Suspected of torture go on trial here in germany campaigners hope it will be the 1st step towards justice for thousands of victims. Plus wheels of fortune we just covered how life has changed for cyclists here in berlin since the outbreak of the current us. Im so misconducts good to have you with us chancellor Angela Merkel says germans must continue to show discipline in the face of the corona virus pandemic in a speech to parliament she criticised the lifting of some lockdown restrictions as true hasty she fears she fears that the country might squander the gains that its made so far if people become complacent about physical distancing she also called for a bigger European Union budget to support recovery in the block. Across germany more people of censuring out a week after the 16 german states agreed to relax certain restrictions on movement some shops slowly reopening opiate with restrictions. Placed and now obligatory on public transport as well as in stores in some state but easing restrictions runs the risk of complacency addressing the bundestag on thursday german chancellor Angela Merkel warned that the 107th is far from over. Targeted and fully support the decision taken by both the federal and state governments on wednesday last week so im concerned about the implementation of those decisions since then to me it means ration cards. And it seems rash in part is not to say too rash. Let us not gamble away what has been achieved and rest. A new solidarity was also a key issue. European leaders which used to hold a video summit on thursday to discuss the blocks response to the Economic Impact while ruling out the idea of joint debt corona. Germany is ready to make significantly higher contributions to the e. U. Budget. Although not. Seen it were also successful in europe and heard me say in the accounts in the long run germany can only flourish if europe is also in good shape. Of. European solidarity in Health Policy in germany more than 200 patients from france italy and the netherlands are being cared for in germany intensive care units but with the true Economic Impact of colonel virus still unknown pressure is growing on europes economic powerhouse to loosen its purse strings. Well spring our chief Political Editor for more honey we had a chance or criticizing the easing our restrictions in germany what exactly are her concerns. Her concern is that the Small Victories that many have succeeded so far over the virus not to see its own Health Service stretched to the limits could now be lost if the easing of restrictions means that people feel too must at ease and that was her addressing particularly the state premiers here in germany where the one hand in all time was fadia we have a state premier wanting to see fast easing of restrictions apos to the return to normal and a very you have a much much tougher stance on that partly also because bavaria borders. And thats believed where a lot of the infections came from so shes has a cautioning the world at the same time saying that this is the moment for europe to stand together. While she also spoke about the Economic Impact and how best to get europe through the crisis what did she say on that front. Well she signal quite clearly that germany is willing to see a budget that i quote has to be different from the budgets before the e. U. Is currently discussing its long term budget so a lot more money beyond the 500000000000 already on the table will have to be closed all around but but her pointing towards the e. U. Budget again in this speech today means her way of saying no once again to socalled corona bombs that would see other e. U. Countries stay in stand in for National Debt particularly italy wanted to see those happen what we still havent learned from the German Government is how much money it would be willing to put on the table how much it would add to that you budget beyond what it has to anyway and we have seen is berlin move on issues that it has been particularly against in the past years and thats also e. U. Funding going into the prevention of unemployment across europe at the depths of this crisis there until america almost silently dropped her resistance to funds and also essentially german money going into compensation for short term work in other countries so theres a lot of movement there with merkel wanting to see a much closer europe but theres a big question marks whether that can actually be the case our chief Political Editor michelle occlusion for us thank you well the e. U. Had to state meet in a Video Conference today to negotiate a package to help economies recover and. Is in brussels for us hi garrick so how far apart are each Member States on how to issue debt to finance the accurate economic stimulus. Still lots of work here for your leader so lets not forget this all leads us back to an age old raul over mutual i stepped between the north and the south of europe but look speaking of trillions and billions here one also has to say that this is a lot about symbolism this is politics and this is about Interest Rates that still arent there we dont know where they will be at the moment italy and spain can still easily get money and to get good traits on the market so this is also a lot about politics on the other hand a lot of money is already if they have direct money half a 1000000000 yen half a trillion euros available its a complicated topic i tried to break it down for you in a report lets take a look. After the. Question of advance payment to companies in greece equity injection and direct grant on the normal circumstances these could all be examples of unfair competition in the e. U. But with europe state aid