this is good news live from berlin britain's prime minister shuts down his country boris johnson instructs people to stay home in a bid to stop the spread of corona virus the lockdown will last at least 3 weeks also coming out a warning from the head of the world health organization. upon them it is accelerating to. new cases of covered 1000 keep rising globally in some places at an ever faster pace for the w.h.o. says there is still time to change the trajectory of the damage.

i'm hearing from our standard welcome britain's prime minister has announced a nationwide lockdown to fight covert 19 boris johnson told the british people the government is shutting non-essential shops and services and banning gatherings of more than 2 people let's listen in from this evening i must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at home because the critical thing we must do to stop the disease spreading between households that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home for the following very limited purposes. the basic necessities as infrequently as possible one form of exercise a day for example. with members of your house or any

medical need to provide care or to help a vulnerable person and travelling to and from work but only with this is absolutely necessary and can't be done from home. for more on that let's talk to the w.c. a lot of parts and london nationwide dr on also in the u.k. now tell us more about the details well life is about to change prime minister boris johnson asked all people told to stay home for and they can only leave their home for 4 reasons he set to go to work to help to get medical help if needed to go for exercise in the park once a day so those are the reasons that people are able to leave their home otherwise they will be fines and the police will be enforcing those rules another thing that

is different in the u.k. from other european countries is that people who are vulnerable and the elderly are told to stay home to self isolate for 12 weeks now starting from today they've been called by their doctors and nurses to tell them to self isolate so is this kind of for you turn for boris johnson now. well critics have said that boris johnson acted tough heartedly and too late but he himself has always said that he would do the right measurements at the right time and now the time has come for that nationwide lockdown he has gradually. introduced stricter measures over time closing pubs and restaurants before the weekend but as we've seen this weekend also people were still hitting the beaches hundreds of

people were gathering in the parks and the social distancing rules were not at all followed so now has come the time for that national lockdown. supports in london thank you so much. that of the world health organization says the covert 1000 virus continues to outpace efforts to contain it and that cases of the infection are accelerating more than 16000 people around the world have died of the infection here's what the head of the w.h.o. said just a few hours ago more of the city 100 cows and cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to double. from almost every country. in the world. that's heartbreaking the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11

days for the 2nd 100000 cases just 4 days for this. 100000 cases. and him germany the country's leading public health institution the robot costs insitu says new data suggests that the rise in corona virus cases might be leveling off here and for now concerns that chance angle america may have caught the virus half and just felt. tourist magnets like the brandenburg gate should be buzzing with locals and visitors but lockdown may just mean people are out of those only for essential reasons like going to work shopping or walking the dog. but germany's robert costa institute says there's reason to be cautiously optimistic that the measures are working. the indian turned we are seeing

signs that the exponential growth curve is flattening off slightly but i will only be able to confirm this trend definitively on wednesday. kind of but i am optimistic that the measures are already having an effect which is very early because they've only been in place for a week. to find. scenes like these from just last week i think of the past for now anyway chancellor merkel is in quarantine at home she's been tested after contact with an infected doctor that test came back negative but she'll be tested regularly in the coming days meanwhile she's telling working finance minister all our shoulders will be covering some of her duties of these advices the chancellor has asked me to speak for her in the pond as target on wednesday and we will manage this. however i believe that this is a very important sign that this infection can hit every one of us we are very

vulnerable as human beings and you know one is protected from this. after today's virtual cabinet meeting the government announced a further financial aid package worth $156000000000.00 euros it's a break with germany's rules on strict budgetary discipline protect stridently times require extraordinary measures. to the us now and the pentagon says it's preparing to deploy field hospitals to new york and seattle to national hotspots of a covert $1000.00 out break but defense secretary mike s. tells us that the global pandemic could impact u.s. military readiness new york as america's worst affected city where passion lockdown is in place there say some 800 patients are hospitalized with the virus the number of cases nationwide. has reached almost 42000 with more than 570 deaths. from on the topic let's not talk to our washington correspondent out of

