our brain. documentary stores. for you. this is the w. news live from berlin the full impact of the coronavirus crisis on china starts to become clear the economy is hit hard with the 1st drop in output in 3 decades and the city of new condo where it all started is forced to admit that the death toll is far higher than originally reported also coming up u.s. president donald trump laying out

a road map for recovery from the coronavirus trump says the state governors should set the pace in a phased approach to getting things back to normal. muslims in parts of india take the rap for the coronavirus we go to one city where muslims are accused of staging what locals call call grown a jihad even though there is no evidence. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program china is reeling as the full impact of the coronavirus lockdowns becomes clear 1st to the economy has taken a hit with figures for the 1st 3 months of the year showing the 1st drop in output for almost 30 years the 2nd blow is new figures revealing that the death toll in the city of new hong where the virus was 1st detected is half as much more than previously reported now are reports starts with the slump and the economy. the

curve may be flattening but china's economy is taking a dive people can return to work but as the virus moves across a world in lockdown there was virtually no demand. car sales at 1st dropped then plummeted down 21.6 percent in january then down 92 percent in february according to the china association of automobile manufacturers china home to the world's 2nd largest economy has released its 1st quarter g.d.p. a drop of 6.8 percent millions of workers do not qualify for unemployment benefits and many businesses are on their knees what should be peak season for many is now the worst in recent memory. the situation is dire awful it's as a source for me. i've got no idea how to get through this year there's no hiding

from reality my business might not survive this year that i might be unemployed. next year i don't know what i've been through the chinese officials released another startling figure the number of coronavirus deaths in who has been raised to almost 4000 that's a 50 percent increase from earlier numbers the news has fuelled concerns that china has covered up the true extent of the outbreak an accusation the country denies. and let's get more now we're joined here in the studio by clifford coonan from v.w. business who's covering the story for us and quivered china's economic growth falling by nearly 7 per cent i mean we have not seen this out of china how significant is it and will china recover. i think it's extremely significant if you look at the at the last the previous decades we've had been square massacre we've

had sars we've had the global financial crisis the asian financial crisis and all the way through the chinese economy has kept growing and then it's a measure of just how serious this is by the fact that it's constructed by so much and i think i think it will recover but like everything you know it's like a boxer who gets knocked down before and i watch in the economy for weak points and just seeing how things are going to go forward we have in the past 24 hours the french president expressing skepticism about the chinese handling of the coronavirus crisis he also said that it's likely going to have an impact on globalization so what exactly could be looking at here will be we're seeing questions now about the whole concept of globalization which is again a sign of how deep a crisis this is we've seen that the japanese for example have put out issued stimulus plans which involved bringing japanese companies back to this mean going on in the u.s. for a long time under trump so the whole notion of globalization is now being called into question i mean mccraw. being the latest example of someone who's calling the

notion into question what does this mean politically for china especially for president xi jinping hold on power i mean he has been extending that power in fact so what happens now but i think domestically this is being portrayed as a success story that he's handled it well i mean we saw today that the figures would have been the death toll there has been increased shown to have been increased but i think that generally he's handling it he's perceived as handling it well domestically but if the economy continues to be weak if they kind. creation of jobs and if they have to incur more debt is going to put a lot of pressure on the economy so i think that it could it could cause problems down the road for xi jinping what does all this mean for the rest of the world do you think i mean how can the global economy recover when china is putting forward g.d.p. numbers like this well i think people are asking fundamental questions now but the

economic growth and what it means and how it happens china has had a very controlled economy for a long time but i think that possibly because the come countries that are going to come out of this crisis best are the countries that don't have close capital borders that have free companies that do but what companies do best don't have a lot of debt so i think we're going to see possibly a refocus in economies go forward after all this is over a cliff it couldn't fronted every business thank you. while we're going to turn now to another story here's a quick roundup of other coronavirus developments around the world french president emmanuel micron has a question china's handling of the corona virus outbreak said the things happened in china that quote we do not know about denmark will allow small businesses to reopen on monday the country was one of europe's 1st to shut down but is now gradually easing its lockdowns and the german health minister young spawn says that the outbreak in germany is under control new data shows that the infection rate has

