a bit of shopping as it were you could only go out to do essential things and the idea was that one would of service for about a week and the german center for disease control the robot cough in situ it was is getting today data from phone companies which should be given indication to the extent of the extent to which people in germany are no longer moving their own so they were trying to see whether this would be effective enough and then decide on sunday whether to take the next the last possible step in the sens what happened today in fact was that there was a whole range of new measures announced by various federal states ranging from the lock up locked on in bavaria to other states to save that much smaller groups of people only allowed to be outside groups of 3 or 5 people so there were further restrictions imposed almost across germany today so it's very likely that on sunday these will be tightened for the huns in the united states the governors of

california and new york they've declared lockdowns in their states and this is being seen as a reaction in part to in action by the u.s. president and the federal government is the situation in bavaria is it similar. i think it's similar in one sense in the sense that there's a feeling of urgency a probably in california. and there's also a feeling of urgency in bavaria but it's not similar in the sense that there's no support for what the central government is doing until america is really being supported by all the federal states in her policies they are continuous consultations and there's none of this acrimony that you have between the white house in the united states and various governments of federal states so in general i think one of us said german government here both regional and central is on the same page on this but very i especially feels under particular pressure because

it's close to get to leave which we know is the focus of the global pandemic at the moment it's also close to all stray and and all stransky results that have been several hotspots of infection so people in a very a particularly scared of that infection coming across their borders into their state so that sense of urgency i think is what is shared between the bavarian government and probably the credit for indian government but i think one has to say in general that angle americal. as a chance for the is being supported across germany and that the policies that she's following are being are being consulted with are being. agreed with with pretty much everyone in the federal states and germany ok do we want on the story for us tonight here in berlin and thank you. we are in

a week the likes of which no one has witnessed to quote the german chancellor since the 2nd world war 2 crises one spawning the other the coronavirus pandemic and the global economic near collapse without a vaccine or cure the only weapon we have is social distancing which means a complete shutdown of public life and business self-inflicted mass unemployment millions could lose their jobs in order to protect and save millions of lives and this is a look at the week we'd like to forget a week we'll have no choice but to remember. but we begin the day with the dead in italy 3405 people that have died with 19 infection in them are working round the clock countless are were by these incredible situation today germany closed its borders with 5 of its neighbors in temporary chris trick shot on nonessential travel to the european union if the public refuses to heed the

warnings now it will only be a matter of time until hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed to get this message out to other countries that they have to be prepared. at midnight tonight a ban on flights from europe to the u.s. under strict entry on essentially a ban on entry this pandemic could easily morph into a global recession that could be worse than the great depression of the 1930 s. absolute rose and from madrid to new york to berlin stores shops bars and restaurants were closed the day italy overtook china the edges shocking and incredibly hot treated as the country with the most deaths from the corona virus quarantine to patients dying alone the front line between humans and a virus we do not know alone the spawning year will last. well this

week italy surpassed china in the number of corona related deaths the scene there is grim but asia and the united states also remain part of this epic story earlier this year south korea and the u.s. both reported their 1st cases of the virus on the same day the government in seoul immediately took steps to blanket the country with tests for the virus that is why today south korea like china appears to have the worst behind it it is a dramatically different picture in the united states for weeks and weeks president trump refused to acknowledge the severity of the outbreak last week he suddenly changed his tune and now calls himself a wartime president wartime they look at the calendar in this video courtesy of the recount confirms that the commander in chief did not prepare the country for any battles. we have it totally under control it's one person coming in from china we

think we have a very well under control we pretty much shut it down coming in from china you know in april supposedly it dies without a weather but it gets warm historically that has been able to kill the virus and people are getting better they're all getting better and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to 0 it's going to disappear one day it's like a miracle it will disappear and you'll be fine they could have vaccines i think relatively soon not only the vaccines but the therapies therapies are sort of another word for cure you're talking about very small numbers in the united states numbers are lower than just about anybody really working out and a lot of good things are going to happen and we're responding with great speed and professionalism is going to go away yet no i don't take responsibility they're all going to all be great wouldn't be so good this came out it we came up so suddenly this is a pandemic i felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic all you had to do is look at other countries the coronavirus you know.

