d.w. celebrates the 75th anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war era today w. . this is d w news live from berlin remembering world war 2 the conflict in europe ended 75 years ago to the day air force jets fly over london other events are scaled back because of the coronavirus crisis the focus is on remembrance also here into. unemployment in the u.s.

surges to its highest level since the great depression more than 20000000 americans lose their jobs as the outbreak freezes the economy. and the race to find a vaccine research as in south africa trialing 100 year old formula that could prove a game changer. and helping new york the health workers shipped in from outside to relieve a city overwhelmed by the cold it prospers. i'm going to have elf as well come to the program commemorations have been taking place to mark the end of hostilities in europe in the 2nd world war on this day 75 years ago the allies accepted germany's unconditional surrender the nazi tire any had come to an end. ceremonies have been scaled back because of the current global

health emergency all the same it has been a day of remembrance and high emotion starting right here in berlin. the bell rang out across berlin to mark the moment. germany's president frank. and chancellor angela merkel maintained a suitable distance from each other at the country's central memorial to the victims of war. steinmeier said germany's neighbors had needed time to trust the country again and accepting german it's required an emotional understanding of the past. germany's past is a fractured past responsibility for the murder of millions and the suffering of millions. that breaks our hearts and that's why i say that this country can only be loved with

a broken heart in them how leaving in britain the royal air force famous display team the red arrows flew over london's landmarks. 2 minutes of silence was observed across the country. a poem written about the victory 75 years ago was read by prime minister boris johnson. now the great vision which we did believe through slow and savage years is. that summit which we will we now would she uncertainty deposes the unknown. in france president in my new and i call letters ceremony at the ark to triumph monuments the event was held without the public france is under a strict lockdown until monday. u.s. president donald trump and the 1st lady visited the world war 2 memorial in washington d.c.

. following the wreath laying ceremony trump greeted 7 world war 2 veterans from a safe distance. russia celebrates victory over nazi germany on the 9th of may a major parade with international guests was set to take place in moscow but events across russia have been cancelled president vladimir putin has promised to hold a major victory day parade at a later date. let's get the u.s. perspective on today's anniversary i'm not joined by william hitchcock who is a professor of history at the university of virginia mr scott made the 8th marks the end of world war 2 in europe how is this day perceived in the u.s. well it's good to be with you it's a terribly important day for americans to remember a really significant sacrifice that american soldiers made fight it in europe and fighting for democracy one crucial thing that americans understood as the

working to an end was that this was a struggle or a way of life it really was a struggle for democracy you would not intimate were continuing in asia pacific and of course the war in a sense would carry on for 45 years in a way until democracy was fully established but for americans it was known then and it's known now as the trying to democracy over russia's. would you say it was known then and it is no no now isn't the significance of world war 2 and what the u.s. contributed to it starting to fade from public consciousness in the us because a generation of people actually fought that is dying out. well naturally over time we lose the we've lost almost all the generation of of soldiers who fought in the 2nd world war that's about to happen but i would say there is a culture of remembrance in the united states about the greatest generation that

privileged generation that was asked to greatly on that cross the atlantic thought heroically against. against tyranny and i would i would say that i think that while we don't have the people around to tell us the story is america has committed itself to memorialize the 2nd world war you to follow a monument and museums now well dot the united states my students who are only 18 or 19 years old are fascinated by the 2nd world war they want to know more about their intensely curious about the climate of that time the politics of that time how americans gave up so much to struggle for other people's freedom and liberation so i think there's still a generation that was keenly interested and honors the sacrifices that were made but the u.s. and not only helped defeat the nazis it also helped to build up western germany after the end of the war but you get the feeling that this part of history doesn't

have much of an impact anymore on transatlantic than take relations nowadays if you look at the current administration's. well inevitably there were living in peculiar times and the ways in which history is memorized memorialized and then used will vary from generation to generation and even from an especially to administration such a day present from them to spoke with the russian leaders and that's an important recognition of the us soviet alliance at the end of the 2nd world war would of course at the end of the 2nd world war we were headed in 45 years of a cold war so it's a kind of an interesting and tense moment to do to reach out to them to the russian leader but at the same time the 2nd world war in your could not have come to an end about the soviet union fighting against the germans so every generation is going to have its own read its own take on these on these very significant moments in history i think on balance we understand what really was at stake in the 2nd wrote