fallen significantly. u.s. president donald trump says that healthy americans will be able to get back to work as soon as local conditions allow trump has set out a plan for a phased return to normal daily life in the united states he says that they're reopening will be done one careful step at a time the plan is a set of recommendations for state governors not orders back down from his insistence on monday that he had total authority to direct states what to do. these are just some of the 22000000 americans signing up for unemployment benefits only a few weeks ago the u.s. could boast record employment numbers the booming economy was president trump's signature achievement but the coronavirus wiped out 3 years of gains in a matter of weeks now trump says it's time to start gradually opening up the economy again our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring economic life

we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time and some states will be able to open up sooner than others to lock down would remain in places like new york the epicenter of the pandemic there all stories of ordered shops businesses and schools to remain closed for another month but other areas with declining infections and strong testing could ease restrictions the end goal a return to the way things were this is not going to be a new normal where somebody has been having for 25 years 150 seats at a restaurant and now he's got 30 or he's got 60 because that wouldn't work that's not a normal normal will be of he has the 158 or 68 seats and that's going to happen and it's going to happen relatively quickly we hope but with food banks reporting skyrocketing to man it's increasingly ordinary americans who are struggling to put

food on the table as the coronavirus lockdown takes its toll. and president trump's plan to gradually reopen the u.s. economy can only be implemented if infection rates stabilized but to get accurate numbers the u.s. needs to do far more testing as washington correspondent alex hunter phenomena explains. both trump said today that the curve has been flat and that peak is behind us but the problem is that experts agree that the u.s. is still not testing enough there are not enough testing kits we learned today that 3500000 tests were completed but it's just about one percent of the population and to understand the whole scope of their pandemic in the us it's really important to have this why it spread testing this is crucial for reopening the opening of the economy and it's still not the case in the u.s.

according to experts. alexandra phenomena in washington there here's a look at some other stories making news around the world new york governor andrew cuomo says that he is extending the state's lockdown until may 15th nonessential workers will be required to stay at home and social distancing rules will stay in place more than 12000 people have died from code 19 in the state. european car sales fell by 55 percent last month due to coronavirus lockdown measures the european automobile manufacturers association says that all $27.00 e.u. markets experienced dramatic contractions but nowhere worse than italy where new car registrations collapsed by a massive 85 percent and the anwar has released almost $25000.00 prisoners in a presidential amnesty to mark the country's new year mass amnesties during holiday celebrations are common though the number of freebase year was higher than normal

human rights groups had called on the anwar to reduce overcrowding in its prisons due to the corona virus outbreak. all india's 1300000000 people are halfway through a 6 week national lockdown the government insists that the restrictions are key to breaking the chain of transmission but the battle against the virus also has a religious dimension correspondent musha dice wall has traveled to a northern city to find out why muslims are being targeted for supposedly staging what some locals are calling corona jihad. 3 movie lockdown of businesses closed of restricted movement. but these men are fuming about something as abdul rashid a shop people in the northern city of made it says islamophobia in india is that all time high. he squarely blames the indian media. corona has

arrived this is what they say when they see muslims. moderate their vision or shouting at us saying here comes corona is this a way to behave so there is a limit to our patience the discrimination started after an event by the teacher mart and islam except was recognized as a kid on our wireless hotspot many who attended the gathering in delhi became covert 19 carriers across india several media channels were quick to claim that this was a deliberate attempt to undermine india some even alleging corona jihad. these allegations have also had a severe economic impact moment if the us would normally travel to different neighborhoods hawking his wares some of these were predominantly hindu. now people refuse to let him in so when everyone is turning so away the residents

