this is d w news live from berlin and u.s. president donald trump issues an ultimatum to the w.h.o. he threatens to freeze funding for the organization permanently if he doesn't see improvements within 30 days specifically he accuses the global health body of favoritism toward china what does this mean for global efforts to combat the coronavirus. also coming up germany and france proposing a rescue fund of half a trillion euros for europe's battered economies it's an about face for german chancellor angela merkel but she says the goal is to help europe emerge stronger

from the coronavirus crisis and french cinema loses 8 legends a prolific star of the stage and silver screen dies at the age of $94.00. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has threatened to cut funding to the world health organization permanently unless it implements substantial improvements over the next 30 days in a letter to the director general of the w.h.o. trump says that the organization gives terrible advice for fighting the coronavirus and accuses it of being too close to china the us president has also said that he is currently taking the anti malaria drug hydrochloric quick work. tom has

repeatedly tell of the drug as a treatment for covert 19 despite medical warning but i get a lot of tremendously positive news on the hydroxy and i say hey you know the expression i've used what do you have to lose ok what do you have to lose. to take it for about a week for about a week and a half every day at some point every day i take a pill every day. at some point up what i'd like to do is i'd like to have the cure and or the vaccine and that will happen i think 1st. and let's get more now we are joined by g.w. correspondent stefan simons who is in washington stuff and a lot to unpack there but let's start 1st with the president's letter to the head of the w.h.o. why how significant is this. it is significant it is the 2nd shot against against w.h.o. and against china let's not forget that is what is seemingly behind this action the

president had about a month ago already blamed the w h o of being basically the right hand of china in masking what the truth is in his mind and that is that the virus comes fair and square from china and that china fails to inform the united states and other countries early enough about the significance and the danger of the virus now this is the 2nd one the 2nd shot so to speak against w h o that the delegates or just the bidding for the china and that comes just days after china said they are more than happy to fund the w.h.o. investigation as also more research into where the virus not only comes from but how dangerous it is while everybody knows the dangers of this it killed by now and 90000 plus americans and countless other people around the world for the president this is also very very important politically speaking because it caters to his clear and tell it caters to his followers they blame china also as being the

enemy who brought so to speak the virus to america. and the president is using this political easter teacher glee to his advantage and meantime we have to search for a treatment to search for a vaccine and at the white house president trump surprised reporters as he was wrapping up a meeting to announce that he's taking hydroxy chloroquine that's of course the b n t malaria drug that he's been touting to ward off corona virus what happened there. yes good question what happened this is kind of a little bit as a surprise for everybody. as you said he's promoting hundreds are scoring for the last 2 months something people should really use and you remember this came before just shortly before he then also suggested that people should maybe drink some disinfectant to clean their lungs and to be preventing any infection

from from the coronavirus and repeat drinking this but you're right. still the f.d.a. and government agency does not recommend anybody using hydro rucks or clearing. in a not controlled dr with doctors and a clinical environment of the president he also sees and finds that he is that those rules are recommendations do not apply to him and we know that u.s. health officials have expressed skepticism about clarke and as a treatment. is joining us from washington with the view from there thank you. and let's have a look now at the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic more than 100-1000 people have now died in the u.s. due to covert 19 in the capital of chill a protesters have clashed with police over

a lack of food and essential supplies the lockdown has forced many people out of work france is reporting a dip in deaths from the virus but also a slight uptick in confirmed cases people are urged to continue social distancing as other restrictions are eased. well germany and france have announced a half a trillion euro plan to help europe weather the worst crisis in decades the proposal calls for a rescue fund to boost sectors of the economy hardest hit by the pandemic it's an about face for the german chancellor angela merkel for weeks germany has resisted the idea of collective borrowing on behalf of e.u. member states that are less fiscally conservative it's wishful thinking to hope europe's economies could bounce back as easily as these provisions after months under lockdown even before the e.u. commission presents its aid package berlin and paris are rushing through a joint initiative for economic recovery in a bid to put this crippling face behind them. in

a joint news conference with the french president chancellor angela merkel stressed the coronavirus pandemic is in danger and european unity. more steps by the fund has to help ensure that all countries in europe can react appropriately but. this requires an extraordinary one off effort which france and germany are ready to undertake provided it if this is the result of bilateral work in cooperation with our partners i'm convinced that this plan provides the groundwork to revive our lives our economies and our societies. to offset the drastic decline in production transport and tourism across europe this development fund will get an injection of 500000000000 euros e.u. budget funds will be made available to the hardest hit regions and sectors. the overall plan is designed to strengthen the e.u.'s future viability of the in these

