this is deja vu news live from berlin britain pays tribute to health service workers who have died fighting the coronavirus the country holds a minute's silence for almost 100 dead medical and care staff amid growing criticism over a lack of personal protective equipment for work. also coming up leaving lockdown surf's up in sydney as bond id trio opens well almost half

a 1000000 new zealanders go back to work. and donald trump and likely presidential rival joe biden try to score political points by talking tough on china but critics warn the strategy could backfire. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us britain has held a minute's silence to pay tribute to frontline workers who have died after contracting covert 19 of these were the scenes earlier this morning. the u.k. government has announced it will make a 60000 pounds compensation payment to families of health workers and social care staff who died fighting the outbreak that's around 70000 euro's critics of the government's response to the pandemic say it's highlighted the crisis within the u.k.'s national health system. our correspondent barbara mohsin is with us from

a lot to tell us more about this event of paying tribute to frontline workers across britain. well this could be the prime minister boris johnson making his mark he's back at work this week and he wanted to set the tone right i guess and have the symbolic gesture of the whole country just honoring the health workers which i think is a very moving moment for a lot of them to have so much support in the british public you can see everywhere in in windows rainbows which are symbolizing the n.h.s. symbolizing the public support of the n.h.s. and recognizing really the sacrifices that many of them have made because we have over a 100 around a 100 housework has that have already succumbed to the virus but over that question of whether they feel protected or not and why so many have died there's a lot of anger inside the health system and i've spoken to some frontline

workers now let's have a look as as what they had to say. that went on a long sleeved gown that protects him from coronavirus doctor almost feels guilty every time he puts one on he's an emergency doctor so he does have access to past not protective equipment or pete but supplies across the u.k. are very limited that simply aren't enough gowns for every doctor. well i want to go to get changed into. conscious of what you said to you they called a box of supplies getting less and less and that's so that's every time because they only have to marry if you know we are in a high risk aren't 3 quarters of u.k. doctors say in a survey they don't have enough access to protective clothing visors and must also in short supply some doctors are having to buy their own f.p. 3 masks from d.i.y.

stores and from building that fence. and also having to do things like make their own aprons out of rubbish bin bags to track protect their closing well staging these high risk procedures nearly 100 medical staff doctors as well as nurses have already died from the virus on social media videos like this are being sad hospital workers paying their last respects to a colleague even before the crisis the u.k. was short of 40000 nurses staff are now under enormous pressure need been very experienced nurses and pushed and we have a lot of newly qualified staff who only been in the job 6 months or one year and they've really been pushed pushed to 2 to breaking point we are and. already underfunded we need more doctors and nurses to work in the n.h.s. even in normal times so at the moment we are above and beyond what we ever thought

that we could be intense and working and that we're trying our best that we do need more start and we need more quick meant and that is the result of underfunding over the last decade and patients are suffering to some spittles are having to ration supplies like oxygen or dialysis fluid for patients with kidney failure. to munaf describe situations where older patients that might have benefited from intensive care have been denied treatment whereas a few months ago people over 65 it would have said that if your basic ability to go but now if you scratch your sort stringent sort of trust of anybody looked up to you but if you pull the book there's a 55 i think you should which i deemed. a test of care you did but the i.c.u. you object to a lot but it worked for crushing britain's national health service is facing its

biggest emergency since its founding. in a very good britain is a wealthy country it's been a noble izing resources to deal with this pandemic for months and yet this health system is having a real problem with coping why is that. well a picture emerges of a health system that's simply not made resilient enough to withstand such a crisis the n.h.s. the health system was working at almost full capacity before the pandemic and everything almost everything had to stop they had to throw all the resources at coping with the pandemic so for example there are no elective procedures nobody gets a hip replacement people also not being referred for example to specialists catus to cancer because so cancer charities a warning that thousands of cancers go undetected each week so all of this will

have to be picked up at some point soon and underlying is a funding issue as as many critics have pointed out as a result of a decade of austerity where public services in the u.k. haven't been funded a lot so there will have to be when this is over as to how much the n.h.s. is going to be funded in the future. reporting from london thank you now to a roundup of some of the latest developments in the pandemic portugal is ending the state of emergency imposed last month to contain the spread of the virus the strict lockdown will be lifted on may 3rd germany's retail association is bracing for a wave of bankruptcies with up 250000 businesses expected to go bust because of the virus starting on may 1st austria will allow gatherings of up to 10 people as restrictions there are eased and a spain and france will outline plans today and how they will lift their 6 week lock downs. australia and new zealand have started relaxing their lock downs after

