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into the. tens of thousands of people. it's good to have you with us there's one thing standing between many germans and their hope for holidays. and that's national borders germany is lifting its restrictions on travelers imposed because of the. but getting other states on the favor. for the highest levels of politics germany's foreign minister is due to

discuss the matter with his counterparts next week. the endless beaches of france and the majestic mountains of austria in any normal summer german tourists love to head for these and many other european beauty spots but because of the corona virus the route to germany is neighbors has been blocked at the borders for many the pandemic has given travel a new importance of which gets a lot of course it's about our health all around the world but they can't take away our freedom to travel not because of corona or an economic crisis and of a tough to do that it's wonderful i'd like to go to spain i don't get know if that's possible it depends if the spanish open their border at the moment there's no sign maybe we'll know in 4 weeks one place if you will from proposal but there is a sign from the german government how it plans to reopen its front is the border with belgium and the netherlands was never closed and from saturday police will not

patrol the luxemburg border either to the north denmark has said it is willing in principle to allow the traffic to flow but needs more time to work out the details germany's borders with france austria and switzerland will 1st see looser controls than at present if there's no new major spread of the virus the checks will be completely lifted in mid june the borders with poland and the czech republic have not been closed by germany but by the governments in warsaw and prague those 2 countries are not yet ready to open their front is to germany but berlin is hoping to persuade them you know uncertainty has made some germans rethink their plans. these things that i think i'll just work a lot this summer and then go away in the autumn i hope i won't take a holiday this year it makes no sense and. there's still a long way to go until europe's vacation hot spots a crowded from this weekend germans who want to travel at least have

a timetable for when they will enjoy freedom of movement once again. i'm joined now by stefan myer junior minister in the german interior ministry and member of the conservative c.s.u. party in the state of mr my welcome are you confident that the situation has improved enough that it's safe to relax border controls to countries like switzerland and austria we are very confident and satisfied that all our measures and all our boss through. of the last weeks are successful we are successful in our containment policy with regard to the printer i make fortunately the number of new infections is through all the low now many so now it's possible to lift a lot of sanctions in the different states and also to try to end the border controls as it was said we will and the border controls to luxembourg this night

and we are open for further. lift lifting the restrictions to france to austria to switzerland deeply convinced this is a very important signal especially for those citizens who live next to the to the borders and certainly in a lot of reach and. the economy is linked to each other very intensively and it's very important for the people on both sides of the border that we lift these restrictions now mr my you're from the c.s.u. this is the ruling party and the biggest party in the state of bavaria and bavaria as we've been known to many of our international viewers is really a tourism hot spot not just within the e.u. but also internationally are you under any pressure from the tourism industry within a very all from a neighboring austria for instance to try and open the borders. certainly we are in a very intensive dialogue and discussion with the tourism industry but on the other

hand. i'm deeply convinced that everyone understood that we had to impose this boss to restrictions and all the and also to impose these border controls because specially in austria and italy there was in a very dynamic spread off the coronavirus and certainly especially the state of the of area was one of the hot spots in sure many so i'm deeply convinced that everyone understood that for 8 weeks it was necessary to use. the migration to churn many especially if there is not an important purpose to to enter chairman he but now it's also time to to lower the sanctions and to lower the restrictions and this night we will open all the transit routes to

austria to switzerland and to france and we will now switch our border controls in this way that we impose smart all the controls only random controls case by case and not systematic inspections all the time which i now stand that i'm sorry to interrupt you there you talked about important bompas in traveling to germany and just off the back of that the advice from the jump in government is still to generally avoid unnecessary travel and here you're talking about opening the internal borders of the e.u. possibly from need june maybe even earlier do you not see a contradiction here. no because until them in the middle of june it's not possible to enter term any for a tourist purpose we now change. the circumstances under which you can enter many especially for relatives or

