morning. the but. the at. this is g.w. news a live from berlin site found on tanith crashes or shore up forcing of millions in india and bangladesh to flee the storm has already claimed life pushes inland approach a virus pandemic is making it even more difficult to keep people safe also coming up. germany's bees are in decline and environmental activists say humans are to blame the issue has caused a political fight that pits environmentalist against chancellor on the americans coalition.

i'm claire richardson welcome to the show one of the strongest psych loans in decades psych lone pine has hit northeastern india and bangladesh where millions have fled to emergency shelters at least 22 deaths have been blamed on the storm so far and authorities say there is a risk of devastating floods along the low lying coast authorities are also worried about the spread of coronavirus in cycling shelters where they say social distancing is impossible. again a last ditch effort these bangladeshis are preparing for the worst. feeling sandbags with their bare hands they brave conditions board on by one of the most powerful cyclons in decades. meteorologists have dubbed it a super cyclamen and as it headed inland it lived up to that name it sent water

surging inland some 25 kilometers to the damaged compounded by winds of up to 185 kilometers per hour. in comic conditions inside kid of bangladesh volunteers helped to bring locals to safety more than 2 and a half 1000000 people who were evacuated to shelters like this one which brought new concerns amid the corona pandemic but what the day you can put it there is a shortage of drinking water there sanitation facilities for them but nurse or should distance is maintained for that reason the fear of the corona virus spread is persistent the. already scrambled to evacuate residents in the cyclons projected path of destruction but that may leave them vulnerable to an increased risk of the fires 50 kilometers west into co-pay attempts at social distancing futile.

i think there are too many people here it's impossible to maintain social distancing i'm very concerned we couldn't stay home due to the storm and here is the tension of coronal i'm just trying to dodge both. and i'm precedented challenge for millions in pan couldn't have come at a worse time well our correspondent michele wall has been tracking developments on that story for us from delhi good to see animation can you tell us what about the trajectory of the storm how it is going and whether we can think that we've seen the worst of the damage so far. well the bluster of the stalling dumbstruck the impact it's had on after making that meeting very behind us but of course the assessment of the true assessment of the damage it has wrecked with awful all of the flaws of the do you want us to do it already that have been devoid of your supply that have been cleaned up through to communication lines have been knocked

down and even the best thing velocity of those without electricity in batches well the night yesterday now talking to you dr steve has already estimate that damages to the extent of 12000000000 euros so does definitely have been a heavy impact off today but of course we receive what exactly be sent of the damage has been over the course of the day with our millions of people evacuated ahead of this storm or have efforts to prepare for the cyclon paid off. in india specific to be the national disaster that results. in in the case of disasters have made significant gains not a similar storm occurred in state tourists up 20 years ago and close to 10000 people lost their lives during that and why that have already been reports of loss of life to numbers and nowhere close to that so i hope it is important to know what the damage that has occurred to intrust structure not these areas in the be all

being well already gone just a stone's and such cyclonic events and now because of climate change the addition and will frequent extreme but it events so there is a real keys to the need to invest now in more to cylinder infrastructure specially given the damage now i don't think estimates run up to billions of euros let's talk about the topic touching just about everything these days there is concern over the spread of coronavirus as people flee their homes into crowded shelter is how else could this disaster affect india's response to the pandemic. well you can never actually cool the clocks have to be able to do more to back lesions and just because going to fusing clee it well they will jog the brave the storm. how did evacuations and just read and what about contracting the cronut lattice already india has been under lockdown and this will impact sources of deployed to help

those in the crowd and also there have been thousands of migrants logans and just like new delhi and mumbai many of these people are headed to west bengal amaris how exactly desolate use continue to build their homes before still be standing at the beacon back might be some signs of the state will have to do with not only dams to ensure structure but ensuring that he lives on the ground all of those evacuated as well as he was heading home protection from the storm is not just wrong but a lot of lives are ideal these new missions i saw in delhi thank you well now here's a look at some of today's corona virus developments global infections are about to surpass the 5000000 mark the world health organization says 106000 new cases reported in 24 hours and most in a single day since the outbreak began brazil alone reported nearly 20000 new infections on wednesday but in greece the government says improving numbers will allow seasonal hotels to reopen in mid june and international flights can head for

tourist destinations on july 1st. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world police in bangladesh have used tear gas and baton to disperse hundreds of protesting garment workers in the capital dhaka the workers are demanding wages they're owed some say they haven't been paid for 3 months the coronavirus pandemic has led factories to furlough or layoff half of the country's 4000000 garment workers. an israeli court has ordered prime minister benjamin netanyahu to appear at the opening of his trial on sunday he was indicted earlier this year on charges of fraud breach of trust and accepting bribes the trial comes just days after he was sworn into office for the 5th time. recession hit japan has seen its exports fall at nearly 22 percent in april the country's worst drop in more than a decade this as the coronavirus pandemic

