this is d.w.b. news live from berlin and u.s. president donald trump issues an ultimatum a to b w h o he threatens to freeze funding for the organization permanently if he doesn't see improvement around a virus. also coming up germany and france proposing rescue fund up to half a trillion euros for europe's a battered economy is the deal comes after weeks of resistance from debt shy

germany and scientists are developing an app to improve contact tracing in south africa as it races to contain the corona virus. i'm sorry kelly wild to the program u.s. president donald trump has threatened to cut funding to the world's 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 quote 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 drugs why trucks a cork plant what it does not trump has repeatedly tells of the drug as a treatment for covert 1000 despite warnings. medical experts about its potentially

dangerous side effects 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 your project 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 ask more now we're joined by d.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.

all off 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 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 how dangerous it is that 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 politically is to teach it glee to his advantage and meantime we have the search for a treatment a 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. you know good question what happened this this came 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'll remember this came before just shortly before he then also suggested to 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 hydrograph for clearing. in a not controlled doctor with doctors and a clinical environment 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 stephanie joining us from washington with the view from there thank you . and let's have a look at the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic unemployment has skyrocketed since the pandemic began newly released numbers in the united kingdom showed jobless claims there jumped to more than 2000000 in april that's the highest level since 1906 in chile of capital some 2 jago protesters have clashed with

police over a lack of food and essential supplies the lockdown has forced many people out of work and 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. france and germany 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 the sectors of the economy hit hardest by the coronavirus lockdowns it's an about face for the german chancellor angela merkel for weeks germany has resisted the idea of collective e.u. debt to absorb the pen demick 2nd nomic shock. it's wishful thinking to hope europe's economies could bounce back as easily as these predictions 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 but i've said 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 resources will of course if this purpose invests in digitalization and the green deal to cope with the climate catastrophe this will inspire a new dynamic for the future i am in the field of health we will aim for cooperation to apply all we flew on from the crisis together by good 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. at war now we are joined by d.w. political correspondent hog's brown from our parliamentary studios how big a step is this especially for germany. it's germany has been resisting for weeks plans to issue bonds by the rio pier and union and other was to go into debt and so that germany ends up guaranteeing the debt of other countries in the european union that's something the german government and the conservative politicians in germany

have been refusing to do for months and years in effect now what's happening is that there's a bit of a detour via the e.u. budget these 500000000000 euros that are being proposed will be come part of the e.u. budget and within that budget in the end germany does become responsible for the deaths of other countries so in effect for i'm going to america and the government it's been the complete about to and it's by no means we have to mention a done deal there's the issue 1st of all of a political consensus domestically also on the e.u. level what is the biggest challenge now i mean is it convincing the other e.u. partners to come on brought on board the french president or model not chromo said yesterday that with germany and france agreeing on something like this the proposal does have a chance to get through with all the other e.u. countries in the end all 27 e.u. countries have to agree their various parliaments have to agree and as possible

there's a possible legal challenge in various countries as well because of the date that the euro european union would then have to take up at the same time several countries such as all stria the netherlands denmark and sweden have already signaled that they are against these plans as they have been for months as well so it's going to be a very very difficult process within the institutions of european union to push through this plan we heard micron appealing for more european sovereignty merkel suggesting that changes to the e.u. treaty need to be made what should we make of all of this. well micro has been pushing for a long time to force the european union to become more integrated especially on the financial level this would be seen as a chance to do that and that. changes in the european union treaty that's what i was referring to the political correspondent hans bent thank you. brazil has taken over 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 in more than 150 doctors from cuba in order to help cope with the 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 hot spots residents from one of the biggest in the city of san paolo march to protest against their plight with no space for social distancing and lacking medical care there especially at risk. president 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 in this in a bad state and is behind in its response. should have been done a long time back in. early to 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 government says the worst of the crisis should be over by july and the economy