a for those couples who are not married but for tourists it's still not possible to enter chairman me until the 15th of june so we will continue border control it's certainly that intelligent this mothball the controls until the sick the 15th of june to france to switzerland and also to austria stefan modern a minister in the german interior ministry thank you so much for your time thank you let's have a look now at the latest developments in the corona virus a pandemic the johns hopkins university says the global death toll has topped 300000 there are more than 4400000 confirmed cases worldwide south sudan has registered its 1st death from the coronavirus turkey's death toll from covered 19 has now passed $4000.00 and slovenia has called an official end to its pandemic becoming the 1st european country to do so germany's economy has taken its hardest

hit since 2009 financial crisis contracting 2.2 percent in the 1st quarter of 2020 coronavirus destructions closed shops and restaurants wiped out tourism and sent manufacturing into a tailspin and the government says before any recovery takes hold there is more pain ahead. germany's g.d.p. data is due me even if slowly but surely the lights of the economy are being turned on again. folks like the country's biggest carmaker opened its man vosburgh plant a few weeks ago and despite distancing measures is edging towards full capacity. as well as manufacturing the services sector is returning to normal hairdressers opened last week well it's even possible now to meet friends for beer again some cafes and bars open their outdoors areas. while that suggests some hope a lot of damage has been done the german g.d.p. 1st quarter fall of 2.2 percent is a dramatic drop after years of relative stability it also means germany has now

officially entered recession with 2 successive quarterly falls and the 3rd quarter will be much worse although the drop is sharp it's not as bad as analysts feared and it's better than most eurozone countries are lockdowns have been longer and deeper although that is not necessarily a consolation for the german government given the state of the european economy as a whole the whole the i believe that it will be very very important for the revival of the german economy that the european economy is recovering to its full capacity . because we all dependent on suppliers all over europe we're dependent on exports from all over europe it's in our best interests that we do that as it does because . with berlin's tourist hotspots still eerily quiet due to travel restrictions it's a reminder that things won't fully get better anywhere in europe until they get better everywhere. and let's get more on this with the chief

economist at better bag bank meeting. analysts is saying and even worse lies ahead but germany's also slowly lifting restrictions is it safe to say then that the economy will soon get back on track. back on track is too big a word april was probably the worst month of war and as a prison part of the 2nd quarter and not of the 1st quarter for which we got the data today the 2nd quarter including the bad month of april will likely show would now the big drop in g.d.p. which could easily be up to 13 percent but if we look at the month rather than the quarters we will likely see that may and june are already noticeably better than april so we are not approach ignore most of what we are getting out of

the trough gregory. what does this mean long term do you see a long term damage to the german economy. i don't think that this will have a lot of long term damage to the german economy most of the things that had to be switched off the shops the restaurants and many other things can be switched on again there will be significant bankruptcies say among smaller restaurants but of the core of the economy say the middle east on the manufacturing companies will likely get through this sort of ok they have could take production once and if demand rebounds across the globe and at home they would simply switch on that production again the long term damage to germany shows up in higher public debt but probably not in the long term could take them and of its economic potential you did speak about significant bankruptcies do you think that the government should be

doing more to help offset the damage. by and large the government is doing enough to prevent bankruptcies or to relate bankruptcies there are individual sectors where you can say a bit more new may need to be done here and there but by and large the amounts of money that is making the vedas are too tight households workers and companies over the current deep deep deep recession that amount of money is a huge especially by international comparison so by and large beyond some fight germany does not need to do a lot more alarm bells not ringing there while meeting from bet on bag bank thank you very much for that you're welcome u.s. retail sales plunged by a massive 16 percent in april much worse than analysts expected as a crown of how to spend democrat domestic and at home the retail slump puts the

