d.w. dot com and on social media channels. this is deja news live from berlin a somber warning from the u.s. president. will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week and they'll be a lot of death unfortunately this as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the u.s. tops 300000 we look at how the country is coping. using tactics. german

developers are working on a new smartphone app that will warn people if they've been close to someone who's tested positive for code 900. plus they are in hundreds of thousands of pounds per week the english premier league wants its footballers to take a crew on a virus cut but players are pushing back. a michael o'connor it's good to have you with us the reality of the corona virus pandemic has reached american shores numbers of infections and deaths are spiraling while public health officials struggle to equip hospitals with what they need president donald trump seems to have largely stopped downplaying the scale and the danger while u.s. citizens adapt to the precautions needed to limit the spread of the virus.

reality bites refrigerated trucks outside to manhattan hospital to store bodies because the morgue is full under the gaze of the empire state building. on the street signs that people realize it's serious new york now where mosques and gloves and public. soldiers are deployed to help extraordinary times and even aid from unusual places. that expression you go to war with what you have not what you need right now we're not at the apex so we're still in the stage where we have the luxury if you will of gathering as much as we can so the 1000 ventilators and was from china and the 140 from oregon and we're still shopping. the rest of the united states is watching. new orleans has opened

a medical support facility in a convention center to ease the strain on local hospitals it'll take patients too sick to be a home who don't need intensive care. right now as is being accurately reported in new orleans that region. that's the biggest hot spot that's where we're most likely to see that our capacity to deliver health care of the soonest so that's where we're working. the pandemic is not tiny spreading fear it's also our awakening gratitude fizeau's risking the health of this. if it's really nice. give us hope. i'm now joined by d.j. abuse public fully public you've had experience covering this and it ministration have only just arrived from being our correspondent in washington president trump has said that there are going to be a lot of deaths what do you make of that strategy well it's you know if you follow

president quite closely it's often quite hard to follow him because his strategy is at times very difficult to follow as you know and what particular with this situation here we've seen him contradict himself often and he's gone against what actually the health officials have been saying and often in these long press conferences that he's been holding it's been at times very confusing for the american public to really see what the strategy is i think before we get into any greater detail that we should read and listen to what president trump had to say in his last appearance in front of the american public so let's take a look this will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week and they'll be a lot of death unfortunately but a lot less. if this wasn't done but there will be death. we're looking for an obvious focus and hardest hit regions some of them are obvious and some are so obvious they spring up they come and they. they hit you like you got hit by

a club. well i mean you know it's it's very strong what he's saying there you know he's warning americans that you know there are going to be a lot of deaths but they should expect this in the coming days and weeks but also one thing that's quite interesting from president trump is that the economy which is very important for president trump and let's not forget has been sort of always present to him when he's been speaking to the public and he sort of even said in the press conference that he wants americans essentially to get back to work as soon as possible but of course we know that this is not going to end in the next few days or weeks. and that's also a message that's being sent to people it's confusing as well and he's saying to people as well to use a malaria drug which you know his health officials have been saying hang on this is all anecdotal let's not be using this also he's been saying he's not going to use a mosque himself even though saying that it is actually something that's you know good for people to use so very confusing very hard to follow really what the strategy is in the meantime of course in the united states is

a lot of talk about there not being some sort of federal guidelines about how to approach this coronavirus the federal government leaving it up to the states how or trumps actions is his behavior during this affecting the strategy of individual states well i was saying it's very hard to follow the strategy and it's you know if you look at some states which are in particular in the southern states republican states will say i'm just going to name a few of them alabama arkansas mississippi 3 states which you know are relative are very poor compared to other states such as new york and washington state in california new york of the house huge numbers of infections and you know these are areas which are being very lax about this and you know there's been a lot of criticism saying why are you taking this approach they haven't really forced people to take any serious measures and could it be because of president trump and the messages that have been sent out it public fully alias in a studio with us thank you so much. let's have a look now at some other coronavirus developments around the world more than

