The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Anchor this is outside source on bews for viewers in the u. K. And around the world. We are covering the lest coronavirus cases in britain and globally. Germany has unveiled pls to open. Dprofessional football an restaurants have been given the green light to restart. Another grim milestone in the u. K. , the number of deaths has gone past 30,000. The Prime Minister has defending his handling but admits to some failings. There is an epidemic going on in car homes which is something i bitterly regret. Anchor President Trump says he will not disband the Coronavirus Task force, telling reporters he did not realize how popular it was. The granathers of h died. His band is credited with changing the sound of pop muc. Hello. ropes against economy is getting biggest economy is getting back to business. Germany has announced plans to get various sectors back up and running. Hairdressers and schools are open. It is one ofeval countries that has started using lockdowns using locked it started easing lockdowns. They have gone further than most. The rep ported te the rep death toll is lower than 7000e compared to k. , italy, france and spain. Angela merkel is navigating them out of it. Social distancing stays into june and face masks must be worn in shops and on public transport. Outbreaks are identified, new local regional lockdowns must be reimposed. We are now at a point er can sayve we have achthwhe aim of spreading dust slowing e spread of the virus the aim of slowing the spread of the virus. Citizens hav lived responsibly. They have committed to theio restri, thereby saving the lives of others. Anchor Angela Merkel speaking earlier. We have more from berlin. Reporter this country is in a good position. Avinfectionsbeen falling, that has put angel merkel under pressure from the leaders of 16r local economies. At the meeting they agreed they can open shops, restaurants, hotels, albeit with strict social distancing measures and germanysl professiootball league can resume matches, although ty must be held behind closed doors. Peopleant go out and meet up with whoever they would like. They have to wear face masks on puic transport andn sps and authorities will test and contact tce. Angela merkel won a concession from the leaders in the form of an emergency brake. What that means shouldfe ions rise above a prescribed limit, the local authorities will be required to immediately reimpose instructions reimpose restrictions. Da Angela Merkel said germany put the first phase of the pandemic behind it but warned a long battle lies ahead. Anchor jenny hill. Ross has been looking into rmany and other developments. What have you found . Reporter we will start by coue ohe this pandemic. The european commissioner came out with a warning that said is experiencing the wor economic shock since the Great Depression of the 1930s and the eventual outcome could bese w thhat. Every country is being mindfulug of theeconomic costs of this lockdown and they are mindful of a possible new ske in cases if restrictions ease toouickly. Lets hear from germanysmi economicster. When you have to switchm f liberalizing to shut down again two or three times, it would have disastrous consequences. Ross here is the bbcs reporter why germany will need longer than measures that have been it is expected to see Economic Activity to rebound quickly but the experts i speak to our quick to remind us the German Economy is a manufacturing econy. They are reliant on the rest of the world, china and the u. S. Germany needs a healthy chinese and u. S. Economy to rebound quickly. On the other side of the. E going, you have greece, spain and italy, where the Commission Said they will struggle to regain growth. Also the bigit on one of the most Important Industries going to take that into tourism. Italys Prime Minister has been soundinth positive abou possibility of people being able to take a summer holiday. About this. H only one thinking airbnb tells us there has been a jump in bookings from europeans andst europe as ation is important to the National Economies within it. We have shown france with 19 Million International tourist arrivals in 2018. Spain million. 2 8italy hhad 62ad million. Those three countries are the worst hit in the european union. Lets hear from every boland, rory boland. Chances of travel are qui low. Some countries where there has been a low number of infections, and are kind ofalking to each other about exchanging holiday rsma the baltics, lithuania and estonia, opening up each other so holiday makers can travel. We iave seenfurther afield with australia and new zealand. We looks it looks like it could travel in a near neighborhood with lowioumber of infe. If like me you are in the u. K. Or in the u. S. , we are a long way down the citizens people want to accept in. We will see a slow unlocking. There is, is is only justti st now. What we dont know is if there will be another flareup of the virus which will inducenoer lockdown. Were seeing the roots and possibilities of travel returning to normal at the moment. Ros i want to update you on the lockdown in spain. It is going to continue for two more weeks after parliament voted to eend the state of emergency. This is what we hea earlier. The decision to come to parliament for yet another extension of the state of emergency is based on science and those who vote against it, and the extension, are basing themselves on the worst possible politics, partisan politics. Ros different calculations being made. We are watching all Different Countries but everyone is working germany closely, r