this is the news live from the state han of the east awake and that's the message from germany's president in a rare televised address frank. is to call on germans to show solidarity let the crisis bring out the best in society also coming up. turkey orders that citizens to stay in for 48 hours in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus europe's largest cities was deserted just a kid if you came into force 130 cities across the country are 50 plus. putting

on a show without their usual audience we see how professional dancers from one russian company keeping their spirits up. american how would welcome we begin here in germany where to not the federal president will speak to the german people in a televised address frank will urge the country to show solidarity and its the coronavirus pandemic and while many germans are off work for the long easter weekend he will ask them to do their part and stay home we can listen to an excerpt of that recorded speech now. 90 is a pond immuno 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 stronger 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 a big political correspondent hansbrough of 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.s. corona crisis time 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 my are something that promoted getting to grips with the crisis and he's now urging that these kind of impact this 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're trying to overcome the crisis in their true germany's role would have to be one of some other dirty. 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 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 societies 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 people who. believe political correspondent thanks very much. and time now to take a look at some more coronavirus news from around the world i don't deny that begun distributing face must and information given after the country recorded its 1st case of code not seen on friday. at a possible widespread outbreak in the country describing it as a nightmare scenario in a country already suffering from one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. indian prime minister narendra modi has extended the nationwide lockdown by 2 more weeks to slow the spread of the corona virus it was due to end next choose to the number of deaths and infections has remained relatively low but there are fears a surge would overwhelm the nations of kid system. the honduran military has

staged a re-enactment of the crucifixion of jesus at an army base in the country's capital the easter tradition is usually performed and watched each year by members of the public but this year with the country currently in code it dante lockdown the public would buy from the event the event was been broadcast on state television. europe's largest city was on eerily deserted on saturday morning after turkey ordered its citizens to stay at home for 48 hours the lockdown began on midnight friday and spans across more than 30 cities up until now people have been able to go to work with deal with strictures in turkey suddenly imposed measures triggered panic buying on friday evening as people went out in droves to buy essential goods with the death toll already supposing 1000 turkey has become one of the countries with the fastest rise of coded 19 cases more than half of those cases have been registered in his temple. story in john's joins me from

stamboul dorian why a last minute 2 day curfew just for the weekend. well the from lee turkish scientific poll which the government is relying on for its battle against the virus a set of the threats have become so great now i think a lot of concern is that the people in istanbul like the rest of the country received only true hours notice of this 48 hour curfew and that resulted in absolute panic in some parts of the city's people rushed 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 this race acceptance of these the need for this curfew many have been calling for it the way it's been handled has caused a great deal of concern and fears of the repercussions going forward. turkey is

saying upturn in the number of new cases of coronavirus at this critical moment is the health care system. what is very difficult to say is how very hard to get independent of reports from the turkish hospitals which are very much under constrict control of reporting early rick a says of doctors speaking out and social media resulted in several cases them being removed from their posts 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 said is 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 pandemic could yet cause major problems 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 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 type or 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 full 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 a further curfew extensions but it remains unclear at the moment daryn johns in

istanbul thank you. now let's get you caught up on the latest developments on the corona virus the chinese government has stopped the export of ventilators masks and other supplies to fight code 19 until customs officials perform quality inspections on a chip and the number of corona virus cases detected in the united states rose past half a 1000000 with more than 18600 deaths president trump said the decision on when it's safe to reopen the country would be the biggest he's ever my spine is getting ready to ease restrictions on its population as the number of deaths full meaning that some non-essential workers can return to factories and construction sites on monday this after the world health organization warned that lifting lockdown measures carries a massive risk more than 100 australians and new zealand's of new zealand is rather left on a chartered flight after being stranded for 2 weeks aboard

a virus infected ship or the lock downs imposed of the global corona virus crosses have hit senior citizens especially hard as a high risk group they have had to take extra precautions that means they can't say their children or their grandchildren and simple things like weekly shopping and tough to in rural areas that's an extra challenge as our reporter found out neighborly solidarity appears to be alive and well in this town of crusts brandenburg is about an hour's drive from berlin for the elderly this area was never easy to get through on your own but now it's even more difficult regina gruber's happy to learn to hand she goes grocery shopping for elderly neighbors. your father start us right now the elderly are in great danger of getting infected and i don't want this to happen they should stay safe and protected at home until this whole thing is over. by. kruger printed flyers to get the word out her

services are free of charge and they are catching on. but you can still see senior citizens shopping in the local supermarket krueger things they underestimate the danger of infection 3 go shopping for those who are being careful but she can't get all the things they want. me laid on me no unfortunately if they are out of toilet paper and paper towels i found everything else. but those 2 items aren't in stark county for me. this bag of groceries is for a couple that lives on the outskirts. i got everything but the toilet paper and paper towels. you're welcome do you leave the house at all. sometimes we stroll around the garden or in the courtyard we go for a little walk but we avoid crowds. we don't want to push it.

what do you mean. though truly this weekend our children aren't allowed to visit the grandchildren can stop by either that's just the way it is we have to abide by the rules health comes 1st. some seniors compare what is happening now to hard times in their past. we survived the war we survived flooding we will survive this fire. but being alone is hard isn't it it's very hard but the worst is if you can't drive a car anymore here in this village a car is an absolute must. and that's where regina kruger comes in while still looking out for herself. from my own protection i wear gloves you never know what you're touching especially when you go shopping but i'm much more worried about the elderly and whether they are protected. that's one positive side effect of the

corona crosses in brandenburg neighbors looking out for each other. well as the virus lockdown continues it's not just audiences who are missing out on cultural events artists also miss performing for their public dances at the nicolo ski theatre in some petersburg no exception they've put together one spun performance for soul a math anyhow for me and they did news team here in berlin enjoy.

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