this is c w news live from berlin and the america one ounces more steps to ease germany's coronavirus lockdown the chancellor lift restrictions on commerce and social gatherings and backs of plan to let the states take the lead in reopening the economy but she warns that there is still a long road ahead also coming up cautiously getting back to work india is in its lockdown for some businesses despite viral hotspots of merging in the country and a look at another surreal time in germany's capital 25 years ago this album garde art installation was all the rage a gift wrapped in the right stuff by christos and zhang cloth berlin allows

a retrospective of their work to open. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel has announced that the country will ease some coronavirus lockdown measures in the coming weeks but said and warned that the steps must be taken gradually and with caution. now here's a summary of what germany's state leaders agreed in their video conference with the chancellor it's being left to the 16 state governors to decide for themselves how and when to reopen daycares restaurants and hotels but local governments must respond quickly if there is a spike in new infections social distancing roles are to be extended for another month but members of 2 separate households will now be allowed to meet large events like concerts and festivals remain bound until the end of the summer but football

fans can look forward to the bundesliga season being allowed to resume in late may with restrictions. this is what the new normal in germany could look like all the shops open more people out on the streets wearing face masks. restaurants and beer gardens are to reopen as well but there will be regional variations due to germany's federal division of path. we have seen good progress as far as the number of new infections is concerned that means we can now take further steps by the union but we have to be careful to keep control. and the emergency response mechanism we have to set of means i can feel quite confident. that means the state premiers have agreed to adjust their measures on the grounds of the number of new

infections if they rise above a certain number tougher restrictions must be reintroduced. decisions we made today don't just concern the question of how can we ease the restrictions but also how can we continue to ensure public security we know it's difficult finding a balance between public safety and civil liberties it's. the german states now have to find their own ways to gradually start sending children back to schools and kindergartens and most german states popular sports will be allowed and eagerly anticipated abundantly the german soccer league will we soon the season in mid may . and let's get more now we are joined by chief political correspondent melinda cranes to linda tell us what does this say about how authorities view the state of the pandemic in germany it says that they are cautiously moving into a next phase of easing restrictions but that they by no means believe the pandemic

is over in fact the chancellor said very clearly that this is essentially at most the end of the 1st phase and that it is absolutely essential to proceed cautiously and she has said in the past it would be a crying shame if germany were essentially to waste its early successes by moving too fast and she was absolutely adamant today about emphasizing caution as the country moves ahead let's talk a little bit more about that caution i mean how much risk does indeed come with this strategy. there's absolutely risk associated with it essentially this is all about trial and error there was a 1st initial phase of relaxing restrictions starting on april 20th and as the chancellor said today that went pretty well we did not see a big uptick in the rate of infection so now we're moving into this next phase but

again the authorities will be watching very very carefully to see whether we do then see a new wave of infection and in fact the head of the robert culp institute which is basically this country's center for disease control has said that he absolutely expects a 2nd wave of infection and maybe even a 3rd one at some point in the future so as i said trial and error with close watch on the effects of the relaxation that we will now be seeing moment and interesting aspect also of this plan though just to highlight it the government has essentially handed over the responsibility for handling the easing of measures now over to the federal states why did they do that. a couple of reasons 1st of all the states start out from very different positions some states are much more densely populated than others and as you know population density is absolutely associated with a more rapid spread of the virus secondly some states have more

money than others some states are better able to handle the economic effects of a lock down than others so we have seen states moving any way at a different pace to start relaxing restrictions this is essentially become a de facto matter of differences in speed of relaxation and therefore basically we've seen the country decide that that is now the official policy and the fact is it makes sense because what we also heard today is that they will be carefully watching on a local basis to see the results of relaxation of restrictions and there is a measure in place if infections rise above 50 infections per 100000 people a population then they will have to put measures back in place again on

a local basis so an attempt now to make the economic damage localized essentially by limiting globe lockdowns in scope on the basis of local circumstances and that appears to make a lot of sense but of course we'll see how it proceeds in future ok so it's not one size fits all here on melinda meantime you know we have to mention of course there has been a human cost in this crisis but if we look at it in relative terms germany has fared relatively better compared to european partners why is that. there are a couple of theories that work there 1st of all germany's initial victims many of them were young and the young tend to recover better from corona than those who are older and have preexisting conditions that have to do with the fact that the 1st waves of infection were in hamburg and in in munich from people who had gone skiing and many of them as i say and fit secondly germany has done a lot of testing

