this is news live from for live blogged on the new poll prostates may have been restricted during the pandemic but young climate activists and them have found an alternative way of reminding people of the emergency threatening life as mean those also coming up. new year's eve is approved an emergency rescue package to protect jobs and businesses from the code of virus carnage but they're still split on the how to fund a long term recovery for your. pets it began with

a bang but not in a good 1830 years ago today hubble space telescope was launched to look at what went wrong and what went back to. hello i'm christine one while come to the program political demonstrations on no longer possible in many nations even in democracies because of the pandemic and response climate action movement friday's future has switched to protests online one group in berlin has found a creative way of staging a physical demonstration in the government district of germany's capital without it seems breaking any laws. burlington in $29000.00 and normal friday for climate change protesters but not this year with schools still largely closed and demonstrations limited due to social distancing rules striking from school for

climate change action has become tricky to mark the faith global climate strike fridays to future protesters let the slogan speak for themselves after 2 days in quarantine more than a 1000 placards collected from across the country were laid out in front of the bundestag as a reminder for german politicians that the curve of $1000.00 pandemic isn't the only crisis on their doorstep protesters hope to the lessons can be learned. not to just hear of course we wouldn't have wished for the current situation because this is costing human lives there are however companies for example that have now integrated conference calls into everyday life and might also be able to do without certain business trips in the future so there's also a bit of hope from the corona crisis for the climate crisis. thousands of demonstrators also joined friday's protest online home to the world's virtual reality during the $1000.00 pandemic many of them huge social media to voice their

demands that would otherwise have been made on the streets their main message the world might have been put on hold for now but climate change has not. joined by d.w. political correspondent kate brainy she's the author of the report you just saw hey kate so you were actually at a friday's full feature priciest today here in berlin how did those who took part manage to avoid breaching the social distancing guidelines. they certainly wasn't like any fridays or feature protests i'd covered d.w. before very quiet only a group of around 20 people working there putting out those placards in front of the bundestag this morning which is exactly how they were able to and tear to the social distancing rules currently in place here in germany and ensure that they were keeping at least one and a half meters between each other but everyone was in good spirits this morning there were a couple of local officers out from the local police authority as well but everyone

seems to be getting along just fine and the protests went ahead as planned. just how much has the coronavirus pandemic hurt the friday's will feature movement. well of course a friday is a future demonstrations haven't been able to take place for weeks we've seen in previous weeks that people have been turning to on online means to meet to make their voices heard but having spoken to some of those protesters that were putting out the placards this morning they said that they were concerned that they were perhaps preaching to the choir as it were and were only being able to share their message inside a bubble so hopefully what they are hoping at least to achieve today is make their voice heard again in a reminder as it was to german politicians by making these protests a bit more present again particularly here in germany's in in germany's government course here in berlin some activists fear that you know planned measures to reduce

the impact of the pandemic may actually worsen the climate crisis in the long run can you tell us more about that. that is certainly the case and those are some concerns that people are also telling me earlier today the worry of course is that the list will not be in focus anymore until just a few weeks ago climate change was arguably the most pressing economic issue in the world right now so there are all concerns that perhaps there will be some leniency given towards businesses as well when it comes to taking more environmentally friendly action to make their committees more sustainable for example but there are also concerns that money particularly here in germany that was set aside for germany's plans to run down its coal usage by 2038 there's concerns that that money billions of euros could be used to support the german economy elsewhere as it comes to terms with the economic impacts of the kovac 19 pandemic ok that's kate brady

political correspondent thank you here's a look at some of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic the global death toll from cova 19 has surpassed 190000 according to johns hopkins university the number of confirmed cases is approaching 3000000 china has reported no new con coronavirus states for the 9th straight day and just to 6 new cases 2 of those were brought from overseas with 4 domestic cases poland would extend closures of schools and pre-schools by a month until at least may 24th but the country's presidential election is still set to go ahead on the 10th of may and hungry plans to replace it struck down which included a blanket curfew on the entire population with more targeted mission is from early may the new rules are to focus on those at high risk. now europe is trying to soften the economic blow dealt by the coronavirus e.u.

