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this is deja news live from berlin donald trump walks back plans to shut down his country's pandemic task force after signaling here to disband the group the u.s. president now sas the toss boards will remain in place for a focus on reopening the economy in addition to health issues also coming out germany will take the biggest steps yet to lift the lockdown chance an american announcing that all stores and restaurants will soon be allowed to reopen and many more as well. bringing back the bundesliga germany's top football he will
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return to the pitch but fans flew only be allowed to watch from home. also on the program 5 years after german wings polish deliberately steered his plane into a mountain families also $140.00 plus passengers who died taking the air carrier parent company to court they came on use a pilot had suffered from depression. i mean for the most unwelcome u.s. president donald trump's us the nation's coronavirus task force will now focus on safety on rebooting the economy despite yesterday saying that the white house committee with 2 new scrapped altogether some major u.s. cities have seen decreased rates of infection but those numbers have been offset by spikes in other parts of the country the hot. state area new york city has taken an
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historic step and its against the virus. this is history in the making. it's not the actual cleaning of the new york subway that is so unusual. it's the fact that it's the 1st time that the system will close during the night so that it can be disinfected. it's a measure of the lengths to which the city is going to protect its citizens. more than one 3rd of the 70000 deaths in the u.s. so far have occurred in the new york metropolitan area. fatalities there now appear to be declining but officials say this operation is set to go on for a while. to get there is that this will last during that during the pandemic so we don't have that we're not hard for it yet but i would like it to be over as soon as possible before that. but elsewhere in the u.s. a different message is starting to emerge. with this on
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live and let die playing in the background president trump toured a mass factory in arizona it was his 1st major trip out of the white house since the lockdown began. our country is now in the next day age of the battle a very safe and gradual reopening to reopening of our country who would have ever thought we were going to be sharing the reopening reopening. some states such as washington have already started to ease restrictions and open parks and other public spaces but there are concerns that now is not the time to end the lockdowns most models show that outside of new york the rate of infections and deaths is still going up so the fear is that many more americans could end up paying with the law in. yes. and joining us from one this is
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a correspondent all of us in washington let's 1st talk about the commons we heard from u.s. secretary of state mike about china he said there's no certainty but enormous evidence that the coronavirus actually originated in a chinese laboratory what's been the reaction to this came. well that lee and he has been quite a contradictory claim simply because the state department did not produce any evidence on that and in contrast president trump's very own experts repeatedly said that it's highly unlikely the virus comes from a chinese lever atory now what we do know is that president trump strategy has been in recent days and weeks to distract from his own failing if you will that was that he didn't take the crisis seriously in the beginning. played the risks. the coronavirus poses and now he's trying to blame china he's been calling the bars the
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china virus very often so this all looks to some extent like a political stunt as trump and his colleagues and his colleagues are trying to focus on the reelection campaign so here in germany the government announced that new ground rules would be in place for a gradual easing off its lockdown does the u.s. see the german measures as some sort of a model for stopping the spread of the virus. well it's a topic that's frequently touchier in u.s. media with a mix of astonishment sometimes even every ration to some extent but trump as we know has a very competitive relationship with germany with the european union as a whole and his take therefore is also quite different he is repeatedly saying that the us is leading the world in testing for example which of course is not true other countries per capita have been testing more but he's also repeatedly bragging
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about the great job the us administration is doing and in contrast to that we've got some projections by the department of homeland security and the department of health just very recently and they project up to 3000 casualties per day and 200000 new cases of coronavirus infections per day by the end of june and of course those numbers do speak a different language. so the president also says that now they you ask coronavirus task force will continue indefinitely despite suggesting it was to be dismantled why the u. turn well it costs a lot of confusion here one reason is that trump and his administration are trying to signal a mission accomplished if you will so that they can all focus on we opening the economy if you look at the numbers of course that's not the fully true another reason is that he did not look very good next to his ex experts in his daily coronavirus briefings were talking about anthony fall to the leading expert for its
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infectious diseases there were a berks who's coordinating the coronavirus affords for the u.s. government and they ended up putting trump trans perspective trumps false claims very often into perspective and it turns out that he did not look very good next to them and decided to let them go but this would have been a backlash even worse for president trump about salat in washington thank you so much. germany is back in business with the option to shut down again that's from german chancellor angela merkel who announced that her country will ease some coronavirus lockdown measures in the coming weeks but warned that the steps must be taken gradually and with caution let's take a closer look now at some of the challenges confronting germany states as they try to manage reopening their economies. this is what the new normal in germany could look like all the shops open more people out on the streets wearing face masks
