Coronavirus theres growing criticism over a lack of personal protective equipment. Donald trump countys likely president ial rival joe biden tried to score political points by took on china critics want the strategy could backfire. And feel good welcome to the program so could the coronavirus pandemic be a chance to save the planet from Climate Change well thats a question ministers from about 30 countries have been debating and an online summit in germany and britain hosting this years round of the petersburg climate dialogue german chancellor Angela Merkel said climate protection has to be considered as part of the economic stimulus packages that governments are launching to help industries recover from the pandemic here is the challenge that the chancellor with apology. For the poor picture quality. Look at an issue really good at times the discussion about distribution firms will be extremely difficult when we look at the damage the corona pandemic has done to our National Budgets it will be all the more important to firmly consider climate protection when we agree stimulus packages we must ensure that were not saving money on Climate Change right now but invest in in future oriented technologies and we must not think nationally but continue to put our International Commitments 1st because thats essential for achieving global success in climate protection. If in future the w. s chief Political Correspondent melinda crane welcome belinda what has prompted this renewed push for climate protection. Well you know were often hearing churchill cited these days never waste a good crisis which basically tells us that this is the moment for a restart government and multilateral organizations such as the European Union the world bank i. M. F. And others are getting ready to commit trillions of euros to economic recovery and how they do that the form this takes will set the path for the economy for decades to come economists call it Path Dependence we commit to particular types of infrastructure or particular pricing schemes and businesses depend on that and set their Business Models on that and basically then get locked into that pathway for some time to come so right now we have the opportunity to take a Green Recovery path that will ensure that transport systems that Energy Systems become truly sustainable and benefit people as a whole rather than narrow groups of shareholders and essentially if we dont take that path we are going to face in another crisis the Climate Crisis as it gathers steam that will put the dislocation and the misery be seen in the corona crisis that it will pale by comparison so it sounds like policymakers are on the same page on this issue do they have broader support. They do in fact we have seen 68 of germanys Biggest Companies ranging from insurers who are sort of the usual suspects when it comes to climate appeals but also Steel CompaniesChemical Companies that depend on a lot of energy all of them calling for putting a truly ambitious Climate Policy at the very center of Recovery Efforts now why is business getting on board with this precisely for the reason that what policymakers do now will send signals to business and basically they are telling us we have just seen the toll that a crisis takes we dont want to go through another one any time soon we need clear and reliable signals for investment and that was spelled out by the c. E. O. Of to since deal when he said basically they are looking at committing enormous amounts of funds to recovery but they need to know that when they get on a certain path it is the right path to be on. Chief Political Correspondent belinda crane thank you. For just been hearing Companies NameHome Industries have been brought to their knees by a pandemic lockdowns it seems likely then that any state aid offered to help them get up and running after coronavirus is likely to come with climate conditions attached many businesses here in germany support that idea. The Worlds Largest comic is gradually resuming production at its european facilities the coronavirus pandemic has cost folks billions and executives arent optimistic about the future. Is that you should see if youre concerned that a car is not foremost on the minds of our potential customers right now. So we welcome efforts by the government to create some incentives for consumers. To put a lot of this is the government assistance for vehicle purchases didnt politicians want to phase out the Combustion Engine and wouldnt it be a good time to transition to a more eco friendly economy when company coffers are empty. On monday a Broad Spectrum of nearly 70 German Companies called for increased efforts to link stimulus programs with climate protection and they were not only those that would benefit from ambitious climate protection policies like Insurance Companies also traditional Industrial Enterprises like to sing cope and bya they hope the european economy will see a push for modernization that could include a massive expansion of Renewable Energy or more investment in charging stations full electric vehicles. Well lets get more on this from rob watch from v. W. Business so welcome rob so do we expect companies to change their Environmental Policies and practices as a result of this crisis well its a nice idea isnt it that they would voluntarily do that i mean quality across europe for example is the best that its been for a very very long time when those reasons is because people arent on the roads as much and weve seen that companies have been able to continue operating for example by having people work from home and thats me keeping people off the road so it would be nice to think that maybe some of those practices that have been good for the environment could remain beyond this pandemic but it seems more likely that any change in behavior is not going to be voluntary but actually by necessity so far were sort of it at the moment lets say were in the the rescue phase where companies are getting loans and grants just to save them in the immediate short term those are coming without Strings Attached theyre not having to meet certain ecological criteria to get those but in the long term we dont know if thats going to change and it may well be that companies are told that if they do want state help they need to be green and is there any chance that any of the measures being considered to help companies at the moment are actually harmful to the environment or we do have this conflict i suppose between the short term rescuing of companies am longer. Climate goes and those 2 things dont necessarily always come together well for example. Germanys cost sector very powerful is pushing very hard for a premium to be put in place on the sales of cars so that they can stimulate demand now that wouldnt just be on electric cars that would be also be on internal combustion cars so the government would have to consider well do we want to rescue extremely important but put more internal Combustion Engines on the