4 weeks of stay at home restrictions both countries have avoided high numbers of infections and deaths and new zealand this week declared it has a virus under control still social distancing measures remain in place. johnston and we are now it's finally coffee time again new zealand took a 1st step towards normal life as the country's businesses begin to resume their activities cafes and restaurants that sell takeaway food and drinks along with construction sites and beaches were allowed to reopen. new zealand was under a strict coronavirus lockdown since march 26th with most of the country shut down the measures seem to have contained the spread of the virus but authorities warn that the country is still not out of the woods is an ongoing basis there is not one point in time that this mission in snell yes we have done that in lockdown the goal

now is to keep up there so we're now in the next phase of the battle and we are not done. in australia sydney's famous band-aid beach reopened to swimmers and surfers after it was closed for 5 weeks people braved the cool autumn weather to dive in beach goers are left to swim and surf but not to sunbathe or linger the area has australia's highest concentration of coronavirus cases last month police had to close the beach because people were congregating disregarding social distancing measures of thirty's hope that this time they will finally follow the rules. now to some other stories making headlines around the world new figures in germany show the number of new cases is on the rise disease control experts say the reproduction rate is now back at one meaning those infected with the virus passed it on to one other person the new data comes as germany attempts to reopen public

and economic life. the search for a covert 1000 vaccine has received another boost scientists at oxford university say they've successfully kept monkeys infections free for 4 weeks the team is now rolled 6000 people. human trials they hope to have millions of doses available by september and south korean boy band b.t.s. has decided to suspend its world tour because of the pandemic the k. pop stars had already postponed the north american leg of the tour which was scheduled to start last week. now in its latest salvo against china president donald trump says beijing could have stopped the cold in 1000 outbreak before it spread across the world there's little evidence to back up his claims yet but both he and his probable rival joe biden know a tough stance on china can be turned to a political advantage in an election year and now they're trading blows over it alexander phenomena reports from washington he failed to work so no trump in using

an ad course used by joe biden's comes hand slamming president trump for his handling of the trump crease the truth is 15 times in january february as the coronavirus spread across the time and the trump come pain has its own patrolling joe biden is too cozy with china biden's son into a $1000000000.00 deal with a subsidiary of the back of china. is going to. they're not that folks in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic china has become a central compay an issue in the u.s. president and his likely challenger joe biden battle over who is tougher on that coming as. there seems to be bipartisan agreement that bashing china and projecting a strong man image as a political benefit for donna from blaming china for the spread of the virus just

like from his own heavily criticized response to depend demick his relations to try to just seem to believe it's maybe the best way to win a difficult election but is it. we catch up with michael steele a conservative commentator and former republican party officials says that you know all the hiring in noise about china now is to make up for what he said about china when this whole thing began or worse you were. since you were. leading up the steps and actually the big thing in rwanda. so i don't think that's one of the beneficiary now coming back and saying oh sorry you're a bad boy from strategy may even backfire his flattery of president xi of china his initial praise of china's transparency during that pandemic the biotin campaign can turn that against him by joe biden's own past china policy as vice president and

senator and his son hunter as business dealings with a country make him vulnerable to. bashing china is almost a tradition in your ass presidential elections but this time it's happening and it's a dangerous pandemic retesting aarons is executive director of the asian pacific american advocates she's a warrior to about the impact the pen demick is already having an asian americans and as a result we've seen a huge increase in discrimination and harassment in americans within this country everything from verbal assaults being brains lashing chemical substances to outright physical violence even on young children read happen aaron says concerned that the political confrontation over china could lead to more harassment but it's also likely to further deteriorate if you ask china relationship whoever wins the election. now surveillance cameras are

