1st thing set in our ways. it's a series $23000.00. this is d w news live from berlin tonight the disrupted and postponed games pandemic forces japan to delay the tokyo olympics japan's prime minister shinzo off he says he and the international olympic committee have agreed to delay the world's biggest sporting event until 2021 also coming up empty streets in india as an unprecedented 3 week lockdown goes into effect 1300000000 people have been ordered to stay home

to slow the spread of code 19 and new cases of code 19 in the u.s. state of new york skyrocketed called health organization now expecting the u.s. to become the epicenter of the pandemic. i bring it off it's good to have you with us it was only a matter of time 4 weeks or 48 hours in the end it took japan and the international olympic committee 2 days not a month to agreed to postpone the summer games in tokyo today the japanese prime minister announced that the games will be pushed back into 2021 the decision came after weeks of pressure from athletes to postpone colliding with weeks of resistance by the games organizers in japan. the tokyo olympics are off

the decision came suddenly but was not unexpected after weeks of debate and speculation in order to safeguard the health of fleets and everybody involved in the olympic games that we have to postpone the olympic and paralympic games so talk you were 2022 the year of 2020 year one was the aim. there or at the latest in summertime 21 it's a decision that was not taken lightly or willingly but pressure has been mounting from athletes and sports federations it's it's a power that i will give the queen the limits this year but not yet understand the situation understand that things are a little bigger than organ and we will have the next year important but they. are so many athletes on the station olympic trials. and

a lot of our folks also don't have. access to the training venue. and it's not fair to everyone. compared the best way this is the 1st time the olympic games have been postponed and it's a mammoth logistical task contracts need to be renegotiated tickets for sold out venues transferred all returned and post game sales of apartments in the olympic village will have to be put on hold. no new date has been set for the tokyo and peaks. and for more i'm joined here the big paper now by my colleague chris harrison from our sports desk we chris the decision really everyone expected it was just a matter of time it was a matter of time on sunday the i.o.c. said it would take 4 weeks to decide whether or not to postpone the elim picks well that turned into 48 hours and it all makes sense because you have to look at the teams that already notified the public they would withdraw canada australia even

usa track and field on sunday also shared that sentiment and britain i think were expected to follow as well and then when you factor in you know just the idea the athletes and have proper places to train and so forth i do give credit even though it's a little late to give him credit thomas the president he did come out and say this is pretty much about saving lives you know sport is not the most important thing right now preserving human life is and i think that's a common denominator across the globe right and the reaction from the you have fleets i heard that they're still going to call the games the 2020 olympic games even if they take place in 2021 yeah i think that's a branding issue but in terms of the athletes of course they're heartbroken but related in the understand you know the circumstances canada admission one of the 1st teams to withdraw well a canadian military champion erica we came out and said we'll be more ready than ever for 2021 and wearing the maple leaf with more pride than i thought possible so it kind of shows that there is going to be anticipation you know any years' time

you know in next of this summer because i mean i guess it's good if you are not getting up in age but if you're younger you've got an extra year to prepare if you're at the sea at the end of your career checking on another year or 2 it could be make or break for some have fully qualified is going to be a concern also they don't know if to actually keep those places you know on hold or you know force athletes to qualify once again i've even heard some interested to know about drug cheats their suspensions and so forth maybe those extensions expire they're allowed to compete but nonetheless we have to wait til 2021 to watch it all play out great for as harry has always chris thank you ok. in india a 3 week walk down to combat the spread of the virus has just begun the country's 1300000000 people are now barred from leaving their homes across the nation people have been scrambling to get home ahead of the measures taking effect the travel restrictions hit some of the country's poorest workers hard and to be used as war

reports from the capital delhi. these people are while eating a lockdown debbie has closed its borders no buses trains off flights can leave yet these migrant workers are determined to get home. many on just a daily wage and with businesses shut they cannot afford life in the city anymore. with public transport reduced the vote has walked many kilometers with his family putting them at risk of exposure. he's scared but he says he has no option until you die they aren't letting me work that's the problem i have young children they're hungry who do i ask for help we've been struggling for 4 days of although the. the delhi government has announced some relief measures for the poor but these workers don't feel reassured or indecorous like that i cannot wait to find out if

the government will give me money but how am i supposed to eat until then and once they don't. ovi from the bus stop the city lies deserted those who can't afford to are staying home checkpoints like this one have been established across the city the police is ensuring that only those who are entering a pension says are allowed to be out the government has also said that violators off the log down can face legal action. grocery stores remain open some are only allowing a limited number of shoppers and this one says mosques on the says city as a sign that ties in your hands before entering. india has been bad in the eyes by these measures but health experts are throwing their weight behind the locked down if india can fight this to get that for 2 weeks we definitely would have prevented the good from going up and made it so that all that we need to do is to prevent

that from going that it leaving because if that happens in india the results will be much worse than what happened in. the indian prime minister has appealed to migrant workers to stay put and avoid infecting their families back home. but for many that risk is far more distant than being trapped of the from home during this lockdown. is spain the government is expected to extend the state of emergency by 2 weeks the number of new coronavirus cases jumped by 6600 over night with more than 500 people reported to have died pictures taken at a hospital bed rid show patients under tended in the corridor or the spanish capital has been particularly affected with nearly 10000 cases and ice rink inside a shopping mall in madrid has been turned into a makeshift morgue and soldiers helping to fight the virus have made shocking discoveries at nursing homes where elderly residents have been found abandoned some

