i am. the ad. this is the w. news live from berlin italy reports the highest single day death toll of any country since the coronavirus outbreak a grim picture emerges from a bare gammel where hospital mortuaries are overwhelmed and the army is called in to carry away the dead. also coming up of britain doubles the number of troops on standby in the face of a growing covert 19 challenge but as prime minister boris johnson and now says all schools across the country will close critics say his response has come to light.

the situation is serious he will take it seriously since german if occasionally no since the 2nd world war there has been no challenge to our nation that has demanded such a degree of common and united action in a televised address to the nation german chancellor angela merkel makes an unprecedented call for solidarity in the fight against coronavirus. and the european central bank announces a 750000000000 euro bond buying program to stave off the pandemics economic fallout chief legard says there are no limits to open it bench to the euro. i'm monica jones it's good to have you with us. italy has reported to the highest one day death toll from coronavirus than any other country official said nearly 500

people died on wednesday videos posted on social media are said to show military trucks in the city of baghdad more preparing to transport the dead to nearby cities mortuaries and crematoriums in bury them all have run out of space medical teams from china have a arrive to help authorities fight the virus. the governor of italy's hardest hit region made this appeal to medical students and retired health care workers to the media as you can. i want to appeal to all of these doctors and nurses. make yourself available and lend us a hand in these trying times. in my opinion through the corporation and availability of these professional health workers we can find important answers to the challenges we face is posed to you if you put band.

let's bring in journalist sima gupta who's standing by for us in rome sima dramatic scenes there in northern italy the governor calling for help does he get the support he needs. well that's what the governor if off along but he's actually saying i mean he's made it very clear look morning that at this stage we base reach a situation soon where they won't be able to treat the sick at all and it's he's calling on the residents in law but also all around the country to essentially stay at home and that's the message of the prime minister as well gave an interview to a local daily here essentially saying that the country and the bishops that they good to take they expect them to get even stricter a complete law is what they're suggesting the sports minister has already said that he's looking towards the idea of stopping all outdoor activity that needs no more

and he wants all or joking in the pot simply because they need to stay at home in order to limit the spread of obit 19 this fall so we're cool closure will be extended beyond april 3rd and that's because also we've seen 43000 by the nations off the lockdown measure in the space of one week and the authorities and officials i'm chlorine people to listen to the rules stay at old practice social distancing only leave when it's absolutely necessary they're very concerned as we as you said we've seen these dramatic and the men's numbers of the dead just 475 did with coke at 19 in the space of 24 hours and it's because of that i think that the authorities believe that the next week or so is very crucial the peak infection rate still has not been reached here in his sleep now as you say

a main people there also where you are further south faced with those incredibly dramatic images from northern italy will that help to convince people to actually and here to what the authorities tell them to do or not to do. well that's what did george he's a hoping for that's what the doctors i'm plowing we see a frontline medical professionals going on social media imploring everyone showing them we go to work to save lives you do your part stay at home that seems to be the message that you're sending out here in boston for the most part you do see people at hearing this it's frustrating for people to be stuck at home we're now into day 9 of the lockdown families at home with their children having to deal with work on the one hand as well as dealing with their children school work trying to juggle all of that and manage it's not easy but if everyone does their part as everyone keeps saying they were all in the same boat and so if one does they are caught this

will help limit the spread not just up north but also for the rest of the country that is also preparing for a rise in infections you know you talk about the doctors the battery has been brought in to help with that but old sort of the fast track the graduation of medical students right sima gupta there reporting for us from rome thank you so much. britain has also stepped up its response to the coronavirus the prime minister announced that up 220000 military personnel will be put on standby the united kingdom is bracing for the stringent measures that will come into effect on friday in addition to schools dozens of underground stations will be closed other public transport services will also be reduced the government has advised people not to go to cops and restaurants though an official ban is not in effect. let's cross over now to london where the

correspondent to get mass is covering developments for us big london of course is a big huge city and it's now facing streaks containment measures which the military could help to enforce how london is coping. well there is a sense of doom i would say across london because i think a lot of people are expecting this to get even tighter and maybe into a complete lockdown at least this is the speculation in the media and on social media so we might really see londoners being confined to their homes and what you see at the moment is that people are trying to go and shop as much as they can so if you go into a supermarket in the afternoon the shelves a really really empty because people are expecting that there will be shooting each is in the future of course the authorities are saying it's because the demand is so much it's not that there is no supply of essential items like toilet paper or even food it's because people are buying too much and they should stop it but at the

