this is deja vu news live from berlin germany's angela merkel warned some measures to ease the coronavirus lock down have gone too far she tells parliament the country could be risking a relapse if it looks at its guard down. more on that and also her message to the ordinary people struggling to cope with a difficult new reality of life with the farmers and also coming up in the 1st case of its kind in the world to suspected syrian torturers go on trial here in germany campaigners hope it will be the 1st step towards justice for thousands of. russians

that doubles blow after the collapse of the price of oil many of the country through the economic fallout of the pandemic could hurt more than the disease itself. plus wheels of fortune we discover how life has changed for cyclists or berlin since the outbreak of the drug. i'm serious i was going to class you could join us i know marco has urged the germans to show discipline in the face of the corona virus in a speech to parliament she criticized the lifting of some restrictions as to hasty and said the country might squander the gains it's made so far of people become complacent about social distancing she also called for a bigger european union budget to support recovery and the bloc. across germany more people of venturing out. we have to the 16 german states agreed to relax

certain restrictions on movement some shops are slowly reopening albeit with restrictions. facemasks and now obligatory on public transport as well as in stores in some states but easing restrictions runs the risk of complacency addressing the bundestag on thursday german chancellor angela merkel warns that the pandemic is far from over. which targeted i fully support the decisions taken by both the federal and state governments on wednesday last week but i'm concerned about the implementation of those decisions since then to me it seems rash in parts. of me sometimes it seems rash in parts if not to say to rush. let us not gamble away what has been achieved and risk a setback. e.u. solidarity was also a key issue. european leaders would use to hold

a video summit on thursday to discuss the blocks response to the economic impact while ruling out the idea of joint debt in the form of corona forms merkel said germany is ready to make significantly higher contributions to the e.u. budget. all of our national efforts can only succeed if we are also successful in europe you've often heard me say in this house that in the long run germany could only flourish if europe is also in good shape. of. european solidarity in health policy the so far been germany's focus more than 200 patients from france italy and the netherlands are being cared for in german intensive care units but with the true economic impact of current virus still unknown pressure is growing on europe's economic powerhouse to loosen its purse strings. let's get our correspondents perspective on the story our chief political editor michelle or crysler has been following the debate in the german parliament

this morning for us and gary mattis is standing by in brussels good to have you both michelle or let's start with you does the german chancellor have the population behind her on this question of higher spending on the e.u. budget in principle she does the last polling we saw saw about above 60 percent that germany should now so solidarity within the e.u. but of course there's no glossing over that the initial response in europe also of germany was a national reflex that saw a sudden trade barriers particularly for those vital mohsen up protective gear that is something that particularly its city hasn't forgotten despite germany now taking on patients and now of course city wants to see those open arms that solidarity the stronger countries particularly germany are talking about translates into actual sums of money into actual figures to help those economies

hardest hit also including spain to get back on their feet again we keep hearing speak of the e.u. solidarity michelle what does that actually look like then for the chancellor well she has pledged that is ready to back a much larger budget who said that the future budget of the you will have to look very different. she's almost without creating much noise drops germany's resistance against securing or helping to secure anti unemployment measures including sort of time work compensation that's got the green light suddenly from berlin so germany has moved to a certain degree but is dead against those so-called corona bonds that could potentially see german taxpayers have to stand in for the debts of other e.u. countries that's also not in conformity with the treaties or there's also a technical issue with that and there would also be

a risk here in germany that that could be ruled unconstitutional because this essential potential blank check could also see the parliament bypassed and that would potentially not fly with the constitutional court here ok that's the view in berlin gary what about in brussels i mean how far apart are you countries on how to issue debt to finance the economic stimulus are you really going to see these so-called corona bonds. but machinery has already mentioned the open arms that italy expects and the good news here is that all you member states appear to agree on this rescue fund and how it's being created also the good news that until america is. ready to explore this idea of a bigger european budget which in a way is a workaround for corona bonds because your member states would only in directly be liable for the debt of other member states in that case so that is the good news at

