documentary film. starts. w. . this is. half a trillion euros germany and france joined forces and funds to lead europe out of the coronavirus crisis. president. proposed a 500000000000 euro rescue falling for europe's battered economy and germany is reportedly offering its excellent credit rating to help. for the fall also coming

up tonight more criticism from the trump administration aimed at the world health organization white house officials say the w.h.o. a well the coronavirus out of control. over 100 countries are now backing an inquiry into how the organization handled the we'll talk with a doctor from the. good to have you with us we now have a 1st cost projection for rescuing europe's economy from the pandemic half a trillion. german chancellor angela merkel and french president. have outlined a joint plan to speed europe's economic recovery it will be a rescue fund to boost hard hit sectors of the economy and in a 1st chance or men. work with her longstanding resistance to the e.u.

raising joint debt to fund recovery efforts here's more now from merkel and micron as they were detailing their proposal earlier today for the franco german cooperation and franco german friend. leads us to setting a signal we know that we are 27 and when france and germany give a signal no i think the whole of europe is in better shape to form an opinion and to progress that's why we want to issue 500. 1000000000 euro fun on the shirt term for. expenses for the sectors and regions that are hardest hit by this recovery fund of 500000000000 euros and it's not going to be a grant to a region or a sector that is going to be

a budgetary fate. and it's going to compliment the $500000000000.00 that our finance ministers have already agreed upon in that it's going to be delivered by the european investment bank $500000000000.00 by the finance ministers and 500000000000 budgetary aides through the franco german initiative we think this is absolutely necessary in order to compliment the initiative already taken on the national level it's. more a lot of it potentially available but as the w.c. political editor mckeel academy tells us the money will not be your hand oh. well they want to put both 500000000000 euros extra on the table but that comes with say some terms attached i've got that paper here they want to see europe i'm. much

stronger from this crisis now an arguably everybody does want to see the country a much stronger but also the whole question of whether that could lead to more responsibility shifting towards brussels is a debate they want to have notably the whole euro bond debate is off the table certainly that particular what many in france have been on the opposite end of that debate for a long time now they demonstrate unity and the willingness particularly of germany to put more money on the table because after all 27 percent of everything that's decided upon within the e.u. budget would be instead there was a mcculloch of their reporting here in berlin the united nations will most likely ask the world health organization to conduct an independent inquiry into how the coronavirus pandemic began $120.00 countries including china are giving their support for the investigation which would also look at how the w.h.o.

would handle the start of the outbreak and the overwhelming show of support came in today's global meeting of the world health agencies several world leaders appeared via video link and most stressed the need for international cooperation in fighting the pandemic some countries led by the u.s. have criticised the w.h.o. for mistakes made back in january and february as president trump has suspended u.s. funding for the organization accusing it of being too lenient on china where the virus was 1st detected covert 19 is tragically taken hundreds of thousands of lives impacted millions of people and a deep damage to the world economy. we must be frank about one of the primary reasons this outbreak spun out of control there was a failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed and that failure cost many lives in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous cost for the entire

world we saw that w. 2 failed at its core mission of information sharing and transparency when member states do not act in good faith this cannot ever happen again well more now i'm joined by dr margaret harris from the world health organization in geneva the doctors it's good to see you again we've got one $120.00 countries that are in agreement that the w.h.o. should carry out an independent investigation of itself is that possible. so what they are in agreement with is this should be an independent investigation of where what we have learned from this outbreak and that's really really important to go at what's gone right what's gone wrong and what we can apply going full it of course how that's going to be set up and how that's going to be done it's not clear and way

a secretary at the table that if i think it's great no that's not what we will be doing but it is up to the member states to decide how it will be done so when begun by us the secretary of. the w.h.o. will obviously use science to guide any investigation but if the w.h.o. wants to deliver clear answers it's going to have to do forensics investigating it's going to have to ask labs in china that have worked with coronavirus before to open up their books does the w.h.o. does it have the forensics expertise to do that and does it have the political authority to make that happen. so under the international health regulations we all school countries and all countries and of i don't think action to share data but we cannot compel so but again any kind of investigation of that kind you need to set the questions you need to set the parameters you need to have agreement by the countries how these things were done so we're quite