how it has managed to keep its lfataliti and how its infection rates react to the easing orestrictions. Kasia a lot of interest. Werybody will beching what happens next. Thank you for that. Ts turn to the United States where president ump has backtracked and says he will no longer disband the Coravirus Task force 20 hours after announcing he would be pointing it down. He told reporters whye had changed his mind. Had no idea how popular the task fce is until yesterday. I started talki about winding it down and i got calls from very respectedeople saying i find it would be better to keep it going. It is aed respeask force. I knew it myself. I did not know if it was appreciated by the public, but it is. Kasia the psident changing his mis. What with the mixed messages . Had the president gotten ahead of himself . Katie what he did not anticipate was the degree to which the disbanding would be met so negatively. Fas he sam his own associates, you can argue popularity should not be the guiding principle for whether you have a task force. It should be what stagey the coun in. It seemso the president has decided we still need it. We will have it looking forward and looking at the economy. The opinn polls show that the medical Health Officials, re than they trust the president , and i trust their own Health Officials they trust their the white house. Ls more than the reason it was disbanded was because the was not doing so well in the opinion polls during the long briefings. He felt it was not popular anymore and not serving a political purposenymore. Again. Going to open it things change on a dime here. Kasia when it comes to the task force, there were really big s na it, which have become popular throughout this crisis. Katty d fauci now a household name, dr. Birx as well. People wanted to hear from those Health Officials. If there are not going to be those daily briefings, sometimes two hours long, where trump did 70 of the talking, will we hear from those public ofcials, or will it be the treasury secretary or the commerce secretary . It is clear from those calls people want to hear from the health and officials. They will the Health Officials. President trump says he may more people, presumably more business and economics people, but the American Public want to hear from those Health Officials. If there are not thoseaily briefings, do they get to hear from them . Kasia thank you. My colleague live from walington. We wtay in the United States because the secretary of state mike pompeo has doued down his claim he believ the coronavirus originated from a wuhan laboratory. We dont have certainty and there is significant evidence is came from a laboratory. Those statements can be true. The Administration Officials have made them. Focus on the most important piece here. The most important piece is the american peoremain at risk. We dont know we dont have certainty about whether it began in a lab or somewhere else. There is an easy way to find out the answer,y. Transpare kasia he criticized the chinese governms handling of this pandemic thing the lack of transparency has cost lives. Here is our dtateartment correspondent. Here are other countries whod have critici the chinese thing they have not been ttranspar enough. The americans in particular have really hit china hard and relentlessly and consistency. Although there is concern abo chinas behavior and as long as there is a lack of transparency, mo people lives wille lost. The ctics believe the administration is trying to deflect attention from its own slow responses to the virus by hitting beijing so hard kasia on this issu stay with us on beijing so hard on this issue. Kasia fne has died at the age of 73. Will reflect on his life and music with a producer whod wor with him. Arly 60 of covid19 deaths are linked care homes in scotland. The number of people dying in the country has fallen. The Scottish Government must dede whether to continue for three weeks. It is too fragile still, but we are planning ways to gradually do so as soon as possible and more detail is set out in the paper published yesterday. The messe remains clear, stayathome except for esntial purposes. Dont f meet up with peopm other households. Sho in a and isolate complely if you are you or someone else in your house has symptoms. If we stick with itll longer, we see more progress and bring these restrictions can be used. Be eased. Anchor welchme. You areg outside source from the bbc. Germany has unveiled plans to open euros biggest economy. Restaurants, schools and professional football have been given the green light to restart as lockdown restrictions are lifted. In the u. K. The number of people who have died from coronavirus has passed 30,000. A further 649 people died in the u. K. In the last 24 hours per this brings the death toll to 30,076. This is the second largest in the world after the u. S. And the largest in europe. At todays briefing the director of public alth of england avoided urged people to avoid International Comparisons. Countries that measure in different ways, theyre mea the virus number of deaths in different ways. That is fine so long as that is consistent in eachountry. It makes International Comparisons difficulbecae we e not comparing like with like. It is worth stressing this because over time the right measures have been oerlined by a nuf experts including our chief medical officer which wod be chief excess mortality over all we would know tru how we have been impacted. Kasia a key part of containing coronavirus is testing for it. Boris johnson announced a new intarget of tecapacity for 200,000 by the end of may, but the government is struggling to hit its previous target of 100,000. Reporter a week ago 80,000 tests were provided and the next day that went above 100,000 a day. Since the weekend it has fallen below 70,000. It is this is the entrance to Fairfield Residential home. Reporter it is vital to get symptoms tested. At this home they have tried several times to order tests for those who are on will but have had very little response. I am frustrated when i hear the ministers telling us everybodyre in omes cant be tested. Onhe ground, it is a big stloal people cant do it. Kasia deaths from covid19 in england and wales have continued to wee to rise week on week. They pressed the Prime Minister on this in parliament. 