Group Spending for the 4th time in history theres a mountain of new money on offer. Europes collective farm is well above 3 trillion euros. Impressive response anywhere in the world. But we know we will need more. A lot more. Because some states are in a much better financial position to Fund National stimulus packages than others eurozone finance ministers have already agreed on the principle of a mutual e. U. Recovery fund the big problem by the nature of the new get instrument has yet to be decided by heads of government italy france and spain have so far been in favor of joint. E. U. Debt but germany the netherlands and others wrongly opposed the idea of socalled bond a compromise could lie behind these walls the e. U. Commission could borrow money and if you bomb against the security of the e. U. Budget Something Like a limited edition of mutual debt it isnt spending. And the german chancellor has already said shes willing to explore the idea. To address the pandemic and germany will participate in solidarity measures that could be only an issue rescue package and find 100000000000 euros. The question is what the Commission Says from low. Ground. Aric arrogant is a complicated issue something that e. U. Leaders will have to negotiate making it more complicated is the fact that theyre not going to be huddled in one room theyre going to be meeting the Video Conference how will this work logistically. Without a doubt it makes it more complicated and in fact finance ministers already showed that an all nighter summit a summit that dragged on for 16 hours is even possible just using a t. V. Screens and computer screens which often chance of going back and set off the one off to the last a digital summit if you want to call it that way that of course the bilateral meetings are more complicated you can just walk around the table and have a chat with your french counterpart but overall of course the same political topics are on the table the same pressure is there although this time around maybe a little less because the head of the European Council sean michel has already a scrap the idea of Council Conclusions i. E. All the consensus that has to be achieved a unanimous decision by leaders and so all we will have at the end of the day is a president ial statement by michelle who says what has been achieved and what has not been achieved during these cared much us reporting from brussels thank you very much lets take a look now at some other coronavirus news a Ratings Agency fitch says the world is on track for a recession of unprecedented depth in the postwar period it could be twice as severe as the recession of 2009 u. K. Researchers as Oxford University will begin trials of a potential kopek 1000 vaccine on volunteers the e. U. Says Russian Media continue to spread anti european misinformation related to the corona virus its being disseminated on Twitter Facebook and other social Media Outlets in china a citizen journalist missing for almost 2 months has reappeared he says he was detained by police and forcibly quarantined coronavirus lockdown measures have disrupted supply chains around the world not least in manufacturing powerhouses like bangladesh where close factories have left workers jobless and struggling to survive. Despite the lockdown thousands of seamstresses from the textile factories in dhaka have taken to the streets they are hungry and they are angry the government has instructed textile companies to keep paying wages to work has joined the closures but many factory owners wont comply. And it doesnt hurt somebody of course was scared of catching a virus a way of protesting anyway we have nothing our families are suffering were risking our lives here because were hungry and thats worse than the coronavirus of that in the whatever manner bangladesh has the 2nd largest textile industry in the world normally and bobby long gone once in dhaka the same streets as crowd together here at the beginning of their shifts but now only a handful of workers allowed in to maintain the building. Of nearly 20000 employees and now on forced to leave the textile industry in bangladesh earns more than 30000000000 euros in revenue a year and has helped the country emerge from the list of the worlds poorest nations. But the lock down isnt the only reason for the production halt. Customers dont stop placing orders soon were going to have a big problem if were not allowed to manufacture and deliver our wares thats another problem we paid our workers in march and well pay them in april 2 but we have to take out loans to do it. People are starving the government is distributing food but theres not enough to go around experts fear the coronavirus could set emerging countries back 20 years thats why the textile industry is appealing for help from the west. Look if youre going to business break the order in this situation so definitely we are them to reconsider this issue. And it would be on the roads. Industrial. Its the since she says who suffer most their wages often only amount to 100. 