world's biggest economy on track for its worst 2nd quarter since the great depression businesses are reopening us states and local governments eased travel restrictions but stores are operating well be look at present and that affair as a 2nd wave of infections could keep consumers out of the shopping malls. so to dylan is our correspondent in frankfurt chelsea what does a collapse in sales like this mean for the u.s. economy. well it's really a stunning report and it does have big implications for the u.s. economy consumer spending is really the backbone of the economy and it drives about 2 thirds of g.d.p. and retail sales in particular are a big chunk of that so a decline like this will weigh on the broader u.s. economy and there's really no hope right now that it's going to get back to normal soon because if you look at the devastation in the u.s. labor market about 40000000 people have lost their jobs already so the outlook for

people wanting to get back and just stores wanting to spend a lot of money is really quite bleak right now. return to go bankrupt because the entire industry appears. this is certainly accelerating the retail apocalypse calls that we've had over the past several years retailers were already quite weak coming into this they've been dealing with the growth of amazon and the growth of online shopping and a lot of bigger retailers had a lot of they had these big store presences that weren't really making them a lot of money and now this is certainly this is certainly accelerating pressure and a lot of a lot of retailers will go bankrupt as a part of this. job to do any thank you very much for the. fares are growing in china for 2nd wave the coronavirus. asymptomatic users have

been reported in. the center of the regional outbreak. all 11000000 residents in the coming days. to get a usable some pull you have to rub this wall deep inside this through. to test the entire population of will hand you need to do this 11000000 times that is the enormous undertaking officials at the root of this global pandemic are attempting. you know to dial i'm a little bit worried it is a huge effort for the government to take these measures to provide a test for everyone. when you let you in but it shows the care for residents health . for own 2 weeks the chinese city will be transformed into a giant lab after a cluster of new cases spoke to local leaders testing will need to be rapidly

increased from capacity of around 100000 tests to more than 700000 per day. because i think it's necessary because after all a cluster of new infections appeared in one neighborhood just a few days ago there's a possibility of a reoccurrence of this epidemic we don't need to spend money out of our own pockets it will all be covered by the government so i think it's also a protection for our own lives and property the state the us i mean has at the bottom. for months residents were forbidden to go outside now they're being back into line up together and get tested not for the 1st time the world is watching will hand regular mass testing on this scale could be one route out of lockdown the few governments can marshal the resources required to pull it off. the 1st one of the year in the philippines has been complicated by the. tens of

thousands of people have been forced to break their locked arms. and suffered in facilities have been destroyed at least one person died as a weather system batter the country's east. when it rains it pours a typhoon in the middle of the pandemic filipinos are used to big storms but now typhoon has forced tens of thousands to evacuate their homes and gather close together when they should be sheltering in place to stop the spread of covert 19. on thursday some 200000 people spent the night in emergency accommodations due to social distancing mischa's some shelters only accepted half a capacity and people were required to cover their faces with shortages of masks many had to make do with whatever they could find. where. there's a lack of supplies and

a face masks. that's why we've started to make our own so we can avoid spreading the virus. have been trying to find more space for temporary shelters including reopening schools and churches shuttered for the lockdown. as the weather system passed it left a trail of destruction in eastern provinces thousands of flimsy homes have been flattened or blown away in other regions the storm has left people dealing with floodwater. the capital manila has now started preparing for impact despite weakening slightly as it moved towards the capital on friday fierce winds and rain are expected. islands off the philippines how bad is the damage. paresh government officials that i spoke to told me that managing a typhoon in the middle of

a pandemic is an absolute nightmare we've seen the photos from the provinces where the typhoon 1st made landfall and we saw thousands of people whose houses were just flat and by the by the very strong winds now these are the same people who have been evacuated into temporary shelters that are overcrowded and where sanitation is already very challenging now what's going to happen to them after the day when is the big question and they won't have homes to go home to where they can self isolate or quarantine their shoes are the people that are caught between surviving as a flu and surviving a raging pandemic as you mentioned this is a typhoon in the middle of the ground over the spend demick and people managing. government resources are very much overstretched and manpower and they're also very

