to borrow 156000000000 euros to protect businesses and industries from berlin out of there as dominic cain reports. it's a scene that's being repeated around the world patience struggle for life medics struggle for resources and governments face growing demands for cash in berlin the answer appears to be borrowing lots of it fully 156000000000 euro ministers say they could do nothing else this is as minor as it. in my view it's cynical if some people now start discussions that health issues should come 2nd and the economic issues take priority the top priority right now is to limit the rapid spread of the pandemic to ensure that our house system is well prepared but just as the virus attacks the population so too doesn't the economy thiel explained operates a cinema in vaughan he worries coronavirus could kill his business from asia it's going to talk about its does it what sort out for me as a cinema operator the situation is very better since big march we are no longer allowed to have visitors the fixed costs continue we do not have any possibility to generate an income this means that t

hope there is an end in sight to the coronavirus crisis one which does not kill their business dominic cainal-jazeera berlin well joining us now via skype from edinburgh is. chair of international banking or and finance at the university of edinburgh and emilio's has written extensively on financial regulation i mean it's great to have you on the program let me start by asking you is the banking sector prepared for this pandemic do you think no nobody's the banking sector is in a much months but this shape. than it was in 2008 but nothing like these and of course the biggest problem is this the exposure sold off balance by corporates law from corporates to corporates and even one of the defaults as you understand. the same corporation will be fought on its bank loans and then the stress on the banking sector will be imported in directly and that's the biggest the biggest said to me yes there is that corporate default on their short term loans to other corporates this is a form of shuttle banking activity that was not regulated for 2008 and has created serious fragile vulnerabilities to the

drop since records began in 1905 and another indicator of the widespread economic devastation dominic cain has the details from berlin you have a very clear sense building that at the european level in a macro sense but then also in the micro sense here in germany the joblessness the economic indicators are looking very poor right now and the figures relate to the 1st quarter of the year and of course the pandemic only really took hold in march so what about it begs the question what about what's happening right now what about what's going to happen in may and in june and if the rest of the year the u.k. prime minister barak's johnson is leading his 1st weekly cabinet meeting since falling ill with coronavirus the government is under pressure after new figures pushed the number of deaths to more than 26000 or there's some positive signs in spain which has recorded its lowest daily increase in new cases since a state of emergency was declared 6 weeks ago the health ministry has also recorded 268 new deaths. and for the 1st time in 2 months there's been no new domestic cases recorded in sout

gruesome economic figures that the governments are dealing with today here in berlin all right dominic cain there summing up the situation for us in germany and talking of economic pain there we can continue this with an amended receipt joins us now from nigeria now they've just received a huge loan from the i.m.f. but how much of a sigh of relief is that giving people their. well it's some kind of. good shot in the arm but this is a country that's been on a borrowing spree of recent only yesterday just hours before the international monetary fund announced the 3.83.4000000000 dollars aid loan package the nigerian parliament approved another $2100000000.00 that the nigerian government can borrow internally and that's in addition from an addition to what was approved in early march 20202020 or when another $22700000000.00 of support for the nigerian government to borrow and this is a country that has seen its start a reserve drop from more than $40000000000.00 just a few years ago to just $33000000000.00 and this is all happening at a time when nobody knows exactly what the impact of the cov

monday morning there in berlin with dominic cain thank you dominic europe's 2 worst affected countries spain and italy have recorded their lowest daily death tolls in about a month spain's top health official says the latest tally 400 $33.00 still tragic but shows it is on the right path spain's been subjected to some of europe's toughest lockdown measures and they will largely be extended until may 9th but the prime minister says children will be allowed outside and week from now turkey reporting more coronavirus cases than any country outside of europe or the united states with or he's of confirmed more than 86000 infections and just over 2000 deaths so the government on saturday extended containment measures including strict travel restrictions and russia's reported a drop in new infections just over 4200 confirmed in the last 24 hours compared to 6000 the previous day 405 deaths president vladimir putin told citizens the outbreak is quote under complete control in the us though the coronavirus death toll is now well beyond 40000 and pressure is mounting to reopen the economy protes