a lot more than many of its neighbors a great deal more than the us that means that the number of people infected is better known here and is larger than it might be in many other countries so the rate of fatalities per those infected may look lower than it may then it has elsewhere simply because more people here are tested and important to keep all that information in mind chief political correspondent melinda crane in berlin thank you . and of course the lockdown has had a huge impact on the german economy as you might imagine with the country's all important manufacturing sector among the hardest hit new figures show that industrial orders in march fell by more than 15 percent the lowest level in 3 decades this as demand both at home and abroad plunged as a result of the pandemic. let's get more on the impact that plans to loosen restrictions will have on the sector we are joined now by tio brought to mind he is

the executive director of the v.d.m. a association of mechanical engineering it represents over 3000 german companies welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us our i like to begin by asking you for your reaction to what has been announced today. yeah good afternoon we are of course happy that there is a gradual opening and we think that this is an important signal on this road back to a kind of normality of course we all know that until a vaccine most something like that is available the whole situation a normal life would be one with the why rests. without increasing infection so this is always a bit of a game how to handle that in an appropriate method the steps taken to date good steps we think very important is that the educational institutions they start working again they were soon in their service that is very important for the young

people of course because they have the opportunities now again and this must be preserved but also and this is all point of view and all of you angle on this of course that this is a relief for those parents of course want to go to work and the message is so that we're companies are a sector of the industry is a safe one of them it plans have been drawn up and everywhere they are car hygenic concept still this is a very easy to go let's talk a little bit more about those people returning to work and particular about state support for their jobs because we know that some 330-0000 excuse me workers in the engineering sector could find themselves on government sponsored short time work schemes you have actually spoken out against plans to extend that program why. now that's not greeley the whole story we were very much in favor of short time work and we think it's an important instrument in times of crisis like this. and we

were very much in favor of adopting this fast and to the extent to we've seen in the beginning and also we lobbied an extension of the generation office soul what we were against on that side think your point is the question of whether we increase these so short time work compensation. we believe that the crisis can be a long term lasting one we don't know how long it will last who is wiser to be very very economic on the research of this federal employment agency where the money is so taking into account that it will have to last for a couple of more months we are in favor of leaving it where it is if. it was officially was 60 percent of the salaries but adding some christmas holiday and other benefits to it so most of the people got more than 70 percent off the cell arrays and so we are in favor of being very economical on the reserves there and

just briefly what level is of state involvement do you think is appropriate in a crisis like this. oh for the state. of this which is a big crisis we believe that there is an involvement that helps with the short term work and to maintain liquidity in the companies these are the most important things and in fact they were successful infection rates have remained low and we did voigt a complete shutdown of our sector of industry that was a good thing now it's time to ramp up and of course many calls are coming up for further government support but they have we have the view that it's very difficult ones where the state is involved to get it but out of there when we have the ramp up and when that manage that so that's always a difficult difficult thing to maintain our system of economy to about money and that have director at the v.a. d.m.a. thank you so much for speaking with us thank you. and as we heard before there was

good news for germany's bundesliga today politicians signed off on the leaks plans to resume the season chancellor merkel had this to say. we spoke about numerous issues among them business which will now be free to open completely. of course under the house restrictions which should be made out you know we spoke about popular participation sports and 3 spoke about it to talk of the fund is league which will be allowed to restock the 2nd tougher also with the approved and tested health rules. it is needed. joining us now we have quest harrington from sports to tell us a little bit more about this so just how soon can the bundestag i get back well soon really defined as mid may and the german football league the d.f.l. will meet next meet this week tomorrow in fact to decide in define their day in particular so that could be as soon as next weekend or the following weekend but

