Layoffs continues 22000000 in 4 weeks wiping out every job created in the last decade which take you live to new york city for the latest and arts gets a quarantine make over a russian Facebook Group is recruiting pets partners and household props to reimagine some classics on cant use. Our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome to day europe apologized to italy the European UnionCommission President. Today admitted that europe was unprepared when the coronavirus tend to hit and that it failed to help when italy became the epicenter of the outbreak with more than 22000 coronavirus deaths italy is europes hardest hit country European Countries were slow to send medical aid to italy and some even banned the export of vital medical supply. Addressing the European Parliament in brussels today ursula from the lyon apologized to italy and said that europe has now come together like never before to overcome this band of yes it is true that no one was really ready for this. Its also true that too many were not there on time when italy needed a helping hand at the very beginning and yes for that it is right that europe as a whole offers a heartfelt apology but saying sorry only counts for something if it changes behavior and the truth is true that it did not take long before everyone realized that we must protect each other to protect ourselves and the truth is that europe has now become the worlds beating heart of solidarity there was or so for the lion speaking there earlier we spoke with correspondent Richard Walker in brussels and asked if this apology is an admission from the Commission President that the European Union failed italy. I think there are really 2 levels to this 2 aspects of this is as you were just mentioning earlier there was the one aspect of individual countries kind of going it alone in the early stages of the crisis shutting down borders in uncoordinated ways not helping out with that crucial equipment that italy really needed in the early days of the pandemic when it wasnt ready for what was hitting it in northern italy there that on the one side but also on the other side as a whole the system not recognizing just what a danger this pandemic would be so i think all of that is equally important was love on the lines message here but it is something that she has hammered home a few times over the last few weeks but i think shes now beginning to look for the future because one of the Biggest Challenges to European Solidarity is coming up how are they going to find the money for a huge economic sort of reconstruction plan a Marshall Plan even that theyre calling it to pull the european economy out of the crisis once the outbreak is finally beginning to ever way and italy will be right at the center of that as well because it isnt just have a problem with the virus it also has a problem with a huge amount of debt so getting it on board in negotiations or how to fund that recovery is going to be really important i think was a lot of wonderland will be quite happy that luigi pretty myo the Italian Foreign minister has welcomed these words from today. So that was Richard Walker there reporting from brussels no change in the u. K. Britain will keep its current coronavirus lockdown measures in place for another 3 weeks foreign secretary dominic robb has warned that lifting the lockdowns too early would be a risk to Public Health and the economy by allowing the virus to spread today rob said that relaxing physical distancing measures would reverse the gains that have been made the lock down will therefore stay in place until the death rate falls and that more testing becomes available. And robert lay down the governments plan to keep efforts focused on stopping the spread of the virus we must be confident that any adjustments to the current measures will not risk a 2nd peak infections that overwhelm the n. H. S. The would thing that we could do right now is to ease up to say allow a 2nd peak of the virus to hit the n. H. S. And hit the british people it would be the worst outcome not just the Public Health but for the economy and for our country as a whole. There was the security in the u. K. Shes been following the story. Heres her take on this latest extension of. The governments emphasis on at least 3 weeks because the governments conclusion is that the crisis is definitely far from over secretary foreign secretary. Saying very simple message stay home safe lifes and they are apparently behind the scenes talking about exit strategies but at this point it would be because the Biggest Issue here in the u. K. Remains testing only about 20000. Severe cases in the. Line. At this point so the government has no idea how virus has really spread in the community at this point. Theyre reporting from london. Has put the spotlight on societys many. Health workers supermarket years the guy who delivers your pizza and thats why. Political leaders here are underscoring one message in particular that solidarity important than ever. An unusual gesture of appreciation. Bush greetings mr president. This video shows german president frank call to steinmeyer making phone calls to citizens who are working tirelessly during the Coronavirus Crisis the heroes of everyday life these are the people who keep germany going despite the lockdown the calls by the president s office i meant to show solidarity with those on the front line trash collectors nurses caretakers doctors emergency workers. Can do a little bit to ensure that recognition is given to you and your colleagues once normality has returned. Thats why im calling. Such a different bush a trash collector from berlin says hes enjoying a level of