china is responsible and china must be called to account for what i do say so well for the corona virus pandemic of course the americans are playing the chinese german tabloid newspaper build rather helpfully worked out the bill it reckons china owes germany about 149000000000 euros give or take but why we'll get into that with the paper's editor in chief in just a moment i'm phil gayle in delhi and this is the day. that i was angry because it should have been told to us it should have been told to us a lot of people knew it was happening and people didn't want to talk about it they had never been a cover up and will never allow a cover up. some people in the us have accused china of failing to inform the

us in the epidemic in a timely manner we're going to get to the bottom of it because you're not saying anything i'm saying people should have told us about this issue told the rest of the world. also on the day german health minister against cautiously announcing some good news amongst all these coronavirus gloom. as of today the outbreak is controllable and becoming more controllable germany is doing relatively well managing the epidemic. that makes us humble not overconfident. well as china relaxes lock down restrictions in who by province and will hand say see we have a coronavirus pandemic is believed to have started germany's health minister declared his country's outbreak is now manageable people are lining up to blame the pound. it may come to china germany's largest tabloid newspaper built rather

helpfully drawing up an itemized invoice on it you'll see a $27000000000.00 euro charge for lost tourism revenue which made march and april up to 7 point $2000000000.00 for the german film industry a 1000000 euros an hour for german airline and $50000000000.00 for german small businesses makes a grand total of $149000000000.00 euros give or take bills reckons that surround that's about $1784.00 euros per person if germany's g.d.p. falls by 4.2 percent the invoice appeared in the paper on wednesday under the title of what china us you know the chinese embassy reply the same day saying amongst other things anyone who makes a calculation as you do it builds newspapers nationalism prejudice xenophobia and hostility to china for a crisis of this magnitude there is no script you

know correspondence continued today with every bottle addressed to present pick from the paper's editor in chief you didn't write it and i'm pleased to say that you didn't write it joins us now welcome to day w what were you trying to achieve without 1st article. well we're trying to point out that of course that there is something like responsibility for a lot of incidents a global health catastrophe like this is a star just like they did in china failed to inform the rest of the world about the magnitude of this bizarre break and that is clearly what happened and that has caused severe thanks to countries all over the world and that's why we drew up the bill and told. told basically the chinese government that there is a bill to pay and this should be discussed as many people have discussed how a u.s.

secretary of state has gone to the german foreign minister i must has touched on that today so we think we are on to something. and do you mean do you believe that this bill of something like if you believe that china will actually pay no of course they will never pay for it as they have never paid for anything for example patterns that they have stolen from other countries china or the chinese regime take whatever they wish and not pay the bill for it but that doesn't mean that media what they don't have in their own country and don't allow people to consume of their own country should. write about that and hold them accountable yet you're approach the only way you can the sentiment seem very that would you put it to trump you know the way the president trump has tended to blame the chinese for this and also when it comes to night so he was also reported to have presented i'm going to mess with the bill is that it's not

a comparison you welcome. i don't consider that trump and i just consider it very reasonable and if the president decides to go into the same direction are still considered reasonable although many people may dislike president trump you know that china has failed clearly failed to regulate for example whether markets in the countries where viruses have some kind of come from for long times if cenotes to inform the rest of the world through do the you know in the process as we have the w.h.o. for example about what is coming at us and of course you know that that raises a question of responsibility and accountability and it's obvious that a regime like china tries to push that way but again you know they can do that in their country where they control the people that patrol the media that do not control the wet markets but they patrol 'd everything else but they cannot do that in the western countries with free media they should be locked and i think we will

see that debate growth in the next weeks and months and i think it will go well beyond trump and i think countries in europe that are losing a lot of money that are losing hundreds of thousands of or millions of jobs right away it's a question well responsible for this let's start let's talk about a couple of allegations and you say that this started from the white markets in china where should prove. well as of now as we all know everyone who's in jobs meant reporting knows that china makes it awfully hard to do research on the romans to gather prove all prove ourselves as journalists because journalism is control this everything is in china but what we see and what china has raised itself is that there is a strong connection between this virus and the wild animal or wet markets china they close down these markets during the outbreak without making any comment on

that so i would say you know it's awfully hard to do something china china to make sure that this part of the us that was approved. but it's way beyond the laws are way beyond reasonable so as just to be clear. you say china is responsible for this the scientific community says the proof is there is no conclusive proof you have no one but as far as you're concerned the weight of evidence is against china the circumstantial evidence of that it's not no 0 point is that this virus and there's no hope about those coming from one china and you know if it comes from the west market or if it comes from a laboratory of like the washington post has indicated it does we know it come from one china and we know that china has not that well community what is coming at us so if it comes from that market or from any other source the point is not that

incomes were in china it comes from it's that it comes from china and china just saying they not only failed they chose not to ignore the rest of the they chose not to inform the rest of the well ok you say this is something that that particular allegation is you've made a couple of times you say that china failed to inform the rest of the world i'm just looking through the embassy the response from the chinese embassy they talk about going back as far as december. 31st of last year. they say that the w.h.o. confirms the timeline that they lay out in their letter to you so where in that is is again your proof that they paid this information. well i think you know as journalists you and i shouldn't be trusting what shit the chinese regime says too much after that are already said we should know what we have not is what we are just trust what other people do but what we also should not do with.

