w. . this is dick news live from berlin the u.n. wants that africa could see hundreds of thousands of corona virus for a later date so far african nations have reported just a small fraction of the world's cases but there are fears that the continent could see millions of infections in coming up also on the program. in hong kong police arrested 15 democracy campaign is in connection with last year's massive protests we'll hear from pro democratic opposition about what the crackdown means for the movement and. grace begins freeload can't read like

a thing unaccompanied children from its under threat of microcaps to other european countries germany has already welcomed the group of nearly 50 manas begin a new life is. a method held welcome africa has officially recorded more than 1000 deaths from covert 19 but the united nations economic commission for africa predicts the pandemic will likely kill even in a best case scenario at least 300000 people on the continent and they in their estimation it could also push 13000000 into extreme poverty we begin our coverage in h. . this cairo rubbish dump is home to employ him saeed and his family. the dump also provides his income for euro's a day. from sorting trash stopping work because of the coronavirus is out of the

question. fraid of corona but we hope that god will protect us we need every cent and we pray nothing happens to us we don't want to beg. but 80000 people live and work in this garbage city on cairo's outskirts 16 tons of rubbish arrive every day to be sorted and recycled by hand no gloves nor masks in extremely close conditions where hygiene is nonexistent officially there's no corona outbreak here but there's also no testing the world health organization estimates a high number of unreported cases residents complain of fever and diarrhea the head of the garbage collector syndicate has demanded that the government supply protective equipment so far without result he hopes garbage workers exposure to the virus will make them immune to work must go on. all the

trash is full of bacteria and mold. if we don't collect it the results would be catastrophic for egypt it's feared that a wave of infections could start here and quickly spread within cairo and throughout the country and experts see egypt as poorly prepared for a major outbreak. are joining me now is number and nicky executive director at african monitor in johannesburg now my thanks for your time the number of infected people in africa increased by 50 percent last week the death toll increased by around 60 percent to those numbers point to africa becoming the new the center for the corona pandemic. hi anthony thank you so much for having me on this evening so i think we need to be clear that when we're talking about epicenter as usually we talk about countries we've talked about china eataly we talked about america so it's not possible for 54 countries to become an epicenter i think that we

significantly concerned as the african continent that we don't have the capacity yet to manage the spread of the disease but surely there are countries that are going to experience that crisis much higher death than other countries and i think that also it's good to kind of lead conceptualize that properly to say ok right now just over 20000 people have been infected that's compared to you know 2200000 across the globe i believe that african countries have been sweet and very very specific in addressing some of the crisis is that we're facing but yes africa is fragile we have at risk and the assets and certainly said a number of things that we should be concerned about that. africa is also a huge continent with many different state societies and systems as you say canada said have relatively common measures being put in place for the entire continent where we see great variance on a country by country basis do you think. actually the audit the are

a common set of measures that are put at the regional level as you know that i'm opposed to south africa as president is the chairperson of the african union they is in a forgotten spawn's team that's been looking at where i've been hotspots why did the medical supplies that i needed where is the most help needed i think smaller countries look enough aso and those kinds of countries need the help of regional effort but at the same time there is some specific cities so a country like nigeria with well over a 100000000 people has to have very different measures than a country that has 15000000 people as an example so we need both measures as in many other places in the world number at the top lock down in south africa's shop lee divided public opinion they do think south africa would become a role model for other countries. i didn't set up a guy is a role model for the country so if you look at our infections rates right now and

the and they and a graph that measures they can have as it where we started seeing the plateau in the camp about 2 weeks ago and now we just have about just over 2000 infections i think that the south africa case is unique from every single country in the wells and that is the strategy that the african countries are taking because what we are doing is that we are buying time in tens of the ex says in the infection rate so that we can increase the capacity of our help said this is to manage that and they think if we can do that well across the region we will actually achieve that result so we need that we will make sure that by the time the infections actually try to maxing we have the capacity we need we have the supplies we need we have the medication that we need. from african monitors in just johannesburg many sex thank you very much for having me. police in hong kong have arrested 15 high

