this is d.w. news live from berlin world health chiefs say they are deeply concerned as the number of coronavirus cases kline's towards 1000000 the us is worst hit the number of deaths there reaches a new one day record president donald trump warns americans of a horrific few days ahead also coming up. the u.k. playing catch up london's new as hospital is set to open inside a convention center thousands of doctors and nurses come out of retirement to plug gaps in britain health care system. costs should we all be wearing face masks at

the pen demick sweeps the globe opinion is divided over whether they can slow the spread of the infection we look at differing attitudes in europe and asia. i'm claire richardson thanks for joining us the number of coronavirus cases around the world is approaching 1000000 with more than 200000 infections the united states is by far the worst hit country the death toll in the last day alone rose by 884 a new record president donald trump is warning america there will be a horrific few days ahead the epicenter of america's corona virus outbreak the streets of new york deserted. but ambulances are

a constant presence on the streets the state's death toll has doubled in just 3 days a refrigerated truck was brought in to help this brooklyn hospital deal with a sharp rise in fatalities. hospitals are running out of medications some hospitals don't have protective gear for staff or family members or patients that come to the hospital or running out of medication and of running out of the building and but even running out of oxygen which is something that hastened to have forbidden until. the white house is projecting that the virus could climb up to 240000 lives across the country we're told just by this pandemic authorities urging restraint and if you are going to wear a face covering when you go out please understand you don't need an end 95 mask and if you take one of those in 95 i ask you maybe taking it out of the hands of a health care worker who desperately needed to care for patients union leaders are warning that frontline health care workers are at risk. you're here to say that our

members are afraid to go to work because the protocols aren't being damned that is what i were calling for hazard pay you're trying to keep ourselves safe we're trying to work are safe we're trying to keep our community. health care workers who didn't get access to a mosque are now stuck at home so i haven't really been given too much direction besides just wait it out a whole series out or it's going to wait it out and then you get worse you know if you you can't breathe you know you're actually start adoration for. president trump is warning americans they face a very tough and painful 2 weeks and he is not given to understatement. earlier i spoke to journalist james rhino in new york i asked him for an update on the situation in the country's hardest hit city. i think you can say the mood in new

york city is becoming increasingly concerned i think that goes nationwide as well in the last 24 hours there's been a discernible shift in the end but this on the scale of this crisis for example previously president on trial he was talking about you know the possibility of being some pure being found coronavirus saying that the crisis was going to be as long lasting. and wasn't going to touch the economy such a long time now that has changed in the last 24 hours we've just had president trump speaking to the nation again and he said it's going to be vicious the predictions the projections for the total death toll from the crisis that are come out of the white house. suggest that as many as 100000 or up 224-0000 people could die and that even if we stop a bang the social distancing rules and everybody does they shut off in their apartments not just here in the worst part of the country the tri state area of new

york new jersey and connecticut and these other. other parts of the country like florida new elaine's. starting to show biggest signs of epidemics there well let's take a look at some other developments in the pandemic the world health organization has voiced a deep concern about the quote rapid escalation and global spread of cover 19 there are now more than 900000 cases around the world a major un climate summit has been postponed a cop $26.00 talks set for november and glasgow are now scheduled for next year and british airways is set to suspend $36000.00 staff 4 out of 5 cabin crew and ground staff will be told to stay at home. the united kingdom has suffered a much higher number of coronavirus fatalities and many of its european neighbors critics say decades of under-investment have left britain's health care system unable to cope with a pandemic. the finishing touches to london's newest hospital 4000 beds to treat

covert 900 patients and isa pressure on britain's national health service which has far fewer bets intensive care units and ventilator than most of its european neighbors what you see here is a mass mobilization taking place right across the country but also these new hospitals this is an extraordinary team. of nurses and doctors and therapists and. volunteers and paramedics and people returning to help 20000 retired doctors and nurses have returned to work most of them could be needed to cover this new hospital alone meanwhile critical care beds across london. doctors and nurses are bracing for a continuous tsunami of patients and they're frightened of what's to come they don't have the proper equipment to protect themselves and there is a serious lack of testing one in 4 hospital doctors is self isolating at home at

