this is g.w. news live from berlin germany takes the 1st steps toward lifting its lockdown and reopening the economy chancellor angela merkel says small shops could go open for business again from next monday schools will slowly reopen from painful work but social distancing measures will still 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 coronavirus and surviving the coronavirus in the slums of nairobi they are short of food and social distancing doesn't mean much in those cramped conditions. i'm sorry kelly walked into the program germany is preparing to gradually reopen its schools and allow smaller shops to resume business but many restrictions will remain in place as the fight against the coronavirus pandemic continues chancellor angela merkel said that germany's efforts to contain the outbreak have been partially successful but that the situation remains fragile. it's been 3 weeks and 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 metres 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 where it can reopen from monday face masks are also being recommended in shops and on transport announcing the amended restrictions chancellor angela merkel warned against complacency but. 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. in them to become in the. controls along germany's land borders with its neighbors in the schengen free travel zone will also remain in place for another 20 days. so how do people in berlin feel about the new measures. 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. 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 there 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 using this lockdown now is it really realistic. well. what we need to do is. insufficient information insufficient. lowly. of me in social life.

this is what the government is now doing it is the restrictions to some extent the grill. ask every 2 weeks what the outcome what the results of this. year's whether there is an increased number of sections or not and then we can have additional opening. measures for the economy how to socialize and. what 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 low until we have a vaccine. but it's a delicate balance isn't if it's clean 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 gets the.

ability. what you need to find out. what is the situation regarding actions at the moment. or. not have to fickell to use to cope with the number of inspections that system so once. they have not reached the capacity of what has a system yet. it is necessary to keep its debt level and to ensure that we don't have an overwhelming 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 be assured. information that the databases on which these decisions are taken this improve from week to beat so this is also

very important. we also have the economy in my in mind or rather those officials have the economy in mind 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 a couple of weeks ago we saw this 5 weeks of shutdown 1st slowly busy. we're opening up 30 economy again. which cost us about 3 percent of g.d.p. so a minus 3 percent given that. is. much more strongly in the realizations i'm not so wrong but expect that the downturn is much much stronger

that the recession. so this is the situation i'm thinking about i'm still believing that you can realize a show 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 avoid. well with this as much as we can is a w. formation. if off infections would be. 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. and here's a quick roundup of some other coronavirus developments around the world cases of

the illness have topped 2000000 internationally the majority of them are in europe and over a quarter are in the united states the world health organization has warned europe against easing pandemic restrictions too quickly the bobbies european director said that despite small positive signals europe is still the eye of the storm with the case number still rising in many countries and a study of dutch blood donors has shown that around 3 percent have developed antibodies against the virus authorities say that that suggests several 100000 people in the country may have already had the disease spain has recorded a further $551.00 new virus deaths bringing the total in the country to over $19000.00 but the increase in new cases is lower than peak levels in march. well against that backdrop scientists around the world are racing to find vaccines and treatments for covert $191.00 thing they often stress is that the race will be a long one success could be 18 months or more away here's

a report now on the work being done by a team at the university hospital in reagan's park in germany. this back contains a possible cure for it 19 it's passed by a person who was infected with the coronavirus but has now recovered this means he also has the antibodies produced by the body to fight the virus you can grab the antibodies that the patient's full attack and destroy the virus that's why that's the only possible specific treatment for the virus that we have to appear to be in the home probably. the doctors at the university hospital in reagan's book have been working with these plasma donations for 10 days hundreds of people who've recovered to volunteer it they take up to 5 donations per day. the samples are checked with an antibody test developed especially for covert 19. to me i'm very optimistic and we have found donors who have substantial amounts of neutralizing

antibodies in their blood and we've already injected this into the 1st patients here and reagan's book spoke about target more than 40 patients have been treated with the antibody plasma since last week all critical serious cases so phone no side effects have been observed in reagan's book but they have recorded the 1st successes the parameters or signs of the infection improve after a few days. the theory you need to retain is one of the parameters that relatively quickly and if the patients still have a viral load so still have the virus in them then we can see the bio loot decreases disappears completely for the push what this means people who have now recovered from the virus can help those who are sick and possibly also save lives. but here's a look now at some other stories making news around the world south korea's ruling party has won a resoundingly victory of the country's general election the left leaning democratic party and

a satellite party won 180 out of $300.00 seeds voter turnout was the highest in 3 decades despite the poll taking place under strict coronavirus containment measures . israel's president has tasked the country's parliament with forming a government after parliament speaker benny gantz and prime minister benjamin netanyahu missed a deadline to reach a unity deal the country could now face its 4th election in a year and all strongly and police have arrested 3 people at an immigration detention center in sydney after they refused to end a 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 1000 testing. well jobless claims in the united states have risen dramatically once again over $5000000.00 people applied for unemployment benefits in the past week alone that brings the total jobs lost in the past month to almost 22000000 the highest spike in unemployment in u.s.

