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this is deja vu news live from berlin nurses on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic speak out as we mark international nurses day today many say they are still not getting the protections they so desperately need as they risk their own health saving others we'll find out why also coming up we opening for business we report from seville one of the spanish cities that's received a government approval to ease coronavirus restrictions also oil giant saudi aramco releases eagerly awaited results for the 1st quarter we'll look at how the global
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economic crisis is hitting the world's biggest oil company. i'm sorry so misconducts good to have you with us the corona virus pandemic has brought the work of nurses into sharp focus as they struggle to care for patients suffering from cope with 1000 and today on international nurses day nurses around the world are a speaking out to demand a better protection as they risked their lives to do their jobs in pakistan several nurses took part in a protest calling for safer working conditions dozens of health care workers in pakistan have been infected with covert 19 and at the vatican pope francis prayed for nurses saying he has always noticed their heroism. this nurse's day also marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of a pioneer of modern nursing florence nightingale. the original
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queen of hygiene florence nightingale she revolutionized battlefield medicine during the crimean war when more british soldiers were dying of infections than battle wounds the principles remain is just exactly the same today as they did 100 years ago reaches you need to wash your hands. and you need to make sure 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 careering our point across the country and we demand you heard the president from hamburg and all other government that if. we demand that you immediately get b.b.q. and doctor and health care workers on the front line of the condemning. if you
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don't protect that we can't protect our feet. in senegal this nurse says there's a strong sense of duty in the profession novel but if 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 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
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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 nurse the bateson was not available so even from the ball a crisis in 2014 yes 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 recommit 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 variables that they need to protect themselves. now like other here paean nations spain has started easing some of its coronavirus
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restrictions restaurants hotels and museums and some cities are now allowed to open but many regions are still locked down the government says almost half the country is yet to meet the criteria for lock downs to be lifted and even in cities that have received the green light business owners remain cautious more now from civil. this is the 1st time in 2 months. and you will has opened his doors he stands at his coffee machine at 7 in the morning just like he has in the last 20 years and this is open to tempt fate in this sea of it but things are very different now new regulations state he can only serve customers outside with half as many tables as he would nonetheless until you hold a 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 still just learned we have to title back and
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somehow keep our business afloat. we have to try at least to be honest it's all very depressing. but a lot of it i can but we don't we are. civilly fulfilled 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 then the capital madrid but many civil businesses will still stay closed this time of year is peak season for until 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
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hotels are being allowed to open this week at least on paper many shopkeepers also keep their businesses closed due to the strict regulations some have already given up. and 2 shop windows and forensic science are becoming more and more common in spanish city centers 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 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 format stuff he's hoping the next easing off restrictions might mean he can soon invite customers inside to . go to india now where passenger trains have resumed services after a 7 week suspension prime minister narendra modi announced the world's biggest
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lockdown on march 25th which included india's huge rail network in new delhi thousands of passengers turned up at the railway station for a chance to finally make their way home that is the mission reports. it's already been an exhausting day. she stopped before sunrise to walk 20 kilometers to the baby station. to catch a tree and do multiple of this. she was visiting her daughter debbie when the lockdown was declared since then she has been unable to return to her husband and 5 children there were guys been stuck there for 7 weeks we've been trying to get a ticket for days so we finally spent 2 hours on the line to book my ticket. i left home at 230 am i came here on for. after almost 2 months india is resuming operations for 30 special passenger trains. a
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fraction of the 12000 trains before the lockdown frequent disinfection temperature checks i'm pushing distancing are the new norm at the station that you should be seen on 1000000 passengers but the us tickets are only available online. that's been a challenge for us to meet up with jodi who doesn't use the internet put relatives in delhi are asked to leave because they didn't have enough food she says she's been steeping of the dream of the station for weeks hoping to get back to mumbai. glasses the lot i've been trying to get home but how do i lay there when i say keep telling us everything is closed i tried to get a ticket today they say booking online but i'm not educated i don't know how to book tickets online. she's now pinning all hope will be on her teenage daughter in mumbai to book one. and it isn't just stranded visitors today who was scrambling to
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get out. while passenger trains have started running from today special trains for migrants have been running for over a week now however migrants here tell us that these have not been easy to get on. these migrant construction workers from be hard also walked 15 kilometers to the railway station this see it is impossible to get on the special subsidized trains for migrants some couldn't even find out how to apply for a ticket and others said the wait was too long. they paid 3 and a half 1000 rupees or over 40 euros for their tickets. 10 times the usual fare. but with no prospect of jobs or do you need is this simply had no choice. we don't want to stay here. if i feel like returning otherwise i can spend my life bothering about karma i just want to get back now but. they're all lying no one is telling the truth they keep saying they're doing this and that we haven't received
