this is the news live from berlin the world's biggest coronavirus lockdown extended for 3 more weeks indian prime min prime minister narendra modi tells the nation the economic price of the lockdown has been high people's health is far more important . also coming up. on the defensive after coming under fire over his handling of the crisis in a heated news conference the us president claims his actions are saved hundreds of thousands of lives and then as a self congratulatory video criticizing the media. chinese trade is

down expectations are even worse as large parts of the world are in shutdown and bull likely to be slow getting back to consumers. and there's a sunny easter weekend many germans to break the lock down rules the country's most prestigious science academy says it's time to cautiously begin lifting restrictions . to the program india's 3 week coronavirus lockdown is being extended until at least made it's the biggest lockdown in the world measured by the number of people affected in a nationwide television address prime minister narendra modi's said that although the cost to the economy have been high the lives of the people of india were more valuable. part of their holistic approach and not 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 past now let's go to delhi where our correspondent money era sadar is standing by in an era listening to mr modi he's convinced his manage 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 feudal the extensional 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 saying that even in today's televised address the prime minister missed out on something a lot of questions which are important so how effective the strategy that the government is implementing will be the jury is still out on that because we need to

remember that a last well police in all of india is in the just one of the just the big into extreme quality because of the impact bill economy that has been after this is a long 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 the konkan that if you want section of people what are the the most marginalised end of the society to face a double whammy of the why this and of for which tell us some more about the lock down 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 this date of me the good from istanbul the has also very importantly needed that must if the measures will be implemented i can ease 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 area that show an improvement on which show a control over the spread of the widest rich do not let hotspots of exports and knowledge in there look at it is there some economic activity will be allowed to be dissolved so that the daily wage earners will go out and on their livelihood now what these activities are exactly we don't know yet we have still been waiting for he detailed 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 corona bars 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 4 sports across the country and as far as the international just and so on india is just still trying to ramp up is to creationists the past 50 deal with the point when the peak of these days it's come the medical experts are

saying that india has not even seen the peak yet and a bottom that i.v. saw the mobs explode or the workers from cities do when they do 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 there are so dark and delhi for us thank you very much. the u.s. now where president donald trump has defended his administration's handling of the crisis saying this threat of the virus is slowing up his daily news briefing trump rounded on journalists who criticized his actions he once again in houston respected media organizations of spreading fake news meanwhile the governor of new york andrew cuomo believes for his state the worst could be over. new york has been the state hardest hit by covered 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. to this 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 would include if i went way early if i went 3 months earlier i would have been criticized you know criticized 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 now 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 or does new york governor andrew cuomo seem 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 let's get you the latest now on developments all around the

coronavirus the united nations is warning that millions of children worldwide risk contracting measles because of the focus on covert 19 the u.n. says missiles vaccination programs should not be neglected singapore has recorded its biggest daily jump in new qur'an coronavirus infections most of the cases are linked to foreign workers living in crowded dormitories taiwan has reported no new cases for the 1st time in 5 weeks and australia has started to ease its lockdown allowing small shops to reopen strict social distancing rules remain in force. all this talk of starting to lift the lockdown in germany to the influential national academy of sciences has recommended some other restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus might be eased soon its report came as the number of new korra confirmed cases in germany fell for the 3rd day run. blame it

on the sunshine germans flocked to nearby lakes and pocks to soak it all in over the east a long 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 life to last slightly easing would definitely be good at some point we need to start earning money again. this syrian may be 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 when i think mouth nose

protection must become a social standard for months. politicians a yet to agree on how quickly the lockdown should be lifted does remove your show 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 of 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. or time to take a look now at some other news around the world south korea's military says north korea has launched several missiles into the sea of japan the south claims young young fired both cruise missiles and as a ground rockets launch comes just days after north korean state media showed leader kim yong on visiting an airbase. french president in

a mark or says his country it will have to endure another 4 weeks of lockdown because that progress had been made but the battle against the coronavirus was far from over france has severely restricted citizens movements since mid march. spain 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 ease 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 ethical 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 gloom was the price. of 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. from 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. but with. 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 reused but at the moment we all have enough moment to the most you can the most part of us but. yet even as pain moves cautiously toward reopening the economy sobering reminders of covert $1000.00 terrible toll persist in madrid these doctors and nurses paid tribute to a colleague who contract 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 plunged by nearly 7 percent and imports for by one percent contraction was less than economists had expected but that might not be a reason for renewed optimism analysts worry that the worst is yet to come because china's global trading partners are still caught up in the crisis.

joined by a child. analyst if a coon from d.w. business cliff at the chinese say they're planning incentives to get the economy up and up and running again what will these expect incentives rather be well you recall back in june the global financial crisis in 2008 china intervened with infrastructure plans that spend widely it really tried to boost its economy to try and help everyone else and i think a lot of the world's economies are now looking to china to do that again at the problem now is that china doesn't have the money anymore it's quite indebted now and it's the same resources as it did back in 2008 you know the economy has expanded we're seeing from the data today that the foreign trade just isn't happening because there's simply no one around to buy the goods so the incentive plans if they look at if they take policy measures they don't have the room to maneuver that they used to so we're not going to see them putting cash in people's pockets like we've seen in in germany or in in the u.s.

