this is deja vu news live from berlin munich's october fast is off to germany cancels its world famous beer festival it is the latest casualty of the current virus princess the various state leaders say it is just too risky also coming out traders say they've seen never seen anything like it for the 1st time in history u.s. oil prices plunge into negative territory as a coronavirus causes demand for crude to collect and to get through to you. how are you going to help me with. musicians look for alternative ways of making

money yes concerts are cancelled and live performances stay down. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the southern german state of bavaria has canceled the october fast beer festival because of the corona virus the event attracts more than $6000000.00 visitors every year and authorities fear it allowing it to go ahead would lead to a spike in infections as we report the move is likely to take both a financial and emotional toll. no crowded party tents giant mugs of beer or packed out parades. germany's biggest festival has been cancelled for the 1st time since world war 2. large events are currently banned in germany until the end of august october 1st

was supposed to start on september 19th but officials say the risk of infection during the coronavirus pandemic is just too high. 2 it is painful for us it is a great pity but as with many things this is not a normal year and this is certainly going to be a year without the festival. about $6000000.00 visitors flock to the october fest every year crowding the festival grounds but also the host city munich the cancellation of the event is not only said news for the city it also means big financial losses. surveys show between 1.2 and 1300000000 euros of lost profits in the 16 days this effects hotels restaurants outside the october 1st but also the cab drivers everyone will miss the october fest terribly their wallets want to. see

so. and so begins the countdown until 2021 with the next october fest will hopefully take place. let's speak to correspondent boston heartache he's standing by for us in munich. at the mayor of munich i said this is an emotionally difficult moment to cancel the october fest why is it sold motional. well absolutely it is because you have to understand that for the city of munich and for the people who live here it is much more than just another huge party it's got a really long tradition it's been around for more than 200 years and it's something that's deeply ingrained into the d.n.a. of this city and on top of that it's also say the image of not only munich and the very a but also to a certain degree all of germany really all around the world if you ask anyone anywhere what they associate with germany one of the 1st answers that you always

get is going to be the a total says so it's usually popular around the world in the city and the the people here in the city of munich they're proud of that they're proud of the fact that their city is home to such a famous and popular festival and course now they're sad that this year all those visitors from around the world can't can't come here can't take it take can take part in a couple fest and that tissue festival is not going to happen what about the economic impact of all of this i mean this is a multimillion your own business isn't it. absolutely as we heard in the report it's one between $2.13 euros which has generates every year and that's not only for the businesses that are directly at the hotel with us all the beer halls breweries and the rides and everything that you always see when you see their turf as it's the whole hospitality sector as we heard the report around $1000000.00 people spend the night in munich during the october fest and that's for a city that only has around one and a half 1000000 people in the population so you can you can already tell that that's

a huge factor for a lot of businesses here in the hospitality sector and that of course is a sector that's already heavily affected by the program virus this year so the cancellation of the a total fest for them is just really another blow to the guts to me it was a big blow but given the current situation with the pandemic in germany also internationally does it really come as a surprise that october for sas has been cancelled. no i don't think so i mean a lot of people expected this there's really no. way to go forward with this we heard in the report like all the big events in germany are canceled until the end of august as other big events around the world like the olympics that are also canceled so that you really can't go ahead with an event like this where there's millions of people from around the world coming together party together being close to each other you can't really social distance yourself at all during it so it has force and that's not the point of the festival so then people get infected they go home to their home countries and then maybe spark more outbreaks in the last thing that you already see here in the city of munich wants to be associated with that is

another wave in this pandemic will be the cause for another wave that is endemic so they're the only responsible decision to really make here is to cancel the it's over fest as hard as it is but a lot of people on twitter for example are already saying ok we're looking forward to the next october fest and 2021 all right correspondent and heartache speaking to us from munich good to talk to you. let's take a look now at other coronavirus news a several countries are starting to ease their lock downs including germany now italy says that before the end of this week it will outline plans for the gradual eating of lockdown restrictions starting on the 4th of may a several us states have announced reopening schedules georgia is aiming to restart its economy by the weekend but the world health organization has warned that rushing to ease restrictions will increase the risk of a resurgence of the disease the global death toll stands at nearly $171400.00

