lists the burglar glug glug glug leg long long long long long long long slog the best. respects. the cuts are going. when will the pandemic peak in the united states americans have been warned the death toll this week will be so high the trauma so deep that it will rival pearl harbor and the 911 attacks on this side of the atlantic the coronavirus rages on germany's chancellor angela merkel today saying that the pandemic is the biggest crisis that the european union has ever faced i'm forgot from berlin this is the day.

he. has argued us right now i would like to see that in my opinion year at the european union is facing its biggest task since expanded asia and regardless of that our populations are also facing a huge count challenge the e.u. member states are being affected in various ways we're all in the fact it's. it's this match has shown as you might call it in some technical terms in other words everyone is equally affected and so it must be in everyone's and transit and it is in germany's and chanced that year it should appear strongly on this chance that a whole bunch stock. also coming up warnings that this week could become the deadliest in the u.s. since the pandemic began new york state governor andrew cuomo saying now is not the time for anyone to let down their guard if we are plateau mean we are proud towing

at a very high level and this tremendous stress on the health care system this is a hospital system where we have our foot to the floor and the engine is at redline and you can't go any faster because the system will blow. up to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we. we begin the day as a week of death begins in the united states those are the words u.s. president double trump used to warn the country of what is expected to be the deadliest week since the coronavirus pandemic began today the death toll in the u.s. crossed the 10000 mark and tonight the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. is expected to surpass the numbers in italy and spain combined here in europe it's a mixed picture spain's death toll fell today for the 4th day in a row but in france just across the border the rate of death is accelerating and

from london to berlin reporters are pressing leaders for clues as to when restrictions in lockdowns will be lifted and those leaders they are answering in unison with the message it's too early to even talk about an exit strategy. back in the chancellery after 2 weeks in quarantine and 3 negative colonel virus tests german chancellor angela merkel made her time. yeah you guys that aren't of mine in my opinion europe the european union is facing its biggest test since its foundation populations are also facing a huge health challenge with all the e.u. member states are being affected on varying levels we're all affected and open up and so it must be in everyone's interest and it is in germany's interest that europe should emerge strongly from this test with ease up of the events. as merkel

voiced her concerns for europe on monday how governments crisis group agree to institute a 2 week quarantine for people returning to germany from a full 10th all german nationals e.u. citizens and other longtime residents who return after several days abroad will have to quarantine themselves for 14 days there are however exceptions. including seasonal workers in agriculture communications traveling to walk truck drivers delivering goods and of course medical professionals. germany also announced on monday the latest extension to its $1.00 trillion euros coronavirus crisis package a guarantee of 100 percent loans to small and medium sized businesses up 280-0000 euro rice. these middle companies are widely seen as the hot of the german

economy i would even try to without it anyone who was economically active last year those who registered turnover those who recorded normal economic activity and made a profit they can get 3 months turnover as a loan from the bank which in this case will be 100 percent financially underwritten by us for that means the banks will not have to do normal financial risk assessments this 100 percent guarantee means the process will be completed very quickly as the guns. that come. now germany's european neighbors to looking to berlin to see whether macas concerns but also turn into financial support for them are those pulling our chief political correspondent melinda crane good evening to you bill and you know we've heard the chancellor the day calling this this pandemic the biggest crisis that the european union has faced italy and spain they're struggling with that we know that there is a lot of anti e.u.

sentiment we've seen what the big door bar has done in hungary is pressure increasing on germany now to do more to help more than it normally would. absolutely it is and the chancellor's remarks this afternoon essentially amounted to an attempt to prepare germans for the idea that they will need to support other e.u. member countries even while their own economy is taking a hit as she put it germany only does well when the e.u. it does well and she said that we will need to see more european solidarity coming out of this crisis she outlined a couple of different mechanisms by which the e.u. can provide exceptional assistance in times of crisis that compare a century to a natural catastrophe but what she did not mention was the particular instrument that spain and italy have been pushing hardest namely the so-called corona bonds they would amount to