the end of the day it will not help to paper over the age old differences of mutualistic debt and corona bonds as such are still not on the table so what i expect from today's meeting is at best. an order from leaders that the european commission explores ways how to rule create such a recovery fund. what is it that the german government has against this idea of the neutralize debt to scare extensions carona bonds. that it wouldn't have control over there would be no limits on control and it would bypass the german parliament this is also something that would be seen as potential political poison particular with the voters of angle america's conservative party without posse having gained so much more public support in the depths of this corona crisis and the fear his is that this could be an example for the future that this will potentially not be

limited just to this crisis that's why the tonsil once again today pointed very directly to the e.u. budget being the source of that financial solidarity beyond the 500000000000 euros already on the table in brussels coming back to you we've heard the former commission president say if you can't meet in person you cannot reach a compromise and we know that leaders they will be meeting on soon they'll be video conferencing and trying to find a compromise so how is this going to work logistically well german chancellor angela merkel said after the last thought video conference in this format that of course that is tricky if you want a quick bilateral which just normally walk around the table and have a chat with your french counterpart that is not possible you now have to use what's up messages or s.m.s. to have a quick bilateral while the summit is really is running on that video conference so

it makes things a little more tricky at the end of the day the same old issues remain the same political pressure remains in this case however a little less because the head of the european council on the show has already announced that there will be no council conclusions so there is no need for a compromise today but there will simply be a presidential declaration to announce what this summit has achieved. matters for us in brussels and michelle because they're in berlin thank you both. let's take a look now at some other coronavirus news the ratings agency fitch says the world is on track for a recession of on precedented death in the post-war period it could be twice as severe as the great recession of 2009 south korea's central bank says the economy has shrunk 1.4 percent over the coronavirus its worst performance in more than a decade the number of kobe 1000 infections in singapore has passed 10000 despite

robust efforts by the city state to try and control the virus in china a citizen journalist missing for almost 2 months has reappeared he says he was detained by police and forcibly quarantined now it is the 1st trial of its kind in the world 2 suspected syrian intelligence officers are set to face justice here in germany today they're charged with crimes against humanity including torture and sexual assault prosecutors are using universal jurisdiction lost to try the suspects here the defendants entered germany as asylum seekers along with thousands of other syrians did every reports now in the hope of one mother that this could bring justice for her son and we want to warn you some viewers might find some scenes distressing. mario lives in a burman suburb it seems like but this syrian woman is part of a europe wide hunt to catch criminals with your feet and from her country like many others i hammer america we tortured

a young medical student had spoken up for human rights and called for president bashar atlanta stepped down now 8 years after his death his mother is current all of you know i want the culprits to be brought to justice from the accomplice all the way up to a guard these people are responsible for killing our children blood has killed me them a lot. more than 26000 pictures of torture victims were smuggled out of her torn syria by a courageous cormack only target for. the photos could help convict torturers and murderers. human rights lawyer mother and how we survived torture in syria now living in germany he's pressing charges against his former tormentors including anwar as a former senior member of the syrian. anwar are charged with crimes against humanity murder and rape.

and pillage or. become a victim and right now. we don't have it and you. will wiley is investigating syrian torture of. $100.00 more criminals and he went prosecutor and worked on from the former yugoslavia and rwanda genocide he notes that without a peep or trail it's difficult to bring culprits to justice. and that's why these documents out of syria are so valuable. what you have in this room are. perils generated by security intelligence structures. military structures. party or political structures. top level gov. requests.