according to johns hopkins university in the u.s. for the 1st time in history u.s. oil prices crashed into negative territory on monday they have since rebounded but it meant producers had to pay buyers to take oil off their hands the crash was triggered by a collapse in demand as a world continues its shutdown because of the pandemic it's an unprecedented development we'll discuss the impact in just a moment but 1st this report. when its planes aren't flying and its roads are all but empty the u.s. can at least lay claim to one thing we certainly have plenty of oil in fact far too much of it the president tried to calm nerves after the value of u.s. crude went negative for the 1st time ever on monday at one point reaching minus $40.00 a barrel in a month or so and the would go a little bit it's a 20 $5.00 and $28.00 or so it's largely a financial squeeze and they did get squeezed the day or oil traders who found

themselves on monday under heavy pressure to sell off their crude futures in the rising cost of holding the oil in the u.s. is when dealing storage facilities means keeping it is becoming too expensive. there's so little space for it left the u.s. government is planning to fill up its own reserves. i think we have 75000000 gallons right now capacity that's a lot it's we've been building it up over a period but that's 75000000000 barrels. so we're going to get either ask for permission to buy it or we'll store it one way or the other it will be for the what is most needed is a return in demand brought by restart to the u.s. economy then the oil that continues to be pumped as unbroken pace can actually have enough places to go. all right that report from rob watts from the business he's

with us now for more hi rob what exactly do negative prices mean year yeah it's a slightly mad concept so imagine after the program we go to the shop we decided to get ourselves a snap and we go to the shopkeeper say you know how much is this chocolate bar and he says oh that's minus one your hair we could be throw it is what it means is he's going to give us a chocolate bar or he's also going to do is he's going to give us a euro for doing him the favor of taking that chocolate bar off his hands and freeing up the space in his shop that's essentially what happened yesterday with us oil prices since the start of the corona virus outbreak people have been flying they have been driving factories have been running at the same capacity that they normally would all of that needs oil less oil is being used but production continues at a similar pace to it did before the caret a virus outbreak and what that's meant is that oil producers have got this gloat over oil that they just can't shift and the amount of space left to put that oil in

the united states is getting ever smaller and ever more expensive so they've reached the point where actually they can have to pay for people to take that oil off so the conclusion you draw from that is just stop producing so why don't they well that we've had a lot of talk about global production reductions over the past few weeks i mean last week we did hear from opec in some of their allies that they were going to be cutting oil production by $10000000.00 a day that's a huge amount when you very much that's 10 percent of the overall output worldwide . but that hasn't happened yet and it doesn't look like it's going to be enough to sort the problem in the united states produces that are not wanting to reduce their own output because they for a start they don't want to lose their market share by doing that they don't get that competitors a leg up by doing that but also there are costs associated with closing facilities and then reopening them to. down the line so production hasn't been cut to match

because and so what does all of this mean for consumers we haven't reached the point yet where you and i can go into a petrol station for example and demand the petrol and some money in exchange for it but in the us we have seen oil prices dropping since the start of the year petrol prices have dropped by $2.00 thirds since the start of the us a consumers that are seeing a real difference there around the world oil prices have also been falling this is west texas intermediate oil the drops into the negative yesterday most of the world uses brant crude which might be a bit more familiar to most people as the sort of gauge of how much that oil should be worth and therefore how much they should be paying for petrol the scion that we get the signal we get from what happened with west texas is that oil prices are going down so that this specific development may not affect petrol prices in the rest of the world it does show where they're going to be going which is down it's all right very interesting rob watson did any business that thank you so much let's

take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world u.s. president donald trump says he will temporarily suspend all immigration by signing an executive order he said the action was in response to the growing virus outbreak and to protect jobs more than $22000000.00 americans have applied for unemployment benefits in the past month because of pandemic locked up. 36 people have died in floods in eastern congo authorities say some 75000 people are homeless after heavy rain storms triggered flash floods and landslides roads and bridges across the affected region also suffered severe damage israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has agreed to form an emergency unity government with his political rival benny gantz following 3 inconclusive elections protests were held over the weekend against netanyahu he faces trial on 3 charges of corruption but he denies any wrongdoing. investigators in canada are working to determine the motive

