arliss pull in our chief political correspondent linda crane she's on the story for us here in berlin tonight's good evening to you melinda there's a lot to talk about here donald trump he is criticized for promising his nation that normality will return quickly and merkel as we heard today she says that this virus will make life hard for a long time and she's afraid of a deadly setback here isn't she. absolutely and she is right to worry as she put it today we are only at the beginning of this crisis and essentially what she was trying to do is get germans her parents across on hall and she did me ologists a logistics here in this country say she's absolutely right to do so and most a small fraction of the german population has so far been exposed to the virus the virus remains a true danger to all those who are not yet and there is a very real risk that if the rates of infection start heading upwards again that the health care services although i think in fact have managed very well still father could become overburdened and that's why you heard her in that sound bite saying let's n

linda crane speaking to me a little while many of germany's schools due to reopen on monday as the lockdown is eased but for the past 6 weeks with children learning at home teachers students and parents have discovered a different reality has been speaking with a teacher to find out how the new style of remote learning has been working out. so mentally mind we're not sure. because this is maximilian vesa he would normally be in class with this students right now but because of the corona crisis on all germans schools are partially still closed so instead maximilian streams his math lessons life from his living room almost every day. doesn't usually for math lessons especially it's a great way to teach. your happy with the help of the chap function i can interact communicate and react to spontaneous questions if i have to. but this by all his efforts the 29 year old teacher knows that a major element of his lessons is missing at the moment. and i think 2 thirds of the students are doing quite well with their online assignments but most of the missed the social contact. 16 year old valentina

dishes decisions which have been postponed through the summer we asked chief political correspondent linda crane if the german chancellor if peers to be on the defensive after the e.u. summit. no absolutely not and she spoke in a press conference just after the end of this video conference summit and seemed pretty satisfied and she described the atmosphere as very positive very friendly and said that there was absolute agreement that together the e.u. member countries must find a way forward i think in part this lack of defensiveness is because this morning to some degree she went on the often say she managed to get herself out of the corner that sometimes germany winds up getting backed into as a naysayer she said very clearly we know we must port more money on the table germany only does well when the rest of the e.u. does well and then she made this very clear statement in her remarks to the parliament this morning saying we will be increasing our contribution to the e.u. budget significantly until now germany has insisted that the number was one percent of g.d.p. and that's what it would sta

of medical equipment that's coming from china earlier i asked our chief political correspondent linda crane what steps had been taken to ensure that the face masks that just arrived that they meet german medical standards that shipment that arrived today and by the way we are expecting another shipment on wednesday bringing the total masks from china during the last few days to 25000000 apparently there were tests on those masts both in china and there will be tests here in germany when the masks are distributed throughout the tent while states where they will be given to over to the health ministers of their respective states and to be frank china has a very high stake in ensuring that these masks do are well because the deal to provide was actually negotiated between chancellor angela merkel and chinese president so a lot is riding on the fact that these mass needs to be a fact. that was g w g political correspondent there melinda crane well in contrast to germany and other european countries sweden's coronavirus strategy has been one to show allowing bars restaurants a business is to ope

of iras and the climate to talk more home joined by our chief political correspondent linda crane good evening to you melinda you know there has been this feeling that climate change the fight against climate change has almost been forgotten since the pandemic began what has prompted this renewed push for climate protection. well i think it's exactly what we just heard from the u.n. secretary general namely that in every crisis there's also an opportunity and that's something that i'm going to macas good friend are obama used to saying as well so i think the chancellor who is by no means a visionary but she is pragmatic i think she has definitely seen 2 opportunities in this crisis 1st of all because as we just heard in the report germany will on the 1st to take over the rotating e.u. council presidency and that is an opportunity for germany to really help steer europe's recovery plans for how the economy emerges from the corona crisis secondly governments and multilateral organizations the european union but also who world bank the i.m.f. and others are getting ready to commit billion

she is now part of the solution rather than a problem all right our chief political correspondent linda crane well linda thank you. well staying here in germany we're going to go now from economics to justice the trial of 2 suspected members of syria's secret police opened today in the german city of kogut the men face charges of murder torture and sexual assault that they allegedly committed in a damascus prison in 2011 in 2012 prosecutors are using universal jurisdiction laws to try the 2 suspects here in germany they entered germany as asylum seekers' d w reports now on one woman's hope that the trial can bring justice for her son and a warning viewers may find some of these scenes distress. mario lives in a berlin suburb it seems it illich but this syrian woman is part of a europe wide hunt to catch criminals secret service agents from her country like many others merriam's son i hum was systematically tortured the young medical student had spoken up for human rights and calling for president bashar assad to step down now 8 years after his death his mother is seeking justice. i want the c

as part of the solution rather than part of the problem today our chief political correspondent linda crane on the story for us tonight with analysis here in berlin melinda thank you. europe and the pandemics economic costs european union leaders have moved closer to approving a joint recovery fund the money would be earmarked for businesses that have taken a hit in the shutdown now the $27.00 e.u. leaders met in a video conference call today diplomatic sources say that they agreed to ask the european commission to work out the details of the recovery fun this is the 4th time that the leaders have met since the virus outbreak began in italy. chris french president. is not shying away from the most controversial aspect of any european recovery project he says the wealthy members of the e.u. must accept that they will have to transfer aid and money to those countries in need you know phone for that it will take transfers real budgetary economic transfers to the regions that are most affected to the industrial sectors most affected. it is this condition that will give us the right to industria

linda crane who joins us now from our parliamentary studio berlin germany is tightening restrictions for residents entering the country yet at the same time there's been discussions about how to start easing the lockdown is that all the contradiction. no not at all the fact is most germans are staying home at the moment and this phase will continue at least until into next week the chancellor made that clear once again this past weekend but the fact is it clearly behooves the authorities to be thinking now about what the next phase might look like and what's pretty clear is that that phase will involve much more selective screening widespread testing and then really trying to identify both those people who are most at risk and those people who could be spreaders and clearly people coming from countries or regions that have seen a lot of corona cases are potential spreaders and it makes a lot of sense obviously to look at them very closely and to ask them to police quarantined themselves until the time period would be over when they might be infectious. looking at the economic side of

she is now part of the solution rather than a problem all right our chief political correspondent linda crane well linda thank you. well here's a look now at some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the global death toll from code 19 has now surpassed 187000 that's according to johns hopkins university the number of global cases is approaching 3000000 scientists have britain's oxford university have started clinical trials of a potential 1000 vaccine it's the latest in a growing number of european efforts aimed at developing a vaccine dubai has allowed cafes restaurants and shopping malls to reopen but they're being limited to operating at 30 percent of their normal capacity and the us state of california recorded 150 deaths from the corona virus on wednesday the highest single day death toll so far the virus has claimed almost 1500 lives in the country's most populous state in new york the death toll is more than 15000 votes wagon has reopened one of its german production plants as the country's all important car industry tries to get back on the road it comes as fellow c

yourself by protecting others that's an important message there our chief political correspondent linda crane on the story for us tonight here in berlin melinda thank you would china may be helping but there are reports tonight that suggest something very different germany's green party says that chinese diplomats put pressure on the interior ministry here in berlin to make positive statements about china's handling of the corona crisis now the german government has confirmed that this happened and says it did not comply with the request for beijing the w.'s chief political correspondent linda greene spoke with green party politician and member of the european parliament reinhard. had to go for how problematic was this attempt by chinese diplomats to influence german government official statements about china's handling of the corona crisis isn't it normal for governments to try to spin the narrative. i think this was ultimately desperate way of compressing their own domestic audience in china with applause and praise from authorities overseas because obviously chinese leadership is not so su

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