this is deja vu news line from berlin germany begins to close its borders as it fights to control the spread of the coronavirus this was the situation at one french german border crossing this morning if you look behind me you can see they're already in scotland from florence this traffic jam is going to go that is a 2 front road no. we'll go to our reporter for an update. meanwhile the shutdown continues to tighten across europe spain imposes almost total lockdown telling residents to remain inside their homes it is the 2nd worst hit country in europe

after italy. markets remain troubled by the pandemic risk germany's dax opened down 5 percent asian markets also continue their fall despite monetary intervention. plus anger in berlin as the trump administration tries to secure exclusive rights to a german produced future of corona virus vaccine we'll talk to our science correspondent about how soon a vaccine might be available if the tests are successful. i'm sumi so much kind of 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 corona virus now berlin has announced controls on its borders with the switzerland and austria and luxembourg and also what denmark

in the north new restrictions are also being imposed along the french german border . gridlock on the french german border these cars have been waiting for at least 30 minutes to end to germany the certainty of sending back any vehicle which is not being granted special status to enter germany has a valid reasons across its going to have to. it's just one of many makeshift border controls set up on monday in a bid to stem the corona virus outbreak german citizens and residents may continue through as can delivery drivers and those commuting to work anyone displaying coronavirus symptoms will be handed over to health authorities train doesn't find it normal actually they need to protect to somehow from everything that's been happening it's really bad at the moment there is no set time frame for these travel restrictions and the government says it might extend them to borders with other neighboring countries. all right let's go to the w.'s band regular he's standing by

right on the french german border between the french town of fox and the german city of southwark and and bear and you are on the german side of the border how are things looking where you are is traffic still running he at the border crossing of the autobahn number 6 traffic is running quite smoothly there no more traffic jams in 2 fronts the most of the 6 to 8000 commuters that policy this border control every day already in germany and you can see behind me the german federal police is checking some french cars. french people trying to get into germany they have not many chances because you have to have a workplace in germany or another good reason to enter a germany and these cars would be sent back to france this is part of the look on but these are only the few this is the minority it seems that people in france already know that they cannot check and they don't even try to get here to the border and police told me it's

a very quiet and calm situation right now bearing for people who are on the roads today how are they dealing with these trucks. let me talk to some people who are talking back and control at this border crossing they're quite understanding that this is necessary to to fight the coronavirus and they say well they have a workplace in germany they try to go there some people say they could probably go back to france and stay there for the time being so very understandably and know you know and go. and then what exactly are authorities looking to achieve or do they really think that these checks will help slow the spread of the virus. for the german administration says this is one mean to 2 to interrupt the the chain of infection of corona some critics say well is that really the case because truck drivers can go with their trucks over the border other immune to corona but.

one trucks to go to deliver goods. but other countries like for example the austria have a very strict policy they have a kind of curfew in place and it seems that some parts of germany will now follow this lead the very end time is democracy that also restaurants bars the shops playgrounds and sports venues in bavaria of the be closed soon so that people cannot gather there and spread the virus all right our correspondent banned record reporting there at the french border thank you very much the german decision to close its borders it already ruffled some feathers here in europe let's go to correspondent garrick mata standing by in brussels hi kerrick a french president a model mccall he is not happy with germany's border control measures tell us more about that. that's right the friendship president after

having a phone conversation with german chancellor angela merkel condemned these measures saying that this is not the right way to act in order to stop this virus to make a mutual effort to stop this virus and it was reiterated in the press conference here in brussels by the spokesperson of the european commission also made clear that the individual closing of national borders is not something that the commission regards as helpful seeing that the virus has already spread to all of the use member states and that although as bentley got us pointed out there are current you know traffic jams this is something one wants to avoid once the supply chains for medical codes and for food to remain intact care what is this disagreement about border closures tell us about the european unity on this crisis the spokesperson of the commission make clear that this is a. mobile situation now something they haven't seen so far so he didn't

want to say that there is disunity on that aspect there there is movement the interior ministers are for instance debating now whether the closure of x. turn all borders would be an option that is something we heard from the office of president might call that within the next couple of hours he acts turtled borders of the european union could be closed and that could be an effort in order to protect the internal market and to make sure that the medical goods and the food supply remain for those people who are mostly meat them all right correspondent garrick not just reporting for us there from brussels thank you very much. now to the front line of the corona virus outbreak in europe italy daily life there is all but ground to a halt as a whole country is on lockdown only essential shops are open public gatherings and travel are banned and people have been told to stay at home on sunday italy

