this is d w news live from berlin the world's biggest coronavirus lockdown extended for 3 more weeks indian prime minister narendra modi's tells the nation the economic price of the lockdown has been high the people's house is far more important. also coming up to trump on the defensive after coming under fire and laying off the corona crosses getting heated news conference the us president claims his actions have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and then as a self congratulatory video criticizing the media. chinese trade is

down but expect even worse as launched part of the world are in shutdown and will likely be slow getting back to consume. the sun the easter weekend tents many germans to break the lock down rules the country's most prestigious science academy says to the times of course we begin lifting restrictions. as welcome to the program india's 3 weeks coronavirus lockdown is being extended until at least made its the biggest lockdown in the world measured by the number of people affected in the nation watch television address from minister narendra modi's said that although the costs of the economy have been high the lives of the people of india where more valuable. part of their holistic approach

and no if india had not adopted a holistic integrated approach and had not taken quick timely decisions we cannot imagine what our situation would have been these plans now let's go to delhi where our correspondent mira sadar is standing by in an era listening to mr modi he's convinced he's managed manage the crisis at the right way as all politicians think they do do people feel the same way well the logical thing in the country is of course in favor of the log down it is in favor of the extension of the lockdown as well because people can see that the number of cases are rapidly on the rise but that is a section of people who are seeing that even in today's day and away suggest the prime minister missed out on something a lot of questions which are important so how effective the strategy that the government is implementing really be the jury is still out on that because we need

to remember that a large population of india is in the list goes on to the gist of the thing into extreme quality because of the impact the economy that has been after this is the last down has been announced as many activists and critics are saying that coronavirus is a big problem but what do you is also a huge problem and nick on connect this you would say people who are the most marginalized end of the society to face a double whammy of the why this and of forward but tell us some more about the lockdown extension the one they locked on currently in place and the easing of the rules modi announced for some people at least in the coming week. well apart from giving does date of need the good from istanbul the has also very importantly of needed that the measures will be implemented at least for the coming one week so now this one week is important in the sense that in this one week all the areas of the country will be very very closely monitored very closely scrutinized and you

have mentioned that in the areas that show an improvement on which show a control over the spread of the widest which do not let hotspots of exports and knowledge in there look at it then some economic activity will be allowed to be dissolved so that the daily wage earners could go out and on their livelihood now what these activities are exactly they don't know yet we have still been waiting for the detail guidelines to come from and when they are in terms of the big picture how bad is the situation in india at the moment with regard to the coronavirus well despite that the country did implemented logged on much earlier even before 600 positive cases were reported but still over the past few weeks we have seen a rapid rise in the number of cases the have seen a rise in the number of course courts across the country and as far as the interest of just them sun india is still trying to ramp up is to creationists the passerby deal with the point when the peak of these cases come the medical experts are

saying that india has not even seen the peak yet and a bottom that as we saw them atsic sort of the workers from cities to win it just there is a chance of a community transmission making out and the government is still trying to build its intersection better to face the situation if it ever comes to that when the russian and delhi for us thank you very much. u.s. president donald trump defended his administration's handling of the crisis saying the spread of the virus is slowing his daily news briefing trump rounded on journalists who criticized his actions he once again accused respected media organizations of spreading fake news meanwhile other governor of new york andrew cuomo believes the worst could be over for his state new york has been the state hardest hit by covert 19 and it was also battered on monday by bad weather. health care workers had to contend with heavy rain and high winds at this

emergency tent facility in central park and they were not the only ones weathering a storm in washington u.s. president donald trump faced criticism over his handling of the crisis at his daily press briefing the president surprised journalists with what some are calling a propaganda video defending his response. then he went on the offensive. and remember this everything we did i was criticized because it was too early. if i waited longer it would have been you were doing great if i went way early if i went 3 months earlier i would have been criticized you know criticize for being way too early. i think. i've educated a lot of people as to the press and i would love to be able to say that we have a very honest press. said is an administration with finalizing a plan to reopen the u.s.

