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suspected of torture go on trial here in germany campaigners hope it will be the 1st step towards justice for thousands of victims. plus wheels of fortune we just covered how life has changed for cyclists here in berlin since the outbreak of the current us. i'm so misconducts good to have you with us chancellor angela merkel says germans must continue to show discipline in the face of the corona virus pandemic in a speech to parliament she criticised the lifting of some lockdown restrictions as true hasty she fears she fears that the country might squander the gains that it's made so far if people become complacent about physical distancing she also called for a bigger european union budget to support recovery in the block. across germany more people of censuring out a week after the 16 german states agreed to relax certain restrictions on movement

some shops slowly reopening opiate with restrictions. placed and now obligatory on public transport as well as in stores in some state but easing restrictions runs the risk of complacency addressing the bundestag on thursday german chancellor angela merkel warned that the 107th is far from over. targeted and fully support the decision taken by both the federal and state governments on wednesday last week so i'm concerned about the implementation of those decisions since then to me it means ration cards. and it seems rash in part is not to say too rash. let us not gamble away what has been achieved and rest. a new solidarity was also a key issue. european leaders which used to hold

a video summit on thursday to discuss the blocks response to the economic impact while ruling out the idea of joint debt corona. germany is ready to make significantly higher contributions to the e.u. budget. although not. seen it were also successful in europe and heard me say in the accounts in the long run germany can only flourish if europe is also in good shape. of. european solidarity in health policy in germany more than 200 patients from france italy and the netherlands are being cared for in germany intensive care units but with the true economic impact of colonel virus still unknown pressure is growing on europe's economic powerhouse to loosen its purse strings. well spring our chief political editor for more honey we had

a chance or criticizing the easing our restrictions in germany what exactly are her concerns. her concern is that the small victories that many have succeeded so far over the virus not to see its own health service stretched to the limits could now be lost if the easing of restrictions means that people feel too must at ease and that was her addressing particularly the state premiers here in germany where the one hand in all time was fadia we have a state premier wanting to see fast easing of restrictions apos to the return to normal and a very you have a much much tougher stance on that partly also because bavaria borders. and that's believed where a lot of the infections came from so she's has a cautioning the world at the same time saying that this is the moment for europe to stand together. while she also spoke about the economic impact and how best to

get europe through the crisis what did she say on that front. well she signal quite clearly that germany is willing to see a budget that i quote has to be different from the budgets before the e.u. is currently discussing its long term budget so a lot more money beyond the 500000000000 already on the table will have to be closed all around but but her pointing towards the e.u. budget again in this speech today means her way of saying no once again to so-called corona bombs that would see other e.u. countries stay in stand in for national debt particularly italy wanted to see those happen what we still haven't learned from the german government is how much money it would be willing to put on the table how much it would add to that you budget beyond what it has to anyway and we have seen is berlin move on issues that it has been particularly against in the past years and that's also e.u.

funding going into the prevention of unemployment across europe at the depths of this crisis there until america almost silently dropped her resistance to funds and also essentially german money going into compensation for short term work in other countries so there's a lot of movement there with merkel wanting to see a much closer europe but there's a big question marks whether that can actually be the case our chief political editor michelle occlusion for us thank you well the e.u. had to state meet in a video conference today to negotiate a package to help economies recover and. is in brussels for us hi garrick so how far apart are each member states on how to issue debt to finance the accurate economic stimulus. still lots of work here for your leader so let's not forget this all leads us back to an age old raul over mutual i stepped between the

north and the south of europe but look speaking of trillions and billions here one also has to say that this is a lot about symbolism this is politics and this is about interest rates that still aren't there we don't know where they will be at the moment italy and spain can still easily get money and to get good traits on the market so this is also a lot about politics on the other hand a lot of money is already if they have direct money half a 1000000000 yen half a trillion euros available it's a complicated topic i tried to break it down for you in a report let's take a look. after the. question of advance payment to companies in greece equity injection and direct grant on the normal circumstances these could all be examples of unfair competition in the e.u. . but with europe state aid group spending for the 4th time in history there's