all right let's cross over to belin where dominic cain is live for us now and dominic germany has been pretty definitive in the way it's approached this whole crisis and now making mouth wearing compulsory. yes nic but the point about the compulsory nature of mosque wearing is that it is not compulsory for everybody in shops right across the country yes some of the needs to be corrected the situation is that each state has some form of mosque requirement for public transport in place everywhere so for example where i am now in berlin the buses going by past behind me people inside them after where mosques as of today as in the rest of the country but crucially here in berlin and in several other states those people can then take those mosques off if they want to go shopping in the shops that have been reopened as it were since last week since the decision was made to allow people to go back into certain shops and for shop owners to open up those shops which would shop for under a certain area surface area of shops so so it is definitely the case that although there is a mosque order in

increase in spain and italy but the italian prime minister says restrictions there will be extended dominic cain has more from berne then. signore do your know it's a stark example of what the coronaviruses done to this continent the traditional good friday people passion service in rome and pope francis forced to preside over a ceremony with almost no congregation because the pandemic continues to kill thousands of people every day we are particularly concerned by the large number of infections reported among health workers in some countries there are reports of up to 10 percent of health workers being infected this is an alarming trend. when health workers are at risk we are all trees but just as corona targets populations so it attacks their economies which is why late on thursday e.u. finance ministers agreed a vast new credit package for those worst affected fast loans for governments and short term aid to companies which might otherwise go they had up to around out of the trillion euros a step change in the economic ordination we did in our union this emergency plan we'll see old our econo

couldn't agree on shared borrowing and perspiring tomes on how to fund long term economic recovery dominic cain has been following developments from berlin and he says the e.u. deal may have been agreed i'm alone in principle but the details are still being put and. it's really it's by i really want to see the e.u. front up with guarantees full then debts called euro vons all in the current crisis corona bombs effectively having the germans and other northern european countries guaranteeing that debts so that they then can concentrate their economies on fights in corona that has not happened and in some ways it was probably never going to happen right now because there is resistance from the germans the finns the dutch and the austrians all are really bulking at the idea of providing this blank check as at least that's how it's portrayed by several important eminent business types in germany don't want to see that happen so what's in they have instead is solidarity they have the metaphorical equivalent of tea and sympathy for the southern european countries they're being told ok you can have fa

bashar assad's forces at the start of the war and 6 years of complicity in acts of torture as dominic cain reports it's the 1st time any official has been brought to court court for war crimes by the syrian government they came to germany claiming to be refugees from syria's civil war now it's claimed they committed crimes against humanity jury it specifically multiple murder torture and of a serious offenses clarks. the defendants are accused of having been members of syria's general secret service the accused anwar err is believed to have been head of an investigation unit which was responsible for damascus as head of the units he's believed to have been the leader of investigation officers and personnel in a prison in which systematic torture. the older of the 2 defendants defected from president bashar assad's forces in 2012 before coming to germany 2 years later he was subsequently identified by syrian refugees living here he and his co-defendants were arrested in february last year in bringing this case the german authorities are applying the principle of universal jurisdiction of ce

christian salumi al-jazeera new york so let's take a closer look at the situation in europe now with dominic cain and. for many thousands of people across europe this is the reality of the coronavirus for many millions more it means locked down and the loss of their freedom of movement and for many weeks that's been the case in france now its president says it must stay that way a lot longer. only got this. hospital's a saturated everywhere in france and the french overseas territories the system is under strain it and the epidemic is not yet under control so we must continue our efforts and continue to respect the rules the more they are respected the more lives will be saved that is why the strictest lockdown must continue until monday may the 11th. but elsewhere monday meant a return to work after weeks in lockdown as here in madrid because in this and a few other sectors of the economy the toughest restrictions have been lifted and some spanish politicians say now is not the time to relax the vigilance even to this small extent and in most other regards the existing lockdown will remain in pl

