laws one among thousands of afghans that has been deported back to kabul and what they come back to is an overcrowded city where they don't know anybody where their families aren't where they don't have proper social networks and social support and essentially what they're coming back to is the capital of the most

dangerous country in the world where more and more civilians are dying from suicide bombings from petty crime and from other difficulties. knows this only too well and he's clear why sometimes there's no option but to leave. if we have security here who would want to go to europe we're just looking for a place to live out the few days of our lives in peace with our family and friends but in afghanistan you don't know if you'll come home at night. this is news and these are our top stories the european union can withstand the shock of the clone a virus that's the message from commission president personally phoned alliance on friday she announced a 37000000000 euro corona virus response fund into string the health sector and keeping europe's industry afloat as the virus spread. governments across the world are stepping up efforts to contain the corona virus

many countries are closing the earth and shutting down life many states in germany have begun closing schools. and germany schools in kenya gardens as we mentioned across most of the country are set to close it's a bid to slow the spread of the virus many large gatherings have also been cancelled the capital berlin is planning to reduce its public transport. in new zealand survivors have attended a remembrance service to mark the 1st anniversary of the christchurch massacre $51.00 people were killed and dozens more injured in the white supremacist attack on the city's muslim community sunday is the actual anniversary date when the many more events are. this is the news from berlin for more follow us on twitter at d w news or check out our website that's. absolutely

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