a part of public life in china they're often there watching when people cross the street in a restaurant ride the bus or enter a shopping mall but according to a new report by c.n.n. the coronavirus pandemic has now brought surveillance cameras to the front doors of their homes for more on that story we can speak to. what is being reported here. well this is a way for chinese authorities to keep an eye on people who should be staying at home now most people in china are already being tracked by a contact tracing app that will notify you if you've been exposed to someone who has the virus and will then let you know that you should go into south quarantine but recently people have started posting photos on social media in china like on the way by a platform of cameras being installed outside their front door and of their apartments and even in some extreme cases just inside their product their own their

own door now it's important to know that china has more surveillance cameras per capita than any other country in the world but the area around your your apartment front door is a bit of a gray zone between a private and a public space so this is extreme even for china but all of what's actually monitoring of these cameras well these cameras 1st of all they haven't been installed by the china or the chinese central government rather by local authorities and it's being monitored by so-called neighborhood committees now these are groups they have a long history in communist china is basically private citizens who act as the ice and the is the authorities and make sure basically that their neighbors don't miss behave now it's important to say that in in these reported cases these cameras were taken down after the 2 week quarantine but it does raise questions about the use of surveillance technology during the course of ours pandemic and more specifically

what's being done with the technology and the daughter that has been stored after the pandemic process right so is this just china or are we seeing similar privacy issues in other countries. well we have a few examples from around the world in hong kong for example you are now issued a an electronic bracelet when you arrive from overseas and the concept here is the same the authorities want to make sure that you stay in your apartment or your hotel room during that 22 week quarantine in poland now you have a choice of frequent frequent visits from police or uploading a selfie via and to prove that you actually match and finally in israel the government there has come under criticism for using some surveillance technologies developed by the internal intelligence agency in that country now that's issue has gone all the way to the country's high court they ruled on sunday that it's now up to the knesset the parliament should decide by thursday if this

should be allowed to go on all right get out he's also a soccer reporting for us thank you very much you're watching the news still to come teaching cairo's young people about the current years how an egyptian engineering student has turned to mind to get the message across. but 1st it is the 2nd day of the petersburg climate dialogue germany's initiative to discuss ways of combating climate change did a cover of 19 the dialogue is taking place online but the pandemic is shaping discussions in other ways as well with many companies and even industries holding out for help there are growing calls on the government to attach climate friendly strings to aid for businesses. the world's largest comic is gradually resuming production at its european facilities the coronavirus pandemic has cost billions

and executives aren't optimistic about the future. there's no jury here it's nice to hear concerned that a car is not foremost on the minds of our potential customers right now. so we'd welcome efforts by the government to create some incentives for consumers. who could do what it says is the government assistance for vehicle purchases didn't politicians want to phase out the combustion engine and wouldn't it be a good time to transition to a more eco friendly economy when company coffers are empty. on monday a broad spectrum of nearly 70 german companies called for increased efforts to link stimulus programs with climate protection and they were not only those that would benefit from ambitious climate protection policies like insurance companies also traditional industrial enterprises like to cope and bya they hope the european

economy will see a push to modernization and that could include a massive expansion if we knew it will energy investment in charging stations full and electric vehicles. let's talk more about this with stephen beardsley from business hi stephen we know that the pent up because putting a condom is across the globe under pressure does that mean that climate change is no longer really a big priority like it was before the panic i think the question you're asking is basically this dilemma between the short term need to get economies going again and the long term goals that were already set out before the crowbars pendent happen and that is achieving a low carbon economy especially in places like europe and germany where they've already taken steps towards moving in that direction so how these 2 things conflict with one another it's hard to say it's not hard to imagine scenarios in which they would conflict and you already have the auto industry for example here in germany saying hey would be great if we could get premiums for purchases of cars the government can help us out with out they don't mean just electric cars they mean