a long way off working out the actual need to gritty of such an investigation we know that all stroy in the united states reportedly want a resolution calling for harder measures against china china has agreed to portably because the resolution has been watered down the european union we understand was the mediator in the bridge builder between the 2 sides can you confirm that is that what happened all those discussions happen between the member states so you have to understand the way it works it's a member state organization and they are our bosses but we the secretariat do the work so that's why kampala but like the politicians and like them the the stuff of the health department and we have the stuff to do the work the member states do the negotiation certainly from australia's presentation they gave. it they had a desire for an investigation looking at what we can learn from what's gone on before and what we can take it. china says it wants an investigation to happen

after the pandemic is over but you and i both know that that could be of some time a long time in the future is that in anyone's interest to wait that long. so refuse things that you you know especially when you've got something that's going as long as it is there we actually review the evidence all the time in fact we have already had need to bend and investigation all over really response by something called our independent oversight assessment committee that look at our emergency response they were set up in 2016 when we were formed in order to have much stronger operational response and they were already built and said the things that with that had just been mentioned giving maybe more powers to ask countries or compel countries to give better data these things they've already raised so ongoing

investigations can certainly be done it's not clear exactly when they can be done and let me just ask you dr harris as a as a medical professional want to get your reaction to news today that a former suit has reported success in its early human trials with a vaccine what your reaction is that that's the 1st report that we have so far that . well i haven't actually seen the studies but quite a number of groups have certainly said promising. the same promising responses in the human studies but the issue is you need to have a study for quite a period with a large number of people in order to ensure not only that they are effective but also the safe safe yeah and but we're certainly happy to have the good news to report tonight dr margaret harris with the world health organization joining us tonight from geneva as always dr harris we appreciate your time and your insights

thank you thank you. our let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world members of the extremist group boko haram have killed at least 20 people in a village in the woods eastern nigeria eyewitnesses said the islamist stormed the village began shooting just as people were preparing to break their ramadan fast at sundown boko haram has now been waging its insurgency for more than a decade churches in italy are reopening for services to mark the occasion pope francis has led a mass in a society chapel of st peter's basilica in the batek and the basilica had for mark was to encourage social distancing and worshippers temperatures were checked as they arrived for the service. in the french acting legend michel piccoli has died at the age of 94 because he had a string of starring roles in

a long and distinguished career including work with directors alfred hitchcock and . his family said that he died from what it called a cerebral accident. the german foreign minister held a video conference with several of its counterparts across the e.u. to discuss efforts to restart europe's struggling tourism industry summer is coming after the talks the foreign minister of germany said that he's hopeful that tourism abroad would be possible after the 15th of june but he said that it would not be a quick return to business as usual like other nations pressure is building here in germany to once more open the country to international tourists. this is germany 2nd biggest hotel the park in brighton the house of land most some is over 900 of its 1000 rooms are booked but because of the current travel restrictions

right now only 25 are in use. we're reaching our limits it's becoming unbearable we desperately need travel as it's incredibly important for germany to restart business and tourism activities we need people to come to the city again but when is the top distillation we need tourists here last year 8 out of 10 overnight stays in this city were from the tourism sector. frontin you are not only in the. us also into the station sector. 5 shaggin who runs a restaurant a. square says in non corona times 50 percent of the diners are tourists from abroad he's been allowed to host customers on his premise is again for a few days now. because all of us kept a distance no need to tell anyone not everyone knows to keep 1.5 meters apart now relatively good start when we get a little salt. such restrictions will be the price to pay for tourists in europe

for a while to come according to the german government in exchange for many steps towards restoring tourism in $11.00 countries in europe. german foreign minister announced on monday that he hopes to allow travel to and from 10 european countries again from the 16th of june. is. given to us and we shouldn't let ourselves be fooled into thinking that there can be a swift return to business as usual we do want to create the conditions so that people can go on holidays this summer but we have to have responsible conditions in place. this is why it will be necessary to tell people very clearly that there will be restrictions in place everywhere they go on beaches and restaurants in cities in the stores. in the in instead. lens restaurants are prepared

customers already have to register their contact details if somebody does catch the coronavirus it will help health officials trace the source. you're watching the news live from berlin at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the. combating the pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona. special and next on d. w.

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