beethoven 2020. 5th anniversary here on d. don't you know. this is g.w. news live from berlin germany announces the 1st steps toward lifting its lockdown and reopening the economy. we have to understand that as long as there's no vaccine we have to live with the virus the chancellor angela merkel says beginning next monday small shops can't open for business again but social distancing measures will stay in place also coming up

a gloomy economic outlook for asia the international monetary fund says there will be 0 growth in the region for the 1st time since the 1960 s. because of the coronavirus and great art inspired by self isolation if you're getting bored at home try reproducing well known works of art in your own living room bedroom or bathroom. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program germany is preparing to gradually reopen its schools and allow smaller shops to resume business chancellor angela merkel and mounts the measures on wednesday after consulting the leaders of germany's 16 states now many restrictions will remain in place as the country continues to fight the corona virus pandemic the chancellor said that the country's efforts to contain the outbreak have been partially successful but that the situation remains fragile

. it's been 3 weeks since chancellor angela merkel announced the initial restrictions on contact now they're being largely extended social distancing rules will remain in place until may 3rd groups will remain limited to 2 people and at least 1.5 meters must be kept from others from may 4th the schools will gradually reopen 1st for school leavers in primary and secondary education day care will remain shut religious gatherings will also remain banned while major events including germany's beloved football will be called off until august 31st. meanwhile restaurants cafes theatres cinemas and music venues will keep their shutters down only shops up to $800.00 metres squared can reopen from monday facemasks are also being recommended in shops and on transport announcing the

amended restrictions chancellor angela merkel warned against complacency. what we've achieved is an interim success no more no less and i emphasise it is a fragile interim success this is now determined our deliberations that should be no rushing forward even if it's with the best intentions we have to understand that as long as there's no vaccine we have to live with the virus. as came in to become an. instant. controls along germany's land borders with its neighbors in the shenk in free travel zone will also remain in place for another 20 days. so how do people in berlin feel about the new measures. and i'm not surprised and i assume that it will continue on like this. first it's ok easing the restrictions is more difficult than the shutdown it's like being on

a diet when you're strict it's ok but the moment you start loosening the rules is when the danger starts. your problem but i'm looking for the bars in the clubs again. for now germany will continue keeping its distance. and for more let's bring in now lars felt he is the chairman of the german council of economic experts and of the panel of experts at the science academy leopold vienna that presented the plan for how german authorities should reopen the country thank you so much for joining us this afternoon hello good afternoon we heard their chancellor angela merkel saying that we have to live with the virus until this vaccine is found but that will probably not be until the middle of next year so i'd like to ask you because you have recommended easing this lockdown now is it really realistic. well what what we need to do is.

insufficient information based on the. lowly. me and social life. this is what the government is now doing it is. something stand to grill. ask every 2 weeks of work the yard come what the results of this. relaxation is whether there is an increasing number of protections are not and then we can have additional opening. measures for the economy of social life and. rest of the year we have to find out whether the restrictions that are going to be lifted or whether we need to continue with them in order to keep the number of infections so until we have a vaccine. but it's a delicate balance as an air between you know lifting the restrictions with the economy in mind and having the structures in place with human lives in mind how do

you strike that balance. well i'm happy that the government just like this. ability. what you need to find out is what is the situation. at the moment. given or health system. not half difficulties to cope with the number of inspections that system so. it's. not reached the capacity of one as a system yet. it is necessary to keep its debt level to ensure that we don't have. a number of inspections in hospitals which would be beyond pesty of those hospitals and this is meaning that every step. that the government is not going to take the next couple of weeks. looking at those

infections and on the other hand it must ensure our information that the databases on which these decisions are taken this improve from week to be so this is also very important and. we also have the economy in my in mind or rather those officials have the economy in mind and there are several models that are out there which predict that the german economy could recover quite quickly after this crisis if you had your crystal ball in front of you given you know the challenges that are ahead what sort of timeline do you think that we are looking at. well when we. presented or projections for the economy for this year couple of weeks ago we saw this 5 weeks of shutdown 1st slowly. 'd opening up 30 economy again. which cost us about 3 percent

