3. starts many w. this is g w news live from berlin tonight searching for solidarity in europe and germany faces pressure to help the countries hit hardest by the coronavirus crisis italy and spain want germany to help in sharing the costs of recovery but berlin considers a so-called corona bonds to be taboo can europeans although they already survived the coded 19 also coming up tonight closing the borders donald trump threatens to

temporarily halt all immigration to the country to protect american jobs during the pandemic but his critics say he's using the crisis to improve his polling numbers and press freedom at risk a new report warns that governments are using the pandemic to crack down on media all across the globe. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world it well will germany use its financial muscle to help the countries hit hardest by this pandemic as the crisis devastates economies across the continent italy's prime minister says that the full fire pyro of the european union is needed to overcome the shock to the system he wants germany and other wealthy northern european countries to issue shared debt in

order to help countries such as italy and spain but the idea that it has come under fire here in berlin. hospitals in italy have faced a massive challenge to treat all their patients critically ill with covert 1000 disease spain's prime minister has called the pandemic europe's biggest crisis since the 2nd world war with but help has come for some in the form of the german air force specially equipped planes have flown covert patients from italy and france to hospitals in germany you know more than 200 sick people have been transferred from european countries even in their time of corona germany sees itself as a good european. we want to and we will show solidarity we've proved that in the past but this is a crisis that affects us all in terms of health and economically and financially

that's why we must take care in these times that the e.u. stays together. but when it comes to financial help germany is less ready to offer everything that is asked for the e.u. has agreed big support packages worth more than 3 trillion euros to counter the economic effects of the crisis such as the huge hit to european tourism but italy france and spain would like brussels to go further and issue corona bonds a new form of shared debt many german politicians worry that would put new burdens on the german taxpayer is the key the. crisis is no reason to bring in through the back door financial instruments that involve public debt which were wrong in the past and will be wrong in the future corona bonds would lead to more debt and also mean that all of europe ultimately lose it.

but others say if european unity means anything it should be about flexing germany's economic muscles during this crisis. temple. we need temporary carona bonds to help the worst affected countries we need them for selfish reasons to the german car industry is reliant on production happening in northern italy so it's not just about solidarity it's in our own interest to do this moment thing. when. the pandemic has brought neighbors together but it's also put strains on relationships where individuals and nations and now while europe works out how to organize a for the long term direct help for the sink will continue. and the sick need a lot of money at the moment to talk about this i'm joined now by my colleague

business anchor stephen beardsley stephen talk to me a little bit about why this debt question is so urgent for the european union what's its urgent right now for the eurozone those $1000.00 asians that share the euro currency and every nation right now is taking on debt brand as we know but it's a special problem for some countries italy is the one that sticks out right now it has a debt to g.d.p. ratio of 130 percent more than 130 percent actually it's pretty considerable its economy has been stagnant so there are no signs that it's capable of paying down its debt anytime soon and borrowing costs are rising it's going to take on a considerable amount of deficit spending and it's not budget potentially as much as 10 percent which is outrageous it's crazy look at the past. that scares investors and it leads to the possibility that a credit ratings agency could come in later and downgrade that debt basically say this debt isn't as secure as it was before that would scare off investors 1st of all but it could also lead to debt owners banks we're talking about they would have

to set aside more capital to prevent in the case of a default now it turns out that since the recession italian banks have spent a lot of money on italian debt so that then puts into question. what would happen to them if they suddenly had to put more money aside because of a downgrade and that throws them into question and that puts the whole system and the question. like italy and spain asking countries such as the netherlands germany that have good credit ratings to mutual wise this debt is shared this corona bonds is what they're called why is that i mean it's a taboo here in berlin isn't it you know it's been a taboo for decades this was known as euro bonds before we've talked about this before let's 1st talk about the current borrowing options that's the european stability mechanism the eurozone bailout fund what that means is that the e.u. will borrow money for these countries that need it those countries will individually take on the debt meaning that italy would still pile on more debts and then it would have to meet a certain series of conditions would have to maybe make reforms that could include painful welfare subsidy cuts or tax increases that would be politically unpopular

