the headlines this hour the german government has to gradually lift the nationwide . 19 the code with 19 outbreak is under control refugee shelters do you see infections rise dramatically also to. the largest state sponsor of pandemics and this is the 3rd or 4th pandemic that came out of china. u.s. politicians continue to blame china with one republican senator saying that washington should respond with sanctions. on the holy fire is lit in jerusalem is also the 1st easter celebrations to get

under way at thousands of churches around the world to stand then take you to the. hello there good to have you company watching our international it's just gone 5 pm here in moscow this saturday afternoon now let's start with the latest figures then on the pandemic because confirmed cases have now passed 2200000 more than 156000 people have died from the virus and most of those fatalities are in europe and also the u.s. so far just over 590000 patients have recovered from the disease. you know. well the corona virus outbreak in germany had pays to be under control after a month long lockdown according to the country's health minister germany has

a much lower death rate than other major european countries and restrictions on movement are being partially lifted with some shops reopening as early as next week however a government spokesperson has stressed caution is needed. skipped. the city in fits there are no guarantees that the infection kovel keep flattening out there also risks when we take these small careful steps into opening up we must keep an eye on the infection curve and what it means for our health system and our hospitals as in many countries germany shut down has devastated the hospitality sector in dresden restaurant workers here set out empty tables and chairs on the central square to highlight the crisis they are dealing with and the meaning people held a safe distance demonstration they're calling the lock down disproportionate most of the population is staying safe refugees in shelters there are much higher risk as peter all of our reporters. as germany get set to ease coronavirus restrictions

not everywhere in the country has been successful in stopping the spread of the virus some refugee centers have seen a spike in the number of cases at one in the south of the country almost half of the 600 residents tested positive this week do you feel moved and isolate we suspect that maybe people with kobe 19 who've been in the facility for a long time and that they've shown no symptoms of the disease and that they could have passed on the virus the facility in but involved in bird houses people from nigeria iraq syria turkey who are waiting to have their asylum applications process the action taken by authorities to this localized outbreak is causing concern they're seeing these people as a kind of threat and danger it seems to be an acceptable strategy to pack the police outside and make sure nobody comes in and nobody comes out it's another center not far from frankfurt there's

a similar picture with around 60 residents testing positive out of $170.00 in the far northeast of the country the refugee council of mecklenburg west pomerania has voiced some serious concerns about an asylum. location center on their patch. bad required minimum distance of 1.5 to 2 meters cannot be maintained this is added and anyone who recklessly last people leave in mass accommodation in this situation their health authorities in the region which just so happens to be represented in the book the start by chancellor angela merkel have been quick to rubbish criticism of the way coronavirus is being tackled among asylum applicants in coordination with the health authorities every effort is being made to prevent the spread of infection within the country's primary care facilities and in community commendation in the current emergency situation infection control for

asylum seekers and the population is a priority that comes as berlin is quite rightly being praised for having tackled coronavirus nationally in a robust and fact based way on friday health minister yen spahn described the situation in germany as under control you know that. we have moments to bring the dynamic growth to linear growth the infection numbers have decreased significantly relative increases from day to day the outbreak has now become manageable and controllable again ultimately what these localised outbreaks in asylum sent to show is that if you drop your guard for just a moment when it comes to fighting or trying to stop the spread of this virus then it will be exploited peter all of our r.t. berlin. now elsewhere president trump has said that he does expect between $60.65 americans to die of covert 19 that is down from his early

estimate of 100000 the president claims the country's infection rate is paid and he's unveiled plans to gradually ease the lock down as trinity chavez reports. white house pushing to get the economy moving again our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring our economic life and we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time issuing new guidelines to get the country up and running the 1st phase officials must see a 2 week decline in the number of people with covert symptoms and the percentage of people testing positive for the virus must also decrease than face to allowing all non-essential travel school activities and elective surgeries to continue some states will be able to open up sooner than others. but hard hit new york and new jersey have to wait the state continues to see an increase in covert cases new york governor andrew cuomo extending stay at home orders he calls new york pause until