leaders have signed off on an emergency rescue package to help countries deal with the immediate fallout of the crisis they also agreed to set up a fund to secure the brocks long term recovery but they are still divided on how this should be financed. the video conference was the 4th such meeting since the virus hit e.u. countries and expectations were lower e.u. member states have so far failed to agree on how to help those economies hit hardest by the pandemic but after just a few hours the council president emerged emphasizing the country's common interests this image this put into our societies and serious through there will be of each e.u. member states it's on there will be of the whole of the e.u. we are all in this together michel said leaders have agreed to task that you commission with linking your recovery plan to the e.u.

is next long term budget a you commission president on the line called for unity unless we acted decisively and collectively the we cover we will not be symmetric and divergence between member states will increase. speaking to the press in berlin after the meeting german chancellor angela merkel also stressed what this meant for europe's biggest economy. that's what i had to figure out for germany it means we have to expect higher country for the next budget. it's clear we need some kind of financial instrument or recovery plan. or recovery fund recovery fun and i want to be very clear here a collective response is also in germany's interest in. berlin has expressed a willingness and recent days to offer more aid to other struggling a euro khana means and eurozone finance ministers had already agreed on the

principle of an e.u. recovery fund the big problem the size and nature of this new debt instrument has yet to be decided but after thursday's meeting italian prime minister just sepic on to hailed the progress being made. the most important thing is that this gent and necessary instrument has been confirmed italy live the coals for our initiative and the list of signed by the countries was very important an instrument like this was absolutely unthinkable until now. despite the price details on the planet spas and many suspect the e.u. commission's toughest negotiations are yet to come and i'm now joined by deed and his chief political correspondent melinda crane head of melinda's so germany will pay the biggest share of the emergency fund that e.u. leaders have agreed to set up is that bound to be some opposition to that in the

country there will certainly be opposition from the far right alternative for germany party the f.t. they said very clearly yesterday that they were not willing to see any kind of increased aid from germany to help other e.u. members particularly the hard hit southern european countries but otherwise the my old so far criticism or somewhat mild criticism that we've been hearing is coming from different. members of the political spectrum including the junior coalition partner the social democrats saying the agreement yesterday didn't go far enough and germany's commitment didn't go far enough that bolder action is needed to really get an effective recovery fund up and working. so all of the so-called corona bonds that countries like germany and other northern countries are opposed to other they now off the table. no so far basically nothing is off the table the

chancellor said very clearly yesterday both in her report marie marks to the german bundestag and also in her press conference after that e.u. video summit that germany was ruling such mutualization of debt out but the fact is that what the summiteers yesterday decided in their video conference essentially was to hand the whole subject back to the e.u. commission the commission is supposed to come up with an exact assessment of how bad the damage is in different sectors in different countries across the e.u. and then make recommendations about how this fund could be set up and how its payout would look and so at the moment there's bound to be debt the commission will have to borrow money in order to fund any kind of fund of this proportion but the question is what that might look like germany has made its position clear so of other northern european countries right melinda it just just briefly and the other thing that called it say yesterday was that germany's well being dependent on

europe being well what does she mean by that well germany is an export world class exporter as we know and 2 thirds of its exports go to other e.u. member countries and 2 thirds come from other e.u. member countries in other words even if the german economy emerges from this crisis quickly and it has in fact put into place some of the biggest rescue packages anywhere in the world without recovery in the rest of the e.u. germany's economy cannot flourish that was her message and that message it's absolutely accurate and even a 2 track where some countries are languishing while others flourish that will not work out well for this very very open german economy in future all right that's melinda crane thank you. after being shut down for weeks and losing out on sales many companies can't wait to get back to business but it won't be business as usual

as long as the cliff $1000.00 pandemic is still an active one many businesses are getting creative finding new ways to keep workers safe while on the job like one italian company that's even installed indoor traffic lights. after a 6 week break workers at this fridge factory in italy are desperate to get going again but they're no transformed plant may offer an uncomfortable glimpse into the work spaces of the post coronavirus future. which is it is legal but we've developed a hardware and software system that could help people live and work in a safe manner and keep the social distancing going to be for most of the sentiment . as well as one of the no measures like face masks and disinfectant a traffic light system has been installed in the canteen and then toilets to limit overcrowding but one of the more innovative solutions is also the most eyebrow raising workers know where it's hiding device that sends another layer to their