results this will of course if this purpose will invest into just how these asian and the green deal to cope with the climate catastrophe history and spy and new dynamic for the future am in the field of health we will aim for cooperation to apply all we flew on from the crisis to get them by their design tight that sounds like support for the e.u. commission whose economic recovery plan is being drafted the commission's president is expected to present it next week and let's get more now we are joined by political correspondent hans broncs he has the view from our parliamentary studio how big a move of this is this especially for germany while you can say that for germany and i'm glad it's a total reversal of the positions at the moment so far germany has said that it does not want to go in t. a debt for other countries it does not want to guarantee debts for countries such as italy that would not be able to repay such debts and all the proposal is that

the european union at a central level would take up that's there are in fact guaranteed by all countries in the european union that money is going to be paid directly to the countries concerned not as a loan but as a direct payment and the repayment of the learner's then the responsibility of all other countries in the european union communally in other words germany too would be standing off for some other state in that sense it's a total reversal of german positions this plan meantime it is by no means a done deal is the real challenge now convincing the other e.u. partners to come i'm bored. absolutely that's going to be a very very difficult task already the countries opposed to such measures such as australia the netherlands denmark and sweden have voice their opposition to this new move at the same time one has to say president mccall of france said if germany and france cannot agree on anything then there will be no agreement in the european union so the agreement between these 2 very important central countries in europe

is an important basis for the possibility of this plan being adopted but one can expect the that this will take a long time to agree on and in the end all $27.00 parliaments in the european union would have to agree agree agree to it and then they are still legal problems that might present themselves problems such as that the foundation documents of the european union. say that they your opinion is not allowed to take up debts and also the countries of the various constitutional colds in the various european countries might also object to these plans so there is a very very long way to go before this plan actually gets put into action political correspondent hans brunt thank you. now brazil has overtaken britain with the 3rd highest number of coronavirus cases in the world more than a quarter of a 1000000 brazilians have been infected and nearly 17000 have died the government

is calling on the more than 150 doctors from cuba to help cope with this search. brazil's hospitals are running dangerously close to capacity rio de janeiro's famous maracana football stadium now serving as a makeshift over spill facility for covert 19 patients. shantytowns are among the hotspots residents from one of the biggest in the city of san paolo marched to protest against their plight with no space for social distancing and lacking medical care there especially at risk. president jaya both scenario has fiercely criticized lockdowns imposed by brazil's regional state governors because of the impact on the economy but they insist there is no alternative. to beat the economic crisis we have to beat the coronavirus the enemy of the economy is not quarantine it is the pandemic and that is why we

have to provide all the necessary support for science for medicine for health. many brazilians are angry they say they are the ones suffering because the authorities acted too slowly. but i feel that brazil is in a bad state and is behind in its response down should have been done a long time back in getting. people into work people need to eat what they're seeing the government playing politics so nobody is taking it seriously despite the seriousness of the problem. the seriousness of. the government says the worst of the crisis should be over by july and the economy will be able to pick up from oldest not everyone shares that confidence.

and well now we had to france where which has lost one of its most popular and most prolific actors michelle has died at the. of 94 he started more than 220 films in a career that spanned more than 6 decades here's a look now at the life of one of the giants of european cinema. a standing ovation for a great film star at the 2011 european film awards mission people leave was honored for a lifetime of screen acting he was then in his mid eighty's. for more than 60 years michel piccoli was one of the best known faces of european cinema his versatility delighted directors this much his audience is. one of his final rose was the pope in we have a pope directed by nanni moretti in 2011 i. immediately said yes but the director did not i was very happy that he asked me to

audition for the role. among the directors he worked with alfred hitchcock respond well and join. his costars included catherine deneuve brigitte bardot and rumi schneider. michel piccoli acted in more than 220 films. one of the most memorable was the dark comedy log on boof in which she played one of 4 friends who willfully eat themselves to death. in an interview marking his 85th birthday piccoli said i'm an artist artists for a turn a take and given the lasting power of so you know it it looks like he was right. and with that now you're up to date on you news i'm sarah kelly ember landing you so much for joining us and don't forget you can always get more of our website

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