dr patricia. stuart's may 21st on t w. this is d w news live from berlin britain pays tribute to health service workers who have died fighting the coronavirus the nation fall silent for almost 100 medical and care staff amid growing criticism over a lack of personal protective equipment. also coming up surveillance cameras are part of public life in china but a new report says the coronavirus pandemic has brought them to the very doorsteps

of people's homes. and as a as car manufacturers reopen their production lines germany debates the future of the industry after the core of the fires there are growing calls to attach climate friendly strains to government 8. our correspondent is with us from la 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 thoughts 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 p.p. but supplies across the u.k. are very limited that simply aren't enough gowns for every doctor. well i want to

go to arrange i get turned into. a conscious user to you because i want box of supplies getting less and less and less so that's every time because i only have to wear it if you know we are in a high risk are about 3 quarters of u.k. doctors say in a survey they don't have enough access to protective clothing visors and marks are also in short supply some doctors are having to buy their own f p 3 masks from the 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 try to protect their clothing while 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 sat hospital workers paying their last respects to a colleague even before the crisis the u.k. was short of 40000 nurses staff and now under enormous pressure even

very experienced nurses and pushed to the edge 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 a result of underfunding over the last decade and patients are suffering to some law spittles are having to ration supplies like oxygen or dialysis fluid for patients with kidney failure. to munaf describe situations older patients that might have benefited from intensive care have been denied treatment whereas

a few months ago people over 65 would have bought it your basic unventilated but now if you scratch your sort straight jacket so the trust of anybody looks up to you but if you pull a book there is a 55 i few patients which i deemed. a touch of care you did but the i.c.u. people rejected it 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 mobilizing 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 is simply not made resilient enough to withstand such a crisis the n.h.s. the house system was working at almost full capacity before the pandemic and

everything almost everything had to stalk 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 are also not being referred for example to specialists cattle to cancer care so cancer charities are 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 a 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. and let's check in now on some other stories making headlines around the world the search for a covert 1000 vaccine has received another boost scientists at oxford university

say they've successfully kept monkeys infection free for 4 weeks the team is now in world 6000 people in human trials they hope to have millions of doses available by september. the latest 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 that 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. protesters 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. nearly half a 1000000 new zealanders are back at work as the government eases restrictions customers were lining up again for coffee and fast food takeaways after a month long lockdown prime minister to send ardern thanked new zealanders for

their resilience but warned the fight against the virus is not over the australian city of sydney has reopened its famous bond diabetes to surfers and swimmers the golden sands were closed last month after thousands of people ignored social distancing rules residents are now allowed back in the water but walking and sunbathing remain banned. surveillance cameras are a part of public life in china they're often there watching when people cross the street eat in a restaurant try 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 people's homes. for more on that story we can speak to that these soccer hi aula 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 platform of cameras being installed outside their front door and of their apartments and even in some extreme cases just inside their private 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 so in between a private and a public space so this is extreme even for china right that was did have us all as soccer speaking to us a little bit earlier. now it's the 2nd day of the petersburg climate dialogue germany's initiative to discuss ways of combating climate change because of code 19 the dialogue is taking place online but the pentatonic is shaping the discussions

in other ways as well with many companies and even industries desperate 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 to optimistic about the future. you know. there's no cure it's nice to hear concerned that a car is not foremost on the minds of our pretensions customers right now. so we'd welcome efforts by the government to create some incentives for consumers. who are good to look at cities who are government assistance for a 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 cough is a ramp. 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. they hope the european economy will see a push for modernization that could include a massive expansion if we knew it will energy investment in challenging stations full 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 pandemic 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 coronavirus pandemic 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 that 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 costs so magine 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 to 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 environmentally. only practice 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 environment we're going to transition to a period where we're looking at a longer term recovery period and how much money that 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 being 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 then

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 and 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. now organizers of the postponed tokyo olympics say the games will be canceled if they cannot 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 scientists in japan have warned it will be difficult to hold the games unless a vaccine is found. right coming up on d w r covert 19 special could blood plasma therapy be effective in fighting the corona virus.