the main headline in the japan times, "the virus panel back staying the course." e government must continue to keep restrictive measures in place. so that's a cautious movejohn, measures in place. so that's a cautious move john, from japan, which is ahead of the uk in terms of transmission of the virus. yes, so here, the paper is suggesting that abbey, the japanese prime minister on monday will extend their lockdown for another month. obviously, on monday will extend their lockdown foranother month. obviously, here, in the uk, we will take that decision on thursday, whether he extends it for another three weeks or whether we choose to do something different. two more people get back to where? is a kind of a day where people can go back to schools? i think it's going to be a tricky one for the government. they obviously wa nt to for the government. they obviously want to kind of ease the lockdown in some kind of way and get people back to work, i think the thing they are nervous about, if they do relax restrictions, suddenly, you get a lot more infections, and obvio

the main headline in the japan times, "the virus panel back staying the course." ures in place. so that's a cautious movejohn, measures in place. so that's a cautious move john, from japan, which is ahead of the uk in terms of transmission of the virus. yes, so here, the paper is suggesting that abbey, the japanese prime minister on monday will extend their lockdown for another month. obviously, on monday will extend their lockdown foranother month. obviously, here, in the uk, we will take that decision on thursday, whether he extends it for another three weeks or whether we choose to do something different. two more people get back to where? is a kind of a day where people can go back to schools? i think it's going to be a tricky one for the government. they obviously wa nt to for the government. they obviously want to kind of

i checked, japan had 851 —— and it lifted. the last timeand it has an old population and as a dense population and it is now moving into a new phase. it is an incredible story with the coronavirus injapan because nobody really seems to know quite how to figure they have done it. the country they are too not that the government has done a great job, there have been protests about what has he perceived to be government failings and a slow response to this. the popularity of the government has gone right down during this crisis. due to the way it is reacted and yet this country with the oldest population in the world and this usually dense cities and obviously pretty close to china where the outbreak first began has somehow managed to get away so far with fewer than 1000 deaths and of course a population much bigger than ours as well compare that to the uk where we may have already lost a0 or 50,000 people so it is a different place completely. and now they

i want to move to the japan times.has been extended until the end ofjuly but there will be some restrictions lifted because the japanese economy has been hit hard. yes, they have, they have already talked about something we have not talked about which is the possibility of a second way. they were preparing to ease their lockdown spot they had extended them to the end of the month because they are concerned about it coming back. he did the uk, we are talking about passing the p —— passing the peak and we can step outside our doors but injapan they are thinking, what if the virus comes back? but the global economy has been hit so badly, of u—shaped recovery, the recovery could be very quick as well but it is very difficult to exit lockdown and a way that allows us to return to normality which means a lot of businesses will be struggling to be able to deliver. that could suggest this very sharp recovery will take much longer than expected if we have to keep going into partial bits of lockdown and certain businesses like t

‘emergency extended' reads the japan times — after the country's prime minister shinzo abe has announcedountry's covid—i9 state of emergency until the end of may. and in singapore, the straits times leads on warnings from the country's national development minister that the country is ‘not even at the halfway mark‘ of it's battle against the virus. 0n the front page of germany's frankfurther allgemeine, under a headline quoting angela merkel describing "an hour of hope", the paper leads its coverage on a virtual fundraising conference which has raised more than eight billion dollars for the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. ‘it‘s a gap year‘ reads the front page of the sun. the paper says it's learnt that social distancing measures could last as long as 12 months. and the guardian leads on warnings from trade unions that workers could refuse to turn up to work unless the government can guarantee their safety, amid what the paper describes as ‘anger over guidance designed to ease the lockdown‘. so let‘s begin. welcome to the programme, welcome to have people here, virtually. let us

now the japan times. foreign residents stranded by entry ban. e danish resident of tokyo who left japan for cope and try to get back in but on march 27 basically rolled out a ban on travellers even if they are long—time visa holders and that has left a lot of long —— people in the lurch for a long time. yes, it has. people have not been able to sort out various affairs, and it has also led to challenges about whether people can cross borders due to a medical emergency with a family member and then they will be stranded are not able to return, so there a big concern about what will happen. a lot of people have been left uncertain and many are now stuck in other countries not able to get back and they can't deal with otherfamily get back and they can't deal with other family issues around people they might have left injapan itself but also work issues as well. it seems like what started as something that was just done around making sure of the safety of the residents injapan has left a lot of people in limbo. the metro now. minister, blamed the sci

