the health minister, jens spahn says the curve is flattening, but warns against overconfidence. china admits the death toll in wuhan city is 50% higher than originalally reporteted. news c comes as the country''s economic output drops f for the first time in 30 years. >> on this situation wee are approaching genocididal. >> in a request dw exclusivee interview, i indian aututhor arundhati roy assesessed modi i exploiting the pandemicc to incite the persecutions of hundred ai muslims in the nation. >> i am phil. welcome to the program. germany's health minister says the country's coronavirus outbreak is now manageable, and the national disease control agency has confirmed that the infection rate has now declined to less than one. germany has seen one of europe's highest number of infections, but low death rates. officials attribute this to testing. as the country looks forward to next week's easing of gradual lock-down measures, jens spahn is s still u urging caution. >>>> germany's's strereets are empty. it's stores still closed. a result of the country's strict physical distanc

proposals i would say the noises that from politicians so far have been largely positive for example yet spahn the health minister has given his backing on the set medical conditions of course but this is also about deception because some people would say look is it really a good look the playing football when people are dying from the coronavirus we have a contact sport when others are encouraged to do social distancing so i think that is a big problem even found groups opposed to restart their football to have special rules from anyone else and i mention the issue of testing on the league thinks it will need 20000 tests to complete the season it says that's just no point 4 percent of the current testing capacity and obviously if the tests need to go to other sources then they will let that happen but again you know can you really think leigh say that for borders borders to get tested when people who perhaps need to test hold of them at the moment that say. jonathan crane from states thank you welcome. and you are today i'll be back at the top of the hour join me if you chad it will be wonder

it is now under control health minister yan spahn says the infection is flattening but warns againstoverconfident also on the program. protests against lock down restrictions in the us president trump says at least 3 democrat controlled stay.

here's a quick round up of coronavirus developments around the world the german health minister yang spahn says that the outbreak in germany is under control and quote manageable again new data shows that the infection rate has fallen significantly denmark will allow small businesses to reopen on monday the country was one of europe's 1st to shut down but is now gradually easing its lockdown and neon maher has released almost $25000.00 prisoners in a presidential amnesty human rights groups had called on it to reduce overcrowding in its prisons due to the outbreak and then the new has become the country with the most cases in southeast asia health officials say that nearly 6000 people have been infected with the virus. well india's 1300000000 people are halfway through a 6 week national lockdown the government insists that the restrictions are the key to breaking the chain of transmission but the battle against the virus also has a religious dimension date of your correspondent mission just swallow has traveled to the northern city of may route to find out why muslims are being targeted fo

having tackled coronavirus nationally in a robust and fact based way on friday health minister yen spahn described the situation in germany as under control you know that. we have moments to bring the dynamic growth to linear growth the infection numbers have decreased significantly relative increases from day to day the outbreak has now become manageable and controllable again ultimately what these localised outbreaks in asylum sent to show is that if you drop your guard for just a moment when it comes to fighting or trying to stop the spread of this virus then it will be exploited peter all of our r.t. berlin. now elsewhere president trump has said that he does expect between $60.65 americans to die of covert 19 that is down from his early estimate of 100000 the president claims the country's infection rate is paid and he's unveiled plans to gradually ease the lock down as trinity chavez reports. white house pushing to get the economy moving again our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring our economic life and we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time issuing new

told this comes as the country plans to gradually ease lockdown measures in coming days spahn said germany's health care system has at no point been overwhelmed the country has seen one of the highest numbers of infections in europe but by comparison low death rates officials say that's down to rest of testing in the early stages of the outbreak germany's public health institute the whole web cock institute says that on average each new patient is now infected less than one other person meaning the outbreak is on the decline. spawn said germany has reached a turning point but offered words of caution. because now we can say this was successful we have managed to bring the dynamic growth back to a linear growth the infection numbers have decreased significantly especially the relative increases from day to day the outbreak has now become manageable and controllable again. but in managing the corona epidemic germany is doing relatively well that makes us humble not overconfident. and the head of the whole but call institute explained how the numbers of new cases in germany were declining. the

it definitely was and this is off the health minister spahn had spoken about something like the virus being under control what he meant was that particular moment in time when he spoke on friday you wouldn't hear i'm going to machall saying that she speaks of fragile victory for the moment and she tells citizens that she personally is concerned that that head start could be lost if there was suddenly exponential acceleration of infection rates once again something germany is far away from right now if you look at the figures coming in for several days we've seen day by day more people being counted as recovered the new counted as newly infected is now despite all the caution one has to apply and all the testing going on here in germany that is all very reassuring to individuals to citizens indeed and you do see people sitting outside in the parks in groups. take us through what exactly has been changing today as some businesses are allowed to reopening tell us which businesses these are in the reasoning behind that decision. well the reasoning in the end was a compromise that's the ve

when it comes to digital technology our chief political editor asked the german health minister yen spahn will this be germany's a killie's heel when it comes to responding to the pandemic. well in this federal state of germany we have different levels the community level the federal state level and the national level actually and what we see is yes we should have invested more in previous years in the digitization of. actually makes these different levels better into acting in a situation like this that new cases that fall into a community within seconds actually known with with our national city you see that it's not yet the case it takes one to 2 days till we have the information here in berlin and that is just the example but in the very important one to have a real picture of these outbreak that we want to change through digitization and to to actually support and to fund this investments that need to be taken to communities and we really want to speed up that chance in this crisis actually to speed up the digitization and public health system now there's a lot of debate about europe