moment it doesn't seem that people are hearing to this advice because people are frankly very nervous of what's to come all right while people not following advice we've seen that across europe now and as of tomorrow schools all over the country will be closed to prime minister boris johnson take this step too late perhaps as his critics claim. yes there has been a lot of criticism towards the government there was for example the editor in chief of the lancet a leading medical paper and he has just 4 weeks almost to look at what's happening in other countries look at what's happening in italy and just act and be tough now the school closures come fairly late only in effect as of tomorrow even though some schools have already closed now voluntarily but officially as of tomorrow the schools will be closed the children of public health workers health workers and of

other people who are necessary for the infrastructure for example food delivery they will be able to go into some schools so there will be some sort of provision but it's coming fairly late and lots of people hundreds of scientists in fact have the government over the weekend to be strict and yes now finally it is happening you're right back at mass the reporting in london thank you. here in germany chancellor angela merkel has addressed the nation in an unprecedented televised speech saying the country faces its biggest challenge since the 2nd world war this as the country's top disease control official warns that germany could be dealing with 10000000 coronavirus infections in the coming months if its citizens don't adhere to measures outlined by the government. ballons most famous locations should be bustling with tourists at this time of year but due to cover dial $900.00 there currently surrounded by empty streets it's also highly unusual

for a german chancellor to make a televised address but angela merkel said these are extraordinary times and she urged all citizens of germany to seriously consider that own obligations to society the situation is serious and take it seriously since german unification no since the 2nd world war has been no challenge to our nation that has demanded such a degree of common and united action. 100 and called the women's figure she said germany was in a good position but warned that it could not be complacent god slunk out that. germany has an excellent health system perhaps one of the best in the world we can take some confidence from that but a hospital stay would be completely overstretched if too many patients with a severe corona infection were to be admitted in a short space of time. because people in berlin have been waiting in long

queues to be tested for the covered 19 virus and there have been reports from other states of people having to wait in lines for long periods before they were finally tested across the country germans are having their nerves tested new border regulations on the polish border are causing massive traffic jams as far as the eye can see. in many places authorities have begun extending police patrols to enforce new regulations on which shops are allowed to remain open cultural establishments schools and nurseries are supposed to be closed along with most normal grocery shops. and. our officers are on patrol all around the clock with 2 groups of $100.00 each in addition we have undercover police officers and their only mission is to enforce the regulations. so far the german government has

resisted placing a nationwide curfew such as in spain france and italy but that could soon change. countries including germany are stepping up preparations to avoid the kinds of scenes that have been playing out in the hospitals of northern italy has been looking at the measures being taken in berlin to ensure a large number of patients can be treated if and when the situation arises a new hospital is being arrested at an exhibition center in berlin one of germany's latest measures to tackle a pandemic it's supposed to be able to treat a frozen people set up with the help of the german army. i see it in case we have shortages we want to be able to avoid having serious bottlenecks by having something up our sleeves a clinic which still has capacity this is just a precautionary measure. the infection rate in berlin is growing maybe this extra capacity might not even be enough here at the robert cock institute an ever

increasing number of positive cases are being tallied up just how long can the virus be kept under control the answer a sobering. a dream from yaba views upon belief we're talking about years that this pandemic might take to go once around the world view. traveling waves we know that but how quick these waves are a when these waves that we're speaking about come from west 60 to 70 percent of the people around the world become infected that will take years in my view i'd say 2 years of. a crisis is coming our way but we've been forewarned that makes it easier says the head of the heart of her clinic in berlin. says they're well prepared they have recently received 10 extra respirators and the hospital could increase its capacity 3 fold if things got really bad for the more he's also ready his staff to harden we've also retrained new statistics and doctors from other specialties who haven't done intensive care duties for

