do not publish. this is t w news live from her lead by grant emergency aid groups called for the evacuation of vulnerable people from greece's overcrowded migrant camps they fear an outbreak of the coronavirus in the border camp on the island of lesbos would be catastrophic . also coming up congress parliament gives prime minister viktor orbán an open ended extension to emergency powers in the battle against the pandemic but critics

are calling it a power grab and a big bailout for germany's small businesses owners begin applying for state aid as europe's largest economy is forecast to shrink by between 2 and 5 percent this year . i'm sara kelly welcome to the program around the world social distancing has become the montra of the day but in greece's overcrowded migrant camps like moria on the island of lesbos that's not possible conditions were already unsanitary and many migrants stuck there also have preexisting health problems aid organizations are now calling for the most vulnerable residents to be evacuated to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. in the maria refugee camp very few have been able to get

a mask to protect against corona virus. there are more than 20000 people living here in dire conditions lack of food washing areas and medicine are the norm. there is a lot of disease here people are sick they have fevers and skin conditions like scabies and lice they cough and have breathing problems like asthma officially there are no covert 19 cases here but also no government plan to prevent them says doctors without borders such a scenario would be a disaster for everyone lesbos refugees and residents alike. voted for. him to. carry. this full. do you want to. before the pandemic germany had agreed to accept unaccompanied minors that's off the table now an

effort to avoid bringing in outsiders from at risk groups opposition parties have criticised a lack of political will to end the humanitarian crisis. many politicians say we don't want a repeat of 2000 to 15 but we're not talking about millions of people here just a few tens of thousands if you're really serious and want to do everything possible to prevent a further outbreak then we have to evacuate these camps. a camp intended for 3000 people housing 20000 that makes social distancing here close to impossible and let's get more on this we're joined now by eric marquardt he is an m.e.p. for the green party and joins me now from eric we understand that you have been on the ground in the past few weeks monitoring the situation there in the camp how do you assess at this camp is coping with the threat of cope at 19 at the moment. i think i have to make clear that it was

a humanitarian crisis here before we have a hospital here which is 10 times overcrowded at the moment result over 19 and now everyone is fearing that the 19 will come to the camp too and they're actually not prepared at all to deal with the situation and in the meantime we have some aid organizations also the european parliament calling for the evacuation of these migrant camps how could that possibly be done. i also think that it's not a matter of possibilities it's just a matter of political will we have empty hotels all around you up and we have to support the hotel in the street in the summer and we will have to support them will be an economic crisis which also affects them and i think if we speak about hotels but we can also speak about cruise ships who are empty at some moment who have no guests and we just have the possibility to deal with the situation there to

evacuate if you count and we should do that actually not only because of humanitarian issues but also because deployed against color should be fought everywhere and i don't understand why everybody is talking about social distancing and do a poor overcrowded the camps can stay overcrowded it's often our interest in the fight against corona relocation to hotels that's that's one idea that you have on the time we have the coronavirus also impacting germany's refugee policy domestically what do you think the german government should do right now. that's a moment i think we just need some member states in the european union or at least one member state who just tried to sorts of problems we had discussions in germany since at least christmas about the ever curation up on accompanied my notes but in the end it's not enough discussions now it's

a big catastrophe if the goal of i respect the refugee camp at the export of autos and we just need one or 2 or 3 or whatever member states who try to evacuate people here and it's really not a matter of possibility is there for example 25000 empty places and persecutes the chance that's germany at the moment they're empty you can give some to places to homeless people from germany but you can also give i don't know tents all those places to refugees from text on a lot of. a lot of ideas there and the p eric mark art from the green party joining us from lesbos thank you so much for sharing your view. and as more and more countries impose lockdowns because of the corona virus india faces a bigger challenge than most it's 1300000000 people have been ordered to stay at home since last week but for the informal workers who form the backbone of the economy that means losing their income over night leaving many without enough money

for food and those hardest hit by the lockdown may now also be at most risk of catching a virus. social distancing is a privilege that these people cannot afford all the cross india daily breeze rushed to transportation hubs carrying whatever they could. the nationwide lockdown has put millions out of work and started a mass exodus from the city's. for these people who are leaving new delhi for their home towns the fear of starving is currently greater than the fear of infection with the coronavirus. if we had food why would we have left we're not enjoying this we know that a pandemic is spreading but we are forced to leave we're taking precautions and keeping as much distance as we can have no other words i mean if the government did nothing otherwise we wouldn't have left. india's efforts to contain the corona virus has plunged the country into chaos. after transportation was shut down

some state governments arranged buses to bring migrant workers back to their home villages. but in other states people were left stranded and forced to walk hundreds of kilometers home. deliveries street vendors and other informal workers form the backbone of the indian economy. with police chasing them off the streets and no savings to fall back on block zone puts many of them at risk prime minister narendra modi who had ordered india's 1300000000 people to stay home has apologized for the hardships they are now facing. especially when i look at my poor brothers and sisters i think they must be wondering what kind of prime minister i am put people in such a difficult situation. but i especially ask for their forgiveness. so far roughly 1000 people in india have tested positive for corona virus but experts worry