say don't sell food here go back to your own neighborhood. police are stopping us to beating us down. these muslim vendors can now only sell goods in their own majority muslim neighborhood business has dried up elsewhere and mirrored rumors are circulating about malicious intent. locals here are citing the ports of multiple incidences of muslims entering neighborhoods and spitting in them to spend the coronavirus residents here are standing guard and barricading gates to prevent this from happening. even lead us from the ruling b.g.p. have claimed that members of the sect have deliberately spread the why if you're going on about how india should have been free of coronavirus by now but in denmark but these members this collective like suicide bombers form these suicide bombers that should face the strictest possible legal action is it going to be punished in

a way that generations to follow are going to be too afraid to commit such crimes. the allegations that the sect has spread the virus on purpose are still unfounded bought fewer and go across communities. for these men their religion has become an added burden during the long lockdown. and let's get more now we are joined by these claims novelist and political activist. from delhi thank you so much for joining us here on d w news i'd like to begin by asking you because lockdowns around the world have been having disastrous consequences the viruses implications as well what would you like people to know about what is taking place in your country in india where inequality really exacerbates the situation. well i think what has happened is there

a crisis in fact it's not a crisis yet in the if you look at the numbers which of course but the exposed seems about me are the are so that all of us knew you know it's it's too late on full display he just as you were reporting were seeing you know we are suffering not just from but from a crisis of hatred progresses. and of course the lockdown in india is not a lot darker as there is no physical distance either just physical compression. but really this crisis of the against. it's coming of course on the back of a massacre in the league which was the result of of you know since december people protesting against the muslim citizenship a lot more and now actually even as we speak. under the cover of course with the

government is moving to arrest young students to cases against lawyers been senior editor against activists and true. to their recently thought into doing. so given that i mean you described the steps crisis of hatred what is your message then to the hindu nationalist government which is apparently inflaming these tensions further. it's the city since laming is the stingiest for the day and it's booked to know the whole of the organization the r.s.s. to which more the law of which is the mother ship of the. has long said. should be in the lead in it's i who go to have likelihood of the muslim to be near to the jews of germany and if you look at the religion you know using call who it was very much like. diceless was huge against the jews today if you were going to stigmatize

them so there's nothing i can see it through to the government it's all i. can speak to people in india and to the world outside not to do this lightly because obviously the situation is approaching. you know because the government agenda has been and it says the sky muslims have been lynched was them have been hunted down but now the stigmatizing even with this illness has the left you know government policies on street now you can hear it everywhere and though the it comes with the threat of extreme violence and of really i mean already started building the detention center of the buildings for that new law with now you know this for the duckie with this illness just to to create something which

the word should really keep its eye so i cannot exactly it ticked more so you say you say that the crisis here is approaching genocidal i mean that is really shocking if it has if it has gotten to the point you wrote recently in a piece sort of related to best you said that the tragedy is immediate it is real it is epic but it is not new it is the wreckage of a train that has been careening down the track for years whose eyes have been closed and who else eyes need to be open right now in order to prevent what you see as the threat of us of a genocide. well that you actually that was us talking with the u.s. census too by the way that well applying what i've seen out who died a clue that was either of those you know a really international leader that is me and a lot of welcoming the prime minister who who is really. you know part

of this whole agenda the middle who tries to cave you see the moon why when the violence creeps out in fact the massacring there have been well timed with you know in terms of nothing no one said anything and you know the indian media the mass the mainstream media is really in the genocidal media not for the passion that is with enough not all of it but a lot of it still a t.v. anchors are like single member of the lynch mob sitting in the a to be you so you see what happened in places like rwanda and the rule that immediately there and you see back then and you get in is that then suddenly i'm here i'm not even beginning to talk about the crisis or how the back of the on millions of people in the millions. something wonderful about

a 1000000 people were shot down for our little note 8 pm learn ousted the lockdown team and millions the stranded on those he knows who with nowhere to go and walk hundreds of kilometers home to their villages where they are not allowed in. and the president deepening the crisis of the. it's a really important message and we thank you so much for joining us to share at the royale as we mentioned you're an acclaimed novelist political activists you're also one of india's most acclaimed intellectuals so we thank you very much for joining us to share that message here's a look at some other stories we're following around the world 3 astronauts who spent months aboard the international space station have arrived back on earth 2 nasa astronauts and one russian landed safely in kazakstan after more than $200.00

