david this is climate change for a good sex happiness and books you get smarter for free you know where you go on. this is the doubly news live from berlin a controversial move by turkey's parliament in the fight against the coronavirus president to advance party and allies agree to release thousands of prisoners to ease overcrowding but critics say the bill intentionally excludes journalists and politicians jailed in atlanta 16. also on the program the d.w. investigation into sexual exploitation of italian prosecutors convict for mattress

was smuggled women from nigeria as sex slaves. and as china announces victory over the coronavirus into han a 2nd front threatens to open up on its remote land border with russia. i'm phil graham welcome to the program a turkish parliament has passed a law allowing tens of thousands of prisoners to go free as the country tries to reduce overcrowding in jails and curb the spread of the coronavirus but opposition parties and other critics say the law excludes anyone critical of president or demands government the temporary releases don't cover those jailed on terrorism charges including politicians and journalists who were arrested in the crackdown that followed the attempted coup in 2060. it's an awkward moment for a group photo members of the once party ignore appeals or physical distancing from

the president of the turkish parliament perhaps not too surprising since they also ignored the opposition's criticism of a bill that commutes sentences for about a 3rd of turkey's prisoners excluded from the bill are journalists aligned with the opposition or others critical of the government jailed on what are widely seen as flimsy terror charges. this is a sentence commutation that fits your political priorities the law introduced by a k. party and backed by his nationalist allies the m.h.d. converts some prison terms to house arrest the turkish justice minister says 17 prisoners have the corona virus and 3 of them have since died women's organizations and human rights activists have been campaigning against the legislation. almost all the crimes committed include saft fraud physical assault sexual assault and violence against women all of them $90000.00 inmates will be released from prison.

the coronavirus pandemic is keeping turkey's daily life on hold a 48 hour curfew went into effect last weekend and beginning friday residents of over 30 cities in the country will be on lockdown. welcome to day what do you make of this move. well turkey is. given the number of the council in europe the country that has most prisoners and 65 years in all member states of the european council expresses a lot said so it's about 296000 people are in prison injured and the decision of the turkish parliament includes criminals includes people that killed other people rapers but not political prisoners so he shoemaker reports

about sirte corruption you stay in prison and a guy who was corrupt the street so that explains everything out a situation to reduce. so given that situation then what do you think is his motivation this is about keeping what political enemies behind bars. and i think it's beyond personal revenge because it includes people like former party leader of the h.p.p. party say that he demurred china she was running against him with a complaint to prevent it from becoming president of turkey bases are eventually going to very prominent person is also. who is. one of the most prominent figures of turkish civil society and. probably was one of the people who was very active in the role of the civil society in the easy protests in that case for personal revenge but it's not a moment for personal revenge this is

a moment to save lives east people it's a kind of the death penalty what arrogance decision means for these people if they stay in prison. at the present figure about 61000 cases and just under 1300 deaths during this pandemic what are people making of the way the president is handling the crisis. well i mean it's now force times the figures from april 1st. so this is a dramatic increase of coral no virus cases into ricky and this is just what we know so i mean the question mark he says tricky is not a western democracy or liberal democracy is no where you can be sure that the u.s. official figures are the real figures so we don't know how the situation really looks to tricky for our ground if you watched a year ago on it to accuse one of the leading countries in the fight against corner by resumes helping italy's shelf space helping germany unfortunately she don't

listen to the few kept channels that are not controlled by her go on you don't look learn a lot about the crisis and the most recent case went to church minister of interior announced that in 2 hours from his announcement people left to stay at home. everybody practically went on the streets to buy whatever to need for their home center so this is the best way of probably spreading coral enough to everybody so it's a complete disaster search strategy to fight against corona virus a quick word about sort of a normal politics if you like before the pandemic of the world's concentration turkey had allowed thousands of migrants to stream into the no man's land between its borders and grace you know what has happened with this situation since then. well they did not it precisely so you know moved they were more or less forced to because 1st of all they were told you know the entrance is open there is no border

control anymore and he has to jump on the buses most of these people move back because they do realize that there is no such thing and arizona to understand it this way of kind of pressing on europe did not feel good talking to you thanks for joining us as the man and member of germany's abundance for the green party. well a quick roundup of some of today's other coronavirus developments the number of confirmed cases around the world approaching 2000000 and more than 120000 people have died of virus related conditions the latest official figures show that hundreds more people have died of coverage 19 in britain than previously recorded and you figure includes coronavirus victims in nursing homes you can only registers people having died of the virus if they were in hospital taiwan has reported no new covered 19 cases for the 1st time in 5 weeks and austria started to ease its lockdown allowing small shops to reopen strict social distancing rules remain in force. the court in