of them dead in their beds. prosecutors have watched an investigation. or hear of some more of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the number of global cases of the infection nell surpassing 400000 doubling in less than a week italy's death toll from the virus have surged yet again 743 registered deaths on tuesday broke 2 days of successive declines and the world health organization is warning about a big exhilaration in the number of new cases in the united states and says the u.s. could easily become the new epicenter of the global pandemic. or for more now i'm joined by christiane lynn meyer he's a spokesperson with the world health organization he joins me from geneva switzerland christiane it's good to see you the united states so it's cases new cases more than double in the last 24 hours is this the result of of more and

better testing or is the situation there really getting out of hand. most likely it's a combination of the 2 is the rise of cases and of course also better test now and this is there is typical for any country in when they start testing more rigorously that data signed won't cases and it ends you have a spike in the number of course the trend on the next days will show if this trend continues or whether this was a one time spike. of the newness of a new testing methods and we've got a mixed picture in the united states the u.s. president today saying that restrictions themselves could lead to deaths we've got many states under lock downs how satisfied are you with the response by u.s. authorities to this pandemic. in general i think we've seen countries where.

mainly the testing the rigorous testing and tracing of contacts has led to the main results so for example south korea the republic of korea. signal for date both have not done this completely locked out of this major locked out of parts of their lives they have mainly done what we've been saying and chilled since the beginning test test test try to find every suspect case and test them treat those who know what we need to be treated and signed the contracts of those infected this needs a lot of effort it needs maybe also a lot of. quite some money to put in a lot of resources and it needs also vamping up of the resources because not every country has those possibilities right now but the way it's possible should be done and where it's not possible it should be attempted to achieve because this is the part which gives us the best result and inciting this virus the social measures the

political measures of locking down cities or parts of lives and preventing certain parts of life that's an add on that shouldn't be the main measure that should be an additional measure to fight the virus but it should never be the 1st. are that christiane with the world health organization joining us tonight from geneva switzerland christiane thank you very much. thank you flo both stock markets surged on tuesday thanks largely to the actions of the u.s. federal reserve investors welcomed the fed's promise to buy up as many long term bonds as necessary to keep the u.s. economy moving markets were also encouraged by signs that u.s. lawmakers are moving closer to a deal on a massive stimulus package the dow jones has had its best day in 90 years today surging more than 11 percent european and asian markets have also staged big rallies. young visitors have been enjoying beijing for the 1st time

in nearly 2 months parts of it reopened this week following its closure in january as coronavirus took hold yelling out on his muse like that and talk of the lifting of the lock down in one hand this allowed them markets around the world to be a little more bullish the improving situation in china and the actions of the u.s. federal reserve help stocks across asia we gained ground on tuesday in japan where the central bank has announced its own major bond buying scheme gains across the board pushed the nikkei up 7 percent during the course of the day. meanwhile in europe the new lock down in london and the rest of the u.k. combined with the fed's actions to send the footsie motoring up more the 9 percent traders are responding to firm action where it's taken. in germany where the

government has also announced a massive package to help the economy the dax is gains were in the double digits. but before we get carried away a look at the dax over the last month shows there's a lot of ground to make up and so far daily rises on coronavirus ravaged markets have been followed by even bigger it drops. the positives like china's tentative steps towards minimality are outweighed by the negative of coronaviruses continued spread to new demands only sure fire signs that the crisis is past its peak and likely to bring an end to brutal bad markets. well here's a reminder of the top story that we're following for you japanese prime minister shinzo abbate says that the tokyo olympics will be postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic the decision follows months of pressure from athletes around the globe to delay the games. you're watching news on

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you would like any information on the growing market or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you get your pod cast you can also find us at. science. this is due to covert 900 special from berlin the corona virus has forced millions of people into quarantine and isolation that means millions of people are working from home some for the 1st time we take a look at how people cope with working from home and we ask an expert how the crisis might change how we work for good i'm seeing you so much going to thank you for joining us people all over the world are working from home that includes

many of my colleagues here at the w. our reporter sent us a report from her apartment in berlin where she set up her temporary office and she has some tips on how to make it work. marah. ever look at how stupid you influence us right now here are. and how to actually get from her. to me know was easier to pick a shall i put some actual close up. all of this great time to know. this may sound super all here but i haven't gotten my microsoft teams to work the entire day right from my last fix make sure everything will be fully passed this thing.

