starts in 3 minutes on t.w. . this is news live from berlin a german chancellor uncle americal has gone into home quarantine as a precaution after coming into contact with a doctor who tested positive for the corona virus coming moments after americal introduced tiger woods frictions banning gatherings of more than 2 people nationwide. and as italy tightens its throat of virus controls other countries are sending their support russia dispatches doctors and medical equipment to help

battle the world's deadliest corona virus outbreak plus stop the sanctions iran says the u.s. must lift its crippling economic embargo to help the country fight its devastating corona virus outbreak let's say braun has recently been checked is a u.s. offer of 8. i'm calling thanks for joining us german chancellor merkel has gone into home quarantine after she came into contact with someone who has been diagnosed with the corona virus on friday the 65 year old chancellor received a vaccine against a different virus from a doctor who later tested positive for coke at 19 medical spokesperson says she will undergo daily testing her last act before going into quarantine was to announce stringent new social restrictions nationwide. and give america

about to announce the most severe infringement on individual freedoms seen in germany since world war 2 the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly convincing the chancellor that further containment measures are needed so far it have largely been left to states and municipalities to curb the contagion creating a patchwork of rules and guidelines the new measures will be rolled out across germany. did i have a few ones like we have discussed today how all counter measures are working we have no vaccine and we have no drug against the disease all we have assessed the the efforts we are making to prepare our health care system especially hospitals for the expected continued high rise in infections. and secondly our own behavior. that is currently most effective measure sites books i'm still.

in a video conference marco and state leaders decided to ban gatherings of more than 2 people excluding families and housemates she thanked the population for observing measures and guidelines already in place if eyes. i know that entail sekret fights both economically and on a personal level when shops have to close and it's not possible to socialize it's even more painful not being able to visit grandparents or meet friends we all have to live without this for a while i am deeply touched that so many people are following those routes that's but with me. within an hour of her leaving the press conference news she was going into quarantine broke and get america has put herself front and center of germany's response to the pandemic she now gets to lead by example. earlier i

asked political correspondent emmanuel chavez for details about the chancellor's decision to go into home quarantine. well indeed a government spokesperson stiffens eyebrows confirmed that angle america has been ordered to stage a home to go into quarantine after being in contact with a doctor on friday these doctors who came to give her a vaccine a precautionary vaccine against a new mechanical instructions and seems to end this doctor has been tested positive oh dear no her car not our is. 19 so as a precautionary measure to chance to the hospital will do it to go into quarantine and the government is in my transparent about it since as she only found out shortly after the announcement of new us title measures to try to contain and to spread of the virus in their country and she immediately went into her unseen ass

home the chancellor has been taking more and more of a leading role in germany's response to the pandemic how might this latest announcement of course the chancellor has not been infected but she has been exposed to be in quarantine how might that affect the way that germany responds to the pandemic. well so far it doesn't affect it in the sense that she will continue to have somehow because as you say she hasn't been infected as far as we know she's going to undergo some tests and she will be tested regularly for a so far i get america has not tested positive for another car and the virus poco be at 19 she is in cairo in time for a quick cautionary measures should she however a full seek of course that's going to cause an issue because already a federal government and original state premier is finding it difficult to find a compromise on whether or not to be implemented through locked on the watch

measures to implement as so of course if and in america where to be sick the question would be of race again but so far to many steps that are easy in the arctic ocean a crime scene she hasn't been tested positive. or that announcement as you said it came just minutes after the chancellor had announced stricter measures here in germany just walk us through what what those will mean for david life here in the country. well the most significant of these measures is to decision by the federal government to gather we all do states previous so all the leaders of germany 16 region to wrist treat people as bt to gather industries for example the gathering sells more than 2 people i know as phobia and it is about to burst reducing the situation of people so as to reduce to 6 nation after virus itself within the population and it is only possible to reduce contact between individuals themselves

to people are asked who are advised to keep their distance is to not come closer than 105 meter ideally to me to someone and not very much they are also advised to reduce their travels to essential travel for example to go to where to go to doctors or to go to supermarket and of course it's nice to trust if they do stay in a social life ever stricter measures here in germany though that news overshadowed with the breaking news coming in that the chancellor herself has been ordered into quarantine after coming into contact with a doctor who has tested positive for corona virus t w political correspondent emmanuel shas thank you very much all authorities around the world take ever more drastic measures to try to slow the spread of the corona virus the number of cases globally has nearly doubled in the past week take a look at those numbers the current tally by johns hopkins university in the united