the italian city of florence is sentenced for human traffickers to use prison sentences of up to 16 years for smuggling nigerian women to italy to serve as sex slaves italian with ortiz opened the case are based in part on work done by d.w. reporters who learned of the trafficking ring in nigeria and fall of the trial to the city rights groups have praised the convictions of the rest success in the fight against sexual exploitation. all right well we were. there we were looking to record the average increase revenue a few technical alright let's let's look like we've achieved it adding crayfish is one of a d.w.i. reporters who uncovered the trafficking ring but is reporting from west africa that he's now based in cape town in south africa welcome added tell us remind us about

the report you co-produced back in 2016. remind us about the report you co-produced in 201600. well back then it was a massive increase in the numbers of migrants trying to get from western africa to europe can you and me feel i can. try again from the top. ok so i was saying that back then we saw a massive increase in the numbers of migrants trying to get from western africa to europe so we did a 5 part series researching along the way in nigeria in niger and italy as well to see how the situation really is and we talked to a lot of victims and when we reached italy we also talked to try to talk to those people in trafficking which was very challenging and in the end after a lot of research one of the ladies who was forced into prostitution told us about

her human traffic her and this is the story let's have a look. all right i mean we must bring a reporter will will will ok i'm told it's on its way. in 2016 d.w. reporters investigated along with human trafficking routes between italy and nigeria starting in between city when i gerry and girls are recruited. it is here that traditional priests forced them to pledge loyalty to their traffickers. the migrants then pass the dangerous desert in the eyes are on their way to libya. from there they cross to italy where tens of thousands of nigerians and out as prostitutes selling sex for as little as

10 euros after long research one nigerian agreed to talk to us about her my dumb this is what they call nigerian traffickers here under one condition she wants to remain anonymous the madam trafficked her to italy to force her into prostitution. wish you well conned you sometimes. it would be to us so we can't really we can't i know that you. see way. we traced down the mud down in the suburb of florence in a darkened apartment and nigerian colleague enters 1st with a hidden camera and under false pretense money with money. are you the number. he meets in or might you go on one rare and 6 female young nigerians inside. afterwards we confront the alleged at madame she denies all allegations of

trafficking but constantly contradicts herself the girls she says are tenants. and then they have to do prostitution to get money to live here. but will move maybe more help to work outside the one loophole big no matter what they do the movement so it's a lie when they say that they are integrated. 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 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. but true and ran crazy under and tell us more about how the girls were exploited. the story of the girl you just heard their stories she told us you can hear thousands of time in its elite she was basically recruited back in nigeria promised a better life in europe not with prosecutions but rather working as a nanny on the shop they promised her she was then taken by middlemen who were paid by the man down we've seen the human trafficking and the report to take her all the way by road and sea to europe and when she arrived she was told now you have to pay back $45000.00 euros for the journey and you have to go to prostitution to do that she was exploited she was not the only one the prosecutors later found this very human trafficking was heavily involved into human trafficking in italy as well as well as in germany and in france she brought various girls she didn't they didn't

only have to pay the $45000.00 per person neuros they also had to pay for example $100.00 euros per person per month for the pavement space they were standing to work for prostitution so in the end it's good news that 9 of these girls will finally be able to be free to be released because of this one lady who came out to speak the truth who had the courage to talk to the prosecutors but still there are thousands of others that are in a similar situation and they still find themselves in the very difficult circumstances and the 100 was it generally so difficult for prosecutors to secure convictions in these sorts of cases. because the girls are afraid and the women are afraid to talk to the prosecutors to the press to everybody because you have to remember they came into the country illegally often they don't have the papers to be in the country they're not supposed to prostitute themselves so always when. tried to approach them they would eventually be afraid to speak out it's what's helped though and what experts believe now could be really

a game changer in the future is that when the in which is the highest or 30 of the traditional people in the region of nigeria and this have been in city region he actually recently said although although this that pledged in the past related to human trafficking they're not valid anymore so hopefully people are hoping that this will push more people into speaking out and more girls into becoming free eventually ok thank you for that increase in capetown. and i will take a look at some of the other news stories making news around the world in just coronavirus knocked down the biggest in the world affecting 1300000000 people is being extended to at least a 3rd of may a nationwide t.v. address prime minister narendra modi said people's lives are more important than the economy restrictions have left millions of irregular workers dependent on food handouts. the international monetary fund has predicted the global economy will

contract 3 percent this year because of the far reaching measures to contain the pandemic but they're a bit about next year predicting a robust to rebound 5.8 percent growth. french president emmanuel macro says france will have to endure another 4 weeks of lock down the progress has been made he said the battle against the pandemic is far from over the country has been locked down since the middle of march. this is news live from berlin still to come as colombia's economy crumbles under the weight of the pandemic we the venezuelan workers being forced to return to a country in chaos and an uncertain future. the one place that the world is looking to for guidance on planning an exit from the lock down is china it was the 1st country to experience the coronavirus and it's the 1st to begin they slowly turn to normality but a recent increase in infections along the country'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 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 tried 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 partially really reaching russia will be only. china is determined to fight off

