e.u. commission president there was essentially a thinking greece for it's a role as an e.u. border state well lots to unpack let's take you now to max zander who has been tracking the developments on the greek side of the greek turkish border i'm actually what jumped out at you from missive on the lions a message to greece. well you actually said it already this was a strong show of solidarity. the leaders of the european institutions came together with the. greek prime minister to talk us and they brought one common message in that is greece you're doing the right thing europe is behind you there was no criticism of greeks handling of the situation here at the border of the last couple days no criticism of the allege excessive use of force or the illegal pushback by the rather there was praise and that is because the e.u. relies on greece to protect its external borders and that's why it was enough on the line and now it's that the european union would step up its support to protect the greek borders by sending a rapid deployment team by frontex that is the european border

e.u. commission is going to allow flexibility and budgets in it within the e.u. e.u. countries are sort of they have to keep their deficits at a certain level they can't really go above that that's going to be a big problem for a country like italy which already has a huge debt burden about 130 percent of g.d.p. and now they're just a saying normalcy economic challenge that they need to combat with a lot of with a lot of spending they need to keep money flowing to businesses they need to keep money flowing also to consumers who are out of work right now and under normal rules they wouldn't be allowed to do that so the fact that they are signaling that italy and other countries are going to have flexibility is seen as a really crucial part of this part of this announcement so maximum flexibility from the e.u. would as far as the german government goes no limits. no limits at all this is been a pretty big surprise because the german government is known and has over the past several years been quite hesitant to spend a lot of money and they've really stuck to a very low

e.u. commission president. has criticised member states for their lack of solidarity as a coronavirus sweeps across the continent half of the world's more than 500000 confirmed coronavirus cases here in your. own the pandemic is posing a particular danger to people in greece is overcrowded migrant camps unless both other greek islands tens of thousands of refugees packed together in squalid conditions with little health care and corona virus outbreak could be devastating. if you days ago migrants so facemasks offering protection to others in the camps here as well as new arrivals now that the island is in lockdown built to house 3020000 people live in this camp now it's cut off from the outside world. sees up from doctors without borders says his organization has long been calling for an evacuation and now things are much worse they know. and that and they know that there are no measures taken but you're to refuse to protect them against a virus and that's another issue so there is a real true it will be a medi

e.u. commission former german defense minister also a frontal and has said she wants to see a very strong fiscal stimulus being given also at e.u. level and it's been a major topic here in germany as well with 2 of its biggest car companies announcing today that they are shutting down production you know pretty extraordinary move as you know grant this country has some very good measure illing with that kind of an economic blow and basically they occur within this system called short work meaning that workers are kept on staff their wages are decreased to some degree because of the lack of demand but the government tops up essentially payments to them to ensure that money is kept in circulation and that people aren't let go and those should help to cushion the impact to some degree here in germany but nonetheless we're looking at a very serious situation with the president the decisions being made in the green is always going to thank you thank you. ard france has joined neighboring italy and spain in ordering a complete lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus president manual descr

e.u. commission made a proposal to shut the external borders of the e.u. hoping that countries will then perhaps start to relax some of these internal border restrictions not only because of the economic effect but also because of the principle schengen is supposed to be a passport free borderless area it already was questioned in the migration crisis if you remember in 2015 when countries also began trying to close some of those borders so that's what basically is happening here and it's very much at the instigation of french president mccaw who was concerned about these internal border shutdowns and has been pressing hard for the external border move it as a as a as essential in form of compensation but interestingly enough the chief of staff of the president of the e.u. commission actually himself said you know for a closure. really aren't going to be doing much for any of these countries because the fact is the virus is already here with in the european union and basically the effects are going to be marginal answer to the too late today we heard predi

e.u. commission official about the practice of putting money into these homes. is there a general. paused slow those cars is generally how much it is. just your. thank. god we are working on the divisional says he too is fighting on this issue but it's not good everyone playing each other so we are fighting your fighting in europe with i'm fighting a life place we are fighting but leave each other in a bit never resulted and. so should the team put money into glue pains and where does the united nations stand on this we caught up with the un rapporteurs in the hallway. in practice for us what it's important is not the size of the place is not how the players look like. it's actually what is the culture of that plays where people with disabilities are locked the private the rights. and live and the institutional life the the 4 millions into family type. homes where there are serious concerns that the culture that exists is still one an institution people simply don't leave is that wrong yourself from that from the from the. during the course of this 2 part investigation evidence we'