1200000 people have been infected with the virus worldwide almost twice as many as just one week ago after the u.s. spain is now the 2nd hardest hit country in terms of cases it has reported $126000.00 infections more than in italy and bangladesh as prime minister has announced an $8500000000.00 package intended to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic germany is developing a smartphone app that can track people's movements and warn them if they've been close to someone who's tested positive for covert 191 big concern for developers in a country with a strict data protection laws the app should not infringe on users' data privacy if germans embrace the new app authorities here hope it will help them contain the spread of the virus. our mobile phones could become an important weapon in the

fight against the corona virus and germany could see the benefits very soon so for developers are working on tracking apps which would enable a loosening of restrictions on movement without compromising data privacy the op registers other smart phones with the op installed and can track people who are in the vicinity of the user for a particular amount of time if the op user test positive for corona all the people they had contact with can be notified and warned the hope is that possible cases of infection can be isolated more quickly according to calculations however it only works if 60 percent of the population uses the up. leg of that as long as it's free and it doesn't come from above i think it's completely ok but little everyone has a smartphone by now which they use to look up everything with an app that bed registers your location around the clock that's why it makes sense it's what they did in china. data protection laws are far stricter in europe than they are in china however which is why using the app has to be voluntary and anonymous it's not

programmed to log the user's location only the distance between them journalist is monitoring the ops development i'm not. guns in china what's all it's so crucial to this that the information is only saved on my telephone at 1st it's not uploaded anywhere not stored at a central location somewhere this way if i were to test positive i could then decide to share the information voluntarily. the corona could be launched in germany this month just under half of all germans have signaled a willingness to install it one of them being i'm going to merkel herself. now with the corona virus keeping millions of people around the world indoors one of the most challenging issues is boredom frankly and trying to keep a positive attitude at young kids in the mix when you've got a situation that's challenging even the most patient of parents did force whiting

is one of them she gave us this inside look at her new normal from the confines of her home here in berlin. welcome to our home which is now also the home office the home school and the home kindergarten this is my husband name working in was supposed to be a bedroom. this is charlie who's almost 10 and he usually found slugging it out in the kitchen table with his mountain of home what and this is 3 year old cecilia known as c.c. who is the one member of the family thriving in this new reality. we live in an apartment him live in right next to a rather beautiful church but we don't have access to a garden or even a boat in the so at times things can feel a little bit claustrophobic. none to arthur's

got mom stock or 3 full name. this was a call this is. she going to go will be everyone has to help out around the flat. well i say help no. but there are also some fun things about having to stay home. every morning c.c. can meet kindergarten friends and teachers online because become go outside much we try to do some exercise inside each day. we've even done a reenactment of the fairy tale little red riding-hood well it does help having a designer as a husband even if you did make me play the grandmother. look i'm not going

to pretend that this is the way you see it isn't what we are trying to do here is to appreciate what we do have which is each other. here's a look at some other stories at this hour. authorities in south eastern france have officially opened a terrorism inquiry following a knife attack the suspect is accused of killing 2 people and wounding 5 others on saturday he was arrested shortly after the attack evidence found in his home for instance a religious motive. an explosion in a coal mine near the colombian capital bogota has killed 11 miners and injured 4 more because of the blast is being investigated the accident comes just one day after another deadly incident in a mine in the country's northeast. that has stunned league soccer season has kicked off despite almost every other country in

the world suspending its leaks because of the coronavirus the 1st match was played behind closed doors in the central asian countries capital as he could stand has not announced a single case of covert 19 so far. now professional footballers in countries such as germany italy and spain have all agreed to pay cuts to levy aid some of the financial hardships caused by the coronavirus now england's premier league wants its athletes to play ball in agreed to a 30 percent reduction in pay but the players' union is pushing back saying that would reduce tax revenue for the national health service the stage is set for what could be a damaging public spat. the average income for footballers in the premier league is well over $3000000.00 euros per year some clubs in england's top flight like newcastle united have already cut wages of non-playing staff liverpool have

furloughed non-playing staff with full pay but they have come under fire for requesting the government to cover 80 percent of the outlay while one tiny league manager has already taken a pay cut it's a small part that we can do i think it important offer of a move forward. the right decision to do what we've done meanwhile premier league clubs continue to pay full wages to their stars but britain's health minister advised the lead to make some changes earlier in the week the 1st thing that a premier league football is can do is make a contribution take a pay cut and play their part now the league is asking players to take a 30 percent pay cut tottenham's danny rose agrees players should give up a portion of their wages but he didn't appreciate where the pressure came from saying it was not needed for people who are not involved in football to tell footballers what they should do with their money i found that so bizarre now the various clubs player representatives the f.a.a.

and the premier league itself must meet to discuss the proposed wage reduction for players. you all caught up on d. w. news remember you can get the latest news and information on our web site that's w dot com for all of us here d w news or berlin i'm michael locoed thanks for joining us and stay with us we'll have more news at the top of the hour. i'm going crazy thing in the time. how to handle new lives in times of the koran a pandemic d.w. reporter puja flickers nuts and she's looking for answers and thankfully with the help of many expect a few of them. thank you is not life as we know it.

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