not to. april and. this is g w news live from berlin tonight in the search of the pandemic the governor of new york makes an urgent appeal for volunteers to fight the coronavirus as the u.s. navy hospital ship comfort arrives with a 1000 beds the governor warns of a staggering number of deaths in the pandemic most of them are in new york city also coming up. the coronavirus pandemic

a menace to migrants aid groups say that greece's overcrowded migrant camps should be evacuated a warning outbreak on the island of less folks would be catastrophic and for millions in india the fear of starvation is greater than the fear of infection workers who've lost their jobs trying to get home and a mass exodus from the cities is this a pandemics perfect storm. i bring to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome tonight it is getting desperate in new york the state governor andrew cuomo has made an urgent appeal for medical volunteers amid what he's calling a staggering number of deaths from the coronavirus the police came as the death toll in the state climbed past. 1200 most of them in new york city so far around

80000 former medical professionals have answered the call meanwhile a u.s. navy hospital ship has arrived to help relieve pressure on new york city's hospital it's. a welcome sight for new york as the battle against the coronavirus ramps up a u.s. navy medical ship with a 1000 beds docked in new york harbor on monday. the mayor spoke of the city's frayed nerves with hospitals are already stretched to a breaking point we've all been through a lot these last few weeks. and we needed this roosts we needed this hope that's being created by our brothers and sisters the u.s. navy marine corps central park in the middle of manhattan is the latest site to be taken over by a field hospital. but new york has been caught in a war of words president donald trump says that medical equipment already in place

should be enough for the city but the mayor and the state governors say they both need more help from the federal government to be ready for what's coming. it is a fundamental blunder. to only prepare for today that's why in some ways we are where we are we've been at behind this virus from day one you have the scientist in the data projections show you a curve. curve goes like this you're over here prepare for the high point of the curve and do wait now when you can do it the night before. medics have become the heroines and heroes of the day and monday was even national doctor's day but in new york they've had no chance to celebrate they're on the front lines in a city or the coronavirus death toll is rising rapidly. well there is coronavirus

fallout for the u.s. economy another big retailer is getting rid of workers the department store macy's announcing it will temporarily lay off the majority of its 130000 employees without pay macy's joins a growing list of american retailers who are laying off employees in a bid to save cash while their sales disappear the department store depends heavily on foot traffic it was already struggling before the crisis unemployment claims in the united states are billing due to measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus . art i'm joined now by our financial correspondents in new york and scored a good afternoon to used against macy's laying off its employees but wasn't that 2 trillion dollars stimulus bill passed last week by the u.s. congress wasn't supposed to to help these big companies so that they don't have to

lay off their workers. oh well i mean what's going to happen is that we'll probably do help the workers and i'm not sure if they're really getting laid off or if they just have to leave for an hour and then wait and see what's going to happen but if you look at it here in the united states depending on state everett people get unemployment aid about 45 percent of their salary and was this a package that congress pos the pasta friday that's actually going to increase the amount that the workers at department stores like macy's for example can claim and now i mean the whole thing is not limited but at least it will help the pain a little bit for those people like in the case of macy's who are not able to go to work right now or who are laid off entirely and if you look at stocks today on wall

street they're looking fairly good day how do you explain that. it's a complete disconnect from the news flow what we see at the markets in the pasta couple of days just take the last week for example we had as you already mentioned those devastating numbers from the job market and what happened on wall street we had the best week since 1938 i mean clearly before we had those huge drops but there is a lot of gambling going on speculation you're kondraty put it any other way that we did see the blue chips up by almost 700 points on the monday as session we did see some bigger losses so when it comes to the outlines of boeing for example it was the lone loser in the dow jones industrial average if you look what happens was a terrific year in the united states of peasants are numbers we see we are about 90

percent down coming to. port travel as from today in comparison to the same time last year's sold and you do see all those effects but wall street is having its own life here at the moment all right more fun into correspondent joining us from new york. well around the world social distancing has become the new mantra for a lot of people but in greece's overcrowded migrant camps that is practically impossible conditions were already unsanitary there before the outbreak in many migrants they like many of us have preexisting health conditions aid organizations are now calling for the most vulnerable residents in the camps 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 school and life they cough and have breathing problems like asthma officially there are no coded 1000 cases here but also no government plan to prevent them says doctors without borders such a scenario would be a disaster for everyone and lesbos refugees and residents alike. and. the 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 criticized

a lack of political will to end the humanitarian crisis. many politicians say we don't want a repeat of 2015 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. or earlier i spoke with the director of medical programs for doctors without borders in athens he described what his colleagues are experiencing on the ground on the island of. rationing the. situation. 41000 schumann's and women and men living in a place for 6095 people these people are in overcrowding situation on the question stay home there's no home where they have the lack of access to water

