Their need to reduce their social life. And a hollywood giant behind bars former movie producer Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison this is what justice looks like 20 plus 3 years sentence weinstein have been convicted of rape and Sexual Assault in a case that Gains Momentum to the need to the point. Im sumi so misconducts good to have you with us the European Union is criticizing a decision by u. S. President donald trump to ban nearly all travel from europe to the United States the European Commission says that decision was taken unilaterally and without consultation that a ban will last for 30 days but excludes the u. K. And ireland and a few other countries outside the shang and passport free travel area trump said the European Union at failed to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the disease. Until now the u. S. President had made light of the corona crisis but in a surprise statement donald trump announced new drastic measures fellow americans to keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to the United States for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight. The travel ban will affect 26. 00 European Countries but will exclude britain and ireland exemptions will be made for u. S. Citizens. These spanish travelers at madrid airport are some of the last europeans to be allowed into the u. S. But if the u. S. Have to take those measures let them take them we need to be prudent and careful but theres no need to get desperate for i mean not at the but it affects me because i work in the u. S. I have to change my ticket and bring the trip forward because if not i would have found the border closed the new u. S. Rules mark a sudden escalation and trumps response to the virus and they seem to catch u. S. Allies and the markets off guard as well as making political waves there will be a huge blow to travelers and to airlines operating routes across the atlantic the Tourism Industry has already been hit hard by the virus as governments tighten restrictions and travelers think twice about whether to go on vacation in these uncertain times. You know following the latest developments on the story for us this is a pretty big step from the white house how is your reacting oh it is a huge step and you used top officials have already slammed this decision and theyve said essentially that the coronavirus is a Global Crisis its not limited to any continent it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action this is what the e. U. Commission president was about from the lion and the e. U. Council president shows said in a joint statement as a reaction to that decision and they were extremely unhappy about the fact that they were not consulted or they want not even informed about this decision taken by the u. S. President and then Radek Sikorski use a member of the European Parliament and former polish foreign minister said on twitter that im surprised that a possible british coronavirus is deemed preferable to an e. U. One playing politics he said was health is a bad idea and that of course refers to that exemption for britain by donald trump ok so we see that this is not really going down that well here in europe at least they felt it should have been consulted at the same time the w h o is recommending drastic measures i mean is it time then that europe followed the u. S. And also issue similar travel restrictions the travel ban well you always have to look at the political systems in the countries both the European Union and germany for example if you want to talk about the reaction of one of the Member States of the European Union they are federal systems so decisions when it comes to Health Policy when it comes to education policy etc theyre always taken at National Level on the e. U. Level and at regional level here in germany and so its up to local authorities regional authorities here in germany for example to implement bans on Mass Gatherings of more than a 1000 people and also the e. U. They have to coordinate their efforts by the various Member States theyre all speaking with different voices and it just takes a lot of time to. Bring all these Different Actors together and decide on a more coordinated strategy when it comes to combating the virus while here in germany yesterday we heard the chancellor Angela Merkel say that according to Health Officials shes spoken to 60 to 70 percent of the german population will be infected with this virus how are people reacting to that well thats not a number that she makes up i mean america clearly is somebody who listens to experts this is a number thats been passed on by leading viral exists in this country who give daily updates on the statistics and they look at how the virus is probably going to develop in the course of the next few weeks and months and what is clear is that the virus is here to stay it has reached germany and all we have to do is make sure that we gain enough time that not everybody gets sick at the same time to not strain our Health Care System too much and this is something that im glad america has understood and so she wants the public to understand that everybody can do their share to help slow down that infection rate at the same time we have the czech Prime Minister we should 50 Czech Republic shuras of border with germany accusing the german chancellor of spreading panic with those numbers what do you make of that well again this is something where we clearly see that europe is not talking with one voice not every country in the European Union is as effected as for example italy the numbers are different approaches are different