this is the interview news live from berlin nurses on the front line of the coronavirus endemic speak out as we mark international nurses day today many say they are still not getting the protection they so desperately need as they risk their own health saving others we'll find out why. also coming up reopening for business we report from seville one of the spanish cities that have been approved by the government for easing the coronavirus shifts. and the oil giant saudi aramco releases eagerly awaited results for the 1st quarter look at how the global

economic crisis is hitting the world's biggest oil company. i'm serious someone's got to thank you for joining us the coronavirus pandemic has brought the work of nurses into sharp focus as they struggle to care for patients suffering from cope and 19 and around the world today their sacrifices are being honored as part of international nurses day in sri lanka nurses gathered to pay tribute to the woman credited with creating the modern profession florence nightingale today marks her birth 200 years ago. the original queen of hygiene florence nightingale she revolutionized battlefield medicine during the crimean war when more british soldiers were dying of infections than battle wounds and principles remain is just going to die. as they did you i'm

sure you see i reach it is you need to wash your hands and you need to make sure that the environment is incredibly clean. and. the space between patients and the need for ventilation the coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed hospitals around the world that's led many nurses to protest from peru to washington d.c. outside the white house are removing our point across the country and we demand to be heard. president from cameron and all other governors that if we demand that you immediately get the american doctor and health care workers on the front line of the can't i mean. if you don't protect that we can't protect our teeth. in senegal this nurse says there's a strong sense of duty in the profession. we have no choice from the moment you set out to become a nurse to practice this profession i think it's

a source of pride to be a nurse to be able to help people to be able to help them recover their health. one person who does appreciate nurses street artist banksy whose latest work game changer is on display at a london hospital. earlier we spoke with polled a rave the secretary general of the european federation of nurses associations he has been warning for years that frontline workers have been lacking the protection needed in case of a pandemic. i think the pandemic came to us quite suddenly so many member states in the european union including the commission itself was not prepared for this and not such protection equipment that we need to have in order to go next to the patient to watch the patient to feed the patient to knows the

bacon was not available so even from the ball a crisis in 2014 enough and wrote a report at that time the title was we are not prepared at the nest we are all prepare and in that report be up and make clear we come in durations release governments give your nurses your physicians who are from flying who are taking care of the patients that b.p. east the masks the mock the aerial says that they need to protect themselves now like other european nations spain has started easing some of its coronavirus restrictions restaurants hotels and museums and some cities are now allowed to open but many reasons are still locked out the government says almost half the country has yet to meet the criteria for a lockdown so he left it and even in cities that have received the green light business owners remain cautious more now from seville. this is the 1st time in 2

months. has opened his doors he stands at his coffee machine at 7 in the morning just like he has in the last 20. minutes this is open to cafe in this sea of it but things are very different now new regulations state he can only serve customers outside with half as many tapers as he would nonetheless until you hold so few patrons book or his cafe might not survive. the last few months have been really tough we had operating cost but absolutely no income state assistance help but it's still just learned we have to title back and somehow keep our business afloat. we have to try at least to be honest it's all very depressing. but a lot of. civil fulfils all the criteria to qualify for an easing of

social restrictions a lower rate of infections and a good supply of hospital beds that puts it at a better footing than the capital madrid many civil businesses will still stay closed this time of year is peak season for antonio specialty snails but currently at his restaurant he hasn't even said. he's running a small delivery service but had to lay off his whole staff is frustrated by a lack of clear information from the government i'm not going to go we were just told ok from today you can open again but up until the day before they told us they didn't publicly announce anything about what that meant and exactly what regulations would have to be met. besides restaurants small businesses and hotels are being allowed to open this week at least on paper many shopkeepers also keep their businesses closed due to the strict regulations have already given up.