so what does this data tell us about the state of the world economy. well want to look at to try and paint a more positive picture these days are not as bad as we're expected. and we've seen things that data shows the traffic at rush hour in china is back up to levels that there were around towards the end of last year so there are some positives but generally did the chinese data are in effect a kind of postcard from the future they're about a month ahead of of a lot of europe and even further ahead on america and the us in terms of how this is the impact economic impact so i think it paints a rather grim picture certainly that we're in this for the long haul and we need to we're going to have to just see how things develop of the next few weeks so any indication where the global economy is heading when it might. be starting to pick up again well again to look at to look at china and see look for pointers there and

we'll see now that how their economy develops in the 2nd quarter that's going to be a big factor. overall. for the year growth is forecast to 2 and a half percent which is down from 6 percent but it's still growth so hopefully that we can see positive signs there and that eventually if the chinese economy does start to function again we can see how economies in the west will also start to function again so we're looking that direction thank you very much on china has approved early stage human trials for 2 experimental vaccines to combat the coronavirus 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 and effective one is likely to be a long way off. 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 skates promising results

swiss immunologist martin bahman at the university of burn 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 you know these again of these circles is a copy and they all look the same and this is important for producing a vaccine. researchers at a biotech start up near syria her 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. you know we're looking for a needle in a haystack we got 2000000 of these antibody producing cells from the patient today

we estimate that 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 a court in florence in italy has sentenced for human traffickers to long prison terms for smuggling nigerian women to italy to service sex slaves italian authorities opened the case based in part on work done by d.w. reporters who learned of the trafficking ring in nigeria and followed the trail to florence why it's groups have praised the convictions as a resident says in the fight against sexual exploitation. joining me now is a young philip shorty's one of the reporters who uncovered the trafficking ring but is now in several in spain and philip investigations that led to the convictions were prompted by a report that you and a colleague produced for the

w back in 2016 what can you tell us about it. i was supposed to working as africa correspondent based in nigeria back then and it was a time when the topic of human trafficking and irregular migration became very big so we suggested a series of reports following the trail of human traffickers between africa and europe and shortly afterwards we started the trip from nigeria through the sahara desert all the way to. europe and what's truth to be very helpful is that a colleague from our station channels t.v. in nigeria or joined the trip all the way to treat europe because he had a very different access of course to the nigerian community and its elite and as you can see yourself in the reports that summarizes the investigation back in 2016 . in 2016 d.w.

report was investigated along the human trafficking route between italy and snide shiria starting in been in city when i jerry and builds are recruited. it is here that traditional priests force them to pledge loyalty to the traffickers . from. the migrants then pasta the dangerous desert in the eyes are on their way to libya. from there they cross to italy with tens of thousands of nigerians and as prostitutes selling sex for as little as 10 euros after long research one nigerian agreed to talk to us about her madame this is what they call nigerian traffickers here on the one condition she wants to remain anonymous the madame trafficked to italy to force her into prostitution. was she well conduit point. it would be to us so we can let me we can

i know. same way. we trace down the madame in the suburb of florence in the dark and ottomans and the jury and colleagues and just 1st with a hidden camera and under false pretense money with money. how are you you know number one. i think he meets in all my gun one red and 6 female young nigerians insides. afterwards we confront the legit madame she denies all allegations of trafficking but constantly contradicts herself the girls she says are tenons. and then they have to do prostitution to get money to live here. on the move that you know how to work outside the one loophole big no matter what the movement so it's a lie when they say that there. is you know we talked to the state prosecutor

about our research who then starts to investigate and finds proof it is no lie because of the corona virus pandemic she is only able to send us a written response after the conviction i would like to thank you for your invaluable cooperation in the opening of the investigation which led to the identification of the significant number of victims humanitarian organizations are taking care of the victims now it is not clear what their future will look like or if they will be allowed to stay in europe permanently but their time in slavery has come to an end and for that we've seen you talking to the prosecutors there now it is extremely difficult for the prosecution to get watertight human trafficking cases into court why is that. the main reason is because the victim's rights to talk they're free to talk to the

police to investigators to social work and they're also afraid to talk to journalists they are afraid of the. physical violence of the traffic us but they're also traits of sort of the so-called judge or ritual that we also saw in the reports it's basically traditional trees that are paid by traffic us and that's one of the victims that something terrible would happen should they dare to say anything about their experiences so it's also took us several days and many many talks with our informants to try to establish some level of trust and to convince her that we would really do everything possible to protect her and from what happened to the young woman who led you to the traffic ah i'm still in contact. unfortunately we lost contact to her shortly after the report was broadcast this is really

a pity because i think her contribution to the truss and her courage really comes be over estimates that with her there might not be a conviction and with her a lot of women might still be in slavery so it's really something that's that it's very sad that we don't know about her fate but we know about the fate of many other women that were involved in this trial and most of them very well taken care of by n.g.o.s at the moment but of course their fight continues because it's not clear if they can stay in the event might be deported back to nigeria and for themselves thank you very much. now this week marks the $150.00 of birthday of new york's prestigious metropolitan museum of art and the precursor on a calendar the anniversary was supposed to be filled with fanfare and style but the lockdown has put an end to the celebrations as well as not having

a party the met is also worried about having enough cash to pay its stuff. new york's metropolitan museum of art usually teeming with visitors while by its 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 coated 19 of them dizzy in 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 hours picture book videos for children social media challenges daring fans to reenact works of art the crisis which branch staying relevant would

seem here's an idea private foundations privately financed are the norm the met is certainly a wealthy institution 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. the bed guards abandon the salaries of the mets 2000 employees are safe until the start of may the museum hopes to be opened by you know at the latest but even that is uncertain. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you right now india's prime minister has extended the country's coronavirus lockdown and made the address of the a comic. that's the health of india's people was farming. and that's. the top of the hour with an expedition.

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