and that's why countries like italy don't like that option they believe in mutual eyes that sort of like your parents cosigning on a car loan for a teenager who doesn't have the credit yet ultimately it falls them to pay it opponents say that's not fair their taxpayer supporters say this is an issue of solidarity solidarity but it doesn't change the fact that we've got a shared monetary policy in the eurozone but we don't have share fiscal policy exactly and it's a big problem that's been the issue for years this is something that tried to reform years ago as late as i believe last year all of these options sort of fell through this is really what makes this debate so important is the question of how close does this does the euro bloc is the euro zone want to be that they want to be a confederation of separate economies that they want to be a closer tightly knit coordinated physically coordinated group and that's really what's at the heart of this debate what should we expect this thursday when european union leaders get together we're already seeing signs of a compromise we're seeing these proposals coming from spain and france saying that

perhaps we'll do something a bit different there's something called a perpetual bond little bit tricky but basically it means that the principle would never have to be repaid from the bonds it would be sort of like but the interest would go to the holder. would be sort of like dividends from stock so it's almost like an equity but what that means is that the payments would go to those nations most affected and the e.u. would only have to pay interest which would amount to that much but would still represent some kind of mutualization of an obligation and it would still represent a step closer a step further than the e.u. has taken to this point and the notion of the bonds would still have to get through the constitutional court here in germany for example so big hurdles there stephen beard as always thank you thank you. the southern german state of bavaria has canceled its world famous beer festival over the coronavirus munich's october fest is being cancelled it attracts more than $6000000.00 visitors every year lots of people visiting dancing celebrating knows social distancing large events are

currently banned in germany until the end of august are sober fest was supposed to start september 19th authorities say they fear allowing it would lead to a spike in new infections 2. so here's a look now as other stories that are making headlines around the world greece has quarantined a hotel housing asylum seekers after 150 people tested positive for the new coronavirus almost 500 live in the building now the nearby by town of on the greek mainland is also being put under a 2 week walk down the u.k. parliament when back to work today after some 3 weeks under lockdown restrictions very few parliamentarians were physically present in the chamber and that they sat far apart unusual site there instead many lawmakers joined for the 1st time ever via video conference south africa has announced

a $2226000000000.00 virus relief plan aimed at supporting the economy and the vulnerable during the coronavirus walked out the support package amounts to about 10 percent of the country's g.d.p. south africa has the most confirmed cases of the virus in sub-saharan africa. canada's prime minister justin trudeau is vowing to ban the sale of military style assault weapons as the death toll from a shooting spree in nova scotia rises from 18 to at least $22.00 victims canadian police say they have recovered the remains from some of the homes destroyed in last weekend's 12 hour attack. which. he was president on one trump says he will temporarily suspend all 'd immigration into the u.s. by signing an executive order he says the action is in response to the corona virus outbreak and it's meant to protect jobs more than 22000000 americans have applying

for unemployment benefits in the past month alone because of the walk downs the u.s. is the worst affected country in the world with almost 800000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus more than 43000 people have died. by joining me now from new york is a former senior advisor on latino affairs to former vice president joe biden moments good to see you again we have to contain a virus what is reasonable is not tell out somebody into the country that has the virus but shutting down immigration is suspect when it comes to donald trump because of his past patterns and his racist tendencies so if it was an honest or a mechanism to keep the virus out the other question that has to come into everybody's mind is why didn't you do it 2 months ago why did you waiting until now that he

lost so many thousands of people and why are we testing and tracing that's what are responsible and moral leader would do of any country i just think it's suspect and i think it's political in nature when you look at the number of coronavirus cases in latin america south of the border you know you have some of the highest rates in the world right now isn't it the president's responsibility to protect the country from the danger that is south of the border. absolutely it is and maybe we should have asked that question in january when he was told about the pandemic and went golfing all of february and helped political rallies so i can i don't trust him because of his patterns and this tendencies for 3 and a half years we've been putting up with this here in the united states so all of a sudden now to make it sound like you know you're worried about this you weren't worried in january and in february he told us america was going to happen it was