she will probably we're expecting her to repeat those words of caution and her health minister again spahn also said earlier today that it is now vital to take a step by step approach and not be too hasty and then regret some of the easing of the restrictions are calling for caution and patience i mean how do germans feel in general about how their government has handled this pandemic. german government is actually the most popular since polling began and mackel and i health minister for example have seen a rise in support by voters they're coming across as very transparent decision makers they can explain the rationale behind the decisions they listen to the experts they listen to viral exists people can draw their own conclusions as far as the necessary behavior is concerned then also germany is a federal state so there was a certain amount of flexibility and last but not least as a big economic stimulus package that is already coming into effect and people are benefiting from the benefits of largely functioning welfare state. our correspondent with us thank you. asked spain as the 2nd t

and here's a quick roundup of coronavirus developments around the world german health minister again spahn says that the outbreak in germany is under control and quote manageable again new data shows that the infection rate has fallen significantly denmark will allow small businesses to reopen on monday the country was one of europe's 1st to shut down but it's now gradually easing its lockdown and indonesia has become the country with the one most cases in southeast asia health officials say that nearly 6000 people have been infected with the virus. well india's 1300000000 people are halfway through a 6 week national lockdown the government insists that the restrictions are the key to breaking the chain of transmission but the battle against the virus also has a religious dimension and correspondent mr giles wall has traveled to the northern city of maywood to find out why muslims are being targeted for supposedly staging what some locals are calling corona jihad. 3 more weeks of lockdown of businesses closed of restricted movement. but these men are fuming about something else abdul rashi

the health minister, jens spahn, today saying that at no point have the icu units been under pressuresmall shops, businesses will start to open. in austria, the government says they have flattened the curve and it's been the last couple of days that things like hardware stores, libaries, bookshops, diy centres have been opened there. spain today, there's been a slight increase again in the spread. they are up 5,000 more cases, the death toll around 585. the authorities there saying that it is in line with a slow spread that is starting to waiver slightly, but enough that it's dropped that pressure on some of the icu units that were really struggling to cope just over a couple of weeks ago, particularly in madrid. and the swedes today, in many ways an outlier in this whole lockdown times of europe, with cafes and bars open. ann linde, the foreign minister, today saying it was a myth that sweden carried on as normal, they have had social distancing in place and they say it is working there. gavin lee there with an update from around europe. let's look a little more at the situation in g

this is news and these are our top stories german health minister yan spahn has announced a series of measures for tackling the coronavirus long warning that the pandemic is far from over include increasing purchases of flu vaccines to avoid a possible double hits to the health system. in germany has slashed its growth forecast the government says it expects the economy to shrink by 6.3 percent this year because of the pandemic would be the big.

on the map to a large degree i don't think anybody spahn showed a professional sports franchise like this guy he took something that was well a great idea that perilous barely registering in an odd way and has turned it into one of the most valuable interesting exciting franchises in the world i'm talking about u.f.c. president dana white dana how are you my friend i'm awesome body are your get good i i know it's been a interesting fortnight for you i assume you've been sleeping for the last. is a strange trip that is u.f.c. $240.00 night. yeah vast week was very interesting and. you know basically i could put on the vent on this saturday night in california at the taj palace and you know the media went crazy. government officials went crazy and they eventually got a hold of the powers that be and me to to stand down and not do this and that. well you know i have the feeling that the powers that be and the media. i think they probably played less a part with you than your partners and then you're a businessman and i also think that you know how you are valuable your franchises now an

the health minister, jens spahn, today saying that at no point have the icu units been under pressures, businesses will start to open. in austria, the government says they have flattened the curve and it's been the last couple of days that things like hardware stores, libaries, bookshops, diy centres have been opened there. spain today, there's been a slight increase again in the spread. they are up 5,000 more cases, the death toll around 585. the authorities there saying that it is in line with a slow spread that is starting to waiver slightly, but enough that it's dropped that pressure on some of the icu units that were really struggling to cope just over a couple of weeks ago, particularly in madrid. and the swedes today, in many ways an outlier in this whole lockdown times of europe, with cafes and bars open. ann linde, the foreign minister, today saying it was a myth that sweden carried on as normal, they have had social distancing in place and they say it is working there. gavin lee there with an update from around europe. let's look a little more at the situation in germany. de

this is news and these are our top stories german health minister yen spahn has announced a series of measures for tackling the coronavirus long warning that the pandemic is far from over include increasing purchases of flu vaccines to avoid a possible double hits to the health system. in germany has slashed its growth forecast the government says it expects the economy to shrink by 6.3 percent this year because of a pandemic would be the biggest slump in the country's post-war history. britain's coronavirus death toll has jumped by almost 4500 in one day to just over 26000 it's due to officials now including deaths outside of hospitals in the count the u.k. now has the world's 3rd highest death toll. acclaimed indian actor can has died after a battle with cancer can became internationally known through his roles in the film slumdog millionaire and life of pi he was 53 this is doubly news from berlin you can follow us on twitter at all visit our website w dot com. the coronavirus pandemic has hit the united states hardest when we talk about the loss in lives and livelihoods the world'