my. this is deed of mean years live from but then a grim warning from the u.s. government's top infectious diseases expert dr anthony felt she warns of needless suffering and death and deeper economic damage to the country relaxes its and he calls it locked down too soon also on the program russia uses its lock down as the number of corona virus infections races higher president putin says many sectors of the economy will reopen the restrictions will remain in some regions including target moscow. and of the mysterious illness that's that's affecting dozens of

children it shows symptoms with a potentially deadly disease and might be linked to the whole that 90. i'm told me a lot but welcome to the program the u.s. government's top expert on infectious diseases dr anthony follett she has warned that reopening the country too soon could cause a new spike in corona virus cases testifying from home he expressed concerns to a senate hearing about the risk of a fresh outbreak is the easing of lockdown measures is rushed he also told the panel that a call that 19 vaccine would not be available in time for the also school to test our. correspondent all of a salad joins us from washington what more did dr fox he have to say.

well tell me his issued a stark warning 1st and foremost and he does say the united states is moving in the right direction but he also says at the same time that the outbreak is not under control so a very strong warning strong words here and he essentially is talking about the individual states and if they open their economy too quickly he says that we will see new spikes coming as soon as fall and the states therefore have to be ready to close their economies again if that happens so nothing president trump likes to hear as the election is getting closer but let's listen in what anthony felt she had to say. expressed then and again is my concern that if some areas city states or what have you jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and

efficiently my concern is that we will start to see little spikes might turn into outbreaks and so more caution than we've had from president trump speaking the 2 have clashed repeatedly over how to deal with the pandemic how is the white house likely to respond. and that's right and not only anthony fall she also deborah burke's a member of the krona virus task force in the wired tells both of them repeatedly had to correct the president trumps claims some of them really bizarre you remember certainly the one when he was talking about injecting disinfectant to help those suffering from the coronavirus so his aides eventually told trump that he's damaging himself he therefore stopped his daily coronavirus press briefings in the white house press briefing room bought of course with entity testifying before a senate committee he was able to give his take and that was certainly not a very flattering one for trump but nevertheless the president is in

a tough spot here because anthony followed she as well as the other leading figures in his task force are quite popular among the u.s. population so attacking them would certainly backfire which she is trying to avoid of course. that was all of a salad and washington now russia has begun to ease its lockdown despite a surge in corona virus infections the country now house more than 230000 cases placing it behind only the u.s. and saddam open spokesman was hospitalized on choose dave with kovan 19 now despite the wave of infections president putin is going ahead with plans to roll back restrictions across the country but the hard hit capital of moscow has introduced new rules people now have to wear gloves and masks in supermarkets as well as in taxis and on public transport. no entry without gloves and a mask employees here tell people. the many market in the center of moscow is

sticking to the city's new rules despite a huge drop in profits due to lockdown measures the store can now only let people wearing protective gear shop. or if it were the man we all know that these are precautionary measures but people are unhappy about them it's hard to find gloves and masks at the pharmacy at the moment otherwise we would give them out to people so that they could buy things at our store. restaurants a non-essential stores remain closed in the capital but construction work has now we started the author worries have said that workers aren't at risk of infecting the public station on monday president vladimir putin announced an official end to the so-called non-working period in russia allowing a gradual easing of the lockdown across the country loaded you on against on an analysis of the situation and on the opinion of chief medical officer says the heads of each individual region will decide what restrictive and preventative

measures should be in place and on how i didn't want order they can be gradually eased maintained in the sneak shit isa couldn't. moscow has been the hardest hit by the coronavirus over half of russia's cases are in the capital but the lockdown is also a huge blow to russia's economy and that is the main worry for many people now. have the most and i don't think it's too early to come out of lockdown most people don't have any savings and people need something to live on a way to feed their family and pay their rent but i truly cannot not see you think the restrictions should be in place with 3 years why not make it 5 that just messing people around. look around people get out on the streets anywhere no matter what restrictions or. political analysts argue that the kremlin's decision to ease restrictions is politically motivated as surveys show trust in blood in there putin has fallen to new lows along the main reason for these changes is that russia