turning our attention to a couple of international papers, the japan times reports on praise from thehas described japan‘s fight against coronavirus as a ‘success‘. and the philippine star reports that the country‘s president duterte is wary of re—opening schools for face to classes until a vaccine has been developed. so, let‘s begin. welcome to you both again. daisy, just talk about the plunging and support for boris johnson since just talk about the plunging and support for borisjohnson since the story broke on friday. at the extraordinary thing about what an impact this has had. in a time where you think that most of us have gotten better or bigger things to worry about than whether dominic cummings broke the rules are not, it is absolutely not the case that most of us think we‘ve got better things and many of us are actually quite obsessed with dominic cummings we look at the polls, you can see that is the case. normally, people like you and myself are totally out of touch with at the public think and we are in our little westminster bubble. the polls seem to suggest that everybod

the japan times looks at how tokyo will attempt to reboot the city's economy while preventing a second wave of coronavirus infections as state of emergency measures are eased next week. "let's all go on a british summer holiday" is the express‘s headline after the home secretary announced strict quarantine measures which the paper says could lead to a boost in uk tourism. but the sun's take on priti patel‘s announcement is "don't book yet, but ‘jet your hopes up‘" as the paper says talk of ‘safe corridors‘ could mean fresh hope for foreign holidays this summer. welcome to you both. starting with you, jasmine, the mirror in a joint investigation with the guardian about dominic cummings point out what you make of this? we must point out it is not our investigation but there has been some reaction from there has been some reaction from the police force involved and indeed sources close to borisjohnson‘s key aid. the thing that surprised me was that this was a while ago. did people know and did they not run the story? why didn't we know if the police had been questioning him?|j think polic

which takes us onto the japan times.pan has tackled the pandemic, they were very slow, what they and the initial stages to get on top of this. but it really does look as though it is been an incredible success story. the fourth largest economy in the world opening up largest economy in the world opening up now for business. really, comparatively few deaths considering how slow they were in the beginning. it does say reducing the spread of infection for more than 700 cases a day at the peak, and keeping the number of deaths from covid—19 to a relatively low level and at the number of deaths to a low level and also stressing at the same time, how important it is to continue doing the right thing, presumably she the who emergency, saying that it is still in the middle of the first wave of infection just as we were saying, the one thing we do know is that there is a path ahead. the personal poll ratings have slumped as well for the japanese prime minister but only to 29%, sweat a lot further to go. pretty much every leader t

‘new lifestyle‘ reads the japan times. has called on residents to maintain a " new lifestyle" even after restrictive measures over the new coronavirus have been relaxed. in singapore, the strait times leads on how the country is seeing one of its worst retail slumps ever, with recent takings at the till registering their sharpest drop in nearly 22 years. on the front page of the daily mirror, it shows the uk's coronavirus death toll has topped italy's to be europe's worst. and on the front page of france's le figaro, more than 100 vaccines are in development in a bid to combat coronavirus. so let's begin... talking to claire and eve. welcome both of you to the program. thank you very much for taking the time this evening tojoin you very much for taking the time this evening to join us virtually. claire, let's start with you. if your paper and exclusive the lot of professor. this is the man basically whose advice prompted borisjohnson to lockdown the uk has resigned after he himself broke rules of lockdown. an incredible sto

in the japan times, it's out of lockdown for much ofjapan, with the government deciding to ease the restrictionsminister, shinzo abe, has warned citizens to take "gradual" steps to return to everyday life. so, let's begin. let's talk to kate and martin. the front page of the metro, yes, this antibody test really is a game changer. this is the antibody test that has now been approved by the uk and it have to be said by some other countries as well. 100% accuracy apparently, that sounds like good news. it does and it certainly a rare successful test i suppose also the only question is how many have actually been infected and we will talk about that in another story later in the programme but of course it is good for tracing people who have had it and certainly in terms of the key workers, and h with workers and so on, critical in ensuring those people who are worried they have got it or have had it is clear that they are safe to go back or not safe to go back and so thatis back or not safe to go back and so that is important. i spoke to the general population and the problem will be only a small p