may 15th but it could be longer what is the final conclusion of this rb chapter i still believe it when we have a vaccine with more than 226000 infections and more than 16000 deaths new york is still seeing around 2000 new cases a day city remaining the epicenter of the outbreak officials working to open testing sites in the city's poorest and hardest hit communities so we're talking about folks in some of the lowest income communities in the city people in communities of color that have borne the brunt of this crisis immigrant communities while governor cuomo is issuing an executive order directing all public and private labs in new york to coordinate with the department of health to ensure prioritizing of diagnostic testing he says that's still not enough to test the millions of people needed to reopen new york's economy we don't have a testing system that can do this or there can be ramped up to do this one. we

don't have a public health casting system by the way it's de minimis if you look at what our government departments of health we need a clean. we did approach between the federal government and the states right now the main testing lab for the state can perform about 300 antibody tests per day while officials believe they can grow that number to 2000 test a day in the coming weeks with nearly 20000000 residents in new york the governor says the state needs all the help they can get from the federal government. meanwhile u.s. politicians do you continue supplying china for the pandemic the republican senator lindsey graham has suggested to me that washington should punish beijing with sanctions. the largest state sponsor pandemics this is the 3rd or 4th pandemic that came out of china what should we do to the largest state sponsor of pandemics on the globe which is saying in china well since the coronavirus that paid in december

numerous conspiracy theories have to begin to net an idea that the virus was created in a in a bio weapons lab in and has gained widespread coverage in us media and donald trump and his administration to be more than willing to fuel the speculation. that a lot of people are looking seems that make sense they talk about a certain kind of bet but that was it in that area if you can believe this is what they're doing to know is vats but that is not in that area that was in seoul that went zone it wasn't sold there that bad is 40 miles away so a lot of strange things are happening but there is a lot of investigation going on and we're going to find out if we know they have this lab we know about the what markets we know that the virus itself did originate in so all those things come together are still a lot we don't know. well a member of the white house coronavirus task force has debunked the theory of the

virus being created in a lab and who is a leading expert on infectious diseases said the patent of meat ations does show that the virus jumped directly from an animal to a human meanwhile china has the u.s. to stop making claims with no scientific basis. to its woodroof was. officials have repeatedly stated that there is any evidence that you corona virus was produced 3 many medical experts in the world also believe the so-called laboratory leak hypothesis has no scientific basis the british foreign secretary 2nd the anti china rhetoric coming from washington dominic rob said that there can be no business as usual with beijing after this crisis and that hard questions need to be asked about how the outbreak started journalist daniel is that he believes the brain going being led by donald trump is merely

a way of deflecting responsibility. clearly what we're seeing here are tribes that are political in nature i mean trump has mishandled this whole crisis so it's inevitable. america has got another few cases having more cases than any other country in the world in a matter of 2 months and trump has been contradictory have parted in effect saying once any one moment another thing another moment so this crisis began so clearly trying to strike out and distract attention from his own there's more record. by attacking china that's just plain as day the evidence so far as it against the allegations that they're really fighting an uphill battle they have nothing to go on it's religious based on pure anti chinese still that. millions of orthodox christians around the world are celebrating easter today and

the much anticipated ceremony has taken place in jerusalem a couple of hours ago the holy fire was lit at the church of the holy suppose that event happens each year inside a chapel in the center of the church which orthodox believers do consider to be that of christ traditionally thousands of pilgrims have to travel to jerusalem to light candles from the flying that isn't happening this year but the holy fire will later be flown to orthodox christian nations including greece and russia. has more now on the celebrations. now the fire has always been a symbol of hope hope that the end of the world has not yet come but this easter the most significant religious holiday for some 300000000 people things are different this easter is different we will not go to our villages we will not barbecue in our yards we will not go to our churches and of course we will not gather in the homes of relatives and friends for us to continue being together this

