one such activity is the international counl of nurses, which was held in frankfurt, germany.ation and ideas are exchanged on all matters relating to the healing arts. in these international meetings, members of the army nurse corps offer their full and enthusiastic cooperation, working according to the true purposes of their careers, the army nurses serve here teachers, sharing their experiences and knowledge with their colleagues, from nursing organizations all over the world and learning at the same time of what other nurses are attemptingand achieving in their particular health program. the congress does more, however, than serve as a forum for the exchange of technical ininformation. it offers great spiritual value to the members of this international partnership. it provides the opportunity for a cultural companionship during a visit to the opera. and ideal occasions for developing new and lasting social relationships. another activity designed to widen and strengthen friendships was a boat trip up the rhine river. the nine-hour trip gave the nurses a chance to view the

compost or no water toilets novato for short and that's the name of this company that's based in frankfurt germany and the only water needed is for washing your hands. we're preparing for a corporate event tomorrow friday night they need 3 wash basins 8 toilets and 3 or and also eyepiece well sisters 17 and elizabeth fellows set up novato 8 years ago they're both former i t professionals who are looking for a career change. we wanted to do something that involves natural cycles and isn't too monotonous. we decided to give it a go so we built our 1st toilets and we took them to music festivals to see if this was what we really wanted to be doing. the best. he answered turned out to be yes and the company is still going strong. one of their clients is a camp for school students. the whole idea behind the camp is to be climate neutral and eco friendly so of course we wanted eco friendly toilets meaning ones that don't use water if possible. and these ones don't use any at all and no chemicals either what remains is biomass that's in no way harmful. upset with me. for big events and long term rentals

fred pleitgen, cnn, frankfurt, germany. >> reporter: here in the uk, prime minister boris johnson isople to defeat the coronavirus. it pits humanity against the virus. it said the number one way to destroy covid-19 is to come up with a vaccine. of course, the uk is one of the front runners in the race globally to try to find a vaccine. researchers at oxford university saying they believe that if their trials continue to go well, they could have a vaccine ready as early as september. some experts though cautioning that is very optimistic, it would likely take at least a year. all of this happening as the uk prepares to overtake italy to have the most or highest number of deaths in europe. more than 28,000 people have been killed here by the coronavirus. also coming up on sunday, the government will basically present a plan to people where they start to outline what this country will look like as they start to lift the lockdown. clarissa ward, cnn, london. >> reporter: i'm nic robertson in athens. the country here coming out of a seven-week lockdown but it's going to be in stages. toda

outside the uk, germany's frankfurter allgemeine says the country's chancellor angela merkel is giving as germany starts to lift lockdown measures and open shops again. chance lucky not to let things slip away from her grasp in turns of infection rates. and a surreal picture on the front of the new york times, as taiwan commences its official baseball season in empty stadiums. so let's begin... welcome to you both again. lucy, let's kick off with the telegraph. a lot of uk papers basically the same headline, same briefing. saint home advice to be scrapped. it's going to be difficult to manage expectations, is in a? which is part of the reason why he wanted to make the announcement on sunday ahead of monday. i think that's right. he obviously wanted to show courtesy to mps and the house of commons because the neck of course normally policy should be unveiled in house rather than on television screens in normal times. there is a sense of giddiness on the front pages tonight. it's not surprising we've had six weeks of lockdown. and it doesn't look like we are now going to be into some gen

and on the front page of germany's frankfurter allgemeine, the simple headline "wounds of war". after europe's formal acceptance of nazi germany's world war ii surrender. so let's begin... matt, kezia, welcome again. matt, cani matt, kezia, welcome again. matt, can i start with you. because i was on last night and we were going over the first additions and happy monday the first additions and happy monday the splash in the sun. most of the titles have been briefed by someone, presumably someone at number ten that there was going to be a major easing of the lockdown. that doesn't seem to be the case at all now. what's happened in the last 25 hours? no, i think what's happened in the last 25 hours? no, ithink we what's happened in the last 25 hours? no, i think we got quite excited at the very small changes that we were to get to exercise as much as we want. possibly go to the park and sit down on benches. that's stuff feels kind of revolutionary at the moment. i think the situation is that it's changing every day. the date of his coming in every day. borisjohnson said himself date