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a single thing which they need to. put these men social distancing is an observed concept. in delhi 6 of them deep crammed into one to which this did or didn't. waiting to finally get on the train the why this is the least of their why the. right now let's have a look at other developments in the corona virus 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 the government will contribute 750000000 euros to develop a vaccine after the 1st day of east restrictions in france the country reported an increase in deaths from the virus on monday in afghanistan afghanistan's
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capital couple gunmen stormed a maternity hospital and the government says 13 people were killed including 2 newborn babies dozens more were injured in the attack on a clinic supported by the humanitarian group doctors without borders security forces evacuated more than 80 people from the building including incense and their mothers there was a suicide bomber also attacked a funeral in a neighboring eastern province the ceremony was in honor of a local police commander the taliban has denied involvement in either attack. all right let's check in now on some other stories making headlines around the world irish airline ryanair plans to increase flights to 40 percent of its usual capacity by july 1st as the company plots a route out of the coronavirus 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
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a local order restricting non-essential businesses of the company is suing local officials to overturn the order c.e.o. elon musk s threatened to pull operations out of california if officials don't allow production to continue. chinese producers are feeling the full economic wrath of the coronavirus as factory prices hit a 4 year low in april of a chinese producer price index measures what factories charge wholesalers and it has plunged by more than 3 percent here on year chinese manufacturers are struggling to make money as factories are forced to charge less for their products . and clifford coonan from business is with us to give us more perspective on the story hi cliff thanks for joining us so the price for goods like t.v.'s phones they are dropping so what does this mean for the chinese economy what we're seeing at the moment is a bit like one of those classic games of whack a mole there's all these different problems coming up every time we think we've
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isolated one problem another problem comes up what you're seeing is a problem a lack of supply and also a lack of demand so it's basically a very very difficult situation to resolve i think a lot of people are hoping that we have a v. shaped recovery but that's looking increasingly unlikely now it's not going to rebound quickly it's going to be maybe a slower recovery than we toss we're now looking to see how this stage of matches up with what's happening in the rest of the world so what is trying to doing to try to jumpstart its economy when the last time we sold these kind of price falls producer prices fall like this was in the global financial crisis and china was able to spend its way out of out of trouble in those times this time it was this time it is not the same amount of money there's no other global demand to make up shortfalls and so it's looking around to different ways it will introduce some stimulus measures which will help. its hoping. that it can find some way to get out
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of a situation which economist at wells fargo is saying is all over the place are there any potential bright spots on the horizon if you look for example at the car market well i think there are i mean in some ways we're looking at china because it's a couple of weeks ahead of us and in terms of the cycle with the virus on the impact of the virus we saw a car figures car sales this week that folks are going to saying that their sales in china are ticking up a little bit. and so people are taking heart from that and hoping there will be some kind of you know indication could be a sign of just slowly slowly creeping back another positive that we had was the shanghai disneyland opened yesterday i mean obviously these things are not significant in terms of. there are overall economic value but they do have a very important sentiment indicator of a quite a dark time these sort of indicators are i think very important to give people hope people realize that there is light at the end of the tunnel and that there is possibly a way out of these is there any indication looking at china cliff how long the
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economic damage could last well this is this is the big question because it's this thing about it being all over the place because normally you know you would have in a case of scarcity because there aren't enough goods being produced prices would increase but that isn't happening because there's not enough demand and people are uncertain about where the future is going so actually timing what way things are going on how long things will take is still a very very difficult question for us to answer all right clifford coonan from d.w. business thank you so much for joining us. now oil giant a saudi aramco has 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 it 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
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a very different place last december when saudi aramco the biggest oil company of them all 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 on global markets. saudi aramco has already felt the impact of. 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
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increasingly barren time for the sector all bets are off in the oil kingdom. germany's development bank says the country's economy will probably not return to its pre-crisis level until fall of next year it is predicting germany's economy to shrink by 6 percent this year that is a fall in g.d.p. of 3 $100000000000.00 euros as a result of the pandemic fears of getting ill are also likely to dent in consumer spending for several months to come even as businesses start to reopen. all right our financial correspondent in frankfurt chelsea delaney is with us hi shell see so a 6 percent contraction that sounds extreme how likely is this could we see even in an even steeper decline. it is certainly a term addict klein and it would be the steepest most severe recession. in germany's history since world war 2 but if you look at some of the g.d.p.
