your case is a prison sentences right on philip shelves in seville thank you. researchers in the united states have begun testing a potential coronavirus vaccine on volunteers for people received injections on monday as part of the study's 1st stage of human trials 45 healthy individuals who received 2 varying dosage a month a month a pot all scientists are checked for side effects the impact on their immune systems even if the trials are successful the vaccine is unlikely to be available for at least a year. as well as all the corona virus protection advice we've become familiar with social distancing and hand washing for instance the world health organization is warning people who suspect they're infected not to take the painkiller ibuprofen kristin lynn speaks for the w.h.o. and joins us from geneva welcome to day to you what's behind this advice. thank

you for having me there have been concerns that i book profaned might have a situation if you're treating see the. 19 but there's very weak knowledge about this and very weak. evidence sold the 1st reviewer lives it rich or she has not shown any evidence on this but we're looking deeper into it during this time it might be recommendable double not to self medicate and that's what it's all about don't self medicate it isn't sense check with your health care provider check with your doctors and follow that advice ok let's talk about the response to the pandemic so far a china won praise from the w.h.o. for its efforts to contain covered 9 taking a countries here in europe doing enough. yeah this is a an interesting development now just a few weeks to go. people were criticizing all over europe of the strong measures and then china indeed. as joe was. kind of praising but not on the strong

measures mainly the strong. working on testing and treating and tracing of the patients as a combination of efforts which are importantly it's the. comprehensive approach of trying to limit any photo options for source human spread and of course larger gatherings and cafes and bars and restaurants are definitely a risk yes. and on the other hand don't forget to test feet and face every single patient that's important so in europe countries have now as we've seen many cases rising up in europe have seen the examples of china and they have shown good results in china hence many countries across europe and maybe across the world are looking at similar actions and so we just go back to the question i asked you do

you think that they are doing enough. he said possibly no country is doing all the all the actions they could do a solo nobody is reaching 100 percent on the scale but that has to do with a lot of factors and it's not easy to onset because in many cases we're simply lacking material electing capacity we're letting hospital beds we're letting masks tests laboratories ventilators and in in hospitals emergency rooms and and so on so forth or even medical stuff so there's not one onset of this every country is stretching as far as they can and there's certainly just certainly more to do and testing testing testing is the utmost recommendation and should be at the forefront that we're going to get to every single patient who is infected with this virus looking ahead how far do you think we ought from a vaccine. that it works in discussion is of course

a strong will and cause it's something we are looking forward to in order to release us from this from this virus and from this outbreak but again as the commentary just said before even if we had a successful candidate that scene tomorrow we will not have a vaccine before the end of the year not before 1218 months so while of course every development in the right ramos you know vaccines or treatment is welcomed we still have to look at the measures today and tomorrow because before we think about the day after to morrow even so there is a good talking to you thank you for joining us kristin lynn mine from the world health organization. meanwhile the u.s. trad treasury secretary stephen minu chin is to ask congress to approve an $850000000000.00 emergency aid package to protect the u.s. economy is being reported that these measures include plans to provide beliefs who brought us the airlines which have suffered the 10s of billions of dollars in

losses due to the pandemic if approved the stimulus plan would also help small businesses stay afloat and cut taxes for millions of american workers. all fake news about the coronavirus is making the rounds online and on social media making it harder for authorities to inform people about what to do now social media giants google facebook and twitter partnering with tech companies like microsoft and apple as a go to try to fight misinformation of the public but it's not easy. videos of how italians are coping with a coronavirus outbreak shutdown went viral no surprise internet traffic increased 70 percent last week as italians stayed indoors amid the country's lockdown according to telecom italia and while that could have been good news for social media firms it's also bad news the irish prime minister leo varadkar has warned

