this is d w news live from for a lead getting europe back on its feet in the wake of the coronavirus crisis leaders hold a virtual summit to debate plans for a 750000000000 euro recovery fund but there are deep divisions over whether the funding should consist of long rounds for a combination of full also coming up the c.e.o. of the german electronics payment company and wire card resigns a day after auditor stays at the company's accounts are missing almost 2000000000 dearer and have grown a virus may have brought much of the world to

a standstill but millions continue to flee conflict persecution and discrimination we'll speak with the u.n. high commissioner for refugees. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program 8 leaders have wrapped up a video conference on a financial plan to help the bloc emerge from the worst economic crisis in its history the virtual summit was the 1st step in what are expected to be difficult negotiations on a 750000000000 euro carona recovery fund the leaders will meet face to face next month for the 1st time since february here's what's german chancellor angela merkel had to say after today's meeting he don't have to be doing this are of us spoke about the positive aspects that also. brought up

a criticism where appropriate or not there are still big bridges that need to be build that's clear but it was a very constructive discussion and there are there constant let's bring in richard walker who has been following the story for us from brussels so she said a bear very constructive discussion therefore how high is the hope for consensus yet what i think most sides are reasonably confident that some agreement will eventually be found but that's not necessarily because any real progress was made today but more because the stakes are just so incredibly high the pressure to come up with agreement on this is intense and you know i'm going to mark over the last few days the last few weeks has been speaking to that herself talking about this is being the biggest economic challenge that the european union has ever faced so having raised the stakes that level if leaders are unable to come up with some kind of agreement some kind of answer to this then it really would be

a huge embarrassment not least for germany itself because in just about 10 days time it takes over the rotating presidency of the european council so this is going to be absolutely top of uncle americans to do list for the next few months and she's sure to put all of her energies into finding agreement but there's a lot of work certainly to do so just walk us through the biggest obstacle obstacles to achieving a deal. that's right i mean almost the only thing that they do agree on is that they want some kind of recovery fun but almost everything else is still really to be worked out as merkel we just saw in that clip saying that an awful lot of bridges remain to be built for instance the size of the fund as you mentioned you know the number that the european commission has come up with the 750000000000 euros well there's a small group of countries that of earned the nickname the frugal for they want to spend less they haven't said how much less but they definitely want it that number to be lower also there's a big debate about what is the balance between the amount of money that's actually

given out to countries as grants or that's handed out as loans which then eventually need to be paid back that frugal for their very keen for it to be loans or at least mostly loans the countries that need the money what's the point is lending is this money we're going to end up in big debt so that's the kind of flavor for the kind of issues that there are there are many others too but the haggling really now begins so they're going to be weeks and weeks of negotiations taking part taking place in around the middle of july they want to have an in person summits try to make some real progress so weeks and weeks of negotiations meantime we have those countries in need italy and spain pleading saying that baby need the money they need it quickly and we also have the commission president arcelor funder line echoing that urgency so you mentioned part of that timeline richard when could we see a deal. that's right well that everyone is really keen to have a deal this summer not just because they might want to go away on vacation but also because any kind of deal is going to need to get ratification from parliament

around the european union and also they need a deal by the end of this year that's a really hard deadline some of those gone through all of those ratification mechanisms because it's we're not just talking about this recovery fund we're also talking about what the e.u. calls its multi annual of financial framework that's e.u. jargon for its budget its own budget runs out at the end of this year and the budget for the next 7 years is attached to all of this so if they don't get this worked out by the end of the year the e.u. isn't going to have any money for its operations at the beginning of next year so this immense pressure on every side to work this out for us the stakes literally could not be higher richard walker in brussels thank you. well actually it was already facing a potential recession before it was hit by the corona virus and became europe's 1st epicenter of the crisis rome imposed a strict lockdown for almost 3 months non-essential business had to close supply

chains were interrupted business is now only resuming. no car can run without these parts here it n.t.a. in northern italy components are made for co makers across the world including b.m.w. in germany and tata in india that's why. i can t. was worried about the operation after the coronavirus began hitting the region hard in march the supply chain is something perfect it has to work day by day hour by hour and. how our customers can not to find the same product we supplied them from another supplier. after a brief interruption the machines and now back up and running and most workers have returned to the plant but it's not all back to normal yet sales are down by 50 percent. filippo back to his company was also hit by the crisis he's now