states counts more than 320000 and factions worldwide and with that over 14000 deaths of all the cases of covert 19 are in europe lockdown measures are in place in some 36 countries greece being of the latest added to that list globally one in 7 people are now confined to their homes. meanwhile in italy the chrono virus death toll increased by 651 people on sunday that's fewer than saturday's record number of fatalities but it's still the 2nd worst day so far italy has closed non-essential businesses to try to control the outbreak and outside help is now on the way doctors from cuba and medical supplies from russia have been dispatched to help support the overwhelmed medical system. and vehicles. rules confining italians to their homes were tightened even further the prime minister announced all public offices building sites and businesses would close

unless they are essential to keeping the country's supply chain going. we're sure you're dozing sacrifices that today can look like a step behind will allow us tomorrow to run and to come back soon into our factories. into our offices into our squares into the arms of relatives and friends . we're giving up our most beloved habits because we love italy but we're not giving up our confidence in the future united we will make it. as italy ramps up its lockdown measures with a greater police and military presence the 1st of 9 russian army planes were preparing to fly to italy carrying up to 100 military experts and medics the aid mission comes after russian president putin offered support to the italian prime minister on the phone it's help but italy badly needs.

behind closed doors and shuttered windows of the long body region people are already reeling from the 546 deaths recorded on saturday here like all over the country just one hope that maybe italy will emerge soon from one of the darkest chapters in recent history. well iran is among the countries worst affected by the virus worldwide according to the country's health ministry nearly 700 people have died from covert 900 so far and more than 21000 people have tested positive it's believed the actual numbers could be even higher international aid groups like doctors without borders are sending emergency teams and medical equipment to prop up the local health system but many iranians say that's not enough politicians and citizens on social media they want the u.s. to lift its crippling financial sanctions to ease the flow of medical aid during

the pandemic. for more let's bring in the guard mortazavi she is an iranian american journalist and a political commentator she joins us now from washington d.c. . the trump administration says the financial sanctions against iran do not prevent humanitarian aid is that true what effect are these sanctions having right now in the fight against the virus. well what the administration says is true on paper so according to law skank shown do not include or basically food medicine and humanitarian trade is supposed to be exempt from sanctions but in reality we see lawyer sanctions experts and basically business people who are in the import export trade are saying banks because of financial sanctions thanks for staying away from doing any kind of business with iran and that has been hindering their hampering all kinds of trade including humanitarian imports medicine and medical supplies

which has crew contribution to a shortage of these supplies in the country and just one example of how that's not true is the fact that the u.s. just ease a little bit of sanctions on iran central bank for humans and basically saying that they are opening route for humanitarian channels and also they help create a humanitarian channel with this wish to facilitate some import of humanitarian goods but it's just not enough for the kind of shortage that the card she is facing in this time of crisis now on the flipside the iranian government has not exactly handled this crisis well and now iran's supreme leader rejecting 8 offers from the united states while citing conspiracy theories how much responsibility should iran's government be taking for the severity of the outbreak there. well the responsibility of 1st and foremost lies with the iranian government been slow they've been reluctant and in some hard nontransparent basically trying to height

of the pandemic specially at the beginning downplaying the numbers or not even acknowledging cases and the fact that this started in the holy city of also created a kind of clash with powerful leaders a powerful religious leaders and science basically it was very difficult for the government to enforce some of these closures on the religious sites in iran which finally happened but very late into the spread of the wires and it seems like now it's in the. tropics situation that might be out of the hands i mean all of this of course puts iranians themselves in a tough position how are citizens they are dealing with what's going on right. well there's a sense of fear of how and when this is going to end but there's also a very strong sense of community and solidarity also the type of people i speak to a lot of them are taking self precautions taking the measures they are seriously staying at home trying to current team themselves which they're difficult with

a culture that's all about family and socializing it specially at this time which is that iranian new year but then the same time you have part of the population who did not take it seriously and listening to the government in measures or the guidelines and. you know the problem is that with half measures it doesn't matter if some people listen to it if not everyone follows it's going to put everyone in danger so it seems like the government might be pushing for more strict measures and that part of the population might be you know pressuring the system to do more to try to contain the spread iran still one of the hardest if countries negara more dissolve iranian american journalist political commentator thank you very much for that. my father the international olympic committee thomas bach has ruled out canceling the tokyo summer games despite the coronavirus pandemic but he did say postponing them is being considered as a possible scenario bock indicated a final decision will be made within the next 4 weeks of course the games are set

to start on july 24th the i.o.c. and the host nation japan have been under increasing pressure to push back the start date sporting associations and athletes themselves they're concerned about health risks and the interruption to training schedules see the top of the hour. entry to any sort of surprises. oh it's. simply going to india in the footsteps of the great britain kind. hearted most.