appreciation hes never experienced before. You know. Solidarity is the most important thing there is the importance of solidarity expression during the quran a pandemic is also underlined by the German Foreign minister and a Video Conference with dozens of his colleagues heikal must have a clear message of cohesion. We know this kind of letting the virus is an International Task and that no country alone will be able to defeat this virus this view was too busy. Ma said germany is backing the World Health Organization and the fight against coronavirus and criticize Donald Trumps decision to stop u. S. Payments to the w. H. O. The. Way it should work and remains the backbone of our fight against the pandemic if you will hope so it makes no sense at this time to call into question the competence or the importance of the w. H. O. This is the worst possible moment to do that to undermine it would be similar to throwing the pilot out of a plane why. Eyelets and near it would be completely irresponsible imaged. Even as germany is slowly preparing to ease corona restrictions the Global Pandemic is far from over. As Scientists Say it takes between 5 and 10 years on average to develop a safe and effective vaccine for buyers and scientists around the world trying to come up with one for 19 in a fraction of that time but they are cautioning success is likely to be more than a year away heres a look at the work thats being done at the University Hospital in reagans book here in germany. This bad contains a possible cure for 19 its past donated by a person who was infected with the coronavirus but has now recovered this means he also has the antibodies produced by the body to fight the virus during the antibodies that the patients full attack and destroy the virus thats why thats the only possible specific treatment for the virus that we have the media in the hunger problem. The doctors at the University Hospital in reagans book have been working with these plasma dietitians for 10 days hundreds of people who have recovered to fall into it they take up to 5 donations per day. The samples i checked with an Antibody Test developed especially for igniting. To me im very optimistic and we have found donors who have substantial amounts of neutralizing antibodies in their blood and weve already injected this into the 1st patients here and reagans book on something spoke about target more than 40 patients have been treated with the antibody plasma since last week overcritical most serious cases so far no side effects have been upset americans book but they have recorded the 1st successes the parameters or signs of the infection improve after a few days. The theory puny 13 is one of the parameters that falls relatively quickly and if the patients still have a viral load so still have the virus in them then we can see that bio loot decreases disappears completely its for the push when this means people who have now recovered from the virus can help those who are sick and possibly also save lives. Heres a quick round of other coronavirus developments around the world the number of infections worldwide has now topped 2100000 the majority of cases are here in europe more than a quarter of them are in the United States brazils president joe youre also narrow has fired his Health Minister over disagreements on policy to manage the pandemic is the only major world leader still opposing lockdown restrictions and japan has declared a nationwide state of emergency building on early measures to slow the outbreak it gives governors increased authority to urge people to stay home and businesses to close and the german state above area has announced that the annual october fest beer festival is unlikely to go ahead this year. Leaders from the g. 7 nations met today in a Video Conference call to discuss a coordinated response to the pandemic french president emanuel joined the talks from paris after the meeting was convened by u. S. President donald drubbed there were mixed messages from the discussion a statement from the European Union says the talks focused on the progress made fighting code 19 but donald trump claims he was able to get g 7 leaders to agree to a thorough review and reform of the World Health Organization. That is what the Trump White House said as find out more now from our correspondent in washington alexander phenomenons good evening to you alexandra that was quite an extraordinary statement to come out of the Trump White House is it the total truth. Well according to this statement all leaders of the g 7 agreed that there is a need for reforms and the white house continues to say that much of the conversation during this g 7 conference was focused on the lack of transparency transparency and running mismanagement of the pandemic by the w. H. O. However we have to say its not quite clear right now how widespread this criticism was because we know that not all the 7 leaders have been so critical of the organization and we go to quite a different statement from the German Government and governments to spokesperson for the german chancellor said that the chancellor expressed her support for the agency stressing that such organizations are very important to come but at the pandemic and they also have to set that to set to say that having covered president s from for 3 years now its not very unusual to get statement from the white house that is quite different than statements issued by other participants of such meetings or phone calls its a valuable observation true but still shocking we know that the u. S. President he has spent the past week criticizing the World Health Organization remind us of example what is his beast with the