this is developing news live from berlin germany starts to lock down its borders as it fights to control the spread of coronavirus we'll talk to our reporter who is at a franco german crossing point. if you look behind me you can see they're already loveland's coming from france this is true for germany is going to close it was a 2 front row of no. more european cities impose a complete lockdown on their citizens we asked our science correspondent if that's the right way to stop the virus spreading. also on the show anger in berlin as the

trump administration tries to take over a german bio pharma company and secure xclusive rights to a future coronavirus vaccine. i want to johnson berlin good to have you with us. europe's open borders are beginning to close germany has joined a growing list of countries to at least partially shut out its neighbors in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus the german government has announced that its borders with switzerland austria denmark and luxembourg closing new restrictions are also being imposed on the french german french air. everywhere site on the french german border german police manning checkpoints for nigh on

cross border traffic will be at a near standstill. the borders today marks what so the and austria and luxemburg will also be almost completely shuts. the. people of that significant reason to travel will not be allowed to cross the border in either direction. and. all non-essential travel across the border. commuters will not be affected by the shutdown and kids will still be able to cross the border unhindered anyone just leaving symptoms of coronavirus infection will be handed over to the health authorities. there's no set time frame for these travel restrictions and the government says it might extend them to borders with other neighboring countries.

vidic me it's important that as few people as possible are infected. so we have to try to slow the rate of infection. but there are really problematic areas in france . which is why we took this decision in order to slow the spread of the virus. for now you the restrictions only apply on the grey and air travel is not affected german chancellor angela merkel is meeting with her cabinet later to decide if the skies are to remain open. staying on the ground and for more let's bring in correspondent banta he did she is standing by right on the french german border between the french town of 4 and the german city suburb. and balanced you are on the german side know those new checks they've just taken effect is traffic still rolling. but you have to wait at least 30 minutes

until you can enter from france to germany you have to get to this checkpoint which you can see behind me here and the police is stopping every kano checking if the germans in the car or other nationals judgments can go on the right lane they can enter germany of cause others have to go to another checkpoint close to me have a 20 policemen asking people what are you doing in germany what's the purpose of your visit and only if you're a commuter if you have your workplace in germany then you're allowed to enter all of those are going to have to turn around and go back to france you know to trucks can enter deliveries of goods is not to him but by this foot today so the border is not completely closed but it's difficult to get into germany right now now of course will use very much to open borders by now how well prepared police doing that is checks. but police is present he has since

midnight already as i said there are 20 people here on the ground and of course it's difficult to mend this post it's not only this one of many checks checkpoints along the french german border and a police officer told me it's very difficult to get all the person in place and they don't know how long they have to undertake that effort full days weeks even months nobody knows so far and that no facilities because this is a makeshift border crossing this autobahn has no border crossing installed because the border was open for 25 years that it's all about cutting the spread off the coronavirus what safety measures taken in place by the police is working without any protective gear only if there's a suspicious case if they see somebody sneezing coughing in the cars then they

would protect themselves they just keep a kind of distance they don't touch people but the police told me this is what all german citizen should do and there's no need to have a mosque and the fia that they might contract coronavirus here on the border is not very high on the police put personality had to bend to get them reporting from the french german border for us thank you so much. and now to other coronavirus hotspots around europe like spain france and italy which are among the worst affected by the outbreak spain has followed it in a by imposing a lockdown banning $47000000.00 citizens from leaving their homes after the government declared a 2 week state of emergency in paris dozens of people gathered outdoors on sunday despite the french government closing all nonessential businesses and urging citizens to limit interaction meanwhile it in the remains on the frontline of the

virus in europe on sunday $368.00 new coronavirus related deaths were reported there the west single day toll for any country since the crisis began so europeans governments try to stop the spread of coronavirus as much as they can i'm joined by science correspondent derek williams who is currently in self isolation good to see you derek from a scientific point of view checks at the borders partial closures of borders do these measures help curb the spread of coronavirus well to be perfectly honest we don't really know what this is all impressed you know science is all about is about working on presidents and we have absolutely no experience with this kind of the situation so it's all uncharted territory that it seems that a lot of the you know it is in the run up to do you to this morning we're saying

close in orders work helps low the spread of the virus but not probably true but once it's endemic within a population then the only thing that seems to work in terms of containment is going to lock down as we saw in china china didn't shut its borders it went into lockdown within the country itself and that helped to limit the. spread of the virus within the population lockdowns like we're seeing some were lucky ones in spain and italy now. that said as well it's going to take a couple of weeks before you see any kind of impact because this virus has an incubation period and so people worst spreading it up until the moment of lockdown with and only and it will take at least 2 weeks to see any kind of impact in the numbers and hopefully about more after 2 weeks they'll start to go down but it gets worse before it gets better i get is all very unnerving also especially because online with them dotted with information about what to do in the current crisis and