this is the new house we have 15 people in this massive country and because of the fact that we want her early we want her only we could add a lot more than that we're doing great our country is doing so great. video courtesy of the recounts that video was released 3 days ago what a difference 3 days make the c.d.c. says that the current total in the united states is now more than $15000.00. the u.s. president and the coronavirus for more on that topic i'm joined tonight by robin givens the washington post fashion critic robin just wrote about the president and his press briefings and their lack of social distance robin it's good to have you on the program you write in your article when the world has been told to maintain 6 feet of personal space the sight of these v.i.p.'s snuggled up next to one another

is jarring for a president skilled in stagecraft it speaks volumes about his message what does it tell us well i think it tells us 2 things one is is this sense in this is there any. refusal to essentially a model the kind of behavior that math class kurds have sat. and i think the other part of it that he wants to have this team of people around him said that he looks i think more powerful. and can also gives him. tonight during the highs there is this team surrounding him and there is this and that sitting that well he might be in us our own person and he's not really fully responsible people who surround them are

responsible. you know rather we have to tell our viewers that the briefing room there where we see these daily press conferences is actually rather small i mean you've got all of the press corps crowded in there and then you're bringing all of these people in with the president then and then also since a message doesn't it i mean the white house knows that conditions are cramped from the beginning. yeah i bet a lot of things have changed too because of the circumstances in the press room for instance the white house correspondents association howell's greatly decrease the number of tracks that are in the room for the greeting so that each person to see that and they're seated in all terrain chairs so there were they have a distance from each other and the press certainly you know have a distance from the people who are through the team and that they are questioning and i think is also striking is that there are ways around this you know they all

do not have to be standing there together at this last briefing for instance can truck was a real her but she was not standing with the group she was standing auction side actually alone and you know i think it's also somewhat disconcerting for people because it's not just the president and the team that is you percent those working on this pandemic but it's also the mice president and eric to this is saying that you know it's sort of circumstances and there's no way around it you know this is ridiculous there's obviously no way around how they're all in math room you know there's video conferencing for instance complete and you also say in your article that you make this comparison between these daily press briefings and the announcement that we saw today from the governor of new york talk

a little bit about the difference there. well it's particularly a jarring because when i was writing this to new york leaving took place just for the way ghastly differences. is. he does have colleagues read him but they are see that quite apart from being each per cent essentially has their arms based they're not sharing and putting their hands on the same laughter they're not speaking into the same microphone and it's also striking because when television camera frames the governor are because everyone is so far apart he's the only one in that frame and asking he actually sat you know if anyone has a problem with what how this is being handled i'm the responsible person i'm the one who should be etc and so the visuals actually underscore

what he's saying whereas apple white house conditionals very much contradict what the president is saying it's fascinating how the rooms and space held they can influence the message especially for the most powerful person in the world well be given the washington post fashion critic rob we appreciate your time tonight in your insights thank you thank you. the day is almost done the conversation continues online you can follow us on twitter you can follow me at birth golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you again on monday everybody stay safe and stay healthy.

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societies our topic today corona how should we handle this crisis. a. hello and welcome to this week's show is a bit different from usual our guests are exclusively colleagues from data l.b.o. . because here too we're working under extraordinary new conditions trying to counteract the spread of the corona virus as far as possible and that's why you also see us sitting much further apart than we are accustomed to it is my great pleasure to introduce our guests beginning with thomas barrow he is a political correspondent here at g.w. and he says we need bold political decisions but this is also a crucial time for personal solidarity i'm also very glad to welcome kate ferguson she's a colleague from d.w.

business and she says leaders from the world of business and politics need to be guided by the principle of cooperation and not competition and very glad to have with us as well barbara more she reports for sport and she says it's not just about professional sports with the closure of the many small sports clubs and important social support in everyday life also breaks are great for many people. so let me begin by asking all of you how you personally are coping what the biggest challenges are that you're facing and perhaps also what you're already missing thomas i think something that i'm particularly missing other south american journalists and also american citizen is probably hugs we very much used to shaking hands to hugging people i mean it was really been a challenge for me to try and keep this distance from other people and be conscious that this is very important that these times on a very personal level i would say that is something that i have i'm particularly