economy when questioned on who would decide on relaxing lockdown rules trump said he would be calling the shots it's a decision for the president the united states with that being said we're going to work with the states because it's very important several state governors on the east and west coasts are discussing the best way to open their economies and ease stay at home order is new york governor andrew cuomo seemed to suggest he thought it should be largely up to individual states not the president he left it to the states to close down and that was state by state this is. without any guidance really he took the position that it was a state's decision and then the states were responsible for purchasing supplies etc with infection numbers in new york beginning to plateau the calls to loosen the lock down are getting louder but the road back to normalcy will be a long one. time to get you up to speed with the latest developments on the

coronavirus singapore recorded its biggest daily jump in new infections most of the cases are linked to foreign workers living in crowded dormitories southeast asian leaders have met via video link to discuss a strategy for dealing with the economic fallout from the outbreak australia has started to ease its lockdown measures allowing small shops to reopen social distancing rules remain in force and france has extended its lockdown until may 11th president says some restrictions may be lifted then as long as there's no increase in new infections. well here in germany the question of the hour is how soon the authorities might begin lifting the lockdown the influential national academy of sciences has recommended that some other instructions imposed to contain the corona virus could be east soon reports came as the number of new

confirmed cases in germany fell for the 3rd day running. blame it on the sunshine germans flocked to nearby lakes and parks to soak it all in over the east along weekend police patrolled popular areas but found most were a bang the restrictions. as long as it's necessary i think the rules of fine health has to come 1st in light or last light losing would definitely be good at some point we need to start earning money again mitigate. this soon maybe coming germany's most influential science academy has recommended the lockdown slowly be lifted primary and secondary schools would gradually reopen with the extra precautions in place and if so should distancing rules are enforced stores and restaurants could follow the academy says the government should also make it mandatory to wear face masks in public. we can learn from our neighbors in asia i

think mouth nose protection must become a social standard for months. politicians say yet to agree on how quickly the lockdown should be lifted. we must continue to look at what effect it has on the number of infections in some places we may have to reimpose certain restrictions in the coming months members and members chancellor angela merkel is due to hold a video conference call with the state's leaders on wednesday. with the restrictions set to expire on sunday she says the academy's position will play a role in deciding germany's path forward. to lift our knots to lift that seems to be the question as brand in a book sees a member of the german ethics council and joins me from berlin alina should we start easing restrictions now and why. we should certainly think about that and prepare for that in the kindness traditions are warranted but they have

a very high cost not just an economic cost but also a social and psychological cost and we need to think about how we can transition responsibly step by step into some sort of renormalization and i think we need to do that quite soon the organization is one that some vulnerable people have been neglected because of the restrictions in place who do you see. well for example there are patients that are currently on been treated because they don't have life threatening conditions we've also heard of people dying pretty much alone isolated because they couldn't be visited they couldn't get the palliative care they would have needed obviously there are some very vulnerable populations the homeless about i'm also thinking of young children who can't have the social interaction they need for that development and people who live in care homes

already so there's no many many groups who are currently affected and we need to think about how to protect them and how also to make it able to get back to some form of normality but at the moment civil rights activists and the business community in rare unison are demanding a speedy end to the lockdown is the pressure on both the federal and the state governments rising. i think it is rising and it's understandable because so many people are affected and i want rush to things we need to be careful and we need to consider how we can do this in a step by step way but there's certainly is an imperative to stop thinking into all such a transition i think that is from an ethical point of view which parameters need to be in place for severe restrictions of daily life to be legitimate and appropriate . well obviously the infection caps need to be as flat as

possible and we need to also have a good understanding that our health care system is able to cope. with potentially slowly rising numbers of patients the testing capacities need to be extend it further and we need to learn more about the immunity of this all of these things simultaneously and a number of other measures as distancing needs to be kept in place facemasks could be an important element and we can think about how to slowly ease restrictions of the books from the german ethics council thank you very much thank you. our time to take a look now at other news around the world south korea's military says north korea has launched several missiles into the sea of japan south claims john young fired both cruise missiles and out to ground rockets launched comes just days after north

