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this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin a battle over easing corona restrictions in germany as cases decline one region vows to push ahead with lifting rules on social distancing that's alarming the federal government which says it could lead to another spike in infections. india its official tracing as a key weapon in its fight against the pandemic but activists say the software is
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preaching fundamental data privacy rights. and a new study shows a major spike in violence against children due to the very measures intended to protect them from 19. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us germany's federal and regional governments are in a tug of war over how fast ease coronavirus restrictions some states led by 3 n.g.o.s want to lift all the main lockdown measures with a few exceptions early in june that's alarming both neighboring regions and federal authorities which fear a fresh spike in infections. 6 employees of this clinic in his book house and in southern india have tested positive for the corona virus an outbreak that's bucking the trend in the rest of the eastern german state where infection
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rates are down while many regional politicians support easing restrictions they'd still like clear governmental guidelines. have been a tradition it's on thing if we do this without any central god lines from the state or the federal government. in that will lead to many districts doing their own thing. that will create a patchwork which won't necessarily meet with understanding from the general public is that 3 inches approach is being criticised but of the german federal states especially neighboring the various the beach this by and i don't want to see very infected again through careless policies made and they're sending a fatal sign alaska to reconsider it has to be corrected me. germany's federal government also wants to move more carefully continuing social distancing measures through the end of june 3 just state premier thinks his policies are misunderstood
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after all he doesn't want to abolish all restrictions under his plan wearing masks remains compulsory as does keeping one metre 50 personal distance and massive in 3 main band however as of june 6th he wants to end policing force mint and fines. a move away from policing in towards health safety measures that means telling the public we're moving away from banning things rather saying be careful because just look after yourselves and don't wait for the authorities to order police actions you know i know put it in oughtn't a stance that's getting mixed reactions from 3 engines. these restrictions have been in place for a long time so i can understand that people want things to return to normal and you're not going to you know. i think it's very risky it's silly to change things that seem to be working. on the mess that we're seniors the older generation and we
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have to be careful. you know if people don't take any precaution and measures anymore where will that leave us we won't be protected. the restrictions let people in the risk groups take part in everyday life says scientists cornelia big she's been studying the measures since the pandemic started just the us is these days that it's important to accept these rules until they've reached societal consensus that really a societal solidarity we've already shown a lot and that a great cost but we need even more and it will take a while until it's become 2nd nature and that's why the rules still make sense. but for the new easing measures to go into effect they must 1st have a majority in the religious state cabinet. of what alice bring in our political correspondent you know you know how much coherence is there among germany's 16 states in terms of policies for battling the pandemic. well we live in
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a federal state where the matters of health and safety in this crisis are clearly in the responsibility of the 16 individual state premier and they're the ones who have to. actually implement those measures and they did coordinate also with the federal government throughout the crisis but we have had similar debates throughout the crisis because of course their approach is different as well not every region was affected as the as its neighbor for example if you look ahead to the very unfair but now there is a of course a situation where the infection rate is going down the pressure is growing on state premiers to ease those restrictions and there is a bit of a competition going on what do germans make boulder's it must be very difficult for people to understand why some basic freedoms are allowed in one state but not in another oh yes the no the polls show the crisis that actually this approach received massive support from the vast majority of. prove
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a ratings rise also some of the state premie as and also the living conditions on the realities of germans vary depending on whether you live in the metropolis or in a much more a natural environment so there is some sort of an understanding but of course also in recent weeks we've seen protests directed against those corona measures and of course politicians need to explain and justify keeping those measures in place as the infection rate is going down. on the report we have state premiers telling other state premiers they need to correct change their policies what's the federal government saying about this patchwork approach to finding the coronavirus. americal made it very clear again on monday she said we have to be a let we have to be courses when using those restrictions and also there is a rule in place that if the number of new infections in the space of a week rises to more than 50 over 100000 inhabitants then
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restrictions can be reimposed but apparently billed newspaper gemini's biggest newspaper. published a draft document that is yet to be approved by the state primary as west social distancing measures according to the federal government should remain in place until the 29th of june a government spokes person a german government spokesperson has already said the talks are still on growing. thank you very much that was our political correspondent. kowtowing team cases have surged in india as that country reopens its economy after 2 months of lockdown over the weekend in the reported its highest ever one day tally of more than 7000 new cases the government has released a contact tracing app now which it says allows people to move about safely but rights groups have their doubts he used to misha just wall as more.
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charming home within a new nominee known stops and security checks abound as india exits its a beat down. i decided i had to wait 2 weeks to get a ticket home to him. but it isn't just tickets and temperatures that matter he also have to down due in india on packed chasing after adl good seafood it is mandate free for all passengers to use it critics of the app have days to see this pregnancy concerns but sin ha sees it as a necessity even when you have to always keep your location on the bluetooth so that they collect the data on with whom you've interacted with i think in the present it is required because if somebody is infected i should also know later india has gone back to the same app continually checks the location off uses
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allowing it to another the was who may have come close to someone when lead to death positive focus on a lie that. critics worry that this means a centralized government database has seamless information about the location of millions indian authorities however insist that all of the apps millions of users only the data of those thousands detected good positive is being tracked to alert their contacts and even their data would be deleted 60 days after they had recovered the east mccloy. there is no possibility of surveillance or any such issues. are privacy policy is very clear and is readily available at many gay have bought privacy activists are not satisfied they see and this in ways that needs to be more transparent about its data storage and source code we need more than just in the statement suggesting that it's safe. we need to see.
