cumin truthful. starts may 21st w. . this is. from berlin tonight a global down payment to fund the fight against the coronavirus countries around the world pledged 7 and a half 1000000000 euros to help fund vaccines treatment and testing but how much will it take to make it all available and affordable for everyone also coming up tonight the hope for hundreds of wide ranging refugees on the greek island they've

been taken to the mainland after spending months in camps and in squalor and nigeria begins rolling back its restrictions in a bid to get the biggest economy in africa back on track but health officials warn the timing could not be worse and that south korea's baseball fans they are looking forward to the league restarting on tuesday even if they are only allowed to watch the games on television. i'm burnt off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome to the race to develop a vaccine against the corona virus is underway and it comes with a price today led by the european union countries around the world pledged nearly 7 and a half 1000000000 euros to fund the fight against the virus european union chief and

the lion held the event as a victory for global cooperation but today's fund raiser it was just as notable for the no shows as for the donations we have more tonight in this report. let's start the pledging the e.u. kicked off its fund raising drive with $1000000000.00 euros in the hours that followed pledges were beamed in from across the globe the kingdom of saudi arabia has pledged 500000000 dollars even pop icon madonna made a last minute donation of a 1000000 euros it wasn't enough to reach the fundraisers target but housed in a fund the lion insisted it send the right signal that yes today is a defining moment for the global community at a time when we are sitting further apart than usual the world has shown it is standing closer together than ever before but not quite all of the world a chinese delegate took part but didn't pledge any money russia and the united

states were both absent from the conference for her part the german chancellor apparently couldn't resist a jab at the u.s. president. as a time when we don't always see multilateral cooperation as i would like and i think today's a very important signal of hope often wrong. germany was one of the leading tone is pledging over $500000000.00 euros the money is earmarked for international health organizations and research networks in a bid to speed up the development of a vaccine many scientists say it could be 18 months or more before a vaccine is ready for widespread use and when it is more money will be needed to ensure it can be produced in large quantities and distributed for a fact price ever around the world. today sprint was a great start for our medicine the marathon is the way i had know we need every bone on bone wart. united nations secretary general antonio terrace described the

funds as a dime payment he said that to reach everyone everywhere the world must raise 5 times that amount. for more on this i'm joined now by dr seth berkley he's an epidemiologist and c.e.o. of the vaccine alliance gavi g a vi that's a public private partnership that leads immunization campaigns in poor countries around the world dr berkley's good to have you on this so let's let's talk about the money here for a moment we got pledges today about 7400000000 euros for research to help find a vaccine is that enough. well 1st of all that 7400000000 was for a vaccines treatment and diagnostics of that around 4000000000 was earmarked for vaccines and that really is to both fund research today for about 2000000000 but also to begin to prepare for scaling up the manufacturing as well as thinking about

being able to have instruments to be able to purchase vaccines for those living in the poorest countries of course depending upon the vaccine technology that one dose 2 doses how is it made what's it going to cost we don't know that yet what about the no shows today china and the united states not participating is that going to impact the development of a vaccine well for science you want this is a global problem you want to global effort you want the best vaccines anywhere they are in the world the best science to then be scaled up and deliver it to everywhere in the world if we move to national efforts we won't optimize for the science and it's not just the vaccine it may be things you put in the vaccine to make them stimulate that are or manufacturing needs to be done the way science works is global that's way we can best do it. you are leading the charge to make sure the vaccines are available to everyone what are you demanding tonight from world

leaders. sure well the most important thing 1st of all is to have that mindset that says this is a global problem and need a global solution and why is that important if you are thinking about it if there are large reservoirs of virus anywhere around the world the world is not safe not just those countries that have the virus but the world so if we can get a sense that says we have to stop this and demick everywhere in the world because we saw what happened it started with a few cases and and outside of luan and it spread to $180.00 countries over a few months so what we need to make sure that we have this vaccine available for everybody in the world doesn't really based on your experience when can we realistically expect a vaccine i mean we're getting predictions that something could be available as soon as the end of september well i think it's too early to say what's going to win since we don't have clinical data in humans from any of the vaccines the good