reported 368 a new coronavirus related deaths the worst single day toll for any country since this crisis began. and earlier i spoke to seem a cuppa and rome to find out why we are seeing a such high mortality rate than italy especially in the north of the country. well what you're seeing now in a way it's it's immense and it is very tragic but it was expected because what you see now what the inspections that happened before the slow down measures put into place when the prime minister knocked down the entire country is that he said he says the impact of those measures are not going to be seen for a couple of weeks so that's what you're seeing right now not the 11 towns that were originally put on those restrictive measures there we're already seeing a slowdown infections but you're not going to be able to see any impact for a little while and that's why the prime minister has said that currently the situation is very critical if everybody needs to do the

a pot in order to slow down the section on top of that the figure of deaths that we're seeing 368 just in the last 24 hours it's only has an elderly population a quarter of the population is over the age of $65.00 it's one of the oldest populations in the world and we do know that covert $900.00 particularly impacts the most vulnerable of society elderly and those with underlying health conditions so that's why you see these numbers. now spain has become the 4th most infected country in the world overtaking south korea and coronavirus cases a 2 week lock down is already in place the government is considering extending it and possibly closing its borders spain's 47000000 people are being asked to stay at home spending an entire day at home together is something we're keith or family haven't done for a long time before trying to make the best of a difficult situation amid madrid's coronavirus look down indigo is employed as a bank and can therefore work from home while his daughter is able to access her

schoolwork via the internet but it's his parents in bilbao that worry him. you've not been going outside i hope here in madrid police drones with loudspeakers are telling us to stay home and. when they tell you to stay inside that's what you have to do you can't go around spreading the virus your 14 year old paul is working studiously through her school exercises but it isn't always easy without the teacher. down in the demo so do all the exercises but sometimes you don't understand them you can ask your parents but they might not remember so they're not much help either and. madrid a city known for its bustling streets and vibrant atmosphere has fallen eerily quiet never in the history of spanish democracy have such drastic measures been taken according to the government. only those shopping for essential of heading to

work or visiting a doctor or pharmacy are allowed out on the streets some rule breakers are treated leniently by police others are threatened with fines. for the orchy thoughts family the curfew brings its own difficulties but they're determined to comply as much as possible jaco is their biggest worry for any leopard or puppies aren't exactly ideal companions during a global health crisis that he's always seeking attention from strangers in the street and at home too. i'm beginning to see every person we come across as a potential source of infection. you begin to go a little crazy in isolation laura tells us but then nothing here is as it should be at the moment those in madrid simply need to hold out in the hope that things will turn to normal soon. let's take a look now at more of the latest coronavirus developments the leaders of argentina and peru have announced border closures and begin to shut schools in their countries south africa has declared a national state of disaster imposing a travel ban on foreign nationals from high risk countries and also revoking v.s.s.

china is putting all international arrivals to its capital city beijing in quarantine and iran as well fording another 129 deaths from the virus taking the death toll to $853.00. well markets around the globe are starting the week with very heavy losses germany's benchmark dax index fell more than 7 percent shares in the german plute blue chip index fell to a low not seen since 2016 earlier asian markets also continued to drop tokyo's nikkei was down in spite of emergency monetary action by the bank of japan hong kong and shanghai were also trading lower after chinese authorities released data showing retail sales were down more than 20 percent industrial output was down by 13.5 percent. and among the hardest hit sectors the tourism and travel industries countrywide lockdowns travel and hospitality

restrictions are already hurting the sector badly now german travel operator to e says that suspending the bulk of its operations all air carriers are temporarily laying off staff meanwhile an airline consulting firm is warning that most airlines worldwide could be bankrupt by the end of may that warning comes as air carriers cut jobs and seek government aid to make up for falling ticket sales and cancellations due to the pandemic. are we have our business correspondents following the story for us aaron tilton is with us here in our studio in chelsea delaney is over at the frankfurt stock exchange chelsea i want to start with you we've heard there are huge problems for the travel and tourism sector and it doesn't really seem like investors are taking that this well today. no it's been really a bloodbath for the for the airline industry and its shares in particular one of the biggest losers we're seeing here and frame for the dax is look tonsil which is

