That before says can operate freely in subsaharan africa. Hello im Christine Wonderwall come to the program the 7 german stage off the area has canceled the october face to be effaced of all because of the coronavirus the event attracts more than 6000000. 00 visitors every year and all 4 as he has feared allowing it to go ahead would lead to a spike in infections. No crowded party tents giant mugs of beer or packed out parades. Germanys biggest festival has been cancelled for the 1st time since world war 2. Large events are currently banned in germany until the end of august october 1st. Supposed to start on september 19th but Officials Say the risk of infection during the coronavirus pandemic is just too high 2 2. Which is painful for us its a great pity because with many things this is not a normal year and this is going to be a year without the 1st. About 6000000. 00 visitors flock to the october 1st every year crowding the Festival Grounds but also the host city munich the cancellation of the event is not only certain news for the city it also means big financial losses. Faced as a value of 1500000000 euros for munich and many people profit from it its not just those that have told office like to be hosts fairground workers or souvenir shops its also Hotels Restaurants retail trade and taxi drivers 200. 00. People in munich now face a year without their beloved festival but the this isnt hasnt come as a shock. When vantine put out im really sad but it was expected. If people come from all over the world we cant host a party like this one. If its apologize maybe its a great decision i have such respect for our state leadership the way theyre handling things. October fest will be back again next year and then well enjoy it all the more. Annoying our seeding say. And so begins the countdown until 2021 with the next october 1st will hopefully take place. Has been following that story for us in munich we asked him why this is such a difficult moment for the city. Well absolutely it is because you have to understand that for the city of munich and for the people who live here you know if this is much more than just another huge party its got a really long tradition its been around for more than 200 years and its something thats deeply ingrained into the d. N. A. Of this city and on top of that its also safe the image of not only munich and the barrier but also to a certain degree all germany really all around the world if you ask anyone anywhere what they associate with germany one of the 1st answers that you always get is going to be the a total says so its usually popular around the world in the city and the the people here in the city of munich theyre proud of that theyre proud of the fact that their city is home to such a famous and popular festival in force now that is sad that this year all those visitors from around the world cant cant come here cant take it and cant take part due to profess that this huge festival is not going to happen in beslan heartache there lets have a look at the current of this singapore has extended its walk down until june 1st this off to the city state saw a shop rise again in a number of cases austria sais it will allow restaurants bars and cafes as well as some schools and churches to reopen starting may 15th or will be subject to safety restrictions and before the end of the week italy will announce plans for the gradual new signing off its walk down Missions Starting may 4th and the World Health Organization has warned that rushing to ease restrictions will increase the risk of a resurgence of the disease the collapse in american crude prices has sent shock waves around the world pushing stock markets into losses and driving down other Commodity Prices oil markets are now in uncharted territory demand has 14 foster then purchases can shuttle they wells now with Storage Space running out of oil is becoming more of a burden around the world than in sh. When its planes arent flying and its roads are all but empty the u. S. Can at least lay claim to one thing we certainly are plenty of oil in fact far too much of it the president tried to calm nerves after the value of u. S. Crude went negative for the 1st time ever on monday at one point reaching minus 40. 00 a barrel in a month or so go a little bit its at 25 and 20 8. 00 a barrel so its largely a financial squeeze and they did get squeezed they oil traders who found themselves on monday under heavy pressure to sell off their crude futures to the rising cost of holding the oil in the us is dwindling Storage Facilities means keeping it is becoming too expensive. Theres so little space for it left the u. S. Government is planning to fill up its own reserves. I think we have 75000000000 gallons right now capacity thats a lot its weve been building it up over a period but thats a lot 75000000000 barrels. So were going to get either ask for permission to buy it or well store it one way or the other it will be for the what is most needed is a return in demand brought by restart to the u. S. Economy then the oil that continues to be pumped unbroken pace can actually have enough places to go so lets bring in our wall street correspondent in score say hey and so the market is awash in oil what does this mean for kind c. M. S. I think youre going to say when you get free phillips at the gas station. Well actually i thought about calling my oil company and offering them that they can. Fill up my tanks for free but i think thats not going to happen and im also was sick gas stations you will see pressure on the price of gas actually it is already ready happening so yes consumers to a certain degree it will feel some impact but i do not expect that you will get gas or oil for free say or about you know Storage Space are running out of that and demand something why havent these oil grayness just stopped producing oil already. Its not that easy and the problem is if you stop the welds if you stuff the production of the welds if you want to reopen them off the wall its that actually can be quite tricky so thats why theyre hesitant and also what we shouldnt forget those wild movements was the price of oil its not just because of supply and demand but its also a whole Financial Markets how trading works all the difference between the june called direct them to make contracts and stuff like that that also played a crucial role why we had this dramatic drop and historic drop in the price of oil. We now expects a bankruptcy is from the small american shale printing says they have been some or evil. Pretty its pretty likely that we will see the you all know the other bankruptcy case and how many remains to be seen i mean u. S. President donald trump is so we can Square Christine some funds to help the oil industry a bit but just imagine a couple of years of gold those oil giants here in the United States were the most powerful companies on the planet and now basically they have to be saved by the