a long time now so that we managed to get a further 20 to 30 percent extra back up in personnel and we could also get more from outpatient care on the border most of. the daily numbers say that up till now there hasn't been a single person with the coronavirus ending up in intensive care however it's obvious that things won't stay that way statistics just didn't show what individual hospitals across the country can handle and where beds are available that probably couldn't have come at a better time. in fact the head of the german hospital federation says there's reason for both caution and reassurance. this is our findings show that about 15 percent of patients become so sick that they have to be treated in hospital 4 percent of patients in fact and then have to be treated in intensive care and put on ventilators. but we mustn't furthermore the government has planned that in extreme situations even hotels and rehab centers could be transformed into

treatment areas if there's a bed shortage. in other news journal he has for the 1st time banned a group linked to the far right rights movement the movement whose name translates as citizens. the rice rejects the gentle missy of the modern german state the government says its groups promote right wing extremism and anti semitism police conducted raids across 10 states in connection with the ban early on wednesday authorities believe there are around 19000 rice by the members in germany. and for more i'm joined by political correspondent hans blonde hans tell us exactly what happened today well what happened is that the 2 particular groups within this price burger the citizens of the right movement if you want to call it that way were banned this morning and the properties the sites where these organizations are

based were raided by police this morning what will happen now is that their property will be seized by the state. bank or columns will be closed promoting their views and showing their symbols using their symbols is not going to be a criminal offense what we don't know now is whether anybody was a rest of this morning and whether there will be charges against any of the members of these groups but they have now been banned and who are these so-called rights what do they stand for. well they basically maintain that the german state that is still the legitimate illegitimate state is the german reich the german state that was founded off to the 1st world war after the end of the monarchy in germany and that the modern german state the federal republic of germany is not a legitimate successor to that original german state so that they reject the legitimacy mysie of the modern german state and in fact some of them found their

kind of areas of independence as they called it they issue their own possible so and so on all of that is more or less one could call it crazy but apart from that they are very aggressive they take take up arms they have been shootouts with the police occasionally a few years ago one of these rice burger people killed a policeman so they are very aggressive and they are on the right wing of the spectrum of the political spectrum and highly anticipated and their statements in that sense they are regarded as a danger for the state and i did the 1st time now that the rights of the group is being banned how significant is that yes it's the 1st time such a group is being banned but they have been under observation by the german internal security services for a long time and it's not the 1st extremist right wing group that has been banned just very recently another similar group was banned by the police and there have

been additional measures taken against right wing as in germany ever since most recently there have been some murderous attacks by rightwing people on a synagogue we once said and the killings and. more than where about 10 people were killed by a right winger so the german authorities are now taking this threat particularly serious. but on top political correspondent thank you so much. and now back to our top story and what could be a major turning point in the drive to contain the current role of iris on wednesday china the epicenter of the original outbreak reported no new local cases of the infection for the 1st time since it began recording them in january however there were $34.00 new infections imported from abroad which threatens the progress china has made beijing imposed restrictions on travel and movement in an attempt to prevent the virus from spreading the total number of confirmed corona virus

infections in mainland china stands at almost $81000.00. now taiwan has managed to keep its infection rate follower the neighboring countries despite its proximity to china where the corona virus originated weeks ago the island was expected to become the 2nd west hid region off to china but that didn't happen so what did i do to change the narrative and how is it coping with the ongoing pandemic w.'s phoebe kong sent us the latest from taiwan surgical masks and go girls have become part of dr who's uniform since the coronavirus outbreak began he was among the 1st group of doctors in taiwan to treat suspected patients that was back in january when the virus 1st spread from china across the strait. islands taiwan is experienced in understanding china so we know what is reliable and when we should be skeptical. and because

taiwan has long been isolated from the international community we must take more steps ahead of the crisis and use our own judgment. of both the c.b.c. so this is how. this is where he ended up sleeping in a dormitory next to the hospital set aside for medical staff like him for time on vigilance as the treatment for a disease with no cure. it was hard to identify misinformation out 1st i was scared of spreading the virus to my family. i think this has to be a collective effort if each of us takes very strict a cautions ourselves it eases the burden on the health care system. other than medics and military students and teachers at high school level and below and now banned from overseas travel. foreigners are denied entry but containing the virus is not only about border control communities have found themselves on the frontline