and werner have let her out of her stable each morning so she can explore the local area of frankfurt in germanynds and many businesses to try and curb the coronavirus outbreak. though some of these measures have slowly started easing, people are still encouraged to limit their social interactions and keep their distance. translation: it's beautiful that she can at least have her freedom and not be locked inside because of coronavirus like us humans. but there are no rules against saying hello to jenny. translation: everyone knows her, no matter where she goes. people always greet her nicely, especially now in times of coronavirus. they're happy to have someone to cuddle. people have to stay apart from each other, but jenny sometimes has ten children round her. adults too come out of the tram and hug and pet her. anna and werner say in all of her years of ambling, she's never caused any trouble, and she is well liked by the local authorities. but to avoid any misunderstandings, jenny wears a note around her neck that reads, i haven't run away, i am just out for a walk. at the end of the day, wer

we want to make sure we do not have a break—out like we saw in frankfurt, germany, on the 10th of mayhe covid—19 virus. thank you. i want to see places of worship open as quickly as we can. i understand how important it is for millions of people in this country, andi millions of people in this country, and i can understand how people of faith would consider it strange that shops, cafes, pubs, restaurants, many other settings might be open in the weeks and months ahead, but not somewhere as important as a place of worship. we are working with faith leaders. i have convened a task force which has brought together the main faith leaders and we are working to provide exactly the kind of guidance you are describing. some faiths have already produced detailed guidance, working with jenny‘s colleagues at public health england, about how one might cordon off pa rt england, about how one might cordon off part of a church or place of worship, how you would ensure it is sufficiently clean, you train the volu nteers sufficiently clean, you train the volunteers who run a church, how you might enab

banks are also really steeling for for trouble ahead chose to delay me in frankfurt thank you. here in germany museums have reopened to visit as often as lockdown and if you happen to be a fan of the 1960 s. you know and for treats the largest collections of that decades pop offices now and show at berlin's museum of prints and drawings. it wasn't just flower power in the sixty's pop art was all the really. important there's a bounty of it hardly anyone is familiar with it now it's on display for the 1st time. so this is the moment to show everything we've accumulated it's one of the biggest collections of its kind in germany if not all of europe just. the brilliant state museum has an impressive collection of pop art including works by the artist who made it world famous andy warhol. culture for the masses out of them stars i sure did a new era in the art world severing the monday features of everyday life landed on both the big screen and canvas as pop art. the artists went out into the world and discovered shopping malls and stores and supermarkets before they even free themselves from the

the idea that the casual barrier frankfurt is so low they will be s,rving frankfurt only route but germanyute. to serve those and not to be able to grow in other areas, i think it will be difficult to focus on accounting profit going forward. this will be a business where routes come first, where employees come first, and profit will come second. guy: interesting to see if passengers come first. we have to leave it there. mark manduca joining us from citigroup. maybe we will see lufthansa working more closely with deutsche bank. that could be something that from an environmental point of view might make sense. a quick look at where european stocks have settled. as we've been telling you, we have seen something of a selloff , that has continued through the european close. these are the final numbers. we were down on the day. there were light volumes in certain portions of the european market, particularly on the german dax. we'll carry on the coverage of the top of the hour and talk about what has been happening in the u.k. we will get you the covid briefing as well as jonathan ferro has be