the moment because they can't get tested just at a time when they are needed the most so far only 2000 out of hof a 1000000 frontline n.h.s. staff in england have been tested for the virus now the government has promised to use all spare coronavirus tests for medical personnel. british industry is doing its part in the crisis instead of vacuum cleaners dyson is now building thousands of ventilators as well car makers from the world of formula one racing like mclaren despite these efforts experts say there won't be enough ventilators ready in time that people in britain are still. out of the health service. and it just here is i feel more prepared more than most countries that i know of work in the hospital literally marvelous job yes absolutely fantastic i can't see any problems to be

honest here this started before christmas in china i wish i'd been paid before a. book to read and just get on with it especially the worst is yet to come the peak is expected to reach the u.k. after easter so these next weeks will be the most crucial test for the n.h.s. since its founding after the 2nd world war. here in europe more than 30000 people have died governments are cracking down on movement to stop the virus from spreading italy is in its 4th week of a nationwide lockdown the restrictions appear to be helping the fight against the virus but people are losing jobs and earnings and it's feared frustration could soon spill over into violence italy's streets empty like they have been for the past 3 weeks. police are in patrol to ensure citizens only leave their homes when strictly necessary.

the lockdown has altered daily life in italy and brought the country's economy to a halt all non-essential businesses have had to shut down many people have lost their jobs or have seen their salaries cut some are now unable to afford even the basics. authorities and individual citizens have stepped in handing out meals to those in need but these initiatives are hardly enough and the risk of social unrest in italy is growing the mayor of naples has warned that the lockdown can't continue indefinitely. but we will soon need something close to normal economic activity. otherwise not only will we have thousands of coronavirus and ducks but we will also have millions of unemployed people that you'll use will be like you know organized crime. it can spend money and it can spend it faster than

the government. insists police are patrolling supermarkets after reports of shoppers refusing to pay italy isn't the only nation with a lockdown is hitting the poor hardest it might again prove to be an example of what's to come in other countries paralyzed by the coronavirus crisis. well now let's look at some ways kobe 19 is impacting of the business world show producer whiting petroleum has filed for bankruptcy protection it's the 1st big american oil firm to go under because of plunging prove prices across a virus outbreak and a price war between russia and saudi arabia have seen oil values collapse. german sportswear giant adidas has apologized for saying it would stop paying rent on shops forced to close during the coronavirus crisis the company had come under fire for using a government support scheme critics say it was not meant to help profitable multinational companies. german government is supporting start ups with a 2

a 1000000000 euro rescue package the finance ministry says many innovative young companies struggle with liquidity and securing loans they need support to stay afloat and carry on with research and development. one question that's increasingly coming up for discussion is whether we should all be wearing face masks to protect ourselves and others from the spread of coronavirus for months public health officials have said that for healthy people there's no need but that stance may be changing public health authorities here in europe and in the united states may soon encourage more people to wear masks. they want cease to raise eyebrows in europe but now face masks are increasingly becoming the norm on its streets. austria's decision to make it compulsory to wear the masks in supermarkets has sparked a debate across europe as austrian supermarkets began handing out basic face masks

before the law came into force some but not all shoppers welcome to the move. circuits in our culture we have never worn and now suddenly we must more or less wear them it's a question of adaptation in china and anywhere else in asia people wear them on the streets to protect themselves from clinician. the government is for owing really instructions from the medical body so they know we need to do anything get stricter i would just live by the rules even though it's a little bit annoying. i'm not in favor of it i think you're just delaying the problem with this or make people hysterical i think nothing of it but i still have to stick to the rules for the former because it was me thought through. in neighboring germany the town of vienna has become the country's 1st to announce

similar measures given the shortage of facemasks the city has encouraged people to sow their own but the world health organization says there is little scientific evidence showing that basic masks once not intended for medical use effectively prevent healthy people from catching the corona virus. some experts however 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. missed. in the czech republic where it's now illegal to go out in public without a mask mask trace of sprung up offering homemade pieces for others to take for free far from being a stigma there the mask has become

a social symbol. you're watching g.w. news and don't forget our website is there for all the latest news and information around the clock that's at d w dot com i'm claire richard sennett thank you for joining us now the corona virus has brought an eerie calm to some of the world's busiest places we'll leave you now with the streets left silent by the pandemic.

combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand and. what are scientists learning. background information and the risk. to our corona. coated 19 special and they're on g.w. . how does a virus spread. why do we panic and when we'll. just 3 of the topics i'm covered and we couldn't read your blog. if you would like any

information on the. science topic you should really check out our podcast. pod cast you can also find us. empty streets in a british village what a strange picture to us humans we're used to only seeing ourselves governing the world as soon as we withdraw or nature quickly takes over these monkeys in thailand as well. eventually good for the environment satellite images seem to prove just in italy people have been living in lockdown for weeks.

nitrogen dioxide levels have clearly dropped and other studies suggest that germany might even reach its climate goals as the lockdown causes the economy to produce much less c o 2. so is the coronavirus good for the planet this is the news with special coverage of the. welcome. steve out of work has thousands of flights cancelled empty streets because people are working from home instead of driving to the office global economic activity has been put into an induced coma bad for the world economy but from a climate perspective the coronavirus pandemic is not entirely negative environmental activists might actually rejoice measures have been implemented immediately that drastically cut emission emissions measures that otherwise would have taken years to come into effect. images from space china's pollution shown in red shrunk dramatically between december and march.

6 smoke has given way to building skylines thanks to closed factories reduced capacity power plants and fewer cars on the roads beijing's residents have been enjoying some unusually fresh spring air and they're not alone the air in europe is better too depending on how long the crisis goes on for the poor think tank estimates that germany's greenhouse gas emissions could be 40 percent lower this year than last. tourist hot spots are also enjoying some restaurant venice normally bustling with over $20000000.00 tourists each year is virtually empty. the water in its many can hours usually dull and murky as a result of the many boats is suddenly clear. crafter responsible for around 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions but the booming

business is currently very international flights have been reduced to a minimum german carrier looked handsome for example has cut 90 percent of its long distance flights in many countries lockdowns are set to continue for some time others are on the threshold of their china however is beginning to wind its economy back up again and that raises the question when the lockdowns end will it be business as usual. will its joining me now. from our environment. we just saw some of the positive effects in inverted commas of this pandemic on the environment so will we or should we go back to business as usual. we need to go back to what we're doing before but in a different way it's really difficult to talk about silver linings or to kind of celebrate these lockdowns because of course we're in the middle of

a pandemic and this is a much more urgent crisis than the climate crisis that we're also living and you can understand people celebrating this partially particularly when we talk about air pollution now air pollution is one of the world's most deadly killers it claims more than $7000000.00 lives each year and it shaves off on average about 3 years of our lives particularly people living in the global south then africa and asia now what this means when we've got locked down which have reduce pollution that we can see partially in china and it really is that in the short term at least people are able to breathe better the question is how long can this be held on for and one to look down lift now how will the economy would be reshaped in a way that doesn't lead to just more smoke more smog being produced you know rather puts things into perspective as if the shutdown also causes a drastic cut in c o 2 emissions to a degree that germany might even reach its climate goals for this year prematurely is that shutdown or a shutdown of that magnitude what it takes to reach climate targets.

it's one way of reaching them but i think most climate experts would say it's not a particularly good way of doing so there are clear solutions that would enable us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the climate targets that countries have agreed on in a way that doesn't require people to stay locked in their houses or to a halt economic activity the most obvious of the flu shot is to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and on top of that change how we consume food how we to reduce the amount of for instance beef that's being eaten that required raising rain forests and raising large numbers of cattle that belch meat thayne and other greenhouse gases. so the key point of read it from what the climate experts are saying is to find ways to reduce the emissions

without causing the harm to to the economy to humans that these locked down the currently doing but as it does do you think that what once the recovery period after covert has started do you think that fighting climate change will go on the back burner for a while i think we're already seeing that happen and it's hard to predict how that hope played out once the pandemic is over which will hopefully be as soon as possible. what we're going to see this year for sure is climate summit being canceled or postponed or i mean potentially held over skype and video. but a lot less effective if the clear answer we can see governments have much bigger priority has to deal with namely reducing the spread of the virus and on top of that we also have the issue of the kind of momentum behind change being lost so even climate activists the school strikers protesting like rats to invoke having to do that over skype it's a lot less in the public domain it's