a mountain of new money on offer. europe's collective farm is well above 3 trillion euros. impressive response anywhere in the world. but we know we will need more. a lot more. because some states are in a much better financial position to fund national stimulus packages than others eurozone finance ministers have already agreed on the principle of a mutual e.u. recovery fund the big problem by the nature of the new get instrument has yet to be decided by heads of government italy france and spain have so far been in favor of joint. e.u. debt but germany the netherlands and others wrongly opposed the idea of so-called bond a compromise could lie behind these walls the e.u.

commission could borrow money and if you bomb against the security of the e.u. budget something like a limited edition of mutual debt it isn't spending. and the german chancellor has already said she's willing to explore the idea. to address the pandemic and germany will participate in solidarity measures that could be only an issue rescue package and find 100000000000 euros. the question is what the commission says from low. ground. aric arrogant is a complicated issue something that e.u. leaders will have to negotiate making it more complicated is the fact that they're not going to be huddled in one room they're going to be meeting the video conference how will this work logistically. without a doubt it makes it more complicated and in fact finance ministers already showed

that an all nighter summit a summit that dragged on for 16 hours is even possible just using a t.v. screens and computer screens which often chance of going back and set off the one off to the last a digital summit if you want to call it that way that of course the bilateral meetings are more complicated you can just walk around the table and have a chat with your french counterpart but overall of course the same political topics are on the table the same pressure is there although this time around maybe a little less because the head of the european council sean michel has already a scrap the idea of council conclusions i.e. all the consensus that has to be achieved a unanimous decision by leaders and so all we will have at the end of the day is a presidential statement by michelle who says what has been achieved and what has not been achieved during these cared much us reporting from brussels thank you very much let's take a look now at some other coronavirus news

a ratings agency fitch says the world is on track for a recession of unprecedented depth in the post-war period it could be twice as severe as the recession of 2009 u.k. researchers as oxford university will begin trials of a potential kopek 1000 vaccine on volunteers the e.u. says russian media continue to spread anti european misinformation related to the corona virus it's being disseminated on twitter facebook and other social media outlets in china a citizen journalist missing for almost 2 months has reappeared he says he was detained by police and forcibly quarantined coronavirus lockdown measures have disrupted supply chains around the world not least in manufacturing powerhouses like bangladesh where close factories have left workers jobless and struggling to survive. despite the lockdown thousands of seamstresses

from the textile factories in dhaka have taken to the streets they are hungry and they are angry the government has instructed textile companies to keep paying wages to work has joined the closures but many factory owners won't comply. and it doesn't hurt somebody of course was scared of catching a virus a way of protesting anyway we have nothing our families are suffering we're risking our lives here because we're hungry and that's worse than the coronavirus of that in the whatever manner bangladesh has the 2nd largest textile industry in the world normally and bobby long gone once in dhaka the same streets as crowd together here at the beginning of their shifts but now only a handful of workers allowed in to maintain the building. of nearly 20000 employees and now on forced to leave the textile industry in bangladesh earns more than

30000000000 euros in revenue a year and has helped the country emerge from the list of the world's poorest nations. but the lock down isn't the only reason for the production halt. customers don't stop placing orders soon we're going to have a big problem if we're not allowed to manufacture and deliver our wares that's another problem we paid our workers in march and we'll pay them in april 2 but we have to take out loans to do it. people are starving the government is distributing food but there's not enough to go around experts fear the coronavirus could set emerging countries back 20 years that's why the textile industry is appealing for help from the west. look if you're going to business break the order in this situation so definitely we are them to reconsider this issue. and it would be on the roads. industrial.

