it's the coronavirus today led by the european union countries around the world pledged more than 7000000000 euros to finance research but china and the united states were noticeable no shows the country where the pandemic began and the country where the pandemic has been the deadliest those 2 countries are making their own pledges against each other. in berlin this is the day. we've made it at a time when we're sitting further apart than usual the world has shown it is standing closer together than ever before. and in the space of just a few hours we have collectively pledged 7400000000 euros for vaccines and diagnostics and treatments and all of this money will help kick start president took global corporations. also

coming up tonight a former u.s. president calling for empathy and unity during the pandemic the voice of george w. bush some say with a message intended for the ears of wrong. let us remember that. kindness are essential powerful tools of national recovery in the final analysis we are not part of combat we're human beings. and equally wonderful. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with europe leading one of the defining projects of the 21st century the race to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus just like climate change the pandemic is an event impacting everyone in their letter announcing today's donor conference leaders

wrote that no one is safe until we all are say that safety it comes with a price so went today's online conference countries from norway to portugal to saudi arabia pledged more than $7000000000.00 euros money earmarked for the minds behind research aimed at delivering treatments and a vaccine to the world and that financing it comes with the. 2 strings attached it must ensure that the vaccine is excessive all to everyone and fordable for everyone a project for all people that does not enjoy the open support from all countries today 2 important leading economies did not participate did not pledge anything china and the united states they are busy with each other at the moment more on that later we begin with this reports 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 also the abia has

pledged $500000000.00 even pump icon madonna made a last minute donation of a 1000000 euros it wasn't enough to reach the fundraisers target but house to us in a funded line insisted it send the right signal yes today is a defining moment for the global community at a time when we are sitting for a lower part 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 parts of the german chancellor apparently couldn't resist a jab at the u.s. president in the days after time when we don't always see multilateral cooperation as i would like and i think today's a very important signal of hope. 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 fair price around the world today sprint was a great start for our medicine the marathon is the way i had know we need everyone on board. united nations secretary general antonio terra she described the funds as a dine payment he said that to reach everyone everywhere the world must raise 5 times that amount. or european union she 1st will fund alliances that the world is you know going to be against the corona virus china united states however pledged nothing today earlier i asked you to use chief international editor richard walker

in brussels how you knowing it or we really are. yeah good question i mean of course china was at least involved in this video conference but at a very low level and pledged no additional funding the united states though wasn't even taking part and it is really particularly striking in the case of the u.s. and if you think back to almost any moment in recent decades the united states would have been the natural leader of this effort it has the political might it has the economic might it has the scientific might to take on that global leadership and yet it's not in the room it's at war with in a war of words with china about who's responsible for the for the beginning of the outbreak it's pulled funding from the world health organization so from the point

of view of the european union which is determined to be the sort of last remaining believer in multilateralism on the world stage it is almost looking like a complete scupper of these efforts china on the other hand is looked at as a state that believes in multilateralism when it suits it but hasn't put any money here. either but still the european union stresses this is really important work it's worthwhile and this 7 half 1000000000 or so euros is just the start of something that's going to be a much bigger project in the months to come your producer this is just the start we've got 7 have 1000000000 euros pledged to how much more money is actually need to do we know. well the secretary general of the united nations said that something like 5 times this amount would be needed also metally over the next year maybe year and a half or so brigid put that in proportion if you think about it what all of the central

banks around the world governments around the world have been pumping into economies or to deal with the economic and social impact of the coronavirus that really dwarfs this amount of money that we're talking about here i mean the european union for instance is looking at a recovery plan for after the pandemic the numbers bandied around there go up to one and a half trillion euros so that's $200.00 times as much as been this was pledged today. and so i think it's clear that every penny invested in the medical efforts to tackle a coronavirus will be paid back many times over or either rich walk around destroyed brussels richard thank you. the united states and china did not participate in today's donor conference relations between washington and beijing have gone from luke warm to cold this year

u.s. president trump has suggested that the outbreak is the result of an experiment in a chinese lab that went wrong u.s. intelligence is investigating that claim but adds it agrees with scientists that the new coronavirus is not manmade u.s. intelligence and scientists are on the same page regarding the origin of the virus what about the trump administration listen to what u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of said in an interview sunday with a.b.c. news that's the scientific consensus was not manmade or genetically modified that's right i agree with that i've said i've seen their analysis i've seen the summary that you saw that was released publicly i have no reason to doubt that that is accurate that ok so just to be clear to you did not think it was manmade or genetically modified i've seen what the intelligence committee has said i have no reason to believe that they've got it robert. the contradictions in the double speak of the top administration is not helping the u.s. president's popularity the latest polls show that 53 percent of americans do not

approve of how the administration is handling the crisis while trump repeats his muncher that america wants to go back to work he often forgets to mention the more than 56000 lives that have been lost in just the past 3 months in fact trump is reportedly expecting the death toll to double between now and the end of june well that brings us to the voice we heard over the weekend the bourse voice of a former u.s. president george w. bush led the u.s. when the 911 terror attacks shook the country his policies especially the war in iraq divided the country and fueled a new level of toxic polarizing politics bush the 43rd president and trump the 45th they have a lot in common yet trump says he has never spoken with his predecessors never even once to glean insight from their experience trumps may not be asking for advice but advice is being offered this is the message to americans from george w.