war and that was freedom and democracy and americans gave up a great deal to fight for you mentioning that every generation comes up with a different take on all this at the moment populism to flirt with dictatorships both on the rise and several places around the world other any new lessons to be learned today from this very anniversary and what will that be. there certainly are i think that the generation of the 1930 s. and the 1940 s. and indeed in the 1950 s. americans and europeans when the atlantic alliance was strongest perhaps in the 1950 s. and early 1960 s. they understood that democracy was fragile it was not automatic it was not an editable it could collapse it could go away they had seen it threatened and challenge they had seen fascism gobble up democrat among democratic states of europe and they had seen the terrible devastation of the 2nd world war and the post-war europe was an enormous success the graduate road to democracy economic

prosperity across the continent all that could go away that's the crucial lesson we should think about on ve day we have to continue the struggle for democracy it's not over well him i had to cope professor of history at the university of virginia thank you very much for joining us it's a pleasure thank you. unemployment in the united states has surged to its highest level since the great depression more than 20000000 germans last americans rather lost their jobs last month as lockdowns froze the economy employment fell in all sectors hospitality and leisure were among the hardest hit and job hunting during a pandemic here in florida local authorities have set up a drive through unemployment office to keep up with demand lines like this are part of the new normal for more than 20000000 americans out of work. the hospitality

sector has been especially hard hit leaving many employees wondering if they'll have jobs to go back to i thought i was like i know just a joke i was like ok well this is going to last like a week and then they're going to be like ok everything's settling down you can go back to work i had no idea that it would be. 2 plus i'm on and like phil we have no idea when we're going to be able to open. president donald trump remains confident about the u.s. his chances of bouncing back but the number will start coming down at an appropriate time what do what ever that is will i'm viewing the 3rd quarter as being a very important quarter because it's as i said there will be a transition. i think you could almost say a transition into greatness but companies are coming under increasing pressure the department store chain j.c. penney's is reportedly mulling bankruptcy a move that would see it shattering many of its 850 stores. lines are

also growing at food banks like at this one in las vegas as unemployment numbers climb to levels not seen since the great depression. time now for a quick look at the other stories making headlines today boeing is to restart production of its 737 passenger jet before the end of this month's the model has been grounded since march of last year after being involved in 2 crashes which left 346 people dead questions over safety been affecting the playmakers bottom line well before its business was hit by the impact of the corona virus. more than 260 people have been killed during heavy rains in eastern africa kenya somalia rwanda and uganda are worst hit an estimated 11000 people have been affected by this year's floods. in india at least 15 people have died after a train plowed into

a group of migrant workers would fall asleep on the railway tracks the workers had stopped to rest while trying to make their way home on foot after news in their jobs due to india's coronavirus lockdown. an outbreak at a meat processing plant has turned a district in northwestern germany into a coronavirus hotspot delaying plans to further ease lockdown restrictions there are more than $150.00 workers at the plant and cause food have tested positive for the virus most of them contract workers from eastern europe housed in shared flats the plant has temporarily been shut down germany began relaxing lockdown restrictions at the end of april announcing more steps to open the country earlier this week. we are now joined by the w.'s political correspondent kate brady who has more information for us on that story kate this is not the only outbreak linked to a meat processing plant in germany won't have these facilities become coronavirus

hotspots well of course i imagine that the close working courses and living courses that many of these workers find themselves in will have played a huge role in how these slaughterhouses have indeed as you say become hot spots of the coded 19 fires and as such in close felde in north rhine-westphalia that slaughterhouse a particular has now being closed and we're also expecting to see some checks on the hygiene standards both at the slaughterhouse and accommodation for those workers in the coming days and in the meantime there will also be widespread testing in north rhine-westphalia that's the state where close felde lies and that's going to involve some 17220000 workers who are currently working in the slaughterhouses across that state the district of course felt it has no delay the loosening of lockdown restrictions in line with so-called emergency brake agreed