missing. obviously trying to stay at home as much as i can to try and be much more aware of what's at stake as i said i think this is high time for solidarity and i'm trying to also make sure that that's the case in my personal life also what work wherever i am it's not only about being selfish and hoarding things it's about really thinking about the other people as well barbara i have 2 kids at home and 11 years old and since monday we're. doing homeschooling with them so that's of course a very new sensation to as. i think it's working ok so far but i'm also living in a community with elderly people with actually one child that has them. so i'm also very aware of me being responsible for not infecting anybody else could you just tell me how you explain this to a child. luckily my kids are old enough to reflect a bit on the situation and then of course it does help to say look this neighbor

she is older and we really have to take care of her we have to protect ourselves in order to protect her and that makes it much easier if you have a concrete example extreme to explain it's. like tomas' i have an awful impulse to hug but i've only realised what i've been denied the opportunity but finding that i personally have been really struggling with my own risk assessment so over the past few weeks as this crisis has been growing and we've seen the disaster unfold in other countries i've been questioning all of my own decisions should i have met that person for coffee a few weeks ago should i be taking public transport should be leaving the hospital and it's something that i continuously struggling with because you're guided on one level by what leaders are telling you to do but then you have your individual responsibility as well so i had 2 trips that i canceled this month but it really took quite a lot of thinking for me to come to that decision thomas i know that you just returned from latin america what was the situation there and how were people there reacting there a few occasions in south america than the number we see here in europe especially

in some of the european countries that are very badly affected by all this or in south america the situation is only just starting but it has meant that political leaders are taking decisions very early so in particular in colombia where i was borders have been already closed people have been told to stay at home which is very difficult for colombians to actually stay at home and particularly those who actually need to go out to work probably haven't got that safety net that you have in other parts of the world. so it is a very difficult situation to go to supermarkets and they are also emptying out as and i've been seeing from my own family when they go and buy things that's very difficult for them to get what they want so south america is a bit behind compared to europe and there is a lot of concern that maybe south america will see in a few weeks what europe is seeing right now and that's why you also see political decisions you can be critical of them you can support them but there are political decisions trying to minimize the impact of a grown up it's said that europe and the us didn't use the time after china started

to wrestle with corroded that they did not use their window of opportunity do you think latin america is doing so and that is the absolute key element there when you look at what's being debated in latin america it's exactly that saying we need to be able to act now so not when we have hundreds of cases but we have only a few cases if you see for example the case of outside of ours they close the borders when they had 0 cases because had we're not giving this a chance we're not going to wait until we have 100 to start making decisions nobody here for many people in latin america and also in colombia particular is it has to be done before the situation gets very bad constantly wait for a long time. even after concerts and trade fairs had long since been cancelled major soccer games for in the bundesliga and also in the champions league were still being played in front of tens of thousands of fans that is now over what does that mean for football fans in germany including yourself yeah i think this was

actually a crucial point where many people finally understood that something serious is happening because never before which is like bigger leaks all over the word suddenly shut down and even now the euro's being postponed this is obviously a big thing so i think this is more like. an alarm for everybody saying no it's not really didn't really have the situation we have to act but of course the difficult for the fans not only that's. teams aren't playing that the league's not playing but also for those being active themselves because also the smaller clubs don't and so you can't go to your fencing talk to your gym class whatever but you have to be creative and stay at home is one thing that i have to add there because i am also a sports fan and what i realize when all these events started to get cancelled is that this is above all a challenge that is not only for politicians not only for world leaders it is something that it's absolutely up to us as well to make sure that this doesn't

spread any further and when you see that clearly with sports when you have all these events being canceled when you're being told you really have to make your own you have to participate in a way that you reduce the impact of this virus doesn't mean i think that if so when you when you have events cancel comes as the it does but also in particular sports which is something very important for many people around the world when it comes to wake up calls we're certainly getting one from the stock markets as well they are absolutely setting records as they plummet what do you think is in store for us and what's your personal feeling as you watch these curves just fall and fall and fall well i think if there is one tiny good thing to come of this crisis it's the myth of our own invulnerability has been completely exposed both on an individual and on a global level and when it comes the stock market we haven't seen as much volatility since the great depression but i also think it's important to separate what's happening on the stock market with the experience of everyday people is stocks always go up and they're likely to continue to be volatile for as long as we