the Health Care Systems are different but what the e. U. Leaders decided earlier this week was that Health Ministers were going to talk to each other on a daily basis to tackle the coronavirus together and this is something at least putting the e. U. On a good path. With us here in studio thank you very much. Well italy has tightened restrictions to try to stop the spread of the virus after limiting freedom of movement nationwide the government is now ordering the closure of all shops except Grocery Stores and pharmacies theyre hoping the measures will eventually contain the disease and alleviate the pressure on hospitals the Health System in the north of italy is struggling to cope. Hospital beds and intensive care units of full capacity medical staff working around the clock especially in lumbered like at milans psycho hospital i meant and luckily none of our nurses or doctors are in quarantine right now theyre all working 12 hours a day to take care of our patients. With the flood of patients pushing italys Health Care System to its limits prominent physicians have issued an urgent warning to the government. In only known i dont think we have the structures medical equipment doctors and nurses to cope with such a large number of sick people the sophie chain the bit of wood out in the middle of the aisle to be. The toll on the economy is also growing all shops have been ordered to close with the exception of Supermarkets Food stores and pharmacies. The economic level this is dramatic for us but we will make the necessary sacrifices. For me what its like if you. See the government has responded with an emergency aid package to support health care and businesses been a deliberate. Well decided to allocate an additional 25000000000 euros to help the country cope with the difficulties of this ongoing emergency. Basis stuff. Its money heavily into government can hardly afford. And we can speak now to dr jack hes an anesthesiologist from the university of melanies coordinating the network of intensive care units in one part me dr wrestling we know youre very busy at the moment thank you for joining us here on d w can you give us an idea of what the situation is in hospitals right but right now in lombardy yes to give you an idea i can give you just very simple numbers but before this crisis we had you know longer than the around the last 800 i say you bet for people. Is the start of the epidemics you saw in the last 20 days we have admitted to our i. C. U. Total of more than 100 people of these lets say 120 have been discharged about 90 have died and the remaining around 700 are still there so from these numbers again you can understand how how big is the stress on the system so weve been able to increase our i. C. U. Beds capacity by about 50 percent something that was a huge effort everyone we have reorganized our Hospital Network in order to centralize the time dependent diseases like for example trauma last stroke in on the if you hearts and to do free space to to to have new units decayed we have created a network of specialized called 19 a unit in several hospitals. So until now weve been able to cope with these incredible amount of patience in a very short limited period of time but you know of our ability to reach and moderate story one of the reaches richest region in europe and still really struggling to to to deal with this incredible as a tsunami of patients was investing us you know weve heard reports of nurses of doctors working around the clock working past capacity to be able to treat enough people weve also heard reports of Nurses Health care officials having to reach almost impossible decisions of deciding because there are so many sick people at the moment to treat who to treat and who they cannot is that true and who is reaching that choice. Well. Thats a very important thats a very important point and there are a lot of politics now in italy but i have i want to make this very clear well in every days life and mr geologist when hes called to to see a critical patient has to take to take a decision whether i see you on a mission is proportional me for that patient condition i mean that we are meeting for the i. C. U. On a patient who can benefit from i. C. U. Admission and intensive treatments and if a patient cannot benefit because of a number of factors which is not only the age of course but its age is more with chronic conditions and quality of life and so on if a patient it does not benefit from i. C. U. Admission he will not be admitted to the i. C. U. No matter how many free beds you have now we understand its a its a really difficult situation theyre facing right now a lot of people are looking to italy and saying with more than 10000 cases what is happened there i mean why has the virus spread so quickly after. Its very difficult to see. Apparently here in number to be peppered something similar to what happened in india will probably the virus was was was around for at least has been around for at least one of our recognised and then something happened like a super spread and that like started this fire which is very difficult to turn off and. Clearly having a huge number of patients an increasing number of patients and whats different from at least one was reported from china is that the number of patients in the i. C. U. Because in our in our case Serious Police did 10 to 12 percent of the patients of the body deflation. Need i see what mission or lets say less than 5 percent in the either cheneys book relation so what they want to make very clear and they what they want to say to tell everyone in the world is that the solution for these is not. Opening new beds and us your beds or keep buying ventilators this is a flu shot for people who are already sick so the only way to avoid that this becomes a disaster and when i see disaster i mean hundreds of thousands of deaths the only way to avoid these glorie of the spread of this disease and this can be that weve seen all behavioral measures so. You can increase your in your eyes here where as much as you can but again if you are invested by this tsunami your i. Q. A bit into a certain point will never be no matter how efficient modern said and particularly just just a cutting quickly what youre saying there is your message to other countries that are facing what your region is facing right now is please slow the spread. 