days in space due to the coronavirus special safety measures had to be put in place for their arrival. millions of jobs in the global tourism industry could be lost due to the covert 19 pandemic according to a new report by the un's world tourism organization it says that 96 percent of all worldwide destinations have imposed travel restrictions and it has called upon governments to lift them as soon as it is safe to do so. well one tourist attraction that would welcome a lifting of restrictions is the 600 year old inca settlement of munchy picchu in southern peru it's normally a huge draw for visitors from all over the world but it's been quiet for the last month because of the coronavirus for a country whose economy relies on foreign exchange times are tough for peru. the ancient inca town macho picchu is one of the 7 modern wonders of the world last year 1500000 tourists came to visit it now except for some lamas it's deserted not

only there but also proves capital lima is oddly empty due dulac of tourists many restaurants are suffering since the government imposed a partial lockdown a month ago. 5700 hotels in lima are completely empty right now the tourism industry and all of the workers depending on visitors do not expect relief any time soon. what is more i think it's going to take much longer than a year for the tourism industry to recover much more than a year because things we want to be in the same a set of the small. tourism experts estimate in 2020 only a quarter of the normal amount of tourists will visit perro and that the sector will lose around $4000000000.00. but one of the problems with tracking the coronavirus is the unreliability of statistics different countries have different ways of collecting the figures while some try and hide the facts one thing that

could help improve accuracy is an app for smartphones some people are reluctant to download something that couldn't proton their privacy but that's not the case in iceland. almost completely unobserved iceland's largest piece that erupts into clear blue skies they have been few visitors of late whose people ought to keep their distance during look down today only laina ocean have made the trip over like us so we wanted to see some of the science without all the tourists here for once a woman is wearing the mc the corona virus has completely halted iceland's usually thriving tourist trade leaving locals to enjoy the many natural wonders in relative peace where they travel and who with is located in a mobile app more than half the nation is registered. this makes it easy to track the potential spread of the virus because you passed over the period we needed something like this from the very start of the outbreak when it was crucial to

track people coming into the country from abroad. at the beginning of march holidaymakers from iceland contracted the virus while staying in the alps until then corona hadn't found its way to the small island nation almost immediately voluntary testing was offered to residents in the capital reykjavik every day chief epidemiology isto role for goodness an update the public. made with a higher percentage of tests on citizens than any other nation immediately after diagnosis we place infected patients in those they have come into contact with quarantine so far that's been around 5 percent of the population. for every one person to have tested positive 10 have been placed on the corner. the result here really quiet streets in the capital but locals are 100 percent behind the measures. a few notable everything depends on following the measures only when

we all participate can we slow the spread of infection together with flatten the infection curve the number of new cases is fooling around with. whether or not locals are permitted to visit sightseeing hotspots is down to the smartphone app it may have its drawbacks but solidarity with fellow citizens in a time of crisis is more important because. the app is fine but it is a bit spooky everybody constantly knows where you are but there are lots of us like that and this one is not too different than it is on the you brought us there that we need it now. anybody wishing to visit iceland on holiday is required to spend 2 weeks in quarantine 1st the rule is simple you can do what you want providing you do it alone. well as everyone says these are strange times so strange in fact that even the mysterious street artist banksy has just given fans a rare glimpse into his private life his latest work on his instagram site shows

rats driven crazy by the lock down on the loose in his bath for banks he writes my wife hates it when i work from home rats are a common theme in his work and often portrayed causing may have an interesting lay there is no shortage of toilet rolls in banks he's back for. firmly he's the one buying all of all about toilet paper well don't forget you can always get to the viewers on the go just download our app from google play or from the help store which given access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can use the app to send us photos and videos of what is happening near you. while you're at it don't

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