a mutualization of debt in which stronger northern economies essentially would become partly responsible for the debt of weaker member states but that was quite noticeable in the fact that she omitted that instrument there's a taboo that remains a taboo there is a lot of talk about a possible exit strategy from the lock downs that we're seeing across europe reporters were asking about that again today in london and also here in berlin and the german chancellor she's not giving reporters what they wanted to hear is she. well she said she absolutely would be remiss the entire government would be remiss if they were not thinking day and night about how to lift the very tough restrictions that they have imposed and she said you can be assured that we are doing that and yet with all concern for the economic consequences public health must come 1st and will continue to come 1st and she said that while germany has

made some progress in reducing the rate of reproduction of the virus the rate at which the new infections occur she said we're not where we need to be and we will not be lifting the restrictions until we are so she basically let germans know those restrictions will remain in place at least until the middle of next week and she said when they are lifted it will be a step by step process and we will be saying for some time that we are still living in the midst of a pandemic and for the time being we're still worried about the nurses and doctors having enough protective equipment mass for example was a situation in germany tonight absolutely and she had a couple of things to say about that 1st of all she said we need to see greater european self-sufficiency in the production of personal productive protective equipment she also said that while germany had improved its procurement of masks and other such goods it still wasn't where it wanted to be and of course we have

seen diversions of shipments of masks to this country and then finally she said that with all due consideration for the wearing of masks the fact is the key measure to take remains social distancing and she said if you do decide to use a mask be aware that it's very important to keep it clean that it's very important to change it so some very detailed instructions from the chancellor on that boy is a scientist after all one degree not chief political correspondent on the story for us tonight melinda thank you. one of the most effective or if you are in a city or country under lockdown restrictions you know it changes everything especially at home our relationships can suffer especially those relationships with the people closest to us in the social media series on living in what we take a look at how to make ourselves comfortable when everything's too close for comfort . last week i had a rooting fight with my flatmate like

a screaming match and it was about. the salad bowl and i'm not the only one having problems with wristbands published ration is all well in walls in the long run it's not a health food we were. just lashing out on. i like to get out on camera and we were to have to bring a lot together the potential for conflict is very high you've probably heard about the divorce numbers by kings trying to sell 5 place and can lead to talent thing and in some cases big screen situations so i took a couple of from the families around the globe about how they are handling this situation and then offer a couple of therapists how to best camp with being boxed in with other people who want to grow nick is featured in a doc is the reason appropriately named couples therapy.

one force that's how happening right now is that we are confronted with differences and they see couples kind of falling into very kind of intense fight about difference and difference in coping style or difference in view i think respecting difference respecting boundaries is key. so i'm advising people to. really create very artificial boundaries and stick to them like dogmatically liked. set a timer if you need to be if you can't literally be in separately i'm sorry hold on one second guys. for example someone intrudes you say that now. your family was like for example remember and i told them you cannot grow up in. your really rigid about it and the rules can be very

simple like what my friend ellery does and you got is that. and we have a rule that if one person has their head downs and like other mean. like simple things only if it's an emergency it does not mean that it's you know your husband is not spending time with your deal but you should not spending time with you but if you don't love you as much and just. get some space is luxury i'm going to because i live in a bigger problem with my flatmates but a lot of people all across the world don't have that luxury they have to be imaginative and creative. if you are for example in a particular mood or you're struggling with a particular issue it's very easy to call your partner in to play a role in your own internal drama and now it's kind of prime time for those kind of

dynamics so the 1st week i felt very cooped up and was very restless and. ringback i would like take it out on camera and we were kind of figuring a lot because i felt super and happy to kind of listen to the music of that and not buying into your own story and kind of pull back from that and move into like the melody of like we're in this together i had tried to channel that in a more healthy way so i've taken up a lot of hobbies. i realized i just need things are i right i was lashing out online i was known. to leave some sense to build and i'll there's only them to everything that you're doing. but it is also true that during stressful times underlined conflicts can boil over and