korean state media showed leader kim il on visiting and their base. turkey's parliament has passed a law allowing tens of thousands of prisoners to be released as a precaution against the coronavirus measure excludes prisoners convicted of terrorism and drug offenses and violent crimes as well as opposition politicians journalists and academics facing terrorism charges. spain is one of the nation's one of the nation's worst hit by the coronavirus has reported its lowest increase in new cases for 4 weeks the news came as the government partially eased the lockdown allowing some construction and factory workers to return to their jobs it's hoped the easing will boost an economy battered by the shutdown. sanctions 1st steps toward life after lockdown in madrid these workers are back on the job for the 1st time in weeks

they've been allowed to return to work in hopes of getting the country's economy back on its feet even with coated 19 still claiming hundreds of lives every day it's a tightrope act the prime minister said it was necessary. i mean the virus threatens to take lives and at the same time crushed the economic and social fabric of our country which is why this decision requires a combination of measures to prevent contagion to allow the recovery of our health system and to avoid the paralysis and collapse of our economy in a short and bloomers look ice. nearly a 1000000 jobs have been wiped out since spain went into lockdown in mid march employers say acting now to reopen businesses while observing strict safety measures could prevent more job losses. the moment olympus have more than you and so far the company has not had to consider laying off workers we're going to try to

get all the activity going again and keep the jobs that way for the old and. all workers are wearing masks and gloves we have stocked up on sanitizer and we're actively looking for more mosques because we don't know how many times they can be really used but at the moment we all have enough you know moment to the most of them is quite a much but. yet even as pain moves cautiously toward reopening the economy sobering reminder as of covert $1000.00 terrible toll persist in madrid these doctors and nurses paid tribute to a colleague who contract at the virus he was one of the many health workers around the world who have died trying to save others during the pandemic. china's foreign trade fell last month even as businesses gradually returned to work exports dropped by nearly 7 percent on imports fell by one percent contraction was

less than economists expected might not be a reason for optimism analysts worry the worst is yet to come china's global trading partners are still caught up in the crisis. well with. huna iraq. china analyst from business development cliff at the chinese say that planning incentives to get the economy back up and running well what does that mean what will those incentives look like when everyone is waiting to see what these are like we've seen here in germany how they've they've provided incentives putting cash in people's pockets in china they haven't done that so much and we want to see what scope they have to do it because china owes a lot of money it's a very heavily indebted economy so we're expecting some kind of perhaps infrastructure investment or some kind of way of to try and kick start the economy again but i think this data shows it's a bit like a postcard from the future in a way. that shows that even with incentives there's a long way ahead well that was

a postcard from the present as well today don't be figures from the french economy what do you what does this data tell us about the world economy well we're still still a long way to go i think for china this year for example as well as we have the french figures today as you mentioned we're also expecting growth of 2.5 percent in china this year for the whole year which is actually seems like quite a lot here in germany but it's this was it used to be 6 percent so we're expecting a big slowdown as the figures today showed in china. exports are down it's a big export economy. there's no come nobody's buying anything at the moment so you can't you're selling it but there's no one there to buy it so we're going to see a lot more of these downbeat figures and quite extreme figures i think before things start to get better both driving the world economy but also as we see dependent on demand from abroad do we have any indication when the global economy is going to pick up again well trying to put all these things together i think if

you divide i mean if you look at the french figures today and they talk about a 6 percent drop in economy that's a bad you're talking about a month's loss of economic growth on the basis if things can get into place quickly if incentives can be introduced and if people do go back and if the. jobs are still there and then we could see the economies start to turn around maybe in the 2nd quarter there are already talk about china returning to growth as early as the us the next quarter so with a lot of fingers crossed and with clearly with a lot of effort on all the economies behalf we could see the economy returning to growth at that stage clip of going in from the business thank you very much well china has approved early stage human trials for 2 experimental vaccines to combat the kona virus prototype vaccines are being developed by a chinese american joint venture scientists the world over the race to develop a vaccine although they always make clear that effective one is likely to be