against the spread of unverified information and so has germany's ministry of health it encourages people not to share fake news. meanwhile the u.k. government has announced more funds to help fight fake news about the coronavirus not just in britain but also in africa and asia where it is working with bloggers. however beyond us maybe on social media firms which are currently struggling with staffing problems they have had to send workers home amid the coveted 19 pandemic. take a look at more of the latest coronavirus developments britain's than announced a financial aid for businesses affected by the pandemic amounting to more than 363000000000 euros of guarantees of germany's announced plans to double the number of intensive care places available so that patients suffering the effects of novel coronavirus can be treated iran has temporarily frayed 85000 prisoners in response

to the pandemic and among them is nazanin is the guardian radcliffe a british national health since 2016 and the chinese city reservoirs was 1st detected as reported just one new locally transmitted case on tuesday. it's by this in of the 20 new cases were reported in the rest of china but these can all be traced to people returning from abroad the 1st group of medical workers deployed to . abate been supporting temporary hospitals after more than a month or than $40000.00 health care workers from across china have been dispatched to the region since the outbreak began and. began to claim victory over the coronavirus. china has fought the coronavirus with unified strength and the crisis will soon be over at least that's according to the daily stream of news from china's state television the drastic measures undertaken by the

chinese government at the beginning of the crisis have led to a drop in new infections and thousands of patients have recovered many chinese factories have started up production again or at the moment we are at 70 percent of our capacity but that figure will increase day by day. the world health organization has commended china's response praised china again and again because it's actually helped in reducing the spread of. this to other countries the construction of an emergency hospital in just 10 days impress the world the hospital was closed on the 8th of march with all patients fully recovered a fact that was proudly announced on chinese state television. what state media doesn't report is that chinese president xi jinping already knew about the virus outbreak by january the 7th the public was only informed 2 weeks later chinese dr lee when young had already discovered the virus and warned of the dangers posed by

it in december last year he received a warning from police and was forced to write an official apology he later became infected and died in early february. mark you what if the. other attempts by journalists and doctors to draw attention to the gravity of the situation were brutally repressed the whereabouts of several whistleblowers is still unknown china has had success in battling the epidemic but with nearly 9000 people still infected the battle is far from over. well a year sports calendar has also been hit hard by of a pandemic the french open tennis tournament has been shifted from may to september and european football's governing body you wait for has confirmed that the euro 2020 tournament will be postponed until next year it's also put all of the men's and women's competitions on hold now it has been holding meetings with clubs and

member associations today it hopes for spawning a europe 2020 means domestically will be able to play into maid to complete their seasons perhaps minimizing the financial impact on clubs. another major football tournament this year's copa america has been postponed because of the pandemic a south american football tournament had been originally scheduled to take place this summer in colombia and argentina starting on the 12th of june instead the 12 team tournament played next year from june 11th to the 11th of july as several other marquee players were expected to take to pot this year people like messi sergio and naima copa america it is the oldest international football tournament of the world. and on to culture so how a top level musicians actors and opera singers responding. in concert venues in closed the bavarian state opera in munich has found one answer life streaming

performances online. the bavarian state opera may be performing to empty seats but the music is still alive stop pianist eagle leavitt says it's more difficult with no audience beyond 40 homes are playing to an empty auditorium and sharing music and thinking about how many friends and colleagues are struggling to make ends meet is not easy. by live streaming on state upper t.v. the bavarian state opera wants to send a message rehearsals a continuing performance artist marina abramovich was hoping to permeate her maria callas project in 3 weeks and we're still hoping that maybe on the 20th of april we can have the public and see the work because for me when i perform public is a session it's or otherwise i have to have a very good imagination the public is someone who has some space else for as long

as audiences must keep away the performances will be strained selected productions and a growing number of artists at taking part in the initiative. they all agree that art has the power to heal. what you didn't lose a lot from but in german chancellor angela merkel is due to make a statement very shortly which we will bring to you live ahead of we'll hear from chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome melinda we're presuming this is a coronavirus related and it was only yesterday but. president it measures against this pandemic so what should we expect today what she has been in video conference this afternoon with other e.u. leaders so she may have some things to say about what they decided it was reported

