after 2 months of unprecedented lockdowns china today announced that it will begin relaxing restrictions where the outbreak began in other parts of the world it's the very opposite all 1300000000 people in india are under a total lockdown now and a high speed virus in new york city news today that the virus is attacking people there 5 times faster than anywhere else in the u.s. i'm for golf in berlin this is the day. from midnight on april 8th. lift control measures for travel from the city of. how to pay profits they can come out untrained till she told the thousands more ventilators your city to stay ahead of the curve is easy and is a lot of the basic. boob a reported one new confirmed case which was. that we have been threatened with

curve and the curve is actually increasing. also coming up it is one of the biggest disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic so far the summer olympic games in tokyo have been postponed into 2021 what do you think about its disappointing fishel but when you think about the health of the afghani as well as that of the spectators i understand. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the 2 dramatically different faces of a pandemic in the u.s. a new disturbing figures coming from the state of new york the governor today said that the number of new cases is skyrocketing new infections doubling in just the last 3 days now that means the peak of the pandemic could come sooner. and

hospitals could face even more people who are in need of medical treatment now contrast the u.s. to charge 2 months ago all the world watched in astonishment have the chinese government announced unprecedented lockdowns in who province around the city of where the corona virus outbreak began overnight 60000000 people were told to stay home or the government said today it will now begin lifting those restrictions. preparing to get people on the move again. starting at midnight on wednesday the largest lockdown in human history will end. to travel in and out of who bay you'll need an electronic tracking code linked to your health status green means good to go. but people in the city of hun or the outbreak began will have to wait 2 weeks longer to leave the province still for some restrictions

are already lifting. my company got back to work a few days ago everybody has been issued a health code after having their physical condition checked and their temperature taken i got this pass and i'm on my way home after a night shift where you are. once at the center of china's coded 1000 epidemic who bay has seen a dramatic plunge in new cases officials have reported just one locally transmitted infection in the past 5 days a tremendous u. turn. this was at the height of the outbreak crowded hospitals exhausted medical workers who has since counted over 67000 confirmed infections and 3000 deaths. the w.h.o. says the 2 month lockdown may have averted hundreds of thousands of cases. but it

may also have caused a higher mortality rate in the province as other critical illnesses went untreated . there's hope and you pay that the worst is over but with the corona virus on the loose in china and around the world risk from imported infection still looms large. were despite the decision to ease travel restrictions in china there are fears that the corona virus continues to spread unnoticed and the chinese government has made it clear if new infections reappear so will the walk down but beijing also wants to restart its economy as soon as possible and that is perhaps the one point where china and the trumpet ministration see eye to eye in this pandemic us president drum once an economic resurrection as well but does not want to wait 2 months despite the warnings from doctors even on his own coronavirus task force trump is pushing for

a return to normal for the economy in a matter of weeks i'd love to have it open by easter ok i would allow to have it up and i will tell you that right now i would love to have that at such an important day for other reasons but i'll make it an important day for this too i would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by easter. all right for more i'm joined now by correspondent james ronnell in new york city good evening to you james you are in the viral hot spot in the u.s. at the moment the governor of new york warning that hospitals will be hit even harder and sooner than expected what you've got the u.s. president who says he wants the country to go back in business and we do you feel like you were in a big blind spot of the u.s. president being in new york. well the governor of new york state. and he thinks that the city and the state has been left in the president's blind here

we are the wealthiest country in the world in many ways one of the most economists on the planet and yet in the city with wall street financial. we're not ready for the pandemic that's approaching there on and off the ball all spittle but there are an authenticated and he described astronomical numbers numbers that are increasing and doubling every 3 days and it appears james that the virus arrives in new york city earlier than 1st thought to me when you consider that with the news that china is now easing restrictions where the outbreak began what kind of grades are new yorkers giving the federal government in his handling of this pandemic. and i think on that one i think you could probably say that it's too early to cool i mean every few minutes you're going to hear an ambulance going down economic stuff and you see the side of me but the death toll

in the state so far has been 21026000. and so you know the real impact of coronavirus it's yet to calm as we've seen out the country . and quietly and then bam hits you like a sledgehammer well i mean he has a sledgehammer not hit and i guess it's not going to be until we've seen the hospital wards and heard from the doctors and seen the actual death toll from the crisis that the new yorkers they're actually going to make a final judgment call and that would be terrible to have those images the images that what we've seen in italy and spain governor andrew cuomo he has emerged in just the past few weeks as a national leader not just as a leader for new york state with his daily press conferences i mean the whole world has been watching those do new yorkers do you think they trust him more now than they trust the us president. i think that's a good question andrew cuomo hasn't necessarily always been the most loved of