year we stay apart. there are no good find oprah sessions know how exam kisses no joyous celebrations that christ has risen this is the main church where the miracle takes place but it is closed as part of a nationwide lockdown it's all part of the government's attempt to push back on the coronavirus and as a result is banned all mess gatherings something that has the country's ultra orthodox jewish community up in arms. i wrote the. book. i. all across the world churches urge people to pray and stay at home some churches even live stream through social media other christian communities celebrated easter 7 days ago with pope francis praying alone in st peter's square many christian churches urge programs to spend this holy day at home. was poor asli there now

russia has raj had more than $4700.00 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours and that is the highest single day increase so far the death toll stands at 313 across russia and here in moscow the mayor has updated the digital past system which did have some glitches earlier in the week although it is now automated. explains. on 15th of april new measures which is used here in the capital which is suffering the brunt of the crude virus in russia essentially has been out of chasses which means that you need a passport everything specially to travel to and from what now the moscow met today announced that passes do will be extended until the 1st of mange he did also admit that the imposing of the past is jim didn't have its steve thing issues at the very beginning.

so the main issue that we sold out was the time that was needed for sorties to visit to check each and every part of it which is why as part of the new match starting from the next wednesday the 22nd of may when everything will now be done and of automatically so here in moscow there's a cost the detroit cut that he used to travel on the map show from next wednesday you have to link your travel comment to that card so essentially if you don't do that and put your car down and try to get what the bar has just went open and be allowed to travel through we also saw a build up of cars especially in the size 24 hours of process don't was introduced we had stories of people waiting for up to several hours as authorities very diligently checked through all that document that also is going to be made much more efficient because now cameras will be checking and scanning which cars have the white house and which don't know us against the plan and that's the moscow magic you recognize of course this is not a plan for a one. nation is causing quite natural and psychological distress to

a lot of people but that it is necessary and that it is bringing results so on but he said that while the numbers of rising in russia that are actually not growing exponentially 'd and he actually to pad moscow to new york because their cities are roughly the same population and he said this so thought here in washington managed to avoid the development of that american it's. the u.n. is warning that economic hardship. could cost actually more lives than. itself we'll have a look at that in more detail just after the break. join

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again now economists are making dire predictions for the long term impact of the pandemic according to the international monetary fund the u.s. will suffer its worst recession since the great depression and for china's economy the impact is already severe. sanction we can see the sudden attack it could be 90 has indeed had a pretty big impact on the economic performance of our country in the 1st quarter major economic indicators clearly declined but we must also see that in march those indicators showed signs of a rebound and a decline has been reduced the oxford economics research firm is predicting a global recession in the 1st half of 2020 far worse than the last financial crisis

of 2008 they are saying that global output will contract by 7 percent and china is facing a 12 percent downturn commentator charlie boyle believes the impacts will be long lasting. most of the economies around the world will have recovered from initial shock but people have to understand. their economy before it's not going to be the same and after there's going to be a permanent loss and destruction of that economic productivity. because people they should be doing nothing for 2 or 3 months economically it's going to save us you are i think this is a global problem pretty much everyone's got the same issue but if you remember what happened before we came into this crisis we already have large levels of debt in the world and. this is our as a direct result and in my opinion on the back of years of austerity never really got over 3 dimensional crisis in 2008 so this is really going up to nancy to try

and make our entire system a lock for a start i think it will get the people to our state and pretty much every country we're going to have to again increase the deficit and debt future generations are going to have to pay. and while the head of the un's world food program has warned that the economic shock of the cave in 1000 pandemic could in some countries actually be far deadlier than the virus itself he says the at least 30000000 people are at risk of dying of starvation if critical funding is cut one quarter as more. as the world's battle with the coronavirus rages on one has to wonder what will happen when the smoke clears tens of millions of people are already dependent on the un's world food program for meals if that were to lose funding all of those people would be threatened with starvation if we lost all funding a minimum of $30000000.00 would die over

