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but everyone has the right. everyone has the right to say. this is deja vu news live from berlin u.s. president donald trump lays out a road map for recovery from the economic pain of the coronavirus troops as a prolonged lockdown would inflict an immense toll on public health he says state governors should take a phased approach to getting things back to normal also coming up. surviving the
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pandemic in the slums of nairobi a group of young volunteers is delivering food and meals to those most at risk. and ours is a quarantine make over a russian facebook group is recruiting pets partners and household props to reimagine some of the classics on account of. a mix peiser welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump says healthy americans will be able to get back to work as conditions allow trump has set out plans for a phased return to normal daily life in the united states they're reopening would be done one careful step at a time but he said states are free of better free of the virus can open literally tomorrow. my administration is issuing new federal guidelines that will allow governors to take a phased deliberate approach to reopening their individual states
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dealt with them now a long time. and we've had a great relationship democrat and republican the relationship has been good this strategy is based on hard verifiable. and correspondent like some of our nominee joins us from washington for more on this so the american president presented a framework for reopening the american economy how does it justify that while president argues that it's important to reopen the american economy that people want to get back to work and that the cure itself cannot be worse than the pandemic so he has argued today that it's also important to view heath plan for reopening as a safe way to do so what was very important i think today was that he acknowledged that it's not the federal government who has it who decides when to open by the
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that's up for that governor to decide when there can be open there are states this is a very important step this reopening will be based on certain criteria and there are based on scientific data for example at the crease in new cases in the 14 day period of time to also very important and finally what was also important is that this is have phrased approach so not everything is opening at once but as presidents trump said at one careful step at a time you've been following these daily news conferences for a while did you not find he took a bit of a different tone today perhaps more measured or conciliatory. well he did indeed and the plan that he presented today was quite a reversal from what he was talking about just a few days ago when he said that he as president has total of 30 to order the states to we open when he declines to talk about criteria for reopening the country
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and when he also downplayed the role of testing today he was talking about expanding the testing and about the governors who are calling the shots. trump wants to reopen the economy as soon as possible but how viable is that really well tom said today that the curve has been flattened that peak is behind us but the problem is that experts agree that the you ass is still not testing enough there are not enough testing kits we learned today that $3500000.00 tests were completed but it's just about one percent of the population and to understand whole scope of their pandemic in the u.s. it's really important to have this way it spreads testing and this is crucial for
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reopen it we're opening the economy and that's still not the case in the u.s. according to experts. center for naaman in washington thanks for the. and here in germany talk is also turning to how the lockdown can be gradually ease the crisis has turned the spotlight on society's unsung heroes health workers supermarket cashiers and delivery drivers among others as germany starts to move back to normality leaders are highlighting one message that solidarity is more important than ever. an unusual gesture of appreciation. greetings mr president. this video shows german president. making phone calls to citizens who are working tirelessly during the coronavirus crisis the heroes of everyday life these are the people who keep germany going despite the lockdown the
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calls by the president's office i meant to show solidarity with those on the front line trash collectors nurses caretakers doctors emergency workers. can do a little bit to ensure that recognition is given to you and your colleagues once normality has returned. such a trash collector from berlin says he's enjoying a level of appreciation he's never experienced before. is the most important thing there is the importance of solidarity expression during the qur'an a pandemic is also underlined by the german foreign minister and a video conference with dozens of his colleagues michael moss had a clear message of cohesion. you know this kind of thing the virus is an international no country. to defeat this virus.
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ma said germany is backing the world health organization and the fight against corona virus and criticize donald trump's decision to stop u.s. payments to the w.h.o. the. w.h.o. work is and remains the backbone of our fight against the pandemic so it makes no sense at this time to call into question the competence or the importance of the w.h.o. this is the worst possible moment to do that to undermine it would be similar to throwing the pilot out of a plane while it's in the year would be completely irresponsible. even as germany is slowly preparing to ease corona restrictions the global pandemic is far from over. experts say it usually takes between 5 to 10 years to develop a vaccine scientists around the world are trying to come up with one for covert 19 in a fraction of that time now that success is likely to be at least one year away here's
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a look at the work being done in huygens book here in germany. this bad contains a possible cure for. its plasma donated 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. the antibodies that the patients full attack and destroy the virus that's why that's the only possible specific treatment for the virus that we have. a problem. the doctors at the university hospital in reagan's book have been working with these past medications to 10 days hundreds of people who have recovered to volunteer it they take up to 5 donations today. the samples i checked with an antibody test developed especially for 19. to me i'm very optimistic and we have found donors who have substantial amounts of neutralizing antibodies in their blood
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and we've already injected this into the 1st patients here and break into book and spoke about target more than 40 patients have been treated with the antibody plasma since last week all critical serious cases so far no side effects have been observed to make its book but they have recorded the 1st successes the parameters all signs of the infection improve after a few days. the theory you need 13 is one of the parameters that falls relatively quickly and if the patients still have a viral load still have the virus in them then we can see the decreases disappears completely push when this means people who have now recovered from the virus can help those who is sick and possibly also save lives. and here is a quick roundup of developments around the world the number of corona virus infections has topped 2100000 most are in europe nearly 150000 people have died new
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york has extended stay at home restrictions for another month the city is preparing to use empty hotel rooms for quarantine japan has declared a nationwide state of emergency regional governors have been given more powers to close businesses and make people stay indoors and the german state of a various as annual october fest beer festival is unlikely to go ahead this year. about 2 and a half 1000000 people live in cramped conditions and slums in the kenyan capital of nairobi many children rely on schools for their meals but they are now closed food banks are rare businesses an agency's are asking people to donate money and food. with the arrival of the coronavirus in kenya a young group of volunteers to tap an initiative to distribute food to those who can't stock up together with community activists they now do regular runs in poorer
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neighborhoods around nairobi and. we rely on donations from the public so we get donations and then we buy food in bulk. and repack them in smaller relief box which we call sanitation and food packs so in the parks there's like $200.00 drums of beans red beans there's a 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 forward. the community activist lives here and knows who needs the food most of the elderly the sick and orphans are priorities even so everyone here feels the effects of the economic downturn. most even family members yeah. they can't afford now. to return that they can't afford to get to students and then
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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 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. now with all the stay at home orders in force around the world many in isolation have been getting creative some have been using the time to produce and reproduce works of art here's a look at what one russian facebook group is doing. fly into a mark check out painting from your bad. sink into the tragedy
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of malays ophelia the thing greedy and it's from your kitchen. from edward monk to michelangelo social media users are giving out classics a quarantine make over. the russian facebook group is there is a latvia 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 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. 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.
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i decided to take part in the art isolation project because i'm sick of my cat and she's sick of me. by uniting our hearts in this project because it is uniquely wildly joyful and it gives everyone positive emotions it gives you a break from the difficult situation we. used to say many of the recreate since our spontaneous thing but some people have been so in customs and getting the whole family involved including that tats. 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 doulas or draw as to creativity.
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and a reminder of the top story we're following for you u.s. president donald trump has laid out a road map for recovery from the economic pain of the coronavirus he says states that are free from disease can reopen as he put it literally tomorrow. this is of course to give you news in berlin you can always get the latest news around the clock on the debut app or a d w dot com and you can follow us on twitter and instagram i did a few news on the spicer thanks for watching. what secrets lie behind the small. discover new adventures in the 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. p.w. world heritage 360 get the map now.
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