i know it's super tempting but that's a separate clean quiet west space away from destruction. are now it's easy for me to say because i don't have kids my only distraction is my thing even t.v.'s even get on the fridge and the laundry and the dishes and the books. to get my point. yes that means you might have to look presentable but talking face to face isn't the best way to the only alive. and happy hour can be gradual to. sleep while you usually go through to cook yourself a yummy like. my only black baby for the music while. the whole situation

is tough for those of us who are privileged enough to know our money and discipline the thinking of our her we should make them eh. let's speak now to norbert to crow now he's a researcher from the university of potsdam studying how people work from home number thank you for joining us 1st of all what do you think of those tips you know don't work from bad stay in touch on video conference you have anything to add there. yeah this is not only an advantage but it might also be acquired to use does a lot to see cause all travel times are no go on and immediately be replaced by another you know conference not to talk of rest and do not call this all the work and density is that's why science on it is much higher and to get office work where you have to walk from one meeting room to a not go away where you can warp to the contemporary art or have a break as

a watercooler all the coffee machine that's all no longer possible all right so you also points out you might have more time a clock then you're saying i mean looking at the fact that millions of people are now in their home offices essentially what if you found i mean how does this change the way we work are we more productive or are we less productive at home. well in some cases it depends in some cases we on was productive because now we can't exactly see what the other colleague was talking about because we have our points alliance crystal clear all the key you know it's crystal clear on the screen not 8 metres away and got going through and that's an advantage but on the other hand what we are focusing on in our research is that creative and knowledge intensive process is in it isn't isness they need vinnie

a mess of people that can't work in the same man are online and to indigents of media and therefore we are missing something so we. today we had with my research us virtual lunch break where everybody said in front of his camera and ate something and trying something but that's not the same you cannot achieve the knowledge transfer between video screens you need the near miss off persons and write it in some all the noise intense processes we have 75 percent of knowledge transfer out i socialise ation by personal meeting between persons and all but you know what all of this is all for how do you think this will fundamentally change the way that we work will more people stay with working from home permanently i don't think so i think some tasks and it can be done remotely and some other

task will need a personal meeting and it will be resumed in full when we are able to travel again i think that won't change a lot all right not only pointed to this inner focus ok we'll have to leave it there in our back row now from the university of potsdam thank you so much for joining us. and we will be following the story closely at g.w. our social media editors will be reporting weekly and we want to know how you are coping with working from home we're all new to this mind boggling situation despite this is an old influenza we are in uncharted territory all life as we know it is changing. but we're all in this together in this new series we want to find out how to handle

on new lives in times of the corona pandemic thankfully with the help of a leading expert it seems like it's been a very popular study how do we stay mentally and physically healthy how do we handle family and all partners without driving into a completely insane. just up how to deal with cabin fever. the how are you dealing with being cooped up let me know leave a comment and i'd love to profit from your experiences for our upcoming episode. well we asked you to send us some of your questions on the kobe 1000 pandemic and many of you did get in touch our science correspondent dirk williams has some answers take a look. why did you come from. the

person of our knowledge the 1st cases of coke at 19 appeared in the chinese city of one han back in december of 2019 they were closely associated with a wildlife market they're now coronaviruses can jump from animals to humans and we think that that's what happened here at the sars virus that the same back in 2000 here in 2003 it was traced back to bats the civets sold in wildlife markets we don't yet know what animals might have acted as intermediaries here but we have seen very similar coronaviruses and bats and we think that they are the ultimate reservoir in the wild. how does it spread. that 19 is a pretty infectious respiratory disease that spread by droplets of saliva or discharge from the know there's someone with a cough or sneeze that's why it's important to stay at least a metre away and preferably farther from anyone who's coughing or sneezing it

doesn't stay airborne for very long we don't think but it can remain infectious after landing on surfaces which is why you also need to pay attention to how often you wash your hands and you should try not to touch your face as much as possible. how do i know if i'm in fact it. the only way to know for sure if you have copd at 19 is to take a test because many of the symptoms are similar to those people experience when they have other respiratory ailments like the flu in coated 19 the primary symptoms that people have reported are fever dry cough and fatigue and then to a lesser extent things like congestion a sore throat or diarrhea some people who catch the disease don't have any symptoms at all their case. symptomatic around 4 in 5 people who get it will recover from the disease without any special treatment or having to go to the hospital. what can

i do if i'm in fact it. because this virus is a novel one in humans no one has any immunity the 1st time they catch it even if someone doesn't show any symptoms they still go in fact it and can in fact others we don't yet have any specific vaccines to prevent covert 19 and we don't have any medications to treat it so at this point if you are infected there's no way to interrupt the course of the disease the best thing to do if you're infected is to talk with your local medical authorities and follow their advice if you aren't in a high risk group for the disease the chances are very good you'll return to full health within a couple of weeks. if i thought it was going i catch it again in the future and. because this is a new virus we still don't know much about how the immune system well reacts to subsequent infections with copd at 19. doctors assume that catching it will give

you some kind of immunity but a big question is exactly how long that immunity well last hour immunity levels to related coronaviruses like some that cause common colds are not permanent and we don't really know why the question of immunity is a question that really only time will answer. a news team that the austrian public broadcaster o. r. f. will go into voluntary isolation to bring that to prevent any of them from becoming infected now they'll be isolated on site in vienna they've all tested negative for the virus and no one will be allowed in the door will be guarded and food will be delivered these 180 employees will guarantee that new services continue to run an interrupted a war f. is not the only austrian company to seal off key chains of staff last week around 50 healthy employees from the main energy company were isolated within certain

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