e.u. commission says it hopes that countries will be able to begin taking in children within the next few weeks people everywhere are fine in creative ways to learn and to keep fit another restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic here in germany the country's biggest bastable then has been helping kids who are stuck until i'm to do both more and more of tuning into sports lesson every morning. 10 year old levy is at home alone just no schools closed in berlin last week but that doesn't mean he has to miss out on lessons beth nissen is not. best to throw the ball from your wrist so that it flies in a good curve to make it go forward from behind your back means we bend our wrist and try to throw the ball over our but. sports lesson runs when you choose every working day from the players dressing room with a 120 coaches at the club know what they're doing but they've had to quickly develop the knowhow of a professional film company what with their dressing room being turned into a t.v. studio 5 days a week the new. guys who chose to give it their. 'd service. for starting or for

e.u. commission here in brussels 26 countries will be affected the so-called schengen zone not all european countries are in the shaken zone for example romania bulgaria great britain island not in the zone but switzerland and norway are and the rest of the e.u. countries and it's not clear how it really work because if you fly to london 1st and then think i'd stayed maybe then you can enter the united states it's not clear what the what the real the conditions are in this travel ban is not only a particular for european citizens it's also valid for canadians australians who've been in the schengen zone and now want to fly to the u.s. it's still very unclear and it's a lift on the biggest carrier in germany said they don't know exactly how it will work but for sure there will cancel a lot of flights in addition to the 23000 flights already canceled in the last weeks and bad so what have you ladies been saying about the decision you know they are disapproving of this decision today and said we've been not contacted this is very unilateral that doesn't make sense because of the coronavirus is

e.u. commission must collude night the quick evacuation of people from refugee camps to individual member countries and we must work out how to ensure that hygiene and medical standards are right he had to the system not. the e.u. commission says it hopes that countries will be able to begin taking in children within the next few weeks i want to go back now to the story of big shame on you europe coming today from the european commission president about the lack of solidarity in this pandemic crisis is good since he's following developments for us in brussels georg we did we had a pretty strong condemnation there today where those are sort of underlying where does she see this lack of solidarity now. let me give you 2 examples brand one is the export of those essential masks but also protective gear for doctors and that export it did not take place so it's really for instance needed those mosques and they did not get them from a fellow you member state but in the end they got them from china another example is the closure of national borders at a time of crisis creating traffic jams riski

e.u. commission president or cellphone or lion that outlines measures that she hopes will soften the blow of the blocks economy she says brussels will do whatever it takes and as europe becomes the new epicenter of the disease people faced a new reality of a pandemic shutdowns travel bans and calls to limited social contact to slow the spread also coming up to 12 months after the massacres it to last new zealand's prime minister says the country has become a different place. a year on hibernate new zealand and its people here fundamentally changed i can't see how you could have intervened like this and not. i'm calling has been thanks for joining us e.u. commission president says europe can withstand the shock of the coronavirus founder line was detailing steps aimed at keeping the blocks industry afloat as the virus spreads and shutdowns come into effect now she said she believed the disruption would be temporary but that all e.u. states should coordinate efforts to ensure that it is as limited as possible alongside these overarching macroeconomic missions. the commission has also adopte

e.u. commission chief what jumped out at you when max. as you said it already laid out this was a strong show of support a strong show of european solidarity here we had the presidents of the european institutions united together with the greek prime minister meets attack us with one message greece europe is by your side essentially. there was no criticism of chris's handing of the issue over the last couple of days no criticism of the alleged excessive use of force at the border or the illegal pushbacks but praise for how greece is taking care of the matter for the rest of the european union. the the press conference for the president of the commission present on the line did not have a political sustainable solution that you presented here today but she said that the commission the european union which would do all that it can to help greece in its situation right now and essentially strengthen the european borders and she will do that by deploying a rapid response team by the european risk through border protection if she frontex this

e.u. commission's head seems to think so and are saying today almost unlimited funds to stem the economic damage and calling on the national governments to work with rather than against each other i'm phil gramm in berlin and this is the day. europe has now become the a.p. center of the pandemic isn't give you the german government is ready to do everything that is required with any city people in this epidemic which affects all continents and as his all european countries would be is the most serious health crisis that france was known for a century and you know i think. we're only in the 1st phase of the battle against the virus being fought by all countries of the world he says than. i am convinced that the european union can withstand this shock. also coming up from football to formula one the world of sports takes a time out says the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll. combine some desert sun for you have to face up to our social responsibility together shown as beauties and as the chancellor says we have to face up to this extraordinary situation as it is after this and ought to st