"the recession is here, but the worst is yet to come" warns the front page of the japan times, as analystsction in the current quarter. the straits times reports that china's president xijinping supports a probe into the country's handling of the coronavirus outbreak. it follows the us. an exclusive on the front page of the guardian, as the paper reveals "how agency care home staff in the uk spread covid—19". and finally, the financial times leads on the 500 billion euro coronavirus " recovery fund" being backed by france and germany, who have today agreed it should issue grants, not loans, to countries most in need. so let's begin... we have actually a world record number of newspapers to get through in this papers, so it's now the papers express version, polly mackenzie and sebastian payne. we begin with the times. that's art of air bridges, polly mackenzie, does this mean that in the summer, we might all have to go on holiday we can might all have to go on holiday we ca n afford might all have to go on holiday we can afford to south korea, germany, singapore, hong kong and taiwan? well,

ramadan prayers in a christian church contemplation during carona time. japan has launched a rocket carrying a cargo vehicle full of vital supplies to the international space station the rocket carrying the country's going to tory cargo transporter blasted off from the to make a she must space center at around 2 30 am local time it will be the last time the cargo console will be used to deliver supplies to astronauts and space. you're watching data for you news don't forget to keep up to date with all the latest on our web site at www dot com you can follow us on twitter and instagram tales from me and the entire team here in berlin thanks so much for watching. what i subscribe to do you know where your books are simply more in the world than what we made. after 5. books on to. vogue. mug or just some of the. food for the russian soul.

at that time, japan inc. it into her and prior -- incorporated it into her empire.an gave the island her language and introduced it to her more advance culture. the okinawans, always an easy-going, friendly people, took part in celebrations featuring the highly stylized oriental dance. (music) however, the japanese looked upon the island primarily as a source of agricultural supply. and so life in okinawa changed very little over the years, until the outbreak of world war ii. vital to the japanese defense, okinawa had to be taken before our main attack on japan could succeed. [explosions] after the most tremendous naval and air pounding of the pacific war, american troops landed on okinawa. it was easter sunday, 1945. it was also april fools'day. it marks the beginning of the most bitter are the battle in modern history. the japanese defense turned out to be desperate. this was their last outpost, their last chance to blunt the american blow on japan itself. they fought with fanatical fury. the island gave its rugged support. deep caves, jagged ridges, and steep cli

i'm mariri yanaka. 78 years a the pacic war broke out putting japan against the united states time. >> the diplomats and ambassadors and their suddenly had -- i think that constitutes abuse even if they weren't beaten. >> in detailed reports by the occupation forces there's one particularly horrific case. that of a lieutenant, an officer. he was taken to a p.o.w. hospital in tokyo suffering from sorosis of the liver. he became a human guinea pig. the japanese military doctor injected intravenously ordinary soya bean milk. he had three injections. this caused him to go into a coma with severe and repeated vomiting which lasted up to his death about 48 hours later. after the war the u.s. war crimes tribunals found the doctor guilty of conducting experiments on human beings. he was sentenced to death. the p.o.w. research network plans to publish a book in a couple of years on the p.o.w. and civilian detainee camps to make sure the lessons of the war are pasassed onto future e generarations. >> our primary aim is to ensure that these tragedies never occur again. to this end we must study

economy on track japan has recorded over 16000 cases and close to 750 deaths due to the virus well rob a bride joins us live now from the south korean capital seoul rob so this is the 1st time japan has fallen into recession since 2015 clearly the coronavirus is not a huge impact on the economy. absolutely daryn and there is worse to come for the japanese economy this was all res expected that they they would be confirm that japan is in recession we've had to now 2 quarters of the economy contract ing of course japan was already starting to go into recession in the last quarter of last year that but that was long before anybody had heard of kobe at 19 you had the impact on spending of the rise in a controversial sales tax from 8 percent to 10 percent the impact also of a typhoon but then rolling into this year you have now have the code that 19 and also of course the perspire moment of japan's summer olympics it was round about now that businesses should have been ramping up massively employing thousands of extra workers as japan was preparing to play host to the world well as we know none of that is happening it's all been put back at least a year and so a number of analys