already yesterday that the e.u. will essentially be shutting down its external borders to any form of incoming and outgoing and outgoing travel and i think we're likely to hear her talk a little bit about that there has been a lot of pressure especially from french president mccraw for that measure to be taken beyond that it's hard to imagine that she would announce a raft of new measures after the pretty strict ones that she did come up with yesterday on the other hand other countries are moving even to 2 more draconian measures for example as you know france spain italy all essentially have imposed curfews preventing people from leaving their houses for anything but the most urgent crucial matters now germany hasn't gone that far yet the chancellor made a very strong recommendation yesterday that people should stay home but if i travel

around berlin at the moment with the beautiful spring weather we're having i see a lot of people out in the cafes and the parks lined up at the grocery store definitely not social distancing so you could be forgiven for concluding that at some point this country too may want to think about even stricter measures than the ones it's already taken a busy day for the child. speak with the e.u. leaders about corona virus the pandemic. well a separate talks with the british french and took its leaders about syria that's right we don't actually know anything about the outcome of those talks we simply know that they have occurred but possibly she may have something to say about that as well though i would suspect as you said that this statement she's about to give will be more khurana related well what a source would be running today about this multi 1000000 euro plan for germany to bring a repub treated systems were stranded abroad indeed i've just been talking to the foreign minister about that plan and he said that indeed there are in fact tens of

thousands of germans ranging from latin america to northern africa south africa maldives who essentially have no means of getting home because flights haven't been cancelled because of travel bans in place so the government will be working together both with the german military and with lufthansa with private carriers to repatriate these people as well as their family members who are not german citizens if needed possibly even other e.u. citizens if there's enough room in the planes that this will become this will begin within the next couple of days and be ongoing given that it is a very large number of people in that anyone affected in case anyone out there is perhaps watching us from abroad anyone affected could contact either the foreign ministry or the local german government representatives at the embassy in order to

get more information about that let's talk about the situation here in germany with the health care infrastructure as a coping infrastructure itself is pretty good this country has more hospital beds more intensive care units more respirators than any other country in europe and also per capita more so it's well equipped on that front what it doesn't have and where there could be. definitely bottlenecks is adequate health care personnel now but people in retirement people who are on vacation are all being brought back to help get ready the country's taking other measures as well we're hearing the berlin's about to build a 1000 bed hospital at the trade fair grounds for hospitalizing people who have corona but that particular kind of infrastructure is not particularly useful unless you have the personnel who can help to take care of those people and that really is apparently going to be the crunch issue other than that the picture varies across

the country the state of north rhine-westphalia it's it's state premier called the situation there today in public remarks dynamic and dramatic the numbers are somewhere around 3000 infected 12 deaths so far but in the past 4 days the number of infected has doubled so we do have an ongoing situation here and what's important to remember about germany as as good as the health care services are and as much as they're trying to prepare this is an aging population like the one in italy and those are definitely the most at risk people yes so what is the feeling amongst the germans about the way the government is handling this crisis so far polls are showing quite a bit of support for the measures that are being recommended somewhere around 80 percent of germans are saying they either are completely in agreement or largely in agreement with what's being done so i think what we're seeing in general feel is

that it's taken quite a bit of time both for germany and for the e.u. as a whole to begin to really put measures in place and i think that is a product of the fact that these are open federalist stick governments whether at a you level or here in germany it's taking time to get different. parts of the government on board it's taking time to get citizens on board but they are on board now if you look at the polls we're seeing i want to ask you about just the issue of how much you think the chances hands are balanced by the fact that she can't impose her will as it were on the germany states fred federal systems are complicated and so we're seeing a mix of recommendations requirements we're seeing some states move faster and tougher than others but varia for example quickly declared an emergency situation