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and for that they have to open source the app and allow it to be tested by independent security researchers i don't think we can take what the documents say that its value the indian government has it all back its efforts to mandate the app download yet it's strongly recommended. monograph have allowed to help stop the spread of the corona virus while. you must row guess a 2 mobile app. joe who are known or are going to pay money losers however do not shed ot understand the concerns of tennessee activists and it's often life that i think life is more important than previously for now. what do i care about my privacy it's ok for a benefit even if the app is invading their privacy it at least appeals to be
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succeeding and making many more think kill. for more let's bring in our gupta he's executive director of the internet freedom foundation and joins us from delhi mr guptara how much skepticism is there in india about this and. i would say that skepticism it does exist with regard to this out of this skepticism as good news to all sure is fairly limited because the understanding of listeners pretty see is nice and spoofing all monopoly which is limited to people who are much more open and of well educated it needs to be booed political education and city. what are people afraid that the government might do with the data collected by the up. government has in the past. if needed any since all this limitation which is history doing the deed
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gathered by a government program for the book this is for which the data is gathered so for instance in the past it has been sworn to the top which has been gathered by golf and coin students drive over he can look at it as creation as well as drive. records to private companies and this is a portion of government policy ask for the national economic survey as well so commercial exploitation is one big concern the 2nd think concern is india lacks in the veto protection go such as he used g.d.p. a lot and also does not have any kind of civil and before which allows broad i'm on and on change and i'm going to lead to docsis for police as well as the security agencies. i think it's possible to develop a coronavirus kind of contact tracing out that also does protect data privacy is
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this a realistic. yes this is a realistic deployment which has actually been shown true so true to several deployments picture taking place all of it with. this all. good dog repeat 3 woods in which to point back to easy is used one such instance is that in my case the good laugh and has been good ones too you did. win one trusted against india's model to see. the differences as a competitive you know working people were cleared by my colleagues who caught the if you just want to website internet for you don't want to i so you have odd deployments which of course will reach out but i was. and which will beat up addiction norms and i'm sure that one can look at it from that. mr gupta thank you
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very much for talking with us that was a parka executive director of the internet freedom foundation in delhi. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world today the u.s. has pushed forward a travel ban on brazil by 2 days meaning it will come into force on wednesday for sale is now the country with the 2nd highest number of cases globally more than 370000 a ban is seen as a blow to president charles naro who continues to downplay the dangers for fires. phone calls leader kerry lamb says that a new security law planned by mainland china is planning to impose that mainland china is planning to impose and said he won't affect hong kong's rights and freedom to small pro-democracy supporters have sharply criticized legislation said to be approved by china's parliament this week. we coul casino tycoon stanley ho as died at the age of $98.00 was known as the king of gambling was born in hong kong
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and made billions transforming neighboring macau from a sleepy portuguese colony to one of the world's biggest gambling it's. now millions of children around the world face the threat of violence every day because of the coronavirus crisis that's the warning of the leading children's aid organization world vision in a new report it estimates that lockdown measures which were enacted to protect people are actually putting vulnerable children at even greater risk. schools out in ivory coast this was march since then hundreds of millions of boys and girls along the world have been lost. no classrooms no playgrounds and nowhere to run. charities are warning that the very measures meant to protect them could see them fall victim to violence. 'd like 12 year old kid beater
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and bangladesh whose father is out of work. tat hits us if we ask for more food is frustrated and angry. it's hard to concentrate because i'm hungry. i have headaches and sometimes feel dizzy. everything around me seems blaring. across bangladesh world vision has been helping children whose family lives have been turned upside down by this virus but these are unprecedented times. this crisis. is like. for. all of. us all.
