this is d.w. news coming to you live from berlin he dismissed coded 900 as just a little flu and flouts rules on social distancing now he has the disease himself brazil's president sure both sonora tests positive for the coronavirus lead to a change in his behavior also coming up president trump has formally told the u.n. that the u.s. is pulling out of the world health organization will ask of trump is right in saying that they w.h.o. needs urgent reform plus eve mobility enjoy it tesla is coming to town well tesla

it is rushing to get its new factory up and running locals have mixed feelings about the new neighbor we'll take a look at the construction site just outside. a low i'm terry martin thanks for joining us brazil's president has tested positive for the corona virus also nora has downplayed the severity of the disease for months describing it as a little flu critics said he would so it was only a matter of time before he caught the disease himself as he has failed to socially distance and has largely refused to wear a mask in public. from the very beginning of the outbreak. repeatedly played down the risks of the corona virus and initially described it as a means to flee he also sentient. distancing recommendations and other measures

including wearing face masks in public. has been tested 3 times previously all came back negative however on tuesday the brazilian right wing leader confirm to local media he had tested positive for covert 19 or soon to be a bit of a well i don't it on sunday with a certain feeling of being on well the cult with a monday with newsier tiredness a bit of muscle pain and to feel that it reached 38 degrees in the late afternoon girls i then thought that with the sentiments and with the presidential daughter believing it to be a possible curvy 19 infection i had a c.t. scan at a military hospital here in brasilia my lungs were clear. brazil is the 2nd worst hit country in the world after the us with more than 65000 deaths and at least 1600000 coronavirus cases. despite this pass

restaurants and other businesses are slowly reopening the people still have doubts and they're getting as long as we follow the safety measures with space between the tables i think it's worth reopening but we are the only ones in here but if for instance there's someone on another table i think i would probably feel uncomfortable w.h.o. has won the pandemic is far from over as it's taking its toll around the world participants that have now been moved 11400000 cases of corby of 19 and more than 535000 lives have been lost the outbreak is accelerating. and we have clearly not reached dippy quoth the pundit meek the motown folk and i say should also place to pursue prices and. a speedy recovery

in his own battle against the current in the finer us. earlier we asked mathias if it looked like paulson r.-o. would change his views on the views of olson are of course i think over 19 now that he has the disease i think he might not change his views and his opinion on the crisis because his motto is business 1st economy 1st in order to be reelected in 2 years so i think he will stay the same president as before and all the signs that we see so far are going to the same direction. after brazil and the us india is the 3rd worst hit country when it comes to covert 19 the government in delhi has started easing restrictions after a 3 month lockdown but the result is that new cases and deaths are rising at their pastor's pace since the pandemic began. after 3 months of lockdown

life in new delhi is almost back to normal millions of indians have lost their jobs in the corona crisis now the economy is sputtering back to life but with restaurants and shops open again the coronavirus is also making a comeback. when afraid we have to leave our house to make a living but we fear for our lives. many hospitals have reached capacity and the country is scrambling to increase its intensive care units. this wedding hole has been filled with hospital beds 12 doctors staff the emergency treatment center. any i think we have around 100 beds here we have patients with mild and less severe symptoms and even some without symptoms that have nowhere else to quarantine all. india has ramped up its testing

thought she's fear that the tests will reveal a rising number of infections. so you look now at some of the other stories making headlines today china has opened a new national security office in hong kong this comes a week after china imposed a controversial new national security law on the country security headquarters is located across with victoria park a frequent site of opposition protests german chancellor angela merkel is set to meet with european lawmakers today as the country assumes the presidency of the e.u. council back was expected to focus on bolstering support for a multi-billion euro corunna crisis recovery package which has faced resistance from some e.u. member. demonstrators have stormed the serbian parliament in the capital belgrade to protest a renowned for a renewed lockdown president alexander budgets imposed a curfew and banned gatherings of more than 5 people after a surge in corona virus deaths 13 people died of covert 19 on tuesday serbia's