the decision was unanimous to restart the but it's legal and they've been working on a plan to restart this working closely with politicians as well as the medical experts to make sure they can provide the safest environment to restart you know the bonus they get after all it is a business we've seen some businesses potentially open back up in the bonus they get is no different how big a deal of this is is this for german football it's enormous i mean it's a really black and white issue and you can even consider it a red issue a black or red issue because some reports report the highest 13 out of the 36 but if they get and 2nd division clubs could suffer insolvency if the but as they get is not resumed they pick up that 300000000 euros that they expect if they complete the season by june 30th from the t.v. revenue so that's huge very important plus the riches clubs as well kind of put their money aside in a pot you know of charity and so forth that's byron munich dorman leipsic as well

as laid. who's and you know so that can help is well you know but i think it's huge it is it really shows a big signal to the rest of the world as well what does that mean 1st ports around the world do you think well you know i think it provides hope the obviously that we can slowly take steps back to some level of normalcy within society you know c.e.o. karl hyde's ruminated came out and said he believes that this can show the world how the policy works in germany and i have to you know add that during the press conference one thing that stood out is that the politicians thanked the population of germany for at hearing to these restrictions and so forth you know so i think that people have to keep that in mind and then you can look at other major leagues i mean not only you know sports but football leagues you can look at each of the english premier league you know all of the leagues are watching they're watching the play and it's germany could serve as a blueprint you know what other leagues can follow and some you know have been going back to the drawing board several times but not everyone will be happy with

the idea what concerns are there no course or concerns of a 2nd wave of infections and so forth some politicians have spoken out saying that some professionals in high risk situations such as nurses have struggle to get adequate testing where but as the players are getting to tests you know before they hit the pitch some playgrounds in some states and germany haven't opened up but millionaire footballers are being allowed to play on their grounds fan groups as well they're not happy you know with the idea of having artificial environments for fans even though we reported earlier in the week that they have artificial virtual fans of games you know another thing that fans stood out to me what they want is they want the games to be aired for free and that's a huge thing because with no fans allowed how will you really control the outbreak of fans from gathering and the major broadcast of the book as they get has not ruled out the possibility of selling their rights to free t.v. so that could be a possibility i hope it does actually materialise. thank you ok. and now for

a brief look at what impact the coronavirus is having around the world the u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe has blasted china for its handling of the corona virus outbreak he repeated allegations that the virus escaped from a lab in the city of will hon and accused beijing of initially covering up the outbreak of war the united states and britain have begun negotiations on a free trade agreement they plan to work quickly to counter the hit that the pandemic is having on their economy as supporters of the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. have argued that striking a deal will boost the pro spreads that economy. and air b.n. b. is to cut $900.00 jobs around 25 percent of its workforce as the impact of global kovan $1000.00 restrictions is felt across the travel industry revenues are forecast to be less than half of last year's levels the home rental company had planned an initial public offering this year. so we had to

india now which has seen its biggest single day spike in corona virus infections linked to an outbreak at a fruit market in the southern city of chennai over all the country has more than 49000 cases and more than 1500 people have died still india has moved to ease lockdown restrictions across the country in delhi people are slowly returning to work but things are still far from normal. if you want him back to work. normally that is missing from its peak season and condition as will go. but normally is quick to be needed by him. for the last 40 days. in the concrete top down has kept the heart i'm at home now of these exit sticking and. self-employed workers like awesome god allowed to make one cause as long as the precautions. i was in some other things usually lost him

to the window but this year he feels the pickings are going to be far more to. the customer in each other get him know by the customers don't want to come customers also scare me how does everyone is worried about their safety when they do call us they keep a distance from us to go to the other rooms so i want to all go to st often enough again the field to do everything the delhi government has had the time has come to be opened the city but the public transport still offline and cogs on the kinds of businesses allowed to operate there is confusion about how that's going to happen then is a red zone a city with a higher number of houston. dynamo shops are allowed to open but it isn't always clear the saw corners if they qualified often over a month of the 2 on things they also do things up in being. hoping to do you open.