turn violent domestic violence rates have gone up not only in china but also in europe and elsewhere greater williams as a domestic abuse survivor herself and a women's rights campaigner in the u.k. i can just put myself back with a domestic terrorist because that's what they are. you know at least 10 no i could get it now some breathing space but not least it since i was no in luck to em so they are in a prison and there's a massive terrorist incident. to a massive market change if you speak perhaps your neighbor might be experiencing masterpiece violence next door you know perhaps go or not at all you know with the with the. 2 need to distance you know and ask in everything all right when he was watching this moment to help he's make the call you should be able to dial in and report message me 7. each country has different help hotlines and organizations many of which are trying to ramp up their capacities during the crisis is calling

is too risky you can also contact many of them digitally. but thankfully this situation could also be a new opportunity for relationships i think people also have the capacity to work through things that otherwise they wouldn't want to it's a particular moment in time where we're not embedded in our everyday lives that we have the capacity to think bigger and to understand things on a bigger scale this is the reason why it's going great. we must now because we have time to talk more about stuff the one thing that this will be does will help us. to understand a troubling brother. yeah i have i have no situation where on day 3 of the car with my flatmate. i got in

a screaming match with. for the 1st time in my life and greatest. for that country just predict with you what happened yet tell me you probably had like a screaming match you were each like shocked at the state you got into and then you came out of it better than ever. it. went back in there sorry it was an overreaction. humanity is in a moment where it's being tested and it's our chance to show our best selves to each other the option to go through something together is is huge to being able to see that rather than just take it for granted is profound i can become close it is not spending so much time until i'm the most we realize. i'm happy with my

family even i'm happy that these are the people i want i think that's important. to me like we're just to get anything anything most of the time. but one of the most effective means of slowing an outbreak is tracing the mobile phones of suspected by wrists carriers people who have been near that carrier can that be notified by phone that they should be tested for the virus south korea used this method to successfully sweat in the curve of this level of surveillance would have been unthinkable here in europe and in the u.s. just a few weeks ago but life and death choices often result in reductions in our rights i want you to consider hungary last week parliament there citing the pandemic emergency gave prime minister viktor orbán the power to govern by decree a move away from the rule of wall it drew this comment from the european union's

commission president. then members may need to. move to address the immediate health plan but i am certain that certain measures go too far and i'm particularly concerned with the situation hungry. action and necessary as we have already done in the past. oh my next guest tonight says that obama's power grab is shocking but not surprising the bear was u.s. ambassador to the organization for security and cooperation in europe under us president obama he is now with the carnegie endowment for international peace he joins me tonight from denver colorado there it's good to have you back on the day i want to get to your piece in foreign policy about the coronavirus crew in hungary in just a moment but 1st i'd like to get your thoughts on the coronavirus situation in the u.s. right now we've got more than 10000 people who have died in the u.s.

from the virus the surgeon general comparing this week to the 911 and pearl harbor attacks how bad is it where you are. well i think as you know there are a number of hot spots around the around the country colorado like some places in europe has a lot of ski resorts and we saw the 1st hot spots in our state develop around those ski resorts but i think all of us are trying to do a few things right now one is to support the front line workers who are you know dealing with the crisis day in and day out long hours trying to help patients trying to help people survive this obviously thinking of the victims and their families and listening to the scientists and the public health experts who give us guidance about what we can do to keep keep everybody else and ourselves safe and i think this is about a moment for coming together and people are as you said bracing themselves for one of them but health experts tell us will be an incredibly painful week that follows

an incredibly painful week last week as we saw the death toll spike in the united states we were struck when we heard the comparisons being made with 911 in the pearl harbor attacks and what struck me is that those attacks were surprise attacks this pandemic is an al break that gave us weeks if not months to prepare for how do you see it. i think that's right and you know there will be a time when it is appropriate and important for us to learn the lessons that can be learned from the mismanagement of the trumpet ministration in january february and even into early march of this pandemic which was enhanced increase not only the human toll that obviously the economic consequences if they had taken action responsible action sooner we know that much of what we are going through could have been averted but right now i think the focus is on dealing with the crisis at hand making sure that we're getting medical equipment to the front line workers making sure that we're getting ventilators to the patients that need them etc and we will