00 euros a month as long as thats not being paid them continue to protest despite the lockdown. Lets look now at some other stories making headlines around the World Reports suggest that boeing may be planning to layoff 10 percent of its Civil Aviation staff the news agency a. F. P. Says the cuts would affect up to 7000 employees that are working on the 737 max and the long haul 787 and 777 models boeing is restarting production of the aircraft following coronavirus shut down. Volkswagen as resume production in germany after more than a month of lockdown it reopened its factory in the eastern town of sicko with stricter hygiene measures in place dilate the maker of mercedes cars also resumed some german production this week. Concerns are growing for indigenous tribes in brazils Amazon Region hard hit by the corona virus the city of my now says digging mass graves to handle around 100 burials a day that is 3 times the normal number local officials are pleading for federal aid but charbel sonars government is playing down the threat. It is the 1st trial of its kind in the world 2 suspected Syrian Intelligence officers are set to face justice here in germany today theyre charged with crimes against humanity including torture and Sexual Assault prosecutors are using universal jurisdiction jurisdiction laws to try the 2 suspects here the defendants enter germany as Asylum Seekers along with thousands of a. There syrians did every reports now on one womans hope that the trial will bring justice for her son and viewers may find some scenes distressing. Mario lives in a berlin suburb it seems it to like but this syrian woman is part of a europe wide hunt to catch a criminal secret Service Agents from her country like many others merriam son i hum was systematically tortured the young medical student had spoken up for human rights and called for president bashar assad to step down now 8 years after his death his mother is seeking justice. I want the culprits to be brought to justice from the accomplices all the way up to assad these people are responsible for spilling our childrens blood that can be them. More than 26000 pictures of torture victims were smuggled out of the war torn syria by a courageous former Police Photographer his code name caesar the photos could help convict torturers and murderers. Human rights lawyer mas and doubt we survived torture in syria now living in germany hes pressing charges against his former tormentors including anwar as a former Senior Member of the Syrian Secret Service and more are is charged with crimes against humanity murder and rape. This is the 1st stone which will be a thought this is the 1st time there is a split the. Judge and we have picked a suspect and the size of the state of florida we dont have it in c. Of you. Bill wiley is investigating syrian tortures he used to hunt war criminals as a un prosecutor and worked on cases from the former yugoslavia and the wanton genocide he knows that without a peeper trail its difficult to bring culprits to justice. Thats why these state documents smuggled out of syria are so valuable. What you have in this room are materials generated by the Security Intelligence structures assure the military structures of syria and the party or political structures of syria at the top level and that the governor. Requests they also shed light on suspected torturers such as anwar are widely believed at least a dozen former senior agents remain undetected in europe. Hopes that not only the killers of her son will be brought to justice but also others living in hiding for her the hunt has just begun. For more on this story we can speak to the yen is a member of the German Parliament and terrorism Bundestag Committee on Legal Affairs and human rights mischance and good to have you with us here on the w. We said this is pretty unique to suspected Syrian Intelligence officers facing justice here in germany today so why did germany want to carry out these trials here. Well good afternoon it is pretty unique its a landmark trial and germany and its launch recognized universal jurisdiction such as crimes against humanity and. In our opinion in a year a european perspective it is important to bring justice to all these victims and i think we will see more trials like these in the upcoming years in the coming months because its important to cite and to battle impunity and germany is taking a part in with this trial magenta you said you hope that there will be more trials like these but we saw no reported this taken so much time to bring d. C. Cases to trial and it is very difficult to do so so is it really realistic to think that germany could carry out several more of these trials. Thats i think we will show the time will show that i think its important to closely monitor and follow the trial that started today in court then and i think it is a landmark trial also for other European Countries that have several trials that could be held you said and the report also said its very difficult to get a hand and get these materials but because of the refugee crisis to be exact we are now in a position that we actually can talk to witnesses that we can. Get these materials out of the country and witnesses but also suspects are now in a range where germany can do something because of the not so far mandated to the i. C. C. Keanu and level i think it is a start but it should not be the end. Are these trials really anything more than symbolic because you are trying to talk back on german soil but the regime behind these crimes is still in place. Here right i think it is. Not only symbolic because im very mad trial by this trial and hope it will come to an end and it is for the victims as they also tell me it is not about revenge but it is about the side of impunity and showing that people who committed these atrocities in syria will not be unpunished even though we are still fighting and thats very important because we are still fighting for an International Tribunal that is looking into and processing and prosecuting the atrocities by the assad regime. Marcie and some member of German Parliament joining us thank you very much. Breaking news from the sports world now bundesliga clubs and the German Football League have held a Virtual Meeting and they say they hope to officially restart the bu