fatigued it's been 2 months since we've had a lockdown so it's been very very difficult on the side of government and also the support and also on the side of the people of bearing down on emotional toil of the lock down but what now really heightens all of this is the typhoon people are cramped and evacuation centers where the things that are supposed to protect you from 1000 infections like social distancing and sanitation are notoriously difficult to to reinforce to enforce and implemented so that brings another danger of preventing a surge of infections after the typhoon is over and when people are allowed to go to leave the evacuation centers is specially since in some of the provinces there were very low transmission rates in the 1st place and we were just starting to see lockdown measures lifted as they continue tries to go back to normal and the typhoon is forecast to hit near the comforting me later today or early to morrow

what are the preparations in the city. there's been massive preventive evacuations also in manila and this is a major watch point for authorities over half of all of the coven $1000.00 infections are found in manila and in the neighboring cities and that's basically because many less so densely populated so the overcrowded situation that you see in the evacuation centers is what you see in manila and so now authorities will have to make sure that the manila doesn't turn into a petri dish for the covert 1000 inspections moving forward after the typhoon and sometimes in manila thank you very much for that. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world a hong kong for tester has been jailed for 4 years as the 1st and only person to plead guilty to rioting during last year's unrest the protests broke out over

concerns about reduced autonomy from mainland china a report released on friday cleared hong kong police of any wrongdoing in the tomah . sudden torrential rainfall has caused a river to overflow in northern milan the flooding overnight left a blackouts in some areas while houses and basements were inundated in one part of the city the waters rose $86.00 centimeters in just 10 minutes of thought is have now begun cleanup operations. germany's bundesliga kicks off again this weekend it's the 1st major european football league to resume play since go over $1000.00 restrictions suspended the cotton season in early march but the matches will be played in front of empty stands one of the matches is the rouer dobby between one of the fiercest rivalries in german soccer daughter and. the lost fans what it will be like being barred from entering the

stadium. this time everything is different the dormant stadium an empty cell section no faith in the emotions the prestigious darby between top men in salcombe has turned into a ghost game not a phone or did you feel i want i know hundreds of people there in the south section and you miss them you look forward to the game for weeks and you go there. and drink a beer. and now nothing without fans is like having sex on your own 6 along. in his life time brutal records has only missed 4 home games of his beloved dog he experienced his 1st dog minshull to darby 51 years ago so missing out now especially hurts. one concern for me number one you just can't change it i'm sad and i don't know what i'll do on saturday if the weather's good i'll probably go for a walk this season is over from age with domains opponent show everything is also

different the shelter fan pub distiller has only a few guests and to prevent fans from cheering too closely to one another at a shelter goal the pubs owner might not show the darby on t.v. but there is still a bit of anticipation. in. the obvious always highly emotional i don't sleep leading up to it and then what happens on saturday at 330 i don't know so well freak out then anyway but we have to keep our distance it's very important concepts to. the fans are looking forward to the 1st ghost darby in football history with mixed feelings but they all agree on one thing a darby without fans has no real value. that's certainly one side of the coronavirus bend the other side is health care workers and others who are suffering severe stress from their work fighting over one team one hospital in mexico has taken on

a special new employee whose mission is to help relieve that stress. preparing for work on the front lines and during a pandemic you can never be too careful. mate holly the 3 year old pug who works 2 hours a day at a mexican hospital to help raise spirits among health care workers cycled by his commandement their money getting some colleagues want to carry harley or play with him right away we have to consider the long lasting deprivation of physical contact most it's significant especially for staff on the front line to include even segregated themselves from their own families to avoid the possibility of infection . hollies i mean alysia says she's surprised by all the small. hollies brought out of the health care workers treating patients with 19. 1000000 important buffer against all kinds of stress psychological mental and emotional as we as health professionals experience on

a daily basis. during the long grueling days of work in the crown of our section of this hospital. that little holly can bring some of the tippity. this is it other news don't forget you can keep up to date on our website that's state of the dot com and you can follow us on twitter i'm instagram dr news i'm british manager i'll see you in a few minutes. the

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