behind the worst mass shooting in the country's history a gunman disguised himself as a police officer before going on a rampage and whirl communities across nova scotia killing at least 18 people and setting houses a blaze in an attack that lasted several hours the shooting rampage ended at this gas station where the suspect was killed that police chased the gunman for 12 hours during that time he shot at least 18 people dead the hunt for the shooter spanned 100 kilometers from rural puerto peak and the canadian province of nova scotia authorities warned residents to stay indoors several people including a police officer were slain at various locations. countless families are in mourning today each person who lost their family and friend. and they too will need their support. the impact of this incident will extend from one end of the province to the other canadian prime minister justin trudeau paid tribute to the slain

officer and the other shooting victims he also praised those providing emergency service no one man's actions can build a wall between us and a better day no matter how evil. or how destructive the gunman's motive is still unknown investigators suspect that he planned the shooting spree the 51 year old denture fitter had disguised himself as a policeman. as canadians mourn prime minister to doe pledge to continue with the planned introduction of further gun control legislation. china and south korea have cast doubt on media reports that north korean leader kim jong un is gravely ill after undergoing heart surgery beijing closest ally said it had seen no signs indicating that the 36 year old was critically ill that sentiment was echoed by officials in seoul who monitor monitor their neighbors' movements very closely a speculation emerged after kim was absent from celebrations last week for the

birthday of his grandfather a key event honoring north korea's founder that he never missed before. and we can speak to journalists frank smith he joins us from seoul hi frank what do we actually know about what's happened. well you pointed out of it in that introduction a little bit it's more about what we know didn't happen kim jong un didn't attend the 108th birthday anniversary of his grandfather kim il sung on april 15th normally he would go to that he had every time previously since he was leader of north korea back in 2011 so that's important the other thing that we need to look at is the source of the information that we have here there are anonymous sources within north korea actually i should say one single source the web site. daily and kay reported initially from multiple sources that kim jong un had had

surgery and the recovery was difficult and then another anonymous source in c.n.n. said that he had been incapacitated that it was a little bit more serious it's unclear whether those came from 2 different sources inside of north korea and we do need to question the timing as kim jong un was said to have this surgery on april 12th whereas north korean media reportedly said he was observing some air force exercises on that day so it's unclear really what the situation is now especially when you have these denials from the south korean government about any sort of change in north korea's posture or their government activity today frank a lot is unclear also because north korea is an incredibly secretive state so how reliable is any of the information coming from their. well we're all exercising in a lot of speculation especially concerning the decision making process within north

korea but you know back in 2011 this opacity of our access into north korean governments was laid bare kim kim jong il died the leader of north korea kim jong un's father kim jong il died it was 2 days later when you north korea announced it on their new show that we found out so they are very successful in preventing any information that they don't want out to get out. all right journalist frank smith a speaking to us there from the soul of thank you thank thank you so much for joining us. now the media watchdog reporters without borders fears the coronavirus endemic could pose a threat to post press freedom around the globe the warning comes as the group publishes its annual press freedom index a list of countries ranked according to how freely their media are allowed to operate throughout the day we're speaking to international activists and

journalists to find out about the situation in their countries but 1st a look at how different nations are faring. at the bottom of the table eritrea turkmenistan and north korea reporters without borders classify the lack of press freedom in those countries as very serious sudan is also in that category but last year's mass protests that led to the ousting of president omar al bashir have resulted in stronger democratic structures and reduced restrictions for journalists as a result the country ranks 16 points higher on the index than last year countries that made similar improvements include malaysia any theo pia. while poor ratings and given to the west african states have been enough fell 17 places and haiti down 21. the caribbean nation is struggling with an ongoing political crisis and violent