political figures he's not exactly a retail politician not for this crisis in many ways playing to his strengths he's being decisive it's one of those characteristics he takes charge of situations he listens to the act and he sticks to the facts and in many ways that's what you want you want this kind of fact in the evidence led approach to it when it comes to a compound in the federal government pew research that they recently basically across america people trust their local officials and they trust their state officials in the sentence that the these control more than they trust the white house the more than they trust the federal government on the other hand he's a new yorker he comes in the 30 he's never been wholly loud highly respected and he isn't widely seen as a safe pair of hands but it's quite intense and he said to ask you there in new york what are you seeing outside of we we've heard from the governor that people have not been respecting social distancing or you know staying at home people have been out in central park for example what are you seeing have people begun you know

falling into line and staying staying at home. well i mean it's a democracy and the approach that been taken by most democracy is that you're not people you tell them how to behave what facts full of them i would say the fire knowledge that has been followed quite extensively most people have been cooped up in their apartments on the times when i've had to go out on jobs i've been taking the subway and it's been largely empty i'm sure you can go to central park and you'll see some people there you can get a time where you'll be found people that there are people down in the street below me right now walking around something to conduct that business i would say the plant knowledge people are abided by although it isn't being rigidly enforced enough to do what is called bending the curve of this why didn't the right direction correspondent james rhino joining us from new york city tonight james thank you very much stay safe and stay healthy.

well it was only a matter of time 4 weeks or 48 hours in the end it took japan of the international olympic committee today's not a month to agree to postpone the summer games in tokyo today the japanese prime minister announce 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 turkey olympics are off the decision came suddenly but was not unexpected after weeks of debate and speculation in order to safeguard the health of the earth meets and everybody involved in the olympic games that we have to postpone the olympic and paralympic games or talk you were 2022 of the year or 2021 with the aim to have feet there are the latest in summer

time $21.00 it's such a system that was not taken lightly or willingly but pressure had been mounting from athletes and sports federations it's it's a power that i will give the be the limits this year but. to understand the situation understand that things are a little bigger than oregon and we have a next year. because so many athletes are not. i'm not been able to. prepare you know they haven't been able to do their qualification. on the station. and a lot of it's also don't have access to cheney. and it's not fair if 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

venue's 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 olympics . yeah it is a big disruption for more on today's announcement i'm joined now by carlo borger she is one of germany's award winning beach volleyball players she competed for team germany at the 2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro call her welcome to the day you've been training you've been preparing to good evening good evening you've been preparing to compete in the olympics this summer in tokyo and now we know today those games are not going to happen what did you think when you heard the news today yeah i want the price anymore because a lot of days you figured out already more and more of the pressure by us getting higher and higher oh at the end i was right here this morning still it's a bummer but i think i guess like a lot actually it hurts

a lot but still they're on it right now more than one thing and well going on court you say it's a bummer it hurts a lot do you agree with the decision do you think it was the right thing to do. it's totally the right decision it's really taking responsibility i think and in general it was a. it's you it's over if you like it has been already they should have made this decision already earlier definitely and this will give you an extra year maybe to practice for the olympics i mean in your sport beach volleyball is that an automatic advantage. i have no idea right now we cannot practice at home the facilities are close and it's probably more than a year now to the olympic games so it's didn't use came out this morning so fast

it's like we have to plan everything new and. we have no idea how it's worked because until now there are no tournaments or at least like maybe in july or august so probably the season is already over before it began so we have to make a new plan what all practices like and what's going to happen in the next few weeks months or years so it's a really long period to go on have you have you talked to your teammates and heard what they think about this decision and they told you he added totally on the same page with us athletes i mean that's the only right decision to to to make to postpone the olympics. we know that the games are expected to take place in tokyo at some point in the year 2021 the games will certainly be one of the most special olympic games in all of history because of what has happened are you

looking forward to participating in 2021. definitely we played last year already the pre-tournament of the limp again in tokyo so it was great to be the japan the really beautiful country and the people are really nice so that we both like my partner julia and me we are really looking forward even if it's still within the year but we are happy if we can compete there and anyway it's a little thick so it's always the dream of everybody and before we let you go karl let me just ask you were you were you surprised that at 1st there was this reluctance in japan to postpone the games i mean it took it took a lot of lobbying and pressure to get this decision today. yeah i mean on one hand i don't want to play blame them so much i mean it's a situation for all of us which is like really difficult and you know one had this before so i think this complex decision needs

a lot of time but still to release now the pressure off us athletes who cannot participate who cannot practice right now in the home city i think it's just a matter like the right totally right decision they made the same they could open it opened actually dorce what teachers like they would have no way of any a lympics going to happen in 2020 ok well yeah you know when one door closes another one opens i guess carla borg a member of team germany's beach there everybody carla thank you for your time tonight good luck with the extra time to practice and you as my well in tokyo thank you. what if there is one place on earth at least prepared to deal with an outbreak of the coronavirus it would have to be the war torn country of syria and yet that is exactly what appears to be on the horizon the country is bracing for a walk down after the assad government confirmed its 1st case of close with