the latest news that caused a stir was about the effect that's taking a bit profane might have on those that have the virus what was all that about well i got there was a it was interesting in terms of there was a what's out message that was sent out yesterday that may make waves i got myself from it from a science journalist colleague of mine and a woman saying that at the university clinic and vienna they had discovered that taking ibuprofen. worsens the course of the disease the university clinic immediately came out is that no that's fake news there is we didn't conduct any studies in that direction that's not true but it things were complicated by the fact that the french health minister came out and said actually that there was a connection with and he himself is a doctor now firearm legis have now gone on record saying there is no scientific proof that i've been profound which also interacts with some of the receptor that

that are active with the corona virus apparently there is however no scientific proof that there is a connection between those 2 things that's just a hypothesis ok more confusion they have problem play a direct williams in the south isolation thank you so much. and here's a look at more of the latest coronavirus developments u.s. federal authorities are mulling curfews and mandatory closures of businesses such as shops restaurants and bars infections their search to over $3702.00 is close to 70 deaths the federal reserve has cut interest rates to nearly 0 s. part of a sweeping emergency action plan beijing has started putting all international arrivals in quarantine and iran reported 113 new deaths from coronavirus taking the overall death toll there to more than $720.00. markets around the globe are

beginning the week with heavy losses germany's benchmark dax index fell by over 5 percent in opening trading dropping below the $9000.00 point mark shares and germany's blue chip index fell to a low not seen in over 4 years earlier asian markets also continue to drop its tokyo's nikkei down in spite of emergency monetary action on the bank of japan hong kong and shanghai were also trading lower but after chinese authorities released data showing retail sales down more than 20 percent and industrial output down by 13.5 percent. and my colleague jealousy delaney is standing by for us at the frankfurt stock exchange tells the stocks keep falling despite central bank measures what are investors looking for. at this point investors don't really know what can be done to stem the losses we're seeing in stocks this is a completely unprecedented to ration for most investors and the normal playbook doesn't really apply we've heard only we've heard over the past couple of weeks

just repeatedly that investors wanted central banks to step in and provide liquidity to markets that government should step in and start providing cheap loans to businesses support for the unemployed and we have seen that over the past several days the fed the e.c.b. the government here in germany they're all providing really unprecedented stimulus to the economy and that's not really helping at all the markets just continue to fall and i think investors just aren't really sure what can be done at this point given just the severe restrictions we're seeing on public life this isn't really something that a cheap loan to a business can fix if people remain in quarantine just until they need transferred thank you so much. that u.s. presidents will not trump try to buy a german company leading the race for a coronavirus vaccine bilin has reacted angrily to reports that trump offered by a pharma company back $1000000000.00 to develop a vaccine exclusively for the united states foreign minister said berlin could not

allow all those exclusive rights to german research and economy minister p. to up my was blunt germany he said is not for sale. searching for a breakthrough to secure back a lab in southwest germany hopes to be the 1st in the race to develop a vaccine against the corona virus that is being noticed with reports surfacing donald trump is trying to leave the company to the u.s. barely news encouraging to buy a pharmaceutical firm to stay. we are seeing a lot of political support and the issue is taken very seriously from various sides that school specifically we have received support from an international vaccine initiative so that these. clinical trials can also quickly begin here the commission for looking into. the company says research into several possible vaccines has begun with the 2 most promising to be chosen for clinical tests it expects to have an experimental vaccine developed by june or july and will then

seek approval for testing on humans. kill vax specializes in a method called and eye which makes human cells produce proteins that trigger immune responses against infections or cancers on. this basis we are now building that new vaccine. we now have a process where we can quickly respond to new threats so we believe that this r. and a technology is a very good a way to quickly provide solutions. and to beat. if the vaccine is successful in human trials kill vacs says up to $10000000.00 doses could be produced in several weeks. experts originally thought of vaccine would be 18 months away meaning a successful human trial as early as july would be welcomed by the global community . and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. germany has begun to lock

down its borders as it fights to control the special coronavirus travelers face controls entering and leaving france austria denmark luxembourg and switzerland the government is said to rule on it traffic among. you watching. thanks for joining us. we're all set. to go beyond. all of the stories that matter to. whatever it takes. running. d.w. it's made for mines.