boarding says one was applying for 1300 people days wondering that for 200 people and one child for 200 so there's no i just to watch and sanitation and serve you these people are having an additional problem of asking for care since tonight is the one thing the greek government thought along these 2 blocks risk ok you know the sion their last days they did knock down the cash that means that from 7 o'clock in the evening at this early going to going these people cannot move on the couch that means more difficult conditions and more exposure to these people to have a 6 i was doctors without borders there in athens eric mark wotte is a member of the european parliament for the green party he spoke with me from beyond the blessed post about possible steps that might be taken to go back you wait the migrant camp i also think that it's not a matter of possibility it's just a matter of political will we have empty hotels all around you and we have to

support the horses in the street in the summer we will have to support them will be an economic crisis which also affects them and i think if we speak about how to but we can also speak about cruise ships who are empty at some moment to no get and we just have the possibilities to deal with the situation. if you can and we should do that actually not only because of humanitarian issues but also because of the fight against cologne or should be fought everywhere and i don't understand why everybody is talking about social distancing do applies overcrowd a question the cans can say of the crowd it's often our interest. the fight against . it was talking about the greek migrant camps and the pandemic well as more countries impose walked because of the corona virus india faces perhaps the biggest challenge last week it's 1300000000 people were ordered to stay at home for

the next 3 weeks and that's easier said than done for the millions of day laborers they may form the backbone of india's economy but the government isn't giving them a leg to stand a walk down means many have lost their income overnight poor no money for even food and now trying to make their way home a perfect storm for spreading the virus. social distancing is a privilege that these people cannot afford all the cross india day laborers rushed to transportation hubs carrying whatever they could. the nationwide lockdown has put millions out of work and started a mass exodus from the cities. for these people who are leaving new delhi for their hometowns 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 it had democrat spreading but we were forced to leave we're taking precautions and keeping as much distance as we can have no matter what 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 who are left stranded and forced to walk hundreds of kilometers home. daily laborers 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. bloc 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 when 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. are for more now we want to go to our correspondent. joining me from delhi good evening to you. we know that prime minister modi he had this lockdown for the country last week and he gave the public really just a few hours notice was was he and was his government unprepared for the pandemic well beyond a country with such a high population density the logged on was perhaps the need of the hour to prevent the spread of the wireless but as the critics and the opposition have been pointing

out that this could all down was announced without lots planning and without what's taught as far as the better nessus concerned there are plenty of reports that show that in terms of numbers india is still trying to catch up when it comes to the number of medical equipment available the number of deaths need on the government is trying to build up on this capacity especially some local state governments are doing a good job at that we know that the country has millions of day laborers and they are now trying to get home how will they be able to do that and how will they survive with no jobs and almost no aid coming from the government. well as you rightly pointed out the informal sector dust on the backbone of our economy and it employs a lost majority of our workforce was just migrant workers when the announcement of the long down came without much assurance to this one little sector of people or when my dad found themselves without a source of income the income which did not only feed them but their family that

extended families back home back in their wishes as well and then they generalize that that out of school that out of a place to save the way you option that that heart was left with them has to go back home and it's important to point out and that in that the conditions in which these workers have made their way back home you know you wind up in power to them thousands i must asians and who are back home in overcrowded conditions it doesn't when you put them at just of the wires that also exist the religious and the home towns to which these people will be traveling but as i say as i said that these people probably thought that they are not left that any other option but to do that because they were doing this whether the financial package which was announced would come to them and when it would come to them many are there have been some disturbing images being shared on social media that show you the mistreatment of migrant workers particularly from the state of qatar pradesh what more can you tell us about this. well the fact is that indeed an upsetting and

a disturbing video in which a group of migrant workers which includes women senior citizen and children sitting on the ground and the police officials literally holding them down with what they call a disinfectant the a part of the fed that it was a mixture of colluding and what though it basically shows the insensitivity which insensitivity with which some local administration are handling this crisis these migrant workers who already thief an uncertain future i being treated in of a inhumane manner like this there are other there are other instances as well in which the videos have come out in which the police officials are being shown misusing that authority and misbehaving with these migrant workers. yet there's a very disturbing images they're treating humans like cattle and they are challenging but the latest from delhi tonight many are thank you we'll hear some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world hungary's parliament

has voted to give prime minister viktor orban extensive powers to rule by decree the prime minister says they are necessary to fight the coronavirus but critics see it as a power grab and a way to entrench his power. locked down poland is considering postponing its presidential election because of the coronavirus the president is said that the 1st round scheduled for the 10th of may could be delayed if health and safety conditions cannot be guaranteed a wind has almost 2000 confirmed cases of the virus easyjet has grounded its entire fleet because of the coronavirus joining airlines which is quantas and. the company says it's not sure when flights will resume but it will pay staff 80 percent of their salaries for the next 2 months. a painting by the dutch master vincent van gogh called spring garden has been stolen from a museum in the netherlands thieves broke into the. museum which is near amsterdam

the 884 painting is valued at up to 6000000. you're watching t w news is still to come a bit of clarity and certain times as a new date is set for the 2020 tokyo olympics the games were postponed last week because of the pandemic. well an estimated one 3rd of the global population is living in a coronavirus walked down with restrictions on public life and a ban on gatherings of people this is a serious problem for protest movements around the world from the fridays for future climate strikes to hong kong's pro-democracy protests but organizers they are experimenting with online demonstrations trying to voice their demands without gathering together my colleague our reporter i mean as if he has been following this story of forests i mean it's good to see you here in the studio for

