we check out our podcast if you need it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. science. this is d w news live from berlin more than 5000000 recorded cases and 300000 deaths a coronavirus pandemic marks a grim new milestone we'll ask the world health organization where cases are surging and when the 2nd way is likely to come also coming off parts of india bangladesh are devastated after being hit by one of the most powerful sidelines in

years and the coronavirus is complicating efforts to assess damage and bring relief . europe's 2nd biggest ally loved ones a says is close to sealing a corona bell deal with the german government. and beaten up and illegally deported to human rights groups accuse police in greece of physically assaulting migrants and forcing them back into. the office welcome to the program more than 5000000 people are now known to be infected with the coronavirus new infections are easing any europe and the u.s. but experts say a 2nd wave is inevitable in latin america new cases are surgeon brazil which reports of the continent's 1st case back in february is seeing the most new cases on. wednesday alone the country recorded almost 20000 new infections if the trend

continues it's likely that brazil could soon have the 2nd highest number of cases in the world. i'm not joined by a christian lynn my from the world health organization in geneva christian the w.h.o. says 106000 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours the most in a single day since the outbreak began as lock down restrictions i eased in many places was still far from out of the wood zoe. didn't realize good day to you. if we look at the global trends we do not see a decrease we actually see a small incline still and that shows us that 6 seche as you just mention the going down of sega's in central europe and also in some other parts of the world is not the complete picture it's not that if we chart also like turning off the faucet and then suddenly just drops cases and while the cases continue in action we will

see more cases and many other countries who have been only starting to be hit by the virus now and who may have a weak the health system 'd especially the case because this way you need to include instead of polarizing you need to include everything from the health system people to the economy only then can you win this fight just mentioned brazil the situation there seems to be worsening significantly where else do you expect such as collations. once fortunately out 1st of all to see that countries little middle and come country is also enough acuff may certainly be problematic. and so also the rest of left america. because these countries only start to see cases now and remember we're talking about a window 'd of opportunity for about 2 months that we can prepare these countries and these countries can prepare themselves to help them to equip so get the tests ready to get the hospitals ready to get everything ready what they need. a lot has

been done more than $132.00 countries have received the receives assistance from the world of the sanctions but it will still seem to be receiving face it will of course another reason for increasing cases will need that countries as they start using the lockdown people will start mixing again moved on holidays one starts up being in contact again and so on so we should expect a rising cases again. the european the european union's virus response chief says europe pass a prepared for a 2nd wave when does the w.h.o. expect that in europe. i think don't think we can call it on one of them wave will be should not look from one way what this wave means that uptake on the us another rise on the relapse in cases that we have been seeing rocks and tay-sachs off the baby increases half on balance. with all the easing off of measures now and. communicating and says it will increase in physical context of people again we will

see a rise in cases and you know this is the 2nd wave everybody is talking about they may not all be at the same time it's maybe their sons from country to country or from region to region but a rise a secondary or 3rd 3rd rising cases is very likely. w.h.o. in geneva thank you. if. india and bangladesh assessing the damage left by one of the most violent storms in years. left a trail of destruction in coastal communities and west bengal's main city kolkata millions of people without electricity the coronavirus is hampering relief efforts . in a last ditch effort these bangladeshis are preparing for the worst. feeling sandbags with their bare hands they braved conditions brought on by one of the most powerful cycling's in decades. meteorologists have dubbed it

a super cycle lane and as it headed inland it lived up to that name. it sent water surging inland some 25 kilometers the damage compounded by winds of up to 185 kilometers per hour. in comic conditions inside kid of bangladesh volunteers help to bring locals to safety more than 2 and a half 1000000 people were evacuated to shelters like this one which brought new concerns amid the corona pandemic but whatever 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 they're. 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 few tile. 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. officials in that india and bangladesh say 80 people have died in a side. has been following the story for us from delhi and sent us this update. by the leftists like you are not by me remember you will not be since tuesday yet and on the beach the sand to be assessing the damage wrecked by the sank you already in the state of best think well in india has estimated losses a lot to try to begin gold was claiming that one was everything would have to be

veep built from scratch in the us that have been was to the evacuation plans were fos propagated by the crew and i was and many people who are concerned about moving into shelters because of crowded situations and invited about contracting the virus why they would have been sent across my office like i have been prevented extensively just 20 years ago a similar cycle in sawing off of life and how to be it is a case now to be made but is it going to infrastructure these regions already operating strong and cite them for climate change has led to the extreme but it is becoming more common in these events emissions while reporting there now time for some of the other coronavirus developments the chinese city of the epicenter of the outbreak has issued a total ban on hunting breeding and eating wild animals research suggests the virus most likely spread from wild animals to humans through such practices a top u.s.