a salad about donald trump just gave a press briefing where he stressed again that he would not let the cure be worse than the problem what does that say about his way of dealing with this crisis. well he's contradicting his experts 1st of all he's also contradicting himself to a certain extent but 1st and foremost he's trying he's afraid to lose his reelection and he even implied that in the press conference when he was praising the strong economy saying that this was all his achievement and that it's not all taken away due to the coronal pandemic that's how he's putting it the problem is the president comes facing here is that the job approval rate have always been quite low except one field and that is the economy now ironically the all the measures put in place to fight the coronavirus are bad for the economy so all those lockdowns and stay in place shelter in place order as essentially one result in

that is the unemployment is going up in the stock markets are going down and that is all reducing his chances of getting reelected again so what we saw here today is president trump getting slightly nervous the u.s. military will help out with medical equipment is that proof of how desperate the situation is in the u.s. right now. a little pencil we are about that certainly is proved that the health system is increasingly overwhelmed in some cities and in new york city 1 mayor de blasio said that the city could run out of supplies as early as next week so there's a shortage of ventilators massena certainly also of hospital beds in particular are in intensive care units and that is where the military could fill in at the same time as politicians are trying to appeal to the to the american public to take this virus seriously. that in spite of locked in many cities

people were seen in parks and new york's governor andrew cuomo use some very dramatic words to describe the situation and he said that the real corona crisis in the united states hasn't even started yet. but efforts to advance a trillion dollar rescue off the u.s. economy failed in congress today for the 2nd time why can't democrats and republicans agree on such a basic measure in crisis times it's an ideological divide and that shows again how strained the relationship between republicans and democrats is at this point essential of the democrats are trying to demand that the financial aid that's this gust is used to protect workers and to avoid layoffs and the republicans allegedly are putting the corporations 1st and that is all very frustrating for the american public because they look at 2 parties who can't cooperate even in such a dramatic situation like the one we're experiencing right now out of us out in

washington thank you so much. and now to some of the other coronavirus stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump says he wants to reopen the country for business in weeks rather than months trump was speaking at a daily coronavirus briefing add to wash as washington state joint others imposing stay and hold orders across the u.s. . the u.s. navy is sending a hospital ship with 1000 bits to help los angeles deal with the corona virus outbreak the u.s.s. mercy will take non-controlling up patients to relieve the strain on medical facilities a time lapse taken on the streets of rome shows the city mostly empty as a government ordered shut down to contain the spread of the corona virus continues monday was the 2nd day straight day that italy recorded declines in both new cases and deaths jesting the spread of covert 1000 in the country is slowing down.

question ave desert. capsule looks like a ghost town when outsiders smacks its 4th day of mandatory social isolation with police and forcing the city wide locked out. the finals of champions league and hero competitions fast and potent as a result of grown a virus than demick if announced today that the 2 finals along with the final of the women's champions league competition would be rescheduled due to the ongoing health crisis and europe no new dates were set for the showpiece matches which had been scheduled to take place and make the european championships have already been delayed until next year and all of europe's major domestic leagues are currently suspended for an uncertain length of time. now in europe singing from one's balcony has become a popular way to get through self isolation people in germany have been playing and singing beethoven's iconic 9th symphony let's have

a listen i. was . there are. a. good orchestra mr members are at home practicing without an audience so based on the italian role model where they've been playing the ode to joy for several days we thought we'd do the same thing on sunday evening at 6 pm for us and for our neighbors for. the result because i really should have been conducting beethoven this week. and i

can't do that. you get very very sad. about it and so to be a bit more positive just play some music and bring a little more happiness and life brings this in milligan's freud. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you british prime minister boris johnson has ordered a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the new coronavirus he's told britain it was only a few exceptions. and the head of the world health organization says the covert 19 outbreak is 6 separate but he added we can still change the trajectory of the can

down make more than 16000 people people globally has died of the infection. you're watching t.v. news from berlin and more coming at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's t w dot com i'm not much time thanks for watching. us. beyond. the. series. whatever takes. the running now.