empty shop windows and forensics are becoming more and more common in spanish cities french and spain is one of the country's most affected by the crisis at all levels where the pictures of overcrowded toast which are only a few weeks old the latest economic figures are causing you borrow experts are warning of unemployment rates of more than 30 percent. say the terrace is slowly beginning to fill up he's been able to reemploy 3 office for my stuff he's hoping the next easing off restrictions might mean he can soon invite customers inside to. write let's take a look at other developments in the coronavirus pandemic a new outbreak of corona virus cases in south korea has been linked to a man who visited several nightclubs while infected the number of related new cases has surpassed 100 germany has also seen a rise in new infections after some relaxation of lockdown restrictions and the government will contribute 750000000 euros to develop

a vaccine after the 1st day of eased restrictions in france the country imported an increase in deaths from the virus on monday. well let's get a brief look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world in serbia pro and anti-government demonstrations have taken place in belgrade tensions between the 2 groups have been growing ahead of parliamentary elections next month critics claim that serbian president aleksander is using a coronavirus state of emergency to tighten his grip on power. irish airline ryanair plans to increase flights to 40 percent of its usual capacity by july 1st as the company charts a route out of the crisis since mid march ryanair has run just 30 flights a day as restrictions have effectively closed european groups. the electric car maker tesla has resumed factory operations in california defying a local order restricting non-essential businesses the company is suing local officials to overturn that order c.e.o.

elon musk has threatened to pull operations out of california if officials don't allow protection production to continue. or oil giant to saudi aramco as seen a massive 25 percent drop in profits and warns of a challenging few months ahead among its concerns production cuts saudi arabia announced on monday would deepen cuts by a further $1000000.00 barrels per day as global demand continues to weaken it is a blow for the company which celebrated the world's biggest ever stock market listing just a few months ago. the world was a very different place last december when saudi aramco the biggest oil company of the mold went public in a blaze of glitz. the coronavirus pandemic means the bell has well and truly told for the oil sector even for a company then valued at a mind boggling $1.00 trillion dollars the pandemic has quickly burned through balance sheets. the price of crude oil has plunged dramatically since coronavirus

lockdowns led to a massive reduction in demand in the 6 months since around coal launched its shares oil has lost well over half its value under lobel markets. saudi aramco has already felt the impact of the its stock price has been in steady decline since the i.p.o. yet so far it has not fallen anywhere near as sharply as the overall price of oil that may be because the company still plans on paying out a $25000000000.00 dividend for the next 5 years however in what looks an increasingly barren time for the sector all bets are off in the oil kingdom. but let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt chelsea delaney is standing by for us i shall say so we're seeing profits tumble at iran co 1st of all what does this mean for the saudi economy which relies so heavily on oil revenue. this is a huge challenge for the economy right now when saudi arabia took saudi aramco the

state owned oil company public and. they were doing this because they wanted to get away from being so reliant on oil they get about 70 percent of their revenues right now from the oil they produce an export and they knew that this was going to be a problem in the future and they just didn't expect it to come so fast so they had been putting a lot of effort into to to diversify an economy and before they could really get the chance to do that they have been faced with this really unprecedented collapse in oil prices and this is going to put a lot of pressure on their finances this is already really making it difficult for them to to maintain some of their stimulus efforts they're having to raise money they're having to sell more bonds they're going to see their deficit really really widen this year and so they are trying to cut costs in some places and they have raised taxes tripled their value added tax but this is all really pointing to

a really challenging picture for the. economy right now you know it's challenging in the market it's been so volatile and that turbulence doesn't look like it's going to abate anytime soon so is it time for the oil industry to change fundamentally going forward. a lot of oil companies and oil dependent economies were already thinking about this before before this latest oil crisis we have seen for example saudi saudi arabia but also. economies like norway really try and get away from being so heavily reliant on oil. obviously does accelerate some of the pressure we heard from the british petroleum b.p. c.e.o. today that he thinks this could be the moment of peak oil that's the moment where we won't see any more growth in oil demand and in. that's pretty shocking of a start of a statement because people thought that we wouldn't see peak oil demand until