which has allowed it to take especially strong measures so there is to some degree a patchwork but i think we're seeing now much clearer messaging from the government and a much greater attempt to now come up with a coordinated response and that is absolutely crucial because of course this virus is here present in germany now we may as i said hear the chancellor talk about new restrictions at the e.u. borders but nearly everyone is in agreement including the chief of staff of the e.u. commission president that those kind of travel bans are by no means all that effective because the virus is now in the local community it is here in germany it is in every e.u. country and therefore trying to shut down borders may have some marginal effect on slowing slowing the curve but it's not going to make as much of

a difference as the other kinds of measures we've been talking and it's room of i'm going to work is remarkably consistent in her approach that will just about anything it's interesting that in this these extreme circumstances when she made her statement yesterday douglas when she speaks in the next few minutes she made reference and probably will make reference to her working closely with a. you and international partners for this is a chance of who everything is about weighing the options and then speaking to other people that's absolutely right and she proceeds for that reason sometimes more slowly than many people would like. but by the time she acts she does have the relevant actors on board as i said and you know she has been meeting in recent days with representatives of the employers' association with representatives of labor

groups with representatives of small or semi small and medium enterprises so there's really a push here to try to get that round table approach that germany and northern europe are so famous for and it can be criticized for being slow but once you've got people on board then theoretically implementation is more effective and politically does she have the oppositional boards or the v.a. if she has been known to to make mischief. at every opportunity where are they within this current situation i think we're seeing not only here in germany but in many different places that the far right remains quite skeptical and quite perhaps. vulnerable to fake information to fake news we've certainly seen that there's been challenges

within the right wing here but also elsewhere to the messaging that's coming out from governments but otherwise the mainstream opposition absolutely. not on board as far as the need to take serious measures. milind deora chief political correspondent thank you we will speak more of very shortly we're waiting to hear from the german chancellor angela merkel who is due to speak very shortly we're presuming it is corona virus related head a vast let me bring you up with some more of the day's news started with a fact but the country's disease control agency has raised its coronavirus risk. went to high germany's robert institute says stricter measures are necessary to contain the spread of the virus germany now has nearly 8000 confirmed cases of the country's not yet under general lockdown the pills for people to stay home and avoid unnecessary contact are having an effect is t

w political correspondents i mean. there's a curious calm in the normally pulsating heart of berlin on tuesday morning far fewer people than usual were out in about in the german capital foreign minister heiko must announce another unprecedented measure a travel warning for the entire planet he said no unnecessary trips should be made in addition the government will provide 50000000 euros so german citizens currently abroad can come home. ministry of foreign affairs has agreed on a unique program with commercial airlines which will bring back german travelers from particularly affected areas within the next few days. we are talking above all about iraq oh the dominican republic the philippines egypt and the mall deaves in coordination with us airlines will make flights available for the. flu.

on monday drastic steps were announced to beat the virus shutting many shops apart from essential businesses such as food stores and pharmacies. civic life is shutting down schools the editors and museums are being closed nationwide chancellor merkel i ask germans to stay at home but strict controls on movement as in france have not been imposed so far. the thing is known these measures are unprecedented in our country and they are severe but they are necessary. when limiting close contact will reduce the number of people falling ill which in turn will reduce the number of severe cases as even children's playgrounds are deserted many parents are having to stay at home to look after their families the government is offering them extra support that 1st year for endings in what

we're seeing is that many families are wondering about money issues they want to know how to deal with a drop in income this is a huge concern it's not a private matter it needs to be resolved and the state has to help. politicians continue to search for the right responses to this rapidly evolving crisis machall and the other e.u. leaders will come together to discuss it later on tuesday by video link schools a day care centers around the world have closed as all forces respond to the pandemic as more such measures are introduced many parents have been wondering how to explain what's going on to get children away during prime minister and are sold back even held a special coronavirus briefing just for kids why am i not allowed to celebrate my birthday. they are for the it's because many people should not be gathered in order to prevent people from being infected or you can look

