Plus 75 years ago today world war 2 ended in europe with germanys Unconditional Surrender well look at how the country is marking the occasion under the shadow of the crown of my. Fellow and terry martin good to have you with us in france people have endured one of europes toughest lockdowns for nearly 2 months that will begin to change next week the number of coronavirus cases is rising less sharply in france than in previous days and some businesses will be allowed to reopen as another countrys authorities and friends are under pressure to get the economy moving again. Marianne in a mask frances look down with stricter than most now the government has presented its plan for a gradual lifting of frances social commercial and industrial quarantine. Weve entered a new states in our fight against a pandemic and its good news for france and the french people. Businesses are set to reopen on monday 42 percent of french employees are on reduced hours or if not work to tools since the 17th of march schools are to open gradually despite misgivings from some parents trains and Transit Services also restart on monday but only about half of the Rolling Stock is ready to operate. The government has promised to provide masks for everyone and carry out 700000 tests a week. But people are skeptical after 2 months of strict measures they believe that government has botched the response to the crisis. Should have started large scale testing immediately like in germany. Theres no clear course its all back and forth give it 3 years ago to the day it was bathing in the glory of his election victory now it seems much of that glory has faded. And heres a round up of some of the latest pandemic news from around the world more than 3800000 people have been infected with the coronavirus globally and nearly 270000 have died a new study by the World Health Organization projects that up to 190000. 00 people in africa could die coronavirus in the 1st year if the break is not contained u. N. Secretary general says the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed quote a tsunami of hate and xenophobia hes called for a global effort to end hate speech and australia has now a 3 step plan to ease coronavirus restrictions and reopen the economy the aim there is to remove all curbs by july. Germanys exports are down 7. 9 percent year on year for the month of march its the sharpest drop on record since nationwide Data Collection started in 1900 imports are down 4. 5 percent the sharpest decline in over a decade march is the 1st month to reflect the efforts the effects rather of the coronavirus pandemic and follows a record trade surplus in february. Well for more lets go to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange were con led bosun is standing by for that germanys exporters have posted their biggest monthly drop ever what does this mean for a country whose economy is so dependent on exports. Well terry it means that hundreds of thousands of workers in those industries are very very nervous right now for them the question is will the temporary relief programs by the German Government where the government pays part of their wages will this be enough to save their jobs or in other words is this just a short every and horrible slump with a nice rebound after whats always the slowdown in Business Activity in new orders for the factories will this last longer i talked to one economist this morning who said that he thinks that the current estimate that germanys economy this year will decline overall by 6. 5 percent is too optimistic and were likely to have to be revised downwards. Before the pandemic germanys an even trade balance with other countries had been widely criticized is that going to change now do you think. Well for the moment other things are on the minds of Decision Makers like donald trump the u. S. President who took this trade balance so when porton the numbers of course due to this lock down have been so totally disrupted that it would make no big sense to compare them but i have to say the situation is not get up but it Getting Better for the United States export numbers from the u. S. Which came out this week show plugs there as well a widening of the trade deficit and in china we got surprisingly strong export numbers this week the country has exported so much medical care you know and to corona that china posted a surprising increase so the discussion about the trade balances is likely to come back with force after the corona crisis comes about booze and in frankfurt thank you so much. Well the current a bias crisis has also given rise to innovation with companies adapting to changing demands u. S. Firm hatch exhibits has gone from building trade show booze to protective equipment for Health Care Workers facing a dire shortage amid the coded 19 pandemic. The machine set has an exhibit a running again and creates mccormick is happy to have all these people back at work his company normally makes display its an exhibition booth for clients like you tube or google but all their projects got cancelled so now they are producing medical gallants and facial hair this is one of our e. P. B c head gear units has an integrated. Clamping mechanism for people to have a smaller head so its a one size fits most. Quickly inserted in the stalls as a keyhole registration. People. The company established just 5 years ago was hit hard by the crisis with losses running into millions of dollars Chris Mccormick tells me the idea of his production came to him when he was watching new york Governor Cuomo on t. V. Talking about the need for personal protective equipment the next day he was already working on prototypes of. Together with more of them for the last week she says has been a roller coaster ride. Its totally wild it feels like being in like. A factory that has been like a repurposed for making. Thats what. The founders of one distilling thought as well when regular order and whiskey started to dwindle they decided to pivot their production. We had to stop producing spirits at least for a little while and focus all our efforts on making answer. Its been quite a big change for the business but were. Grateful both that we can find a revenue stream from that but also. That were able to stay busy. Now there distillery produces 3. 