the windows seeing red on what's that electrical shocks are on the approved list. he's still keeping his shop hock shop. just in case. and that is another problem with public buses off the roads the only employees who get to work the ones who live within cycling. and we need. to why those who can make it will come i'll pick up what i can myself we can't call many of our employees anyway because we have to maintain a distance. business is no bother to leave the city is gradually coming to life. awesome doesn't want to get his hope so because he knows a spike in pieces can cause another shutdown in these uncertain times every job is a blessing. well some names may be difficult to pronounce others may well be impossible 1000000000 are

a lot of mosque and finger grimes announced the name of their 1st child on twitter leaving many bill will gird as to how it should be said out loud we have brought in an expert here do you have these very odd i mean as if who has if you learned how to pronounce this what is the name i don't know if anyone has will take that as a challenge. x. archangel explain that later why i think it's that wave but here's the name you might be able to see in our cry on but is x a a 12 maybe a broken i don't know conceiving a work in insert because it uses this out dated letter but people thought it was a joke at 1st one iran must tweeted about it but then a couple days later. grimes his partner the mother of the child tweeted and confirmed it and she even gave an explanation for why it's that way said x. stands for the unknown variable. ash this letter is her elven spelling of ai artificial intelligence and then a dash 12 is actually a 12 it's

a military aircraft and the reason why she picked that one is because she said it's a favorite aircraft and also no weapons no. offense is just speed great in battle but nonviolent and it was actually nicknamed the archangel so one of the best guesses on twitter which actually got a like for me on mosque was that the pronunciation would be x. and then ash which is the name of that letter and then archangel ok so there must be like betting pools going on right now as to how exactly to say this i have my money on that and there has been quite a reaction on social media of course as right i mean one of the most popular tweets is basically how do we pronounce it i mean that has been the very trending tweet people just want to know how to say it but then people have also put forward more practical concerns like is that even legal or how would the kid fill out a standardized test form or you have to use letters to spell your name obviously so those are some practical concerns. there's people also speculating the baby is even

human i mean both of these celebrities are posed humanist you're futurists so the people are joking about that but then also there's political reaction too because this airplane which is that is nonviolent and somehow that alleviates them from any kind of political connotations naming their kid after a military aircraft but it was used in vietnam by the cia in order to prepare for bombing campaign so it kind of goes along with you on mosque and grimes ability to get involved in political conversations almost unwittingly ok well they certainly have everyone's attention with this was so i mean as if thank you so much. for all the pandemic has also forced us artist christo to postpone a project to wrap the arc de triomphe in paris in fabric until next the exhibition is time to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the duo's wrapped rice stuck. 1905 it looked like a u.f.o.

had landed in the middle of berlin christo and his partner john claude had finally made their vision to rap the reality the summer began with these idyllic surreal scenes that you a 1000000 visitors to the once and future site of the german parliament and. had an elegance and an opulent it radiated with magnetic power that simply drew you in. 95 was the 1st time we met with crystal. it was astonishing to see that every fold and wrinkle he had painted was exactly what you could see in real life later. it was as though he could envision the whole thing. in crude and thomas your home saw the rapt. they also followed christos other installations for decades forging a friendship with him in the process a new exhibit at the populaire shows their collection in honor of the 25th anniversary of christos project. it did so much good for

germany and germany granted them permission with such tolerance and generosity a parliamentary building isn't just any structure. it also shows the beginning of crystal's career when all that was available for him to wrap up with old newspapers or performers of the 1960 s. it also shows his mammoth projects that the couple struggled for decades to realize such as the glitz in new york's central park or the famous bridge in paris their undertakings were always wildly eccentric. christers last spectacular project was floating piers at lake italy in 2016. this was an installation that allowed people to literally walk on water. the artist sent this video message for the exhibitions opening. very old is now and for the 25 in the rest of that i thank you very much i hope.

krista turns 85 in june but despite the death of his partner john claud in 2009 he hasn't lost any of his creative spirit this fall he had planned to wrap the octu triomphe in paris a long held wish but the pandemic has forced him to put that project on hold for a year. top story that we're following for you here on news and america has announced a further easing of germany's coronavirus lockdown people from 2 households will now be allowed to meet and more shops will be allowed to be open and social distancing rules will remain in place until at least june 5th and lockdowns could be reimposed if infections spike wants. to admit that you're up to date now on the news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thank you so much for joining us don't forget you can always find more on our website com or visit us

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