player 1 in the morning still. starts march 20th going to go. play. play. this is the w. news live from berlin and germany begins so close its borders as its fights to control the spread of the coronavirus this was the situation that one french german border crossing this morning. if you look behind me you can see the already long line scumming from france this is a traffic jam is going to love it is it to france right now. we'll go to our

reporter for an update on the shutdown continues to tighten across europe spain imposes almost total lockdown telling residents remain inside their homes it's the 2nd worst hit country in europe after italy. markets remain troubled by the pandemic risk trading is briefly halted at the new york stock exchange after stocks opened down some 10 percent european and asian markets are also cascading despite monetary interventions. plus there is anger in berlin as the trump administration tries to secure exclusive rights to a german produced future coronavirus fact see we'll hear from our science correspondent about how soon a vaccine might be available if tests are successful. i'm serious almost got to thank you for joining. yes europe's open borders are starting

to close germany has joined a growing list of e.u. countries to at least partially shut out its neighbors in a bit to halt the spread of the coronavirus now berlin has announced controls on its borders with switzerland and austria in the south and luxembourg and 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. with sending back any vehicle which is not being granted special status to enter germany has a valid reasons across it's going 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. did normal actually

need to protect or 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 band record he is standing by right on the french german border between the french town of fox and the german city of southwark and and you are on the german side of the border how are things looking where you are is traffic still running. he had the border crossing of the autobahn number 6 traffic is running quite smoothly that no more traffic jams into france most of the 6 to 8000 commuters a pos this border control every day already in germany and you can see behind me the side 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 on another good reason to enter germany and these cars would

be sent back to france this is part of the lockdown 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 into the border and police told me it's very quiet and calm situation right now ban for people who are on the roads today how are they dealing with these checks. let me talk to some people who back and control this border crossing they're quite understanding that this is necessary to to fight the coronavirus and they say well they have a place in germany they tried to go there some people say they could go back to france and stay there for the time being so very understandably and you know no anger. and then what exactly are authorities looking to achieve here do they really think that these checks will help slow the spread of the virus. or the german

administration says this is one mean to 2 to interrupt the the chain of infection of corona as some critics say well is that really the case because truck drivers can go with their trucks over the border are they are immune to corona but there has 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 to the very end time is democracy that also restaurants bars shops playgrounds and sport venues in bavaria of the be closed soon so that people cannot gather there and spread the virus all right our correspondent ben record reporting there at the french border thank you very much the german decision to close its borders there already ruffled some feathers here in europe let's go to d.w. correspondent care of mata standing by in brussels hi kerrick

a french president demand on my call 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 goods and for food to remain in tact care what is this

disagreement about border closures tell us about the european unity on this crisis the spokesperson of the commission made 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 new from an interior ministers are for instance debating now whether the closure of extra no borders would be an option that is something we heard from the office of president might call that within the next couple of hours the extra will 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 matus reporting for us there from brussels thank you very much as germany moves to close

its borders to the rest of europe daily life inside the country is grinding to a halt across the nation schools restaurants churches many other social spaces have been closed or restricted here's how germans have been dealing with the destruction . an eerie silence has descended over this munich secondary school just one of thousands of schools in kindergartens across germany which are closed from today until at least the middle of april. in bavaria further drastic measures were introduced on monday to slow down the spread of the virus at a press conference which journalists could only follow via video link the bavarian premier announced a state of emergency in his region. the university hospitals are asking medical students to make themselves available to assist permanent staff retired doctors and doctors on parental leave will be asked to come in as well. the varia has also ordered the closure of cinemas the editors and clubs restaurants and

cafes can only stay open until 3 pm but banks pharmacies and supermarkets are so far exempt from restrictions. senior moment kind we don't see any reason for concern at this time but everyone should be responsible about what they really need and everything will be done to ensure that supplies are available for. the robert caulked institute the german government's main medical advisor said it was important to implement tough measures now because the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise sharply. it's not sensible instead of going to a club to invite people back to your home or to go to other parties where lots of people come together. i'm saying this because apparently some people have held so-called corona parties after clubs are closed and the police do not do this but the. billings legendary nightlife is also being cut back massively clubs have closed bars that are open are almost empty. i don't have any

customers i got a man on the door making sure that no more than 49 people come in and then we have to close we can't let in anymore but no more than not coming and that is the situation now but new rules might you know any day. even churches have been closed for fear of spreading the virus but that doesn't mean that those who rely on others will be left to fend for themselves and shop beef. pastors to make sure they continue intensive contact with people who are afraid above all the old in the sick we will continue to seek these people out. germany's response to the virus is a mixture of coming together in solidarity and battening down the hatches and hoping that those measures have the desired effect. now on wall street the coronavirus again dashed traders hopes of