a lot less on people's minds because rightly there are other more pressing issues to deal with. now the corona virus outbreak is actually changing the way we think about a whole range of things including how we treat nature intensifying has come in for particular criticism many of many new viruses have spread from animals to humans some say that in that in growing vast quantities of a single crop in monocultures all stripping the rain forest off it's what humanity is laying the groundwork for outbreaks like this one is that true as you are people just using the current crisis to further their agenda is always there indeed a direct connection between say the rainforest and the corner virus there's a direct her connection between human activity encroaching on ecosystems and the effects on pandemics whether that was the case with this particular current virus is too early to tell there's some suggestion that the virus spread initially from

bats through penguins and then to humans we know that the center of the outbreak in china was in a wet market where you've got lots of animals being traded sold illegally for meat on top of each other it's very easy to spread from animal to animal now that can all accelerate and what we're seeing clearly from course from a college of course from scientists. to protect the rain for earth to protect nature and even if we can or 30 link it to the current crisis to be aware that this will help prevent future pandemics as it narrowed down from our environment desk thank you very much thank you. ok time now for your questions answered by our science correspondents derek williams locked away in his office at home keep your questions for him coming via social media by our comments on our you tube channel and if you're more the or very old fashion via email today

we start with the weather. does hot weather help stop will slow the virus. most of the most severe or corona virus outbreak so far have been in places that were still in the midst of winter where spring is now on the way we don't really know yet whether when things heat up in the northern hemisphere it will slow the spread of covert 19 but there is reason for cautious hope that it might related coronaviruses have been shown to have seasonality but the w.h.o. has more than that at this point we very much just have to wait and see. the lifespan of the campaign if i rests. a study released a few weeks ago in the new england journal of medicine looked at exactly that question and came up with some ballpark figures that 1st looked at how long the

coronavirus remained in the air and found there were still viable levels of it after 3 hours the researchers also looked at materials like stainless steel and plastic and found that the virus survives on those surfaces for up to 3 days on cardboard it only remains viable for around 24 hours it's important to say that those tests they took place under strict laboratory conditions so you can't really transfer those results one to one in the real world but they do provide a kind of rule of thumb. can the virus spread when money changes hands. paper banknotes and bills are not all that different than services like cardboard so yes you can expect a virus to survive for a while on their surfaces so in theory yes money is a possible vector for infection but but don't forget that you can. can't catch the

disease through your skin and the virus has to get into your respiratory tract and it does that by your hands when you touch your face so if you avoid doing that and wash your hands thoroughly after conducting any monetary transactions it should be an effective way to limit any risk. science correspondent that concludes our covert $900.00 special for today for more on the pandemic do check out our social media channels and our website that's t w dot com of course which is dedicated covert $900.00 pages in 30 languages now before we go let's spare a thought for animal friends in zoos around the world with lockdowns in full force it seems the animals are missing the visitors. anyone who doesn't appear like camera crews for example is greeted with delight at using the images are from

germany both zookeepers in belgium the u.k. and the usa that animals are feeling the same. as hope we'll be back soon. enter the conflict zone with sara kelly. i put the tough questions to those in power challenging the key players face to face it's real and hard hitting debate that goes beyond the jargon and helps says you better understand what's really. holding the powerful to account getting to the truth. that's the conflict so.

sure of. what unites. what divides. what binds the continent together. answers and stories of plunging the. spotlight on people. some. 60 minutes w. . is for me. is for you. is for have. told for is for. beethoven is for.

beethoven is for. veto over is for. beethoven 202250th anniversary here on g.w. . we have underestimated or the ramifications of touring you the situation is not in your control is it how could you get to this point where the majority might be wrong this is a party which is absorbing fascist to the roots what do you do you just keep voting until you get the election result that you want this week conflict zone is at the munich security conference in germany a country that has just been plunged into a leadership crisis and confronted with.