down about 12 to 13 percent today so this is really coming after also a lot of volatility over the past several weeks the number of airlines. air france cayle and british airways all of them have lost about half of their market value over the past several weeks as the travel restrictions have started to increase and airlines are doing all that they can right now to really sort of offset these these impacts they're cutting staff they're cutting routes but it is becoming increasingly likely that they're going to run out of cash at some point soon ok so it's a dramatic situation for airlines erin coming to you we've heard that germany's to we is now suspending much of its operations how bad do things look for the tourism industry well i'm not going to sugarcoat it they look bad you really have to to look at this in the broad perspective i mean this is a perfect storm for the tourism industry of course tourism is based on the idea of free travel most countries and we're seeing one travel restriction after the other crop up roads being closed airports been closed and why don't we just deal with the

airline industry i mean these are some of the some of the headlines we've been getting in here in the last couple hours british airways says it's closing 75 percent of its routes in the coming weeks air france also the same thing canceling 70 to 90 percent of its roads easyjet same thing 75 percent will be closed in april and may and in the united states american airlines also says that they're closing their international capacity by 75 percent i mean that's a huge blow to the airlines and one that is going to be very very difficult for them to recover from i mean that's why just as shells were seen there were seen them approach government saying that they're going to bail out some type of financial assistance and then also going to the unions and saying look you know they can't keep that entire staff on if they're to actually survive this pandemic crisis that we're seeing right now. we were initially talking about short term disruptions are these businesses really prepared for a long term disruption well that really is the big question and you know with the airlines i wouldn't be worried about it that much because just i mean they're huge industry and just as we saw in the financial crisis they're the type of industry

that governments like to get involved with and do like to bail out and make sure that they survive because they employ so many people what i would really be concerned with are some of the secondary and tertiary companies involved in tourism so i'm talking about things like hotels like restaurants like small mom and pop shops mom and pop shop or as those that are depended upon tourist dollars to stay open i mean and that level the room margins are so thin they really can't afford to stay closed and each day that we remain that we remain they remain closed it increases the probability that they won't be able to open up their doors and then there's also the fact of their employees a lot of them are like seasonal employees there their shift workers their freelancers they don't really have you know the savings that they need to be able to really get through a long term break like this and that could have a huge not going to factor long terms in terms of the economy once we're through this so see what have things look like there in frankfurt what are traders saying about the long term effects of this pandemic. well this is obviously and the next

several months going to have a significant impact on economic growth if we see economy is grind to a halt like they did in china like they're going to lean right now that will really impact the entire economy and the long term investor as the economists do you see the economy rebounding in the next several months and by 2021 for example but i think this is also raising a lot of questions about the future of globalization as this is going to have people sort of coming back and coming back home but all of that's still up in the air right now. our business team here i shall see delaney in frankfurt and aaron tilton with us here in our studio thank you both very much indeed. now did u.s. president donald trump try to buy up a german company leading the race for a coronavirus vaccine berlin has reacted angrily to reports that trump offered by a pharma company cure back $1000000000.00 to develop

a vaccine exclusively for the u.s. foreign minister. could not allow others exclusive rights to german research. searching for a breakthrough this cure vaca 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 lure the company to the u.s. fairly and is encouraging the buyer pharmaceutical firms to stay. political we are seeing a lot of political support and the issue is taken very seriously from various sites on school specifically we have received support from an international vaccine initiative of any so that these clinical trials can also quickly begin here the commission for to begin to put. 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 in which makes human cells produce proteins that trigger immune responses against infections or cancers on these a blog and 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 be. if the vaccine is successful in human trials cure vacs says up to $10000000.00 doses could be produced in several weeks. experts originally thought a vaccine would be 18 months away meaning a successful human trial as nearly as july would be welcomed by the global community. all right let's talk about this story now with derek williams our