highest single day death toll. residents of melbourne in australia are getting ready to return to lock down for 6 weeks due to a new spike in corona virus infections police have also been. deployed along the victoria state border to enforce a quarantine measures the state has seen a spike in cove in 1000 cases in recent days australian prime minister scott morrison promised his government would provide financial aid to local businesses which are worried they won't survive another long. for more we're joined by military burton she's a journalist working for reuters in melbourne australia milk bill in the city of 5000000 being forced back into law down mode how do people feel about that. and thank you for having me i think everyone's feeling a bit flat we just started having some of the restrictions being eased halves we

just started i cannot say that was exciting at school holidays now but yeah now as well where all backing out houses and not going anywhere we didn't metropole us enough and anyway the border between the states of victoria new south wales those are australis to most populous states that border is now closed what impact is that going to have on australia and it's a call to me. yes so the border between the 2 states it's a river and so 2 it has a number of. towns that straddle each side of the border so people it's pretty common for people to live on one side and where kind and other sites this morning you had plays checking everybody who is coming over to over the bridge isn't that what he's for more than an hour just to get to get home once you get to your place where most of those areas that are very regional and fare fairly grows so the

disruption itself will be pretty vocal asked what it means i think for people here who have been planning color days after the fest up town you know maybe they the kids wanted to going to visit their cousins in another state well i guess that's not going to be happening now ok can you tell us why australia is suffering the spike in corona virus infections now. yes sure unfortunately it's just the state i mean victoria where we've seen a big jump in new infections more than we saw the effects time around we had record infections this week about the only 200 on a single day so new south wales western australia my stuff that countries still like a and corrina virus restrictions are easing so it's just this one state authorities believe it's to do with so much training travel as he were in quarantine hotels and

the security at quarantine hotels not ordering strict protocols. in regards to sanitation. military thank you very much for talking with us so it was journalist melanie burton in melbourne australia. the credit crisis is having a major impact on millions of hiv patients who are reliant on lifesaving drugs it's estimated that nearly 40000000 people across the world are living with hiv b. although there is no cure for the seeds that causes aids antiretroviral medication helps control it but the coverage 19 pandemic is interrupting drug supply. the u.n. has warned that long term disruption could result in an additional half a 1000000 deaths. tempi would have preferred not to come to the clinic today because of the corona virus and to avoid questions from neighbors to me is not her real name she prefers to remain anonymous i knew she is hiv positive and wants to

make sure her one year old daughter does not become infected. so my family knows that you. know. to go from. the judge to its own it's not pride because you don't know your future would have been to you after. so you don't need to charge for. one in 5 mothers in khayelitsha township is age i be positive a few years ago 2 out of every 5 children also had the virus but now the chances of a chevy being passed on the group less than 5 percent south africa has made significant progress of the fight against hiv the government pays for the medicines and aid agencies like doctors without borders spoke with education programs in normal times a group of mothers with h i.v. meteo once a month at the corner crisis means the meetings have been cancelled. from the group

stations discussing with p. is giving time to discuss the difference in the internet that. it is he afraid to post natal clubs the medics know how so the mothers. a one to one basis h.l.v. is still a serious problem. the hospital is much emptier than usual because of covert 19 many patients devoid hospitals and therefore don't have access to their medication experts believe this could have a strong negative impact on a chair be aids but also tuberculosis patients in the future. to know if her medication significantly increases her own life expectancy hope is that in the future or age i. will no longer be a danger to her daughter. joining me now is professor hendricks think director of the institute of hiv research at the university of vaughan professor we

saw in that report just now how hiv patients are avoiding going to hospitals to get medication and treatment because of fear of the corona virus how serious is this problem. well the difference basically between $19.00 and $8.00 should be is that many hiv patients do not get their medication it's said that he and almost 100 percent can die from aids hiv and they are infected now we're at the states where we can control the infection that well that people can have a normal life expectancy but now lacking those medication in some countries just due to. transportation chains this is a very serious problem and w h o n u n aids estimates that about half a 1000000 additional aids that we've all face this year because of the cold at 19

