tell us more now we are joined by chief political correspondent melinda crane's to linda tell us what does this say about how authorities view the state of the pandemic in germany. it says that they are cautiously moving into a next phase of easing restrictions but that they by no means believe the pandemic is over in fact the chancellor said very clearly that this is essentially at most the end of the 1st phase and that it is absolutely essential to proceed cautiously and she has said in the past it would be a crying shame if germany were essentially to waste its early successes by moving too fast and she was absolutely adamant today about emphasizing caution as the country moves ahead let's talk a little bit more about that caution i mean how much risk does indeed come with this strategy. there's absolutely risk associated with it essentially this is all about trial and error there was a 1st initial phase of relaxing restrictions starting on april 20th and as the chancellor said today that went pretty well we did not see a big uptick in the rate of infection so now we're moving into

a political correspondent melinda crane i'm interested to see a very moving speech by the german president today what struck you just well in terms of pure poignance and even poetry exactly that statement that we just heard about leaving germany with a broken heart the fact is that this country has such a painful and fractured past that if you truly want to embrace a form of patriotism it comes with pain and i think that's important but it's also a message to all of those. on the right wing in this country who would like to wipe the slate clean and say let's forget the past and let's simply glorify this country and he's telling them you know it can only come with them devil and secondly 2 other things this idea that confronting the past is an ongoing active process liberation he mentioned also liberating ourselves from the temptations of nationalism populism hatred zina phobia all of those also very relevant messages for this time and then finally his words and we didn't hear them there but he said in 1945 germany stood entirely alone now when we say never again it also means never again a

from the german president to carry this day on in public memory our chief political correspondent melinda crane with us thank you melinda. let's take a brief look at some other stories now that are making headlines around the world scuffles broke out of hong kong's legislative council between pro beijing and pro-democracy lawmakers the rival camps were competing over who should preside over a crucial meeting it would decide who should he had a committee which reads bills and determines when they can be put to a final vote a former staffer who choose democratic presidential candidate joe biden of sexual assault has said biden should drop out of the race for the white house in an interview with a u.s. journalist biden's accuser terror read said that she would swear under oath of the 1993 assault did take place. all right let's take a look at the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic around the world now more than 3800000 people have been infected with the coronavirus globally nearly 270000 houses died a new study by the world health organization projects that up to 190000 people in afri

we have our chief political correspondent linda crane with us melinda no german patriotism can come without its cracks are really moving words there from the president in his speech absolutely and he went on to them quote a rabbi who talked about the fact that you can only love germany with a broken heart in other words with a sense of germany's historic crimes and responsibility and i think this word responsibility was a key message that president was trying to impart and for me it had to really particularly. crucial aspects one responsibility for ensuring that democracy is strong and can flourish in this country he said in that liberation is an ongoing process we must liberate ourselves from nationalism from hate speech from the temptations of populism so democracy on the one hand and as he said also responsibility for multilateralism and in particular for europe he talked about the fact that germany was alone in 1945 but it is not alone any longer and that never alone again must become a message for germany also in its dealings with europe ensuring that the european union cannot only sur

and there was our chief political correspondent there melinda crane what to do about the crew the german travel group to we is planning to test nearly $3000.00 cruise ships workers quarantined aboard one of the ships 2 he says that it was using the mine ship 3 to ferry thousands of its employees home amid the pandemic but this ship ran into trouble when it docked in coops hoben in late april with over a dozen crew members exhibiting flu like symptoms. the cruise ship that's now a quarantine station. the my ship 3 is part of the 2 a fleet 300 meters long with a 2500 passenger capacity but no tourists are aboard only crew and they're stuck. with 8 confirmed cases of coronavirus no one's allowed to enter or leave. authorities and cooks have been are testing almost 3000 people. we will put those people in seclusion and in a special quiet 100 area onboard as well as the people they've been in personal contact with will go on board with what we call containment scouts to do contact tracing one deck of the ship has been prepared for this in case anyone else has to isolate the event i mentioned

from the german president to carry this day on in public memory our chief political correspondent melinda crane with us thank you melinda. now simon going off he only managed to escape the auschwitz concentration camp by sheer luck 75 years after the end of the 2nd world war the 88 year old is living through another worldwide crisis the coronavirus pandemic now in brussels this holocaust survivor is tapping into his talents to spread joy during this uncertain time. a bit of jazz music drawing people out of their homes. a rather unusual picture in times of covered 1009. 120 because it makes me happy to bring a bit of happiness and hope to the people and to cheer them up we don't guruji. ski says jazz is his life music helped him to overcome the trauma he experienced as a jew in belgium during the 2nd world war. as a child i lived through the persecution of the nazis barbarism. they killed my mother and my sister in the gas chambers of auschwitz birkenau. my father died in despair just after the war this is in july 945. in one when i was 11 the nazi secret police the gestapo it took me and threw

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all rights chief political correspondent linda crane she joins me now good evening to you melinda these are really some of the boldest moves that we have seen in europe in terms of moving back towards some semblance of normality there were 2 important factors here today science and business talk to me about the science the success that germany has seen in slowing the coronavirus. well i think really that good progress that the chancellor mentioned was based on 3 different things a little bit of luck some competence and trust so starting with the luck germany the fibrous essentially hit here a little bit later than in some other countries such as italy and spain and therefore germany could learn from its neighbors and had a chance to put precautions into place before the virus really began to peak and then some of those who were affected early on were younger and healthier than perhaps those in italy for example and that was because young skiers from unica and from hamburg were infected in austria and they got somewhat less severe cases that might otherwise have been had been the case se

that's going to deal with these chief political correspondent linda crane she has more tonight here in berlin good evening to you melinda let's talk about the study here but were there any big surprises and if so what are their implications moving forward for the entire country. there was nothing totally unexpected but a couple of things to stand out 1st of all is significant share of those who have been infected out of stiff overall had no symptoms and this absolutely underlines the importance of how we behave as we begin to relax restrictions on going back into public namely you need to be wearing a mask you need to be maintaining distance to other people even if you feel fine because otherwise you could infect them secondly that 1800000 or more than 10 times as many people appear to have been infected as what was previously confirmed now that goes to the question of herd immunity the idea that we eventually could get to a point where this fire risk is less of a risk to health services and less of a risk to society as a whole because a lot of people have already gotten it and become inured but the fact is 1800000 may