i'm still not too dumb to pass. april 8th. w. this is d w news live from berlin britain's prime minister boris johnson is battling the corona virus in intensive care johnson was admitted to a london hospital on sunday because his symptoms one not going away he tweeted that he was in good spirits but his condition later worsened also coming up. and left michael says the pandemic is the biggest test the european union has ever

faced but she promises to do all she can change sure that the e.u. emerges stronger from the crisis. plus now a free man the highest profile member of the catholic church ever to be jailed for child sex abuse has his convictions overturned and to bring you the latest. until now a lot of the welcome to the program britain's prime minister boris johnson has been moved to intensive care in a london hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worse and johnson tested positive 10 days ago and was taken to hospital at the weekend because his symptoms one not going away but on monday his condition deteriorated. the british prime minister

spent another night at this hospital in central london in late march he was diagnosed with kobe at 19 and spent 10 days in self isolation before he was admitted to hospital on sunday on monday afternoon he insisted there was no cause for concern and tweeted this last night on the advice of my doctor i went to the hospital for some routine tests as i'm still experiencing coronavirus symptoms i'm in good spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we work together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe hours later downing street said his situation had worsened and he was moved to the intensive care unit he's reported to be conscious but in need of oxygen support in the meantime his deputy foreign minister dominic robb has taken over his duties with the government's business will continue in the prime minister is in safe hands with the brilliant team sometimes this hospital and

the focus of the government will continue to be on making sure the prime minister's direction all the plans for making sure that we can defeat craig of ours and pull the country through this challenge will be taken forward. boris johnson's condition is a grim reminder of the serious situation the u.k.'s currently facing more than a 1000 people died in the last 2 days alone from cope with 19 making it one of the worst affected countries in the world. now the united states passed a grim milestone on monday as the coronavirus death toll topped 10000 medical authorities there have warned that the outbreak is yet to reach its peak and his daily press briefing president donald trump said coronavirus testing and treatment were progressing well he said he wanted lock down restrictions to be lifted by the end of april and suggested there may be further direct payments to americans as economic relief. let's get more on the situation the us now.

in washington brings us up to date stephan what were the main takeaways from president trump's briefing with his task force. main takeaway but maybe as a side entry into this you know was that the president of course recognized the situation in england and with boris johnson sends his best wishes and also assured that if the u.k. if the government of course johnson needs any help medically actually even help that america is standing by to help and send experts and material and what have you so besides that though it is a. occurrence we have almost every day don't trump handling this task force press conference it's lost the cell phone credits only means that the president does everything all right and is of course telling using this event as a campaign event almost telling. citizens of the united states how well the government

is doing and in all fairness of course the federal government has all of course also the state governors have done a better and better job more supplies to where it's needed to the health care workers at the front lines and still. the president manages to and taken eyes of the press in a south criminal lawyer way and is combative with the press when asked about a government report his own government report of a health and human services inspector general which states that there is not enough protective gear piece so-called p p e at the front but in the hospitals other shortcomings and speaking of the states keeping us up to date on the latest from some of those hot spots like new york city where there is some cautious optimism that the. new infections is being flattened. there actually is new york has a 2nd day off a flattening curve that means there's no in the trajectory through the roof

development anymore meaning not so many cass cases so fast so flattening there and that gives reason for some hope however the governor of new york pointed out that he needs to see at least the same trajectory the same movement in less cases in in the same amount of time for 2 or 3 more days and then he would be comfortable off assessing this as a flattening of the curve that would be great for new york because just today a commissioner in new york city came out and said like new york has maybe do think about burying the victims off. the coronavirus temporarily in city parks because the city is running out of more space as well as refrigerated trucks and that is the situation new york other hot spots chicago detroit new orleans they're all struggling the trajectory there in cases is going up and further up there's no

flattening in sight $10000.00 plus deaths in the united states and it's only to going to get worse says the. federal government in the next week and then this week ok we'll have to leave it there for now thank you stephens emmons now japan is set to declare a state of imagine sea for tokyo and 6 other prefectures in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus there's been a surge of kovi 19 cases in major cities with over a 1000 infections in tokyo alone speaking on monday prime minister shinzo of a said the state of emergency could be announced as early as tuesday and could be in effect for about a month he also announced a one trillion us dollars stimulus package to counter the economic impact of the pandemic people. german chancellor angela merkel said the country is ready to help the european union get back to economic health once the coronavirus