back in his showroom in maida the furniture maker got lucky 2 decades ago his company was already marketing online during the corona crisis it went even further using video calls to advice customers steering lock down. it was. a test a very heart of task and we had the opportunity to shore where people were in our work or some of the 3 or we were able to. give or apply to do very very bad situation for everyone in this country so beto going digital has proven to be the solution to get through the crisis. their primary a sees them is able to survive but we have many interpret nurse knol. looking for new products new market new business models. but despite the opportunities italy was on the brink of recession even before the coronavirus

struck now the economy is facing a slump of at least 8 percent money a $5.00 katie says m.t.a. has put the lessons learned from the corona crisis into practice they've also prepared for a possible 2nd wave that for many businesses in italy another lockdown could mean the end. and here's a look at some other developments in the corona virus and to have mixed results of the study of sewage in italy suggest the virus was president in milan and to a region in december this could mean the virus arrived in northern italy before china officially reported its 1st case india has recorded its highest one day spike in infections confirming more than 13000 new cases the country now has the 4th highest number of cases after the u.s. brazil and russia and officials in germany say that a contact tracing app has now been downloaded by 9600000 people just over 11 percent of the population the op was launched this week on a voluntary basis. you want to get up you do still to come on the program the

coronavirus poses a potential humanitarian crisis for an ever growing number of people who are displaced we will speak with the u.n. high commissioner for refugees. but 1st more chaos and wire card the c.e.o. of the german electronics pavan company marcus braun has resigned with immediate effect his resignation comes after the firm movil to that auditors couldn't find 1900000000 euros in cash why are card faces a deadline for the release of its 29000 results today the company's stocks have been in freefall this week earlier this month german prosecutors searched the docks listed firms offices as part of an investigation into market manipulation it's going to leave bart's who is the floor of the frankfurt stock exchange so only i

mean we have this now major resignation and the stock really taking a beating and that's to put it lightly. that's right it's about 80 percent at the moment 7570 percent lower than it was before the 1st shocking news that the it was not going to be any formal results and that there was this big hole in the balance sheet came yesterday morning a disaster for shareholders and marcus bron resigning it's only a matter of consequence that's one problem down if you will but many more to go there's a new guy james freezing american now jumping in coming completely from the outside and offering at least a chance of let's say starting to restore the reputation with someone with someone fresh and perhaps also getting some more shareholders on board if they want to risk a new management but i mean this is been such a dramatic fall for this company only to little to late here.

i don't think it'll be enough i mean the company has such a big problem with the financial hole that it has in the balance sheet it has to explain that and if it doesn't have the auditors signing off on its $29000.00 results so it has about $2000000000.00 euros in loans that will be recalled possibly at the end of the month i talked to an analyst and i asked him you know will it survive and he said if it doesn't survive the technology can survive and what the marketplace position of the company is because it could be a takeover kind of did it so cheap you know what the stock market price that is that's maybe a bright side for the technology question is this the german government want another german company with technology that's successful in the market to go for and so far we're hearing no comment on this from the form from the german government as i would imagine it would be at least parts joining us from the frankfurt stock exchange thank you. look over 1000 has been able to cause the

entire world to grind to a halt but it has not been able to stop wars conflicts violence or discrimination those are the words of the head of the u.n. commission for refugees he was highlighting concern for millions of displaced people whose plight as been compound did by the global pandemic we'll speak with the u.n. high commissioner in just a few moments but 1st this report without a home to return to 80000000 people around the world are living in forced displacement. escaping the war in syria the war in yemen persecution in myanmar starvation in venezuela around one percent of the world's population is seeking refuge. but the outbreak of coven 1000 has closed borders in europe and in africa making it harder to flee. and the supply chain for aid has been crippled by the economic downturn. refugee camps around the world are bracing for the