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restaurants and beer gardens are to reopen as well. but there will be regional variations due to germany's federal division of powers. we have seen good progress as far as the number of new infections is concerned that means we can now take further steps. but we have to be careful to keep control of the emergency response mechanism we have to find a means i can feel quite confident. more often than not for the fans because before home 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. we don't see the big decisions we made today don't just concern the question of how can we ease the
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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 because. it's been left to the 16 state governments to decide for themselves how and when to reopen daycare facilities restaurants and hotels social distancing rules 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 banned until the end of the summer . but football fans can look forward to the bundesliga season being allowed to resume in mid may with restrictions. a relief for many parents children will gradually start getting back to schools and kindergartens. it's an almost complete return to normal and the chancellor said that it's up to germans themselves to make sure the regain freedom works. germany has been as they got sokolich will resume its season on may 15th behind closed doors their decision makes the bonus
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a guy europe's 1st major football league to resume play at will be a kick off watched by professional sports leagues around the world i tennis at wimbledon cancell 1st time since world war 2. the tokyo olympics postponed until 2021 if it even takes place the. same goes for the cancelled european football championship the list of postponed major sporting events is law top class sport worldwide has come to a standstill. but the german football league is now allowed to start again the chancellor announced on wednesday the nun the female among other things the topic of shops which cannot open without restriction but of course with the hygiene concepts will be covered by a mass and leisure sports this one is 5 the 1st and 2nd german football league
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which will be allowed to run the games again from the 2nd toughest may onwards under the approved under also tested rules. of the league had their own response. today's decision is good news for the bundesliga and the 2nd one is legal the clubs and their employees now have a great responsibility to implement the medical and organizational guidelines in a disciplined manner. that's. the d.f.l. the un belo organization of the german football league is breaking new ground with the resumption of play a central component of its concept close mess testing of everyone involved there are to be $20000.00 tests in the next few weeks the 1st wave of testing resulted in 10 positive cases out of more than $700.00 tests there will be strict hygiene in distance rules and of course games without spectators these so-called ghost games
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are to be played in the 1st and 2nd division and till the end of the season the d.f.l. decided the restart date for german football will be may 15th. and here's a roundup of some of the latest pandemic news for the 4th straight time russia has reported a one day increase of more than $10000.00 cases bringing the national total to more than 165000 the virus has forced into nisha to postpone regional elections scheduled for september to at least december south korea reported only 2 new cases in 24 hours officials said both were detected during street screenings at airports france reported 278 kovac 1000 deaths on wednesday that's down from the 330 deaths confirmed the day before the country will begin easing knock down restrictions next week. more than 5 years ago
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150 people died when a german wings copilot crashed his plane into the side of a mountain in the french alps now families of the victims searing germany's fractured kariya lift tons which owns the german wings at the time the families are seeking more compensation and i view that pilot should not have been allowed to fly a plane. not a day goes by that class gardner does not think about his daughter her husband and his grandson all 3 died in the german wings crash 5 years ago so i know has been offered compensation for his losses but he wants more he says for him it's not about the money this is for me the 1st and foremost it's important to me that the court recognizes that a person like that. with preexisting conditions should have never been allowed to sit in a cockpit or fly a plane. and ultimately i want to see those responsible brought to justice.
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on the 24th of march 25th dean german wings flight 9525 crashed into the french alps killing all 150 passengers on board aviation authorities concluded that the copilot crashed the plane deliberately in order to kill himself according to klaus gardner and the other plaintiffs people in charge knew about the co-pilot's preexisting psychological conditions. clarifying this is almost more important than compensation itself because people want to know how it happened what should have been done to avoid this disaster. the court said it would 1st have to determine if the airline was the defendant in this case individual countries are responsible for governing their own airspace and the case might have to be brought against the german state. and finally the iconic german electronic band cuff back has lost one of its founding members philly and schneider died aged 73 after a short battle with cancer coughing achieved international fame in the 1970 s.
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