profile democracy campaigners in connection to the massive protests there last year the arresting clude activists lawmakers and the owner of an establishment newspaper they are accused of either taking part in protests or publicizing them hong kong was shaken by widespread street protests in 2019 sparked by a now abandoned proposal to allow extraditions to the chinese mainland. the biggest crackdown on hong kong's pro-democracy movement since the beginning of mass protests last year 15 activists were arrested on charges of organizing and taking part in an unlawful assembly is in august and october among those detained are one current and one former lawmakers including veteran pro-democracy activists 81 year old martin leading the prominent founder of the democratic party was also taken into custody. although. i don't regret what i have

done. you know i'm proud to have the chance to walk down our democratic road. with hong kong's excellent young people. of those arrests said are due to appear in court mid may lee and some others were released on bail. hong kong was rocked by widespread protests in 2019 which sometimes erupted into violence they were sparked by a proposal now abandoned to allow extradition so the chinese mainland almost 8000 people were arrested for taking part in the protests it is not clear how many of them are still in custody. let's get more on this and for that i'm joined by high he's the vice chair of the democratic party of hong kong there's the rest talking to veterans of hong kong's pro-democracy movement why do you think they were taken

into custody now. that you supply and stand by beijing in. 2. sites and it's a scary. street that i think this will be successful because he people are determined to structural freedom and to keep exercising freedom of expression that you teach us against the government and the police. found a potty mouth and was among those arrested he said he was proud to be arrested when he was released on what did he mean by that. i believe he. stews. 10 months and. the rest to. the police and i think

a lot of young older generations of the old. to be standing with him. and she. to be able to. do. the. way i think is. very angry because like in the he's just. expressed and. carried. it. between the police.

and holds them. thank you. very much. now here's a quick roundup of the coronavirus developments around the world the confirmed global death toll has now exceeded 150000 that's according to the johns hopkins university in the u.s. the united states and canada have agreed to keep their border closed to all non-essential travel for another 30 days the united kingdom has reported that 15000 people have now died from coverage 19 singapore has reported its highest number of new confirmed cases since the outbreak began or thirty's they say 60 percent of the infections are in dormitories housing foreign workers on a more positive note south korea has reported on the i think new cases its lowest

daily jump in more than 2 months. well germany has welcomed the 1st group of unaccompanied minors to arrive from refugee camps in greece the country had been facing criticism for its human rights organizations who say the children's detention hotton the rest of them contracting coronavirus with the country facing a crisis within across migration and the pandemic at the same time you member states taking some of the white off germany will take in $350.00 children and young people and in total 1500 across europe in the coming months. they're just kids living and traveling without parents some of the 1st in a europe wide effort to place hundreds of minors from refugee in migrant camps this contingent of 47 children was headed for hanover germany and all its help 1500 unaccompanied young people will be allowed to relocate. isn't asleep we are

striving to provide help as policy of the european solution we offered that early on already on march the 8th the german government decided to accept at least 350 children from the camps. 5 of the children will go to new homes in the city of potsdam just south of berlin mayor mike shubert has been demanding action from the german government for months because we could certainly take in more we already said that in january it's wise to me it's interesting i'm going to positive person so i see it as an initial step in getting people here but more have to follow quickly. and indeed even if this program is successful it will still leave more than 3500 unaccompanied minors in the camps the 1st 47 young people in the program to touchdown in germany here in hanover will be quarantined before moving on to their new lives far from the harsh conditions of the greek island camps and even further from their home countries of syria afghanistan iraq and eritrea.

florian schmitz was there at the beginning of the miners' voyage to germany. here at athens international airport it was a bit strange to see the bus with the on a comp a neat stopped in front of the plane greek prime minister. was also there putting the youngest children on the head some of them only 3 years of age for the children of course this departure is a moment of joy and relief that was noticeable and that's what the greek prime minister and the german ambassador wanted to show up to $500.00 more children ought to be brought to germany when exactly remains unclear some sport now and athletes who would have been ineligible to compete at the 2 $1020.00 tokyo lympics allowed to compete at the games now for 2021 juta the coronavirus pandemic well the anti doping agency bans normally lasting for you design to prevent athletes from

competing during an entire olympic cycle however with ban set to expire this year athletes are to be given the chance to win medals in 2021. this is news law from berlin you can always get the latest around the clock on the d w d w dot com coming up in 45 minutes from now on at me how thanks watching. the global corona crisis you can find more information online e.w. dot com and on t.w. social media channels. it is for me. it's for. beethoven it's for him.