w. . this is the w. here's my from could the coronavirus pandemic help us fight climate change as production lines begin to reopen politicians debate which climate friendly strings to attach to opposed make economic stimulus packages also on the program present cruisin extends russia's locked arms the 7th of may and tells russian the pandemic is likely to get worse confirmed cases soared by almost 6000 on monday. pretty full silent as it pays tribute to almost a 100 medical men cast have died fighting the coronavirus but there's

a growing criticism over a lack of personal protective equipment. i'm still going to welcome to the program so i could think coronavirus pandemic their chance to save the planet from climate change well that questions being debated in an online summit by ministers from 30 countries germany and britain are hosting this year's round of the petersburg climate dialogue german chancellor said climate protection had to be considered as part of the economic stimulus programs that governments are launching to help their industries recover from the pandemic. while palin's e.u. is back in business from today climate activists fear that because of the corona crisis politicians may play increasingly hard to get on that climate goals.

addressing the 1st virtual pieces climate dialogue. came out in favor of the e.u. xampp issues climate goals despite the crisis. always a vision to go over and it will be all the more important to firmly consider climate protection when we agree stimulus packages. we must ensure that we're not saving money on climate change now but invest in in future oriented technologies and we must not think nationally but continue to put our international commitments 1st because that's essential for achieving global success in climate protection. for. germany will be in target of driving forward europe's green deal when it takes over the e.u. presidency in july the un sees this as a moment of truth for the world we have a rare and short read of opportunity to rebuild our world for the better it is use

that both every creek up to provide the foundation for a safe it also includes even more resilient words for all people the u.n. secretary general says the fear of the 5 days for future movement protesting here in berlin last friday that the political reflex could now be to bail out carbon intensive industries at the cost of climate friendly investment. the w chief political correspondent melinda crane welcomed melinda what has prompted this renewed push for climate protection. well you know we're often hearing churchill cited these days never waste a good crisis which basically tells us that this is the moment for a restart governments and multilateral organizations such as the european union the world bank i.m.f. and others are getting ready to commit trillions of euro's to economic recovery and how they do that the form this takes will set the path for the economy for decades

to come economists call it paths dependence we commit to particular types of infrastructure or particular pricing schemes and businesses depend on that and set their business models on that and basically then get locked into that pathway for some time to come so right now we have the opportunity to take a green recovery path that will ensure that transport systems that energy systems become truly sustainable and benefit people as a whole rather than narrow groups of shareholders and essentially if we don't take that path we are going to face another crisis the climate crisis as it gathers steam that will put the dislocation and the misery be seen in the corona crisis that it will pale by comparison so it sounds like policymakers are on the same page on this issue do they have broader support. they do in fact we have seen 68 of

germany's biggest companies ranging from insurers who are sort of the usual suspects when it comes to climate appeals but also steel companies chemical companies that depend on a lot of energy all of them calling for putting a truly ambitious climate policy at the very center of recovery efforts now why is business getting on board with this precisely for the reason that what policymakers do now will send signals to business and basically they are telling us we have just seen the toll that a crisis takes we don't want to go through another one any time soon we need clear and reliable signals for investment and that was spelled out by the c.e.o. of to send steel when he said basically they are looking at committing enormous amounts of funds to recovery but they need to know that when they get on a certain path it is the right path to be on chief political correspondent melinda

crane thank you let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world the search for a covered 19 boxer who was received another boost scientists at oxford university say they've successfully kept monkeys infection free for 4 weeks team has now rolled 6000 people to human trials hope to have millions of doses available by september. protesters in the northern lebanese city of tripoli have said 5 to banks after a demonstrator was killed by police the country is in the grip of a spiraling economic crisis anti-government protests regain manton after a long due to coronavirus lockdown measures. donald trump says he may seek damages from china over the corona virus outbreak at a white house press briefing the us president said china could have stopped coverage 19 at the source prevented its global spread and his administration was

investigating how to hold beijing account for a. half a 1000000 new zealanders have gone back to work as the government eases pandemic restrictions customers are lining up again for coffee and fast food takeaways after a month long lockdown prime minister just into on new zealanders for their resilience but warn that the fight against the virus is not over. russian president vladimir putin has said that his country's coronavirus epidemic has not picked during a televised video conference with cabinet members and other officials he also knows that his country's lockdown would be extended until the 11th of may restrictions could be loosened from the 12th russia has reported a significant increase in the number of cases with an additional $6400.00 confirmed infections in one day bringing the national of the national total to more than 93000 the president said his country still faces