. district officer of the local government to carry quant monitors individuals and a 14 day home quarantine. one of his duties is to take care of the daily needs such as delivering fresh food. there and how do i thought that that will help to make it easier for quarantine people to stay at home to reduce the risk of contagion if anyone least the apartment will be alerted by text message and call the police he or she may be fined 3. quarantine in time 1 may feel service based but it's also stringent. individuals are under surveillance. telecom providers are cooperating to enable the government to track people via their mobile phones. health officials believe technology helps contain concern and prevent panic. one example is the face mask rationing system where

people can place that order and check availability online. because it is a whole new technology helps us to systemize containment policies in a transparent way it helps the public build up a sense of trust in the government because they're well informed about the situation you haven't seen my. taiwan's next step is to broaden its testing regimen. you know why the girls anyone with overseas travel history fever or respiratory symptoms is eligible for testing. according to research the spread of the virus can be largely contained if 60 percent of infection chains are broken so we're trying our best to achieve that you know tens or you don't have time which will show you. the island's remains concerned about a potential massive outbreak while waiting for a vaccine community and government that containment is the only way anyone knows

how to fight the virus. let's have a look at some of the other corona related developments around the world. new zealand and australia are closing their borders to nonresidents and non-citizens to protect their nations from the virus japan's deputy prime minister says holding the summer olympics would make no sense if countries can send athletes but the government says it is still working to hold the games as scheduled france has reported another spike in coronavirus deaths its death toll jumped by 89 to 264 people on wednesday and russia has confirmed its 1st deaths the patient was a 79 year old woman who died in moscow from unum pneumonia the european central bank has announced a 750000000000 euro bond buying program to help stabilize markets reeling from the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak is just one of many stimulus plans announced by policymakers across the developed world however investors are still on easy and

stocks keep tumbling. the carnage has returned to the asian markets the region's main indexes are all trading in the red stocks have continued to extend their early losses this week after a moderate reprieve for the markets wednesday investors in asia appear to be taking cues from wall street. the dow industrials index plans to more than 6 percent the market decline continues even as lawmakers take further action to support individuals and businesses on wednesday u.s. lawmakers approved $100000000000.00 package for free testing sick pay and paid family leave. this is not from rush following. nobody and it is not for small businesses. so while i will support the house bill in order to secure some emergency relief for salt american workers i want out of

here on the senate until we have passed a far bolder package that must include significant relief for small businesses all across our country and across the pond european policymakers also announced further stimulus measures after an emergency meeting wednesday evening b.c.b. says it's setting aside 750000000000 euros for bond buying to help ease the effects of a coffin 1000 pandemic still markets fully investors are not convinced by the efforts of lawmakers. keeps an eye on the frankfurt stock exchange chelsea so far no aid package has managed to lift the markets is the e.c.b. stimulus going to make a difference. well this is obviously extremely necessary to keep money flowing to governments and to businesses within the e.u. we did just see that tax open in a very volatile trade spike a bit higher but i think investors are asking the question can any package from

a central bank from the government really do that much to offset the impact of this enormous economic shock we're facing the e c b has estimated that growth in the e.u. could contract by 5 percent this year j.p. morgan has estimated that u.s. growth could fall 15 percent in the 2nd quarter so against that these packages can question the flow but it can only really offset a little bit of the of the damage that we're seeing and i think investors are really trying to settle in for a longer period of volatility one trader has called this sort of like the panic buying we're seeing in grocery stores where investors are just selling everything and trying to hoard up on cash. from food think it's a much. the c.e.o. of lufthansa has warned that the coronavirus is jeopardizing the future of aviation costs governments may need to save the entire industry from the fallout of the pandemic he added that europe's largest airline is

a good financial shape for now international industry group is to made up to $200000000000.00 a needed to help cushion the blow off the outbreak. it was news from berlin up next on conflict jim sebastian interviews nigeria's information minister and i'll be back at the top of the hour. the food.

to feed the conflict so far from a sister respect to move the ball nigeria's government stands accused by the international community of serious human rights abuses i guess this week here in london is live mohamad the country's information minister how does he defend against the country's many critics let me have a dose of wrongdoing some compelling conflicts of.

mystery in a murder displaced. nearly a 1000000 really have fled their homes in myanmar and most are now trapped in neighboring bangladesh suck up i'm going to miss this clan suspension it claims england and if so who was responsible for such a documentary looking for answers. in 45 minutes long to believe. that people will hold on for w. on facebook and twitter up to. date and in touch follow us and.

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