protests in the past year journalists there were repeatedly attacked one was killed . the united states ranks at 45th place this year after 2 years of decline the situation has slightly improved over the last year but reporters without borders cite the u.s. as a warrior example of hatred incited against journalists by elected politicians with verbal and physical attacks against reporters alarmingly frequent trips of a virtual germany ranks 11th place also up 2 places from last year the main reason for this is a decline in the numbers of attacks against journalists but reporters without borders say this still. concern for the protection of journalistic sources. the country's ranking highest for press freedom remain in scandinavia denmark finland and norway. right let's speak about press freedom with side except in

a rainy and academic an author and outspoken critic of the hard liners in iran and winner of the freedom of speech award and 28 he joins us from tehran sadek thank you for being with us we've seen that iran has slipped another 3 places down to 173 on a list of 180 countries does that surprise you. that it with off that that it was born in your. view germany i must say i haven't selves he changes ideas for the rule or. or for wars. in iraq of course all or myself many many right there's your earliest ready academics like you. and. writing for. a better climate.

for iranian writers for the for the freedom to express to seeing. different from home. from the government of course we have difficulties health problems but we are surviving and i really can't say stationed in iran has i swore sent you think anything anything i would like to say there has been some improvement ca's their new chief justice who has come on to the iranian supreme leader our. last year he has he has mentioned i many game political detainees prisoner and then we have a why does he try. to. let

number of detainees out of lawman terribly are. going on a look at all just if i could just jump in there i want to ask you about the pandemic since you just mentioned it i mean it has a coronavirus pandemic at all threatened media freedom in iran can people openly report about what is happening how the government has handled the pandemic. again it hasn't changed and evening there are. levied against the president rule our needs over him and. no one posts. as we have the know. why does no one has been a your words or is that why he starts to go floor how the lame. grown are grimes's there have been many as i said there are many many criticisms

are. my stack of. bills because you go out of there on his poem and of the day he has really grown a crisis ok we'll have to leave it there saxophone iranian academic and author thank you so much for joining us. now in a football the players and coaches of english club arsenal have agreed to take a 12.5 percent salary cut because of the current of our spend amec arsenal as the 1st premier league team to announce a pay cut rather than a deferral they added that some of the money could be repaid a future sporting targets were met the deal comes amid criticism of the way some english top flight teams have responded to the pandemic. now one industry that has been hit hard by the pentagon it is news that concerts and tours have been cancelled and the prospects for a live performances in the future also look bleak in the u.k.

a platform originally used for booking artists is now offering musicians an alternative way of making money he reports from london. savella hunted down he actually hope you're right there in south africa this is a special music message not for an ox here in london. a light hearted video message for some doctors composed and performed by musician tom morley. how are you going to help me with. being a musical messenger is the new day job for tom hall. in no. i fly all kinds of weddings and events all over the u.k. and europe. so tends to be mostly my weekends completely fall and that's what my full time job obviously in this situation they will be perspiring don't count so it's gone are the days of live gigs where tom could perform at parties on greek

islands or of indian weddings. his income has vanished overnight spring and summer are usually the busiest time of the year for musicians like him but music and theater venues across the world remain firmly shut and with nobody knowing how known this will last musicians have been coming up with a plan b. personalized musical messages the website on coleen's them with clients allowing them to earn money and to do what they enjoy most of all to perform. music is one of the u.k.'s best exports and the u.k. music industry is enormous so to see it all within the space of one who needs to go from beginning to almost nothing has been has been extremely difficult for everyone in the music industry we didn't want to sit more in the loss of life performance we

wanted to sort of turn our heads to a solution and think what can we do right now i to help musicians and money from home. to make it service even more attractive encore donates a small amount of its earnings on each message to the british national health service performed songs for patients suffering with coronavirus hospital. i've even performed at someone's virtual party. it's really good. so far several 100 messages have been sent all over the world for musicians like tom morley this means that they can now pay their rent. i'm certainly not feeling positive all the time myself at the moment. but it gives me a focus yeah great great channel positivity into every day. and to show how truly adept ability is tom gives a very special performance in german. kiss in the bar.

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