a turnaround. it was an unusually good start the day on the new york stock exchange where it seemed the bell was tolling for start prices this was the scene on the big board within just a few seconds the dow down a whopping 9.71 percent and it kept on plunging trading on the s. and p. $500.00 was suspended after a 9 percent fall. germany's benchmark dax index fell more than 10 percent shares in the german blue chip index fell under the $9000.00 point mark for the 1st time since $2816.00 earlier asian markets also continue to drop tokyo's nikkei was down despite emergency monetary action by the bank of japan kong and shanghai were also trading lower at that after chinese authorities released data showing retail sales down more than 20 percent and industrial output down by 13.5 percent.

now among the hardest hit sectors the tourism and travel industries countrywide lockdowns travel and hospitality restrictions are already hurting the sector now german travel operator 2 he says it's suspending the bulk of its operations while 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 the warning comes as air carriers cut jobs and seek government aid to make up for falling ticket sales and cancellations due to the covert 1000 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 shall see 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. you know it's been a really fast for the for the airline industry and its shares in particular

one of the biggest losers we're seeing here and frankfurt on the dax is of 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 off that 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 prop up roads being closed airports being 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 routes 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 casti 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 it is 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 that level the margins are so thin they really can't afford to stay closed and each day that we remain that we 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's 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 i'll see what 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 economies grind to a halt like they did in china like they're going to italy and that right now that will really impact the entire economy in the long term investors the condiments 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 is this going to have people sort of coming back and they're coming back home but all of that still up in the air right now. our business team here shows the delay me in frankfurt an aran told and with us here in our studio thank you both very much indeed. now here's a look at our more of the latest coronavirus developments the leaders of argentina and peru have announced border closures and begun 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 the says china has put in all international arrivals to its capital city beijing into quarantine and iran is reporting another 129 deaths from the corona virus taking that death toll to $853.00. now to the front line of the corona virus outbreak in europe italy daily life there has all but crowned twa halt as the whole country is on lockdown only essential shops are open and public gatherings and travel ban travels are banned and people have been told to stay at home now on sunday italy 4.368 new coronavirus related deaths the worst a single day toll for any country since the crisis began. and earlier i spoke with him a good in rome to find out why we're seeing such high mortality rates in 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 with 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 she says the impact of those measures i'm not going to see 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 in factions 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 appox it order to slow down the section on top of that the figure of deaths that we're seeing $368.00 just in the last 24 hours it's only has an elderly population a quarter of the population is over the age of 65 it's one of the oldest

populations in the world and we do know that co bit 9000 particularly impacts the most vulnerable of society elderly and those with underlying health conditions so that's why you see these numbers. 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 and 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 be a key thoughts family haven't done for a long time the forward 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 that your 14 year old paula is working studiously through her school exercises but it isn't always easy without the teacher. domino demos send you 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 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. now did u.s. president donald trump try to buy up a german company leading the race for a corona virus vaccine has reacted angrily to reports that trump offered biopharma company back $1000000000.00 to develop a vaccine exclusively for the u.s. economy minister petta of maya says germany is not for sale. searching for a breakthrough to secure a 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 biopharmaceutical firm to stay. in the political and we are seeing a lot of political support and the issue is taken very seriously from various sites specifically we have received support from an international vaccine initiative of any so that these clinical trials can also quickly begin here. clinician 1st begin to put. the company says research into several possible vaccines has begun to deter the 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. 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 that 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 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 science hi derek good to see you there are researchers around the world working on a vaccine right now so why is everyone including the u.s. president so interested in curing back. well chander stand we kind of have to quickly run through how back scenes 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 serve so a classic that scene is therefore generally made up of we can version of the pathogen that displays those specific proteins or it might consist of only those specific viral proteins the problem is growing by recess on a large scale or reducing viral proteins on a large scale takes a lot of time and it takes a lot of resources now cure vioxx isn't waterpolo are any of the facts in this 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 a prince if you special printers and class and that's that seems that they have to be grown so basically the difference is that instead of growing proteins in this

vaccine 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 exceed this already at the end of the year. well the company has said that it wants to begin conducting trials in humans humans with candidates this summer. and it's not the only comes on company by the way that's pursuing this particular period while there's there's no question that. of an r.n.a. vaccine is very promising the field is really still that far from far from mature

and in science promise very very often doesn't translate into reality so cured by it 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 in 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 hiv at 19 that's safe and effective so when there were in this epidemic situation and people were desperate to rob something you know 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 least a year and and possibly significantly longer and eric cantor 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. and we'll have more news at the top of the hour thank you for watching good to have you. aboard.

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