have time later to examine the failures of the trumpet ministration let's talk about your article in foreign policy you write that the power grab or the coronavirus to as you call it in hungary last week you say it was a wake up call to europe and the u.s. the european union must really be sleepwalking b. because if this is a wake up call we haven't heard anything it's been rather silent about orbits are you worried about that. i am worried and i'm worried on a couple levels 1st of all you may have seen that there was an fact an e.u. statement that was signed onto initially by 13 e.u. states that it was so mealy mouth that didn't even mention the word hungary and indian or buns government in an effort at trolling the e.u. joined the statement because it didn't mention them and claim that it was about other folks you know the e.u.'s failure to speak out in a moment like this concerns me because of the human rights consequences of what orbán has done which has been laying the groundwork for for years now because what

he's done on the cover under the cover of this crisis is it is a big setback for human rights and democracy in europe and i would hope that the e.u. and others including the united states which also hasn't spoken out would speak out on the human rights level the other reason it concerns me is that i think this is a moment in general that is testing the solidarity of the e.u. and as an american who believes very much that a strong e.u. a strong europe is good for a strong america i hope that europeans are able to find the solidarity that they need to meet this moment together they need to have a solidarity on values they need to have solidarity on and confronting the medical challenge of this crisis and solidarity and confronting the economic consequences which obviously will be with us for quite a while you know you know europe you know the o.e.c.d. the you know the european union and you know that the e.u. can't kick hungary out for example even if it does things like you know get rid of

rule of law replace it with a prime minister or who's governing by decree what response should europe be preparing in your opinion and when should we see that response. well they can't become very out but they can suspend hungary and they can impose sanctions and the e.u. has threatened and used things in the past and obviously they are appropriate in this case and they were appropriate before i think one of the points that i tried to make in my article is that well understandably there's a lot of hang hand-wringing that orbán has used the cover of this crisis to make this power into this is something that's been in the making for a long time and there have been many many folks who have spoken out particularly in civil society in hungary over the last 10 years and said look this is this is going in a disastrous directions that this was not a surprise it was a shocking power grab but not a surprise and now is the time i mean it would have been appropriate for the e.u. to take action sooner we can't go back in time but it certainly is appropriate for the e.u. to take action now and taking action is

a way of demonstrating solidarity and undergoing commitment to the european values on which the e.u. is founded nato should also look at taking action in the united states to take action these power grab moves aren't happening in a vacuum or bonn is also and his cronies are also indulging in corruption and rampant scale there are reasons for there to be the imposition of consequences where his bad behavior and for the bad behavior of the cronies around him this pandemic it's certainly it's taking up all of our attention it seems it's getting all the oxygen in the room and some people would say it shows that democracies are not very good at multi tasking you talk about corruption should these big stimulus packages that are being passed now should they come with strings attached to prevent destruction that you're worried about. well i think there's 2 levels one domestically you know european countries and the united states are trying to figure out how to meet the enormous economic need domestically to keep our economies to

mitigate as much as possible the damage that's been been done to our economy and my concern is that on both sides of the atlantic there are too many people who are worrying about doing too much and too few people who are worrying about doing too little i think it's going to take more than what has been done on either side of the atlantic and so there will be a need for more more injection of stimulus into the economies on both sides atlanta and as we do that obviously we want to a fast as we can and as well as we can make sure that the money that we are using to try to mitigate the economic damage is going to the purposes we allocate it to and isn't being used to line the pockets of cronies and you know there are there are a number of ways to do that you have to do that domestically i think the next phase of this is likely to be the enormous need for industrialized countries to come up with the kind of assistance that the developing world is going to need in order to keep this crisis and its aftermath and as we do that we should certainly be paying

attention to the fact that injecting. when economy creates rampant opportunities for corruption especially where corruption already exists then i'm going after program should put. out of time dan baer joining us tonight from denver colorado dan we appreciate your insights thank you. days almost on the conversation continues online and we will see tomorrow. the beginning. of. the beam. from the beach.

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