my snake allegations without proof so again i think 1st of all you know that in an interview maybe you should just let me finish my sentence because i was going that we have talked to for example numerous officials in german authorities for example is that what caused that to have told us that china chinese officials and the whole separatist they wouldn't answer their phones as i've wrote in my letter they were who cited any females asking about. fiction chains whether it was long clear to china that this was that action that goes from white human being to another that for example and that is something that numerous officials have told 'd us i would to consider way more credible than you seem to a piece of the origins and letters if you are less astute thing so there was this there was this bill in your in your newspaper the chinese embassy responded and

then you wrote back to the chinese president xi jinping so in your letter to him you say you want to strengthen china with the plague that originated in china that's a direct quote it's an english translation of the o. your letter which was in german this is a sentiment that seems to echo the conspiracy theories doing the rounds on the internet to be clear are you accusing the chinese of starting but coronavirus pantone. deliberately. didn't they didn't start deliberately from everything we know right now they just failed to stop and failed to inform the world and i find that to be honest it a little bit a bit disturbing that you call this a conspiracy theory when i say it started her china they failed to inform the well another trying to capitalize on it but you know. trumping up their propaganda beat of china helping the world well today which is something i think you should be

reporting on your program they just had to correct the numbers of deaths in. and they just made a mistake in their mathematics and calculate it i don't really find that very credible and i don't see how you make conspiracy theory out that the truth is that china started that deliberately it does not say that anywhere on our obligation i would never never make that accusation there's a conspiracy theory i made it's made there and they have nothing to. siri those are based on facts and i think those those facts should be mentioned debated and discussed rather well way more clearly they are right now good talking to you thank you for joining us union writer and if you're too much of a built. for dummies health minister says the corona virus outbreak in his country is now

manageable but countries agency for disease control the robot institute says the infection rate is forming despite this the country has seen one of europe's highest numbers of infections but comparatively low death rates which officials say is due to widespread testing in the early stages but is germany moves to ease lockdown measures next week the health minister bomb also urged caution. the 1st round of pandemic control measures is coming to an end a gradual relaxation is in the cards but closures social distancing and face masks are set to remain the new normal germany's hospitals have i.c.u. space to spare at least 10000 intensive care beds are free possibly more as hospitals nationwide begin complying with a new regulation to inform a fart about their daily capacity health minister yet says the health care system has at no point been overwhelmed with the host as of today the outbreak is

controllable and becoming more controllable germany is doing relatively well managing the epidemic and that's when the effect that makes us humble not overconfident. if there is good reason to be cautious the week has seen a day on day rise in both total cases and deaths thursday recorded the largest single day death toll yet 315 people were reported to have died of the virus nearly 10 percent of germany's total how many health workers may be among the sick and dead no one can say the health ministry says those numbers are not tracked but one number that is the reproduction number that shows how quickly coded 19 may be spreading in germany the public health institute says it's now at 0.7 suggesting the outbreak is slowing down. that's largely because of the drastic social distancing measures taken to stop it effective treatment let alone a vaccine are still in their early stages something germany's top by rolla just

recently called a dream to tell him we're not dreaming we're working on making it a reality the work is likely to take months of painstaking research and testing and cooperation with the public and private sectors around the world until then germany's government says it will reevaluate the situation every 2 weeks and adjust precautions accordingly. political correspondent simon young can tell us more welcome simon there's been a lot of talk about reproduction numbers this week 100 reports but this is not point 7 in germany outline for us why it's important. yeah this reproduction rate is really the number that tells you if the virus is spreading in a controlled way or whether it's out of control and anything under one basically a good number so as you mentioned we today germany is now at 0.7 what that really

means is that if you imagine 10 people infected with the virus on average they're only infecting another 7 people so as those original 10 recover there are only 7 people who are you know coming down with the disease and this time goes by the number is. less and less you know these this is very positive and if it continues in that way there's reason to believe that you know jim is getting on top of the virus this despite the infection numbers falling significantly we're seeing the mortality rate going up so fewer people becoming infected but more people dying so people must be asking whether the government's assessments of this being under control is perhaps a little too optimistic. well yes they may be and you know of course all this statistical information you know has to be. looked at with scientific

and perhaps not everybody can get their heads round it i would say that the death rate lags behind the infection rate so you know as the infection rate has come down well experts said they expected the death rate to carry on rising you know because people who are dying effectively the people who have been infected some time go you know it could come down even further if the if the infection rate stays low but equally it could go back up so that's why it's really important to carry on with the testing and the contact tracing that has been credited with you know being really part of germany's very successful response to this crisis so far and to talk about the facemasks neighboring austria has made them compulsory is that likely to happen here. well there's certainly