a change and what is an online demonstration what does it look like well i think people are still experimenting with this they don't really know i mean there's always been some kind of online activism but this is really forcing their cards now and they want to find out what works and what doesn't one good example was a protest organized by is able to that's an organization here in germany that's fighting for asylum rights so they're concerned about the concentrations of people in camps like moria and lesbos so they organized a kind of virtual march through berlin had various tactics involved one of them you can see here they had people send soundbites from morea camp and asking for saw their tea they also had people design banners hanging out their windows with in berlin and they had a kind of virtual marj like i said where they went to different institutions in berlin and had targeted tweet campaigns or e-mail campaigns to basically they said ok everybody now is going to tweet or e-mail or phone call the interior ministry

and everybody did that and they got trending i mean they use this hash tag we've known behind it was trending was the hash tag leave no one behind. and that was the demonstration successful yeah that was the number one trending hash tag in germany it even beat out cove in 1000 feet nowadays they had 6000 people participate at the height of the live stream this is a live streamed on you tube but the question of whether or not that's effective i posed that question to one of the organizers and here's what he had to say right now we have to be creative we have to find a way. i think the only that will question was for the 1st thing that we actually tried to it's a very you know. and also i think for the future you can use these online tools to. react of things that are quickly because you can mobilize a lot of people online and in the short time and you know have asked to organize anything for them especially. like asked authorities for permission for that they

will try. and. activate a lot of people in the short. i would say it's like a site to all of activism that's not what we want to do in the future. but it's probably going to be a very powerful necessary to right now and you know there's been criticism already today of the prime minister in hungary viktor orbán who has been given the right to govern by decree there's no way for the public really at this point to protest against it are there other examples of governments taking advantage of this crisis to put limits on freedom of speech sure i think we're going to see more and more missed time goes on but human rights activists have pointed out 2 examples in russia the government put a ban on public gatherings the very same day that president putin approved a measure that would allow him to stay in office until 2036 so the timing there was pretty obvious or suggestive anyway and also in iraq there's been

a protest movement going on since october and that has come to a virtual standstill after the government put a ban on protests there back and at the end of february when they only had one case of coronavirus confirm now that the tally has risen in that country but the ban is still effective and it's really shut down the protest movement so i think people are going to be asking will we get our rights back once the lockdown and rights can become endangered especially when people are living in fear i mean as it is always on the thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other coronavirus developments the death toll worldwide as past 35000 almost 730000 cases have now been confirmed italy the hardest hit country with more than 11000 deaths will extend its lockdown until easter italians have been under lockdown for 3 weeks already french health authorities have reported the nation's worst daily death toll more than 400 france

has become the 4th country to cross the $3000.00 fatalities threshold after china italy and spain and the price of oil has fallen to just over $22.00 a barrel that's the lowest since 2002 it's because of plummeting demand due to the global economic slowdown. barcelona players will take a 70 percent pay cut and make extra contributions to help pay the club's other staff during the coronavirus pandemic barcelona captain lee you know messi announced the move on social media today but he criticized club officials for putting pressure on the players to quote do something that we always knew we should do anyway the spanish football league has been suspended indefinitely because of the pandemic. the 2020 tokyo olympics will now officially start on the 23rd of july 2021 the paralympics will follow on august 24th 2021

the international olympic committee and japanese organizers settled on that date today a week after agreeing to postpone the games due to the panda. waving goodbye to the shias games the name tokyo 2020 may be staying the same dates most certainly not after a weekend of speculation confirmation the tokyo olympics will take place almost exactly one year later than originally planned that you'll win much the case proposed holding the games in the summer of next year and it was agreed. the decision followed a meeting of the tokyo 2020 organizing committee which was then rubber stamped by the i.o.c. after a cooler with all unpick federations i.o.c. president thomas boxset humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel these elliptic games tokyo 2020 can be

a light at the end of this tunnel. the so-called cherry blossom lympics in the spring had been considered to avoid the summer heat but organizes preferred to have more time to deal with the perspiring mint. how we feel it's better to hold the games next year at some a time for the sake of transportation volunteers and ticket holders around the world. for athletes to fully prepare we need to give them as much time as possible . there are many challenges ahead including ensuring the venues will still be available to use next year though for the athletes at least there is now some clarity in the most unclear of times. and finally the characters elmo and this gentleman here cookie monster they are adored by children around the world and now they've joined the fight against the coronavirus the 2 sesame street characters feature in

a new musical public service announcements teaching kids to sneeze carefully and how to wash their hands thoroughly sponsor going to lowball in a variety of t.v. channels and online platforms here's elmo getting clean and getting into the group . last year. washing their hands you're watching the news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight the corona virus is spreading across the united states the u.s. president predicting 100000 people will lose their logs we'll be right back.

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