numbers could be much higher. fears are that an outbreak in one of the world's most densely populated countries could result in a catastrophe. well hunger is parliament has voted to give prime minister viktor orbán broad new powers that he says are needed to fight the coronavirus there the new law allows orbán to rule by decree for an unlimited time the prime minister declared a state of emergency in hungary 3 years ago critics say the anti coronavirus defense act as it's known gives unnecessary and unlimited power allowing him to cement his leadership under the pretext of fighting the outbreak. earlier we spoke with our pad so the in budapest and asked him how hungry is emergency powers compared with those elsewhere in europe well this is. 'd going to be now the only country in europe that has unlimited powers for an unlimited amount of time there are not a lot of countries with on limited powers now but that only lasts for 306090 days

things like that i think in the case of britain maybe 6 months but here it's unlimited powers and opposition parties are concerned that that means that there could be an abuse of power. but the hungary unfit as membership it as being the ruling party here in hungary and has a 2 thirds majority with their with their coalition partners the christian democrats they say this law specifically talks only about the health crisis the coronavirus crisis and nothing else so that's the only thing that they're going to be dealing with when it comes to our limited unlimited amount of time and there were a number modernization members to go actually said we agreed with me on limited powers not with the unlimited amount of time * down to 30 days 60 days 90 days but that didn't go through so now this is indeed a very unique situation here in europe that was our pride so easy in the past so

let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world easy jet has grounded all of its flights due to the coronavirus pandemic joining airlines like quantas and grounding its entire fleet the company says that it's currently unclear when flights will resume the airline will pay staff 80 percent of their wages for the next 2 months. the 2020 tokyo olympics will now officially kick off on july 23rd 2021 japanese organizers and the international olympic committee settled on that date today a week after the games were postponed because of the global pandemic and a hospital in the german city of wolfsburg has stopped taking in new patients after several staff there tested positive for the new coronavirus new patients will be sent to facility is nearby the number of registered coronavirus cases in germany has risen to more than $57000.00 according to official figures also here in germany government economists say that

a recession is now quote inevitable because of the coronavirus shutdown they are predicting that the economy will shrink by between 2 and 5 percent this year last week lawmakers passed a 750000000000 euro relief package to ease the pain small business owners already starting to apply for help cocktail is one of the many small shops in the heart of berlin joe dilley berta opened it almost 10 years ago with the corona crisis he doesn't know if he can keep it up he's trying to apply online for government a half an hour ago i was told i would cry. when i get through but there are 35800 people in front of me for small businesses and self-employed people like joe the government has promised immediate aid depending on the size of the business up to 15000 euros not as a credit but a cash grant still these for me quite unclear who is funding want

but i think especially for self-employed people it's going to be particularly tricky because we are sort of out of the system. and that's one thing that's causing a lot of panic i think amongst the self-employed state aid would at least help cover the rent joe diliberto will keep trying to register for the subsidy. the same applies for. us she manages one of the lens famous clubs. still isn't working the clubs in berlin where the 1st to shut down at the beginning of the spread of coronavirus and pramila has no idea when they can reopen. we won't get far with this money and what should we do next where do we get the money to pay for all our costs we aren't earning anything. pammy large forbears hopes that there will be an additional state program for cultural venues. also

we don't compensate for the crash that we're now experiencing some people in production could earn money by working extra night shifts but we can't do that. everything that we're now losing can never be every gained. joe diliberto is trying to bolster sales within the online shop and it's working better than expected but it's not nearly enough his hopes rest on the state the way the funding is working is the opposite of the way it has always worked and that they are basically hopefully providing a flat amount of money to small businesses and then dealing with the bureaucracy behind it and it's always been the other way. that said. i do fear for the self-employed without the state aid he doesn't know if he'll make it to the 10th anniversary office shop in december. and don't forget you can always get you give you news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store

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a 2 to 3 people on average so what if we used all the. phones to track people infected with. those who had contact with a carrier prevent more infections build something like a digital image in south korea that seems to have been one of the keys to keep their infection. candidates are trying to help us find the current crisis. this is the news welcome to our special coverage of the global covert 90. today i want to take a closer look at south korea country was hit hard by the coronavirus but now it has seen a steep decline in new covert 19 cases compare that with the numbers in germany they are currently nearly 10 times. kumba number for germany in recent weeks it appears south korea has largely reined in the disease

and without closing down public life to a degree we are seeing in europe and elsewhere now how. nobody knows exactly but making use of internet technology to share come from patients locations and travel information directly with the public seems to help quite a lot actually. so theory a seems to be battling the coronavirus covert 19 effectively without implementing a complete lockdown in addition to rigorous and innovative testing for the virus online applications and social networking have been crucial to encourage ongoing public participation in the battle against the corona virus every day south korean health authorities send text messages to everyone's smartphones the advisories remind people to avoid large groups practice to meter safe distancing and regularly disinfect their homes leaving the windows open. so the green health