it's the since she says who suffer most their wages often only amount to $100.00 euros a month as long as that's not being paid them continue to protest despite the lockdown . let's look now at some other stories making headlines around the world reports suggest that boeing may be planning to layoff 10 percent of its civil aviation staff the news agency a.f.p. says the cuts would affect up to 7000 employees that are working on the 737 max and the long haul 787 and 777 models boeing is restarting production of the aircraft following coronavirus shut down. volkswagen as resume production in germany after more than a month of lockdown it reopened its factory in the eastern town of sicko with stricter hygiene measures in place dilate the maker of mercedes cars also resumed some german production this week. concerns are growing for indigenous tribes in

brazil's amazon region hard hit by the corona virus the city of my now says digging mass graves to handle around 100 burials a day that is 3 times the normal number local officials are pleading for federal aid but charbel sonars government is playing down the threat. 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 jurisdiction laws to try the 2 suspects here the defendants enter germany as asylum seekers along with thousands of a. there syrians did every reports now on one woman's hope that the trial will bring justice for her son and viewers may find some scenes distressing. mario lives in a berlin suburb it seems it to like but this syrian woman is part of

a europe wide hunt to catch a criminal secret service agents from her country like many others merriam son i hum was systematically tortured the young medical student had spoken up for human rights and called for president bashar assad to step down now 8 years after his death his mother is seeking justice. i want the culprits to be brought to justice from the accomplices all the way up to assad these people are responsible for spilling our children's blood that can be them. more than 26000 pictures of torture victims were smuggled out of the war torn syria by a courageous former police photographer his code name caesar the photos could help convict torturers and murderers. human rights lawyer mas and doubt 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 secret service and more are is charged with

crimes against humanity murder and rape. this is the 1st stone which will be a thought this is the 1st time there is a split the. judge and we have picked a suspect and the size of the state of florida we don't have it in c. of you. bill wiley is investigating syrian tortures he used to hunt war criminals as a un prosecutor and worked on cases from the former yugoslavia and the wanton genocide he knows that without a peeper trail it's difficult to bring culprits to justice. that's why these state documents smuggled out of syria are so valuable. what you have in this room are materials generated by the security intelligence structures assure the

military structures of syria and the party or political structures of syria at the top level and that the governor. requests they also shed light on suspected torturers such as anwar are widely believed at least a dozen former senior agents remain undetected in europe. hopes that not only the killers of her son will be brought to justice but also others living in hiding for her the hunt has just begun. for more on this story we can speak to the yen is a member of the german parliament and terrorism bundestag committee on legal affairs and human rights mischance and good to have you with us here on the w. we said this is pretty unique to suspected syrian intelligence officers facing justice here in germany today so why did germany want to carry out these trials here. well good afternoon it is pretty unique it's

a landmark trial and germany and its launch recognized universal jurisdiction such as crimes against humanity and. in our opinion in a year a european perspective it is important to bring justice to all these victims and i think we will see more trials like these in the upcoming years in the coming months because it's important to cite and to battle impunity and germany is taking a part in with this trial magenta you said you hope that there will be more trials like these but we saw no reported this taken so much time to bring d.c. cases to trial and it is very difficult to do so so is it really realistic to think that germany could carry out several more of these trials. that's i think we will show the time will show that i think it's important to closely monitor and follow the trial that started today in court then and i think it is

a landmark trial also for other european countries that have several trials that could be held you said and the report also said it's very difficult to get a hand and get these materials but because of the refugee crisis to be exact we are now in a position that we actually can talk to witnesses that we can. get these materials out of the country and witnesses but also suspects are now in a range where germany can do something because of the not so far mandated to the i.c.c. keanu and level i think it is a start but it should not be the end. are these trials really anything more than symbolic because you are trying to talk back on german soil but the regime behind these crimes is still in place. here right i think it is. not only symbolic because i'm very mad trial by this trial and hope it will come to an

end and it is for the victims as they also tell me it is not about revenge but it is about the side of impunity and showing that people who committed these atrocities in syria will not be unpunished even though we are still fighting and that's very important because we are still fighting for an international tribunal that is looking into and processing and prosecuting the atrocities by the assad regime. marcie and some member of german parliament joining us thank you very much . breaking news from the sports world now bundesliga clubs and the german football league have held a virtual meeting and they say they hope to officially restart the bundesliga season in empty stadiums on may 9th pending government approval the german football league announced that decision in the last few minutes it would mark the 1st return

