this is the news live from berlin state hanum of the weekend that's the message from germany's president in a brit televised address to frankfurt is to call on germans to show solidarity let the crisis bring out the best in society also coming up. to its citizens to stay at home for 40 odd hours in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus europe's largest city was deserted as the kid few came into force more than 30 cities across the country are affected.

and with no official restrictions in place. to celebrate easter as usual president daniel ortega is accused of risking and preventing in sinful america. anyhow it will come will begin here in germany with the federal president will speak to the german people in a televised address frank will urge the country to show solidarity amidst the coronavirus pandemic and while many germans are off work for the long east awakened he will ask them to do their pos and. we can listen that's one exit of that recorded speech. ninety's upon the me you know this pandemic is not a war. nations do not stand against other nations soldiers against soldiers rather this is a test of our humanity it is bringing out both the best and the worst in people and

let us show each other the best in us and let us show that in europe as well. come germany cannot emerge strong and fit from this crisis if our neighbors are not strong and fit as well. it is not without reason that this blue flag is standing here. 30 years after german unity 75 years after the end of the war we germans are not merely asked to show solidarity we are obliged to do so of listed for more i'm joined by did oblique political correspondent hansbrough hands urging solidarity from germany to other european countries do we know in concrete terms what mr steinmeier actually needs. well i think what you can interpret into that is some sort of opposition to the kind of rhetoric that is coming from donald trump in

the united states but also from several european leaders such as the french president among their own mccraw who have been using very bellicose language in dealing with the u. corona crisis stime i think is observing that here in europe true there was a kind of nationalistic impulse when the crisis 1st started borders were closed several countries including germany blocked the export of essential medical goods to other countries this kind of thing was not according to steinmeyer something that promoted getting to grips with the crisis and he's now urging that these kind of impulses should be overcome in fact germany is at the moment treating several 100 patients a coronavirus patients from italy and from france and there is a long discussion and a very intense discussion going on about how the financial instruments should look like when they've tried to overcome the crisis in their to germany's role would have to be one of some other darity. chancellor angela merkel has addressed the

public several times on this topic and she's the one with the power to make decisions so why is president stan my choosing to give this address now. i think that may be a little bit of an there religious impulse there because of the important christian festival that easter is is a practicing christian and so he's talking to fellow christians about the fact that they can all go to church so that kind of celebrate this in a communal not-a manner but also obviously it's a situation where generally in this corona crisis the president is not able to speak to people as much as he normally does his function in the german society is in a sense that all shaking hands and speaking to people so he's taking this opportunity actually to be able to address people much more than he was able to in the last few weeks and he's calling on them to stick to the rules to stay at home and to

maintain discipline is in the situation because obviously in the easter holidays that urge to go outside and to enjoy the spring weather is very strong among the people here. believe political correspondent thanks very much. time to take a look now at some more coronavirus news from around the world. i don't have begun distributing facemasks and information after the country birth to birth recorded rather its 1st case of coded 19 on friday i don't. add a possible widespread outbreak in the country describing it as a not nissen ario in a country already suffering from one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. indian prime minister narendra modi has extended the nationwide lockdown by 2 weeks to slow the spread of the virus it was key to win next day so the numbers of deaths and infections have remained relatively low but there are fears the surge would

overwhelm the nation's health care system. new york city mayor bill de blasio has announced the public school system will remain closed for the rest of the school year made efforts to contain the corona virus outbreak the decision affects more than a 1000000 students in new york state has been the the center of the u.s. outbreak with nearly 8000 addicts. europe's largest city was eerily deserted on saturday morning after turkey ordered its citizens to stay at home for 48 hours the lockdown began at midnight friday and spans across more than 30 cities up until now people have been going to work with few restrictions in turkey but suddenly imposed measures triggered panic buying on friday evening as people went out in droves to buy essential goods but the death toll already surpassed 1000 turkey has become one of the countries with the fastest rise of 19 cases more than half of those cases have been registered in stempel.