a bit extra creative and try to celebrate your face time with them or think of another way to celebrate that you think is good. part of things yet i think that if someone in the class has a birthday all the others should call and sing a birthday song individually to have something to do. so how should we talk to our children about this pandemic dr rod came as a child a clinical psychologist from the u.k. university of southampton and she consulted on the parenting book what's my child thinking welcome to new dr many parents have an instinct in trying to shield their children not just from the virus but also from all the bad news about is that the right approach. it depends really i mean you don't want to shield them and pretend nothing is happening because children are very very clever and they figure out that things aren't quite the same as they usually are but you do want to overload it with too much information either because children think about things differently to adults and they worry about different things so whereas they may not

need to know that by a chemistry of how current virus is passed will pass internet what they do want to know is like you showed when i was going to have my best day and when i still have to go my school trips so we need to give them enough information that they understand a little bit about what is going on but they don't need to know as much as we do is adults right and the reality of the situation is often when schools are closed or when the kids are not at school that go to their grandparents to be looked after. how do we explain to children that that's not happening this time without sort of warning them that granny is going to die. yes and by explaining that this is an illness that seems to particularly. hit a lot of people and people at risk so you want to protect gran and grandad from getting ill and reassure them that going granddad to doing everything they can to stay safe and if you can stay in touch through skype or face time we can even write letters to them but that we might not see them for

a little while if your child asks well is does that mean grandad's going to die we need to be very honest with our children and not make promises that we can't keep so you don't want to say of course he won't because you know we just don't know so you need to say what we're doing everything we can to keep granddad safe and chances are he's going to be absolutely fine and we just need to know how much we still think about him even if we can't see him so it's a lot for children to taking and children tend to take their emotion from parents if you are very anxious as a parent chances are your child's going to also feel very anxious a go to try and stay very logical and rational as much as possible when you're with your children and don't let them watch too much news tonight than this into the news too much either just that they only get the information they need i think that's that's very clear thank you so much for that dr rod can. well take a look at how the spread of the viruses affecting other places around the world the

italian government says it will nationalize the country's air carrier alitalia and used a control company will take over the bankrupt airline it was struggling long before the current virus outbreak and take over is part of why the government stimulus package. german company bio and tech signed a deal with u.s. drug maker pfizer to develop a vaccine for the corona virus the companies will start working on the drug immediately it's not clear when and the vaccine they produce will be ready. amazon is looking for $100000.00 new employees in the united states the e-commerce giant is expecting a massive surge in all is too much of the current virus outbreak so people try to avoid shopping in brick and mortar stores. and u.s. treasury secretary steve nugent is to ask congress to approve an $8850000000000.00 emergency aid package to try and protect the economy it's been reported that these

measures include plans to provide relief to the u.s. airline industry which has suffered tens of billions of dollars in losses because of the pandemic if approved the stimulus so help small businesses stay afloat and cut taxes for millions of american workers. say dispenses parent company dima says it is suspending the majority of its european production in response to the coronavirus pandemic the shutdown affecting car van and commercial vehicle plans will be for an initial 2 week period it could be extended says it wants to interrupt infection change to contain the spread of the virus in its rocks. or the german car companies are also shutting down assembly lines the world's biggest daughter producer vaults father announced that it's suspending production factories in germany and elsewhere management has warned investors and employees to expect a bumpy road ahead. a banner year with record profits

and record levels of investment. but the coronavirus pandemic has put the brakes on what should have been a good day for. fungus a fierce. turnover and disruptions in our supply chains which we will soon be confronted by. we will be forced to close down many of our production facilities. in common. work has already grown to a halt attractor reason spain italy and slovakia. and assembly lines here in germany and throughout the rest of the european union will soon be shut down for at least 2 weeks. v.w. had expected to continue its winning streak in 2020. but with no sign of an end to the spread of coded 19 company brass now says it expects a quote very difficult year ahead. meanwhile france has