12 weeks after the Health Crisis i have to ask, why hasnt the government goto grips with thislready . Actually, mr. Speaker, he is right to look at the crisis in care homes. He is right to say there is an epidem going on in care homes which iset sng i bitterly regret. We have been working t hardget it down. Kasia the Prime Minister from todays parliamentary question time. We were monitoring this. Testing care homes, these were concerns brought out early on in the outbreak. The governor government came under pressure on des performance on its performance in these areas. Ros i tnk i would put it more broadly. With the crisis when the crisis first erupted, as with every, there is some initial ershock i think people turn to the government and authority hoping for the politicians, people in the media being moref questioninge Government Strategy from the beginning until this point. That includes thisde mounting h toll in britains care homes with half a mlion elderly people, and the conant issuof providing protective equipment for anybody. Anchor dont go away because Boris Johnson has repeatedly described the u. K. Response to coronavirus as a success story. We have taken a moment to look at coverage the uks response in the international press. They have a different take on it. This is the sydney morning heraldes which descrhe uks plan as the biggest failure in a generation a asks where did britain go wrong. Says ther yorker it has been a curious mixture of superiority and fatalism about britains handlg of the pandemic which has been slow and calamitous. We heard early on, it has been hard to make like for like countries because measuring numbers, but with the u. K. Government facg so much criticism, can thecr internatiol icisms be avoided . Reporter it is a fascinating question. Until this point, british politicians and british people, and i daresay the media have they have been oblivious to the way the rest of the wld has seen the u. K. And has been questioning the way theha u. K handled things from the start. As i said a second ago, it is changing because the u. K. Is coming out of the initialwh shok phase people turn to the government in hope and difficult questions have been asked. Although it is true making International Conferences is dangerous, nobody disputes more people have died in the u. K. , or certainly a largeco numbeare and compared to other european countries. That marks the point at which the people will askgo the rnment more questions. The governments hll ratings had up rather well. People turn to authority at a crisis, but it is on the way down. And statements to the obvious, but what really matters now is what happens next. Kasia what happens next, we are expecting to find out detail on sund. Reporter yes. We got a hin from Boris Johnson the lockdown will be eased monday because that reason why he wanted to announce it on sunday and not monday. All of the other indications, nobody should think on monday everything will go back to normal. Kasia od really o talk to you. Our medical correspondent. Electronic music pioneer and cofounder of Kraftwerk Florian Schneider has died at the age of 73. Schneiders use ofynthesizers in the 1970s helped define the sound of pop and downs dance music in the decades that followed. Our oducer worked with florian in 2015 on a song, warning about plastic pollution in the sea. He joins us now. You knew, before working with florian, you knew him for a long time. What was heik very human he really liked good beer, good food, etc. , not only ectronic. He was not a robot. Anchor [laughter] not a robot. Kraftwerk made their fame on this robotic synthesizer sound. The robot pop set the template for everything coming after it. Did he realize how much impact he was making on the music world . I think so. At the time the synthesizer we w it was a discovery for everybody. Of course it was a big the firstardor me and my band. Krer music, we wanted to he same kind of music a sound using synthesizers. Kasia you have got to appreciate what an impact they made. They were the electronic beatles of their time. It is remarkable how they brought this new type of sound into the mainstream. Yes, because they used, it was a bit minimalist, but so efficient. They were so, the sounds were reallyed handcra nothing preprogrammed. The sounds were really made with analog synthesizers and everything was really handmade and new area kasia it has been handmade and new. Kasia it has been a pleasure to speak with you. Our producer florian. D with thanyou for joining us. Florian schneider has passed away, one of the inspiration figures within kraftwerk. Thank u for joining me on outsiderc soue. I will be back with our headlines. Yebye for now though. Narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. Raymond james. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. 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