correspondent from d.w. science hi derek good to see you there are researchers around the world are working on a vaccine right now so why is everyone including the u.s. president so interested in curing back. well chunder stand we kind of have to quickly run through how axioms work generally that scene stimulate an immune response in the body by getting the immune system to recognize highly specific proteins that are displayed on a target pathogens out or service so a classic scene is therefore generally made of a reconversion of the pathogen that displays those specific proteins or it might consist of only those specific viral proteins the problem is growing by this as on a large scale or producing viral proteins on a large scale takes a lot of time and it takes a lot of resources it's now cured like specializes in water polo r.n.a. vaccines and are the molecules contain the instructions for producing viral

proteins and they're also much simpler to make and viral proteins are so far and you can actually be produced synthetically can basically be prince if you special printers and classic bats that seems that they have to be grown so basically the difference is that instead of growing proteins in this that seems manufacturing facility which is this very time intensive process with our in a back seems you're quickly printing instructions on how to make those proteins and you're injecting those instructions into the body and you're getting the body to manufacture the proteins for you so if the process works then it could potentially save really a lot of time and that's why everyone is so interested in the technology because it has the potential to bring results more quickly than sort of traditional methods to how quickly derrick you know some people think they could have a vaccine by the end of the year if these tests are successful much sooner than expected how is that the case is it is that the case that we can see this already

at the end of the year. well the company has said that it wants to begin conducting trials in human and humans with candidates this summer. and it's not the only comes company by the way that's pursuing this particular dream but while there's there's no question that the idea of an r. and a vaccine is very promising the field is really still hope far from far from mature and in science promise very very often doesn't translate into reality so if your vote was founded back in in the year 2000 and then the 2 decades since then the company really hasn't developed a single approved or a new vaccine treatment although it does have one promising treatment for rabies that's going through that process but it's still a very very involved way away from having an approved vaccine for what 19 that's safe and effective so you've been there we're in this epidemic situation and people are desperate to roll something now very quickly you have to keep listening to the experts and the experts they're still saying that any vaccine is going to take at

'd least a year and and possibly significantly longer and derek jeter just quickly in the meantime while we're waiting for a vaccine we're saying countries issue partial to full lock downs how effective are these lockdowns and really slowing the rate of infection well lockdowns themselves have proven effective in china they've proved effective but what you have to understand is that the lockdown it's going to there's going to be there's going to be a time frame shift so from the moment that the time that the lockdown begins to happen you have you're going to have a couple of weeks before you begin to see a fall in the number of cases because that's how long the incubation period is with the virus all right our science correspondent derrick williams for us there derek good to talk to you. now south korea has been among the countries worst affected by the new coronavirus but south korean businesses are working together to share the economic burden caused by the pathogen. so

korean landlords and tenants are sharing the burden of weathering the decline in business caused by the corona virus outbreak with reductions in rents large traditional markets especially needed the help. that we. used to get an average 300000 visitors a day. but since the corona virus outbreak began we've been seeing less than 110th of our usual number of customers. business owners here have been suffering immensely. not only domestic sales are affected as international trade has also dwindled especially for small export. as. korea has a competitive global legend the fashion industry and its products are high in demand overseas but now that foreign buyers kaante even enter korea coupled with

slowing fabric shipments and fewer visitors to the market overall it's having quite a large ripple effect. in addition to the rent reductions market managers have also coordinated strict public health responses some landlords have provided up to 50 percent off in rent although smaller reductions are more common but even those providing the discounts argue for more state led measures. complementing revenues of the merchant's biggest concern so tax remedies are needed although the government has announced new tax breaks a lower income tax means little if merchants aren't making much to begin with so many want to see a decrease in value added tax. in. the large traditional markets rely on both tourism and elder shoppers both of which have dried up although more

assistance may be coming merchants here in schools and empty moon market and around south korea are soon likely to get some more help from the federal government the national assembly is set to pass a multi-billion dollar supplementary budget to support small businesses and to help contain and mitigate the qubit $900.00 break the so-called nice landlord trend has also brought banks into the movement with low interest loans as south korea copes with a deepening kovac 19 crisis. we just have one more item for you from sports in brazil players from the football club gremio process of having to play in matches during the corona virus outbreak they took to the field wearing face masks for their game against salaries on sunday fans were not allowed inside the stadium and grimier won the state championship match 32 having removed the masks brazil's football federation later suspended all national competitions but not state matches

the grimmest coaches threaten to go on strike. you're watching you have your news for all of us here in berlin thanks for being with us.

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