w. H. O. Well you know that he is very skeptical of International Organisations in general because he doesnt think that they advance his america 1st poll to see he just sees them as a waste of money and in this particular case he is accusing the w. H. O. All pushing chinese missing information out have been made to devastating to mistakes however we have to say of that city w h o x its much faster than Many National governments and it was President Trump he was who was praising china for his handling of this pandemic only a few weeks ago so many critics say that by you know accusing and criticizing the show hes just trying to find a scapegoat to deflect from the criticism he is handling for his he is facing for his handling of this crisis all right to our washington correspondent alex on the phenomena of the stories were still nights alexandra thank you. Well later today president drum plans to unveil new guidelines on reviving the u. S. Economy with the number of americans filing for unemployment at the highest level in u. S. History and within the what should in the remember the president wants the economy back on track but many say he is risking jobs or wides rather before. Another sign that the u. S. Economy is suffering the number of americans out of work continues to climb reaching a total of 22000000. 00 over the last month one of the highest numbers on record the restrictions in place to stop the spread of the pandemic are crippling the economy with most businesses shut and livelihoods at risk citing improvements in the fight against the virus President Donald Trump is preparing to unveil a plan to reopen u. S. Businesses in the hope to jumpstart a recovery. The data suggests that they should what we have passed the peak or new cases hopefully that will continue and we will continue to make great progress these encouraging developments have put a sort of very strong position to finalize guidelines for states on reopening the country which will be announcing work but in new york state the epicenter of the pandemic in the us the time to look ahead at a reopening is not yet in sight with over 11000 reported that its a new cases still emerging Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to see a significant drop in infection rates before thinking of easing the lockdown shops businesses and schools will remain closed until may 15th and citizens will be required to wear masks in Public Transit all this in the hope of seeing a clear success in the effort to halt the spread of coronavirus our. Correspondents in new york. Yes weve got 22000000 people out of work in the u. S. Now all the jobs created in the past decade have been wiped out how was the u. S. Closing with. Thats clearly a knob in numbers and we even hear from some economists that maybe up to 4x5w5xw americans those who is theoretically their jobs are clearly we do not know if that is really going to happen but i did talk to some people who actually try to file for those unemployment claims and they told me that they were waiting for hours in line or even longer until all those people eventually gave up sold the numbers might be even higher than those 22000000. Unemployment claims that you just mentioned im standing here on broadway close to the financial district it as you can see there is nobody around usually thats rush hour time so new york clearly still is in lockdown and probably will remain so for a little longer. Where youre standing right there we understand that a 350000000000. 00 Small Business support fund has already run out of money its hard to believe has the u. S. Government vastly underestimated the extent of this crisis. Thats hard to tell and we shouldnt forget i mean were talking a lot of money here that is also necessary to help the people and get the economy going once the Health Crisis is under better control but this is those 350000000000. 00 is just part of a total of a 2 trillion dollars rescue package for the Federal Reserve is pumping more than 2. 00 trillion dollars into the economy and into corporations but its obvious that more money needs to go to especially those Small Business owners but right now there is what else a political fight in washington does next package here the u. S. President he wants to reopen the economy sooner rather than later what are the risks of making this move too soon. Well the main risk is that the virus might actually strike back that could even a verse in the situation and even leave that it might take even longer to restart at least parts of the economy what we will see is a state by state we will see those decisions here in new york it will clearly take longer than lets say for example in california to come back but what we hear from a lot of companies whats really needed at this point is testing testing testing and thats still not available but that would be one main task so to get those tests so that people feel comfortable to return to work ok. Joining us from downtown manhattan. Oh about 2 and a half 1000000 people live in cramped conditions in the slums of nairobi many children there rely on schools for their meals but those schools are now closed food banks are rare in kenya so some businesses in geos are now calling on the public for donations of money in food. Reports. With the arrival of the coronavirus in kenya a young group of volunteers set up an initiative to distribute food can so those who construct up together with Community Activists they now do reckon with runs in poorer neighborhoods around my robey and. We rely on donations from the public so we get donations and then we buy food in bulk. And repack them in smaller relief box which we called sanitation and food packs so in the packs theres like 2 kilos of fluff 500. 