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of us who are. out world vision estimates that $85000000.00 more children may be exposed to violence during quarantine in bangladesh beatings by parents increased by 40 percent an additional $4000000.00 girls a risk of being forced into marriages in the next 2 years. the u.n. says that spike is the result of families looking to recover financial losses. frontline workers are concerned that few you have to act know will lead to more trauma in the future. or. else we're. offering our. host. for months the coronavirus crisis has been one of his and intensive care warts
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expect sea without extra funding and protection and may give way to a crisis that is longer lasting and harder to heal. we're joined now by kendra gregson she's a south asia regional advisor with the u.n. children's fund unicef and joins us from the nepalese capital kathmandu thanks for being with this what impact do you see the current of iris lockdowns having on children in south asia i mean as you just heard the effects on children can be like life long lasting right now there are about 418000000 children locked in their homes or in their homes in lockdown with family practice 5 and discipline there are an increase in the number of children who are calling our help lines including for
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areas such as child marriage which is continuing including calls for help suicide so the impact can be great in your opinion or lockdowns doing more harm than good for poor families in the region. i think they're facing a change in life i think they're facing a change facts are changing. father she used to go well there were grandmothers who used to go to work are now at home they're not burning the income that they used to or they're not able to prepare their children in the same way that they were where in the past education is stopped schools have closed across south asia that time of learning it's just not continuing while there is access to online learning to
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learning by t.v. . that's not necessarily sufficient and it can also expose children even further to online violence cyber bullying and online exploitation is great and thanks very much for talking with the start was gregson's from unicef south asia. well the coronavirus crisis has severely dampened many consumers desire to shop this has had a catastrophic impact on the retail industry a survey by the german retail trade association shows that in the wake of the global pandemic almost one in 3 non-food retailers is fighting for survival. shopping during the pandemic it's saturday usually the biggest shopping day of the week but that's now a distant memory now things have changed normally bustling streets feel almost like a ghost town was so few could estrogens there just isn't enough passing trade for
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local businesses. entrepreneur mark line baber is touring the 65 shoe stores that belong to his family most of them are open but customers still haven't come back. from sense we reopened on april 20th we've done 40 to 90 percent less business than the same time last year depending on the location that's a very dramatic drop. not having enough customers is the main problem but the whole atmosphere is bad social distancing measures blocked off areas and queuing in front of stores all discouraging visitors from shopping even if money isn't the main problem. romeo get everyone tells you we have the money but we're not spending it we don't go to dinner out to a bar and we're not going out to do any shopping either and it's just not fun anymore this doesn't feel normal yet to me. as if we're magical i used to buy more
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than i do these days but wearing a mask and sweating in the store i don't feel like doing that. retailers find themselves in a state of emergency where houses are full of goods that couldn't be sold during the lockout. these winter boots and early summer will be a hard sell. maybe they'll have a better chance than last year's winter goods next october when instead they're selling what's in high demand disinfected and facemasks this shoe stores hottest new items the branch manager is afraid she'll lose her job she's trying hard to get customers to buy but understands why she's having little success yaman. yes you do become more restrained in your shopping habits no one knows how long it will last how long the short time working measures will last it makes you shop more attentively. and. if business doesn't pick up by the summer there might be a wave of retail bankruptcy is. the more people lose their jobs the less they can
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buy a vicious circle. recovery might still be in the cards if a 2nd wave of the virus can't be prevented. or for more let's bring in neil's seebach he's an old printer and digital strategy consultant joins us from hamburg say back retailers are opening their stores again but sales are sluggish to say the least they expect businesses to bounce back. unfortunately i do not think so we will never go back to the free normal because consumers have learned to drastically different behavior they're now relying on the line shopping they have and the payment details they have learnt. to shop from home and i don't think that this is a temporary learning this is a permanent learning that will stay with us. should retailers be using the pandemic
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as an opportunity to digitalize to move more of their trade online. i think it's either that or insolvency so yes they definitely need to work on it and those that have been devised before i think are in now going to be pressured to do so but unfortunately for a lot of them it is too little too late and they're crisis has now really shown the weakness of the retail or stationery retail only business model what lessons do you think companies can learn from this crisis and take forward with them as they look towards new business opportunities. i think it's very easy to identify a lot of companies that are losing in this crisis but it's also interesting to see which companies are benefiting from this crisis and i think there is a generalization you can you can undertake which is that those that understand
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technology and use technology i think core of their business model not as a support function but its core of their business model is technology those are winning right now and that will only intensify as we go forward in technology will remain the most important factor in success of business and all competencies like purchasing or station retail and so on the elusive importance so you know your technology implemented well and there is a lot of opportunity out there right now this is a back thank you very much for talking with the set was nice a buff enough nor a digital strategy consultant he joins us from member. german government and lift tons of have reached a deal on a bailout cording to the units and from the economy ministry in return for buying 20 percent of the early one shares the government has imposed limits on managers' pay and specific financial targets shares in the airline shot up nearly 6 percent
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following the announcement but the deal still has to be approved by shareholders and the european commission. largest airline in latin america has filed for bankruptcy in the united states this followed a drastic drop in business during the code in 1000 pound amik a statement from airlines group says that there would be no immediate impact on passenger or court of flights this move follows an announcement last month that was scaling back operations by 95 percent in response to the global health crisis. and just reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on d w news germany is locked in a tug of war over easing coronavirus restrictions some regions want to lift all main measures with few exceptions. that's alarming federal authorities which if you're
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to. kick off. lots of goals met with silence the 2nd bundesliga match day empty stadium. leaders by munich trumps frankfurt. and pass up the local rivals.
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to go. on to. nearly 1000000 people killed in just 100 days. rwanda's younger generation did not experience the 9094 genocide but. it's a consequence of. learning to overcome the psychological trauma one step at a time the lines up some long road to reconciliation. in 60 minutes on d w. told. when the water rises cities will sink into the sea. entire stretches of land
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will be abandoned. when the water. stopped it's happening faster than anticipated. massive us are supposed to prevent flooding but they only delay the inevitable. how will we live in the future. 66 mean rising sea levels starts to flow on d w. welcome
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to match day 27 the 2nd since the bundesliga restarts. let's be honest it still feels a bit.

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