$1000.00 last week in a full blown outbreak would have horrible consequences a decade of war has devastated the country's health care system syria some full 100000 people killed millions displaced entire neighborhoods come to rubble. 9 years of civil war have left much of the country in ruins and now there's a new enemy the one that we're all fighting right now. these volunteers belong to the syrian civil defense better known as the why tom it's in recent years they've been providing emergency health care to wall victims in serious opposition strongholds. these days they're trying to save lives by sterilizing surfaces. corona virus is spreading around the world and in arab countries and it's turning into a global epidemic that threatens human life so we've the syrian civil defense in

cooperation with the department of education in our free in our carrying out of preventative sterilization can. syria reported its 1st case of the novel coronavirus on sunday and the whole country is on high alert. we are ready the health ministry is ready the higher education ministry is ready all medical and health sectors in the country are ready to be on one team and we hope to overcome this thing. but serious health care system is severely strained according to the world health organization less than 2 thirds of the country's hospitals were functioning late last year and 70 percent of health workers have fled the country this particular concern about the virus spreading in the north west in italy province where up to a 1000000 people live in overcrowded camps like this. it's the perfect breeding ground for the virus and not the one. show we consider syria very high this country

especially if we see that we do have a model of populations and. refugees. just because of the incentives all these actually have this cold war and about us and for more on the situation in syria i'm joined now by m.r. so from the white helmets he joins me tonight from the province in syria m.r. it's good to have you on the program we know about the humanitarian disaster in where you are i want to know are you able to prepare in any way for an outbreak of the coronavirus hence a lot for having me and we wish seriously if you are to do them 1st of all. in north west of syria there is no one single care you think. you know and this is could be a loser and who. don't reflect the actual or the

actual thinking you'd be called didn't know it is blocked or where it would be in equipment and tools to do pick. actually. is extremely improbable because how did the final problem i do living in a pretty crowded. jam out any petion with luck and wishing the president to come around i'm calm and this is. actually different period because. if you want to you know if i can just let me ask you are you able to do are you able to do anything right now to protect the population from the virus. we are talking about hospital and 98. on little during the last 6 months

actually not functioning and if you lose the. will with the equipment they don't want any shipping. organization he needs to address that. too to establish a sense of government doing something. which will give equipment to these. sensors but you know that the longer scenes and i don't think would have been a critic procedure of. this equipment do i still 50 days later and you know what what means the days later. what does it mean what does it mean for the people there is it the province are you saying that you're not getting any help from the international community at all. yes of course

because and even the help is not enough you're not you see the lack of equipment a global lack of equipment for example masks there is a global lack of this like a strong country country with a stronger and with strong health system actually are incapable to face these silos what about syria here we are talking about if you will smith old if we are going to the just the ventilator and dollars piece of syria we actually we we are if these these virus spread here we will die like cattle we will be the 1st sitting actually the item has time to do what we can to do for example make incumbent of our elements to our arab world how to protect themselves how to to make such a stance and we make videos to do this be bold informative and informative

and education the seans and last and trying to make abrasion of this infection but this is not enough and why do you have do you have one request to make tonight to the international community to the world health organization what is that one request. you know i want to. do and respond and i would like. to be because i understand there is a bit cryptic. and that all of you are cho and you're going to i'm going to join art. and if we are talking about how to do you want any man. who would be proud of you would. probably want his ramp go out a bit there and do number 2 who bring. ok m r from the white helmets joining us tonight from province in syria and war thank you very much we appreciate your time and we wish you all the best thank you.

with more than a 1000000000 people living with some form of all. from china to italy to new york time can seem suddenly very sluggish it can calls what i'm going to term corona cabin fever symptoms could include the 4 walls seeming to close in upon you you know what it's like i know what it's like and so does the u.s. comedian ellen to jennifer's ok ok everybody i decided to do it everybody's doing which is walk outside sit just being inside. i like everybody and feeling stir crazy and anxious and wondering what's going to happen and how long this is going to last so i just wanted to say.

stay safe pay attention to what they're telling us to do and this will pass much faster if we all listen to what our. smart people. are telling us to do. and i mean the smart people. by exercise take areas during this time. are you know would be generous they're saying listen to the smart people if you want to save your life but the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter you can follow me of golf t.v. don't forget to use the hash tag the day every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody stay safe and stay healthy.

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