road directly in conflict with our longer term emissions goals and thats exactly the sort of thing that might happen so its complicated in the longer term the us economy is a rebuild is the environment going to be a greater consideration well weve heard from this pittsburgh climate dialogue talk of actually the goals for your of being made more ambitious not less ambitious in terms of the environment this is an opportunity for countries to create arguably green economies and to rebuild in a way that is more environmentally friendly in the way they can do that is in the longer term rescue recovery phase that they focus their aid on industries that are green that do do more for the environment or for example that work with making buildings more environmentally friendly also suspect is this is an opportunity for governments to shift the money in the directions where they would like to see their economies go robotron the aid of business thank you for. Fno take a look at some the other stories making headlines around the world the search for a covered 19 vaccine has received another boost scientists at Oxford University say they have successfully kept the monkeys infection free for 4 weeks the team is now involved 6000 people for human trials hope to have millions of doses available by september. Protesters in the northern lebanese city of tripoli have left have set fire to several banks after a demonstrator was killed by police the countrys in the grip of a spiraling economic crisis after a slight low due to coronavirus lockdown measures antigovernment protests once again gain momentum. By these figures from germany show the number of new infections is increasing by Disease Control experts say the reproduction rate has risen to one meaning that people with the virus are passing it to one other person new data comes as germany begins to ease lock down restrictions. Britain has held a minute silence to pay tribute to frontline workers who died after contracting covered 19. 00. The u. K. Government has announced that it will compensate the families of Health Workers and social care staff and die fighting the outbreak with payments of almost 70000. 00 euros critics of the governments Pandemic Response say the disease has highlighted a crisis in the countrys National Health system. That went on and on sleeve gown that protects him from coronavirus doctor assays munaf almost feels guilty every time he puts one on hes an emergency doctor so he doesnt have access to past not protective equipment or people. That supplies across the u. K. Are very limited there simply arent enough gowns for every doctor i want to go to take it its a. Conscious effort to. Call what box supplies getting less and less and less so thats every time. We just about it you know we are in a high risk are 3 quarters of all u. K. Doctors say they dont have access to protective clothing mises and masks are also in short supply some doctors are having to buy their own at p 3 masks from d. I. Y. Stores and from building that fence. And also having to do things like make their own aprons out of rubbish bin bags to track protect their closing well staging these high risk to see just over 100 medical staff doctors as well as nurses have already died from the virus on social media videos like this abbey instead hospital workers paying their last respects to a continent even before the crisis the u. K. Was short of over 40000 nurses staff are now under enormous pressure even very experienced nurses and pushed and we have a lot of newly qualified staff who only been in the job 6 months or one year and theyve really been pushed pushed to 2 to breaking point we are and. Already underfunded we need more doctors and nurses to work in the n. H. S. Even in normal times so at the moment we are above and beyond what we ever thought that we could be intensive and working and were trying our best that we do need more starker we need more quick meant and that is a result of underfunding of the last decade and patients are suffering to. Hospitals are having to ration supplies like oxygen or dialysis food for patients with kidney failure. Up to mono describe situations where older patients that might offend if you didnt from intensive care has been denied treatment whereas if you want to go people over 65 you would soon get your basic mentality but now if you scratch your sort straight jacket so the trust of anybody looks up to you but people look there if you find i think you should which i deemed its a test of character but the i. C. U. People project a lot but it worked for crushing britains National Health service is facing its biggest emergency since its founding. Wellspring in data because bond and charter pops in the london welcome shotor lets start with todays National Science tell us more about that. Well it was really quite an emotional moment i was at the Grocery Store and everybody stopped what they were doing for a minute to show respect to those Health Care Workers that have died at the front line already weve nearly 100. 00 but it was really the whole country standing still buses and tubes even not only thinking of those Health Care Workers that us to criticizing their lives at the front lines every day but all of these other workers as well the bus drivers that have died here in london several dozens of drivers and so with the death toll standing over 20000 only at the hospitals at the moment in the u. K. Nearly Everybody Knows somebody who is somehow affected by covert and it was really a moment for the country to come together. A stroke about that death toll. Free health care of the point of contact yet it still has one of the worst infection and in death writes from kofi 19 in europe whys that. Well you mentioned Free Health Care that is the great thing about the britishness National House system Free Health Care fall but the negative side to that is that the Health Care Service has been underfunded for decades really underfunded by conservative austerity politics and so the n. H. S. Was at a very bad starting point to have has less beds doctors and nurses compared to many of its european neighbors and it was not quickly and ramped up and that is also the fold of the government that has reacted very slow to this crisis Boris Johnson and the beginning of this pandemic shaking hands and bragging about it with their covert patients not attending crisis meetings as we know now on this pandemic and imposing the lockdown rather late when the infections had already spread and so it was somehow like of the perfect storm sometimes covering this year in the United KingdomHealthcare System that was already at its limits before the penn demick a government that reacted too slow and then a Prime Minister who fell victim to the virus himself and was incapacitated for several weeks of course now recovered back at downing street im not a Boris Johnson is back what a fact house is written on hot. Well its extremely important that hes back and that you showing some