of g.d.p. so a minus 2 percent given that. is continuing much more strongly into realizations of not so long but expect that the downturn is much much stronger that they're going to have a recession. so this is the situation i'm thinking about i'm still believing that you can realize nation of economic development so a sharp decline in the 2nd order of 2020 and then sharper increase starting sometime in the order continue next year. what we need to await. well with this as much as we can is a w. formation. if of infections. ok so but no matter which way you cut it you think that this is really painful here for the economy we thank you for that analysis and that perspective lars feld chairman

of the german council of economic experts. thank you very much there. well we go from germany now to asia and the i.m.f. says that the asia pacific region will experience 0 growth this year for the 1st time since the 1960 s. due to the massive economic damage caused by the corona virus the new report warns that the impact in asia will be quote severe across the board and unprecedented massive drops in industrial and retail activity major supply chain disruption and huge collapse in demand from europe and north america have been felt across the continent since the start of the year. is very unclear and couldn't from business who's covering the story for us i mean it's quite clear the coronavirus having a devastating effect economically what are the biggest factors for the i.m.f. shaping the outlook in particular in asia well i think when you look at it there's

no good time to have a global health fund make but the timing in this case was particularly bad because asian economies were already slowing down because of the u.s. china trade war and economies were slowing generally marie who's the i.m.f. secada most economist he said that a just service sector in particular will struggle you're going to have airlines factories shops and restaurants much like you're seeing here in europe and in the in the rest of the world but it is the worst recession since the great depression a synchronized contraction is what we're seeing as well so it's all happening at once which is also a big problem for asia which is so dependent on trade the worst recession since the great depression and a lot of people are also looking at you know the last crisis to really rock the global economy that was the crisis of 2009 back then we saw china really pull the global economy out of it they they were able to pick up some of the slack and it sounds like they can't do that this time around no back then the chinese economy was growing 9 percent more over 9 percent even during the whole the whole period of the recession this time it's under

a lot more pressure it doesn't it just doesn't have that seem to have the money that it did to. help it's still got the trade issues going on. even though it's factories of started to to produce goods again there's nowhere to sell them so china isn't going to be able to bail out the world economy this time around talk to us a little bit more about the infrastructures that are in place especially in asia when we're talking about social safety nets for example i mean that's not necessarily something that exists in many countries so what can be done in asia to prevent people from slipping through the cracks during this downturn i think it's exactly like you say i mean these are emerging economies a lot of them you have your tigers and everything but it's still it's a very very difficult a lot of these very poor countries. which were just coming into into high periods of growth i think with the i.m.f. is saying is that whatever it takes they they say that governments should just do whatever means necessary to to try and rescue the situation they should use policy

they can use whatever means necessary they can apply to the i.m.f. for money as indeed many of them have so there's lots of different options open but they need to use everyone clifford clinton for business thank you. well in china life may be gradually returning to normal after lifting lockdowns but people are proving hesitant about going shopping again so will han the city where the coronavirus was 1st detected is to hand out millions of vouchers to try and tempt people into start spending even at the once popular fish market business remains slow. unloading the catch of the day and will have the city was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe experts say the virus originated in this wet market apart from fresh meat and seafood it also sold wild animals such as bats thought to be the source of the disease. while the

hunan seafood market remains closed most markets have now reopened to the dismay of international health experts and politicians. many locals are less worried. so you talk and i think it's ok if you go to the seafood market this virus won't affect our eating habits because it's a special case and there is a lot we don't know for instance we haven't confirmed that it comes from the you nancy food market we have eaten wild animals for thousands of years you know what they may have had some problems during processing so we should be more careful with that by cooking them more and checking if they're fresh. difficult to get hold of. the markets or a traditional and affordable way of shopping in china and customers are returning. oh where it went ok it's a similar to supermarkets so it's relatively safe there but also go often if it's unsafe because supermarkets are more expensive still vendors complain that business is slow as many shoppers now prefer more expensive but hygienic supermarkets as