a 3 month period that would be 300000 people dying per day that's why leaders have got to balance out the response with keeping the economy going because otherwise a lot more people will die from starvation and economic deterioration. then from kofi itself even before the pandemic the world had a serious food crisis on its hands the world economic forum says that over 820000000 people were going to bed hungry now many organizations are indicating that the situation can get much much worse we fully agree with the overall and the 1st us to be both on the measures that they can place the board but we also believe that will don't pollute the food chain. to be able to hold up by low for consumers to move the potential risk over on the north route of course it's a crisis of the international markets under the lockdown the very supply chains of transnational corporations are breaking apart food can't be processed delivered all

received between countries within countries everywhere for the developing world that means famine could be just around the corner especially now that humanitarian relief is also being obstructed by the lockdowns widespread poverty a reliance on imported food and rising prices are all a recipe for disaster according to the united nations for the millions living in lockdown countries that fit that criteria is running out across africa clashes between hungry people in the police are already taking place was. the many governments of the developing world are struggling with a terrible dilemma see their people die from the coronavirus or see them die from starvation while in the developed world of the main dilemma is containing the coronavirus through look downs and then dealing with the economic impact in the

developing world apart from containing the virus and dealing with the economic crisis the biggest worry now is people dying of hunger that doesn't mean the journey from farm to plate isn't obstructed in the developed world in the united states dairy farmers are dumping 1000. of gallons of milk a day because they can't be sold at the same time retailers are fearing a shortage of milk and they're limiting the amount that consumers can buy as for fruits and vegetables $5000000000.00 worth had been wasted for the same reason one of america's largest pork processing plants has even been closed because of the virus the closure of this facility combined with a growing list of all the protein plants that have shifted across our industry is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of all meat supply it is impossible to keep all grocery stores stalked if not running the chaos of the free market is rearing its ugly head in more ways than just one week by week millions more are flocking to unemployment lines and food banks the early indicators of

a global food crisis are there before our very eyes we should ask ourselves how much farther can the global food supply chain bend before it breaks the senior economist un's food and agriculture organization to tell us that the crisis needs a concerted international response. than people who stay home and work or stay home does obviously create disruptions to. value chain for food no food get harvested than it has to be processed that has to be put on the shelf obviously there may be disruptions in this in this line because of the lockdown and because of the fact that people are looking to fill workers cannot probably move around from one place to another so that is want to the problem and the other sort of problem is that lot of people especially poor people if they don't go to work they don't have any don't have the money they cannot buy the proof we are talking about also countries where

malnutrition already is huge government would need to have you know finances of safety net to be able to reach these people and to make sure that they have to be more of who is really needed the problem is these countries cannot afford it so they need help they need support and the help has to come from the richer countries if the richer countries today are very much engaged of course for their own people the message from f.a. always do not forget the poor because it's a problem is not resolved clovelly you will come back and haunt everybody again. through some other world now and from high up in the international space station back down to a pandemic ravaged a us russian crew has landed safely in kazakstan after spending more than 200 days in obeyed as a precaution they were greeted by a team that had spent a month under medical observation at the global lot danno the space travelers might find it difficult to reach their homes because one calls nor does need to get to

moscow until astronauts need to go to instant. residents of 100 neighborhood have found a new way of communicating the same time each even then does their bags on to their balconies in life at each other 2 friends came up with the idea because they lived on the same street but were unable to leave their homes and the idea that. if you caught on spain has lost 20000 lives to the corona virus making it the worst hit country in europe. and a hospital in jakarta has 2 medical robots assisting frontline health workers there each robot can deliver medicine to patients rooms allowing doctors and nurses to keep a safe distance in the media as over 5000 confirmed cases of cope with 9500 deaths. so that doesn't bring you up to date for this hour you can also keep the latest developments on our social media pages and you tube channel and of course around the clock we'll have live broadcasts for you from our studios in moscow

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