just going to go away those were the times that you should have been checking folks before they came into the country we should have been testing we should have been tracing and we don't you need to shut down immigration and keep health you know health care workers and food workers farm workers out of the country right now keeping families apart this is ridiculous we should have testing capabilities we are very very successful country in the world as we all know and we should have been testing people that are going to come in that is the way they handled it you were a senior adviser to former vice president joe biden you also worked for former vice president al gore what you would a u.s. president joe biden what would you do differently right now if he were president what would you say to them. well 1st of all i cannot be presumptuous enough to know what he what do you i could tell you what i would recommend him to do and as somebody who's advocating for the latino community i can tell you that this

immigration suspension for example is very offensive to the latino americans here in our country this is just reminding us again of that right down the escalator when he called us criminals and rapists and you know this horrible negative hateful things and so i would be advising the vice president if he was president to come bill and meet at least 1st of all he would he probably would have never done this number 2 i would have done i would have advised him to do what i said before which is you tested you trace you wouldn't have been in the predicament at this point but they president biden i can assure you that i sat on the white house emergency preparedness and continuity of government working council we were preparing we planned we prepared and we planned to prevent so you would not have we would never be in this horrible mess because in january a president biden would have done what was appropriate and what would have what was

right for our nation this man is just completely inept and just lately dropped the ball mobility former senior adviser latino affairs to former u.s. vice president joe biden my we appreciate your insights and your time tonight thank you thank you thank you for having me but by now. will the crash in u.s. oil prices reverberating around the globe pushing stocks towards waltzes and driving commodity prices lower major oil producing nations could be hit hardest with lower prices curbing seans their budgets they're now being that demand rebounds in the months ahead. demand for oil has plunged amid the worldwide lockdowns linked to the cause in 1000 pandemic and that coincided with a surge in oil supply the result of a ral between saudi arabia and russia over oil production cuts now storage facilities for all prices and now below 0 for the 1st time in history but russia

says it has what it needs to weather the storm. approached. our government has all the necessary reserves at its disposal to soften the blow all negative consequences of this kind of international volatility for our economy . but the overwhelming reaction in europe is shock. i have to say in all seriousness that the collapse in oil prices is a danger for the global economy in the face of this economic situation that is unprecedented in modern history we the president and the prime minister immediately took stock of the crisis. the book on immediate one of these it's an age old story about demand and supply and many are asking about how to restart economies amid the cold in 1000 outbreak to drive demand so but that still being pam to can

actually have enough places to go. well the number of protests against coronavirus quarantine measures as protests continue to grow around the world the demonstrators are voicing their anger over lockdown measures in the united states demonstrations which started last week and continued such as these today in raleigh north carolina on monday protesters including some carrying guns gathered in harrisburg pennsylvania demanding that the state reopen businesses similar protests have been held across the country. protests for more now i'm joined by my colleague joe. these protests they seem to be about a lot more than just this virus yes they're attracting a very mixed bag of discontent people many of them are worried about their jobs and businesses but among some of the signs we see being waved far right groups we see

conservative religious causes and conspiracy theorists this movement is now being likened to the tea party which was the anti establishment movement that came before donald trump and donald trump has actually been quite supportive of this movement to mostly because it's taking aim at democratic state governors who are the ones who are implementing the core in teen measure so trump has tweeted out that people should quote liberate the states where this is taking place so as you can see some of these protesters are wearing mosques some are not and they're certainly not keeping that distance and that's led some to speculate that these protests could actually be the cause of a new wave of corona virus infections that might even. the very quarantines that they are protesting against this is amazing and we understand that facebook says it's going to step in and it will not promote the protests right right well facebook's policy around coronavirus is to avoid spreading harm and it

has already taken down information relating to upcoming demi. stray sions that violates state rules including in nebraska california new jersey and facebook says it's doing so proactively it's not being asked to do this but that has angered some people including donald trump jr who put out a tweet that we can have a look at now he said why is facebook collaborating to quash people's free speech this is a chilling and just being shut down of people's 1st amendment rights now he's not alone and also the american civil liberties union which is no fan club has said there needs to be a place for people to be able to protest against governments reactions to this pandemic and of course you can imagine how we could get complicated because what happens in a country that is autocratic country antidemocratic when protests rise up there and they are shut down by the government whose side is facebook going to tell you that's a good point although you could argue that these protests could take place if people