20302040 so now everybody's having to face this this question of are we only going to be seeing more and more pressure on the oil industry going forward and this is this is going to really force a lot of a lot of companies and a lot of economies to accelerate their expansion into renewables so especially here in europe a lot of oil firms have already been investing in things like electric vehicle battery is and solar energy but this obviously is really going to accelerate the pressure on the. chelsea dylan you reporting for us from frankfurt thank you very much. until there's a vaccine for covert $1000.00 people around the world are looking for ways to protect themselves what is one of those ways involves an addictive substance scientists in paris are probing whether smoking and nicotine can stop people from contracting the disease. has been looking into it.

take a deep breath to get ready for what's coming next before covert 19 francis reputation as a lead off heavy smokers sparked only negative headlines but in the middle of the coronavirus crisis the fact that more than a french people smoke doctors to discover something they found hard to believe. where there are. more and then. we have no. your instructors in. the professor's hypothesis is that smoking could protect against covered 19 he teamed up with one of france's leading neuroscientists who suspects nicotine might help prevent coronavirus molecules from invading the body but just i mean my life which is there all night.

that's a year you know a few weeks we were able to build up with these. i meet accept at the ranch get him you know signs and again it may take a few weeks you probably are out of all clinical trials were both health workers and covered 900 patients where nicotine patches have been approved at record speed the french authorities also followed the researchers that vice tourists tricked sales of nicotine products in pharmacies to stop people from stockpiling patches and gum. if trials are successful that would undermine the current world health organization's advice that smoking likely makes people in the ripple to cover it 19. the french doctors say nobody wants to believe them so does that include the w.h.o.

what do you make of these findings. covert $1000.00 is a respiratory illness and smoking causes damage to the longest and there are a number of studies out there that have been published that have found that smoking leads to more severe disease the development of severe disease and puts people at higher risk for being put on a ventilator being in i.c.u. and for dying the w.h.o. also warns that increased contact between lips and fingers while smoking or even sharing a cup are coproduct is an additional infection risk. the paris based scientists do not recommend taking up smoking. it's not smoking because smoking is getting in fancy about 70000 people. even more than that it will be 90. the scientists in paris are working day and night as well as looking at nicotine they are exploring alternatives which would not be addictive. or we are trying

to design a study reason one of these compounds is. horrible. and we know that this compound. effect as well the nicotine patches don't try this at home the team strongly warns against self medicating and unless the trials come up with definitive proof hopes of a new coronavirus treatment could still go up in smoke. let's get some perspective on the story now we can speak to dr mikhail is only he's a neurobiologist at the university of montana in italy doctors only thank you for joining us i want to get your take on this because you are also currently a looking at any possible links between tobacco and the treatment of covert 19 so what do you make of this french study. i think that

certainly the. wrong the word is rather interesting in fact. we should expect that smokers are in a higher percentage than most smokers in the population of people of. theirs i would say certainly because there are many studies about this they're less than what the suspected so there is a racial basis to think that something is more king could be cookin can exert some kind of protection against the infection then it is certainly true what they heard just a few minutes ago that the smoking is very bad and that there's more who who has the disease can have less chance to survive so that's another point all right so there is some conflicting information out there but we do know that the world health organization is saying i don't pick up smoking now but what about testing nicotine patches on 1000 patients that's something that this french study is also

looking into what do you think of this. i think that usually a trial or clinical trial needs a lot of pretty mary evidence but given the pandemic in this moment that can be justified since the 8 ball this is certainly interesting and. we know a lot about the couldn't budge is there used for smoking cessation and also for several of the other diseases so we know the toxicology we know the risk of these patches. so they are no one in many respects and so you can be a drug that these immediately available to be used the sort trial i think is justified doctors only are you worried that some of the initial findings of these studies that are not yet conclusive might be sending the wrong message to the public that smokers are people using nicotine package patches could actually see some benefit in fighting cover 1000. yeah.