scientist said people should not count on the vaccine being a developed soon william hazeltine said the best approach was to manage the virus through contact tracing and strict solution measures when it starts spreading iran's deputy health minister says some 10000 health workers have been infected with the virus and a meat processing plant in the netherlands has been closed after some 45 employees 2 has tested positive for the covert 19 virus it's the largest the latest in a number of large dog breaks in the slaughterhouses. german ally loved ones us confirmed it's close to sealing the deal with the german government to secure a 9000000000 euro carona rescue package the airline and its subsidiaries have been hit hard by the coronavirus in april the group was carrying fewer than 3000 passengers a day compared with a pre-planned demick average of around 350000. the deal is the culmination of weeks

of wrangling between chancellor angela merkel's c.d.u. conservatives and they're saying to lift junior partners in the s.p.d. over the details of any live tons of bailout pro-business politicians in miracles conservative c.d.u. party had fought against increased state involvement in lieu of towns up but the social democratic party wanted a bigger stake that would allow berlin to influence live tons of buses over potential job cuts or environmental targets. goal of tons a life raft is a 9000000000 euro package 3000000000 would be a loan from state investment bank a f w the german government would take a 20 percent stake in the company as well as a convertible bond worth 5 percent that would make it possible for the state to block a hostile takeover it would be the 1st time the government has held a stake in the form of flag carrier since 997 economy minister peter my as said

earlier in my i was part of germany's family silver and that's really in wanted to avoid a fire sale of valuable firms some of the social democrats goals will be met with 2 state appointed seats on the town's a supervisory board as well as conditions for future dividend payments and restrictions on manager bonuses look comes on must hold an extraordinary shareholder meeting to decide on whether to accept the deal as competition watchdog the european commission must also give its blessing to the rescue before it can go ahead. join in the studio by seeking visit from business department stephen is this a good day or bad day for the. it's also a good day in your business is rescued imagine how much they've suffered because of the crowd of ours because of the travel restrictions and it's obviously a great day for the employees 135000 who know that they can hopefully hold on a little bit longer the big. question is really it's

a bad day when you look the fact that now you have the state as your biggest stakeholder and that's not what in the business wants or specially one of the sides and especially at this moment in germany when you have the state as a stakeholder the of the public as a stakeholder in what is the german public interested in these days environmentalism more and more and more and well before the coronavirus there was a focus on airline travel as the major emitter of c o 2 and so what happens when for example the green party for example when they go into the coalition government maybe 23 years from now what will be the pressure on them to make changes within the times of that's why you see that the government has a big stake or it doesn't have voting rights with tons of fell more comfort without it also puts the state a very particular position or very sort of awkward position as well people demand that they do something if the tuns are really does things happen there that they don't like but that they also was a position to this was and you know there is opposition obviously from climate activists or at least those climate activists demanding that if the state is going

to do it and they really use it to to make more changes ryan there's of from the competition for example ryanair pointing out that hey you know sure would be nice if everyone had the weight of german government behind them because when you look at you nations of course germany has deep pockets and good books that we can't afford to push its companies more and for the same reason the e.u. has also said we've got to watch out about how much germany is going sports companies germany has. boss why not just loan them 9000000000 euros why why why by the state i mean essentially that's what this is this is the collateral for a loan but if you look at the us for example they've they've they've done grants they've given their airlines money and. that's something that they say look we're going to come back to us in payroll in this case i think the pressure was there for them to actually take a stake from the other political factors here saying if you going to do this then we need to have some sort of steerage ability we need to have some weight there and also i think. look at the history of german business state relations business labor

relations there is more of a call for social responsibility when this is going to play any role so it's not really so much of a surprise here but still not very good news for the. other germans the only one true to rescuing the fact her is for sure not i mean as i mention in the us this is something that they have believed there 3 or 4 biggest airlines southwest delta united airlines among them they've all received major bailouts most of that in grants as i said but the u.s. government is actually taking parts steak as well just very minor though so it's not going to be the same steak you're seeing here in germany. thank you very much. greek police have been accused of beating up the migrants and illegally deporting them back to turkey reports that security forces physically assaulted migrants emerged earlier this year when thousands gathered in border areas after turkey encouraged them to travel to europe but not in w.