1st get ready so prepare your health care who are going to the proper use of personal protective people for example. Reorganize or upright who think how to organize a rescue network but most importantly prepared population tell them that once you have the initial threat that they need to change their behavior and their need to reduce their social life i mean easier if everyone stays at home for 3 weeks and this is going to happen to because no one should mean no new patients should be infected ok so i understand its illegal immigration and personal freedom but the other one this is going to be a disaster all right well have to leave it there dr jack come aggressively and see its these religious joining us from the university of milan in lombardi thank you very much all right lets take a look now at more of the latest coronavirus developments spain is considering a lockdown of its capital madrid saudi arabia has suspended travel by its citizens and residents and halted lights to and from several nations chance on what i call c. D. U. Party here in germany has postponed a special conference was planning to elect a new leader many schools across europe have been closed. And for all the latest on the corona virus including information about what to do if you think you might be infected go to our website d. W. Dot com. Lets get a roundup now of some other stories from around the world fears about the corona virus and the resulting travel bans are prompting more violent swings on stock markets an early plunge on wall street triggered a 15 minute trading halt both the s. And p. And Dow Jones Indices tumbled more than 7 percent. Germanys Domestic Intelligence agency is placing an extremist wing of the far right alternative for Germany Party under surveillance that wing of the party is led by firebrand ok he has been accused of using rhetoric from germanys nazi past and European Commission president was enough on the line has postponed a visit to greece because of a coronavirus pandemic she was due to hold talks about the situation on the border with turkey where there have been clashes with police as thousands of migrants attempt to cross into the European Union. Well there have also been clashes that overcrowded migrant to camps on greek islands now as many as 100 children from those camps are being offered refuge in berlin the children have been chosen because they are ill unaccompanied or younger than 14 years old more now and how the german capital is preparing for the young arrivals. Thousands of refugees among the many children all stuck in makeshift camps in greece clothing and food are in short supply and nobody knows what will become of these people. The City Government here in berlin says it wants to welcome 2000 of them. We need the National Government to help make this happen but it has categorically refused to help these people in need and said germany is not going to take any unilateral action. For months weve just been standing idly by as people perish and children suffer this is a disaster. But then is preparing for the eventual arrival of some of these refugees empty portable Housing Units at the decommissioned tempelhof airport and being hooked up again to the mains they date from 2015 when germany admitted almost a 1000000 refugees back then the authorities were taken by surprise and scramble to cope the situation was a times chaotic and conditions were the new arrivals very poor. 5 years on the balance City Government department thats responsible for refugees and Asylum Seekers says that its now much better prepared. To have a cup at city where the posting capacity to help people who come to us 2015 we were caught off guard 50 we then had a staff of 150 years now we have more than 500 and are allowed to hire 50 more. So we have the personnel to receive newcomers and register them and provide the services they need. Most of the berliners we talked to are in favor of welcoming more refugees to that city. We were once refugees too and we survived german reunification without any trouble so why shouldnt we be able to deal with this situation. If its not to harm so we are approaching the limit in terms of capacity but this is an extreme case especially considering the children so we have to do something. Or portis there will be protests parties such as the a. F. The right wing extremist and right wing populist groups in our society will once again protest. But theres no reason to have right wing extremists determine whether or not we rescue people in need. That. Its not known how many people might eventually come to. The conflict between cities offering shelter the German Government and other European Union countries on relocating refugees is far from resolved former hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and Sexual Assault it was close to the maximum term of 29 years the prosecutors were seeking women outside the new