internal combustion engine cars now a long term goal of the german government is to meet emissions standards in europe and to meet its own climate goals and that means fewer internal combustion engine cars another example might be industry which often complains about the expense of energy cost i imagine like steel producers for example these a ton of energy the cost here high in germany because attached to the cost of energy is the cost to build out their knoebels network so if they say hey we need relief from these high energy costs to get back on our feet can you do something here but tension someone might say well maybe this is where we can strike a way so you can imagine that these things could start to conflict with one another ok but to what extent is the german government actually saying we're going to provide you with aid but you might want to think about more. mentally friendly practices not yet is the answer right now they're focused on the short term how do we keep these businesses alive remember we put everything in an artificial coma here when it comes the economy the question is how do you keep it going and then how do you bring it back to life and so what they've done are things like loan guarantees grants and worker protections none of those have come with strings attached and comes the environment we're going to transition to

a period where we're looking at a longer term recovery period and how much money should be spent on recovery there you might see some options for investments some options for trying to encourage certain industries certain sectors to really come about that would help the economy in the long term and also help meet these long term goals that germany and other countries have undertaken look at some of those projects green projects that could benefit from this invest in those projects going back to industry for example green industry you often hear about the smelting ovens for example a lot of these big industrial processes that are so in are g. intensive there is not quite an industry here to remake that machinery in a more low carbon way if that industry sector could get support for example that maybe you build up the sector to create that and then also it could start to expand and start to have global sales for example so you basically provide the money to create a sector that benefits carbon emissions here in germany and then it has a potential market elsewhere in the world that kind of stuff also building efficiency standards mobility perhaps supporting building out more rail things like

that you know potentially you have right here a clear example in times of the german government is about to step in the tons of to help bail it out could be a 25 percent stakeholder it could potentially do some major things there it wanted to i would be surprised but in theory you might see some people actually pushing pretty hard for that but in theory it could do something very interesting and stephen basically from business thank you very much for joining us. all right let's look at more stories now that are making headlines around the world organizers of the postponed tokyo olympics say the games will be canceled if they can't take place next year the olympics were moved to july 2021 because of the pandemic now the president of tokyo's organizing committee says another postponement won't be an option if the virus is still a threat next year. protestors in lebanon have clashed with security forces as the country's economic crisis deepens activists blocked

a highway north of the capital beirut despite a coronavirus lockdown there is widespread anger over rising prices and the collapsing lebanese pound. firefighters in russia are battling at least 16 wildfires in the northern or quit school region of siberia authorities have detained at least 3 people they believe caused some of the fires to carelessness burning trash or camping illegally forecasters say weather conditions will not improve as winds are expected to increase. to egypt now where the number of confirmed corona virus cases may be low but the need for information on tackling the virus is huge getting that information to society's poorest and youngest can be a challenge and her ahmed nazar a student tos using his acting skills to educate a few last practice moves before slipping into character. transitioning from

engineering student to clown has become 2nd nature for ahmed. for 5 years now the 22 year old has been performing as a mine at events as a side gig to bolster his studies but the corona crisis put into that now off mitt has found a new angle he's taking his act to cairo's poorest neighborhoods to educate children about the virus. it's our duty to educate kids because they don't really have access to information while they watch cartoons on t.v. they're not that interested in what's going on in the world. op ed is setting off to cairo's city of the dead it's a good hour's drive away but since the universities are closed he's got plenty of time on his hands the corona crisis hasn't visibly impacted cairo's traffic packed mini buses as millions of people commute to work through busy streets they all need

money to survive while egypt's official infection rates are quite low so are the rates of testing the actual number of infections could be much higher many here simply hope they won't be infected especially kids. i sense that i can change the awareness and behavior of the kids that makes me happy . some 1500000 people live in cairo city of the dead a large portion of them below the poverty line and many of these poor children don't yet know about social distancing hygiene and masks. it's these kids that are spent wants to help he talks to them and gives them tips keep your distance or even better stay home wash your hands wear masks if possible at all times conventional wisdom but many here are hearing it for the 1st time. this.

kind of fact i liked what he said i'll try to do what he said. ok. yes i'm scared now we're not allowed to touch each other anymore you know what if we touch someone with corona our whole family could get infected anyway. a few final relaxing pantomime practice exercises. and doesn't want to leave the kids worried or in panic. it might seem like a lot of effort for just 15 kids but often hopes they will pass on what they've learned to others in the community. you're watching news i don't forget you can always get good of you news on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications

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