let's go right to our financial correspondent conrad burns in a standing by at the frankfurt stock exchange i can read germany's exports have posted their biggest monthly drop ever and this is a country that really is dependent on exports so what does this mean for the german economy. well for example for hundreds of thousands of workers in those industries it means that they are very very nervous right now for them the question is whether the temporary relief programs you know where the german government pays parts of their wages will be enough to save their jobs or in other words the question generally is whether this huge of horrible slump right now is a short one followed by a nice recovery all whether the decline in business activity and you factory orders the search will be staying longer than anticipated i talked to an economist today here at the exchange who told me that he thinks the current prediction for the german economy the shrinking g.d.p. this year of 6 and a half percent is too optimistic and that we are going to see soon going to see revisions downwards of that forecast. conard we know that be

just yet and that all comes down to the 72 prime time takeoff and landing slots at germany's top 2 airports that's frankfurt and munich frankfurt sees just over $70000000.00 passengers a year certainly last year around $50000000.00 for me unique the e.u. commission competition regulators they said they said they would allow the $9000000000.00 german government bailout of tons and tons it was to relinquish the slots on a permanent basis so that was on monday tuesday wednesday the board of lufthansa got together and they said it's not really going to work for us we don't want to give those up on a full time basis what about if we did it temporarily they actually said in a statement that they were going to assess the economic impact of giving up those slots they also said in knots. same statement that this bailout was the only viable alternative to essentially the company going bust senshi this is going to come down to who blinks 1st lufthansa doesn't want to give those slots up on a full time basis the e.u. commission who usually have incredibly stringent rules when it comes to this type of thing how of east

well for more let's go to the frankfurt stock exchange we're standing by calling that germany's exporters have posted their biggest monthly drop ever what does this mean for a country whose economy is so dependent on exports. well terry it means that hundreds of thousands of workers in those industries are very very nervous right now for them the question is will the temporary relief programs by the german government where the government pays part of their wages will this be enough to save their jobs or in other words is this just a short every and horrible slump with a nice rebound after what's always the slowdown in business activity in new orders for the factories will this last longer i talked to one economist this morning who said that he thinks that the current estimate that germany's economy this year will decline overall by 6.5 percent is too optimistic and will likely to have to be revised downwards. before the pandemic germany's an even trade balance with other countries had been widely criticized is that going to change now do you think. well for the moment other things are on

pandemic the demonstration was allowed to take place after germany's constitutional court overturned an earlier ban munich berlin and frankfurt also saw similar protests today. in india relatives of some of those killed in a gas leak took their loved ones bodies to the chemical factory where they died the protest on saturday comes as one local official suggested the company l.g. polymers my face charges of negligent manslaughter the week on thursday it killed 12 people and sent hundreds of others to hospital. german born magician roy horn of the duo sic freedom roy has died after contracting covert 19 horn and his partner siegfried fischbacher rose to fame through their las vegas shows featuring tigers which ended when horn was mauled by a tiger on stage in 2003 he died at the age of 75. little richard considered by some of the founding father of rock and roll has died he was 87 little richard roth and his distinctive voice flamboyant showmanship and a lightning fast rhythm so popular music in the 1950 s. he was one of the 1st african-american artists to cross the music business is racial divide is best known hits include alo

frankfurt chelsea thank you. now restaurants in northern germany have been reopening as part of the country's ongoing loosening of lockdown measures for visitors that means getting used to mask to waiters and sitting at tables that are further apart than they used to be. it's been a while since restaurant owner craft in law has been able to have a chop with his regular as. the new rules mean he and his staff have to wear masks . because of your back up and running but it's really hard because you have to maintain one and a half meter distance it's up to us to approach the guests they can't just wander in like they used to and say i'd like a table we have to take more of a. menu no longer comes in it's traditional form instead you can order the meal of choice on your smartphone. the ordering system did seem a bit strange at the start but it's really great i'm i was a bit scared of trying new things but i'm glad that cotton has reopened the place and that we can be here again. there aren't many bookings on the 1st day of reopening to limit the spread of infection the tables are further apart than they were before t