court case linked to allege and state sponsored torture by president bashar al assad's government dominic cain is following the trial berlin. the case against these individuals is that in different capacities at the start of the syrian civil war they were part of the intelligence and security apparatus of president bashar assad's government and in those capacities they either carried out or were complicit in the carrying out of multiple murders of torture there's one allegation of rape and other serious violent attacks against the syrian people as i say at the start of the syrian civil war what's interesting about this is these individuals came to germany at different times and presented themselves to the authorities as refugees and yet starting today for the course of the next few months they're going to hear claims that they are anything but that they are guilty as i say of the crimes and the offenses which i just outlined outlined of course the presumption of innocence applies here they deny the charges there are other interesting elements about this the german government is choosing to to

will shrink by more than 6 percent this year dominic cain is in berlin. before the coronavirus pandemic really took hold here people thought that the economy of germany would grow by just over one percent this year and now in the full flood of 'd the statistics coming through every day about corona one really gruesome statistic economically for this country that it is going to go into recession will shrink by 6.3 percent and there's no way of sugarcoating that from a governmental perspective the economy minister peter meyer a key ally of anglo american who works in that building behind me in the chancery building she and mr my are having to deal with this very serious economic shock that everyone in this country is experiencing they say they project that germany will rebound from this recession the worst in 50 years that they expect the economy to rebound next year in the next calendar year but of course those are projections those are based on an interpretation of how this pandemic might unfold if there is a 2nd wave of infections if they need to be more

how to fund long term economic recovery dominic cain joins us now live via skype from. basically a case of northern european countries saying. picking up the bill of the south. that pretty much yes sammy the point here is that the german government the austrian government the dutch and that since really baulked at the idea of doing what you just said of affectively allowing that taxpayers their economies to become the ultimate guarantee of italian spanish debt and indeed other countries to perhaps the portuguese as well they really fall to the idea that they don't want to do that for weeks now german governments preferred plan has been to persuade other e.u. countries to follow their example and so the elements that you are laying out in your introduction this work scheme the short term works which accounts for around 20 percent of the money that's been agreed upon that is effectively where companies are able to offset some of their payroll so a month they would be able to use state funding for a healthy chunk of it or perhaps 40 percent of their payroll could be provid

may lodge events however remain banned until september let's go live now to berlin after serious dominic cain is there for us so paul lockdown measures will begin to be relaxed from next week dominic chancellor merkel says the germans must continue to practice social distancing. very much so and supportive to practice social distancing and when mosques wherever possible some sort of protection against corona virus it's very interesting the announcement from his magical came she was flanked by the federal finance minister by the prime minister of area and his equivalent from the city states and from the very senior officials senior elected officials effectively as it were not laying down the lol but making very strong recommendations to germans to listen to what they have to say so as you were saying then certain enterprises can reopen from next week souls that are no bigger than 800 square meters is and that means qandil ships and that sort of thing can reopen but with the strong recommendations i was saying from the states that those who use them when mosques interesting the in so far as oth

given the all clear to open their doors as part of a deal between federal and state government dominic cain has more from berlin for many weeks germany has been in lockdown the possibility of inadvertent infection too high to allow most every day life to go on but now in some states many shops are open once more as here in cologne on monday the 1st step by the government to test how safe it is for economic life to resume. fit us sharia of course it is difficult but if we know ease restrictions then we don't know exactly what the repercussions will be and that's why we have to take it slowly under step at a time it would be tragic if we knowingly relapsed and if we knowingly endangered these 1st successive. and perhaps because of that fear not everywhere in germany has reopened for business some states want more stringent protective measures in place before opening stores so far at least federally the government is only encouraging recommending people to wear these masks in public but certainly some parts of this country that is changing in the eastern state of saxony masks are now mandatory