leadership there was the government was in some kind of void of paralysis during his absence you can say in the several weeks that he was gone and now that he is back the hope is that he will ramp up testing mass testing and tracking and that that might be a way for the United Kingdom to calm down in the next weeks or so thank you thats. In luck. In his latest salvo ok to china donald trump said that beijing could have stopped the coverage 19 outbreak before it spread across the world theres little evidence to back his claim the Election Year the president hes likely democratic rival joe biden believe a tough stance against spanking work to their political advantage and now theyre trading blows over it and w. s alex hunter reports from washington he failed to work so no trump in using an adequate used by joe bidens comes pain slamming President Trump for his handling of the trump priest is 15 times in january february as the Coronavirus Spread across the top and the trump come pain has its own portraying joe biden as too cozy with china by. A 1000000000. 00 deal with a subsidiary of the bank of china. Is going to. Theyre not bad folks in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic china has become a central compay an issue in the u. S. President and his likely challenger joe biden battle over who is tougher on that coming as. There seems to be bipartisan agreement that bashing china and projecting a strong man image has political benefit. For the nonce trump blaming china for the spread of the virus just like from his own have only criticized response to the pandemic his reelection strategist seem to believe its maybe the best way to win a difficult election but is it. We catch up with Michael Steele a conservative commentator and former Republican Party official says that you know all the hiring and noise about china now is to make up for what he said about china when this whole soon began or worse you were. Since you were. Leading up the steps and actually the big thing in rwanda. So i dont think thats one of the benefits you know there are coming back and saying oh sorry youre a bad boy from strategy may even backfire his flattery of president xi of china his initial praise of chinas transparency during that pandemic the biotin come pain can turn that against him by joe bidens own past china policy as Vice President and senator and his son hunter as business dealings with the country make him vulnerable to. Bashing china is almost a tradition in your ass president ial elections but this time its happening emmetts a dangerous pandemic rechecking aarons is executive director of the Asian Pacific american advocates she swore it about the impact the pen demick is already having an Asian Americans and as a result weve seen a huge increase in discrimination and harassment in americans within this country everything from verbal assaults. Being brains lashing Chemical Substances to outright physical violence even on young children. Read happen aaron says concerned that the political confrontation over china could lead to more harassment it is also likely to further deteriorate you ask china relationship whoever wins the election. Is take a look at some of the latest developments in the pandemic then portugal is ending its state of emergency imposed last month to contain the pandemic district lockdown will be lifted on the 3rd of may. Germanys retail associations preparing for a wave of bankruptcies with up 250000 businesses expected to fall because of the virus from the 1st of may well a lot of governors have up to 10 people 3 stations that east and spain and france outlining plans on how they will lift their 6 week lock downs. Now a new report says about 33000000 people were forced to flee their homes and find temporary shelter inside their own countries during 2019 internal Displacement Monitoring Center in geneva as people were displaced from extreme weather events natural disasters and conflicts most of them ended up in overcrowded camps where they continue to live now the pandemic means that more vulnerable than ever. Somalia is in the grip of a years long drought animals perish in plain sight the soil has dried up and long ago the fertile topsoil blew away there is little hope of farming. Some hungry and its not just me my whole family and my kids its affecting all of us here. The only chance for this tribe is to travel hundreds of kilometers to camps like more than 50000000 others around the world many displaced time and again with that in their home countries but far from their homes. Globally almost 25000000 displacements occurred in 2019 because of natural disasters add to that 8 and a half 1000000 displacements because of violent conflicts. And it is a conflict like the civil war in the democratic republic of congo that accounts for a vast majority of internally displaced people going back decades where do they go. Like this one long considered a safe haven but 20 twentieths Coronavirus Crisis is adding another layer of disruption and desperation. And Australia New Zealand have begun to relax their lockdowns after 4 weeks of stay at home destructions both countries have avoided high numbers of infections and deaths and you see that this week declared it had the voters under control still social distancing measures remain in place. Johnston and we are now its finally coffee time again new zealand took a 1st step towards normal life as the countrys businesses begin to resume their activities cafes and restaurants that sell takeaway food and drinks along with construction sites and beaches were allowed to reopen. New zealand was under a strict coronavirus lockdown since march 26th with most of the country shut down the measures seem to have contained the spread of the virus but our thirtys warrant that the country is still not out of the woods is an ongoing basis there is not one point in time that this mission in snow yes we have done that in lockdown the goal now is to keep up there so were now in the next phase of the battle and we are not done. In australia sydneys famous bondi beach reopened to swimmers and surfers after it was closed for 5 weeks people braved the cool autumn weather to dive in beach goers are allowed to swim and surf but not to sunbathe or linger the area has australias highest concentration of coronavirus cases last month police have to close the beach because people were congregating this regarding social distancing measures of thirtys hope that this time they will finally follow the rules. Organizers of the perspire and Tokyo Olympics say the event will be canceled if they if it doesnt take place next year the olympics will move to that july 2021 because of the corona virus pandemic now the president of tokyos organizing Committee Says another proposal will not be an option if the virus is still a threat next year scientists in japan have warned that it will be difficult to hold the games unless a vaccine is found. 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