some return to the markets for affordable food others fear getting more than they've bargained for. and here's a look now at some other stories making news around the world the 1st flight carrying unaccompanied children from greek migrant councils arrived in luxembourg a number of european countries have agreed to resettle 600 children from overcrowded camps on greek islands around 50 will travel to germany on saturday activists have criticized e.u. governments for not accepting more australian police have arrested 3 people at an immigration detention center in sydney after they refused to end a route rooftop protest detainees are angry that the government has refused to release them from the center during the pandemic and has denied requests for covert 19 testing. partial results from south korea's general election show a landslide election victory for the left leaning governing party the democratic

party looks set to gain a majority in the national assembly boosted by an effective 1st sponsor to the coronavirus the election was carried out under a strict social distancing rules. all there has been international condemnation of donald trump's decision to freeze u.n. funding of the world health organization president trump accused the u.n. body of failing in its response to the corona virus outbreak although he has been under fire for his handling of the pandemic now for its part the w.h.o. says it regrets. trumps move have a look at. the world health organizations response to the white house on wednesday was clear the world's most vulnerable may now be at greater risk. w.h.o. works to improve the health of many of the world's poorest and most notable people bluto is not only fighting corbett 9 to trump's decision

to cut w.h.o. funding amid a pandemic has stunned the global community and drawn criticism from experts back home. you know credible. concerns. absolutely can be raised right now from that. perspective we believe that the president should reconsider its decision despite the backlash trump on wednesday reiterated his concerns over the w h o's handling of the early stages of the outbreak. and you see what happened in italy you see what happened to spain you see what happened to france. w h o's guidance had failed to control their borders at a very crucial phase quickly unleashing the contagion around the world the us is now the worst affected country worldwide with more cases and more deaths than anywhere else white house critics believe more should have been done by the trumpet

ministration of that the president is now deflecting blame the united nations health agency says unity is needed now more than ever should and as we just heard there the united states is now the epicenter of the coronavirus endemic and it's disproportionately impacting african americans in the country in some states and cities black americans make up a majority of the deaths from the virus correspondent stefan simons went to a hospital in washington d.c. to find out more. this is how far we are allowed to follow doctors and nurses to one of 2 intensive care units at howard university hospital. this medical center in washington d.c. has been serving the african-american community in the city for over 150 years.

most of our patients up for. most of our patients live in help desert. uninsured or underinsured. most are unemployed and have other this proportionate. paul social determinants of health here in washington and elsewhere across the country high quality primary and preemptive care can often be absent and i'm affordable in poorer neighborhoods and communities the lack of access to healthy food sources is another factor that accounts for the stark difference in numbers of covert $1000.00 related deaths in predominantly african-american and white communities. this is dr wendy others she spent years researching the root causes and impact of what she says are systemic inequities on predominantly african-american and minority. she's not surprised that black americans are impacted by covert 19 and a disproportionately higher rate. free. you have

a higher does higher proportion of individuals with hypertension with diabetes with obesity these things that are the leading causes of death in the country and the chronic disease the leading chronic diseases in this country it's not surprising that individuals that are already had that higher proportion of those immunocompromised diseases would then be at the higher end of the toll. and one of the most economically and socially deprived areas in the district of columbia table a nonprofit organization that serves underprivileged communities is based here providing healthy food and offers education healthy food choices among other things for many residents of. despair for the hard by the coronavirus the work carried out day in day out is critical this is a there's only 2 grocery stores in this neighborhood and there's a lot of people that don't have the resources to either get there or shop there so