joined neighboring spain in ordering a complete lockdown to hold the spread of coronavirus as a present to man you describe the situation as a public health war virus has killed nearly 150 people in the country and infected more than 6600. as the clock struck noon in france the lock down took effect people must now carry a document justifying their reasons for going outdoors only essential trips and exercise alone are permitted those who break the rules will be fined the president has called the outbreak a war 100000 police officers have been deployed across the country officials stress that every day life must be up ended to contain the virus. well we do need his example concrete to give you some examples

a family lunch dinner with friends a football game with friends a game of cards all of that which might not seem important normally is now for didn't not only ill advised but forbidden each of those meetings let's not play it down is a moment when the virus can be transmitted it means running the risk of speeding the spread of 19. in the capital paris an unusual quiet has taken hold reactions to the lock down are mixed but i think it's a bit too strict. it should be able to walk on the streets if you want people to be through truth what they want. because it is i think it's necessary it's an epidemic that spreading exponentially so is the contamination there are many asymptomatic carriers i could be one of them. the health ministry says the restrictions could be eased in a fortnight if the virus is sufficiently contained. well d.w.

is lisa lewis is in paris where the full lockdown is just coming into effect she told us how the city's react. here in france many people weren't taking the coronavirus seriously when i went grocery shopping and walked around people to keep the minimum distance of one meter people were laughing at me one lady even told her partner look now they're panicking although i was obviously not far away and could very clearly hear what she was saying many friends just continue to live as usual and that's why president obama carr has now put the country under lockdown and his speech on monday night he appealed to the sense of responsibility of his people the french didn't want to stay at home by their own accord so now we will all be forced to at least for a few weeks. it's a list that on an empty parisians street now we're on the chinese city where the corona virus was 1st detected reported just one locally transmitted case on tuesday

however another 20 new cases were reported in the rest of china but authours his savings could all be traced to people returning from abroad the 1st group of medical workers deployed to rouhani at the height of the epidemic is now leaving i've been supporting temporary hospital staff a more than a month or than $42000.00 health care workers from across the country and they dispatched to the region since the outbreak began and in part it comes as chinese authorities begin to claim victory over coronavirus. china has fought to coronavirus with unified strength and the crisis will soon be over at least that's according to the daily stream of news from china's state television the drastic measures undertaken by the chinese government at the beginning of the crisis half lit to a drop in new infections and thousands of patients have recovered many chinese factories have started up production again at the moment we are at 70 percent of our capacity but that figure will increase day by day. the world health

organization has commended china's response praised china again and again because it's actually helped in reducing the spread of. this to other countries the construction of an emergency hospital in just 10 days impress the world the hospital was closed on the 8th of march with all patients fully recovered a fact that was proudly announced on chinese state television. what state media doesn't report is the chinese president xi jinping already knew about the virus outbreak by january the 7th the public was only informed 2 weeks later chinese dr lee when young had already discovered the virus and warned of the dangers posed by it in december last year he received a warning from police and was forced to write an official apology he later became infected and died in early february.

other attempts by journalists and doctors to draw attention to the gravity of the situation were brutally repressed the whereabouts of several whistleblowers is still unknown. china has had success in battling the epidemic but with nearly 9000 people still infected the battle is far from over. we get more on this from. praising the chinese response. for example. takes. well the challenges that china faced successfully are challenges that every country on the planet has eventually i think going to have to face but the chinese model is not going to work equally well everywhere and i think the goals aren't the same either i mean the draconian measures that china instigated have allowed to take in the fireworks but at least for the time being but the experts

here in europe start talking about containment actually a couple of weeks ago at this point it's all about mitigation now the lockdowns we're seeing in countries like italy and spain and france there are attempts at mitigation they're just trying to slow down the spread of the virus enough to keep the health system from kind of being completely overwhelmed and it sounds like actually like italy in particular is is right on the edge of that interestingly as we just heard in a replication of a measure that helped china fight it down make officials here in berlin announce the construction of this new hospital today with a 1004 corona favorite virus patients ok just in some other coronavirus related news the world health organization is warning us against taking ibuprofen if we think we have a corona virus why. well this is actually kind of an interesting story i mean like many of the people in the german speaking world i received this this is what's out message over the weekend made exactly this claim from