a long way off is a report on the work of a team at the university of down in switzerland. this liquid could hold the solution to ending the current pandemic it contains bacteria that may produce a corona virus vaccine the 1st tests carried out on my escape promising results swiss immunologist martin at the university of paris is leading an international team of investigators they've been producing harmless particle copies from the corona virus these copies cause the body to produce antibodies which can then fight the virus yet of these of each of these circles is a copy and they all look the same this is important for producing a vaccine. researchers at a biotech start up near cirrus are taking a different approach they want to develop a drug with blood taken from people who've recovered from the corona virus because

they carry antibodies that neutralize it but they're not easy to find every little white dot is an antibody there are millions in the body but not all of them are effective. and you know looking for a needle in a haystack we got 2000000 of these antibody producing cells from the patient today we have to make the one in every 10000 can be used against the corona virus at least it is there are currently more than 50 research teams around the world working on a vaccine they're hoping for a shortened approval process to bring the vaccines to the market as soon as possible well for fraudsters fear is an easy resource to exploit criminals trafficking and then fake products now take advantage of people afraid during this damage of the ties what they call miracle drugs against the virus or sell poorly produced protective masts for enormous profit. 2000000

facemasks protective clothing and disinfectant confiscated by the spanish police all these goods were stolen their market value around 5000000 euros the fraudsters intended to repackage everything in the storage space in santiago de compostela to hide the items origin europol the european police author already has had its hands full for weeks 3 big developments the 1st one is on defeating groups that is really big woman stick. secondly we see a real shift in cyber crime and there. are both groups that go to tweak areas. until now. special interest organized crime groups. counterfeit face masks like these confiscated by italian police are being sold online at exaggerated prices but they were not produced to medical standards in a sterile environment europe poll has already taken down more than 2500 websites and

online shops detaining more than 120 people behind that criminal enterprises have become highly creative in the pandemic. what we see. organized crime to use the opportunity because new used the fear. and used the fact that. their questions and. but it's not just criminals taking advantage of people's fear the n.r.a. the american gun lobby has launched an online campaign encouraging people to arm themselves. i am one of the millions of americans. vulnerable to the deadly coronavirus i hope i survive the coronavirus that's up to . my control. myself go from bad to worse you might be wondering why i'm holding.

in march americans pont 2 and a half 1000000 weapons that's 85 percent more than a year ago but the fear of increased criminal activity during this crisis is not matched by actual figures according to police in most major cities worldwide even new york or los angeles there's been a dramatic drop in the number of crimes including murder and break ins criminals who don't break into homes because people are sheltering in place turn to crime online or traffic and not approved facemasks. well this week marks the 150th birthday of new york's prestigious metropolitan museum of art and the pricker on a calendar the anniversary was supposed to be filled with fun fair and style but the lockdown has put an end to the celebrations as well as not having a party the matter is now worried about having enough cash to pay its stuff. new

metropolitan museum of art usually teeming with visitors while by exhibits and the venue of the glamorous met ball today its famous steps are empty its anniversary celebrations canceled the interior abandoned a short walk away in central park doctors treat patients suffering from cope with 19 and then there's even the seeing that there's a field hospital in central park it's not appropriate for us to be celebrating ourselves what's important now is what can we do what can we give back to society. conferences have resulted in this a digital museum accessible from home. to us through 5000 years of art history instead of reading our was picture book videos for children social media challenges daring fans to reenact works of art the crisis hit branch staying relevant would

seem here's an idea private foundations privately financed are the norm the met is certainly a wealthy institutional we have many sponsors who are supporting us now but if we have to remain closed for many more months it will be impossible for us to keep all of our stuff on because some. of the salaries of the mets 2000 employees are safe until the start of may the museum hopes to be opened by juno at the latest but even that is uncertain. the amount of the top story we're following for you here on news india's prime minister narendra modi has extended the country's coronavirus lockdown to may in a television address modi said the. comic costs of the lock down have been high other the health of india's people was far. and that's absent of an hour from me and the news team remember you can get all the latest headlines on our wall on our father and on our web site as d w dot com and follow us on twitter and instagram got offers in both.

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