history now many businesses across the united states remain closed in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. and it's not just the u.s. that's feeling the pinch 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 on asia will be quite severe across the board and unprecedented massive drops in industrial and retail like to the major supply chain disruption and a dramatic collapse in demand from europe and north america have been felt across the continent since the beginning of the year it's 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 we look at 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.s. a columnist asia columnist 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 and 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 i mean a lot of people are also looking at you know the last crisis to really rock the global economy that was the crisis of 2000 and. 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 russian recession this time it's under a lot more pressure it doesn't it just doesn't have the seem to have the money that it did to to help it's still got the trade issues going on. even though its factories are 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 is exactly like you say i mean these are emerging economies a lot of them you have your tigers and everything but it still is still 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 to 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 this thank you. well in china life may be gradually returning to normal after a lifting of lockdowns but people are proving hesitant about shopping again as you might imagine so will han the city where the coronavirus was 1st detected will hand out millions of vouchers to try and tempt people to start spending to get that economy going businesses remain sluggish even after the once popular even at the once popular fish market have a look. unloading the catch of the day and will hand the city was the epicenter of the corona virus 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. i tend to talk and i think it's ok to 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 and 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 and difficult to follow. the markets are a traditional and affordable way of shopping in china and customers are returning. oh we're here to work on this is similar to supermarkets so it's relatively safe and of course to go even 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. when we had to kenya at its capital nairobi where 60 percent of the population about 2 and a half 1000000 people lived in cramped conditions in urban slums many rely on schools to provide meals for their children but those are now closed and food banks for the poor and homeless are rare in kenya so some businesses that n.g.o.s are calling on people to donate money food and goods for those in need did your reports . with the arrival of the grown a virus in kenya a young group of volunteers set up an initiative to distribute food to those who can't stock up together with community activists and they now do regular food runs in poorer neighborhoods around iraq. we rely on donations from the

public so we get donations and then we buy food in bulk. and repack them in smaller release parks which we need to show them food parks so in the parks there's like 2 pillars of flour 500 grams of beans red beans 500 grams of sugar and. the mother islam house is over 200000 people many here don't have running water sanitation entire families live in single room shacks and social distancing is a luxury they can't for. the community activist lives here and knows who needs the food most the elderly the sick and orphans are priorities even so everyone here feels the effects of the economic downturn most even some of the members yeah your neighbors can't afford now. to work towards and they can't afford to get just words and then some of the employers. in the past 2 weeks

a number of initiatives have come up online asking people to donate food or money to poor households the good thing is that people can donate money via their mobile phones from the safety of their home in case of a lockdown this might be the best way of reaching those in need. government aid hasn't reached people here not even the funds for the elderly and orphans rachel says that with the support of private initiatives they have helped 400 households. the volunteers know it's only a drop in the ocean but at least it's a start. you're watching t w news coming up later in the program great art and speired by self isolation if you're getting bored at home try reproducing the well known works of art in your own living room bedroom for about for. that 1st year in europe some countries are beginning slowly to emerge from the week's long lockdown ursula funder line the european commission president has

called the blocks response to the virus crisis the most impressive anywhere in the world but speaking to european parliament lawmakers she also conceded that the e.u. was not ready when the pandemic 1st began and issued an apology to one particular country yes it is true that no one was really ready for this. it is also true that too many were not there on time when italy needed a helping hand at the very beginning and yes for that it is right that europe as a whole offers a heartfelt apology but saying sorry only counts for something if it changes behavior and the truth is true that it did not take long before everyone realized that we must protect each other to protect ourselves and the truth is that europe has now become the world's beating heart of solidarity

let's get more now we're joined by richard walker who has the view from brussels so richard tell us i mean this is not the 1st time that funder line has issued an apology especially to italy so why another. yeah well that's right i mean going well back into march was a lot on the line really many times has drawn attention to her criticism of many member states within the european union particularly the early stages of the crisis going it alone in their response not managing to coordinate about things like closing borders and then crucially for italy banning exports of some of that crucial personal protective equipment for doctors nurses that is really desperately desperately needed in the early stages of the crisis and this is the kind of behavior that was love underlines being very critical of many times i think she just wants to hammer that home whenever she communicates not so particularly with an eye to public opinion in italy where there's a lot of concern that public opinion could be beginning to turn against the

european union over the handling of this crisis but all of that said the message overall from as well from the line today was actually much more positive it was much more upbeat it was talking about that beating heart of solidarity the kind of cooperation between european countries that she says is beginning to happen that you do see it sort of cross border help with medical supplies and things like that and she wants to drum up support for more of that kind of coordination going forward and indeed she did seem to have framed the state of solidarity as if it were simply a given within the e.u. she also talked about the mothership of the budget to help europe recover how realistic is that really richard especially given the reality of what solidarity is right now. yeah that's right well i mean this is going to be the next really big challenge of that solidarity can they come together the european member states to put together what they're calling a recovery fund to help the rippin economy get back on its feet once the virus does

begin to recede if for some progress last week with finance ministers agreeing on measures to tackle the immediate effects of the crisis now but this is the really big thing looking to the future of funds what they're referring to sometimes is a marshall fund you know harking back to the post-war era where the united states pumped money into europe roughly the united states not going to do that now europe has to find that money itself and there again we look at potentially opening up some of the fissures within europe that we saw during the financial crisis 10 years ago where you have countries like italy on their knees with too much debt in countries like germany in them and other countries in northern europe not too keen on being seen as bailing them out this is going to be the next test can they find a way of putting money together without reawakening those old tensions were fondling you wants to use the european budget a 7 year budget that they've been trying to work on in recent months but even without the coronavirus crisis they couldn't come up with an agreement on that so

a big test coming up for the european union richard walker with a view from brussels where so much is at stake for the e.u. have this hour thank you. well amid the stay at home waters around the world some people are getting creative these days using their time to produce and reproduce works of art take a look. fly into a mark shake out painting from your bad. sink into the tragedy of malays ophelia the thing greedy and it's from your kitchen. from edward monk to michelangelo social media uses of giving art classics a quarantine make over. the russian facebook group is. isolation started as a challenge between friends in 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 that's 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 and you. 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. i decided to take part in the art isolation project because i'm sick of my cat when she's sick of me. we have to have a prayer by uniting our hearts on 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 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 paid. administrator's each one is a glimpse into how self isolation can sometimes open up new doors or draws to creativity. i'm sorry kelly thank you so much for watching they seem.

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