bush the 43rd u.s. president. this is a challenging and solemn time the life of our nation and world. morsels invisible enemy threatens the elderly and vulnerable among us a disease that can quickly take breath and life. medical professionals are risking their own health for the health of others and we're deeply grateful officials at every level are setting out the requirements of public health that protect us all. and we all need to do our part. to disease also threatens broader damage harm to our sense of safety security and community. the larger challenge we share is to confront an outbreak of fear and loneliness and it is frustrating that many of the normal tools of compassion. and touch can bring the opposite of the good we

intend. in this case we serve our neighbor by separating from them we cannot allow physical separation to become emotional isolation this requires us to be not only compassionate but create even our outreach and people across the nation are using the tools of technology in the cause of solidarity. in this time of testing we need to remember a few things 1st let us remember we have faced times of testing before following 911 i saw a great nation rise as one to honor the break to grieve with the grieving and to embrace unavoidable new duties and i have no doubt undergo the dispirit of service and sacrifice is alive and well in america. second let us remember that in physique and simple kindness are essential powerful tools of national recovery. even at an appropriate social distance we can find ways to be present in the lives of others.

ease their anxiety and share their birds. remember that the suffering we experience as a nation does not fall even the early in the days to come it will be especially important to carry a practical way for the elderly. and the unemployed finally let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this threat in the final analysis we are not partisan combat we're human beings. and equally wonderful in the sight of. we rise or fall together and we are determined to rise god bless you all. or regardless of what you may think of the policies of george w. bush his message of empathy and unity is stirring and you would not be off the mark to think that much of bush's message was meant for the ears of president trump

president trump apparently thought so his response was a typical trump tweet the us president on sunday wrote this oh by the way i appreciate the message from former president bush but where was he during impeachment calling for putting partisanship aside fox and friends he was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest hoax in american history trump revealing resentments that he still holds against the former u.s. president if mr bush was hoping to change the mind or heart of mr trump well he may have to try again. greek authorities have transferred 400 asylum seekers to mainland greece from the crowded re refugee camp on the island of lesbos humanitarian groups have been

calling on the greek government to evacuate the camp due to overcrowded conditions as well as due to the threat of a corona virus outbreak 800000 migrants live in or around the refugee camp which has been under a lockdown for more than a month and this is the 1st large transfer since the walk down began. my colleague a reporter i mean as if he has reported from this camp from lesbos he joins me now here the big tables so aid organizations like human rights watch for example they have said that it's time to evacuate the can they be calling for that for a long time why is it so urgent right now there's 2 reasons for that the one is the big what if now imagine if the coronavirus got into a camp of 18000 people that was built for 3000 unbelievably crowded conditions where people are sleeping sometimes 5 people in a 2 person tent no way to socially distance in that situation and some doctors there saying that there would be thousands of cases at the camp before anybody

tested positive now just imagine what they would do on an island where thousands of people came down with the crown of ours at the same time stressing the hospital system that the 2nd thing though is what's going on right now not the what if but the what is so that the lockdown there is a pretty strict lockdown and it has exacerbated the already poor conditions i mean what does i mean just imagine what it looks like right here what does a the lockdown look like they are it's basically 247 from 7 pm to 7 am during the night nobody is allowed to go out and then during the day only about $100.00 people are allowed to go out for our no $100.00 people is not that much compared to the $18000.00 people that live there so about 95 percent of the people were. won't be able to go out on any given day what i saw when i was there was how people would leave the camp to go supplement their resources so go grocery shopping or get things like lightbulbs and stuff that they can't didn't provide and now that is basically not open to them and what that leads to is this we have this

video sent to us by an n.g.o.s german n.-g. o. that shows the lunch line now if you imagine people go to the grocery store make their own lunch but now since they can't they have to rely on the official provisions there and that leads to lunch lines of sometimes 6 hours waiting that's the better part of your day time just standing in a line like this is only half way through now so the conditions have gotten worse under lockdown and making a bad situation even worse and that's why n.g.o.s are calling for immediate evacuation and you look at that video there's no social distancing taking place there there room for hi jake place. greek authorities we understand transferred $400.00 asylum seekers to the mainland is this the beginning of an evacuation is that what we're looking at it's been a change of policy is the greek government hadn't evacuated anybody since the beginning of lockdown it almost seen the island as a quarantine in itself but i think now they're listening to n.g.o.s and realizing that it's a powder keg so they've begun evacuations $400.00 is just