will be able to pick up from august. not everyone shares that confidence. and let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world a group of labor unions has filed a complaint of systemic sexual harassment against the fast food giant mcdonald's the union says the workers were abused at restaurants in countries including the us britain and australia the chain insists that it does not control working conditions in franchise outlets. members of the extremist group boko haram have killed at least 20 people in north eastern in a village in the north east of nigeria eyewitnesses say that the islamist storm to the village and 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. just. for the coronavirus and emic is likely to hit

india's economy very hard goldman sachs expecting the indian economy to shrink by as much as 45 percent in the current quarter india has just extended the lockdown because of corona and although there has been some loosening for many it's a challenge just to survive. traffic in the streets of the indian capital new delhi is only increase again india has just extended the coronavirus lockdown until the end of may but it's relax the number of restrictions for example small shops will be allowed to open again and restaurants can do takeaway business many merchants are celebrating the easing of india's lockdown but millions are still teetering on the brink of economic ruin. you know what was going to go it's difficult for us we have to pay rent for 3 months we have to pay our workers it's a huge problem we can't do anything without the government helping us it's not like

customers will start turning up the moment we open our doors. in reality my business is down to just about 35 percent of what it was i'm not getting any cigarette supplies to sell and even those i am getting are so expensive that if i sell them customers want to pick a fight with me or. the extended lockdown for 1300000000 people comes as the number of infections continues to rise rapidly officially 91000 people have been ill with covered 19 and 2800 have died as a result but not enough tests are being carried out the number of n reported cases is likely to be much higher the measures against the spread of the corona virus mainly affect the poorest of the population day laborers and migrant workers but there is the risk of further outbreaks says those workers too in their backs on major cities such as new delhi or mumbai and try to get to their home

provinces now rising infection figures being reported in those provincial regions. and from where we can speak now to journalists or of the attendant who is joining us from delhi with the indian economy shrinking what does all of this mean for the country's most vulnerable. so you know the country's most volatile of. existence and with the lock down we've sort of seen the people or so entirely left out of whatever measures the government took to go to you know the virus at least initially since then the government has announced a series of released measure those like additional full greens that will be provided to migrant leave for instance for the next month or a very basic minimum of cash deposit in bank gums but we're really speaking about a population that has no savings nor dissolves and do require a lot well on

a daily basis just for survival so we're really not feel indication at all and when the government plans on opening the economy outcompete their futures i would say you have simply left a lot. and we also know that the future for many small businesses is also at stake some of the restrictions have been ease for example small shops can open again what is the situation for small entrepreneurs in the country. last week the government announced a stimulus package of 266000000000 dollars to help the economy better by a little bit but since you know the details of this package have really come about economists and business owners are quite happy the crux is that the government is trying to stimulate create liquidity will supply without trying to inject money into creating demand it's something that you saw in your story as well so what that

happens is that at one level small businesses have had issues of supply chains breaking with labor going missing just because of the lock down but even if they are allowed to open up now if there's no increase in demand if the government is not going to help people lose a couple of the income losses that they apart in the last leaks would that increase in demand the economy really can't get up on its feet and it's the same for small business owners as well they need demand to really be able to get their business. they want to thank you very much journalists are of a tandem joining us from delhi we appreciate it. you're watching news still to come on the program the bundesliga had one game last after its return to action but the stands empty laver couzin put on a real show for the cameras at struggling brands stay tuned for that.

first finding people who have contracted covert 1000 before they can spread the disease and tracing their contacts has become a priority for governments across the world scientists in south africa are developing an app that helps to track those contacts if this app works it could help make up for the shortfall in test sink passive there. i feel that music city fall market in cape town for the pandemic the promise markets through 7000 visitors a day now just 700 to arrive and they are only allowed to buy essential and the strict procedures. is what i'm doing today everybody comes to the market i take the form i take the move i explain to them the reason i'm doing it which is for prepping and creating in the case of. being a notifiable disease the shoppers appear happy to cooperate i'm comfortable i understand why. and it's great that we can get to support the local part here.