a young woman who said the university clinic in vienna had discovered this fact because there were no art studies backing it up that was it was kind of being hushed up the university clinic quickly call that fake news but then a few hours later the french health minister basically issued a warning making the same claim now the w.h.o. is also saying that there might be something to it so there's still no firm scientific evidence that i will prove and does really indeed make a virus infection worse but the w.h.o. has decided to treat the matter with caution and it's recommending that people with copd 19 take paracetamol instead if you're in the united states that's what they call the seat of medicine where our way on the development of a vaccine. well yesterday there was an announcement of a 1st attempt at human human testing in seattle which is a hot spot in the u.s.

and to explain a little bit more about that i should probably quickly run through how about scenes work in general generally but it seems the way that they work is they stimulate an immune response in the body by giving me a new system to recognize these very highly specific proteins that are displayed on a target how to jen's our surface so a classic vaccine is generally made up. i was a science correspondent when i was speaking to us a little bit we're going now live to the german chancellor merkel who is a holding a press conference about coronavirus and her bank it was the 2nd video conference of the european council then in just one week we made the decision not to meet physically in brussels next week but rather to have another video conference next time i think that in view of the general situation this is the best approach to human we discussed a number of different issues in some depth today the 1st was that all of us

have agreed with the proposal of the commission. or possibly to. prevent those who are traveling to europe from countries that do not belong to the european union nor to the left region nor to the u.k. . that we will never strict entry essentially a ban on entry into the e.u. with a very few exceptions this will be put in place by the e.u. for 30 days and germany will be implementing implementing this immediately it is the job of the german ministry of the interior and of foreign affairs to put this into place. so in terms of the travel warning that we issued today that. the minister hike a mass an ounce today there will also be these entry restrictions in place as well

and we support this and i'm very pleased about the commission's proposal here there are a few countries who will have a few exceptions for example and door but otherwise all of the member states have agreed. to put this into place immediately very quickly at least and secondly the we very much welcome the guidelines of the commission put in place around border management within the european union i for myself emphasized very strongly that in order to preserve the capacity of the single market to function has to be possible for the free flow of goods and. move around the european union at the moment there are a few difficulties but all of the member states have agreed to this and have said they will do all they can to ensure that the waiting times at the borders be kept

to a minimum and to put the technical equipment in place for example to have special motorway lanes for the transport of goods and that was very important as well that we have to discuss this issue and. we are also insisting that it must be possible for the free movement of commuters. to continue to be possible. suspects example on the border of germany and luxembourg of germany germany and france these commuters crossing the borders unable to make get to work it's becoming a little bit more difficult if you're talking about workers who come to germany just work for a short period of time and are coming say from or have to travel through hungary. remaining at such a so we're still working on not and thirdly the agreement of the euro

group where something that we very much welcome to yesterday and made it clear and i think everyone involved agreed with this that we. have to assume they'll be very serious consequences for our economy which is why the free flow of goods is all the more important because our european single market is based on the division of labor is fractured across a european union if i look at the supply chains of our automotive industry and it's not just about the production capacity here in germany but also suppliers delivering parts from other member states and if we want to send out a clear signal that we want you to come back to the a and mitigate the impact on the economy that this will have and then it is crucial that goods can flow freely within the union we have also committed to a coordination when it comes to bringing back. what we are terming stranded

quote unquote citizens from the e.u. who are currently outside of the european union and we have talked about supplying medical goods and equipment to combat the crisis and the commission in response to the wish of many member states has looked at how to coordinate. with the dispensing of magical goods and equipment and i'm very pleased that there will be export restrictions for supplies of medical goods and equipment for countries outside of the e.u. at this point. and germany will be working closely with the other member states who want to approve or already have approved export restrictions here and we will stop this immediately as soon as the other member states stop the.