is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year dominic cain is in berlin. the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic is becoming clearer than ever right across europe individual governments scrambling to put in place economic measures to try to reduce the damage their countries are suffering and at the e.u. level the institutions they're doing whatever they can to provide assurance but also credit and the sorts of financial assistance that they think will help the governments concerned the european central bank says it is trying to deal with a very uncertain future certainly that's what the head of the e.c.b. christine legarde has been saying given the high uncertainty surrounding the ultimate extent of the economy fallout. grows scenarios produced by the e.c.b. star suggests that your area g.d.p. could fall by between 5 and 12 percent this year. depending crucially on the duration of the containment measures and the success of policies to mitigate the economy consequences for businesses and workers. and the economic woe is clearly being felt here in g

is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year dominic cain has been monitoring developments across the e.u. from berlin. we know that the e.u. as a whole germany also have put in place the measures they think that can help to ride through the storm as it were that the pandemic represents and they say here in berlin at least they say we expect the economy to roll back in 2021 but of course that's based on projections that's based on them inferring that they will not be a 2nd wave of infection or indeed a 3rd wave of infection which would force them to put in stringent lockdowns again here in berlin right now angela merkel is chatting to the different prime ministers of the 16 states of the federal republic most of whom want her want the government here to allow much greater easing of restrictions economically and yet they are all aware that the scientific data that goes with coronavirus well it suggests that loosening too quickly might bring a 2nd wave so all these economic numbers coming out right now all they relate to the 1st quarter of the year and the pandemic only struc

bashar assad's forces at the start of the war and is accused of complicity in acts of torture as dominic cain reports it's the 1st time any official has been brought to court for war crimes by the syrian government . they came to germany claiming to be refugees from syria's civil war now it's claimed they committed crimes against humanity jury it specifically multiple murder torture and all the serious offenses and. that's the last time it needed to be defendants are accused of having been members of syria's general secret service the accused is believed to have been head of an investigation unit which was responsible for. the break out of the report to take you back to the us president donald trump speaking at the coronavirus taskforce briefing let's listen and he goes away very quickly it dies very quickly with the senate. oh you said yesterday you know we're going to start on a suggestion for a while and stand sort of our bankruptcy versus the yeah i will look into it and i have been looking into it i've been talking to a lot of the different senators but i don't want to talk about it now

borrowing and also postpone talks on how to fund a long term economic recovery well let's not speak to dominic cain who joins me from ballin dominic finally some agreement amongst the e.u. but clearly not on everything including strikingly on these so-called corona bonds . yes no agreements in the long term which perhaps is the thing which the governments of the city in spain are really particularly concerned about what they get instead is the message for equivalent of tea and sympathy they get loans they can draw down right now as you were outlining in the introduction that to help in the fight against coronavirus right now but they don't get a clear steer about where the e.u. is going to go if it's going to help them for the future they could not agree that in those marathon talks that took place and so they're left with the sense that yes they control money down now yes they can follow the model but remember this model is the german model the german government has implemented already the sorts of short working practice that you were referring to the 20 percent of the funding that's being made av

as infection search across major cities and we have 3 correspondents starting us off this hour dominic cain is in berlin to talk about europe's efforts to keep the economy moving mater it was in madrid to bring us up to date on the situation in spain and rory chalons will give us the latest updates from london we'll go to them in just a moment 1st though john hall begins our coverage with this report 2 weeks into the u.k.'s lockdown and deserted city scenes a testament to a new way of life most people staying home for as long as science and the government decide they must also on lockdown in windsor castle her residence outside london the queen 93 years old reminded britons that this crisis too would pass we should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure better days will return we will be with our friends again we will be with our families again. we will meet again but the government is worried about isolation for tea and a minority of people embracing the warm spring weather to picnic and sunbathe in the parks on prominence and beaches the more people follow the rules then

court case linked to a legit state sponsored torture by president bashar al assad's government dominic cain is following the trial from berlin. the case against these individuals is that in different capacities at the start of the syrian civil war they were part of the intelligence and security apparatus of president bashar assad's government and in those capacities they either carried out or were complicit in the carrying out of multiple murders of torture there's one allegation of rape and other serious violent attacks against the syrian people as i say at the start of the syrian civil war what's interesting about this is these individuals came to germany at different times and presented themselves to the authorities as refugees and yet starting today for the course of the next few months they're going to hear claims that they are anything but that they are guilty as i say of the crimes and the offenses which i just outlined outlined of course the presumption of innocence applies here they deny the charges there are other interesting elements about this the german government is choosing t