we came here because we knew that this is where the food resources were needed as well as the education giving families healthy food choices they normally can't afford is perhaps just a band-aid right now but many hope that america's coronavirus crisis could finally trigger a real policy change that aims at making underprivileged communities healthier more affluent and with that more resilient to a public health crisis in the future. and i am joined now by calypso shell could do director of the global health policy think tank the center for global development in london thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and i'd like to begin by asking you because some have called the coronavirus a great leveller impacting poor and rich alike what is your response to that sort of language i do not social you've just demonstrated using the united states as an example of the most vulnerable and poor it's the monks the

citizens are the worst heat and when you look at countries unfortunately nations south asian nations are much more likely to hit the hardest perhaps not just the direct effects of the virus but the effect so the global economic shutdown that the global north is imposing to manage the outbreak so with that in mind what would you recommend i mean what coronavirus measures you think should be implemented in less affluent countries and in less affluent areas within countries themselves. so i think 1st of all one size does not fit all i do not think that we can take the measures imposed in the united kingdom or indeed the us or france italy and try and implement them directly in sub-saharan african nations for all sorts of reasons the african c.d.c. has issued guidelines on more staged rollout of measures for suppression but i

think if we were to pick the top 3 or 4 things african governments could do 1st of all water and sanitation low tech water supply we know wash interventions are very effective and we do good after the virus is gone in terms of saving lives secondly when you look at social distancing it must be done in a way which takes account of the realities of poor nations people leave in crowded spaces 90 percent of the people working work in the informal sector so this figure must go to work all they will starve to death they and their families so must consider this as the starting point and whilst we're talking about scaling at hospital capacity let's go to some trade again on simple things that we know save the most lives ochs agend physiotherapy chest physiotherapy section that will save

lives in normal hospital settings as opposed to high tech at i.c.u. ventilators which may well not be feasible in countries electricity for it since simple things that are in dire need are just briefly before we go i'd like to ask you because we hear a lot about you know the global economic impact of the coronavirus and i'd like to ask you briefly about how you see the impact on the global poverty in particular going forward. i think it's like it to be tragic in fact already looking at forecasts of millions of people falling into poverty and this reduction in g.d.p. in sub-saharan africa which could be up to 6 percentage points will directly result in halves of thousands of deaths for instance we estimate about 300000 children will not live to see the 1st birthday soley as a result of the projected economic contraction so this is a direct health goal of the economic downturn clips social could do of the

global health policy director of global health policy excuse me at the center for global development in london thank you. thank you around the world people are staying at home to stop the spread of the corona virus while some are simply getting bored others are becoming creative using their time to produce and reproduce works of art take a look at what one facebook group in russia is doing. fly into a marc check out painting from your bad. sink into the tragedy of malays ophelia the thing greediness from your kitchen. from edward monk to michelangelo social media users are giving out classics a quarantine make over. the russian facebook group is. isolation started as a challenge between friends and moscow just

a few weeks later it has nearly half a 1000000 members from all over the world. no one expected such a huge reaction paths for sure the group grew so quickly right away people are really taking time for this going through our books looking at the websites of international museums to find the right picture for themselves and their families. the rules of the group are simple use a classic like this leonardo da vinci painting take the photo at home and use props that you happen to have lying around in quarantine photoshop is not allowed. just when i decided to take part in the art isolation project because i'm sick of my cat and she's sick of me. over the bird why do i take part in this project because it is uniquely wildly joyful and it gives everyone positive emotions gives you a break from the difficult situation we. used to say

many of the recreate sions are a spontaneous thing but some people have been so in customs and getting the whole family involved including that. now there are around 2000 new posts every day according to the page administrators each one is a glimpse into how self isolation can sometimes open up new doors or draws to. creativity. well now to a story that is inspiring people around the united kingdom and beyond a 99 year old army veteran has raised the equivalent of over $14000000.00 euros for the health service after completing $100.00 laps of his guarded captain tom moore had initially set a target of around 8000 euros in an effort to thank health service staffers for the care that he had received for a broken hip and cancer more than 600000 people have donated choose to go.

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