for more data injuns joins me from stamboul dorian why a last minute 2 day curfew just for the weekend. well the from the turkish scientific bore which the government is relying on for its battle against the virus a said to the threat had become so great now i think a lot of concern is that the people in istanbul like the rest of the country received only 2 hours notice of this 48 hour curfew and that resulted in absolute panic in some parts of the city is people watch to the shops desperately to get supplies we saw images of people fighting in some cases and casting aside all of these calls for social distancing so there is a great deal of concern about how this was handled the blame game has started to action tyria minister sort of the curfew order was issued and said this is it came from the presidency itself so it's very much a case that even though there is race acceptance of days the need for this curfew

many have been calling for it the way it's been handled has calls a great deal of concern and fears of the repercussions going forward. turkey is saying a state upturn in the number of new cases of coronavirus at this critical moment is the health care system. well it's very difficult to say it's hard very hard to get independent over reports from the turkish hospitals which are very much under constrict control of reporting. early rick a says of doctors speaking out on social media resulted in several cases them being removed from their post some facing even possible prosecution so it's very hard to get concrete details the ministry of health says that they are only 63 percent capacity they still say there's plenty of space left to deal with these patients of this virus but at the same time we're having anecdotal reports from social media of people being turned away from hospital saying that they are full of who to verify but even though turkey does have a pretty good medical service even though it's

a relatively poor country even the most advanced health services around the world have come under severe pressure and have been it ended up buckling under the pressure of social virus so the concern is that this damage could yet cause major problem for turkey's medical services daryn at this stage do we know is the lockdown likely to be extended. well that's another big question the fact that people only receive 2 hours' notice of this latest move it's are unclear whether this curfew could be possibly extended they are as awareness of this problem is continuing to escalate despite measures being taken but the turkish president regev typer one has been very insistent on rejecting calls for major curfew saying the economy's wheels have to keep on turning and i think the key problem for the government is if they do in forces major curfew for any length of time during working days the course will be for compensation to be paid for these people who are not working and the question is does the government have those funds to support such a major financial drain on its resources and i think that is

a major factor that's possibly holding back further curfew extensions but it remains unclear at the moment daryn johns in istanbul thank you. global health officials are warning that nicaragua's president daniel ortega is risking an epidemic in central america by refusing to impose measures to slow the spread of the virus neighboring states have already closed their borders but government wants nicaraguans to celebrate as normal the administration is encouraging people to attend sporting and cultural events and even wants them to keep going to the beach. in easter procession like every year in defiance of the global pandemic. ah. ah. even the pope has warned catholics not to celebrate the holidays and groups but nicaragua is one of the few countries in the world without lock down measures to slow the spread of the virus.

the catholic church cancelled the processions and all religious activities. but we pilgrims decided to carry on the tradition like we do dear after a year so that it's not lost. a few residents of the capital managua wear face masks otherwise public life here continues largely unchanged schools and shops are open the streets thronged with people. critics of the leftist president daniel ortega want to know what his plan is if the outbreak does hit but ortega is nowhere to be seen some speculate as absence is due to medical problems leaving the government unable to focus on the pandemic is unable because there. is no so. they're. here were the 1st money i. have here really poorly for more to. ortega's wife says he

sends nicaraguans his love but some feel left alone will mean more than him again. and we have to look after each other because honestly the captain has left the ship as they say. seeing it can be done about it all. we need a captain. that more could be done. while the number of confirmed cases in nicaragua remains a low many here worry it won't stay that way for long. france has been on the lockdown for almost 4 weeks and for the country's elderly population going out to buy food can be a particularly stressful endeavor but in one rural area champion mountain biker has been lending a helping hand devotion mountains in eastern front amateur mountain bike world champion rider christophe beck taff calls the area home and since francis coronavirus lockdown he's been providing

a delivery service to his community. we know we. have received food orders over the phone from those in need especially the elderly once the order is taken he gets ready to hit the road as soon as possible all of the video of this with the advantage is that by using an electric bike i can take forest trails and paths to go as quickly as possible to see isolated and vulnerable people. france's lockdown came into effect on march 17th and since then only essential services like stores selling food have been allowed remain open the 1st stop today for better is the local bakery. bread in tow but his back on his bike cutting through the mountain tracks to drop off his 1st delivery to 2 elderly women. christine and janette are

delighted with the home delivery of fresh great. so that's all people need to be looked after my mother still kicks in she needs bring it in fresh projects he's already stopped by before we often need something from the bakery ok there's not much time to chat krzysztof needs to get going to his next delivery and with no end in sight for now to francis lock down the service he provides will no doubt keep him busy and fit. and before we go we're going to leave you with some incredible pictures from indonesia where the volcano has erupted spewing a column a fast 500 mazes into the sky closed circuit t.v. captured images of lava and flames of a not scientists say it's the longest eruption since the one in 2018 that triggered a tsunami on the coast of sumatra and java killing 430 people no casualties have been reported in this latest corruption.

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