1000 gallons of Hand Sanitizer a week mostly for 1st responders and housework course in washington d. C. Staying for the active and creative thats also whats important for christmas call me back at hatch exhibits he shows us his product so for the little guys when the dr is all done up in there their masks and all the p. P. Equipment versions where we print animals on them or characters in different faces so when they see it its not quite as scary as intimidating. We found out its not just kids that need that smile right now its pretty much everybody. Hope and purpose thats what weve got says chris mccall made as he reinvents his business model. For some women around the world means being trapped at home with a violent man so to 6 confirmed that levels of Domestic Abuse inflicted on women by men has increased during the credit crisis and our next report we look at the sterling case of one woman in lebanon and we meet the group determined tell perf. She simply wanted to live a happy life with their 4 children again without fear or pain. In mid april 1st 35 year old mother left her old life and fled to an Emergency Shelter for women here with the children shes trying to process the pain she experienced for more than 9 years she was mistreated and abused by her husband and her father in law. In the 1st few years he used to hit me in the face in the shoulder or stomp on my legs later he beat me with sticks and iron rods so badly that i had severe swelling and intense pain. So i developed problems with my bones and joints because he always hit me in the same places. In beirut sexual abuse within the family as a widespread problem and often a taboo topic. Now the situation has gotten dramatically worse due to the coronavirus epidemic lebanons government has introduced a nighttime curfew most shops and businesses are closed and people are expected to stay home via behind the facades there have been some terrible scenes of Domestic Abuse. As it got increasingly worse as he became more and more violent and he knew that i could not go to my parents because of the night the curfew everyone stays at home. Because at 19 pandemic came at a time when lebanon was experiencing its worst financial crisis in decades the currency is struggling unemployment is on the rise and wages have been cut in some cases up to 50 percent aid organizations say many men are bringing their frustration and anger at home with them and taking it out and they wives ability to say that most women who get in contact with us are victims of Domestic Violence the situation is getting worse because of the curfew and the canonic and social pressure especially because the perpetrators are all. I was at home now one. Day and there thats what the bottle going to say sion is stepping up its activities. Ben is throughout the city calling for an end to the violence and offering a hotline to get help its an attempt to encourage many woman to break from this silence. And its working the group is getting more and more calls so far this year there are already received twice as many calls as in 2019. The head of mobile the had just in the last month we had about 300 calls 240 new cases. The others had already made contact with us and more and more women want to come to our shelters said you to visit the way of. This brave woman is one of them shes refusing to take the abuse any longer and is now filing charges against her husband a clear signal in a time of crisis. Now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world a former staffer for accused democratic president ial 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 sic user tara reid said that she would swear under oath the 993. 00 assault took place. Spanish authorities have recovered almost 20000 historic artifacts and a major crackdown on arch traffickers officers arrested 100 people the pieces included some very rare objects from pretty colombian south america. More than 260 people have been killed during heavy rains in Eastern Africa with kenya somalia rwanda and uganda the worst hit nest made it all 11000 people have been affected by this years floods. And countries across europe are marking 75 years since the end of world war 2 may 8th 945. 00 known by many as be a day is when allied forces accepted germanys Unconditional Surrender in a conflict that cost 50000000 lives here in germany commemoration ceremonies have been scaled back through the coronavirus pandemic is a look back at some of the events leading up to this historic day 75 years ago. The allied landings in normandy began on the night of june the 5th 1944 the strategy was to trap the German Forces by opening up a 2nd front to the west for the allies there was a terrible price to pay. In january 945 the soviet red army liberated auschwitz concentration camp most of the prisoners had already been deported by the s s more than a 1000000 mostly jewish inmates were murdered in the camp. By february soviet troops wearing gaged in house to house fighting constrain on the river in poland was the bridgehead for the assault on lin. Early that month allied commanders met in doubt so on the Crimean Peninsula stallin roosevelt and churchill sat down to decide how germany would be carved up and the future shape of europe. In mid february british and american bombers dropped 4000 tons. Of munitions on the german city of dresden setting off a hugely destructive fire storm which killed 25000. 