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forecast the economic contraction forecasts for other countries in other countries and europe as well germany does seem to be getting off a little easier if they are able to stick to a 6 percent decline in the broader euro zone is expected to see the economy contract by 8 percent the united states is expected to see its economy shrink by 8 percent and some countries here in europe could see double digit declines and g.d.p. could have more like italy or spain that have been hit really hard by the crisis and don't have as much fiscal we way but there are a lot of risks and uncertainties surrounding this that this forecasts one of these is obviously the concerns over a 2nd wave of infections and this is obviously a huge public health concern but also it's very concerning for businesses and consumers and workers if germany does have to roll back or air hit the pause button
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on some of these the easing of restrictions it's expected to be happening over the next several weeks and even after the economy does fully reopen there's also this overhanging question of demand are people going to go back into into shops are they going to hold off on purchases so there's certainly a lot of a lot of potential downsides for the german economy but we know that germany's an export nation as well in the german chambers of commerce are predicting a 20 percent plunge in german exports to the u.s. this year why such a steep fold there. will they mention a couple different factors but it's really important remember how crucial the u.s. is for the german export or is it the biggest it's the biggest export market for germany. last year had a record. exported about $130000000000.00 worth of goods and now as and as is as is the case globally they're really seeing a huge drop and drop in demand in the u.s.
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and the economic situation in the u.s. is even more severe than here in germany so that the market for for cars and for machinery is very very weak right now and that's all really going to put a big hamper on the industrial side of the german economy as well. financial correspondent chelsea filling in for us thank you for that update. they say necessity is the mother of invention and that is something many businesses are finding out in during the coronavirus crisis germany's small wine makers are putting a tough time as much of their output is bought by tourists who come to visit the solution is to go online this is germany's oldest wine drolling region the most. brilliant at christmas not family has been here for generations in the us i'm from i find it just incredibly exciting that i can sell what i've produced myself this
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is my baby my product line it's just an incredibly exciting thing. but since the coronavirus strug 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 no wine tastings no one comes to pick up any wine. with restaurants closed wine festivals canceled on 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 innovation really in a has been offering her regular customers wine tasting classes that on you tube. it's a good opportunity to market her products. this
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is just so nice fresh but also a powerful one. 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 prevent lena going online it was a good decision. it's 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 the night is planning on sticking with the new sales channel once the pandemic is over. the corona virus has transformed our everyday lives but it's also transforming our cities and how we get around the pandemic is inspiring
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a push for climate friendly mobility with more spaces for people and bikes and less for cars we take you now to belgians capital. it's early morning brussels is still asleep as its traffic revolution begins 170 signs are put up explaining that pedestrians and cyclists now have priority across the central part of the city. but we've noticed that the measures we're introducing to reduce traffic are making the city more resilient at a time when we're fighting a pandemic. vs the we want to give pedestrians and cyclists more space. and that makes our city more livable healthier safer. yes overall the. traffic lights in central brussels have been virtually switched off because pedestrians and cyclists now have right of way and they're allowed to use the entire road cars and buses have to respect
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a 20 kilometer per hour speed limit the new traffic rules are intended to help people comply with social distancing going to do it here in a city center the speed limit was 30 kilometers per hour anyway driving a bit slower doesn't make a huge difference to me. at the cyclists feel that there's not always place for you especially in the big 3 there are. spots there's no. hiking routes no protection for the cyclists you see with a lot there is a lot of aggression against focused could be it's a good thing for the quality of life in the city of bicycles get more space living . life is starting to pick up again and belgium after the pandemic lockdown shops are allowed to open people are meeting up again so everything is at a distance and under strict hygiene rules. face masks are mandatory in buses trams and subways are being sold in vending machines as well 5 masks for 7 year
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olds covered $1000.00 forced life in brussels to come to a halt for 2 months time the city spent overhauling its traffic policy to make it more friendly to cyclists and now that the city is beginning to wake up again it's likely that these changes will survive the pandemic now in formula one racing ferrari has confirmed that germany's sebastian vettel 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 federal joint ferrari in 2015 after winning 4 world titles with red bull but he never achieve the same level of success with ferrari and i've seen his position as the team's number one driver threatened by teammate charlotte clik.
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