earlier this week how does the emergency brake actually work. well this is something that was agreed upon ellie this week between german chancellor angela merkel and the 16 state premiers when they met to discuss relaxing the restrictions currently in place here in germany and the rule basically works on the threshold and it was decided that if a district here in germany reports more than 50 new cases of 19 per 100000 inhabitants over the past 7 days then the state in which district lies will be responsible for stepping up restrictions again and tightening those restrictions and that's exactly what we're going to see in close felde they were indeed planning on relaxing easing measures particularly on things like restaurants and shops on may 11th and those easing relaxations of restrictions have now been pushed back another week so of course what we're seeing at these slaughterhouses is

certainly a reminder that covidien 19 is still very much a moment as and that's something that anglo american the german chancellor has repeated time and time again that until there is a vaccine the virus the corona virus will be something that germany has to live with so that reiterate radio underlines exactly what she was saying earlier this week in which she encouraged germans in which she encouraged people here in germany to be cautious as they attempt at least in the coming days to go back to some sense of normalcy now that these restrictions that we've seen over the past few weeks are going to start being eased our correspondent kate brady them thank you very much the race to find a vaccine against covert 19 is gaining pace in south africa hundreds of health workers are being given a century old tuberculosis vaccine to test whether it can protect against corona

virus trials are also on the way elsewhere including the netherlands and australia effective the vaccine could be a vital weapon against the virus. it's just a small puncture but it could make a huge impact on tackling the covert 19 pandemic that at least is the hope of researches who this week began a vaccination trial in cape town the team around dot to carry an op tone wants to investigate whether the tuberculosis vaccine b c g can reduce the severity of corona virus related symptoms the reason behind it researches have experienced positive so-called nonspecific effects of b c g in the past babies adolescents the elderly there have been a reduction in the number of respiratory tract infections in individuals who received obesity vaccine versus the ones who do not receive it so that's

a very interesting nonspecific effect. in order to investigate this further a minimum of $500.00 health care workers will receive a shot in the coming weeks hauffe will be given the actual vaccine and the other half a placebo through follow up phone calls the researches will determine the health condition of the participants and so the effect of the vaccine the trial is conducted and funded by task a clinical research center based in cape town c.e.o. andrus daya khan says the speed of the results depends on several factors. for more cases where you have to fall through. the protection and if you also depend on the number of cases returning through. any period. traumas through from.

the next big challenge for the research is is to secure additional funding but andrus daikon is optimistic but i'm excited to start this trial it's not basically because i expect a certain result but i see a positive energy in my team and also see a lot of positive energy in the health care workers that we're going to vaccinate just due to the fact that we're trying to do something that might actually work if it was a lot of people could profit from b c g i dos for 10 people only costs a little mole then $2.00 u.s. dollars but will it work let's bring in a look o'neill he's professor of biochemistry in the school of biochemistry and immunology at trinity college dublin a month ago you predicted that b.c.g. could be the 1st approved vaccine for covert 19 how did you come to that conclusion . here the great excitement around this one because i was suddenly in to be there

we know that basically protects against all of ours so for example respiratory virus in your lungs there was evidence that the seagate so much mysteriously protect it's a mystery because of the vaccine but say it is a bacteria and yet here there was evidence of the virus so as soon as probate 19 came along why not be able to go with that we know it's very safe it's in millions of people so it's provoked 7 separate trials are running at the moment and we're very keen to see those results but the world health organization says there's no evidence whatsoever that b.c.g. protects against covert 90 how hopeful are you about these trials that you just mentioned that are currently on the way. well of course not but this was a running we still don't know remember in the overnight show can be cautious for good reason i guess but given these previous studies and given the science behind it we're optimistic and one big thing it does is it kind of fronts all kind of a barrier in your body that bounces off many germs from bounce off not not just to be of course the most good evidence for that it was 20 years of science behind this

idea that the cd might have these effects back it drives our optimism i guess but the trials after on like most things with over 19 we've got to test it now in a proper way and not so on and so that was true in holland last writing or running as we speak so that those files should give us the answer how dangerous is it if we pin our hopes to one sort of left field method to beat this this virus you know we can't i mean obviously this this virus there's many different things being tried where at least a year like my vaccine so that's quite a time to go this could be a bridge to that vaccine meanwhile there's antiviral drugs being test that antiinflammatories this is one of many different approaches all we have to have happen is one has to work and then we're going to make a difference and this is yet another shot on goal is the phrase we use it so so again it's another go where there's reasonable science behind it but these trials have to be done to see it was going to work or not immunologist look o'neill from

