this is deja news live from berlin donald trump walks back down to shut down his country's endemic task force after signaling you to disband the group the u.s. president now says the top schools will remain in place but focus on reopening the economy in addition to culture issues also coming up germany will take the biggest steps yet to lift the lockdown tatts academic announcing that all stores and restaurants will soon be reopened and many more as well. plus bringing back the bundesliga germany's top football league will return to the pitch

a transport only be allowed to watch from home. also on the show they expected a quiet wedding at city hall file from their friends because of the kind that make . it was something of a blast from the cost of driving a wedding $30.00 cost $60.00 friends and one happy couple. and their need for the most time welcome u.s. president says the nation's coronavirus task force will now focus both on safety and on rebooting the economy to fight saying on tuesdays at the white house committee would be scrapped altogether some major u.s. cities have seized 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 unprecedented step and its best so 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 we don't know about it or not hard for it yet but i would like it to be over as soon as possible. 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 sean 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 to 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 theory is that many more americans could end up paying with

the law yes. meanwhile u.s. secretary of state mike pompey has blasted china for its handling of the grown up virus outbreak he repeated allegations the virus escaped from a laboratory in the city of han and he accused china of initially covering up the outbreak beijing has denied the allegation and says the trump administration is diverting attention from its own fadia and fighting the pen demick. area i spoke to our washington correspondent out of a salad and i asked him about claim well that lee 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 leverage tory 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 . the 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 knock down 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 it tried to manage reopening economists. 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 powers. we have seen good progress as far as the number of new infections is concerned that means we can now take further steps. that. but we have to be careful to keep control. and the emergency response mechanism we have to fed 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. so as you heard germany's bonus league football league will resume its season on may 15th behind closed doors the decision makes the bundesliga europe's 1st major football league to resume play and it will be

a kickoff watched by professional sports leagues around the world. tennis at wimbledon cancer 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 postpone major sporting events is long 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 hydrogen concepts will be covered to pine mass and leisure sports this one is 5 the 1st and 2nd german football league which will be allowed to run the kinds of can from the 2nd toughest made on woods under the approved under tested rules. of

the league had their own response to today's decision is good news for the bonus league and the 2nd one is league. clubs and their employees now have a great responsibility to implement the medical and organizational guidelines in a disciplined manner he says it's. the d.f.l. the bell 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 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. economies around the world are grappling with the economic fallout from virus lockdown measures in germany the all important manufacturing sector is among those hardest hit you figure so 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 and things look bad for the rest of the e.u. 2 on one say the bloc released its spring forecast for 20 twentieth's with the expected contraction for the year set 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 culver 19 has been severe. economic. our. economic. growth by one. can only hold. the. demand by. investment. and. on the result of all that the e.u. forecasts that its economy will fall by a massive 7.4 percent and 2020 the worst fall since the e.u. was founded in 1950 s. . 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 countries 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 a sharp bends back in 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 penda make news for the 4th straight time russia has reported a one day increase of wasn't 10000 cases speaking the national total to more than 165. 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 opponent also

has postponed its presidential election that had been set for this sunday the delay comes after a position groups depend demick lockdown makes a fair election impossible. now in the midst of a pandemic couples around the globe are still trying to make their weddings memorable and one german city of the mayor is offering a helping hand a wedding made for the big screen. this wedding is going hollywood sort of janine in philip schultz tied the knot at a duesseldorf drive in theater they guest on their cars because of the coronavirus only a wedding for 2 was planned but then all of her word is out. on thursday i was called to see if we would like to from the registry office the mayor would carry out the wedding himself and of course we said yes without thinking yes there could be 30 cars we didn't count on that otherwise we could only have celebrated

a loan at the registry office. the car's only decorated in the colors of the bundesliga club for tonight dusseldorf a wish of the newlyweds they're big fans then things got serious by now i mean my name is thomas gazal i am the mayor of the city of dusseldorf as my main job i'm no guillory register as a part time job this is an activity of particularly enjoy doing. and then mark here the muffled sound from the car radios the separating plexiglas it doesn't matter if it takes the spotlight away from the romance movie where you are now legally connected spouses by law would you. guess congratulate the happy couple with a concept of peeping from behind the wheel perfect with the horns you know not exactly great feeling it couldn't be nicer. and overjoyed bride and groom no virus in the world could change that. you're watching data every news

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