possibility of a corona virus outbreak like in the kakuma camp in kenya. who coronavirus gets into kakuma refugee camp and all of us will perish there is no space to isolate we live in one enclosure we cannot do social distancing here at all if the disease comes to cooma we will all die. in europe the destination of many syrian refugees attention has turned toward saving the economy from the effects of the pandemic the search for a solution to the refugee crisis has once again been sidelined. and we are joined now by felipe agron day united nations high commissioner for refugees welcome to the program and thank you for joining us thank you very much. mr gardiner we have heard it including in that report many warnings about a potential humanitarian disaster if coronavirus hits refugee camps around the

world but instead so far we have seen some of the most dramatic cases in major metropolitan areas how big of a threat is the coronavirus posing to refugees right now in your assessment. the fact that depends on the country in which they are there are countries in which we have many rights and that's latino merica for example where of course refugees are exposed to from the health perspective as much as nationals and others we have seen less of an outbreak. in africa for example which is a big theater for refugee movements so it's really very beryl's but what we have seen almost everywhere is very catastrophic impact on the economic side refugees displaced people live off very fragile incomes daily wages the

informal economy all of which disappears in situations of lockdown so they're very much hits from that perspective indices where we're really focusing very much right now ok so it's not just the health threat but also the economic knock on effects on how about the pen demick how is a compounding challenges for your work for example the logistics of getting aid to the refugees who depend on help from the u.n. . absolutely you know if to give you an example and i heard your very good report by the way i heard mention of that you know transporting protective equipment both for refugees but also for my own colleagues working on the front line they couldn't stop there all told experience you close very difficult difficult to source this equipment to purchase and to transfer because all the supply chain some broken down and movements you know humanitarian work is essentially being there

being present and in situations of lockdown we have had to last for a lot of exceptions i've told governments peace consider our colleagues just like you would consider their medical person that they have to have freedom of movement to carry out their vital job what do you say to your a your colleagues onto those e.u. policymakers because leaders are holding a major summit today asylum policy not a central topic of discussion as it was last year what do you think the e.u. still needs to do in order to address the refugee crisis here in europe. look i you know i i am european myself i come from italy a country that has been severely hit i understand that the priority now is hence the situation and the economic downturn but what i'm telling them is that if you keep postponing the vital discussion on asylum and migration if you don't consider seriously into proposals that the european commission has put before all member

states this is just something that is possible we will have this problem again in 6 months boards floating in to be the 3 men by the way we've seen it even during the peak of the undead mix and no solution because that is not even an agreement between states on what to do with those that type this impact if we don't make progress there we face further emergencies in europe in the future a call to action there on that if there ever was one and i'd just like to ask you before we go because you said before that the u.n. that the world has weathered many crises but that this pandemic is of another magnitude altogether and i'd like to ask you how you see the potential for action going forward is there anything that gives you cause for hope. dependent nic has hopefully finally brought home to everybody this fundamental message that we live in a world in which many things are global whether we like it or not including

challenges i'm not just talking about them and them it was everybody understands that but what about climate change what about migration and refugees what about in security terrorism and if we don't work together we won't be able to overcome them dependent he's teaching us this lesson every day not that we're learning very much but he's teaching us this lesson and i do hope that this starts filtering in and across to the leadership send if we move away from this dangerous discourse me 1st we 1st my country 1st and lead truly copper 8 grand day united nations high commissioner for refugees thank you so much for your time this afternoon thank you very much. and let's move on now to some other stories making news this hour australian prime minister scott morrison says that the country is under cyber attack from

a foreign state based actor is that all levels of government infrastructure and essential services are being targeted on to the ongoing actor australia's public broadcaster is reporting that intelligence agencies believe china is behind the attack. these are russians and bastard in germany says moscow will react if berlin takes punitive action over the killing of a former chechen rebel in berlin last year german prosecutors say that moscow ordered the shooting of ham and have filed charges against a russian suspect. china has reported 25 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital beijing saying that it now has the lead to help break under control critics question beijing's handling of the crisis and say that it's suppressing doubts about its containment policy. brazil's cope with 1000 of the demick continues to spread according to the health ministry the country will soon top 1000000 confirmed infections and 50000 deaths and brazil is home to the world's

