live from berlin this was the news the u.k. government under fire over its response as hospitals prepare for a surge in new tysons while the country recorded its highest death toll we'll ask an expert from the world health organization what countries should be doing is minimized it's also on the program. saving europe's economy european commission president the line outlines proposals to ensure that you would covers when the crisis is over. in serious refugee camps is hot enough but what will

happen to the thousands stuck there when the pandemic. i'm anthony how it welcome the corona virus has spread across the planet but is playing out differently in different countries britain has just recorded its largest daily increase in deaths 563 on wednesday bringing the total number of deaths there to $2500.00 the u.k. government has been under pressure of its response critics say it was unprepared despite having seen the virus spread elsewhere and that too few tests have been carried out compared to other countries the prime minister who was himself tested positive for corona virus has promised to remedy this. we're also massively increasing testing and i want to say special word about testing because it is so

important in my eyes i've said for weeks and weeks this is the way through this is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle this is how we will defeat it in the let's go to philip play and i just talked to and from a member of parliament and he joins me from outside of london you work for the n.h.s. philip what is the situation think you and your colleagues like at this money well i'm actually self isolating at the moment about mild symptoms fortunately because i can't get access to a test i'm having to sit or stand away from patients for a bit. is challenging and we're having to sort of adjust the way the the service is sort of the hospitals now it is just ha ha the service is tools coded $98.00 in my part of the world i'm just west of london and in primary care in the family don't. every know we're now putting him in place preparations to manage

david 19 as much as possible in the community. the the ventilator capacity that people have talked about a lot is being built up but it is still not where it needs to be flip we heard the prime minister saying that he was always for more testing but that hasn't happened so i guess it's a part of was that your understanding that he was always for more testing and why hasn't it happened so far. more i mean. look it's suffice to say that i think the british government's strategy seems to have devolved i think that's the most generous thing i can say i think initially there seemed to be some arguments being made in number 10 that we should push on through and just mitigate the impact take it on the chin was a phrase that was used. and now it seems that we're moving through testing more as has been the case in germany throw a number of weeks. look i mean we are where we are and we're going to have to try

to do a lot better i think we need to find out where this virus is isolate the people who are positive treat the people who need to be treated because it's very simple i 1st 2nd to medical student would tell you this that's how you eradicate a virus right no matter which why your method it seems like the worst is yet to come in the u.k. in your opinion then how will the n.h.s. cope in the coming weeks with a further increase in coronavirus patients. well i think that the national service is good in that it is nationally coordinated in a situation like this that is a positive where it struggles in comparison to the german health system is it runs normally in the 9 times it full capacity bed occupancy is often about 90 percent of my understanding in germany it's more like 70 percent normally so you know national health service is having to build capacity in one by physically building

a hospital and there's been a remarkable achievement in building a significant host of facility in central london over the last 2 weeks but also the hospitals themselves of moving away from doing routine operations like you for placements and gallbladder operations and pivoting towards using their medical x. the medical skills towards treating created 90 that's where the additional capacity is going to come which means yes we should care less it really becomes that however what it does mean is that all the other health care needs of the population are going to be pushed down the line to do so so this is going to be a long term problem for the national health service to deal with this philip playing and i just talked to and from a member of parliament good luck to your colleagues and thank you so much pleasure one of the nation's many countries are struggling with is testing people for the virus the advice from the world health organization is to test as many people as

possible fish it is the world health organization is global outbreak alert and research network in singapore and he told the w. as you're about to hear that simply testing is not enough and it needs to be done with a purpose. the reason to test is you can identify the crisis and you can take them out of out of society and you keep them out until until they're clear and then they can come back you know it's not about it's not about energy or punishment to isolate they will isolation as a genuine fiction to troll intervention to prevent spread so you can either shut down your whole community and tell everyone to just quarantine or you can pull out the positive ones isolate them and not allow society to function as it is being out of asia and so we went on to ask what they all fish i thought about the approach being taken by many countries of spraying the streets and spraying buildings and even people with disinfectant maybe it's

a community image that we take seriously i don't know it's certainly not in a thing that we recommend we don't believe people are catching up from the ground. and and you know it's it makes no sense it's it's quite wrong just right people with chlorine arcelor images of refugees planes. you know that that's wrong and i think it needs to be to be stopped i'd rather see images. of people. you know washing their hands and distancing and things like that that that's the community response not not spraying chlorine everywhere i was dale fisher of the well here's some more of the latest developments now in the pandemic spines the death toll has passed the $10000.00 it's one of europe's hardest hit countries after italy concern is growing over the possible spread of the virus in a densely populated shanty town in mumbai that's after the that avi slum reported

its 1st day from the virus and brazil has reported the 1st corona virus case among its indigenous population a woman from the kama ethnic group in the amazon rainforest has tested positive. well more than half a 1000000 people in europe have now been infected with the coronavirus european union chief on the line and other leaders have criticized the lack of solidarity and coordination among member states now on the vine says the e.u. bill rolled out a huge relief program comparable to the e.u. rescue fund for europe after world war 2 many are calling. for some old. man well i think the human genome but it should be the marshall plan they knocked together as the european union for the european people the commission will provide loans to those members that need then to strengthen their