. >>> japan's emperor emeritus went out for the first time since march to visit a laboratory where hesed to do research. emperor emeritus akihito had been staying home because of the coronavirus pandemic. he made his outing after the state of emergency was lifted across japan. the emperor emeritus and empress emerita moved into t temporary accommodationn in late march. they're waiting for the end of renovations at the palace. >>> people in tokyo saw sudden bursts of thunderstorms last night, but we woke up to clear skies on friday morning. our meteorologist yoko komagata tells us how long the sunny weather will continue. yoko. >> well, we are expecting thunderstorms on friday afternoon as temperatures rise. a high pressure system will bring sunny conditions and pretty hot temperatures to a large portion of japan on friday. at the same time, upper cold air will spread into the country, creating unstable conditions. we may see some isolated thunderstorms in the kahn tu region, including tokyo in the afternoon and into the evening. some of the thunderstorms could produce sudden bursts of

gentleman who's the father is an ex green beret so they were possibly part of it they were in japan during the time of carlos ghosn diskeeper there were also 7 people who were from turkey that were arrested there was 4 people that worked with them 2 of them were pilots and 2 flight attendants so we don't know who's involved in what but right now obviously they're trying to cover themselves because karl is gone said he was a hostage and now he is free in his country of lebanon and supposedly he's working on a movie end of books are real curious to see what he has to say you know well the whole escape from from japan was definitely an interesting one so we'll be sure to follow it to see what happens here lauren fix the car coach it's all the time we have for today but thank you for your time. thank you. markets are mixed this week amid growing u.s. china tensions and hope of a possible corona virus vaccine let's start in russia where the mo x is up on the week the ruble hit some 10 week highs on thursday at $71.00 versus the u.s. dollar but it weakened on friday as oil prices slid russia's central ba

japan. it reminds them of the times of the bubble economy when the money was flowing. pan never gave up the fax machine. it's a vital part of business and doctors are saying it's slowing them down as they try to track the pandemic. >> reporter: as other nations track coronavirus with 21st century tech, japan relies on a relic that peaked in the 1980s. we have to fill out paper documents by hand and send them in by fax says this doctor. our system hasn't changed for decades. his twitter tirade about his pile of coronavirus paperwork quickly went viral. getting the attention of japanese lawmakers like this deputy minister in charge of i.t. policy. >> reporter: is it frustrating for you that this country clings to this technology? >> yes, i'm frustrated he says. i think the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic exposed the problem of digitalization in japan. not just the government, most japanese companies still rely on fax machines. documents have to be hand stamped with traditional seals. outdated business practices make working from home nearly impossible fo

after returning home, the visa holders can't come back to japan for a significant period of time.he main reason for this is insufficientnt communication between the japanese and philippine governments. japanese companies have been deliberating with authorities in the philippines about thihis problem with tthe system. officials from japanese companies who hope for stable long-term relationships can hardly hide their confusion. he continues to work at the shipyard. now that he's gotten his specified skilled worker status here in japan, he aims to improve his skills. after finishing work at 5:00 p.m., he heads back to his dormitory. >> this employee dormitory is provided by the company, especially for filipino workers. two people live in a ten square meter room with a shared bathroom. rent is about $70 a month, inccluding utilities. he has a special r routine whene gets home each day. he talks to his wife and daughter in the philippines for more than three hours every day using a video he now manages to send almost $1,000 home to his family once a monnth, more tthan half his salary.

of that wet weather also affecting south korea as we go one of the 2nd half of the weekend japan all the time staying last fine and dry temperatures here at around 24 degrees celsius and we've got some much dry weather in place to say across much of india even bangladesh started to see some dry weather but this area cloud that we do have into the fall north of bangladesh into the far northeast of india this is the remnants of on pond still the potential for another 200 to 300 millimeters of rain over the next couple of days so we're not quite out of the woods just yet you can see the heavy rain which may even make its way up towards baton main story then becomes the heat the building hate once again temperatures snout getting up into the low to mid forty's for many. a story of blackmail. conspiracy. and. you'll have a feeling i have strangled you have a story of carnage a lot of the fear is real. passion. and very serious just. route. to move. back you're watching out 0 time to recap our headlines now a passenger plane has crashed in a residential area near karachi while coming into land the