have this crisis because this is a public health issue so it's completely unpredictable but i think it's very important for governments to act quickly and decisively to shore up people's people's lives and make sure their jobs are secure and germany so far has actually done quite a good job of us by implementing from policies so that if a company wants to let somebody go because of the coronavirus instead of actually firing them they will keep them on the books. but continued to give them some pay and i want to come back to that a little bit later on in the show but 1st of all i'd like to take a look at how some people living under lockdown which we don't have yet here in germany but we may eventually how some are proving especially creative and dispelling fear and loneliness. citing isolation by making music together through the days of quarantine they give each other courage as here in rome. was an

italian courts had gives a free open air concert not to a live audience but rather live on facebook. and the berlin philharmonic played dario and bar talk to an empty house music lovers were able to live stream the concert into their living rooms. how much do we really need to be together. thomas we saw in that in the 1st sequence from italy people out there on their balconies and not only they're about playing a big role in italy in spain people are apparently doing cygnus on their balconies

with a trainer on a rooftop instructing them do you think things like that that we saw things like what we saw in the report are just temporary distractions or do they actually help to build that sense of solidarity that you were talking about i absolutely think that they helped to build that sense of solidarity i think you know in times of crisis around the world you can have the worst out of people but you can also get of the best out of people and these examples that we're just seeing here how people are being very creative to try and make sure that these very difficult a very bad situation for many people can be and i've missed in a little bit improved in many different ways is something that you also see in other parts of the world by the way there's also you're all starting to see right here in germany actually something very interesting recent days of people asking to buy a voucher of their favorite. that they can then we deem later on when the crisis has been overcome i thought that was a fantastic idea of trying to help your favorite restaurant or your favorite supermarket to

a favorite shop they can oversee not stale things now as they would be full about the way in which you can help so i definitely think it's high time for great thank you barbara in your opening statement you said that the cessation of sporting events would deprive many people of a very important social support that they need in a time like this so is there any substitute for that in the virtual world and how are sports fans coping yeah i think there's a lot going on now like. with social media there's another way to connect and again virtually this is we have seen that in china already people having challenges through the. groups who can do more sit ups and groups sitting together or even having a drink together and just virtually being connected and there's actually also a lot on the market like there is a program for bike riders can actually sit in the basement on your on your on your

bike on a fixed bike and. be virtually connected and actually. at the moment live being riding against other cyclists sitting in that basement and doing the same so i think a lot of these kind of are turning to are going to come up now and we'll hopefully do some substitution kate you said in your opening statement that we need to political decisions that are very much based on cooperation. do you feel like we are seeing that adequately and are people paying attention i have to say i live in crowds back one of the central districts in the city frankly at least until today people there have not really fully been adhering to the new rules just yesterday i saw about 25 young men playing a game of pick up some. or in a local park very close together definitely not social distancing very sweaty. do you think people have gotten the message. of seeing similar scenes you know on the

way here for example but what i think is really important for us as journalists to do is to frame social distancing as the ultimate act of solidarity that it is so if one of us here at the table were to become infected with social distancing within a month or $244.00 people infected as a result with social distancing we can reduce that to 4 and that message really needs to come across that it is really great that we're seeing these example of of community spirit that's really heartening but actually the best thing you can do to save lives is to stay away from really any time about how can i say something just to that temper can you say it in response to additional question i'd like to tack on to that namely in regard to the chancellor's appeal which is that you got what are we going to the chancellor gave exactly that message and she gave it in language such as i have never heard her use before very personal very urgent it was the 1st time she's addressed the germination only in this form since she has taken

power and she's been in power a long time do you think that message is going to be heard will it get through to those people who need to hear it those young men playing soccer in my park melinda that was exactly what i was planning good to talk about that that's teach buying them a cool yesterday that her dress on national television she normally does those addresses only on new year's eve on new year's day and this is the very 1st time in 15 years as johns that you give such an address on television and that just gives you an idea of how urgent it is and how important is that decisions are not only made right at the top but that people understand what it is saying kate that this has to be done by all of us and i agree with you totally that i'm going to merkel's message yesterday was very clear it was human it was authoritative it was very clear and i do hope that people here in germany will understand that it's time for them to act but it's not time for them to keep playing football outdoors or taking their kids to the playground it's really time for all of us to understand that this is a very big responsibility that we have.