interests of the society i don't know if you heard my conversation with our correspondent in berlin dominic cain he was making the point however some people are still wearing masks some people are not should they be added pressure from those individual states to say yes the science shows us that continuing to wear a mask is the best way forward. well if this would be the number one crucial question then of course it would be good to have one centralized decision and then everyone has to we all make homemade masks this is my 6 on your version because the state of sex in the it was her 1st to impose obligation to wear a mask in public transportation and in shops so i'm ready if i go upwards to where it according to the laws of sex in the but as i said before this might be different in other parts of germany where we have as mall a number of infected people and also the density of population is different i see this rather as a symbolic act of solidarity because what we learned is that mass don't protect us those who wear it but it rather protects other in case i am the one who was spread the virus

live reports all out of europe jonah hole is in london with the latest virus related deaths there dominic cain will join us from berlin where infections are reportedly on the rise but 1st let's go straight to martin she's in madrid so we understand that they were looking at ways to perhaps. face bring in a new phase of the lockdown where those plans stand. yes some is spain has is entering the 2nd phase of the lockdown on today prime minister but he will announce all the details of these plans of the years collation what we know so far is that these deescalation plan will be slow will be gradual will be symmetric and that with a symmetric meaning that it will be the same in every region in spain we've got 17 autonomy's in the corner virus has impacted each. in different ways so we're starting one before the other and without the canary islands with no no death with no the there's reduced dork cases of coronavirus and we've got madrid in the epicenter. go in behind we also know that everything will be coordinated from the central government they will all will all have the same rules but differe

is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year which is there as dominic cain has more now from bono how europe is handling the economic fallout of the pandemic. the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. it is becoming clearer than ever right across europe individual governments scrambling to put in place economic measures to try to reduce the damage their countries are suffering and at the e.u. level the institutions and they're doing whatever they can to provide assurance but also credit and the sorts of financial assistance that they think will help the governments concerned the european central bank says it is trying to deal with a very uncertain future certainly that's what the head of the e.c.b. christine lagarde has been saying given the high uncertainty surrounding the ultimate extent of the economy fallout. grows scenarios produced by. star suggests that your area g.d.p. could fall by between 5 and 12 percent this year. depending crucially on the duration of the containment measures and the success of policies to mitigate the economy consequences for businesses a

is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this here officer is dominic cain has been monitoring developments across the e.u. from berlin. we know that the e.u. as a whole germany also have put in place the measures they think that can help to ride through the storm as it were that the pandemic represents and they say here in berlin at least they say we expect the economy to roll back in 2021 but of course that's based on projections that's based on them inferring that they will not be a 2nd wave of infection or indeed a 3rd wave of infection which would force them to put in stringent lock downs again here in berlin right now angela merkel is chatting to the different prime ministers of the 16 states of the federal republic most of whom want her want the government here to allow much greater easing of restrictions economically and yet they are all aware that the scientific data that goes with coronavirus well it suggests that loosening too quickly might bring a 2nd wave so all these economic numbers coming out right now will they relate to the 1st quarter of the year and the pandemic only str

cases in europe fewer than 6000 people have died which is far lower than neighboring countries dominic cain is i'm ballin he says the wedding of mosques differs according to state. the mosque order is in place across germany in all the states the 16 states that make up the federal republic but the enforcement of it differs from state to state so in berlin from where i'm both posting right now the order relates purely to public transport so if you use buses like the bus station i'm standing outside now or trains or the metros then you have to wear the mask but the moment you step off public transport you can remove the mosque so if you want to go to one of the shops that have reopened in the course of the last few days you don't need to wear the mask elsewhere in germany you do need to wear the mosque the point here is that the decision making by the relevant state governments and by the federal government is informed by the science by the numbers being tabulated by grab a coffee institute which has authority in this area and right now it is thought that something around 2 and a half 1000 pe