york courthouse where he was sentenced greeted the announcement with loud cheers. For Harvey Weinsteins accuses its an outcome few thought was possible. Attorney Gloria Allred says justice has been done for her clients this is what justice looks like 20 plus 3 years. Sentence handed down by judge burke this morning. Just raced movie mogul who faced his final appearance in the same new york where he was convicted of rape and Sexual Assault against 2 women. Since his conviction last month the former head of mary max underwent hot surgery arriving at course in a wheelchair weinsteins lawyer is us the judge to take his poor health as well as his age and Young Children into account and was scathing of the outcome. I mean i think we all know that sentence that was just handed down by this court was obscene that number was a noxious there are murderers who will get out of court faster than Harvey Weinstein will that number spoke to the pressure of movements and the public weinstein has denied any wrongdoing and his lawyers plan to appeal the verdict prosecutors had sought a lengthy sentence given the foreman produces abuse spanning 4 decades and lack of remorse. Old read who represents accuser just a command for part of a testimony outside course she said ive never felt vengeful and going into this initially i didnt even feel anger i just felt sad sad for myself sad for everyone he hurt and i even felt sad for him for having done this to himself. But i have observed an indifference a lack of remorse it seems like the final scene in Harvey Weinsteins fall from grace but the drummer is far from over weinstein faces the criminal charges in los angeles for right and Sexual Assault that case could bring a maximum sentence of 28 use. One back to our coverage of the corona Virus Outbreak in the toll its taking on sports lets take a look at some of the latest developments there rail madrids football and basketball teams have been put into quarantine the Spanish Football League has suspended play in its 2 top divisions for the next 2 weeks basketballs n. B. A. And euro league of both suspended their seasons and in formula one mclaren us withdrawn from the australian grand prix after a team member tested positive for the coronavirus in the Champions League got the better of brasil at dortmund on wednesday the french team winning 2 nil to reach the quarterfinals 32 on aggregate thousands of p. S. G. Fans gathered outside the stadium to cheer on their team after being banned from going inside in an attempt to spread the curb the spread of the coronavirus after the final whistle the p. S. U. Players climbed onto a balcony overlooking the street to celebrate with their supporters. In the nights other game defending champs liverpool crashed out of the tournament they looked set to make a comeback against Athletico Madrid after taking the match into extra time but unfortunately for a young clubs team the spaniard scored 3 unanswered goals to advance for 2 on aggregate it is safe to say the club was less than impressed i said no or it would be very much all the reasons i married him. On the average loser to be honest at least tonight if i would say all the things i have in my mind i would look like the 1st losing the rope so it ends up as a. Stop you know how it was he was funny i dont say that its just about. To do way that play i just dont get it. I dont get it but its right when is right thats hard. In the bundesliga brissie i mention glad it cologne by 2 goals to one and a match made history because its the 1st German League clash to be held behind closed doors fans were excluded because of the coronavirus but in this league the fans have dubbed matches held behind closed doors like this one goes to games but that didnt discourage thousands from gathering outside the stadium and gladbach to peek through the cracks inside only a handful of Club Officials were waiting for this historic match to kick off despite not having fan support the whole side struck 1st patch or come on to brazil mbulelo who bit it like beckham from inside the box. Not sure what envelope was listening for with no fans but blockbuster cheered him on for the early lead in his 7th goal of the Campaign Things didnt improve for cologne after the break central defender mir a attempted to clear the ball but instead fired it right past his own goal keeper to mohun doubling the lead for glove box. 10 minutes later cologne did manage to pull one back after yon summer had his own blunder the bad pass found mark who didnt waste the gift weaving through traffic in scoring colognes only goal of the match. Though held on to the lead and got the 21 victory moving up to 4th in the standings. Amid the coronavirus lockdown the olympic flame for the 2020 tokyo games was lit in a limpia the ancient home of the Olympic Games spectators were banned from the ceremony as an actress dressed as an ancient greek High Priestess lift the flame using the rays of the sun the flame will travel around greece on a weeklong relay before being handed over to the tokyo organizers next week and so far organizers and the International Olympic committee have insisted that the games will go ahead as planned. Coming up next on news asia indias government announces new travel restrictions asked coronavirus fears that gripped the nation. And the harsh and dangerous life of afghan Asylum Seekers supported from germany back to afghanistan. Heres bernard yes those stories and more coming right up on d. W. News asia for all of us here in berlin thank you for watching. To. Be. A Daring Mission on the high seas. 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