japan are potentially facing a serious bed shortage. the health ministry says local authorities only have half the beds they'll need for coronavirus patients when the outbreak reaches its peak. at that timeestimates indicate japan will need 31,000 beds. but a ministry survey reveals as of the start of this month they've secured fewer than 15,000. so far only 12 prefectures have the beds they're likely to need. some hospitals are already at capacity. the survey shows tokyo has filled 91% of the beds it's allocated for coronavirus patients. in ishikawa prefecture 88% are full. they are ramping up efforts to boost their treatment capacity. >>> prime minister abe shinzo says they're likely to launch trials for a coronavirus vaccine within months. >> t translator: clinical trial of a vaccine are expected to begin in the countntry as earlys july. we are hurrying to develop one in concert with the international community. >> the prime minister told a lower house committee on monday vaccines are being developed at several institutions across the country. abe also reiterated that his administration aims to approve the antiflu drug avigan to treat covid-19 by the end of this month. researchers sai

time. recession hit japan has seen its exports fall at nearly 22 percent in april the country's worst drop in more than a decade this as the coronavirus pandemic a slam to global demand japan is heavily dependent on its exports but has had to shut much of its economy down. germany is moving to tighten regulation of its meat industry after a flare up in corona virus infections in several slaughterhouses sparked a storm of criticism the government today agreed on a draft law that would force meat plants to stop hiring migrant workers on short term contracts. while germany's biggest airline has confirmed it's in talks with the german government over a $9000000000.00 euro bailout deal business daily handles but says the plan calls for the government to take what amounts to a 25 percent stake in the carrier and received 2 seats on the company's board berlin would also provide a line of credit has been hit hard by the decline in travel due to the pandemic and had to ground nearly all of its fleet. well let's get more on this now from reporter simon bone simon if this works out what with the gove

players on the planet can indulge in the 2 craze though in japan for example tattoos are frowned upon. there they have become associated over time with the equivalent of the country's mafia. despite japan's long tradition of thinking. too bad for tattooed english player j. boss roy currently under contract in japan at least you won't have to explain the connection between love guns and hand grenades. that's also not forget that there are also players who just do not have tattoos prominent examples are ronaldo carry cane and mutts home it's. says he's a blood donor and cannot get a tooth fairy ken is still leading his dad's longstanding advice not to do it. calls himself not quite the 2 types. are they not the real football individualists of our time. we saw that footballers get to 2 and for me. any reasons of faith status identity fashion and self-expression among them every 10 to me is unique and so am i it seems to be the message still if everybody gets one and if many tutus are kind of the same is that not like a new kind of uniform what's next a revival of the good old mullet from the 80s. or well the most staunch come back

peninsula but i'm afraid the showers and the clouds clearing away from there is on its way towards japan now at timessome very heavy amounts of rain particularly into more central areas of honshu it doesn't really do much the temperature in osaka 24 celsius but slightly cooler in tokyo with those heavy downpours and the nations back into china we've got another mass of rain just waiting and that will wreck its way eastward sweep across as we work our way into thursday so the rain pushing into beijing at a low the temperatures 20 degrees celsius and further to the south the rain also working its way east was and that will arrive into shanghai later in the day but on the south coast it is a very warm day in hong kong with a high there of 33 degrees even more than that they threw all central areas of india the have been some warnings for by the india mess office and then to the north on the north east it's the case of more heavy downpours this was in the western himalayas just look at the rain it was coming down actually mixed in with a hail storm say through wednesday it is going to be bangladesh seein

year with the onset of coded 19 the delay of the summer olympics it was about this time that many companies throughout japan were expecting to be ramping up massively employing thousands of people as the country was preparing to welcome the world well as we know all of that is now been delayed by at least a year just in april we had a the prime minister declaring a national emergency that further kept people at home that kept people away from going out closed many more businesses in fact many economists are predicting that this quarter that we're in now the 2nd quarter of 2020 is when we'll see the real economic pain with some predictions that the economy is likely to contract at an annualized rate of more than 20 percent now that is depression sized slump the worst in living memory shinzo of it is already declared a stimulus package of a trillion dollars well that frankly at this stage does not seem enough and he's likely to expect to announce more help to help the economy through this michael pan is the president of the get some news agency he says the declining economy and the handling of the pandemic we