were respecting social distancing which we know just by the pictures that they're not we've seen similar protests in other countries i'm wondering is facebook blocking information about those as well will facebook says this policy is global and that it will take down information about any event that is deemed to breach the coronavirus lockdown restrictions by governments in those countries just to name a few that were seen in russia in chile has been read demonstrations against lockdowns and even here in germany at the weekend we saw demonstrations again a mixed bag conspiracy theories but also a speech activists that was shot down by police because it was deemed to be. illegal however it's complicated here because there's a court in germany that has ruled that governments cannot issue a blanket ban against a lockdown demonstration so again facebook is going to decide whose authority to take on this issue is only going to grow as more people around the world become angry with their governments as they have to stay at home without income without

the discontent. well now for the virus and the journalists the media watchdog reporters without borders is warning that the coronavirus pandemic could threaten press freedom around the globe it comes as the group publishes its annual press freedom index a list of countries ranked according to health freely their media are allowed to operate throughout the day we've been speaking to journalists from around the world to find oh about the situation in their countries here is a look at that raking and help countries or theory. at the bottom of the table eritrea turkmenistan and north korea reporters without borders classified 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 in countries that made similar improvements include malaysia any theo pia. while poor ratings and given to the west african states have been named which fell 17 places and haiti down 21. the caribbean nation is struggling with an ongoing political crisis and violent protests in the past year journalist they were repeatedly attacked one was killed. the united states ranks at 45th place this year if 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 incisors against journalists by elected politicians with verbal and physical attacks against reporters alarmingly frequent terms of actually germany ranks 11th place also 2 places from last year the main reason for this is

a decline. the numbers of attacks against journalists 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 . a question for you do you wear a face mask when you go outside more german states are making face coverings compulsory for public activities and the demand for mass is sort many companies both big and small are now producing fabric facemasks ones you can wash and use every day. repurchasing skills for shifting demand this children's clothing shop in berlin has switched fashion to face masks and it's proving good for business as more german states make face coverings mandatory the orders have been flooding in it won't matter because if you wreck at the moment

it's our core business and i assume that will keep producing mosques for a while we've prepared for that by ordering more materials and a wide range of fabrics. as well as private households the shop now supplies physiotherapists trade is and some medical stuff such as midwives about this small enterprise is struggling to keep up with demand. we currently have a delivery time of 20 working days which is of course quite known so we're trying to find individual solutions. and sales show no sign of slowing down with more german cities and states expected to follow suit in the coming days. today is holocaust remembrance day in israel today all across the country israelis honor the memory of the 6000000 jews who were murdered by the nazis.

as they do every year people stood in silence. to intel's in-city many streets were relatively empty because of israel's coronavirus lockdown ceremonies are taking place in other countries as well and they've moved online including what is known as the march of 1 between former concentration camps in poland israel's central. also found a virtual way of remembering those we lost. 40 mile years old for knowledge. one by one number the names of some of the 6000000 jews murdered by the dot sees a read out so they will not be forgotten. israel's holocaust remembrance center for shame and turkish people to post tweet using the hash tags remembering from

home and shalani or it was 35 years of marguerite. left in my home. they were murdered by the nazis in 1941 that is never forget their names people could also create commemorative plates. that would be projected on the entrance gate to the book at death camp this with us this year for the 1st time in 3 tickets i walked much of the cursed tracks between auschwitz and birkenau and memory of the 6000000 killed but even in these trying circumstances we will keep the flame of memory alive. real a ceremony was held without a live audience messages of remembrance connecting with the current crisis.

the outbreak of the coronavirus requires the world what fight against the virus and no less important it shows the importance of national sovereignty. unlike during the holocaust this time where they defy the danger on time but look at all those above. them a cool songs of sorrel and stories of survival as time passes and the number of survivors decreases personal stories about this darkest of times become more and more precious. the day starts after this.

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even today many of them to be real. they've lived with this trauma. children the kidnapping campaign of knowledge she. starts april 20th. the coronavirus pandemic has turned much of our world upside down including the oil markets this week for the 1st time ever the price for a barrel of crude fell below 0 would just like the walk downs the oil price co-op's it too will eventually pass white now we're getting a glimpse of the future when the wife blood of the global economy will no longer be measured in barrels tonight going from black to green a dream come true that feels like a nightmare on board golf in berlin this is the day.