let's get more on the story with chelsea delaney our financial correspondent is in frankfurt for us i shall say so in germany volkswagen sales are down 67 percent but with economies now slowly opening up again is the worst over for you that the v.w. . well this is likely to be the steepest month over month drop for you and for car sales on a whole because in april pretty much every every economy was closed down in europe so car dealerships are close factories were closed over the past few weeks we have seen car dealerships here in germany reopen for example the automakers are generally getting production back up and running but this is going to be a very very slow path back towards normalisation there is a lot of a lot of questions over what demand it's going to look like even with these dealerships open they've reported that literally no one has been there so 'd what they're saying is that it's probably going to be a couple months or even longer until the end till we start seeing numbers head back towards normal we're seeing volkswagen introducing new sales programs here in germany could a government backed

germany for 5 years. i'm now at the frankfurt airport. there are a lot of people here. for safety reasons i'm dressed very weirdly. i'm flying out at 7 o'clock tonight from frankfurt to beijing will hold a little bit more only. for utility even though italy has closed its borders planes are still allowed to take off from here. before i know one thing that i think is there that means there could be people from italy on my plane. i'm going back to beijing because the number of cases in germany is rising. in china the situation is under control. i think things in germany will definitely escalate. your my wife and my in-laws are from han. in germany nobody has taken the crisis all that seriously. but i know how dangerous the whole situation is. this is the lunch universe. my name is march d. . and i'm 38 years old and i live in tehran. because i've had chemotherapy my immune system is weak. so now people keep away from me. they're afraid they might infect me with the virus . and of course as that's true. i'm going to quit since the corona outbreak began nobody has visited m

the demonstration was allowed to take place after germany's constitutional court overturned an earlier ban there were also protests in munich frankfurt and berlin where police made several arrests. for more on that story let's talk to do to abuse it kate brady kate thanks for joining us kate is there a growing movement that we're seeing taking place here. well certainly since just a few weeks ago we've seen these number of people attending these demonstrations which are often dumped as high g. demonstrations growing from just a few dozen people in the german capital to the thousands that we've seen in several german cities today but it is worth noting of course that is people still are a minority and at several local establishment several local businesses close to where these demonstrations have been taking place there will also be holding a sense of of counterparts as a kind of counter protest against these demonstrations but in placards and posters in the window saying we're not going to stage we're not your background your backdrop sorry and one thing that we could be seeing here by these protesters is something that one of the le

frankfurt and stuttgart and munich, etc. ryanair can't provide real competition in the german market. the monopoly in germanycoronavirus, the first thing they do is turn to government and say give us 9 billion. we want 9 billion, but we also want you to shut up. you are not even allowed to ask a question. just give us your money and be quiet. that's the kind of monopoly power that lufthansa has. it distorts competition for the next four or five years. we all now have to try to with 9 against lufthansa billion of ammunition in their us.hel to dump all over it is grossly unfair, and it distorts competition. of theat success european union has been the deregulation of the flag carriers. vonnie: you just said it would take you about a week to fill some of those domestic slots in germany. you might get the opportunity because we understand the eu is going to ask lufthansa to roll back some of its slots, particularly in munich and frankfurt. will you take on those slots? michael: but they don't. what they actually do is give you one slot at 5:00 p.m. on a friday and 11:00 on a tuesday. impressionou the that they a

recorded across into germany this is a view across into berlin plenty of water sitting on the ground there and some very windy conditions coming at times as well sunny across into frankfurt now is a sunny comma day on wednesday plenty of cloud across much of germany and the rain is further to the south again into the southern areas of france it will help with the flooding that has taken place but it's not quite in the same area the southeast seeing the heaviest of the downpours pushing crawls into northern areas of say across the southeast is feeling pretty good time which is on the high side very nice sunshine there's another system there just waiting the wings bringing the rain set now wednesday across into portugal and it becomes more widespread on thursday working its way across into much as spain again heavy downpours at times meanwhile across much of central and northern europe we have got a lot of cloud around and still those winds coming from the temperatures still really are rather below possibly for this time of year now the system of course impacting portions spain and that will bring the rain wednesday out across into morocco and on into algeria. i easily tes