anwar are why many believe at least a dozen former senior agents remain in europe. not only the killers. but also others living in hiding her the hunt has begun. well as we said 2 suspected syrian intelligence officers is on trial here in germany today let's talk more about this with sarah kay allie a syria researcher with human rights watch sorry thank you for joining us on we heard the words of one mother there but what do you think this trial means for the victims of torture in syria and the relatives. the trial really is a watershed moment for syrians survivors of torture and their relatives really spent years trying to bring this truth to light until people responsible for torture accountable and i think this is a moment that's going to change

a lot for them and really reward them for their efforts over the years you said yourself it's taken years and we saw in our report that it has taken so much effort for people to piece together avodah and so how many of these cases can realistically be brought to trial. i mean i think this is this is really the question that needs to be asked to be seen several european countries really rely on universal jurisdictions to bring these cases an issue issue arrest warrants it's not enough given that given the scale of violations that are occurring in syria but it still continues to be one of the few of the news available for justice right now for syria. what other avenues do you see i mean president bashar al assad has dismissed any prosecutions and courts outside of syria says they're essentially irrelevant and there is little chance that this could go even to the international criminal court so are you worried that this push for justice could just and here. honestly were not worried at

all we've seen a lot of creative. mechanisms for justice come out of things like the russian and chinese veto of referral to the i.c.c. we've seen the un investigative mechanism the triple i and be born out of this we've seen a pickup in universal jurisdiction cases that we hadn't seen in the last decade before the syrian conflict came into place and we're seeing a number of sanctions be put in place for human rights violations so i guess the message here really is that it's it's very difficult just to see even when it's traditionally blocked sar what will justice for these victims end up looking like. i mean or hoping that justice for these victims would look like the major perpetrators and the system that put these in place and be held accountable and for these trials to really provide an opportunity for victims to state their truth these are the perpetrators instead of the continued denials and continued abuses

that we are seeing in syria today all right sarah kay ali a syria researcher with human rights watch thank you for joining us here on t w thank you. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world boeing is thought to be planning to lay off 10 percent of its civil aviation staff news agency a.f.p. reports the cuts would affect up to 7000 people working on the 737 max and the long haul 787 and 777 models boeing is restarting production of the aircraft following coronavirus shutdown. or has posted an 80 percent plunge in 1st quarter operating profits as the impact of the crisis began to make itself felt on company accounts the mercedes-benz car maker which reopened production plants in germany this week earlier withdrew its 2020 targets and forecast sales of cars buses and trucks

would all full this year. house of german companies are using a short term work scheme to cut salary costs during the coronavirus crisis that's according to a survey from the economic institute that this scheme allows companies to retain workers through state aid 80 percent of companies have seen revenues fall during the pandemic lock down. and flash flooding in the yemeni city of aden has left at least 14 people dead and dozens injured many streets have been blocked and buildings destroyed by mud and debris the country is already struggling with the effects of years of conflict and cholera outbreaks. russia's government says it is proud of the way it has handled the coronavirus crisis the kremlin is keen to point out that it anticipated the dangers and closed its borders weeks before other countries did but it did not forecast what happened to the price of oil this week and that's putting the future of the state coffers and possibly the

state itself in question. russia's economy rises and falls with the price of oil fossil fuels are the country's main export but with demand collapsing and up prices plunging many fear catastrophic consequences for the country's financial safety net . we have been living off the pipelines and now they've closed them our income is definitely going to drop at home interests. i don't know i'm very worried about more than about coronavirus for russia's oil giants lukoil and control the oil price collapse is just the latest blow. alley or in russia and so dia rebiya agreed to cut output in a bed to shore up the price hard by the production bottle but by then coronavirus had already throttled demand and with analysts predicting only a slow price recovery many think the situation could become washed than it was in the ninety's after the fall of the soviet union when the oil price bottomed out.

around 60 percent of the revenue coming into russia's economy is from oil and gas. people here have been living on the small change that trickles into the budget after that oil money has been processed including by our all the guards of course but now even that income will be gone to we are going to see extreme of poverty. for now life goes on under quarantine in a country proud of it to the to where the hardships but the total collapse of its main source of income is something it's never had to deal with. we can say to our moscow correspondent emily shareware now hi emily good to see you so how is russia dealing with this crisis we do know that the country depends on oil exports so is there a plan b. in place. well the kremlin spokesman. said