authorities emergency alerts share the locations of new coronavirus patients people can then follow the links to detailed patient tracking data web developers like ryan home have collected and aggregated that information to more user friendly websites up the provide the troubled history of each patient. that's in the text so even if you. read that placing you don't really know where exactly to locate it so i try to put that out on the map so that people can. officially see where it's exactly look at it so that they know if they've been to the place the south korean public has become a bit complacent as the pen demick drags on so websites like this may help remind people that the risk of infection is still out there and possibly nearby there are

a lot of people like the thiele in korea. because they think they didn't have any contact with the patient with this web site they have a better idea of that they can't really deal with situations since their creation in late january in early february independent coronavirus patient tracking web sites have received millions of page views offering users reassuring information on. when the coronavirus became a threat i downloaded the app since started using them to understand the situation you can see where infected people have been and avoid going there it helps to stop the virus from spreading. so 3 has managed to flatten the curve and reduce new cases of the coronavirus in recent weeks although health officials here still worry about potential new clusters. well from seoul south korea i'm now joined by

professor jones sun associate professor at the bob school of planning university college london professor after a peak at the beginning of march south korea has kept new infections very low you say besides a testing program that's due to surveillance how yes tracing through to surveillance technology played a pretty part in this fight against the corner. if the country has pretty be complicity with testing if you don't know who to test the testing capacity has only limited the use so to find out who to test disobedience technology was really cool so the cool east to find though that it would be one in every single one patient to come from the patient contacted in the past so ted way you can find out who this patient fighters from and to who this patient could have been itas

to what kind of data exactly has the government there gathered. because the initial data is the interview of people experts interview interview patients who too is king pin but then they sent a police quote your excess to police state. resources or what they tell you through police and that's a credit card transaction move like point. and this is city's so this movie a form every every move i point of use networks have information about their mobile phone has been through g.p.s. and intensive sieber connection and the 2nd a critic cars is again the banks can tell you. when the testing action happened so combination of these 2 will it gives you a lot of cars so for example if a keshia was patient for example everest every single

customers or potential patients they had to be tested and using credit card or of course you can find out all they want to clinical steamers and then see if the t.v.'s can give you even more finite movement to data. to the patient to talk to in the past who the patient to pointing to poor example and then someone can i just interrupt you did on who think professor say this it is dangerous when a government contract every step of its citizens it is certainly is so this is this is an emergency manager who will only when the only when the president of troops it does tend to put it is a control access to these authorities or with a towel through police so when this situation is over they don't have a very dated don't get those who stay longer professor john once on joining us live

from seoul south korea thank you very much for this and what. thank you. now that answers a few questions about how south korea handled the fight against the virus but fresh questions around the globe arise every day. your questions most important and you have sent us plenty facebook twitter and e-mail and to answer them at least the problem every day here is our science correspondent williams. if we start data tracking are there any assurances in place the technology won't be used against us in the future that depends a lot on the country i think where you reside any assurances put in place will have to come from governments now there's no question that digital surveillance measures like cell phone tracking that are used to trace the contacts of someone who has been infected are one of the most effective ways that we have now to find out who

else might have been exposed but the big fear of course is that once given the right to track their citizens in this way some governments might continue to do it once the current crisis is over and it needs to be addressed and the legislation expanding the rights of governments to track their own citizens striking the right balance between outbreak oversight and they to privacy is not going to be easy. and what data can be used to track the spread of the coronavirus. well nowadays practically all of us leave a kind of trail of digital bread crumbs behind us as we move through our lives if you have g.p.s. or bluetooth turned on on your phone for instance then that can provide pretty specific information as to your whereabouts or who you might have come close to other information that can be used as for example you can employ facial recognition

technology to pretty precisely determine exactly when someone was where in south korea which has so far had some of the greatest success at containing the virus without resorting to draco nian measures like lock downs tracking the previous movement of people who tested positive has relied on a combination of all those measures. can big data help us avoid a 2nd corona virus outbreak. the short answer to the. is no the only thing that will stock over 1000 for good is herd immunity which hopefully we will acquire through a vaccine in the not all too distant future however there are many ways that big data techniques can help us better control any future outbreaks they can help us recognize when one's beginning at an earlier stage to start with and dell also tell us a lot more about what measure is being instigated all over the world at the moment

actually work best so even if it doesn't solve the coronavirus problem for us big data is providing valuable information all the time on how we can hopefully solve the problem ourselves. and. 19 special coverage for today from all on the pandemic to check out all social media channels and our website that's the w dot com which has dedicated covert 19 pages in 30 languages. at the end of the show we leave you with pictures from a back tomorrow in long body italy's region hit hardest by the novel coronavirus streets that. emptied this country sacrificing almost all folds of business activity to fight them and them. and their crowded again base attracting will be an issue to avoid the 2nd wave of the pandemic and to stop governments and companies

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