time work schemes if teams know and our plans for the european union well let's get more from v.w. brussels correspondent. you'll talk us through what this new marshall plan what's in it and for whom. well the short time unemployment scheme that was a life on the line introduced today having a capacity of 100000000000 euros in loans from member states is only a small part of that marshall plan and we'll still have to see what the whole marshall plan will look like but the unemployment scheme she said today is a 2nd line of defense she wants to offer to all member states all member states have to provide guarantees in order to participate and in order to benefit from that scheme but basically what she has said is that these a short i want to broaden schemes is something that member states 18 out of the 27 already have and she'd like to see it in all the member states and what she wants

to provide is basically allowing member states this that's what the scheme does it allows member states to reduce the working hours of people in working in companies and the state will then subsidize their salaries now this is a strong strain on unemployment steams in member states and so the fund she has created here oh she's suggesting that the you will create then would provide loans to those member states who have difficulty and all of this will be put in front of finance ministers next week in order to get the green light and brings us to the next big question will this be enough to keep europe's economies going. ok number of things are currently being debated for instance a state aid rules have been basically being abolished the state can fund companies as much as they want the very strict financial laws f. being pushed off the table by the commission so

a lot of measures the european central bank has ingested 750000000000 euros of on the line today set of a huge number 2770000000000 euros have been put in the table in order to face that crisis we'll still have to wait and see how much of that money will actually be needed for the moment the sign of the commission the sign that the commission wants to send out is that the e.u. and its member states take this serious and they do everything they can in monetary terms in order to support member states to prevent them from facing economic consequences harsh economic consequences from that crisis and just quickly some e.u. countries had suggested some kind of ditch sharing mechanism others like germany voiced opposition is that still on the table there's still quite some resistance from germany from the netherlands from austria to that region i stept if you want to call it there's the name of corona pons or euro bonds as we know them from the

2008 financial crisis but that front is weakening and so i don't think that next week will we'll see the the jointly finance fiscal bazooka that some states in the south of europe would like to see but we're moving closer to some form of mutual ice debt so that all of europe supports those states that are desperately in need for that financial aid mathes in brussels thank you well any crisis will hit the most defenseless hardest and the coronavirus pandemic is no exception the situation in war torn regions like syria is invalid province is already dying and the medical infrastructure almost non-existent occurring of corona virus outbreak there would be devastating. disinfecting tents at a refugee camp in it live province a prevention effort being carried out by the volunteer rescue group white helmets. almost a half a 1000000 people are packed in here at times up to 10 people share

a tent under catastrophic hygenic conditions many of them have fled civil war only to be threatened by the corona virus pandemic children are taught the most essential prevention methods their parents often desperate. yes i've heard about the coronavirus i'm scared for my children there's no prevention happening hardly any disinfectant nobody takes care of it. syria is ill prepared to deal with the corona virus outbreak so far authorities claim to have only 10 cases but the actual number is likely much higher. now which the hammonds a doctor at one of the few hospitals in it live he alone tells us about 50 suspected cases. so far this old man has trouble breathing. for them or another has a high fever and is feeling sick. the entire province of it live has roughly 100

tents of care beds and 47 ventilators for a population of over 3000000. mom and i don't know we are doing the best we can to prepare for the corona virus and we have installed a quarantine ward. but we would be out of our league to confront a virus like this should it break out here may god prevent us. here in the capital damascus a curfew is in place from 6 in the evening till 6 in the morning just like the rest of syria but during the day life still moves at its normal pace and even in it live the shops are still open nobody is under quarantine abu ahmed owns a small street shop and like you could. i did the virus is dangerous for all of us but we need to work in order to survive how can we stay at home ice to what the world health organization has so far sent only 300 corona test kits to limp

according to local health officials who have a stern warning we. actually know who he is. so. we're seeing here is just if you want to hear. if the corona virus spreads an adlib it will hit those who are defenseless and have nothing to counter it. as countries around the world grapple with the corona virus pandemic there are growing calls to address conditions in refugee camps in europe experts fear that a virus outbreak is imminent in a crowded camps on great islands social distancing is impossible and poor hygiene could lead to the virus spreading uncontrollably one woman in a camp near athens recently tested positive activists say the european union must do more to provide safe housing and conditions. over your house and so on is the

e.u. commission of 400 phase with migration they want to keep areas the focus she joins me now from brussels commissioner welcome and thank you what are you going to do it's a question that haunts many people at the moment what are you going to do if there is a corona virus outbreak in one of the badly of a crowded great migrant camps. we have to avoid that we have to do everything to avoid that crisis to happen and that's why we are working very hard now to set up and emergency response action plan together with the greek authorities and this is now in place so what we should do now is to immediately evacuate the most vulnerable individuals out of these camps so that they can really be secured in hotel rooms or apartment and not being affected if the virus break out in these camps and also supporting with medical equipment medical stuff and the kind of measures that we now put being make available for the greek authorities and for