that we shouldn't be too apocalyptic about the oil prices falling he says that rust russia has all the necessary reserves and putin himself has also been talking about how russia has weathered many crises before and in some ways that is true economists have been talking about the fact that russia is kind of a fortress economy for the past few years when it's been under e.u. and u.s. sanctions they've been put in kind of surplus oil money into a rainy day fund they have huge gold reserves and they've also been trying to diversify the economy though that is a slow process but the question is with that main income source or oil and gas kind of breaking out and breaking out from under russia the question is how long those reserves will last what about the economic perspective but i mean is the government doing enough to help the many small and medium medium sized businesses

while the russian government has kind of been announcing economic support measures bit by bit including for the unemployed for families for big businesses when it comes to small and medium sized businesses they have suffered a lot under the quarantine measures that have been introduced here and russia and they have been waiting for that they had been waiting for weeks for kind of some kind of a cash injection which they said they needed to be saved last week putin and now it's that businesses would be receiving cash but he said that it would only that they would only receive it if they were able to retain 90 percent of employment and it if they had suffered from the coronavirus fallout so i guess the question is now how much they'll actually get which businesses will get it and whether whether that support is kind of too little too late we said emily that the government says it's proud of the way it's handled this crisis so what has this all meant for president putin. well the economy i think is

a really huge worry for people we just signed the piece that someone was saying the coronavirus is less of a concern to me than the the economy and i think a lot of people here share that opinion surveys show that a majority of russians have absolutely no savings in case things go wrong so far people have kind of blamed the government whenever things go wrong in russia rather than blaming bloody near putin himself but recent surveys show that just under 40 percent of people say that putin is protecting the interests of banks of big businesses and of all of guards rather than of normal people so it does seem that people's frustration is growing and this week we even saw online protests on maps which is the equivalent of google maps where people are kind of placing comments around government buildings across the country and cities across the country to express their frustration and their economic woes are across emily sure when thank you now coronavirus lockdowns and the need for physical

distancing are impacting cities in different ways here in berlin authorities have introduced measures to try to reduce the risk of infection among cyclists but not everyone is happy about the move. kit the road to find out more. the streets are deserted no tourists walking around no commuters driving to work. it never felt so pleasant to ride your bike through berlin. the volume of traffic in the german capital has fallen sharply since the start of the coronavirus crisis . there are 40 percent fewer cars on the ropes while the number of cyclists has barely gone down at all because the risk of infection on a bike is very low. and seasonal here you can see the old markings you can see that the bike lane was very narrow up the exertion all over more road space is being

made available for cyclists we meet up with phoenix meisters have off the streets and parks department of the berlin district of clients big friends of forcing us in this was on the move obviously each if one person is going slowly and someone wants to overtake they shouldn't be doing that less than one and a half metres of this is no longer in the hunt for an apartment on the things i've been through a war so we are making wider bike lanes the border stronger because of the pandemic rapid action was required and the local parliament was not consulted that is perfectly legal but in germany where the car is part of the social and economic fabric not everyone is happy about it when they've got sex on foot this is come pleat lee unacceptable it targets car drivers and doesn't help cyclists that's what the greens want they just hate cars. but bike riders like.

i delight. she has been campaigning for years for traffic reform. for her the crisis is a well come up at unity to reduce the number of cars and make more space for bikes and pedestrians and. i imagine all the time howard would be 1st. yes cost like all the cost pocked could be just. so. there could be a playground for. that ideal some way the initial focus of berlin is on widening existing bike lanes and creating. other big german cities including s. an inch deep guard taking similar action. now the coronavirus lockdown in india is having one positive side effect air pollution levels in the capital delhi take

a look at these before and after pictures this is what one of the city's famous law landmarks looked like a back in november 29 cina and this is what it looks like today you can even see the india gate from pretty far away back then there was no chance now usually the city's roads are choked with vehicles experts say dramatic changes largely due to the sharp drop in traffic and warned that the improvement is likely to be short lived. and despite the lockdown in india there have also been some bright pink visitors who have gathered on the outskirts of mumbai tens of thousands of flamingos have chosen this lake for a bit of relaxation turning it into a pink carpet although the birds are often seen in this area there's been a marked increase in their numbers environmentalists say the lack of traffic people and building work has encouraged the flame goes to flush.

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