this is the news live from berlin the world's biggest coronavirus lockdown extended for 3 more weeks india's prime minister on the run for modi tells the nation the economic price of the lockdown has been high people's health is far more important . also coming up as a sunny easter weekend attempts many germans to break the lock down rules the country's most prestigious science academies says it's time to cautiously begin listing restrictions. and ukrainian firefighters battling blazes just

kilometers away from the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster. welcome to the program india's 3 week coronavirus lockdown is being extended until at least may 3rd it's the biggest lockdown in the world measured by the number of people affected in a nationwide t.v. address prime minister narendra modi's said that although the cost to the economy had been high the lives of the people of india where more valuable part of. 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 plans now let's go to delhi where

our correspondent mira so dari 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 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 of the just the been to extreme quality because of the impact believe one of you 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 he conquered it if 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 it means that in the coming week. well apart from giving this date of me that's good from istanbul the has also very importantly of me to you know that the measures will be implemented a nice 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 give mention that in the areas 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 then some economic activity will be allowed to be designed so that the daily wage on those who go out and on their livelihood know

what these activities are exactly they don't know yet we have. 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 we have seen a rise in the number of 4 sports across the country and asfar as the infrastructure system sun india is still trying to ramp up is to creation out of the past 50 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 the mobs explode or the work that some cities do when it does there is a chance of a community transmission making out and the government is still trying to build its infrastructure better to face the situation if it ever comes to that when there are

so dark and delhi for us thank you very much. let's get you the latest developments on the corona virus now 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 a new coronavirus infections most of the cases are links 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 we may enforce. there's talk of starting to lift the lockdown in germany to the influential national academy of sciences recommended that some of those directions imposed to contain the virus might be east soon its report 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 in parks to soak it all in over the easter 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 light losing would definitely be good at some point we need to start earning money again mitigate probably in 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 or the i think mouth nose

protection must become a social standard for months more not to politicians a 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. 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 on not to lift that seems to be the question let's bring in alina books susan 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 the current

restrictions 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 renormalizing nation and i think we need to do that quite soon your organization is one that some vulnerable people have been neglected because of the restrictions in place who do you mean. 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 and 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 isolate it 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 so 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 distancing needs to be kept in place facemasks could be an important element and then we can think about how to slowly ease restrictions of the books from the german ethic thank you very much thank you. time now to take a look at some of the other news stories making headlines around the world french president among them our cause says his country will have to endure another 4 weeks of lock down my concept that progress has been made but the battle against the coronavirus was far from over france has severely restricted citizens movements

since mid march. amazon is hiring an extra $75000.00 workers in the us to cope with a surge an online orders knock down a c. in a boom in the shopping as most regular stores remain closed as and has already failed $100000.00 jobs in the last month. south korea's military says north korea has launched several missiles into the sea of japan the south claims jonghyun fired both cruise missiles and out of ground rockets launched comes just days after north korean state media showed leader kim yong on visiting an airbase. well one place the world is looking to for guidance and planning an exit strategy from the lock down is china it was the 1st country to experience the coronavirus and it's the 1st to begin the slow return to normality but a recent increase in infections along china's remote northern border with russia is

causing concern. china has all but declared a victory in its war on covert 19 year but now fears are growing that a 2nd front is opening here in the province of a long jang the country's north eastern border with russia. the government has rushed help to the area they're setting up a field hospital a mobile testing labs and they want to counter the threat from china's northern neighbor russia which has become the biggest source of imported cases the chinese nationals based there try to return home in beijing a spokesman confirmed that all but 3 new infections on monday came from overseas gershom to ship on monday or the chinese mainland reported 89 new cases e.g. 6 of those cases where imported from abroad but surely reaching way through really . china is determined to fight off

a 2nd wave of infections and in the northeast it is leaving nothing to chance arrivals by ass forced to spend a whole month in quarantine. anyone from outside is tested a must give details of all recent contacts beijing does not want to jeopardize the recovery elsewhere in the country as lock downs are gradually lifted people are starting to venture out measures such as temperature checks and physical distancing remain in place it will also be a long time before businesses recover with restaurants especially hard hit. but the colombian owner of this cafe has some advice for other entrepreneurs facing uncertainty. don't panic and try to. to rethink course because things are going to change and is not just going to be a period of 2 or 3 months is going to be

a new reality that we we're going to need to reinvent ourselves. and find a way. food for thought perhaps the millions of people across the world still in lockdown and probably a long way off from being able to enjoy a simple meal in a restaurant. forest fires burning in northern ukraine an hour just a few kilometers away from the abandoned noble nuclear plant emergency services insist the fires under control but environmental groups claim radiation levels are rising the area has been empty since the nuclear disaster in 1906 for the firefighters of churn norval called into battle once more. for over a week they've been fighting back what experts call a super fire now environmentalist warn the blaze is in danger of reaching the site of the world's washed nuclear explosion. drawn footage shows blackened forest just

