they've tried to overcome the crisis in their to germany's role would have to be one of some other darity. chancellor angela merkel has addressed the public several times on this topic and she's the one with the power to make decisions so why is president stan my choosing to give this address now. i think that may be a little bit of an there religious impulse there because of the important christian festival that easter is is a practicing christian and so he's talking to fellow christians about the fact that they can all go to church so that kind of celebrate this in a communal not-a manner but also obviously it's a situation where generally in this corona crisis the president is not able to speak to people as much as he normally does his function in the german society is in a sense that all shaking hands and speaking to people so he's taking this opportunity actually to be able to address people much more than he was able to in the last few weeks and he's calling on them to stick to the rules to stay at home and to maintain discipline is in the situation because obviously in the easter h

with restrictions looming stumbles patients will be tested as well is this only darity of its people. well for more on this let's bring in iraq she's an activist and researcher based in berlin what are you hearing from people you know back in turkey about the outbreak well and the people in turkey have actually just started to hear about that because as you know the person was the case in turkey was that there are you know went on march and it had already spread to so 114 countries surrounding and surrounding turkey and also all in iran there are hundreds of course of the cases and this and this raised suspicions better there is this this is handled transparency by the government so this also the government is to be late for the profession so i'm for people to be. the norm now in their various hosts spread to all parts of turkey and the testing capacity is still not sufficient. maybe you have heard the situation of people returning from. saudi arabia and this people leapt on monitor. and this cause they'd be there sped up to use to all parts of turkey and there are also issues with yo

for us to sort of see how we are all equal, and how we need to bind together and some together in darity, so we can make it out of this crisis together. >> josc, thank you so much for being with us. >> think you. >> to see if you're eligible and to apply for a cash grant fu from this nd, visit mission asset fund.org. >>> for wewos now, healthcare ers and first responders have been pleading for more facemasks and other personpm protective eqt, as they úit is a problem in need of an urgent solution even a diy one. last week,n francisco-based artist, and shop owner, jenny, held an online workshop how to sew facemasks which are in short supply on the commercial market. rom the clothes she used to ic make before the pandemic. she taught dozens of people who created and then donated homemade masks, to help workers arou the nation. joining me now, is jenny, the owner of jenny lemons and a san francisco-based artist. jee y, increasingly there recommendations to where some sort of face covering when out in public. is this increasing your motivation to have more of these online opwork >> yes, abso

looming he stumbles patients will be tested his will is the slowly darity of its people. and as fear infections and lockdowns move around the world we asked some of the network of correspondents to give us an insight into how the pandemic is changing daily life. deserted streets empty restaurants closed shops in the u.s. capitol to stop the spread of the virus more and more states are ordering their residents to stay at home but not everyone complies if you days ago police in neighboring maryland interrupted a church service where 50 people gather it and none of them were social distancing the oh so it is can only help that such attitudes will change soon as people understand what's at stake staying at home is challenging for everybody these days but now imagine staying at home if you live in a shack no one room shack with a lot of people at a very crowded space this is the reality for millions of south africans and although the lockdown rules of the 3 week locked on extremely strict many people simply not able to comply when you talk to cartoons you don't get the sense t

when it was quite significant that she actually mentioned european summit darity up to a moment where she stayed out for example his friends spain and italy who are in favor of current a-bomb so the european countries have to find a compromise and have to find out a way to stand together to fight a pandemic if they do want the european union to stand for its values. i mean i would say is in berlin thank you so much now let's take a look at some other coronavirus related news from around the world the international monetary fund says the pandemic is causing the worst economic fallout since the great depression in the 19th over $170.00 countries are expected to see a decline in per person income this year and almost total reversal of free coronavirus projections emerging economies and low income the actions will be worst affected. russia and saudi arabia are reportedly close to reaching a deal on cutting oil production the news comes as the opec oil cartel holds a meeting via video link weak demand because of the coronavirus and the price war between moscow and riyadh have caused oil pr

with more restrictions looming he stumbles patients will be tested as well as the slowly darity of its people. and i'm joined now by our turkey correspondent nearly hard who is currently in berlin so yulia turkey has seen the sharp rise in new infections tell us a little bit more about how it is spreading across the country. it is spreading fast the number of officially confirmed cover 19 cases in turkey has more than tripled over the past 7 days that now exceeds 18 thousands more than 350 people have died that's all according to the turkish health minister however critics argue that the actual number of cases might be higher than so many infections have gone unnoticed because authorities have just recently ramped up tests as some people have also criticised the government 2 weeks has not revealed which parts of the country are most affected so it was only 2 days ago that the turkish ship pavlik officially learned that istanbul is the epicenter of this crisis a city of 16000000 people and it has 60 percent of all the coronavirus cases in turkey and criticism swirling what has been the

when it was quite significant that she actually mentioned european summit darity up to moments where she stood up as for example his friends spain and italy who are in favor of current a bomb so the european countries have to find a compromise and have to find out a way to stand together to fight a pandemic if they do want the european union to stand for its values. i mean i would say is and thank you so much. now let's take a look at some other coronavirus related news from around the world. the virus pandemic has now killed at least $100.00 doctors in italy and that's according to the country's national federation representing doctors the toll includes some of those whom d'italia government called out of retirement a month ago it's also estimated some 30 nursing staff have died from cope with 90. international monetary fund says the pandemic is causing the worst economic fallout since the great depression in the 1930 s. over $170.00 countries are expected to see a decline in per person income this year and almost total reversal of precursor of ira's projections emerging economies a

is not now now is the time to stop the virus and to save lives and he said repeatedly that so the darity is the name of the game and right now they just need to be left to get on with the job so you know a pretty diplomatic response from the director general of the w.h.o. pushing back against those planes from president trump that the organization has mishandled the coronavirus crisis the u.k. says that it has no plans to cut funding to the world health organization what about the rest of your of what's been the reaction that. well members of the regional is based in europe it's based in geneva switzerland it's been around since 148 it's never faced this kind of threat before so yes there has been an outpouring to come that nation we've had from. spokespeople for from various governments germany's foreign minister a high court mass tweeted apportioning blame doesn't help the virus knows no borders and then it was so said we have to work closely together on coverage one thing he also mentioned that the w.s.j. was already on the funded as you said the u.k. prime minister boris johnson who