frankfurt auschwitz trial was being conducted. mengele's name became much more well-known in germany and mengele stepfather, rolf's stepfather decidedhim know who his real father was. at that time rolf mengele began an awkward and from his point of view, forced Ãwith his father living in brazil. for many years they would argue and didn't really understand each other. wolf was a student a child of 60s radical progressive politics and didn't have, he had a kind of connection to his father but you an intellectual battle. he would confront the father rather than continue with the labored conventions of written correspondence. he went to brazil, he swiped a friends passport and went to brazil under some security precautions and met his father and had a real competition with him. he challenged him about auschwitz and challenged him about his racial theories. i don't want a spoil the whole thing but mengele essentially says, gets quite emotional, even weeping, saying that it's so hurtful his own son would believe what was written in the papers about him that people who arrive at auschwitz were already dead when they got there and he was si

out spurred blues to wolfsburg mention when it frankfurt lots of action to look forward to and buyer nick and union berlin on sunday as well as sport germany has taken another major step towards returning to normalcy after months of coronavirus restrictions germany is relaxing checks at its borders with france switzerland and austria and on saturday germany's foreign minister went to the border of another e.u. country to mark the lifting of all restrictions there. the border and may be open once again between germany and luxembourg and an easing of coronavirus restrictions but don't relax too much german foreign minister heiko must know early but not quite sure cannes with his luxemburg counterpart shown us a bone at a border crossing between the towns of pal and shank and. author of that name will start border controls for denmark in the next few days and from june the 15th there will be no more checks at the borders with france austria and switzerland i'm hoping that the border controls that the polish and czech friends currently do have will also be lifted in the forseeable future. however both warsaw and prague say they are keeping the

questions about how that would align with germany's climate goals at this point so it's not totally clear how that's going to shape up so it's a villain in frankfurt thank you very much for that. some sports news no and the quiet times and stunted goal celebrations seen in bundesliga matches in recent days may be strange and unfamiliar but there's nothing new about the goal scoring of liver houston's young star. he didn't have to as they've accused in baton direction on monday night with a full one victory at struggling as van. the closing act of the reopening weekend underneath the visa study on lights there's much about the in the strange times like the sight of teams emerging separately from the tunnel that makes the match day feel like a training exercise and it was with training ground ease that labor queues in breeze through braman defense to net the opener in the 28th minute mussa g.r.b. charge unchallenged to the touchline and picked out an unmarked car i have a guest in from. braman we're back level just 2 minutes later when leo gets imports corner was turned home by a crafty tiro gabriel selassie back but just 3 minutes after that laver

our frankfurt stock market correspondent blitzen told us what's such a dramatic drop in export numbers needs for an export focused economy such as germany it means that hundreds of thousands of workers in those industries are very very nervous right now for them the question is will the temporary relief programs by the german government where the government pays part of their wages will this be enough to save their jobs or in other words is this just short hair every and horrible slump with a nice rebound after what's always the slowdown in business activity if you orders for the factories will this last longer i talked to one economist this morning who said that he thinks that the current estimate that germany's economy this year will decline overall by 6.5 percent is too optimistic and we're likely to have to be revised downwards. more bad today to also from the world's biggest economy unemployment in the u.s. has surged to almost 15 percent the highest level since the 2nd world war war then $20000000.00 americans lost their jobs last month coronavirus lockdowns led to a massive economic freeze employment fell in all sectors hospitali

biala gassed at frankfurt airport city managed by fresh bought. this is d w news live from birth it germany gets back to business but within limits officials clear the way for restaurants shops and schools to reopen hot sauce on the wall instead a spike in new coronavirus infections would mean another locked up. also coming up . a gas leak at other chemical plant in india kills at least 11 people strong.