hundreds of meters from the ill fated plant. i must stress that the space affected by the fire is now huge. i can say it's the biggest fire ever in the territory. the government has sent hundreds of firefighters along with helicopters and planes in an aerial water bombing effort officials insist the fires are under control but greenpeace warns that the blaze could spread dangerous waste well outside the exclusion zone. radioactive particles remain in the forest meaning that the wood is polluted. it means that during the fire radioactive material together with the smoke and other products of the fire are fanned by the wind. in more ways

than one failure to stop the flames would be catastrophic for life here and far beyond the fields. a court in florence has sentenced for human traffickers to long prison terms for smuggling nigerian women to italy to serve as sex slaves italian authorities opened the case based in part on work done by d.w. reporters we learned of the trafficking ring in nigeria and followed the trail to florence rights groups of praise the convictions as a rare success in the fight against sexual exploitation. joining me now is a young philip shows he'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 d w back in 2016 what can you tell us about it. i

was to working as a free car correspondent based in nigeria back then and it was a time when the topic of human trafficking and irregular gratian 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 watch truth to be very helpful is that a colleague from up our station channels t.v. in nigeria joined the trip all the way to europe because he had a very different accents of course to the nigerian community and it's a leak and as you can see yourself in the reports that summarizes the investigation back in 2060. in 2016 d.w. reporters investigated along the human trafficking routes between italy and snide

syria starting in been in city when i jerry and girls are recruited. latest here that's traditional priests forced them to pledge loyalty to their traffickers. from. the migrants then pos the dangerous to hire a desert and eyes are on their way to libya. from there they cross to it in the clip 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 how my dumb 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 condi. it may be to us it's so we can't let me we

can't know. same way. we traced down the madame in a suburb of florence in the dark and ottomans and i jerry and colleague and just 1st with a hidden camera and under false pretense money with money. oh yeah the number of. ok he meets in all my gone 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 tens. and then they have to do prostitution to get money to live here. on the move was more help to work out how to one look for big money while the who moved me so it's a lie when they say that there is greater. even though 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 you 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 so we've seen you talking to the prosecutors there now it is extremely difficult for the prosecution to get water tight human trafficking cases into court why is the us. the main reason is because the victims have freights 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 straight 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 how the victims that's 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 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 whole process and her courage to

really kind of be over estimated 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 that fight continues because it's not clear if they can stay in the event might be deported back to nigeria and socialist thank you very much. time to take a look at some more news around the world. in turkey the parliament has passed a law allowing tens of thousands of prisoners to be released as a precaution against the coronavirus the measure excludes criminals convicted of terrorism drug offenses and violent crimes as well as a position politicians journalists and academics face in terrorism charges.

libby as a un but government says its forces have captured 2 coastal cities from rival militias backing the opposition warlord khalifa haftar the conflict has intensified in recent weeks despite growing international pressure to stop the fighting. israel's president has granted prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival benny gantz more time to form a new government they now have 2 more days in which to overcome their differences in coalition talks. guns have complained against each other in 3 inconclusive elections in the past year. fun of berlin's biggest attractions is its vibrant and eclectic club scene pumping out a steady stream of techno sounds they generate around $200000000.00 euros every

year so there are a major part of balance economy but the qur'an of i was locked down has knocked the business sideways and some doubt that it will ever fully recover. on top of a shopping mall in berlin is clunky con ish just one of the many clubs in the capital inside there's not much going on i d.j. is playing a set to an empty floor and an empty house. denotes momento. finally we've got the whole place to ourselves but then we quickly realized damn we've really got the whole place to ourselves that we've just talked about team we had 65 employees and we had to immediately cut most of the. musicians playing for masked men behind monitors berlin's music scene is being forced to get even more creative than usual. as we got to the register be we were

able to play it because a couple of weeks ago all the gigs were cancelled now we can at least play. the coronavirus has pulled the plug on berlin's club scene with around 200000000 euros turnover and around 9000 employees the scenes cultural and economic influence is huge and many clubs roll ready on shaky ground with rapidly rising prices well before covent 19. majority of clubs don't have the finances and won't last 2 weeks many have carious rental contract some for just a limited time which also means that no bank will get them. but the clubs aren't going to go quietly every night d.j.'s have been streaming their sets online from a different club a digital s.o.s. the goes out live in real time. already their nations have reached around 350000 euros. a unique club experience for some very unique clubbers.

i'm sad if you look at the deejays and they too. we were having a really good time but then you get a kind of calm feeling into a family does pick you up and. it definitely helped me visualizing how many people were watching at home to think of them was simply a huge help. it's a window into a world usually carefully guarded by bouncers. we may not be an essential service but we do essential work keeping spirits up and we know from facebook feedback we've received that we're really doing something closed. in the true spirit of berlin the idea is now set to go international. going to show when you dance together. and that's it from me on the news to me and then remember that you can always get

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