mobile phones were never they are too close to one another. i mean you won't think that another interesting element of the time is not it allows the company and trade union organizations to track the interaction of each tying within the company. in normal times an employee tracking system would spark protest not. knowing all we're sure this is not a spying of course it is not a tool to spy on us it's only a device to increase the safety distance and to report close contacts not to spy on people from the us companies and countries around the world debate how and when to get the economy running safely again this is one factor that shows the future of commerce mere acquire compromise along the way. now here's a look at other stories making headlines around the world several beaches in

australia is not just city sydney has been closed again after crowds ignored coronavirus restrictions local officials had reopened the beaches or exercise just a few days earlier while at the same time warning people to india to social distancing guidelines. a portuguese migrant center has been evacuated after the vast majority of the 175 residents tested positive for the new coronavirus authorities ordered mass testing of all residents of the facility after one of them was found to be carrying the virus. the world's longest and the sea road tunnel has officially opened to traffic in norway the rate tunnel measures more than 14 kilometers the country's transportation minister cut the ceremonial ribbon during a video call in order to abide by social distancing restrictions. that u.s. president donald trump has caused alarm by saying people infected with b.

corona virus should be treated with ultraviolet light and disinfectant mr trump made the remarks during a white house press briefing following a presentation by a government official suggesting heat and sunlight could weaken the virus strums ideas were dismissed immediately by doxes present at the briefing. donald trump's claims left health experts beach listeria and the president's own advisers scrambling to undo any potential damage before it's too late which if they're in the white house press briefing trump suggests that disinfectant injections and u.v. light could be used to treat patients infected with the coronavirus this is. supposing we hit the body with a tremendous whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light. and i think you said that has him a check that you can attest to and then i said supposing you brought the light inside the body you can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other

way and i think you said you can attest to so i was interesting to are able to put right in that i see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do something. by injection. or almost a cleaning very marks were criticized by health experts who say disinfectant slick bleach are dangerous when injected or ingested when i said suppose it is not without a large time that trump has made claims that even scientists in his own administration have had to debunk and only a month ago trump promoted the use of hydroxy clora keen a drug used to treat malaria as a potential cure for coated 19. the next day the government's top infectious disease expert reviewed his claim during a press conference and surgical procedures is there any evidence to suggest that as with most of my peers disapproval laxity you can suppose to know the answer is no

and the evidence that it's talking about john is anecdotal evidence trumps recent remarks and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic have been widely criticized since the pandemic spread to the us his approval ratings have been dropping. a recent poll showed that less than half of americans trust the information they're getting from the president on the coronavirus. but for some it's not only a question of mistrust for this group of protesters trump statements are causing people in the u.s. to die they laid out dozens of fake body bags a symbol of the lives lost to the corona virus and of the many more who are expected to suffer from the virus in the united states. now for more on mr trump's latest corona recommendations i'm joined by john campbell he's

a medical doctor who also works as an independent health and this welcome to to the program what do you make of the u.s. president's suggestion off injecting disinfectant to clean the body of krona virus or disinfectant to certainly produce to disinfect surfaces and to disinfect objects they're not to be used to disinfect the virus the virus in the body and the idea of drinking disinfection tauren druid injecting disinfectant with both be highly poisonous things to do if you drink it is going to go into the stomach is going to cause inflammation in the stomach and will be absorbed and can poison you and if you inject it into the bloodstream it could kill you straight away and if you inject insulin muscle it's going to damage the area of muscle and cause an injection abscess so it's not certainly not something you would want to do these things for cleaning services and not for giving into the body in any way what i thought about mr trump also suggests are treating patients with ultraviolet all years even why is there a science behind that and could it possibly work. there is the ultra violet light