trinity college dublin thanks for joining us i very much. the epicenter of the u.s. outbreak has been in new york where more than 26000 have died of covert 90 the virus overwhelmed the city's medical facilities from the start as a result slogs numbers of health care specialists have been brought in from outside . jacobs getting ready 1st not shift he grabs a quick coffee then the ventilation specialist from connecticut heads back to his hotel to be picked up for work he's here to help because new york couldn't cope on its own out of the entire health care population we comprise a very small percentage so i had the ability to help in a very meaningful way and i wanted to take full advantage of that to try to alleviate the situation. over $3400.00 doctors nurses and carers from all over the u.s. have come to new york while pay to cross us manages to work 12 hour shifts without

a break in almost military fashion they transported to facilities across the city jacob was in fact previously a soldier he believes it's his duty to serve his country. i think they're scary in different ways this enemy can see this is a historic event. and i think everybody has to be able to look themselves in the face after they're done and be ok with how they made their way through jacob in a few of those head through new york to the borough of queens tonight they're working in one of the city's hardest hit facilities hospital. just kind of clearing had to go through a job to be very stressful but this is he said this is that it often you know we need to raise this and that you know there's still some there's you know the. conditions of the beginning of april here were catastrophic patients lying in

carter was doctors and nurses without protection gear and out the back there was a refrigerated container for bodies. since then things have improved but it's still tough going to hobnob with the high number of patients going on to ventilators who were already unconscious. we always treat them is gently and then finally in the mainly as we can we try to spend that extra time with them talk. the reassure them . but who was caring for the doctors and nurses experts believe as many as a quarter of them could have been traumatized themselves after seeing so much death and suffering in jacob's hotel there is now a crisis team to help. it's one thing to to sign up and say i want to come help and it's another thing to say like i'm a great at my job i know how to save people and then terrorize here. and people are dying and they that they made that mean that they weren't doing their job effectively as a soldier jacob so if numerous times in iraq he says he can cope with the pressures

but understands that others may not. go a lot of times people are ok for what he started you know the signs of it afterwards so i would i would just encourage anybody thinks that's happening not to try and weave their way through it or do it on their own i would suggest at least. a bit of support and comfort comes nonetheless at the end of every shift. coronavirus lock downs have reduced traffic and pollution in most countries and many places helping nature to make a comeback in thailand where dolphins and other sea creatures. dolphins galore not far from the similar islands in thailand these magical mammals have surrounded a rangers boat they don't know anything about social distancing or the coronavirus pandemic but they're definitely benefiting from it. so there's many many people and

all the it is a source it's many people. but all this is a little. carry on fishermen recently recorded these images of rare pink dolphins a breed of indo-pacific humpback dolphin there around 150 of them living in the gulf of thailand they very rarely come this close to human. nature is making a comeback starting with some of the smallest these level back seater tools can grow up to 700 kilograms researchers knapp who care to recording the highest numbers of newborns in over 2 decades the largest sea turtles in the world bury their eggs on remote beaches. if they don't know each. area. to lead it and then. to the

ocean. this is a group of 2 gongs sometimes called sea cows that huge extremely shy creatures which flee at even the slightest hint of humankind but with no tourists and no noise they like many other species i currently loving the peace and quiet. the relaxation of lockdown measures and taiwan course excitement among baseball fans on friday as a small number of them. we're allowed back into stadiums to watch that teams play their lucky ticket holders had to undergo temperature checks before they were admitted while social distancing and mosque wearing also required crowds were limited to $1000.00 people per se don't fall below usual attendance figures baseball is very popular in taiwan and games have been going on behind closed doors for a number of weeks now. and soccer fans desperate to watch some live games have been tuning in to south korea scaly it's the 1st major competition to resume following

the coronavirus lockdown but there are strict rules for players and staff know and shakes are allowed and conversations between players and officials are restricted coaches have to wear face masks and games played behind closed doors. you're watching the news i'm going to have alfa's in berlin don't forget you can keep in touch with the news on our website that's of course t w dot com and do follow us on twitter and instagram if you don't already do so it's as d.w. news of the shoulder breaks the day right. hey

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