There has this advice for the rest of the world. Prepared. Once you heard the predators they need to change their behavior their needs 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 sentenced weinstein had been convicted of rape and Sexual Assault in a case that gave momentum to the nature of the internet. Im sumi so much going to its 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 e. U. Commission says it was taken unilaterally and without consultation now the ban will last for 30 days but it excludes the u. K. And ireland and a few other countries outside the schengen a passport free travel area trumps that the European Union had failed to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the disease. Until now the u. S. President had made light of the corona cry says 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 to careful but theres no need to get desperate for i mean nothing 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. 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 alot from the lion and the e. U. Council president 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 they should have been consulted at the same time the w h o if the recommending drastic measures i mean is it time them that europe fall of 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 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 the efforts by the various Member States theyre all speaking with different voices and it just takes a lot of time to. 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 medical 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 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 machall 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 saw the czech Prime Minister we should say if the Czech Republic sure is a boarder 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 food stores and pharmacies and theyre hoping that the measures will eventually contain the disease and alleviate the pressure on hospitals the Health System in the north of italy is struggling to cut. Hospital beds and intensive care units at full capacity medical staff working around the clock especially in lumbered like at milans psycho hospital the mental 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 yet hes from fiji in the middle. Of the month. The toll on the economy is also growing all shops have been ordered to close with the exception of Supermarkets Food stores and pharmacies. At the economic level this is dramatic for us but we will make the necessary sacrifices. Still not see the government has responded with an emergency aid package to support health care and businesses bane of the. Well decided to allocate an additional 25000000000 euros to help the country cope with the difficulties of this ongoing emergency difficult to get basic stuff returned to work with some of. Its money heavily into government can hardly afford. And we can speak now to dr jack come on hes an anesthesiologist from the university of melanies coordinating the network of intensive care units in lombardy dr russell you 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. Yes to give you an idea i can give you just some very simple numbers but before this crisis we had you know longer to be around massimo 800 i. C. U. Bat for people. Is the start of the epidemic so in the last 20 days we have admitted to our i. C. U. Were total of more than 900. 00 people of these lets say 120. 00 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 of 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 stroke in on the if you hearts and to to free space to to to have new units dedicated we have created a network of specialized called the 19 a units in several hospitals so until now weve been able to cope with these incredible amount of patients in a very short limited period of time but you know a lot of the little rich and modern regions already want to. Reaches richest region in europe and still really struggling to to to deal with this incredible as it 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 no need to limit 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 the day to take a decision whether i see 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 index of treatments and if a patient cannot benefit because of a number of factors which is not only age of course but its age is more with chronic conditions and quality of life and so on if a patient 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 really difficult situation they are facing right now a lot of people are looking to italy and think with more than 10000 cases what is happened there i mean why has the virus spread so quickly there. Its very difficult to say. Apparently here in number of the pep in something similar to what happened in war and probably the virus was was was around for at least has been around for at least one of our recognized and then something happened like a super spread and that like started this fire which is very difficult to turn off and. Clearly were having a huge number of patients an increasing number of patients and whats different from a little was reported from china is that the number of patients in the i. C. U. Because there are you know work a Serious Police that 10 to 12 percent of the patients of the body deviation. Need i see what mission lets say less than 5 percent in the either trainees population 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 us your meds 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 say 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 done with simple behavioral measures so. You can increase your in your i. C. U. As much as you can but again if you are invested by this tsunami your i. Q. Back into a certain point will never be enough no matter how efficient modern set and product it really just just kind of quickly here 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 equipment for example. Reorganize or frightened think how to organize your i. C. U. Network but most importantly prepare the population tell them that once you have the initial threat that they need to change their behavior their need to reduce their social life i mean easier if everyone stays at home for 3 weeks this is going to have to because no one should be no new patients should be affected ok so i understand its relieving mediation of personal freedom but the other 2 are these is going to be a disaster all right well have to leave it there are doctors there come aggressively and see these are all ages joining us from the university of milan in lombardy thank you very much. And lets have a look now at 10 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 flights to and from several states chancellor Angela Merkel c. D. U. Party has postponed a special conference where is planning to elect a new leader and the 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. All right lets get you caught up now and some other stories from around the world in a series of Early Morning raids u. S. Authorities have arrested hundreds of people allegedly linked to the Mexican Drug Cartel the new generation again controls up to 2 thirds of the u. S. Illegal drug market authorities are hoping to capture its allege of leader one of the most wanted men in the u. S. Media reports here say germanys Domestic Intelligence agency is placing an extremist wing of the far right alternative for Germany Party under surveillance and that group is led by firebrand whos been accused of using rhetoric from germanys nazi past European Commission president was enough underlined has postponed a visit to greece because of the corona virus pandemic she was due to hold talks about the situation on the border with turkey where they have been clashes with police as thousands of migrants attempt to cross in to be. There but also been clashes at overcrowded migrant camps on greek islands now as many as 100. 00 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 capitals preparing for the young arrivals. Thousands of refugees among the many children are 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 with a 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 and we then have a staff of 150 here 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 berlin as we talk to are in favor of welcoming more refugees to their city. We were once refugees too we survived german reunification without any trouble so why shouldnt we be able to deal with this situation. If you try 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 which unrest. There will be protests parties such as the a f t right wing extremist and right. When populous 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. Of the mention 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 closer to a maximum term of 29 years that prosecutors wer