a difficult path is revealing most which if we were daily number of new confirmed coronavirus cases that's relatively stabilized but this shouldn't reassure us the situation remains very difficult. the experts and scientists with whom we are in constant contact to check our plans and measures say that the peak has not yet been reached should you please. but the doubly correspondent heavily show in is in moscow i asked to have people that were taking the lockdown restrictions. well even state t.v. here in russia has been reporting that people are kind of tired of the lockdown and here in moscow i think there are a lot of a lot more people on the streets in the past few days than there had been previously people had been i think hoping for kind of measures to be loosened for those holidays that didn't happen but i think one of the main worries for people here in russia at the moment is the economy we heard putin talk about that

a bit today about further measures though he didn't go into detail people have been even taking to social media to express their concerns because this non-working period that is the lockdown essentially means that employers are supposed to keep their employees on and can keep paying them that government support has been rather limited so a lot of people just don't have any money and people are really worried and putin's ratings actually have taken a hit as well family show in moscow britain has held a minute silence to pay tribute to frontline workers who died after a contract uncovered 90. the government has announced that it will compensate families of health workers and social cas staff who died fighting the outbreak with payments of almost $70000.00 euros critics of the government's pandemic response say the disease has highlighted the crisis in the country's national health system. and no sleep gown that protects

him from coronavirus dr assays munaf almost feels guilty every time he went on. he's an emergency doctor so he does have access to past not protective equipment or people. but supplies across the u.k. are very limited there simply aren't enough gowns for every doctor i want to go to a jacket and it's a. conscious user to you they call box of supplies getting less and less and that's every time because i only have to marry if you know we are in a high risk are 3 quarters of all you can talk to say they don't have access to protective clothing prizes and mosques are also in short supply some doctors are having to buy their own f f p 3 masks from d.i.y. stores and from building that fence. and we're also having to do things like make

their own aprons out of rubbish bin bags to try to protect their closing well staging these high risk to see just over 100 medical staff doctors as well as nurses have already died from the virus on social media videos like this that being said hospital workers paying their last respects to a continent even before the crisis the u.k. was short of over 40000 nurses staff are 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 intensive and working and we're trying our best that we do need

more stock and we need more quick meant and that is a result of underfunding of the last decade and patients are suffering to. hospitals are having to ration supplies like oxygen on dialysis food for patients with kidney failure. up to mono describe situations where older patients that might offend some intensive care has been denied treatment whereas a few months ago people over 65 would sit at your basic events and i think that but now if you scratch your sort straight just so the trust of anybody looks up to you but people it will be 55 i think you should switch i deemed it's a test of care you did but the i.c.u. people rejected it a lot but it worked for crushed me. britain's national health service is facing its biggest emergency since its founding. well the coronavirus lockdown

means loneliness for a lot of people particularly the elderly who are amongst the most vulnerable in this pandemic cut off as they are friends and relatives for months but one belgian businessman has come up with an idea that's taken some of the distance out of social distancing. clementine has been waiting for this moment for almost 2 months her husband is in this process care home the last time he saw him was in early march now they're reunited for a few precious minutes. then this is great isn't it it's great. i think i have to stay here yes. the idea of using cranes to hold people closer together was a brainchild of tristen fund and bosch he's a manager of the company that rents out the platforms for window cleaning and fruit picking. i saw somebody waving at his mother 2 or 3 floors up and i thought given that we have a serious fall in business we can lift that man up to the window with our machines

. and that's what we did. 84 year old clementine says that the crane right has given her at least a semblance of intimacy with her loved one as you could i'm very happy the time could speak to him that closely it's great i really appreciate this initiative this is up this moment. now clementines back down on solid ground and a husband still in lockdown even so just a few minutes with him have made a huge difference. thanks. well organized as of the postponed tokyo olympics say the event will be cancelled if we can take place next year the games were moved to july next year because of the pandemic now the president of tokyo's organizing committee says another postponement will not be an option if the fires is still a threat that scientists in japan have warned that it will be difficult to hold the

games unless a vaccine is found. by golf we'll have the latest on the top of the hour on the web sites. of the day. this state of emergency is the. people around the world are documenting these dramatic times. they're keeping the coronas diary and welcoming us into their lives they let us get as close and personal as the pandemic will allow. the diaries of stars many.