government and if the u. S. President donald trump is saying 75000000 barrels in a straight shooter dick reserves yes that is a lot but before the crisis if the u. S. Was producing 1230000000 barrels a day so also all the all those reserves could truly up quite quickly and yes i mean the industry had been in huge dips measurably the frank years even before the crisis hit so i wouldnt be surprised at all to see more bankruptcies ok thats. Financial correspondent when you thank you now heres a look at other stories making headlines around the world u. S. President donald trump sais he will temporarily suspend all immigration by signing an executive order he said the action was in response to the coronavirus outbreak and chipper take jobs more than 22000000 americans have applied for Unemployment Benefits in the past because of coronaviruses lockdowns. In the rue dozens of Police Offices have been deployed to the outskirts of the capital lima to prevent more than 100 people from returning to their hometowns officials fan they could spread the current a virus or roll areas during the current crop down there were 16000. 00 infections on the 2nd highest 10 in latin america. And dozens have died in floods in eastern congo already say some 75000 people are also homeless soft a heavy rain storm stranded flash floods and landslides roads and bridges across the effected gratian have also suffered severe damage. Now the pandemic may have been so to reach africa but the number of cases is increasing fost jumping by of a 50 percent last week now there are now almost 24000 confirmed cases across the continent north africa has seen a significant outbreak with hotspots in morocco and egypt now south africa is worst affected with some 3000 official infections that high number is due in part to the countrys aggressive testing regime thats critical to protecting south africans its health but its stretching labs to their limits joining me from cape town is in a stock or hes an Africa Health expert and on trump and he helped pioneer africas 1st hiv treatment rollout inputs want to and hes also advised numerous governments on metis of Health Minister how do you think the continent is teeming with the coronavirus pandemic. At this particular moment id have to say the continent is dealing remarkably well we know that treating our way through the current epidemic is not an option for africa weve got too little infrastructure in place too few facilities too few Health Workers too few supplies this country that have you know 3 ventilators for 5000000 people so trying to treat our way through this is not the option we must prevent it ergo the very aggressive lot on measures which are necessary to protect and save lives it does cause complications there because you know we have a lot of vulnerable populations in terms of poverty and food and water and things like that but its a very very tricky balancing act that leaders will have to walk to to maximally preserve lives while at the same time making sure that their populations are well catered for. You go into a mobile app to stop the spread of covert 19 tell us more about that. Yes so basically what the app does is it matches supply and demand we know or dealing in a situation where we have a very scarce resources and you cannot afford to waste these resources in places where theyre not needed so on the demand side this is the population in need we in the app you can screen people on the app and in real time capture their status whether they are keys for covert or whether they are someone whos come into contact with someone who has code that you can identify them also identify people who are at risk for that because of diabetes or hypertension or hiv and you know that you can then isolate them to that they dont get infected and then you need to match them up with the facilities that are nearest to them the Health Facilities and to see those facilities are ready do they have enough beds do they have enough protective equipment do they have enough medications and supplies and so we have the app also it and allows us to quickly in real time see what kind of stock the facility out of medications see and how many beds they have and also the app allows you to assess the wellness of your workforce since in africa is going to be critical to protect our workforce because if they go down the other 1st and really only line of defense so the app allows each worker before they start each day to capture whether theyre feeling well or not theyre not feeling well you cant afford to have them out there spreading cove it so this way you can test them quickly and make sure that they get support and we maximally preserve this critical workforce that we need urgently in this time of crisis all right thats in a style called health expats talking to us from cape town thank you thank you very much. The media watchdog Reporters Without Borders fears the coronavirus pandemic could pose a threat to press freedom around the globe the warning comes as the group publishes its annual press Freedom Index its a list of countries according to how freeney their media operate now throughout the day were speaking to International Activists and journalists to find out about the situation in their countries but 1st a look at how different nations off airing. At the bottom of the table are eritrea turkmenistan and north korea Reporters Without Borders classify the lack of press freedom in those countries as very serious sudan is also in that category but last years mass protests that led to the ousting of president Omar Al Bashir have resulted in stronger democratic structures and reduced restrictions for journalists as a result the country ranks 16 points higher on the index than last year countries that made similar improvements include malaysia any theo pia. While poor ratings and given to the West African States have been enough fell 17 places and haiti down 21. The caribbean nation is struggling with an ongoing political crisis and violent protests in the past year journalists there were repeatedly attacked one was killed. The United States ranks at 45th place this year after 2 years of decline the situation has slightly improved over the last year but Reporters Without Borders cite the u. S. As a warrior example of hatred incited against journalists by elected politicians with verbal and physical attacks against reporters alarmingly frequent terms of germany ranks 11th place also 2 places from last year the main reason for this is a decline in the numbers of attacks against journalists butterball. It is without borders so theres still concern for the protection of journalistic sources. The countrys ranking highest for press freedom remain in scandinavia denmark finland and norway. Youre watching news coming up. How do you mean with. Them musicians look for alternative ways of making money during the pandemic as concerts are cancelled and Live Performances stay bad and. