this is news. tonight the winds lost to the virus spain mourns those who have died in the pandemic a minute's silence was held today across the nation more than 8000 people have died and spain's healthcare system is being pushed to the breaking point also coming up tonight in new york a field hospital in central park to take patients as the united states sees its coronavirus death toll hit 3500. and doctors in dire need of more facemask some governments believe they can prevent the spread of the virus but

the world health organization says there's little evidence and more misery for german soccer fans the football clubs and. the end of april could the season resume in may with empty stadium just. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome today across spain people pause for one minute to mourn and remember the lives that have been lost to the coronavirus the country's death toll is the 2nd highest in europe behind only italy the number of sick needing care in spain is growing pushing the country's health care system to its limits and yet the government says there is reason now for cautious hope

a minute of silence in madrid after the deadliest day yet in spain's corona virus outbreak the city and much of the country are on lockdown following other european nations. a senior health official who has been infected appeared fia video link to praise measures taken so far but with a warning. and history. you have now this is from last week in certain regions shows that the measures are little by little having the desired effect now it wouldn't make any sense to try new measures very important measures were rolled out on the 15th of march. and in that if it does this you know if you miss a minute but we can institute more measures if the present ones are having an effect this isn't a race to the top. in the west. meanwhile with many medical facilities strained to the breaking point in coming patients are being treated in makeshift hospitals like

this one in madrid's convention center which just opened up a new section on monday. as the death toll spikes the leader of spain's main business association complained about the effect of stay at home orders. if industry cannot stop we have to try to not stop it and if it has to stop it should be for the minimum time possible this is because industry give strength to the spanish economy. people in the industry must be treated with special care because it generates employment and services it is a very important issue. that it clearly is soldiers in hazmat suits have been called up to help disinfect public spaces as the battle against the deadly virus grinds on. or earlier we spoke to the correspondent

philip schultz in seville we asked him how spaniards are dealing with this crisis. this situation becoming increasingly intense it's the 4th day in a row now with more than 800 people dying every day so that people are worried when i go to a supermarket i see a lot of where each face is on the other and officials also try to be optimistic and say that the peak might be reached in the coming days but i think what makes it especially difficult for families is the economy uncertainty because they don't know if they will lose their jobs maybe in the next weeks and studies that up to 50 percent of the people yes they know freights to boost the jobs numbers young philip shields there reporting from seville in spain across the atlantic in the united states the death toll from the corona virus is nelson past 3500 that is more than china's official tally new york is the nation's deadliest hotspots with about

1550 deaths statewide most of them in new york city it is trying to ramp up its capacity before kings is hit their peak and that includes a u.s. navy hospital ship that's now docked in the harbor and able to take up to 1000 patients and for more i'm joined now by dr celine downer she's an infectious diseases specialist and co-host of the epidemic podcast on the coronavirus and demick dr gallagher it's good to have you on the show you work at bellevue hospital tell me what is the situation there right now. so doctors working at bellevue as well as many other hospitals across the new york city area are really short we have a very serious shortage of personal protective equipment so most of us are operating without the appropriate and 95 respirator masks even surgical masks and face masks face shields gallons are in short supply and that means not only can we

not protect ourselves appropriately against infection but it means that if we do have patients who are in the hospital the few who remain in the hospital who do not have cope at 19 it puts us at risk for also infecting them with this virus so it's really quite a concerning situation and you know there have been shocking statistics and images coming out of new york i'm one new york resident died every 12 minutes from the coronavirus over the weekend that was according to the city's health department and there is now a field hospital set up in central park what message should these images be sending to the world outside of the united states well i hope people will learn from the mistakes of new york city and for that matter the mistakes of han and italy and so on i think unfortunately what we're seeing again and again is until people see this

in their own backyard they're not taking the appropriate measures they're not being aggressive enough and i think that's really unfortunate because too many people are going to die as a result of that and we know we're going to go there or there are once of specialists will treat specialists in the united states you're one of them you worked in west africa during the boat crisis are there any lessons from very. or useful to you today. well i think to me what's what is most analogous are the conspiracy theories the idea at the time that ebola was a hoax we heard similar things here in the united states that corona virus was a hoax 0 you know and there was a lot of messaging done to convince people that this was real this was something that they had to take seriously and unfortunately both cases these were epidemics pandemics that were unfolding in the midst of presidential campaigns and so the

messaging very much got politicized you know and i just have to say i think we really need to focus on the science and do what makes sense from a public health perspective and so that means the messaging needs to come from scientists not politicians we are using the it has been politicized in the united states we have the daily press briefing from the white house now what's your opinion on behalf well i guess i think those need to be led by the scientists who are really spearheading the response i think the problem is when you have politicians that are doing the messaging people will decide whether they believe the message or not based on whether they like the politician or not and so even if what they're saying is true it really muddies the message so whether it's dr tony foushee dr devore parks you know one of those leading scientists should be really the ones who are doing the messaging not politicians really on either side of the

highway doctors celine dion are joining us tonight from new york we listen to your point if the democrats as often as we can dr going to it's an excellent piece of work thank you i pleasure thank you. well as coronavirus cases continue to climb in the u.s. pressure is growing on so-called essential workers to continue to sell groceries and to make home deliveries some workers have gone on strike workers at the e-commerce giant amazon walked out of their warehouse in new york city over fears that they are not being protected from the virus there were also nationwide stoppages at the amazon own supermarket chain whole foods as well as grocery delivery service insta cart employees say the increased workload has put them at risk and that the companies are not doing enough to protect them. my colleague reporter i mean as it is here he's been following this story for us so i mean why do these workers what are they feel unsafe well they are continuing to go to work

while the rest of us present company excluded are staying at home quarantining ordering things on amazon and groceries from apps like insta cart so they're still having to go out there and be in touch and contact with people or possibly have this virus amazon warehouse these workers went on strike on staten island new york city specifically because one of their colleagues came down with the virus with cove in 1000 was sent home but there was in transparency in how it was communicated and they're worried that they were exposed this person and they demanded that amazon shut down the warehouse and let everybody go home then at whole foods and insta cart their worries are that they're being exposed to this virus and that their pain is not reflecting that and that they if they want to go home and get away from the area they'll have to take a pay cut for that now let's take a look at one of the insta card workers what they had to say about the situation i just fear that the company that you know are allowing these things to go

on and basically capitalizing off of this. pandemic. going to have my back when something goes wrong or if it does go wrong i mean i mean we have to say that these people they are working overtime now especially in this crisis what do these workers what do they want their companies do do well they are not saying that they don't want to work anymore is it necessarily but that they want hazard pay to reflect this so at whole foods which went on strike they were saying that it's akin to being in a danger zone so they want double paid what they're asking for to go to work during his crisis and then they want higher tip base rate so that when somebody orders groceries instead of 5 percent tip set for the base rate it will get 10 percent so differences and pay they also want the ability to south korean teen if they feel

like they've been exposed to the virus which is not a privilege that a lot of these people get and at amazon like i said they want to shut down the warehouse and actually the person who organized that strike was fired immediately afterwards and this is caused a lot of commotion even the mayor bill de blasio new york mayor bill de blasio has spoken out about this and you know people depend on especially amazon more than ever right now seem to think that the workers would have more leverage here i mean how effective have these drugs been so far well actually there's no evidence that they have been effective as strikes those that haven't really been able to shut down production probably because of the low number of people who are actually participating in strikes but also because these companies are massively expanding right now amazon is hiring hundreds of thousands of workers to put up with the increase in demand so is insta cart and so it really hasn't had an effect in that way but it has been a good publicity campaign so prominent politicians in the u.s.

have tweeted about this bernie sanders for example he said that these are some of the most important workers in america right now and that their pay should reflect that you also had alexandria kazuya cortez speak out joe biden. who is the front runner in the democratic primaries right now elizabeth warren speak out about this so there's a lot of solidarity coming from people like that also bill de blasio speaking up in support of this amazon workers on that front i think people are looking at these workers who used to be considered low wage on skilled labor as essential workers people who are getting us food when we're foreign xenos right they are the lifeline to the outside world for a lot of us i mean yes it is always i mean thank you explain. well some very ugly numbers from wall street u.s. stocks have wrapped up their worst single quarter since the great recession in 2008 the s. and p. 500 index lost a whopping 20 percent in trading between january and march the dow jones industrial average fell 22 percent its biggest quarterly loss in $1870.00 indices in europe

and asia set similar record as investors have sold off assets at record pace as economic activity around the world has ground to a halt due to you guessed it the pandemic. let's go now to our financial correspondent in new york good evening good afternoon to you yes we're finishing a bad 1st quarter and the 2nd quarter is looking worse is there any good news for businesses looking ahead. well i mean there is so always hope for riots and companies try to get creative some local distilleries for example they switched to an all producing hand sanitizers fort one through deliver 100000 ventilators by independence day on july 4th if you look at the 2nd quarter in general we all know that the numbers especially for the month of

april will be pretty bad but there is hope that things might be improving after that there is also already talk about infrastructure plan from the white house that it could be support also from congress we are talking about an additional 2 trillion dollars to get the economy going once we can handle the health issues a bit better so all of that's basically what people are hoping for on wall street and in the business community overall business we're talking about records or oil prices are near record lows you would think that would be good for everybody but it's also disruptive tell me about them. it clearly is i mean all prices here of the u.s. oil price west texas intermediate stropped about 65 percent in the 1st quarter we've never seen anything like that before and if you look at the global picture

you have a lot of oil producing nations who really depend on oil and higher higher oil prices if you look at countries like russia for example or not even to talk about countries like venezuela so that is going to have a devastating effect also here in the united states and the oil industry really exploded into pos couple of years for some time the u.s. was the biggest oil producer on the planet and yes on the other side we have the cheaper oil we have the cheaper gasoline prices what could be so fond of for the economy but that doesn't really help right now as nobody is moving and nobody is driving so that is having clearly in effect the lower all prices that we've seen in the past couple of weeks yeah we're ending the 1st quarter completely different than the way we started it will be interesting to see the way we end the 2nd quarter it is quarter in new york as always thank you are you

wearing a face mask despite belts about their effect of this there seems to be a surge towards wearing masks right here in europe president microland wants french factories to produce 10000000 a week. face masks he is they've been part of daily life for many in asia and now for parts of europe they're about to become say to us to this decision to make it compulsory to wear the mosques in supermarkets has sparked a debate in neighboring germany. the town of vienna has now become germany's 1st to announce similar meshes though given the shortage of face masks the city has encouraged people to sow their own it's a move large be welcomed by the residents. and i think it's a good the more that stone the better and the more everyone does it the sooner we'll be free of the virus i have 6 simple masks at home and then push comes to shove also my assumed. i think it's

a good idea in principle the problem is that there simply aren't any masks and it's . the world health organization is among those saying there's little scientific evidence showing that basic mosques once not intended for medical use effectively prevent healthy people from catching the corona virus but some experts advise that they could be useful as a barrier to stop those infected from contaminating others. not masks for nose and mouth are relevant for the protection of others if someone is infected and masks keep the virus droplets from flying out when someone sneezes or coughs mr vite. up to now the insistence by many western countries that the widespread use of mosques is not necessary has surprised many in asia that people have worn face masks the years because of air pollution but in this pandemic they're practically

a civic duty in europe that attitude is now increasingly gaining ground. you know more money small business owners and the self employed here in germany they've been among the hardest hit by the coronavirus shut down if help doesn't come quickly many will go under so the federal government and the german states they've launched a variety of rescue packages but will they be enough to save everyone take a look. muskaan holt owns a small fashion shop like many other small business owners he's facing a host of problems meeting payroll and paying rent and other expenses like this spring collection which cost $20000.00 euros. yeah this area here spring jackets and slacks have a kind of expiration date that depending on the weather probably may if we don't reopen before then we'll have a real problem if this problem he's receiving 9000 euros in emergency support from

the state that will help at least for the moment that's good advice not it's not enough if we don't make additional support available in 6 or 8 weeks will see the 1st bankruptcy 6 years off to a one year stint blitheness leave the clock is ticking up assure us a hair salon in berlin the city unveiled a loan program for small business owners but soon after the program had gone on line the funds were tapped out. i was in minutes late on the website shut down at 11 pm and reopened at 6 the next morning and this is what i saw i almost made it i almost got financial support minds who shall still now it's too late to. get suspended berlin has said it will replenish the pint but it's already becoming clear that rescuing all the country's small business owners and the self-employed would cost far more than initially expected here's

a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world south africa have the most confirmed cases in africa but it's struggling to make it citizens of a social distancing route the government has announced mass door to door screening and testing for infections. capitol robots has been hard hit by a coronavirus quarantine that has seen the city's famous soups shut down almost completely only food stands bakeries and fruit stands are allowed to operate. in japan a surge in corona virus infections in the capital tokyo is putting the government under pressure to declare a nationwide lockdown 2000 cases have so far been confirmed throughout japan in a bid to contain the virus many employees are already working from home and that's quite a novel concept in the way and of the so-called salary man the worker drone who is

chained to his desk. casually dressed as his daughters play nearby yuki such as work environment is far removed from the typical japanese salarymen tokyo's decision office workers are expected to spend long hours at their desks but the corona virus outbreak has forced employers and workers to adjust to more tell you working from home it's getting a cautious thumbs up. what's good about tele working is that i can have more free time i usually spend 2 hours in total commuting which i now use to take care of things at home. that i like very much. the government wants to encourage more women in the workforce in japan and this requires men to pull their weight on childcare and housework while one 5th of companies offer a tele work option just 8.5 percent of employees have tried it out. experts say it

may lead to a more permanent change and it's not just the office workers themselves who welcome the change to kids like it too. the german football league has confirmed that the restart date for the bonus league it will be april 30th at the earliest germany's top tier league has been suspended since march 13th the clubs agreed on tuesday that the suspension should be extended because of the coronavirus however games may still be played behind closed doors when the season resumes there are 9 rounds of matches left in the current going to sleep. and joining us now is lots fun inge deo these sporting director of bonus league a side for tuna dusseldorf looks as good to have you on the program the german football league the d.f.l. wants to finish this season in full do you think that is a wise decision yeah i think it's

a important decision or i want to believe it's a wise decision as long as we can guarantee that the safety of the players that now it's always must be the most important part steadies. let's aid in good state and we can we can play games behind closed doors and i think it's a good thing for football club schools are full economical site to try and finish the season and what about for the country and the fans if the pandemic is still raging across germany across europe what will it look like then to have been this league football players playing matches while people are dying outside of a virus. well i think you have to look at it in a in a beautiful different way i mean it's very dark times no doubt about it but i think . if people are a home they don't have much to do i think it's yeah i believe it can be a special thing as well for them to have actually the bonus leah back to watch the

players and as i mentioned before as long as we have a guarantee reese the task force of. the d.f.l. which is there are lots of doctors also from the global coke institution i believe it's a good thing because it owns reese good for the emotional people we heard the d.f.l. chief executive say that some clubs could have their existence threatened by this suspension is that true for dusseldorf. well i think our case is slightly different i mean you know we are a smaller club was a smaller budget our finances are healthy but obviously being on a rich club these huge budgets the small h. builds but over all of course if you don't play football for a long time as long as there are the non-game time goes on as more as monday faecal get it for all the clubs in the 1st as well as in the 2nd division and for now i

think i think we will be ok but every club has his own measurements by. not getting the full salary and things like that you have different measurements to actually try and save some money like yeah of course it's a it's a difficult time for every club in the leak are you concerned if the scenes in is finished behind closed doors on health how can clubs guarantee the safety of their players. yeah that was one of the topics today i mean if there is a stranger then i'm 100 percent convinced there will be no games so right now today if i'm the sport chris christie owns i felt it was clearly set that there will be a task force. very well known specialists who really look into the dangers and look into the goods of it how it can be done so there is no danger for the players but also for the people who will still work in stadiums like broke crosses and stuff like that one of the measurements is to keep the numbers of people in and around the stadium as small as possible and we have a clear plan of measurements

a clear plan of action and i think if all that will be done in a proper way we have a realistic chance to actually start the season early may and finish it by the end of q 4 arrives let's punish deals sporting director of fortune of those that are joining us tonight i think from inside his car this is a dedicated man thank you that's unclear. you're watching the news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that will be right back.

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