of a major european football league during the ongoing pandemic the bundesliga suspended this season after a closed door game in mid march and need special government permission to get around bans on large public events. and we have jonathan crane from the sports with us for more on this story hi jonathan tell us what this is about me what is the bonus league plan and hope for here. is legal wants to get up and running as soon as it possibly can many so it can get its hands on $300000000.00 euros worth of missing t.v. money to save struggling clubs in fact we heard the d.f.l. boss christian seifert just a bit early to say this is a matter of survival say to that end the league has come up with a plan pending government approval as you say as to how that might happen some of the things that might be needed obviously as we knew already matches will have to be played in empty stadiums and there's going to need to be a limited stuff presence in threes and so that would be inside the stadium in the

style and and outside the stadium of the rituals such as walking out the other hand 16 photos that will be abandoned and most controversially play is obviously need to be tested before and after games coach you stuff as well now obviously this league itself has admitted that this is not a perfect solution there is not going to be a solution that is 100 percent perfect but it hopes and it says that what it proposes will mitigate a lot of the risk of the current virus spreading so what do they need to do to get the special permission that they are seeking well it will come down to government approval and specifically the approval of the heads of the 16 german states now the government and the states will be meeting at the end of april but so far the signs from the politicians have been largely positive some of the noises the health minister spawn for example as well as the 2 state premiers of germany's largest states have both indicates it's all indicates

a draw the this would be possible under the conditions if the medicine and the medical side checks out of course this isn't just about risk it's about perception as well and there will be some people who say look why should footballers have special rules why should football be allowed to carry on when some people are still dying from the current. virus so it's going to be a difficult one groups as well have been opposed to restart in terms of the tests maybe 2025000 tests would be needed now we've heard from. that they have already decided that might not be such a good idea let's have a listen. i don't see why certain parts of the population whether athletes or any other group in which society has a certain interest should be routinely screen shot. so that is the ethical question why should healthy for be tested when people who are sick with the virus possibly congress their hands in the test the response that says the

germ these huge testing capacity we would only need nor point 4 percent of the available tests they think is possible and of course if the tests were needed for other things they would then have those tests now as you said they're really eager to get the season under way the bundesliga is losing lots of money but how could it be that this massive very successful football league is struggling so much just because the season has been suspended i think you have an important question because a lot of people are saying how can it be you know you've got a league that is essentially living hand to mouth why is football so unsustainable why is the football business so unsustainable reports just 13 out of the $36.00 clubs in germany's top divisions the bonus league and the 2nd one is now you are at risk i mean so in the bundesliga and possible and said to be at risk now i will mention the t.v. money clubs need that huge traunch to be able to survive that accounts for. the missing money in some way more than they would get from ticket sales which is why these empty stadium games have been put forward because that scene is that the

least worst example but certainly a lot of people are saying that this current virus the show my lights on the how unsustainable football clubs are and something will have to change once this is all over in the way that clubs around a lot of stake jonathan crane from sports thanks so much for joining us. well the women's that you weigh for european championships have been moved from next year into 2022 of that is because the men's euro tournaments was pushed from this year into 2021 due to the pandemic of the netherlands one the last tournament in 2017 the sport's governing body in europe your way it made that decision to avoid conflict with the men's tournaments about the move will also allow women's football to feature more prominently at the postpone the summer olympics in tokyo. that record of ours locked down in india is having one positive side effect plummeting air pollution levels in the capital delhi take a look at some before and after pictures we have of this is what one of the city's

most famous landmarks looked like back in november 29th jean 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 usually the city's roads are choked with vehicles experts say this is all due to a large drop in traffic they warn that improvement is likely to be short lived. thank you for watching debby we're back at the top the hour.

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