a drop in the bucket it's supposed to be beginning of a larger evacuation but they've been promising now for ever for a least several years and we'll have to see if that happens. we appreciate your reporting thank you fred. a new study estimates that the number of coded 1000 cases here in germany is far higher than what has been officially reported the study of the region around hinds baird which was an early coronavirus hot spot in the country found that infections in some areas were 5 times higher than previously known it also found that about 20 percent of the people infected had no symptoms making it harder to trace the disease progress researchers estimate 1800000 people in germany have already contracted the corona virus. so how much can the results of this study be believe the relied upon that's

a question that we put earlier to martin's germ or a viral a just at the i am deal lab in frankfurt he says we should be cautious about the findings and want you to take a listen. yeah they've calculated and a different way they had their estimates about the people being affected and hundreds of perks based on p.c.r. tests and and communication was antibody tests and on based on these numbers they calculated a death rate based on the infection effected people and have only on the reported cases and then they recalculated their death rate compared to the total people who died in germany and then they came to this 1800000 people so it's a little bit biased because their primary numbers are these numbers and heinsberg so i think on my point of view it's not comparable or you cannot conclude the situation and hold germany based on their data we have to carefully rethink our

discussion which we which we have actually about easing and returning from from locked on measure so we have to hook up lou to that maybe children there's one other point of the study that even children marriage contribute to a significant aspect to the spread of the infection and all of these together from my point of view we have to carefully discuss about easy in the hope of the measures. every year you w. gives out its freedom of speech award this year the award highlights journalist who have been persecuted because of their coverage of the corona virus pandemic here are some of those journalists that we're on a review for their courageous reporting. threatened attacked arrested press freedom was already a contentious and often dangerous issue in countries governed by repressive leaders the corona crisis is giving autocratic regimes

a welcome excuse to clamp down even further they're using the pandemic also to bring pressure on journalists and we see this in china russia and turkey in iran we see around the globe so that these countries which have a very problematic. as a tutor on press freedom they using this not to. january 2020 these images was secretly shot by chinese citizen journalist fun been inside a hospital in one han the epicenter of the pandemic his reports divorced me from the image of the country portrayed on state television. short while ago i saw 3 corpses here he says on the video now there are 8. 10 chris she a lawyer with the most prominent citizen journalist in one hand which viruses right in front of me are china's criminal prosecutors are behind me i'm not afraid of death do you think i'm afraid of you coming this party of china or polly called out

what it was gently she's lost video before he disappeared without trace just like fang been his last footage shows police knocking at his door here that our. holiday let me know that our. the world director peter limburg criticized china's blocking of investigations into the viruses origin and a free press would have really helped to to find the reason and at the end would have saved lives of china. in russia where press freedom is strictly curtailed government friendly media outlets have been spreading misinformation about the corona crisis independent journalists to feeling the pressure. elena mulish internationally renowned investigative journalist received death threats after reporting on the coronavirus in chechnya allegedly from chechen president ramzan kadyrov himself the organization reporters without borders has documented a record number of arbitrary acts of violence against reporters in venezuela

davisson ross was detained by special forces for 12 days for reporting on called 1000 on social media. in countries where press freedom is already under threat the corona pandemic is making things even more difficult and more dangerous for journalists. finally how's your hair faring these days if you live in a a walk down area you like me where you haven't been able to visit a barber in the past few weeks you probably tried to cut your own here as i have done as you see right there or today here in germany hair salons and barbers they open for business again as germany further eases its restrictions for many here in berlin it's a welcome relief after some do-it yourself disasters take a look. after so long few here will ever take

a wash cut and blow dry for granted again hair salons in berlin have reopened after 6 weeks of enforced closure for some customers it was really high time. you have a limit i was cutting my own hair and it started looking awful yourself by method up now the challenge is for both stylist and customer to wear face masks so it's going to please remove the elastic bands and hold the mask to your face. oh now you've taken it off. i didn't brief are you crazy. but it seems to be working. for the presidency i'm desperate my last haircut was in november yes we've been here for years. for. ali and his coworkers are fully booked through the end of the month walk ins

are out of the question. now that people know we're open again the phone has been ringing off the hook from morning till night but that's fine with me i'm glad. plastic curtains provide some protection between customers during shampooing the new regulations are being strictly obeyed what matters is that the salons are at last open for business again many in the sector depended on state assistance. to financially speaking it's not the best situation but i think many are in the same boat and so many people have lost their jobs so i really can't complain. mr president i made good use of my free time characters i've never had 6 weeks off before. this happened i was far. behind in the music school. finally there's hair to be swept up again

even wearing face masks at least people can hold their heads up high again. this is my personal lockdown is over at least as far as my hairdo goes thank goodness. well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online use the hash tag the day when you join us on twitter either d.w. news or you can follow me at t.v. and let us know if you're getting a haircut and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that everybody.

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