news is science is moving quickly there are 102 approaches on the w.h.o. website already we have 8 products in humans but we're going to need to understand are those products showing promise are we seeing results is it going to be a linear pathway often in vaccine ology you have to go back and change the dosing and work more on it so i think it's going to take some time if we're very very lucky we could see some results by the fall but i don't think we're going to have licensed product by then by any means ok dr seth berkley joining us tonight from geneva switzerland that birth that we appreciate your time in your insights thank you thank you but with nearly 29000 deaths italy is one of europe's countries hardest hit by this pandemic the country was the 1st in europe to impose a nationwide the lockdown when its outbreak raced out of control in march now after nearly 2 months italy is rolling back some of those restrictions.

or at least the 1st cautious steps towards it. being out in the fresh air is something many italians missed desperately during the 7 weeks of confinement within their own 4 walls they are now free to exercise outdoors and to visit relatives for the 1st time. during the korean teen we were desperate i can't express how excited i am. but you excited we have only seen or with video calls for 2 months but it was not the same it couldn't be the same. place of a face. stopping at open air markets using public transport going to work and train travel all of this is now possible again but the new italian way of life calls for social distancing and mandatory

masks in indoor public spaces as life cautiously returns to the streets. ahead of most of the front i really hope people will remain civil and that in the coming weeks there will be no new surge in the infections so that we will not have to go back to quarantine in the same america if i don't think the situation is over and the end not much has changed compared to before but this is also a beginning with. far italians it's a gentle 1st step back into a world forever changed by the pandemic. one tonight hundreds of asylum seekers have reportedly arrived on the greek mainland after being evacuated from the squalid maria migrant camp on the island of less books it's part of a larger plan to relocate thousands of migrants from greece's island camps a coded 19 outbreak to prove catastrophic in the camps where thousands live in

silky conditions with little health care. temperatures are taken before the most vulnerable the elderly and those with health issues get the all clear to leave the maria camp the greek government is in the process of transferring some 2300 migrants from camps in various age and islands to facilities on the mainland. the country's migration minister visited lesbos on sunday to oversee a new medical clinic set up for corona virus testing at the maria camp if the horse luckily we do not have a single death that is related to the corona virus among the migrant camps. this requires even more vigilance now as we enter the 2nd phase tests need to be greatly increase of the camps to ensure that they will be free of coronavirus. some 800 people have already been moved to the mainland in the past 2 weeks and the government's goal is to move the rest within the month. but even after this 1st

wave of particularly vulnerable migrants is moved that will still leave over 33000 others people living in precarious conditions in overcrowded camps on remote greek islands. where as a brief look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world that turkey has begun easing coronavirus measures president saying intercity travel restrictions in 7 provinces will be lifted but not in the cities of istanbul and. senior citizens and those under the age of 20 will be allowed time 4 hours one day a week to go outside the window of a german islamic state fighter went on trial in a hamburg court today she lived in syria with her husband a rapper who went by the name of dawe he was killed in syria in 2018 she faces charges including membership in a foreign terror group and crimes against humanity. the leader of lebanon's from

iranian hezbollah group says that germany is quote succumbing to the will of america by banning his movements last week germany banned all of hezbollah's activities and designated the iran backed group a terrorist organization. research from a virus hotspot here in germany is shedding new light on the spread of the virus in the country a study from the hard hit district of hinds bear estimates that only one in 10 coronavirus cases has been diagnosed it's highlighting the dangers presented by only identified carriers in germany takes further steps to open back up its economy . the priority for these germans was pretty obvious queuing at the hadra says 1st thing on monday one basis for the discussion on further easing of the rules

might be found in a new t. published study on covert 9000 cases in the western german district of heinz back it suggests that 1800000 people may have been infected nationwide 10 times the number previously confirmed a new and precise test for antibodies could help very fight the exact number of infections. and it's these are not the new tests that russia is presenting amounts to an important milestone in the fight against the virus. this feels meanwhile some states are pressing ahead sexily on how it will now allow people to meet up in groups of 5 lower saxony announce the reopening of restaurants. chancellor merkel and others and her coalition fear that if different regions race through reopen it could undo the successes achieved so far since it's all come up we're so close to the number where we would have exponential growth again. but i don't understand why we can't be a bit more patient to secure what we've achieved authorization on wednesday