and other investigative reporters have been able to confirm some stories of abuse and illegal the potations after tracking down victims in turkey they allege police arrested them without a warrant and forced them on 2 boats back to turkey. now schmidt says one of the co-authors of that report and joins us now from the greek city of saloniki florian what have you been hearing from the migrants who say they've been beaten by police . or local gather with our partners like me or yelling and they've got she was how we were able to locate migrants in turkey who basically told us they were arrested by creek police under false pretenses saying they would be issued no papers and they were taken in almost all of them say that the police confiscated their phones and other personal belongings some told us it was violence involved and then they say that they were brought in and then to the everest river between

turkey and greece where they were put on dinghies and pushed back to the turkish side where at the end of march our turkey correspondent you interviewed refugees at the turkish border dawn of it during air and found people with some similar stories that's just briefly listening. in the store through the recruiters were from afghanistan and we've been working here in turkey for 3 to 4 years or situation is very bad here through we crossed into greece in order to go to europe we waited for 3 to 4 days at the border and then we had to thessaloniki there the greek police beat us and sent us back here you know just on nobody to the greek police took off all our clothes last night we only had boxer shorts not a. nothing left on a lot to hit us again and again with the still to view and go to your come on telling you they told us to lay down like that when we did they beat it is it decided to get out and then they hit us again in the gulf. for and those are pretty

strong accusations has there been any official response from the greek government we did get a response the government of course denies everything they call the allegations regarding human rights violations by greek law enforcement personnel fabricated and false interesting though they also say that the measures taken so far have been proportionate to the gravity off the situation great media's eagleton you gentle aggressive surveillance the conservative government here is under a lot of pressure to manage the migrant situation in greece many greeks feel like the country is doing their dirty work for europe maintaining the infamous hot spots on the island and the us support the government even with such drastic measures like pushbacks would also be wrong to scapegoat greece in this situation since brussels has not managed to come up with a sustainable solution for the migrant situation for and the ball a situation was difficult enough before the coronavirus what impact has the

pandemic had on the situation that. the question is much rather how does corona affect the situation within the country the border between between greece and turkey is officially closed all official dipper taishan procedures are on hold at the same time the coronal look down and the strict measures imposed by the state of greece made it a lot easier for the police to extend into the mainland interest migrants in refugee camps and in the cities so according to the people we talked to the coronal looked on initiated a new strategy of push back from greece to turkey for instance one of the authors of this research thank you and you can find the full report on our website that's of course w dot com. it was a bit of use still to come she has captured the imagination of children for 75 years the fictional character of pippy longstocking we talked to the authors grandson about this pippi off today complain that aims to inspire and support

a whole new generation of girls. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world severe flooding has hit the u.s. state of michigan after 2 dams failed following heavy rain officials warn a city of 40000 people could end up under almost 3 meters of water thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. votes are being counted after burundi's presidential election the day passed peacefully despite fears of violence the main opposition party has accused authorities of the electoral fraud saying its observers were chased away from polling stations there were very few independent observers on election day. recession hit japan as seen as exports for nearly 22 percent in april is the country's worst drop in more than a decade this is the cocoa navarro's pound and it slams global demand for consumer products japan is heavily dependent on its exports and has shot down much of its

economy. now she's strong and rebellious and very popular fictional character pippi longstocking been providing inspiration for children especially girls since the 1st appeared 75 years ago today now the foundation of author astrid lincoln has teamed up with a charity save the children to help refugee girls of today more on that in a moment with lincoln's grandson but 1st this report on the unconventional unconventional heroine in. the law to approve busy on a. deadly on every it was daughter longstocking for short she lives with a monkey in a horse in a colorful house i live in the corner with no parents she does whatever she wants and is never to bad in this incredibly strong. the brainchild of the swedish writer