worst outbreak outside of the united states. officials in the south african city of cape town are bracing for infections to peak there at the end of june or the beginning of july the city has been especially hard hit by the virus with more than half of the country's 83000 confirmed cases located in the western cape region d.w. south africa correspondent adrienne creech reports from cape town. the cape town international convention center is now a field hospital with around $1000.00 bets cape town the center of the coronavirus pandemic in south africa is preparing for the worst and additional $5000.00 jobs for nurses and doctors have been advertised for cape town and the surrounding area fire as just was done prize and his team have massively increased testing one 3rd of those tested here have been infected with the virus and there aren't enough

testing kits available. probably missing. one problem is clearly the international supply situation that's something we really notice in the laboratory we're ultimately at the back of the line when it comes to supply it it's all produced internationally i'm not despondent but i must admit there are some very bad 2 weeks ahead of us triple what was before st the health sector could be overloaded as early as next month city councillors 8 dean is normally responsible for health care now he's also overseeing preparation work in local graveyards this huge area has been cleared for victims of culvert 192000 people will be buried in this cemetery alone in the coming weeks. without credit it's the motion and projections that we have modeled at the moment we will see about 7000 deaths all the

way up to pin 1000 deaths being projected in the city we are likely to use in the next few weeks the same amount of good waves that have been since the side for use in one year only a few mourners are allowed to attend funerals the ceremony itself is limited to 30 minutes maximum for deaths due to coronavirus it is actually a very scary thought that in a few weeks hundreds of people will be buried but with the way the pandemic unfolds this is going to be the reality and joining me now from the city of durban is professor allan abdul karim a prominent epidemiologist who is leading south africa's covert 19 advisory team thank you so much for taking the time to join us this afternoon. it's a great pleasure now we just heard a little bit more about south africa easing lockdown restrictions even as the coronavirus cases are starting to rise rapidly how whiskey is that well because south africa acted very early we imposed distinctions and the lock

down when we had only $402.00 cases we are now in week 40 in the off the lot down and it's no longer sustainable for us to continue along this path and so we having to make the very difficulty decision of easing the destruction so that people him start accessing health care accessing food and so on why oh we institute now a prevention measures that individuals would need to take up such as social distancing and washing and so on why do you think so many of the countries cases more than half of the total have been concentrated in capetown specifically. well when we look at the beginning ology of the way in which the virus has spread in the western cape it actually started spreading at the tail end of our very

strict lockdown and it started spreading in those supermarkets and grocery stores that had to operate at the time and so it was the start getting infected passing it on to the customers and so what happened as a result is that before we actually even knew there was an outbreak in newsgroups of the stores it had already spread into the community so we were always came catch up in the western cape trying to find pieces and stop the transmission to looking at contact raising and isolation and it leads to stage a pretty pretty where all our efforts were actually now just trying to get to a point of some level of containment and in fact we have slowed the transmission in the western cape but that slowing doesn't stop the continue or rise of new cases i as we see them and we heard some so much about you know that effort to get the

transmission of the virus to slow how important testing is in all of that we saw in our report one of the scientists saying that he feels that south africa and i'm quoting here it's at the back of the line when it comes to the supply of test kits do you agree and why do you think that is. this is really most frustrating for all of us the country is now doing somewhere between $25.30 tests per day so it's not like we doing you know only a handful we're doing a lot of tests but our need is much much greater we really would like to be able to do you know twice or thrice that and we have the capacity the capacity to do you know $70000.00 tests may 2000 tests a day we have that capability because that capability was booked in order to do testing for hiv and also for tb so because we have the capacity at the machines and

everything we just can't get hold of the kids the fact of the supply is just not able to supply the numbers we need is a real problem because it's not a money issue it's just an international supplies through a very very challenging situation and we appreciate you joining us here on the program taking the time to tell us on how you are coping with that professor salim abdul karim chair of south africa has covered 1000 advisory committee we appreciate . and. and finally this spanish bestselling novelist carlos release stuff on has died at the age of 55 he was one of the world's most popular modern spanish language writers they were winning author of the shadow of the wind and the labyrinth of the spirits was born in barcelona but spent the last 3 decades of his life in the united states he had been battling cancer he passed away at los angeles where he was working on hollywood screenplays

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