you know even for you to take care. of the people by not reading device the idea is that if there's a case of coronavirus at the market authorities can one of those who may be affected by collecting people's names and contact details is an easy way to make contact tracing possible it is obviously not the most effective way and researchers at the university of cape town argue would make things easier and more effective. yes. has overseen the development of the f kovi id every participant can register online and will then receive a q.r. codes this can be saved to one smartphone or simply printed out as fewer than half of all south africans own a smartphone. i can now use the code the idea that if i am a very fine so let's say i'm a taxi operate our i'm a security guard i want to scan use s q r s

a come in so you can. scan. it shows my name it should look like a picture eventually it shows that i haven't been so off test that there's no information about whether i saw patrick covered from covert what has happened in the bank and is that the app has sent and you're not patient to the wallet of the user and it simply has found the address of that user by looking at the q.r. code the data is not stored centrally to address privacy concerns the data is only stored on user's phones if someone tests positive he or she can agree to sharing the anonymous data with the public health authorities and to one of the users who wear the same location. coordinates a team of 150 volunteers who develop the kovi id app today they're presenting their project in the vip see now to political decision makers from several african countries much about the research shows that in order for content tracing to work

we can we need to identify 60 percent of the patients as soon as they have symptoms and we need to find 50 percent of them contacts basically instantaneously if you take even 456 days to figure out all the contacts that somebody was positive had and to to follow up with them you will be too slow to effect it's least curb the spread of the virus but the biggest problem is the insufficient testing capacity that south africa has already performed more than 350000 covered 19 tests by far the most of any african country but now laboratories are overwhelmed and often need more than 5 days to get a result something that no effort can fix. on now we had to fry. which has lost one of its was popular and prolific actors michelle people as died at the age of $94.00 he started more than $220.00 films in

a career that spanned more than 6 decades there's a look back now at the life of one of the giants of europeans. a standing ovation for a great film star at the 2011 european film awards mission piccoli 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 as much as audiences. 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 joined. his costars included catherine deneuve brigitte bardot and romish. 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 artist for eternity and given the lasting power of cellulite it looks like he was right. well now we had to sports and the quiet stand and stunted goal celebrations seen in the bundesliga matches in recent days may be strange and unfamiliar but there's nothing new about the goal scoring talent of laver cousens young star. he netted 2 as lever crews in return to action on monday night with

a 41 victory at strugglers have been. the closing act of the reopening weekend underneath the visa study on lights there's much about the blues league in the strange times like the sight of teams emerging separately from the tunnel that makes the match day feel like a training exercise as it was with training ground ease that labor queues in breeze through braman defense to net the opener in the 28th minute mussa d.r.v. charge unchallenged to the touchline and picked out an unmarked car i haven't seen who put the guests in front. braman were back level just 2 minutes later when leo pitts imports corner was turned by a crafty théodore gabriel selassie back but just 3 minutes after that laver couzens lead had been restored to yet another free header for one decade whose 2 goals gave his side an advantage that they carried into half time. they drew further in front

on the hour mark when mitchell visor profited from some serious confusion in the brain and back line to make it 31. and in the 78th minute carrying demi a guy was able to put the result beyond doubt after a small true ball from covering better robbie and an early dive from keeper years you pavlik. both teams pick up where they left off before the break a dream restart for later clues and a nightmare one for embattled break. a quick reminder now the top stories we're following for you here on g.w. news u.s. president donald trump has threatened to pull the u.s. out of the world health organization trump accuses the global health body of mishandling the coronavirus crisis and favor tism toward china. with that now you're up to date w. news remember you can always keep up to date with all the latest news on our web site that's at the dot com you can follow us on twitter and instagram too i'm sorry

kelly in berlin i'll be back again at the top of the hour meantime thank you so much for joining us we hope you stay safe and take care. or.

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