a lot of talk about that idea because you know it does seem as if these cloth mosques that you can watch and reuse or indeed other kind of reusable mosques that protect other people if you've got that is easy as you breathe out you you don't spread so much of the virus that really does seem like a good idea the chancellor and the government here in berlin have sort of spoken a. strong recommendation as the chancellor called it this week for people to do that when they're out in public on public transport or rain shops but they haven't gone as far as you know making it mandatory well one german state saxony has now done that it said you know people outside should wear these mosques and they're really following on from the experience of a number of german cities where it's been in for a few weeks and they have seen a very significant drop in infection rates there's

a really does seen if enough people wear these mosques it can be a really effective tool and just talk us quickly through what's going to happen of the next few weeks because we know that social distancing rules will stay but some restrictions are being used from next week. that's right phil so germany's moved a little bit to ease the restrictions and from monday the smaller businesses up to 800 square meters there's been a bit of argument about why that particular arbitrary size distinction but anyway smaller retail businesses can start to open but of course hotels and restaurants have to stay closed people are still advised to observe the social distancing measures and going forward from the beginning of may we'll see a lot of schools beginning to open in a staged way and the government says it will be reviewing the situation every fortnight i think it might be even more often than that to see whether any more

easing of the lockdown can happen thank you political correspondent simon you. india's population of 1300000000 is halfway through a 6 week national lockdown the government insists the restrictions a key to breaking the chain of transmission for the battle against coronavirus also seem to have an element of religious prejudice the doubly correspondent mission of just well has been to the northern city of new route to find out why muslims are being accused of staging what some locals say is a karuna jihad. 3 more weeks of lockdown this is closed district of movement. but these men are fuming about something else abdul rashid a shopkeeper in the northern city of made at says islam of 4 bia in india is that all time high. he clearly blames the indian media oh yeah corona has

a rhyme this is what they say when they see muslims. mark 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 mot and islamic sect was recognised as a kid on our wireless hotspot many who attended the gathering in delhi became called 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 has with some of these were predominantly hindu. now people refused 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 nearer to rumors are circulating about malicious intent. locals who are fighting the ports of multiple incidences of muslims entering neighborhoods and spitting in them to suspend the koran are virus residents here a standing guard and barricading gates to prevent this from happening. even leaders from the ruling b.g.p. have claimed that members of the beekeeper mock sect have deliberately spread the why if you're going on about india should have been free of coronavirus by now but in denmark but these german members this collective like suicide bombers or these suicide bombers that should face the strictest possible legal action and it's got

a very big should be punished in a way that generations to follow starting up will be too afraid to commit such crimes here. the allegations the sect has spread the virus on purpose are still unfounded but fewer and go across communities but. for these men their religion has become an added burden during the long lockdown. one of the groups most vulnerable in this pandemic of the homeless south africa's presence around the poses problem is that homeless people will be looked after juror the locked down in cape town that means taking them off the streets and putting them into a camp which doctors without borders says is more likely to spread coronavirus than if they'd stayed where they were the w.'s other increase has been to see for himself. cape town mayor dennis played to actually wanted to showcase how well his

city is dealing with the homeless during the cruel enough ira's crisis it has set up shelter for some 1500 people at a sports field on the outskirts of the city the mayor and his staff proudly point out a memo by a body called clean it but the upbeat mood quickly changes when we approach the tenants with a home listen if behind a fence was that they are good really. good at the crime there was some yell out that they had dying there and have to sleep alge in the colts. the police moved in. and we dug up the decision that that's what i think we all know might mean you know and when no one is being hauled against the wall on this. they tell us make no mistake but i didn't start with and i don't think it was because i love it when i am not there yet it's not enough not enough individuals i'm sorry i'm not saying it was you playing well i'm old you're just i don't

i don't. really get. that. south africa has introduced one of the toughest lockdowns of the worlds that's why cape town is housing these homeless they live in tents and meals by workers in full protective gear. the real good movement of only those people who can prove they have a place to stay may leave the heavenly god it's can't. do must understand these people will be looking the most. around and use and that sort of thing the withdrawing some of them she says.

because they want to come to you they have that spot they call on to unfortunately leave you alone he's building what you need to know what do you think what will that mean. at the fence a man i asked how many coronavirus cases they are now in the country and how many have died he says that since his arrival he hasn't received any information but we have to leave yesterday is over. the mayor said the situation only escalated because of the presence of so many cameras he said normally it would be very calm and journalists would be free to come back to have a look anytime now we've tried for several days to get the permit from the city to get back in but we didn't get any response now we came here again and we were just turned away. well it was the day ever comes action continues online you honest on twitter news will fill gulf coast got news a hush tug the death of a good. environmentally

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