chancellor merkel and the german state premiers will talk about lifting move restrictions. patience is a difficult thing these days that's going to deal with these chief political correspondent linda crane she has more tonight here in berlin good evening to you melinda let's talk about the study here but were there any big surprises and if so what are their implications moving forward for the entire country. there was nothing totally unexpected but a couple of things to stand out 1st of all is significant share of those who have been infected out of stiff overall had no symptoms and this absolutely underlines the importance of how we behave as we begin to relax restrictions on going back into public namely you need to be wearing a mask you need to be maintaining distance to other people even if you feel fine

because otherwise you could infect them secondly that 1800000 or more than 10 times as many people appear to have been infected as what was previously confirmed now that goes to the question of herd immunity the idea that we eventually could get to a point where this fire risk is less of a risk to health services and less of a risk to society as a whole because a lot of people have already gotten it and become inured but the fact is 1800000 may sound like a lot but that means there are still over 80000000 germans who haven't had copd so we are in long way from turning you yeah a long way from herd immunity and that brings me to watch the german health minister spawn what he was talking about be a week or so ago he about these so-called immunity passports he has now reversed his decision to introduce a document like this for the time being why. because there was

a lot of pushback after he made that proposal and here's the thing people are very worried that it would set up essentially a 2 class system where you've got one group of people who've had coded and recovered and get an immunity passport and can go back into society and work and play as usual and then you've got a 2nd group who still need to be protected people who haven't had the virus now they in that 2nd group would have a very strong incentive to try to get themselves into the other category in other words maybe they would stop taking precautions hoping to get in my old case that off of the virus and then return to normal life and that clearly is the situation with a much it's you know we saw it today in the country melinda some students were able to go back to school today the federal states and germany they are they're relaxing these restrictions of public life and they're doing so in very different ways why is that that's correct well the federal states do all have

rather disparate population and economic situations and some of those moving have like the state of north rhine-westphalia are very populous states and not terribly rich ones in other words they're under a lot of pressure to get people back to work to try to get normal life started again but the fact is that there are real risks for all states if some push ahead faster than others because obviously this virus doesn't respect either local or national boundaries meaning if one state pushes ahead so fast that it sees a real upsurge in infections that will undoubtedly spill over to other states as well now the chancellor will be meeting with the heads of the federal states on wednesday and you can be sure this is going to be a big topic for them. our chief political correspondent linda crane on the story for us tonight here in berlin linda as always thank you well what to do about

the crew the german travel group to it is planning to test nearly 3000 cruise ship workers quarantined aboard a liner in the port of call to he says that it's using one of its own cruise liners called the mine's ship 3 need to ferry thousands of its employees home amid the pandemic but the ship ran into trouble when it docked in coke's often in late april with over a dozen crew members exhibiting flu like symptoms. the cruise ship that's now a quarantine station. the my ship 3 is part of the 2 a fleet 300 meters long with a 2500 passenger capacity but no tourists are aboard only crew and they're stuck. with 8 confirmed cases of coronavirus no one's allowed to enter

or leave authorities and cooks have been are testing almost 3000 people. that it is a puzzle and we will put those people in seclusion and in a special quiet 100 area onboard as well as the people they've been in personal contact with they will go on board with what we call containment scout's to do contact tracing one deck of the ship has been prepared for this in case anyone else has to isolate the event on mention that some issues would be at that missed. the cruise ship docked in cook's haven't a few days ago. even if some of the crew look relaxed the situation has put their nerves to the test. the mostly non german staff have served for months at a time on various ships of the 2 a fleet. after setting sail from the canary islands they should have been able to set foot on land but physical and mental health issues have surfaced on the

quarantine ship. the cruise firm's management has declined to grant any interviews. broken furniture after outbursts of rage pregnant crewmembers and unpaid wages these reports of some crew members show a very tense situation on board of the many nationalities on the ship there alone roughly 800 filipinos yet it's completely unclear how and when they can be brought home some are indeed eager to get home others dream of more travel martina and have a vest or comp were aboard this very cruise ship in the caribbean. when do you think you'll be able to travel again. does money i hope it'll be the next 2 or 3 months. i don't know if i don't know maybe not a broad but in germany i would think. in the meantime beach chairs sit empty on the

