i still am not too dumb to post. april and. bases d.w. news live from birthday and life after lockdown hand begins an anxious return to normality after months in isolation residents of the chinese city with a covert 19 pandemic began taking some 1st steps towards resuming their normal lives but beijing has warned it's still too soon to sound the all clear also coming

up german developers work on a new app that aims to warn people if they had contact with someone who tested positive for the corona virus but is people's privacy at stake. and queen elizabeth delivers a red televised address as the u.k.'s hospitals come under increasing pressure due to the pandemic. i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program the chinese city of woo han the original epi center of the corona virus pandemic has begun to reopen after months on lockdown authorities are easing the restrictions that kept the city's 11000000 people at home now residents are slowly returning to the streets with some leaving their homes for the 1st time since late january. life

inside will han it's still a place of fear and fascination as the city begins to move on from the crisis. in the us it was in they say there are many infected people without symptoms so i'll wait until none of those people are out there before i feel safe but i'm worried even if there's only one case a day. i think people will have a psychological fear of the epidemic really it all depends on how individuals think . well my heart come out here every day and i'm not so scared but i have to take all the precautions in the right way. it's only the barricades that hinted anything other than business as usual at this market erected at the beginning of the outbreak they're slowly being taken down as their purpose becomes mouche who hands 11000000 residents are slowly emerging from their harms

aging and sleeping sleeping in a sing i think it's really relaxing i've worked for more than 20 years and have never experienced something like this before. this couple takes advantage of the sunshine after 2 months inside. sing when i had been confined for a long time also i sometimes felt depressed once how but when i thought about it and calmed down time i found that i felt so fortunate that i hadn't caught the coronavirus. being healthy is better than everything is so much. the fear of being infected has not gone away as restrictions on residents. as residents return to their lives will it be the will hon they remember. german chancellor angela merkel has said it's still too early to say when

coronavirus lockdown measures across the country could be relaxed but policymakers are already exploring ways to prevent new infections once restrictions are lifted one option is a smart phone app to track people's movements and warn them if they've had contact with someone who's tested positive but in germany data protection is a big concern. 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 the loosening of restrictions on movement without compromising data privacy the op registers of their smartphones with the op installed on contract 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. back up as long as it's free

and it doesn't come from above i think it's completely ok with the way everyone has a smartphone by now which they use to look at 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. the data protection laws are far stricter in europe than they are in china however which is why using the app has to be voluntary under nona's it's not programmed to log the user's location only the distance between them journalist is monitoring the ops development i'm. in china and what's also a crew sure 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. well for more on this let's bring in an kept playing ladles from the association for liberal internet policy and kathleen thanks for joining me german ole florida say the use of this app will be voluntary should not be compulsory considering the health emergency where in. thanks for having me here today and i think an app can only be successful here in germany if it's one journey because otherwise people who are refused to use it or leave it at home and and in the beginning there was a person who said that everyone in germany has it's not who are already but i think i don't think that it's true because just as studies show that just 79 percent of the germans have a smartphone so even not everyone has a smart already in german. right well if it's not mandatory to how successful can it be. if it's not mandatory we need to set

the stage so that everyone is willing to use that and that means that we have to set the right expectations where people can expect if they use it so if we can they're relaxed the restrictions we have right now and they need to have trust in the app and the government so that they can be sure that the data we will be only stored on their smartphones and not handed over to any other authorities for example precisely they will need to have trust in the app so well in what ways could it be used maliciously. i don't really know how it could be used maliciously and the apt we that will be devil not right now but you know in the internet or in the digital sphere everything that can be trial will be trial so we need to be am sure that it will be trolled and of course we need to check for am aware data protection and cyber security and so on so that our hacker us won't be able to get the data and there's another problem because we want to use the

bluetooth technology and it has shown that the tools is not always secure so there are a lot of the possibilities to hack in through this technology through the the bluetooth gateway in what ways can the government assure paypal that this app is going to be safe and they said that i should needs them. i think they should work closely together with energy poles and together with our federal commission for data protection and the software should be open source and i think it will be open source and i think it's necessary that we have this critical discussion here in germany so that there's a high commitment in between the citizens and everyone who will be involved in the to her argument of the app and everyone needs to know what they can expect if they use the app and how it will be used they need to understand really understand how

it works and as the data will be anonymous and kathleen fadal from the association fillable internet policy thanks very much. take a look now at some of the other covert 19 stories making news this hour in saudi arabia local foreigners have deployed drones in the fight against the virus the machines are fitted with thermal cameras to measure the body temperature of shoppers in the same region a higher than normal body temperature is one of the symptoms of covert 19. or thora teas in long body the italian region worst affected by the corona virus have made it mandatory to wear face masks to anyone going outside the region remains in lockdown but residents can leave their homes for essential activities such as exercise or grocery shopping. in uganda authorities are donating food to vulnerable people living in the capital kampala

a lockdown has hit the poor especially hard in the city where many earn a living selling goods in the street act activists have accused ugandan security forces of using beatings and shootings to enforce the restrictions. on britain's queen elizabeth has made a rare television address to the nation as the coronavirus takes hundreds more lives in the u.k. every day it's only the 4th time the monarch has spoken in this way in her nearly 70 year reign speaking from windsor castle the queen appeal to britain's to show courage and resolve in fighting the virus and she stressed the importance of social distancing i also want to thank those of you who are staying at home thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones together we are tackling this disease and i want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute then we would

overcome it i hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. well let's bring in our correspondents standing by for us in london charlotte it's extremely rare for the queen to address the nation in this way how significant is it. well this was very significant this was she only did this a handful of times in her nearly 70 year reign and she did it because of the timing it's very important the u.k. is very hard hit at the moment the peak is going to be expected in about a week and the queen did those special broadcasts only on very special occasions for example after the death of diana and british people but also people around the world have a lot of respect for them or not people of the commonwealth so they will have

listen closely to what the queen had to say to them tonight and shall we had a little bit from the speech what were the king takeaways when she was evoking the wartime spirit and we've heard that from other european leaders that they reminded that covert 19 is the challenge such as the 2nd world war but of course queen elizabeth has lived through the 2nd world war and that was quite significant that she was evoking that spirit of the war she was asking the british people to be disciplined to stay at home to see that through she was praising the health care. and this comes for the queen as a very personal thing as well this crisis hits close to home she is self isolating at the moment she's 93 years old together with her husband who's 98 years old they are together at windsor this broadcast was recorded by a camera man wearing protective gear so they're very much protected but her eldest

son the heir to the throne prince charles had contracted the virus himself has since recovered so a crisis that is also very personable personal for her. and how is the u.k. handling the crisis so far. well the u.k. is very much hit at the moment the peak is expected in about a week or so the death toll at the moment rising and set to overtake that of france and italy and the n.h.s. the national health service is very stretched at the moment hospital bed beds are filling up quickly there are not as many ventilators as and other european countries and not as many beds several doctors and nurses have already died and the government's response has been very slow threw out of that and there is a lack of leadership at the moment because boris johnson the prime minister is at the moment in self isolating because he has contracted the disease and it seems to

take quite a long time for him so definitely a lack of leadership at the moment here in the u.k. . standing by for us in london thanks very much. all for christians around the world today is palm sunday an important date in the religious calendar and the start of holy week leading up to a step out in these days of the coronavirus pandemic everything is different some pages square in the vatican was deserted this morning usually it's full of catholics who gathered to hear the pope instead pope francis live stream to the traditional palm sunday mass as the faithful have been instructed to stay at home for. don't forget you can always get date of the news on the go just download our app from google play all from the app still that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can also use the data you have to send us photos and videos of

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