astrid lindgren pippi was created as a gift for her daughter and her 10th birthday zick invited off as the 1st child in germany to read the stories of pipi her parents published the 1st german translation of peace adventures. they were so different to what i had read before she was a very special person strong brainy and a girl so completely unusual to get to know the girl like this or to read about her . when astrid lindgren 1st so the manuscript to a publisher she wrote do not inform the youth welfare authorities soon every child of the sweden and germany new pippi longstocking is the force of nature became more popular in germany than almost any other country. tippy is definitely the girl in children's literature he has a girl growing up without hippy would be unthinkable because it gives children the

courage to be strong and deal with any situation face anything that comes up without being afraid. and kids just love her. she can go to bed anytime she wants. she has a horse in the middle of the city. and she can lift it up. i think that she has 2 braids i want to do that too but it would be best if there were 2 to pieces if we had. been do many many bookstores are celebrating the piece birthday like your uncross broken really. difficult we sell a lot of people longstocking books but i think a lot more people read them by them because they sell of their old books and they read them to their children that's what we did and certainly a lot of other families do that too. strong girl characters are just

as important today as they were 75 years ago. when i joined by in stockholm he's the grandson of us with lynn curran and the c.e.o. of the us with clinton company and co initiator of the international campaign pippi off today all the thank you for joining us you chose people also working for compassion for girls today girls who are on the move what do you hope to achieve with this campaign. well they muppet campaign which we are doing will save the children now which we are very happy tori's to primarily to raise awareness regarding the situation that the guards that have been forced to move from their own. are in countering their difficulties and also of course to generate funds for the programs that are supposed to support busy them in their in the long run so primally to 2 purposes raise awareness and gave

money that can be used for these. children. a bit the stories are 75 years old now why do you think she's still such a relevant role model for girls. uh that's a really interesting question. i mean she wasn't really intended to be a role model when my grandmother wrote the story about p.p. a hostage wrote the stories because she wanted to amuse basically herself and the children reading or listening to stories. she she had had actually won one purpose besides that and that was to show people that you can have power without using it and i think you can see that it in paper but that must pay attention on austrade today i would say there are you you

you you can paper yourself what you want to see in what way want to use her as a role model there it's different for different people and it wasn't the intention of the author to move to create a role model it was to amuse but for me i would say what sort of timeless would pay pair and attracts people today as well as 75 years ago is that she said she's i mean she's not only physically strong she's also very. psychologically strong and thus her thing he thinks herself and she doesn't care what other people think about it and so if she's that independents are is i think is a very very attractive for form of for people and some other. men for up in 1st 2nd ken ken pippi also be a role model for boys like human made today. absolutely i think people is quite

gender phrases to speak and i think at least in in sweden a member rate even boys boys as well as girls. enjoy p.p. the same and the scenery simple boys not out people as a role model i certainly did when i was a child thank you very much all in the month in stock of thank you. i'm from deer venturing into london to the return of rare sea turtles and thailand's virus lockdowns made such a thrive in ways not seen for many years around the world here in berlin a group of wild boar made a day trip into the city last week some 20 animals including piglets roamed the southern suburb off the sale and off then the police arrived and blocked off the streets to help them safely on their way. and that's it

for me on the news when you're watching news from a burl and. how they found out the top of the art with an update also to follow us on twitter on instagram and the entire team here in berlin thanks for watching.

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to cement also return route conflicts. next on the list. of. how's your view of the world. where i come from and the goal is that to get to cisco just like this chinese food doesn't matter where i am it's always reminds me of home after decades of living in germany china's food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see things i need to have different terminology granted for a person as any correlation that exists as a part of the war have been being and invented in china that's new not to chinese people wondering if their forty's sake but if you can have a ride to another culture that is this is their job

a job that of them how i see it and why enough of my job because i tried to do it exactly this hour a day. by name of the uninsured and i work at the new. we are now nearing the end thankfully of the murder. the situation if you're happy about that police excessive behavior the people believe that the country is in good hands for some years the government of hungary has been one of the bad boys of europe especially when it comes to issues about the rule of law but in march prime minister or ban secured an open ended right to rule by decree in order he said to fight the corona.