a slam to global demand japan is heavily dependent on its exports but has had to shut much of its economy down. germany is moving to tighten regulation of its meat industry after a flare up in corona virus infections in several slaughterhouses sparked a storm of criticism the government today agreed on a draft law that would force meat plants to stop hiring migrant workers on short term contracts. while germany's biggest airline has confirmed it's in talks with the german government over a $9000000000.00 euro bailout deal business daily handles but says the plan calls for the government to take what amounts to a 25 percent stake in the carrier and received 2 seats on the company's board berlin would also provide a line of credit has been hit hard by the decline in travel due to the pandemic and had to ground nearly all of its fleet. well let's get more on this now from reporter simon bone simon if this works out what with the government taking

a stake in this town to look like well clear as we heard the government is going to end up owning 25 percent of times and directly or indirectly now that number wasn't chosen by accident that 25 percent plus one share would allow it to block any takeover bids for lufthansa and apparently that's the current concern of the government at the moment with lufthansa share price so low. now this deal was a sort of compromise between various parts of the government somewhat pro-business people didn't want to the government to be involved in rescuing an airline it all social democrats wanted were quite happy with that to allow the government to have a say on environmental concerns on jobs so it took a while for this deal to come together meanwhile lufthansa's been hemorrhaging money by its own calculation $1000000.00 euros per hour and so it desperately needs the money and part of this deal is a credit of $3000000000.00 euros to tide it over so it's going to be an interesting

time ahead it's it will require approval before before this this goes ahead but it's looking quite likely that that approval will come soon or interesting times indeed we are expecting to see a slump and international trouble that is ongoing what with with this rescue package help with hans i weathered that storm yes because. at least for the next few months let's say because look times i had big ambitions but it also had big problems last year it was beset by strikes from cash from the cabin crew from the pilots and these were unusual instances for 4 full of transit which previously had pretty good labor relations and spent a fortune we don't have the logo on the wall anymore but it spent a fortune on a new corporate redesign it's ordered new airplanes and so it was expecting to expand and cement its position in the airline industry in europe. but now all those plans are on hold but they're still having to pay for many of these things the

fixed costs for an airliner are enormous and what can we expect to see next week as rescue package well i think wait and see is really what they're hoping to do. if the if a vaccine comes out in the next few months then we might see air travel return to normal within within a year or 2 but if the pandemic returns in the fold who knows it could be it could be devastating for airlines over the much longer term obviously they're among the worst hit industries at the moment but nobody was ever planning for anything like this and. airplanes are very hard to to rebuild to adjust to living under these circumstances wanted of you simon bone thank you so much when environmentalist's here in germany are warning of another potential disaster these heading toward extinction the insects are crucial pollinators and their decline is putting pressure on the world's food systems but the bees backers in

germany have to contend with government bureaucracy and resistance from farmers. this is where anna lena and captain rule 2 of 10 queen bees here at the german parliament named after the 2 most important women in germany's green party. daniel host stan started here 5 years ago with one colony now half a 1000000 bees a buzzing in the parliament's garden. and have become the symbol for all the insects that we've been losing over the last few years is beings have it tough in agricultural environments because the number of trees is declining so there's less blossoms in fact bees in the city a much better off than those in the countryside. and best argue this may look pretty but monocultures kill bees and insects say these demonstrators outside the parliament building in berlin have the while the species in germany are

threatened with extinction. make the feels buzz again say the protestors. a moment in the act after the wrong under the current rules the e.u. subsidizes large scale farming for quantity not quality and we want farmers to get money when they actually deliver a service to nature and the environment and the chuffed at getting. the used green new deal plan sets and wishes goals for agriculture to become greener and more insect friendly but politicians sympathetic to farmers warn against simply reducing the use of pesticides. i believe we can invest a lot in research to develop alternative pesticides that have a smaller ecological footprint than those we have now. so where does that leave the bees the german government has a so-called action plan for the protection of insects but even the environment

minister concedes that it's not enough money. the state of nature here in germany is not satisfactory there are many areas where more needs to be done but the situation is slightly improved with beach forests cities and forests but it's still dire when you look at the german our great cultural landscape. so the consensus is that more needs to be done to protect bees and other insects but consensus alone will not save them. sports now and the german national team's goalkeeper man well noir has extended his contract with byron munich until 2023 there had been speculation that the 34 year old might walk away from the bundesliga champions after they signed another goalkeeper for next season but neuer has now committed himself to biron the world cup winner is likely to end his career in munich where he has won 7 going to sleep the titles and a champions league you're

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