prices ok just to distinguish between these things are some people who are reluctant to go to the hospital to get their treatment because of fear of contracting cover 19 but the u.n. is talking about a different problem than just supply chain disruptions of antiviral drugs to treat hiv patients how serious the impact of that the well the u.n. aids and can only estimate but that as to mating half a 1000000 dish no death due to lack of supplies. the issue is that they said that you have to take the medication every day and if you do not have medication for example poor months or even a week you might develop resistance against the medication and then it will work. through ok now aside from working on a i.v. you are also trying to fight coded 19 are there parallels between these viruses

maybe some lessons learned from combat again that can be applied to the corona virus. well i think many of the h.l.v. research shows and physicians are now working on quote 19 because it is working on hiv it is working during a pandemic they should be pandemic is not over and now be a phase thing and addition of pandemic could cope with 910 that may so you have a lot of experience how to handle research during such a time and i asked the questions what actually most important was doing a pandemic. at the same time the virus is a very different both of them on a fire viruses so half a similar nucleic acids the at completely different and that's probably more likely that if you have to fix team against covert 19 earlier than against a chevy should we really be so confident professor that we can roll out

a coronavirus vaccine within a matter of months given how difficult it's been with other diseases like hiv aids no i don't think we can be confident that people have to fix. it in fact coming from the age should be world we know that it's very hard to find the vaccine against most of the big infectious diseases kill us like for example also to buy clothes as men larry out of dainty the do not half effect seen however the structure of the coronado virus is different to a chevy and there's some. feature of the virus that mate might make us think or make us believe that there is that it might be easier to climb to that scene against us coronavirus but at the end this needs to be tested and it's very hard to predict. or thank you very much for your insights that was professor henley

straight from the university of all thank you. united states is downstate its formal withdrawal from the world health organization us president on trial threaten to leave the w.h.o. and permanently cut funding to the organization back in may over disagreements about how to respond to the global credit virus pandemic trump accuses the u.n. agency of quote pushing chinese misinformation although he had praised china's handling of the outbreak at the beginning of the year the best was the largest financial contributor to the w.h.o. well for more now i'm joined on the line by professor paul of braverman and she's the director of the center on social disparities in health at the university of california in san francisco thanks for being with us professor know you are among 750 scholars and health professionals who signed a letter to congress condemning the trump administration's decision to withdraw all from the w.h.o. why do you think it's the wrong. i think it's

a bit odd if trump 60 and that's not entirely clear i must say but if he did succeed with it it would represent a huge step backward for humanity for united nations and its core agencies including w.h.o. rose from the ashes and the horrors of world war 2 the nazi holocaust made comment fall on him and it would repudiate of hatred and brutality based on a recognition that either humanity would fall further into the abyss or people would cooperate and collaborate with each other and even support each other to achieve a better life for everyone unfortunately the current president of the united states does not share the use of al use but i do think that most americans do ok well the w.h.o. of course is concentrating on global public health and donald trump is not alone in

criticizing the w.h.o. his handling of the coronavirus pandemic many say the organization was too slow didn't give a. vision warning failed to scrutinize what was happening in china and short that the w.h.o. is guilty of gross negligence or these not valid criticisms. i don't think that those arms are valid criticism which is not to say that things could not have been done better but i would feel pretty comfortable venturing to say that compared with trump handling of the pandemic in the us the w.h.o. i think would come out looking a far more adequate comment that really what many of us think that he's trying to do with this movie cities he's looking for a scapegoat to hide his own incompetence is generally action of unity and his total lack of compassion or empathy during the covert pandemic i want to focus on the

