this is the wu news live from berlin the u.s. edges closer to 1000000 coronavirus cases and yet some states are easing their restrictions pressure has been hired to lift lock downs and get the economy moving again that's in the u.s. now accounts for a quarter of the global stocks. also coming up the people of lebanon take to the streets again defying a lockdown the country's worst economic crisis in decades is now being compounded by the virus.

i'm going out of his welcome to the program the corona virus outbreak in the united states is fast approaching 1000000 confirmed cases the death toll that has now surpassed 50000 that's around a quarter of the global corona death toll so far despite these grim milestones pressure is growing in some states to ease restrictions the governor of georgia has rejected warnings from infectious disease experts and is allowing many businesses to reopen including some where social distancing is almost impossible to enforce. on the day the coronavirus death toll in the usa rose above 50000 thomas putting was allowed to reopen his barber shop a barber in atlanta for over 50 years he now has to wear gloves and a mask while he cuts his client's hair. that's what i've been going since 6 o'clock news morning oh wall bit sick about florida good hair there's

a bird flow. i gotta pay rev i go to pay my barbers the muddy boot hill. it's not only barbers many businesses in georgia have been allowed to reopen like tattoo studios bowling centers and gyms cinemas and restaurants will follow on monday but not everyone is following suit this gym will continue to hold its classes on line. whether or not we open today or one day or 2 weeks that really matter unless our clients are still careful to come in in addition to georgia the pioneer other southern states in the us are planning to ease restrictions on experiment that others view as risky states with a democratic governor are mostly sticking to stricter measures. and as stressed as we are about getting back to work reopening up businesses we know that if we do it too fast a 2nd wave is likely and would be even more devastating than the moment that we are

in the debate on the right time to reopen is emotionally charged in the u.s. like here in wisconsin a large number of trump supporters across the country are protesting against the restrictions on your you know my home yes your freedom your right you know why should my freedom. for the protests are financed and supported by right wing organizations yet these protesters remain a minority according to polls 2 thirds of americans fear restrictions will be eased too soon like these nurses at a counter protest. laid out 1300 candles one for every coronavirus patient who died in a wisconsin hospital. so look now at the latest developments in the pandemic russia's virus was sponsored says the country now has 80000 cases british prime minister boris johnson is set to return to work on monday after recovering from

cope with 19 he spent 3 days in intensive care and officials in the chinese city of where the virus originated say all corona patients have now gone home north korean media is not commenting on outside speculation about leader kim jong un's health reuters news agency says china has sent a delegation including senior doctors to advise on kim's condition rumors that he is seriously ill following a heart operation satellite images from a north korea monitoring side appear to show kim's private train at the resort town of one sun on the east coast for more on this story i'm now joined by agent foster carvey's senior research fellow in sociology and modern career at leeds university in the u.k. and it is notoriously difficult to get reliable information about the state of affairs in north korea several media outlets are now quoting sources in china

saying that kim has actually died what are your sources saying about kim's health. i should hasten to say that i'm an analyst i don't have any better or different sources than anyone else i'm trying to put together as many people are the pieces of a chick so puzzle we don't have enough pieces of me certainly don't have any picture on the box to guide us. anything anything is possible it is interesting that he missed a key meeting that was the 1st alarm his father's birthday at the 15th the big holiday sun's day they call that he's never missed stopped it's also interesting to see any other so definite fact his train has been seen that one sign on the east coast as you said that is not near where the irish report said he had the surgery i do think anything is possible i think it's right to talk about it even astri it insisting that we only have we have unconfirmed rumors because if he if

anything is wrong with him i'm an unknown committal not at the moment because we don't know then we can be fairly sure that that is a very big deal for north korea it's a very resilient state it's managed to successions before but as absolutely nobody in place now so we will just have to wait and see he may pop up and surprise a soul and those of us to speculate it may have egg on our faces as a something before but it's a very big deal if there is something wrong if there is indeed something wrong with him it is unclear who would succeed him as a leader who's the most likely candidate and what if there is no clear transition of power. indeed sad while long ago this was a communist country where there were supposed to be some heredity i'm there all those who think that they are normal service and that sense could be resumed some committee could take a but i don't think so because they have gone down them an offical route stated pull it out of course but they call it the pick 2 months a sorry day to bloodline off to the young people kind of function which is rich