00 drums of beans red beans theres a 500 grams of sugar and there is so. The mother islam houses over 200000 people many here dont have Running Water sanitation entire families live in single room shocks and social distancing is a luxury they cant afford. Rachel mccully a Community Activist lives here and knows who needs the food most the elderly the sick and orphans are priorities you know even so everyone here feels the effects of the economic downturn. Most even family members yeah. They cant afford like now weve been doing that to her to that they cant afford. And then some of the employers. In the past 2 weeks a number of initiatives have come up online asking people to donate food or money to poor households the good thing is that people can donate money via their mobile phones from the safety of their home in case of a lockdown this might be the best way of reaching those in need. Government aid hasnt reached the people here not even the funds for the elderly and orphans rachel says that with the support of private initiatives they have helped 400 households. The volunteers know its only a drop in the ocean but at least its a start. President Vladimir Putin has postponed a massive military parade that was scheduled to mark the 75th anniversary of russias victory over nazi germany every year on the month of may russia commemorates the event with a massive show of military might but putin says this year its too risky during the pandemic he says the commemoration will take place later in the year the correspondent sure has. The fact that Vladimir Putin has postponed the victory day parade shows just how seriously off the already are now taking this pandemic this year is the 75th anniversary of the soviet victory over nazi germany which is known as the great victory here some political scientists have even gone so far as describing victory day as part of the russian official state ideology it has huge emotional significance for many people here because an estimated 26000000 soviet citizens were killed during world war 2 and it has also become an opportunity for russia to show off its significance on the world stage and to show off its military might with bombastic military parades that take place on red square right here behind me now according to reports the kremlin was initially considering carrying out the parade without viewers but theyve clearly decided that the risk of having 1515000 troops march on red square is simply too great as coronavirus cases across the country shoot up. And there was a reporting from brad square in moscow where with all the stay at home orders in effect around the world many people in isolation are discovering their creative side using all this extra time to produce and reproduce works of art heres a look at what one russian thinks book has been up to. Fly into a painting from the old bat. Sink into the tragedy of malays ophelia the thing greetings from your kitchen. From ed 5 monk to michelangelo social media uses a giving classics a quarantine make over. The russian Facebook Group is. Isolation started as a challenge between friends and moscow just a few weeks later it has nearly half a 1000000 members from all over the world. No one expected such a huge reaction paths for sure the group grew so quickly right away people are really taking time for this going through our books looking at the websites of International Museums to find the right picture for themselves and their families through. The roof of the group a simple use a classic like this Leonardo Da Vinci painting take the photo at home and use props that you happen to have lying around in quarantine photoshop is not allowed. To shoot just when i decided to take part in the r. T. I. Salacious project because im sick of my cat and shes sick of me. Over the prayer part of this project because it is uniquely wildly joyful and it gives everyone positive emotions it gives you a break from the difficult situation we are all. Used to say many of the recreate sions are a spontaneous thing but some people have been so in customs and getting the whole family involved. Including that perhaps. Now there are around 2000 new posts every day according to the page administrators each one is a glimpse into how self isolation can sometimes open up new doors or draws to creativity. Are from art in isolation to an artist in isolation banksy the identity of the worlds most mysterious street artist may be top secret but hes just given fans a rare glimpse into his private life hes revealed his latest work in walk to rants on the loose in his bathroom hosting the pictures on instagram he wrote my wife hates it when i work from home rents are a common theme in his work and are often portrayed calls being made him a bank she can fetch millions of dollars at auction. With or without the response. Youre watching d. W. News live from berlin after a short break ill be back to take you through the day tonight the spin of a president and the science of the chancellor stay with us. We know that this is a scary time for us the coronavirus is changing the world changing our lives so please take care of yourself keep your distance and wash your hands if you can stay at how were d. W. B. 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As the corona virus continues to kill there are more calls for politicians to listen to scientists to let science not politics guide Public Policy would more lives be saved if more politicians were also doctors chemists or biologists perhaps next monday germany will begin reopening its economy a decision with huge risks calculated with data and facts tonight