i.o.m. and u.n.h. art of we are working closely to deal with this situation so it's now been weeks ago a group of you countries agreed to take in hundreds of unaccompanied minors from the migrant camps you're saying now that that action plan will swing in to immediate effect to a vacuum those kids. no this is an emergency plan is to evacuate the most vulnerable old people sick people out of the camps to safe areas like hotel rooms that are available right now outside the camp so they will not stay in these conditions in the camps the relocation of the on the company in minors is also going quite well we have 80 member states that are ready to welcome these children and i do hope that the 1st relocation will take place in the coming

week so that they are now being transferred to transit centers where they are also being tested for the corona virus and virus and prepared for the relocation to these member states that are welcoming them and for me this is a very important message of a practical sort of practical solidarity in these times where will they need to least of pressure this of a crowd that the caps on the islands so you allude to it you're pretty solidarity but why is it being so difficult to find the solution for the migrants and refugees who have been stranded there some of them for years now well since i took office we have been working very hard to find a new dealer migration and asylum that i would propose soon and i hope that could be acceptable for all the member states and we are also working quite close together with the greek government and the greek authorities and the u.n.

organizations to help have better conditions in these overcrowded camps and to release the pressure on these camps by relocating people out of these camps and also to return people and just finally who's in is actually responsible for the situation in greece. of course the greek government is responsible for the situation in greece but they can't act alone we have to show solidarity the european commission is providing with a huge lot of money and practical things with people on the ground helping working diet day and night to help them and we are also engaging n.g.o.s and u.n. organizations to help them so we they the greek authorities government is responsible but we all are responsible to show practical solidarity told what's greece the migrants in this overcrowded camps right now. for your hands on

commission of 100 fares thank you so much for time thank you well here in germany a group of researches is turning a town hit hard by the pandemic into a study area they're looking at everything to learn how the virus is spread gets is and what stops this is germany's. hind spec is the german epicenter of the corona virus outbreak now it's about to be turned into an open and the dollar tree. in mice but hoffman has one of the country's worst affected regions heinsberg has reached the point where we can now see new infections declining and looking annoying for so here for the 1st time we can ask the question how many infections went undetected how high the ratio of those really is were sick without ever being diagnosed. doctors are teaming up with poles to analyze a group of 1000 people in this small community of dang it. following cannibal's

celebrations in february the town saw a sudden surge of corona virus infections those responsible hope the mistakes made back then may now produce some good for you in the end maybe we won't just be remembered for being the region where things were really bad and maybe will be remembered for handling the situation well doing as much as we could. it's hope taking samples from all aspects of daily life will shed some light on how fast and in which ways the virus spread it is probably in the sea of the problem is that we are currently relying too much on mathematical models. and if only one factor turns out to be wrong the whole calculation model collapses like a house of cards on the team of scientists hopes to be able to present the 1st concrete results on actual infection ratios by the beginning of next week.

and now here's a look at some more was covered 19 is impacting the world there's a growing concern at the scale of the corona virus in the us president trump warning of fishes ahead the death toll york state doubled in 72 hours to more than 1900. president of the philippines has ordered police to shoot did anyone who causes trouble in lockdown areas a drink go to 10 televised speech came just hours after a group of people were arrested in a manila slum for demanding the government do more to feed the paul. british airways is the latest airline to take drastic measures to try and ensure its survival the british flagship kariya is reported to be planning to suspend about $36000.00 staff stressed that they will be no redundancy this week be a temporarily halted flights out of the u.k. 2nd busiest airport gatwick coronavirus pandemic has plunged the aviation industry

into an unprecedented crisis kerry is forced to ground their fleets its borders closed and passenger numbers. of finance correspondent konrad bisan is at the frankfurt stock exchange with more of course british airways come right isn't the only carry is suffering give us an overview of what the sector looks like at the moment. well at the moment on the european bourses share prices have stabilized somewhat also because of those many help programmes launched for the airlines. shares in. frankfurt trading air france in paris and amsterdam all pretty stable today even in afternoon trading where breaking news has just hit the trading floor is breaking news coming from the united states allow me to tell you and our viewers about it $6648000.00 americans

have applied for 1st time unemployment benefits last week that's way more than the most negative anticipation on the markets another blow off course also for the markets but the airline sector for a change looks a bit more stable today. working out what's going to happen tomorrow is hard but crystal boiling further what what about once we're out of this crisis what do you think the airline secure is going to look like is every airline going to survive. no definitely not airlines which already had weak business model before the crow corona crisis are likely to find it difficult to survive they very likely to at the moment negotiate with their bags with you know the ones that give them credit to. continue the financing we've seen casualties already in the united kingdom fly b. this regional airline already has gone down today thomas cook reported that it is it

will end business for its small fleet and experts for the sector are convinced that we're going to hear more about stuff like this. summer because in in frankfurt thank you. well off the weights of falling oil prices crude is trading up a bit after comments made by u.s. president donald trump who says that russia and saudi arabia might come to an agreement soon and lower the oil output but countries of refused to scale back will production even as demand has drastically fold and due to the impact of the coronavirus crisis which has led to closed factories grounded flights and lower traffic wardens. now don't forget you can always get news on the go just download from google play all from the app store itself that give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push

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