w.h.o. itself do you not agree that the w.h.o. needs to be reformed. i agree that the w.h.o. needs should be reformed but it is not a basket case and there is much that's good there. and the argument that if an institution needs to be reformed it's not an argument for destroying it and i don't think anyone has provided evidence. that would lead us to believe that the w.h.o. should be destroyed should not exist at all professor thank you very much for talking with us now is professor pollack braitman she's director of the center and social disparities in health at the university of california san francisco my pleasure. if you ask investors electric car maker tesla is now the most valuable

car company in the world but that's based on their hopes that the company can be an industry giant like toyota or g.m. to get there though tesla needs to build a lot more cars making progress construction of a new factory near berlin is ahead of schedule though not everyone in the neighborhood is pleased. this is the site in question location 40 kilometers southeast of the german capital berlin it's here including high did that tesla wants to begin producing electric vehicles by the middle of next year. construction of the plant set to employ some 10000 people is a ready well underway the multi-billion euro investment is new zick to the ears of show kid who envisions renewal in a long forgotten region. you know your this is an incredible opportunity for the region and we need to see says like young people

who emigrated may be tempted to come back because of the jobs on offer this is a good chance for us to entice young families who might have moved to states like bob or varia. getting in touch with tesla isn't easy the company did not respond to an interview requests from d.w. . many environmentalists are furious that the electric giant has pressed ahead with construction despite not having the final green light to do so. other concerns include the vast quantity of water the factory will consume well tesla has promised to address that issue activists like nadine and spend a lot of my ass say it doesn't go far enough to date some 370 objections to the factory has been submitted but the coronavirus means there won't be a public hearing until september to tikrit what happens to us as high criticism isn't accepted at all the people who speak out against the project don't get to

listen to their many people who are really involved and want to contribute but they just get ignored we need to listen to be appalled we need transparency and democracy but we really need our politicians to take our resources and protected areas seriously and to put their foot down when needs be it's a huge turn of gloom hider where the factory will be located has $8000.00 inhabitants tesla could draw a further $10000.00 to the region some locals fear this will mean more traffic and less on spoils nature. but there is like are excited he regularly flies his drone over the construction site he's fascinated by what's going on. as mine as it is a mistake in my view this is a very forward looking company. one that's just rocketing the market with 500000 electric cars supposed to hit the market here it will encourage other companies to

embrace electric mobility and get things moving. so busy. he posts his drone footage on twitter giving both those for and against the project a bird's eye view of what's going on. one of many things that has changed because of covert 19 is flying many countries have closed their borders leading to airlines being grounded in people staying put but some people are beginning to miss the experience of flying now some would be frequent flyers in taiwan have come up with a way of compensating for their loss but you know this is not the last call for china airlines flight 1168 from taipei to taipei flight time 3 and a half hours that's right a flight to nowhere and it's fully booked have you missed flying say yes definitely i haven't been abroad for 6 months. it's all very new style jake

remembering how flying works bringing back happy holiday memories passport control security and what's in your back. to you now oh and. don't forget g.g. free and a quick selfie with the tiger. applause for the airport fire fighters and then it's time to head for the gate. fantastic a freshly disinfected cabin. like behave. just by knowing there's no place. to. leave it is this you know a final security check and then it's time for the fantasy flight to liftoff although the actual plane stays firmly on the ground. a sightseeing flight would be

nice though i don't think i want to waste the money. and indeed it doesn't the micro break may be over but there's plenty of fun still to come temperature check. koren gene rules customs forms prostitute control and the drug squad detection dog. guard tell the man what was the best bit that you have coming on to get long the plane being disinfected. walked the flight landed on time and it's carbon neutral all in all a month will travel experience. this is g.w. news here's a reminder of our top story this hour brazilian president shyer boss noro says he has tested positive for cope with 19 having previously dismissed the season as being quote just a little flu also drawing criticism for saying taking steps to stop brazilians

contracting the disease was not worth the effort. you're watching news remember you can always catch the latest news on our web site that's at d.f.w. dot com and you can post on twitter and instagram at. i'm terry martin thanks for watching.

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