japan. at the time, that was extraordinary. then president taft really driving forward the founding of the chamber to the modern day of this controversy and that, but also the representation of business abroad. ofon brilliant is head international affairs for the chamber, and he joins us now. let's say you and the crew were to get on cathay pacific tonight , and monday morning you are in hong kong or in beijing to bring a business delegation in. it is not going to be a normal reading, is it? alive when thet chamber of commerce was created by president taft, but i can onll you that are missi hasn't changed. we have tremendous interest in selling and exporting around the world, and hong kong has been an important gateway to china and to asia, and we do a fair amount of business, $67 billion of trade investment between hong kong and the united states. so i would be very concerned about hong kong's future. we issued a statement earlier in the week about this. is really important. we've got a press conference coming up with the pres

process the main reason is the investment middle of the 20th century being placed at a time where newark and japan, because everywhere i see the work in the case of 1918 more and more of equality and progress and there's the ideology anybody said something bad must be archaic i think sometimes the fact is quite apparent this is not the end. >> host: i was going to bring up one question usually it's top to me to it go to one question from online? do and i'm okay. i can't hear you. you are muted. she can't speak and going to ask very quickly say no you can do this question quickly it's a question from shauna and she asks when understand your research better, what would you recommend they take a look at that is publicly available content. also what other research should they be paying attention to if they are interested in inequality? and simply suggest to read my book. [inaudible] so so he would go with eight times i also give you the slide in my book which you can access its references to a work by social planning in addition working on the many parts you were working directly and able to provide y

time. haslinda: concerns about a second and possibly third wave. japano lifting it state of emergency. what do we know? yvonne: in many regions of the country, daily cases have dropped to zero, which is surprising. downs a fairly loose walk in the country, hairdressers were still open. we heard from the economy minister and he's considering lifting the state of emergency for most prefectures before may 31, when the current declaration is set to expire. the local media reporting it could be as many as 34 out of 47 prefectures could have restrictions lifted. tokyo, osaka, maybe excluded. those areas are seeing multiple cases every day. a similar picture in the philippines. we heard from the president earlier this morning saying some areas in the country will remain under lockdown, but stay-at-home orders are expected to end on friday. he did not specify what areas, but he said the country at this point cannot afford to have a second or third wave of infection. our bloomberg markets coanchor in hong kong. endome countries begin to their lockdowns, medical e

this is my front and you can see how it extends out into the open waters bay some showers for a time into japan temperatures in tokyo around 23 degrees celsius in the west weather very much there across the southeast of china sinking a little further south was slowly but it will gradually make its way out into the open waters a legacy of want to see showers just falling back in behind want to shout into the northeast of china beijing is fine and dry temperatures here at around $27.00 degrees celsius sunshine the showers across the southeast asia as per usual we see some lively showers across vietnam through laos pushing towards thailand over the next day also what a few showers across the peninsula will see somewhat of weather once again just not going into northern parts of java and they will sink a little further a switch as we go on through where to stay much of the region saying they see to the day showers as per usual never started to see signs of the southwest monsoon just around the andaman sea it's a little more cloud just starting to build here still plenty of cloud there into the nort

japan. i think the idea with interest rates already very low and banks facing challenges with business models, now is not the timeher negative rates and put pressure on financial intermediaries, which need to step up if we want the recovery process. the bank of japan is focusing on interventions, so i think the risk of further rate cuts in japan is quite low, but we will have to focus on the and thee bond rates lending program they are working on right now. you for joining, izumi devalier from bank of america. indian markets getting set to open in about 27 minutes, looking at what happened with the nifty futures. nifty futures in the red. that is where we saw the finish friday, but the sun sex and and thewn -- sensex nifty down. 10 year yield not moving at all. stocks losing a little bit of steam. ministerhe finance 265ining details of the billion dollar virus rescue package. they are expecting india to experience the deepest recession understood thee impact of lockdowns on the country. he willatlantic saying invest about $870 million into a geo platform. it sells to facebook and silverlake. this -- they are equi

obviously in europe, we have been a negative rates land for a long time. japan as well. bailey england, andy recently said he is not going to rule it out. bubbly a good move. central banks like to keep their optionality. does the fed actually have any optionality in this sense, or are negative interest rates a sickly ruled out for america? michael: they are basically ruled out. they put it in terms a little andrew baileythan did. they say we are not considering it, but we wouldn't rule it out forever. but it would take an awful lot for them to go in that direction because it hurts the banks, and we know that from europe's experience. it takes profit ability away from the banks, but also hurts the financial markets. it disrupts the monetary transmission, especially in the united states because some any companies rely on the money markets, and the money market funds that will loan money for overnight transactions, that if you went to negative rates and money market funds were losing money on those transactions, they would stop doing them. so they are very aware of that. th