and they understand perfectly why they're going to zation 2 different countries are there of course i'm aware about this and so they are getting stronger communication to smoke and not to follow this research from now but even the future there will be some strong proof that. at the end of this trial for example that. can be effective i think that it can be used and it could be reasonably safe. but of course we must be very strong in saying that one thing. or even better more selective grew up in the developed. but not smoking smoking by itself is much more dangerous or at least. 19 so we cannot give a therapy that this. is a disease ok all right we're off to leave it there. at the university of modena

thank you so much for joining us. but right now e.u. health ministers are meeting today to discuss the virus's impact on the production and distribution of medicines the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on international supply chains so what happens when production of the raw material stops take a look. it's loud in here stuffy and smelly manufacturing antibiotics is a dirty process and back in march production that penname laboratories near delhi was going full blast churning out $150.00 tons a month the final product goes to 60 countries including some in europe where it's pressed into pill form but the precursor substances come from china and the coronavirus shut down their threatened production here it just shows how utterly dependent the world is 80 percent of medicinal raw materials come from china india

used to produce them too but chinese products are cheaper. in laster knew by 30 c. in their death of the stuff. and many of. they have part of our dead and went back getting into. their car that they are really taking to make dirty their hands so they think. in germany pharmacists like here near stuttgart were having to apologize to customers about supply problems shortages of keep painkillers and blood pressure drugs as well as antibiotics were already an issue even before germany went into lockdown once china stopped exporting things look to go from bad to worse but global supply chains for medicines are complex and nontransparent in the house if you're a manufacturer of course you're not going to say where you get your substances at what price and in what follow you it's like in other industries how you get your

raw materials can give you a competitive edge. the coronavirus chris this is only highlighted what experts have long warned about pricing pressure especially for generic medications has led to massive dependence on china many pharmacists in germany would like to see at least part of the production process brought back home. in this end we need the manufacturers do ensure stable supplies it cannot go on like this we really have to bring production back to germany to europe and with similar calls being made in india it could mean governments will take new steps to break the chinese dominance of the pharmaceuticals market. they say that necessity is the mother of invention and that is something many businesses are finding out during the coronavirus crisis germany's small wine makers are having a tough time as much of their output is bought by tourists who come to visit the solution is to go on line this is germany's oldest wine growing region the muslim.

billionaire christian got family has been here for generations. in the us i'm for i find it just incredibly exciting that i can sell what i've produced myself this is my baby my product and it's just an incredibly exciting thing. but since the coronavirus struck life for the 1000 residents of titan heim has changed dramatically. all of a sudden things became very quiet. there's such a strange emptiness in our house we're not used to it being so quiet with nobody coming to visit there are no wine tastings no one comes to pick up any wine. with restaurants closed wine festival is cancelled and travel in general curtailed business in the region home to some 3000 wine growers has taken

a major here's. the crisis has also been encouraging locals to innovate clearly in a has been offering her regular customers wine tasting classes on you tube. it's a good opportunity to market her product. this is just a nice fresh but also powerful line. these wine boxes were sent out by courier a week before the virtual wine tasting to make sure they'd be with the customers on time there were a total of 70 orders. going online it was a good decision. at least we now have the opportunity for customers to see us we've talked to many customers on the phone and written emails about our campaign the response has been great. so great that for lena is planning on sticking with the new sales channel once the pandemic is over. just one

sports item for you in formula one racing ferrari has confirmed that germany's sebastian fettle will leave the team at the end of the currently suspended season federals contract runs out in 2020 but that contract will not be renewed after talks over an extension broke down final joined ferrari in 2015 after winning 4 world titles with red bull but he never achieve the same level of success with ferrari and seen his position as the team's number one driver threatened by team h.r. looked like. let's get a recap of our top stories here on t w as the world marks international nurses day those on the front line say they are still not getting the protection they need as their worst their health and their lives to care for corona virus patients. and restaurants hotels and other businesses are reopening across half of spain as the government moves to ease its lockdown such restrictions remain in place in major cities like madrid and

barcelona where the corona virus outbreak at harvest. thank you for watching t.v. news will be back at the top of the hour with more. for.

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