north sea shores the locals of cooks often hope tourists will soon find their way back and give the area a much needed boost. nigeria is beginning to lift the walk down in its 2 biggest cities a bougie and lagos' it's part of an effort to get africa's largest economy back on track after a month long shutdown but many fear that the country is rushing prematurely to rollback restrictions and in the process putting lives at risk. the bustle is back in lagos though the virus hasn't been vanquished strong the streets of africa's most populous city frequently ignoring physical distancing rules and the requirement to wear a face mask in public many are relieved they can earn an income again others worry new infections will explode i'm very very happy now i'm doing my i'm in the market

got them some money to feed my family here and a lot of starving. complaining does that it often if you do it and a government did not issue and it's son has the stars. it is not a good idea to live there not go but certainly as if he if it was still out for him this thin they said biros this is who knows pray these grades is who gets at the hands now and though there is the love as a baby. the easing of her strictures comes with a significant risk of overwhelming the cheeriest health care system in a country where 40 percent of the population already live in poverty and with the economic damage mounting it's also necessary for the day to day survival of those with no other means of keeping themselves bad. and earlier we spoke to our

correspondent in nigeria about the pandemic and the damage that it has brought to africa's biggest economy. well the economy has taken the biggest heat $22.00 they love lagos is the. outbreak in nigeria and they both is also the commercial capital of nigeria so weak shops closed businesses and love down everything basically on hold you know what that means for the country that basically means that the economy has been put on hold not to add to the fact that nigeria is an oil dependent economy and so be the collapse of oil prices as economy has basically taking a huge hit in the whole virus a pandemic and so experts are warning that the nigerians should prepare for the loss when comes to the economy. there have been 10 positive tests for the corona virus in the german football

buddhist league and in the 2nd division the league says over 700 tests were carried over 2 rounds among players and staff cologne reported 3 positive cases all the tests are part of the league's hygiene concepts as it bids to restart the season this month this coming wednesday the german government is expected to decide whether or not to a well games to resume in the state. are now to south korea which is one of the 1st countries to start a major sports league again during this pandemic the korean baseball organization is taking a number of precautions to protect both players and the absence. inside the chioma heroes home field players ease themselves into shape because of the coronavirus pandemic they had to wait over a month but now opening day may 5th is almost here still because of the virus there

will be one big difference no fans you know when you're in the 6th inning 7th inning and you're in you're trying to grind out and out you're exhausted and hearing fans i mean it really does motivate you and pick you up. so you know not having them is going to be very very challenging one time major leaguer jake brigham had to undergo 2 weeks of mandatory quarantine when he came back to his south korean team from training in the u.s. now he just looks forward to seeing himself and his teammates back on the field when it counts. i think a lot of people in the world take notice just because it will be the 1st sport back . so i think it's really exciting and the guys guys are just ready to go teams now even more carefully monitor player health and all stadium visitors have their temperatures checked so 3 has managed to lurch sleep bringing the corona virus outbreak under control with intense testing contact tracing and quarantining with

new cases now numbering usually below 10 per day like baseball other professional sports leagues here are opening up although it will be a while before there are fans in attendance the league may gradually welcome a limited number of fans back to stadiums and remains committed to a full 144 game schedule special regulations aimed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus during games including no spitting and the coaches task their teams to keep all eyes on the prize. it's how you can what if these actions you do without realizing it may be tough because you break your routine but you need to be more careful now for yourself your team and for the country. but if we do follow the guidelines and play well we can reach our goal for the season to move up a level and win in the meantime so through his boisterous fans have been enjoying pre-season outings reluctantly making due watching games from the coach which

compared to before it's a bit disappointing i need be able to watch games because i can't see everything i want to go to the games the soonest possible and share with all the fans. i haven't . liked the players fans long for the stadium atmosphere and if the coronavirus precautions work then there's a long wait maybe in its last inning. well you're watching news from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight the race for a vaccine who's paying who's playing and he was not will be right back.

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