there's a very news live from berlin donald trump walks back plans to shutdown his country's pandemic taskforce after signaling it to do is bound to grow the u.s. president now says the task force will remain in place but focus on rebuilding the economy in addition to health issues also coming up germany will take the biggest steps to lift the locked out chance of an america announcing that all stores and restaurants will soon be allowed to reopen time many more schools as well. plus it's certain that the virus does not discriminate specter in your global lockdown

was even more clear that people do we explore a pandemic of racism directed at persons of engine and african descent also on the program 5 years after german wings pilot deliberately stupid painter mountain families also 150 people on board taking the experience and company to court they came to times i knew the pilot had suffered from depression. i'm going for the rest and welcome u.s. president donald trump's us the nation's coronavirus task force will now focus both on safety and on rebooting the economy despite saying on to say that that the white house committee would be 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 hardest hit area new york city has taken an unprecedented step in its special 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 even to the other is that this will last during that during the pat down that we don't have that we're not hard for it yet but obviously like the g.o.p. response it will get. but elsewhere in the u.s.

a different message is starting to emerge. with this song live and let die playing in the background president trump toured a mask 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 stage of the battle a very safe and gradual reopening so reopening of our country who would have ever thought we were going to be. 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 lockdown . most models show that outside of new york the rate of infections and this is still going up so the fear is that many more americans could end up paying with

their lives. in while u.s. secretary of state my comp a or has blasted china for its handling of the corona virus outbreak here repeated allegations the virus escaped from a laboratory in the city of and he accused china of initially covering up the outbreak has denied the allegations and says the trial at. ministration is diverting attention from its own failure in fighting the pandemic to corporate and i spoke to our washington correspondent on a vessel it and asked him about. well that leony has been quite a contradictory claim simply because the state department is 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 he dealt played the risks. coronavirus poses and now he's trying to blame china he's been calling the bars the 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 germany is back in business with the option to shut down again that from german chancellor angela merkel who announced that her country will ease some coronavirus knocks on 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 the economies. this is what the new normal in germany could look like all the shops open more people out in 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 powers. and we have seen good progress as far as the number of new infections is concerned that means we can now take further steps. that you. but we have to be careful to keep control. and the emergency response mechanism we have to fight it 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. we don't see the big 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 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. economies around the world are grappling with the economic fallout from coronavirus lockdown measures in germany the all important manufacturing sector is among those hardest hit new figures show industrial orders

in march fell by more than 15 percent the lowest level in 3 decades this says demand both at home and abroad plunged as a result of the pandemic and things looks but look bad for the rest of the e.u. chill on wednesday the bloc released its spring forecast for 2020 with the expected contraction for here said to easily be the biggest ever. after more than 2 months of lockdown romans are slowly getting used to spending a little money in their neighborhoods again citizens and many other e.u. countries are taking similarly tentative steps towards normality but the economic damage already done across the 27 country block by covert 19 has been severe. quite. economically.

you can only go. by one. old man there's been a. demand. and. on the result of all that the e.u. forecasts that its economy will fall by a massive 7.4 percent in 2020 the worst fall since the e.u. was founded in 150 years unemployment in the e.u. is forecast to rise by nearly 2 percent up to 9 percent for 2020. well the impact will be felt across the continent some countries will be hit harder than others italy and spain 2 of the worst hit contraries are forecast to suffer contractions of around 9.5 percent each more than france and germany the used 2 biggest economies it's not all bad news at least e.u.

officials said they expect the economy to slowly recover in the 2nd half of 2020 before it sharpens by 2021. but for those gradually emerging from lockdowns that probably still feels a long way off. and he has 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 framing the national total to more than 165 miles south korea reported only 2 new cases in 24 hours officials said both were detected during screenings at airports the virus has forced indonesia to postpone regional elections slated for september to at least december poland has also postponed its presidential election that had been set for this sunday the delay comes after opposition groups argue the pandemic lockdown makes a fair election impossible. now to an add on effect of the coronavirus pandemic an

increase in racist incidents around the world such incidents have prompted rebuttal social media campaigns but the discrimination often from behind white who green masks continues. the virus does not discriminate it's a line many have used to describe the fact that anyone can come down with covert 19 . but when it comes to human behavior discrimination has range supremum in this pandemic around the world various groups have been maligned accused of spreading the virus asian americans have reported verbal and physical abuse fuel some say by this kind of rhetoric from u.s. president donald trump. why do you keep calling this the chinese virus and why do you keep using this racist. letter comes from. the discrimination knows no borders in china itself african residents have faced

abuse apparently linked to a cluster of cases within the nigerian community in the southern city of. oh yes. there are countless other examples of pandemic fueled racism with the fear of suffering and helplessness in the face of a spreading virus proving a toxic cocktail. more than 5 years ago 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 as searing germany's

facts of carry a left hand which owned german wings at the time families are seeking more compensation and argue 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 gardner 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. on the 24th of march 25th jane 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 of the iconic german electronic band cuff track has lost one of its founding members. died at the age of $73.00 after short beso with cancer. chief international fame in the 1970 s. with hits like out of bond and trance europe express the band's pioneering

electronic sound is credited with influencing genres ranging from hip hop to techno we'll leave you now with the music of coffee. and language course at. anytime anywhere.