is part of the sunlight not your spectrum and that does have antiviral properties so if a virus is on the surface then the alter vial in the sun will start to kill that virus over a period of time so not sure sunlight is good for this virus and the higher the temperature the less time the virus will survive as well but of course the problem uncovered 19 infection is not a virus on the surface of the body the virus is actually down in the loans infecting the you respond to tree epithelium lining the lungs so there's no way that the light's going to go from the outside through into the lungs and likewise there's no devices we could put down into the long as well they were determinate lungs from the inside because the viruses in a 1000000000 different it will blank your prosecutors i'm afraid it's not practicable ok so most experts estimate that a vaccine is at least a year out you know this is is there a case of desperate times call for desperate measures can we completely toss out ideas even wild ideas that the state. is very good question there is something

called compassionate prescribing where doctors can prescribe drugs to patients that aren't actually proved to work yet but there's always a balance in health care that anything that's got the potential to do good is got the potential to do harm and certainly those particular ideas that the president was sort of thinking out loud really would do harm so we don't want to do those now individual doctors may make decisions on individual basis about treating particular patients with drugs that are on proved and that's their decision if they decide to do that but we certainly don't want to do any harm we've got to be very careful about doing harm and this is one of the things with testing the vaccine vaccines can do harm as well as doing good so we have to make sure the vaccines are safe and that it's efficacious that is going to work ok dr john campbell thank you very much for your insights i think your search. critics often lockdown say some governments are using them to cook tales civil liberties and in some cases violate human rights

as part of an ongoing series. our spondon around the world look at the situation in the countries they are covering throughout latin america we're seeing quarantine related protests and while in most countries citizens are taken to the streets asking for more government support during the pandemic the protests in brazil certainly stand out because they're led by none other than the president. has been heavily criticized in quarantine measures calling them job killers among other things and that is a rhetoric that doesn't only resonate with his hard line supporters it also appeals to those brazilians who are more worried about an economic crisis than about a health crisis freedom over fear that's the core message from florida serves here in the u.s. they are popping up across the country to rally against stay at home orders they are a small part of the population but they're getting a lot of attention and they seem to have the backing president trump has defended and encouraged them even though they're flouting the social distancing policy of

government due to several measures currently in place here in germany to try and curb the covert 19 virus several basic rights have been restricted including the freedom to movement the freedom to demonstrate and the freedom to worship german chancellor angela merkel herself said it was one of the hardest decisions of her career to limit people's freedoms but at the same time germany's constitutional court has made it clear that such restrictions on basic rights can only be accepted for a limited strict period of time at the same time judges have also reiterated that there can be no blanket ban on the right to demonstrate. well or as he is in the netherlands have released footage of a thief stealing a prized painting by vincent van gogh in the early hours of march 30 the burglar used a sledgehammer to enter the scene the larne museum abstinent i am the proud of an

escaped with the 1884 painting that's the positive garden at noir and fit on a motorcycle police are hoping the footage will help them catch the thief and retrieve the precious autograph. some of the news it's 30 years today since the hubble space telescope was no inch from cape canaveral in florida now over the last 3 decades hubble has changed our understanding off the universe but as you're about to see it had a difficult start. the hubble space telescope has a clear view into the cosmos. that because it's floating over the earth's atmosphere. it's hard to believe that this groundbreaking mission started with a disaster. the world was waiting with bated breath for hubble's 1st pictures but when they arrived they were blurry. couple's main mirror was to flood the

telescope at a flaw. nasa engineers were able to analyze the flaw in hubble's main and we are. told. they then developed corrective optics for the telescope. space shuttle endeavor delivered the new optics to hubble in december 993. american and european astronauts installed them. the space telescope could finally send clear pictures back to earth. the the hubble telescope made landmark discoveries in a number of astronomical areas it was able to determine the size of the universe and show that it's expanding at an ever increasing rate something no one at the time faught possible. also delivered new insight into the birth life and

death of stars the colors of the pictures help us stronger missed understand these mysterious processes. just recently hubble sent home images of a black hole some 50000 times heavier than the sun astronomy ists have long been looking for objects like this to learn more about how black holes develop and grow if all goes to plan hubble will keep exploring space until 2024 its successor is scheduled to lift off next year. s and heating stuff don't forget you can always get beat every news on the go just download our app from google play off on the app store all that will give you access to all the naysayers news from around the world as well as push notifications for a need for a few minutes and if you're part of a news story you can also use a beat up you have to send us photos and videos on what's happening. and you have

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