00 people. By mid march the british and americans occupied the whole of the west bank of the rhine. German attempts to destroy the bridge it re modern on the east bank would doomed to failure. Us and Red Army Troops converged in late april it took out on the river elbe or symbolic handshake showed the world that germanys eastern and western fronts were broken the end of the 2nd world war was approaching. Both ends of the 30th of april 1905 was a historic day that all fittler committed suicide in his bunker in berlin his body cremated in the garden the bloody battle for berlin was entering its final stage. Late that evening soviet troops stormed the German Parliament and raised the red flag a symbolic gesture which brought the soviet unions terrible sacrifices to an end. A week later on may the 8th came germanys Unconditional Surrender the 2nd world war was over europe liberated from the yoke of fascism. For more joy. A history professor preuniversity professor thank you for joining us now 75 years after after the thank you after the defeat of nazi germany is the significance of the 2nd world war beginning to fade from public consciousness. I dont think so because i mean it was. A. Very important event in european and World History the. 145. Lead to new memories it had a as ever Lasting Impact on politics you can understand present day politics without knowing anything about the 8th of may 9045 so it has been a major up to date and continues to be a major turning point which as i mentioned has had a last thing impact on history as well as memories experiences and politics. Germany now has a poor right party in parliament the a. F. D. Its leaders express ambivalence about nazi germanys defeat in the war with one recently lamenting quote the loss of huge parts of germany and the loss of the possibility to shape its future what do you make of that. Well i think we have to keep in mind that the story started on the 13th of january 9033. With the nazi seizure of power which was not actually a seizure of power because the conservatives invested the office with power so the beginning of the story is the thirtys all virgin united 33. 00 and all of course the atrocities committed by the mossies in the years between 9033 and 94 he fought. So you can understand the end of the of the 2nd would rule without acknowledging. That nazi germanys and many germans had been implicated in this dictatorship and had committed to be a crimes especially in the take it would war in particular in the east. That these views that would save relativize the the atrocities committed by the nazis and 2nd world war are now part of german public debate represented in in German Parliament do you see that as a problem. I think it is it can be a problem. Didnt get you usually get your question a bit. I think it has a problem because there is no need to relativize. This parsed because i mean selfcriticism there are certain of course pride in ones nation doesnt it does not exclude each of them so i think we are well advised to keep sort of critical perspective on this period of time. Even though it was only your words on eat 12 years but you were important 12 years which as i mentioned have had a Lasting Impact on our present day lives so i think its its recommendable to keep the. 12 years the nazi period in mind and take the lessons commemorations are being scaled back today because of the coronavirus pandemic what does that mean for this very important anniversary. I think its a bit sad because i mean this would have been the last season for many of the contemporaries for many of the victims in particular the eyewitness. To relate their stories. Stories to younger generation. It will be different dr hughes times in 10 years time in 25 years. So its sad but what can you do with. A history professor at Berlins Free University thank you very much for talking with us professor. Now simon gone off ski only managed to escape the auschwitz concentration camp by sheer luck belgian resistance fighters stall the deportation train him that he and his mother were riding at 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 19. 20 because it makes me happy to bring a bit of happiness and hope to the people and to cheer them up. On chernoffs he 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. You know 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 families the gestapo it took me and threw me in prison measure the thank gosh to the nazis put kornacki and his mother on a deportation train more than 1500 people crammed in cattle cars destination ill shits concentration camp. But he was lucky 3 belgian resistance fighters stopped the train his mother told him to flee and he ran into the night she didnt jump because she didnt want to threaten his escape he says. Every night i dreamt i was being chased by the gestapo. 2 or 3 times i changed families for security reasons. Whenever i arrived somewhere i went to the attic 1st to see how i could escape over the roofs if they came to get me we were the victims here she after the war returned to brussels and make good on his dream of studying law. But at 23 i was a doctor of law and a lawyer im still a lawyer today because im far too young to stop i do. Not ski says he has been confined twice in his life once during the war and now due to cope at 19 very different experiences but it was always jazz music that helped him to cope. And you find more about the crowded virus and the end of the 2nd world war on our website at state dot com now next weekend will mark the restart of the german professional soccer season its a controversial step but its league it is the 1st Major Sports League to resume play during the Global Pandemic professional athletes and sports franchises around the world will be watching closely. The German Football League has been plotting its or church to the pitch with assistance from doctors and politicians for months now the but his league is in pole position to show the rest of the world how german football strategy worked to get the green light from the state. 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Native restart date but they are making strides to have one surely theyll be taking notes from the blueprint germany has laid out. Youre watching news coming to you from there forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website thats dot com and follow us on twitter and instagram. As im terry mark thanks for watching. The for. The. Sound in time saying what are a drain on Natural Resources the tars made of african and many. Tourists cross the region to try. The american guitar builder is taking responsibility. Financing 70 reforestation income of. Eco africa. Next on t. W. He spent his whole working lives toiling in a minus 13 hours 45 year old and from us. Just overheard me just give the order in order to marry you know here in kentucky one miner after another transplant along using. Your same or cases their way or have been in an instance. Leaving the victims to fend for themselves global 3000. And 60 minutes on d w. 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