managed by for. this is. paying the price of. the. german economy spinning into recession. in the 1st quarter. in more than a decade. fears growth. positive for. people in the camps across.

the forges ahead this week as the 1st major european league. in front of. it's good to have you with us. starts to take its economic toll the latest figures show that the german economy has taken its hardest hit since the 2009 financial crisis contracted by 2.2 percent in the 1st quarter of this year. destructions closed shops and restaurants wiped out tourism and sent manufacturing into a tailspin and the government says there's more pain ahead even before any recovery takes hold. 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 main volves 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 where lock downs 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. 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 are 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 that is. with berlin's tourist hot spots 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 bet and bag bank meeting all go up and listen saying and even once quarter lies ahead but germany's also stoli lifting restrictions is it safe to say then that the economy will soon get back on track

back on track is too big it would april was probably the worst month of war and as a previous part of the 2nd quarter not of the 1st quarter for which we got the data today the 2nd quarter ensuring the bad month of april will likely show it 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 approaching normal what the are getting out of the trough gravity. 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 over k. they have could take production once and if demand rebalance 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 germany is making to vedova to tide 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 the on some fine germany does not need to to do a lot more alarm bells not ringing their well august meeting from bet on bag bank thank you very much for that you're welcome. emergency teams are scrambling to prevent an uncontrolled outbreak of the us in the world's largest refugee settlement 2 people have tested positive for covert 19 in a refugee camp in bangladesh the 1st confirmed case is the official said the patients were being treated in isolation almost 2000 people who came into contact with them are important for weeks aid agencies have warned that cramped conditions and inadequate sanitation have left the 1000000 people who live in the camps dangerously exposed to an outbreak of the virus.

from care international and has walked in the refugee camps. in a bar. looking at about $1000000.00 people crammed together in these camps is a corona virus outbreak only a matter of time. defense actually we don't know anything yet. but finally. has become exposed. to the camps and. the 1st time. one. of the debates is so i mean we have to get fully of that the situation. is. we have yet to make any comment about. one of the most crowded refugee

camps on the planet and there have been no warnings for a long time that there could be a possible outbreak have any measures been taken to prevent an outbreak of this sort. yes of course. since the very beginning when governor in 1000 was visible in country we have started. to reduce like. mostly the pretty even directed. hand washing and motivating the people and counseling them about the social distancing and also. behavioral pattern for example we have motivated them not to come in close contact shaking hands and embracing this kind of physical contact contact we have motivated them to avoid also we have

been a stool plan is there not to be into social gathering many people together and in our activities what we have done we have significantly reduced the. number of peoples and gives them into our contact for example. we are now doing our stations with a very minimum number of people and maintaining adequate physical distance and. we have also they have mentioned we are motivating them not to gather in the public places and you know our side of the center we unlocked allowing many people to stand in the queue a maximum 5 people standing in the side of a skew with maintaining distance from each other for this kind of activities and mostly we have distributed hand-washing salts and harassing a station to fight already distributed to $5000.00 households and in the coming

weeks we are going to see with law of. large river there for the time being. doctors are now there thank you very much for that. to jump in our industry got itself again this weekend it's the 1st major european football league to resume play since covert $1000.00 restrictions suspend of the season in mid march but the matches will be played in front of empty stands one of this weekend's games between 2 of the fiercest rivals in jump. and. fans how they felt about being barred from entering the stadium. this time everything is different the dog stadium an empty cell section no faith in no emotion the prestigious darby between has turned into a ghost. not a 4 nor 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 alone 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 now especially hurts. comes on the money 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 for mange with domains opponents so everything is also different the shock of this stilla has only a few guests and to prevent fans from cheering too closely to one another at a shelter goal the club's owner might not show the darby on t.v. but there is still a bit of anticipation. it. is 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 anyway but we have to keep our distance it's very important to studs. 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. so the point is they got ticks off this weekend as the 1st major league in europe to get back in action meadows from beat up 2 sports is here to tell us all mark welcome. and number of close contact to reduce us to not allowed in germany how abundantly your boss was able to persuade authorities to go ahead with this it was basically authorities pushing forward as well because they see it as a boost to the morale in general i mean millions of people watched blunders they get every week and if the bundesliga comes back then it means there's a little bit of hope that this really strange situation is maybe coming to an end

it's also a financial issue of course as we just heard i mean a lot of clubs could have gone bust if the league never came back and that's the main driver of it for honest and also it's a favor in the cap of germany because they're the 1st major league to manage to do this yes it is very strict hygiene regulations yes there's no fans at the games but leagues around the world are watching jim in the premier league is basically going to try and. what the bundle nigger is doing in england normally it's the way around but jimmy really is a trendsetter this time setting the standards there but much as you said we've played behind closed doors which is to say north fans but when the logged on began some fans did gather outside studio do you see that happening this time as well police are worried about it but i don't think it's going to be a major factor i think most people in germany have been pretty good with the rules over the last couple of months and you know it's also a way fans tend to be the most fervent fans the ones who travel long distances to games now as if they're not going to bother going on hundreds of kilometers to go

to a game they can't get into and also it's kind of pointless to stand outside the joy of standing outside for people who say don't have tickets is to hear the crowd noise and hear the reaction when there's a goal if they stand outside they won't even know they've been there's been a goal if you're going to go then all it's going to happen is you going to get arrested so i don't really see it happening yes at the paris anjum and game in march there were a lot of fans outside and that was a problem but that was at the very start of this crisis i think 2 months on everyone's kind of got more used to it but as i say the police our own god friendster we watch on t.v. but then there's also going to be another special character augsburg koch who is going to have to stay away for a rather special reason yes i mean obviously all the teams have been quarantined this week ahead of the games to avoid infection. helic decided to nip out of his hotel to go and get some toothpaste but idea because now they said you cannot be at the game on saturday he is barred from the game yesterday to negative coronavirus

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