e.u. commission president was alot from the lion and the e.u. council president said in a joint statement as a reaction to that decision and they were extremely unhappy about the fact that they were not consulted or they want not even informed about this decision taken by the u.s. president and then radek sikorski use a member of the european parliament and former polish foreign minister said on twitter that i'm surprised that a possible british coronavirus is deemed preferable to an e.u. one playing politics he said was health is a bad idea and that of course refers to that exemption for britain by donald trump ok so we see that this is not really going down that well here in europe at least they felt they should have been consulted at the same time the w h o if the recommending drastic measures i mean is it time them that europe fall of the u.s. and also issue similar travel restrictions the travel ban well you always have to look at the political systems in the countries both the european union and germany for example if you want to talk abou

e.u. commission and there was also video consultation of the g 7 leaders and others international leaders including the united states i think here there's an attempt here about i'm going to now go to bring back some sort of international coordination both within the united between both within the european union and internationally because both here in europe and internationally many states have been taking their own measures without coordinating with discussing them with anybody else even with their direct neighbors here in europe so i'm going to not because trying to bring back some sort of coronation on that level and how are germany's hospitals and health systems coping one has to say that at the moment things are still fairly ok the big big numbers have not yet reached german hospitals to the sick as to the extent that they could be overwhelmed and that is also shown by the comparatively small number of deaths that we've had in germany so far but obviously the fear is that as a virus spreads exponentially spreads very very correctly quickly the number of cases that reach hospitals wil

e.u. commission president. valves to help greece deal with thousands of refugees from greece has been walking thousands of them trying to cross its mordor.

e.u. commission that's because italy already has a high fiscal deficit on wednesday finance ministers from the e.u. and the g 7 countries will hold a telephone conference to discuss further measures to support the global economy it's no surprise there are global shortages of vital medicines in some countries as a direct result of the outbreak many international drug companies rely heavily on chinese suppliers. this should be where an antidepressant is stored but the drug is currently not available from this pharmaceutical wholesaler in germany supplies have dried up and so it can't be delivered to pharmacies around 300 medicines are unavailable all scarce in germany including this vaccine and the spread of the corona virus could make things even worse. the potential problem with the virus in my opinion at least is that many products and active ingredients are manufactured in asia. if the corona virus becomes a pandemic or i imagine we'll see more of a squeeze on pharmaceutical supplies then we already have. many drugs used in europe and the world as a whole made in india sign tek pharma is

e.u. commission that's because italy already has a high fiscal deficit on wednesday finance ministers from the e.u. and the g 7 countries will hold a telephone conference to discuss further measures to support the global economy. this is chief economist. and joins us from frankfurt cost is government help actually really needed right now. why you can't. see if you have china chain disruption then some companies will really suffer and risk becoming liquidity shortages because they don't earn the revenues that they actually need to revenues that they might need for their own credit so here this is something where government or sandra banks can really weigh in the other thing is that it's not only supply chain problem but also demand side problem and. i'm less optimistic that to have broad tax measures or tax reductions can head but again targeted measures of industry set that are suffering for a temporary period this is something i can very well imagine like. mentioned compensation for work schemes for example many of many a betting on the interest rate drops is that on the horizon things. w

e.u. commission chief slams member states for not showing solidarity yes the coronavirus moves through the continent. the us government charges minister even president nicolas maduro with not called terrorism and drug trafficking and offering millions of dollars for information leading to his capture. i'm new phenomenon welcome the united states now has more registered cases of covert 19 than any other country surpassing china 83000 people in the u.s. have contracted the virus and more than a 1000 have died the crisis has hit the american economy hard fuelling a record search and unemployment. meanwhile the country's largest city new york is struggling to cope critical supplies are lacking hospitals are overwhelmed and authorities have resorted to building makeshift morgues. fear is growing rapidly across new york as is the number of people infected with coronavirus many have to wait in line here in front of elmhurst hospital in queens doctors worry the health system could collapse we are definitely seeing steady 4050 year olds with no co-morbidities no diabetes no coronary artery disease