pandemic is over michael said it was in germany's interest that europe should emerge strongly from what she called the use biggest test since its foundation but she said it was too early to think about lifting the lockdown measures. back in the chancellery after 2 weeks in coron 1003 negative current virus tests german chancellor angela merkel made her return. in my opinion europe the european union is facing its biggest test since its foundation populations are also facing a huge health challenge. all the e.u. member states are being affected on varying levels we're all affected. and so it must be in everyone's interest and it is in germany's interest that europe should emerge strongly from this test. as merkel voiced her concerns for europe on monday the government's crisis group agreed 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 commuters travelling to work truck drivers delivering goods and of course medical professionals. germany also announced on monday the latest extension to its 1 point one trillion euros coronavirus crisis package a guarantee of 100 percent loans to small and medium sized businesses up 280-0000 yours. these middle stem companies are widely seen as the heart of the german economy i was with the in charge of loaded anywhere 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. 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 just as guns. come. now germany's european neighbors to you are looking to berlin to see whether america's concerns but also turn into financial support for that. let's not get you the latest developments on other stories related to the global coronavirus pandemic. the global death toll now stands over 74000 over 1300000 people have been infected with the virus worldwide austria has become the 1st european country to announce dates and details

on loosening its current virus lockdown small shops are to be allowed to reopen next week the czech republic and denmark have also outlined plans to relax restrictions israel has announced a complete lockdown over the upcoming passover holiday china meanwhile has reported no new deaths from the corona virus over the past 24 hours all of its 32 new cases where people who had returned from overseas. not cardinal george pell has walked free from prison after australia's high court overturned his convictions for child sex abuse a senior catholic church figure was serving a 6 year jail term but as men taint his innocence the now 78 year old cardinal pell was the highest ranked catholic official worldwide to have been convicted for sex abuse when he was jailed just over a year ago. now for more on this major decision in the long running case against

george pell i'm joined now by. joel don't write joel what did the judges have to say about this decision there was so it was a unanimous decision by the 7 high court judges they found that the original jury which it convicted george pell in 2018 had urged because it had not given enough consideration to witnesses who had spoken in support of george pell and his claims of innocence now the lower courts had ignored court the reasonable possibility that the offending had not taken place the high court overturned the conviction and george pell has since been released from prison he served over 400 days behind bars now this is the culmination of a very long and painful process you take us back to where it all began yes it's been a very long running process over 5 years since allegations were 1st raised against cardinal pell they were brought by 2 men who claimed that they were abused as choir boys in a melbourne cathedral in a 990 s.

now an original jury failed to reach a verdict a 2nd jury did convict though and he was in prison for 6 years he appealed that conviction but lost he appealed again all the way to the highest court in australia and today has been successful now george pell has already released a statement saying that he has suffered a serious injustice but that he holds no ill will against the men who brought the allegations one of whom has since died so what does this now mean for pell's career in the church well pehle is one of the highest ranking catholics not just in australia but worldwide he was elevated to the position of treasury of the vatican and was a close confident of several pope's his career was put on hold when he had to return to australia to face these charges what happens now is unclear because his former position in the vatican has been filled by somebody else now he also faces several civil cases in a. straight here by people who either directly abuse him of

a key accuse him of abuse or say that he covered up abuse of other priests but for today george pell has been declared an innocent man is no longer a criminal he is no longer a prisoner ok thanks to the reporter joel dole right. here are some of the other stories making headlines this hour. a court in slovakia has handed down a 23 year prison sentence to the killer of investigative journalist dan could check and his fiance the couple was shot in their home in 28 jack was investigating organized crime a former soldier pleaded guilty to carrying out the contract killing. ukrainian authorities say there's been no spike in radiation levels resulting from forest fires in the chernobyl exclusion zone around the disused new nuclear power plant an official who earlier claimed radiation levels were high of a normal has since withdrawn the statement police say they've identified

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