a 2nd wave of infections and in the northeast it is leaving nothing to chance. arrivals by as false 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 lockdowns 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 goals because things are going to change and it is not just going to be a period of 2 or 3 months it's going to be

a new reality we we're going to need to reinvent ourselves to. 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. colombia colombia has been a haven for venezuelans driven from their country by the economic crisis and violence to the 2000000 from as well and so found refuge there since 2050 but after colombia impose strict social distancing rules thousands of venezuelans and i'm making my way back when he worked in the informal economy lost their jobs and now cannot afford to stay what looks like a family stroll is really the beginning of an odyssey carrying the few possessions they hold dear and some wearing only flip flops on their feet these venezuelans are on their way home. they came to colombia seeking

a better life but ever since the coronavirus forced the country into lockdown it has become increasingly difficult for venezuelan migrants to make ends meet. been lost his job. he was laid off and we lost our home and. that's why we decided to return in my new job or if i want to leave but i also want to stay at the current team is hard even for colombians there's no work and how are we supposed to pay our rent are we supposed to buy food on their way out of the returnees receive care packages provided by the united nations refugee agency. nobody knows when they'll get their next meal with the country under quarantine the unofficial pit stops along the way have shut down it's a dangerous trip they're embarking on for hundreds of kilometers they'll have to navigate adverse weather conditions and armed groups controlling rural areas

worried about their well being aid organizations trying to convince the migrants just day get to get there and go to dinner i mean when they cross the border with venezuela i'll have to quarantine that's another challenge in venezuela the conditions for placing a large amount of people under lockdown that aren't ideal. but. that's why the u.n. hage c.-r. and other agencies in coordination with the colombian government are discouraging returns. but not everybody wants to leave helen and her family arrived in bogota 2 months ago on foot. despite the difficulties they face in colombia the young mother doesn't want to risk venturing back to venezuela. people could i prefer to stay there i want to be going to do in venezuela we may have a house of our own but i supposed to wait for my daughter to starve to death with

a little money they had spent on food helen and her family couldn't pay this month's rent unable to work during the lockdown they risk being kicked out by their landlord desperate hellen stepfather pleas for solidarity. with the colombian government to help us and with the rent payments. that's why they could assist us. because we're human beings we're not animals. but many of their fellow venezuelans have already lost faith in the authorities coming to the rescue tired of being treated like 2nd class citizens during the pandemic they have to sign it to leave. returning to venezuela with a political crisis still underway may not have been what they planned but if they make it at least they'll be at home already having thought 2 about it is what. straight to the capital then correspondent joins us from caracas welcome osca

venezuelans return home because of the pandemic what sort of conditions will they encounter. well the health care system in venice where that is at its worst and it's one of the reasons for the humanitarian crisis we have been dealing with for the past couple of years not only are hospitals in most parts of the country practically ruined but there are no equipment and many of the medical staff has migrated or left their job for more lucrative alternatives but also the water and electricity shortages affect not only the health system but everybody's living situation and now with gasoline shortage as well it is crippling an ambulance and transport in general but for refugees coming back to going to swear that could be a better alternative than staying at a camp especially when the neighboring countries are all pointing there are no jobs everything is closed so for many of them it's better to stay at home in venezuela than in a tent or a camp somewhere else i do believe that if there is more economic gain in leaving

then people will start migrating again once things seem to be back to normal to just sound desperate looking out the pandemic the official figures ha surprising 101919 cases in venezuela 9 deaths whereas neighboring colombia has registered nearly 3000 cases so one wonders how credible are the figures from the moderate government. there is little credibility on the figures you think of the us team and in fact the opposition led parliament headed by one by those that's criticised the left and your information but it's difficult to calculate how many actual infected there are we have not seen however on significant surging deaths in the war and death figures are hard to hide so some experts i'm sure you know numbers in comparison to other countries i simply said it was worth around about us out of the political and economic crisis perfectly to shut down our airport in many

locations many companies like move times on american airlines 10 stocks 5 altogether to dissuade since last year so even though the figures given my mother who are not credible we suspect the numbers are not as high as you know countries all across the region is he is independent you are opposition and without its use we have seen a surge in detentions towards politicians and journalists covering early buyers in the us where. caracas thank you so this week marks the 150th birthday of new york's prestigious metropolitan museum of otts in the precursor calendar the out of a she was supposed to be filled with fanfare and style but a lockdown has put an end to some breakdowns as well as not having a party that's wanted about having enough cash to pay staff. 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 goes in seeing that there's a field hospital in central park it's not appropriate for us to be celebrating ourselves against 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 was seen 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 consumption meter better chilcot spent on the salaries of the

mets 2000 employees are safe until the start of may the museum hopes to be open by juno at the latest but even that is uncertain. that's it for now i will have more world news at the top of the hour and of course around the clock on the web site dot com a good. it

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