e.u. commission is looking as well at how medicine and medical supplies at whether they should be allowed to leave the e.u. and in fact at they do want to restrict something that angle or merkel is very much in favor of ok we've seen restrictions in italy and spain in france should we expect similar restrictions in terms of movement here in germany what we've already seen some changes i mean i was in spain just last week and you know it when you come to germany it doesn't seem like much has changed but of course the schools have now closed there are contingency plans already in place there is this plan already to at double the number of intensive care beds we're seeing at you know normally buildings which are used for fairs essentially being prepared for to be turned into some sort of sort of medical centers and so you know there are plans in place but we aren't seeing the lockdown yet in germany that we're seeing in spain italy france and belgium in fact is also introducing pretty restrictive measures to ok thanks publicly and it's. germany's disease control agents you raised its coronavi

e.u. commission of 4 international partnerships will be lying in but 1st here's a look at some of the projects the e.u. funds in africa. the european union says europe and africa have civil common challenges such as climate change security to digitise station and fighting general inequalities in society. the e.u.'s funding many different types of projects from sustainable fisheries green energy projects and initiatives that help improve skills and qualifications for the youth across africa. this project in ghana is trying to combat illegal and unregulated fisheries and support local communities to find alternative incomes beyond fishing. but some of the biggest investments are focusing on sustainable energy in kenya the european investment bank with around 200000000 euros helped built africa's largest wind farm with 365 wind turbines and in eritrea 2 solar hype and power systems have been built to provide electricity for over 40000 people and businesses in 28000000000 years. if my colleague marina strauss was at a european union press conference in brussels she sat down with the e.u. commissio

e.u. commission chief earth 100 lion says that number could increase to 25000000000 euros today european council president charles michel chaired a rare virtual get together of the e.u. leaders by video conference the e.u. has been under fire for its noticeable silence since the outbreak began. on the coronavirus is said to calls and president a disruption to german football with some matches being played without fans for the very 1st time and that's going to hit one of the biggest clashes in the german bundesliga the darby between dortmund and shako which will now take place behind closed doors on saturday before that blood bath will play cologne tomorrow also in an empty stadium. german football is known for attracting a sea of supporters last week some fans of glad bought took precautions against the coronavirus but the same seats will be empty during their next home match against rival cologne setting a historical precedent for the top flight in germany. thriftiness a lean into primarily affects the founders but of course it will also hit him a. bit since most you can imagine there are finan

e.u. commission or the love underlying speaking there and that's look at how the spread of the corona virus is having an effect elsewhere in the world tesla is temporarily pulling its employees out of germany after the coronavirus entry ban imposed by the u.s. on passengers from the european union and want to thank the schedule for building the plant here belinda tesla wants to begin production there as early as july 2021 . this big volatile day ahead cryptocurrency stupid car and suffered its worst daily loss of nearly 7 years on thursday plummeting by almost 40 percent and it fell another 20 percent on friday to its lowest level in almost a year it can face the challenges in becoming a usable currency. the metro and are almost the still running but few customers are venturing into the public transportation network leaving trains deserve it italy is one of these 3 countries with the highest death toll from the cove it right. now professional basketball hockey soccer baseball and other sporting events usually drawing large crowds have been canceled in many countries around the world the sum

e.u. commission introduced as a reaction to the 2015 so-called migration crisis. this stunt also pays for example for controversial coast guard and other political interests. in the last few years the trend we're seeing in the way that europe is using its development aid is less and less to support the type of project work for people in africa and more and more to promote its own objectives here in europe mainly stopping migration towards your . book which he dislikes you have to say that instead of trying to stop migration no matter the cost for african countries and you just start having a conversation about how to create create the mobility channels that can benefit both sides. now you've not seen this before a series on stream netflix set in africa fully script read produced in africa with all african cast it's happening netflix just launched queen sonal south africa actress to see stoss a spy queen sonal who uses unconventional methods to get the job done and constantly bottles with some family drama at the same time on netflix hopes this african production h

e.u. commission president was enough on the lion has promised to do whatever it takes to help the bloc deal with the pandemic she's pledged to help redirect vital medical assistance to hard hit areas like italy italian health officials say more than 250 people died from covert 19 in just the last 24 hours the biggest single day jump since the outbreak began. on the frontline of europe's coronavirus special italy's health system is under pressure with more than 15000 current cases patients are having to rely on makeshift medical services. and. the main problem is the fears of patients who come to us when they end up in something that's not a traditional hospital building a tent just doesn't give them reassurance. with a huge spike in infections in the last 24 hours spain has europe's 2nd highest rate of the fires the capital madrid has become a garstang. prime minister pedro sanchez declared a 2 week state of emergency a decision that will allow him to mobilize all resources to fight the outbreak including the military. old restaurants and shops in the capital are being forced to close with