anything will be able to go and get it even on a sunday good talking to political correspondent hans brandt. well germans could join the growing list of a you countries attempting to curb the pandemic by imposing a full partial border closure as well and has announced closed controls on the country's borders with switzerland austria denmark luxembourg and france. gridlock on the french german border these cars have been waiting for at least 30 minutes to end to germany the certainty we are sending back any vehicle which is not being granted special status to enter germany has a valid reason to cross going to. it's just one of many makeshift border controls set up on monday in a bid to stem the corona virus outbreak german citizens and residents may continue through as can delivery drivers and those commuting to work anyone displaying coronavirus symptoms will be handed over to health authorities. 3 dozen english like minded normal actually they need to protect or somehow from everything that's been happening it's really bad at the moment there is no set time frame for these travel restricti

hans brandt reporting in berlin. thank you very much.ia has reported relatively few coronavirus cases come with fewer than 20 confirmed. the advice from moscow authorities is people returning from countries with high rates of infection should solve isolate. 1800 kilometers from the capital in the euro mountains, they are doing things a little differently. groups of kozak's art handing out medical advice. but much of what they are saying is dangerously inaccurate. reporter: they are willing to protect russia from any threat at all, including from the coronavirus. since early february, they have been patrolling the area twice a week, giving up masks and checking people for signs of a cold. people recognize them by their uniforms and their recommendations on how to say healthy are just as traditional. >> we mostly recommend traditional methods, having honey, garlic, and raspberry jam , and keeping two basic rules of personal hygiene. when people come in from the street, they should wash their hands and take off their outdoor clothes. we see

assess the situation in europe and in its biggest economy germany we have political correspondent hans brandt here with me and europe correspondent banned in brussels let's start with you bad lots of money being talked about today the problem with the european body has always been how people actually get their hands on it so how will governments and companies and people eventually get their hands on all these trillions that the line promised. by the commission president promised that this really go very very slippery in within 24 hours the loans that should be given out to companies and also to single persons there's a huge fund know of 37000000000 euros available and the 1st money is already dispersed to a company in denmark the companies have to apply with the national authorities and then the promise is this time it will be very fast we have seen these problems also during the financial crisis in 20082900 took a while but now the commission is promising we do everything that is necessary to stem this coronavirus and to to ease the impact on the of the economy which is really huge right now

we have team coverage of the use response today joining me in studio is political correspondent hans brandt and in brussels is bad riegert he's been reporting all day for us there babbage want to start with you what did you make of borderlines remarks today. the commission president tried to provide some certainty that the european union is able and willing to cope with this shock as mrs from the law and put it the shock would be temporary but still it really require a common and coordinated effort as she said by the member states to overcome this crisis she said the european union really do whatever is necessary the to help the economy and to help the sick people to cope with the corona crisis and she literally opened the floodgates to pour money and liquidity into the businesses and into the markets she said the stability pact and also the state aid routes the european union which normally very strict will be relaxed so that makes it possible for many member states to borrow more money to change the fiscal policies and. to have more pop to that in the future and i want to turn to you let'

and get more on this from political correspondent to hans brandt welcome once one of these latest german restrictions due to come into effect well that'll be different from one federal state to the other in this federal state of bavaria these measures were already basically announced and implemented this morning and they will take effect on wednesday in other federal states things are still moving each of the federal states there are 16 of those in germany will have to decide for itself exactly what restrictions and in what form it's going to impose these you know for instance the opening hours of certain restaurants that will be a law it will need to be determined by each state separately and so on so i expect that this will take effect probably within the next couple of days i doubt that it will take effect immediately and not tomorrow i suspect but from wednesday on wards i think all of germany was slowly start shutting down so looking ahead to the chancellor's the statement in the next hour or so there is speculation that you call a state of emergency is what powers will that to give

has taken that decision the lock down goes into force on saturday or the political correspondent hans brandt joins me now good evening to you hons are you also hearing that a nationwide lockdown will most likely be approved or declared this weekend. it seems pretty likely yes what we know for sure is that i'm glad machall will have a video conference with all the prime years of the 16 german federal states on sunday and in that this and that discussion they were going to in fact decide on a common common line on whether or not to impose a lockdown that was a kind of script behind this i think only of this week on monday very severe restrictions were already imposed on public life in germany all shops that did not do not sell essential goods were closed all places of entertainment were closed concert halls gyms clubs cinemas all of that in an attempt to kind of give a disincentive to people to leave their homes there was no place to go as it were no place to go out and have fun no place to go out for a bit of shopping as it were you could only go out to do essential things and the idea was th