sort of lockdowns that have happened in cities in europe and north america, and yet, at the same time, japanhe mortality rate from covid—19 very, very low. as of yesterday, the number of people who've died from the disease here injapan was just 830. why that is is not clear. there are lots of theories. there are, for example, people talking about the fact that everybody here wears masks. this is not a new thing that's just happened in the last few weeks. for years and years — decades — here injapan, if you get a cold, if you get a cough, it is normal for you to wear a mask. there are many cultural customs injapan that may have contributed to the stopping the spread of infection. people, for example, don't shake hands — they bow. people take their shoes off when they go into buildings. hygiene levels here are generally very, very high, and there's one other thing that people have been mentioning as perhaps significant — japan has, by far, the lowest level of obesity in the whole of the developed world. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. let's go to the ukraine now. the bbc has

japan this winter. extinction is a concern when there is less than 1,000, so we can say the aleutian cackling geese have escaped this for the timet's amazing. many other migrating birds are still in danger. what efforts are being made to protect them? >> japan and russia have a treaty that's been in effect for three decades and covers nearly 300 species of birds. tokyo and moscow have introduced domestic laws for the protection of birds and are conducting joint study projects. this year, too, r researchers wl be exchanging the results of their work. >> it looks like things are headed in the right direction. are there any worries, though? >> yes. another type of migrating bird known as the snow goose is endangered. their white coloring makes them an easy target for hunters. to restore their migration patterns and population, researchers put snow geese in other species that migrate to japan. the idea is that the snow goose chicks will safely migrate with theirr step families. some measures like this are helping the situation. there was a point when we saw almost no snow geese in japan, but this year more than 1,000 of them spent t

time. this could linger long beyond lockdown. >>s th it is tough. >>> meanwhile, japanso facing a harsh economic rey'all i the. first quarter gdp data shows the country has fallen into a recession. for more on that, i'm joined by carrie inj carrie carrie enjoji. >> the first three quarters of this year, the economy was contracting at a pace of 0.9% on the quarter. annualized that's a drop of 3.4%. the news is going to get worse. economists are saying that in this quarter, the one we're in right now, the economy would tank 20%, 25% from some research houses. and that hasn't happened since the end of the second world war. and the government is responding and saying look we're going throw $1.1 trillion worth of stimulus. they've already announced that and they're probably going to top it up over the next two weeks because they know it's not just the small retailers hurting. the restaurants and so forth have been forced to close. but the big manufacturers as well. the numbers are fairly obvious. when you look at manufacturing, when you look at exports, took a hit because th

shery: japan extends the state of emergency until may 24 saying the coronavirus measures need more timeooking to ignificantly increase testing. our correspondent in beijing has more. tell us what the prime minister said in extending the state of emergency in japan and also some of the challenges that singapore faces in ramping up testing. we will try to establish that connection with selena, our correspondent, back in a little bit. let's get a look at the latest headlines. the car rental business has been hammered tpwhi coronavirus disruption. they have been talking to creditor bus is now preparing to file for chapter 11 protection which would let hertz stay in business while it tries to turn itself around. ferrari says super car sales are holding up. the orders remain strong even though italy's lockdown has shut facilities and may mean lost production of 2,000 cars. but eries rose about 5%, even the most iconic brands are feeling the pressure. the coronavirus makes it difficult to assess the business outlook. we're told discussions halted amid concern about a range in financing. source

sort of lockdowns that have happened in cities in europe and north america, and yet, at the same time, japanre importantly, the mortality rate from covid—19 very, very low. as of yesterday, the number of people who have died from the disease here injapan was just 830. why that is is not clear. there are lots of theories. there are, for example, people talking about the fact that everybody here wears masks. this is not a new thing that's just happened in the last few weeks, for years and years — decades — here injapan, if you get a cold, if you get a cough, it is normal for you to wear a mask. there are many cultural customs injapan that may have contributed to stopping the spread of infection. people, for example, don't shake hands — they bow. people take their shoes off when they go into buildings. hygiene levels here are generally very, very high, and there's one other thing that people have been mentioning as perhaps significant — japan has, by far, the lowest level of obesity in the whole of the developed world. a number of church of england bishops have taken to twitter to accuse borisj