doesn't want to fall behind the west much and many european countries have already started coming out of corn team they've been successful in their battle against the pandemic. things are going back to normal there knows that if he falls behind he will lose out when it comes to public opinion in russia. meanwhile off the worries in the capital have been frantically working. to expand the number of beds for covert 1000 patients turning buildings like this exhibition center into temporary hospitals after all thousands of new cases are still being reported in russia every day. that report was produced by moscow correspondent at least showing we asked her how much of a threat russians frustration with the lockdown is to president putin's trust and loving your putin this is lower than it has been for over 10 years usually the

trend that we see is that the russian government kind of takes a hit in approval ratings when people are upset or dissatisfied but that and not putin himself but that seems to be changing now the economic dissatisfaction is a huge factor and a sociologist i spoke to recently was saying that if economic kind of measures from the government aren't stepped up and that support isn't there then the kremlin could have protests on its hands when locked down really is left of it and the show and in moscow now for a brief look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world u.s. president donald trump has tweeted his support for electric cars make a tesla the company restarted its factory in telephony defying a local order that restricts nonessential businesses see the long lost has threatened to pull his factories out of the state of officials don't allow

production to continue. gunmen disguised as police offices have stormed a maternity hospital in the afghan tapped topple killing at least 16 people including 2 newborn babies the taliban have denied involvement in the attack which came just hours after a suicide bomber targeted a funeral in eastern afghanistan. for the 1st time in over a century the annual may 13th celebrations in portugal's fashion tryon are taking place without pilgrims this year's festival festivities are being broadcast to avoid spreading over 19 event usually draws hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. the. doctors are trying to understand an illness in children with possible links to the corona virus the condition shows symptoms with a rare and potentially potentially life threatening kawasaki disease which causes toxic shock cases were 1st reported in britain italy and spain and now it's been

identified in the united states. i mean the fear and uncertainty of the pandemic it was one of the few comforts for families the coronavirus really affected children now warnings they could be more vulnerable than 1st thought. this is every parent's nightmare right. your child we are surely be affected by this riders but it's something we have to consider seriously. the u.s. hotspot of new york is investigating dozens of children taken to hospital all showing symptoms similar to cows aki disease a rare inflammatory condition. and it's associated with high fevers a rash oftentimes some discomfort some things like. doctors increasingly see a link to coated 19. the reason i believe that we're seeing.

right now is just because of the sheer number of children who have been exposed the concern is also growing in europe as children head back to school after weeks of lockdown now parents are asking if it's really safe. from the last 10 days is that this disease is similar to callous sucky for young children may still have a lot of questions but for now health authorities around the world have few answers other than to be vigilant and gather more data we've asked for is for the global network of clinicians to be on alert for this and to ensure that they capture information on children systematically the statistics still paint a positive picture for children showing them unlikely to fall ill to the coronavirus and doctors stressed the link to cause ocular like symptoms still isn't 100 percent. 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 regions are still locked down the government says almost half the country has yet to meet the criteria for the tight controls to be lifted and even in cities that have received the green light business owners remain cautious one off from seville this is the 1st time in 2 months that. has opened his doors he's then said his coffee machine at 7 in the morning just like he has in the last 20 years this is open to traffic in the center of civil 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 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 held but it's still

just learned we have to fight back and somehow keep our business afloat. we have to try at least to be honest it's all very depressing. civill fulfils all the criteria to qualify for an easing of social restrictions a low rate of infections and a good supply of hospital beds that puts it at a better footing than the capital madrid but many said build 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 the show's he's running a small delivery service but had to lay off his stuff is frustrated by a lack of clear information from the government. we were just told ok from today on 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 city french as spain is one of the countries most affected by the crisis at all levels while pictures of overcrowded trust which are only a few weeks old the latest economic figures are causing you experts are warning of unemployment rates of more than 30 per cent. faith the terrorist 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 . draw reminder of the top story with. the us government's top infectious

diseases expressions want against rushing to list lock downs and video testimony to the us senate. he said the country terrorist needless suffering and deep the economic damage to the restrictions are relaxed to sit. there watching the news there's more on our website d w dot com thanks for joining us. t.w. scrim fighters are back again with africa's most successful radio drama series continues all of the sodas are available online course you can share and discuss on w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighter 2 now. how does a virus spread. why do we have it and when will all this. just through the time.