increase in spain and italy but the italian prime minister says restrictions there will be extended dominic cain has more from bern that. it's a stark example of what the coronaviruses done to this continent the traditional good friday papal passion service in rome and pope francis forced to preside over a ceremony with almost no congregation because the pandemic continues to kill thousands of people every day we are particularly concerned by the large number of infections reported among health workers in some countries there are reports of up to 10 percent of workers being infected this is an alarming trend. when health workers are at risk we are all trees but just as corona targets populations so it attacks their economies which is why late on thursday e.u. finance ministers agreed a vast new credit package for those worst affected fast loans for governments and short term aid to companies which might otherwise go under they had up to around out of a trillion euros a step change in the economic order nice and we did in our union this emergency plan we'll see all our economic and social fabric

borrowing and postponed talks on how to fund long term economic recovery well let's now speak dominic cain who joins me live via skype from balun dominic finally some agreement amongst the e.u. but not on everything including striking you also not on the so-called corona bombs . no and in one sense it was unlikely that there was going to be agreement about korean advance because there are several countries who really don't want to see iran of arms take any kind of shape in this debate and they don't want to come to fruition germans that dutch the austrians the syrians all are opposed to the principle of coronal on the german government has being blown the trumpet as it were for its solution in germany which is called carts are much time short work you know words where companies are able to draw down funds to pay to pay their workforce and so they don't have to pay 100 percent of the work force the salary themselves and that's one of the things that's part of this package the $109000000000.00 euros and then the other elements of this are from already existing institutions that's the key poi

given the all clear to open their doors as part of a deal between federal and state government dominic cain has more from berlin. for many weeks germany has been in lockdown the possibility of inadvertent infection too high to allow most every day life to go on but now in some states many shops are open once more as here in cologne on monday the 1st step by the government to test how safe it is for economic life to resume that's really fair does she yeah of course it is difficult but if we now ease restrictions then we don't know exactly what the repercussions will be and that's why we have to take it slowly and a step at a time it would be tragic if we knowingly relapsed and if we knowingly endangered these 1st successes. and perhaps because of that fear not everywhere in germany has reopened for business some states want more stringent protective measures in place before opening stores so far at least federally the government is only encouraging recommending people to wear these masks in public but certainly some parts of this country that is changing in the eastern state of saxony masks

her as in madrid with the latest numbers in spain dominic cain is standing by in berlin white house correspondent kimberly how could will analyze some of the mixed messages coming out of washington 1st though let's go to worry chalons who is outside the london hospital where prime minister. and is under observation so worried what do we know about how the prime minister is doing. well we've heard from a couple of different sources in the last few hours one boris johnson himself with a couple of tweets and also from his spokesman. over the tweet boris johnson put out now he said and i think you might be able to see this on your screen as well that last night on the advice of my doctor i went to the hospital routine tests as i'm sitting experiencing coronavirus symptoms are in good spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we work together to fight this virus and keep anyone safe and then he went on to praise the n.h.s. doctors and nurses who were looking after him and also everyone else in the country that has been afflicted with covert 19 the statements or the briefing that his spokesperson ge

officials there say early widespread testing has helped to keep the death toll relatively low dominic cain explains how germany has managed to keep the death toll as low as it has. the key here is combining widescale targeted testing with an ample provision of intensive care unit bed space to treats the people who test positive and develop a severe reaction and go into a critical condition as it was when the outbreak started germany the estimates were that germany had around 28000 intensive care unit beds available since the outbreak began and really took hold across europe germany has been able to expand or commence those i.c.u. spaces so there are now 40000 that's a 43 percent increase in bed spaces specifically in intensive care beds spaces and they've also been able to increase the number of bed spaces for those who don't tap coronavirus which means therefore that the hospitals are able to isolate the patients in most most urgent need so those people don't and as it were exposed of those to the risk of contracting the virus which is what happened in hospitals in the countries that you