sacred so it's got to be in the blood it's being it's called new nerf all that to some to some nice he's got children we think very little indeed he has found a sister came yoko she's very able as has a more public role recently she issued 2 statements in her own right but it's a very sexist of the spin fusion patriarchal culture and she's very young too so that would be a very big deal as a hoss uncle kim jong il program got time to go into all the details he was a long serving ambassador well away from tokyo and in several east european countries i think most recently the czech republic very able again but leaders acceptable it's really hard to know they could easily be a policy struggle the army which was much more powerful than his father kim jong il the new kim jong un has reigned perhaps they might make its very best and whose time to be on the nuke button lots to worry about i don't fault the kata thank you

very much for this analysis thank you. time for a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines today more than a 1000 firefighters are still battling forest blazes in the radiation contaminated chernobyl exclusion zone in northern ukraine the wildfires have been raging for the past 3 weeks causing extensive damage to buildings. after 3 weeks of total lockdown dubai has lifted some of its coronavirus restrictions public transport is running again and selected shops are open some measures remain in place though including an overnight curfew. hundreds of venezuelan migrants including elderly people and pregnant women have been stuck at the colombian venezuelan border unable to return home as the venezuelan government closed the busy border crossing near the colombian town of kuta. things will turn into a lebanon where the virus is only adding to longstanding economic problems the

lebanese pound has lost half its value and already high prices are still soaring lockdown measures have been extended into next month spot protesters are taking to the streets in defiance of the restrictions. ceilings of popular anger have returned to the streets of beirut despite an ongoing lockdown and a curfew protesters have gathered outside the lebanese central bank to demonstrate against the worsening economic conditions. we think that quote all of us is not the only pandemic was suffering from heat in lebanon after 11 years that meant they either had a choice to die from hunger or to die from but i know with the increase of the price and that the beggar and the beast of the value of our current. people here tell us they have nothing to lose levanon one of the most indebted countries in the world is not only battling depend emic but also its worst economic and financial

crisis in decades. the protests erupted last october initially targeting decades of economic mismanagement and corruption now with a lockdown further weighing on the economy many are simply trying to survive so people 00. 0. 00 basic level of us are all. or are close to suckle but we. were good luck to well. listen to resort to the court with banking sector. so well. in an attempt to dampen the financial followed of the crisis the government has restricted cash withdrawals and banned money transfers abroad. the prime minister has on the op has blamed the governor of the central bank for the currencies sharp

decline and announced that a neutral international company has been tasked with auditing the bank's books. well yes my own is a that we will not allow or tolerate interference with financial stability. and ballistic at all because these people want the country to collapse and to shake its stability to protect themselves and their interests at the expense of the interest of lebanon and the lebanese. muslim. well look many. but for v's protesters promises like that aren't enough the aid organization human rights watch has warned that without government assistance millions in lebanon could go hungry due to the lockdown. for one tool to cope with future corona virus infection waves his smartphone tracing many countries are developing the technology and germany has just decided to change tack on which type of up it

wants to use following widespread privacy concerns german health minister yes trayvon told the newspaper that i was on talk that the government now favors not storing people's data in essential database. form our reporter is tracking that story for us he joins me now from central berlin and all of our corona tracking up supposed to work. well contact tracing is seen as a and method that is really important in tracking and isolating the coronavirus now the idea behind this app is that as we move about in the world outside be it at the supermarket or in public transport or photos we record food we get in close proximity with using bridges now if you don't get diagnosed which could be 19 you can and not mislead notify the people you have been in touch with and they can go into self isolation of course the big debate here is about what technology is used

to record at this data and whether it's stored just on the handsets or if it's sense to a central server. now we can see german soldiers there trying out these new apps which technology has germany chosen and. well as late as friday germany was still supporting a centralized pan european model with the dots that would be stored on central servers but last week hundreds of scientists wrote an open letter in protest against this method saying that this could open up the way for government surveillance so today the german health ministry in chapin said to develop on sometime in the newspaper that germany had reversed the decision and was now supporting a decentralized model where does it still in the handset now in this change in tact in fortune to be put in germany and one was happening you might remember

a few weeks back in 2 tech giants decided to join forces to develop the infrastructure ready in their necessary for peace and for these apps and don't forget 99 percent of smartphones in the world run on and on apple or google so that operating systems all of them can we expect to have these apps on our phones. while here in germany it's still not clear when this app will be out the health minister has said he wants it to be ready within weeks but many countries already have apps and ready the a straightly in government for example launched their app just today but also there have been a pretty see and concerns and criticism transparency really are the 2 big issues here in many countries people might not trust their governments and many people might not trust the big tech giants and entre don't forget for these apps to work 60 percent of the population you to download log in and use them so if there is no trust then this project might fail completely. thank you very much.

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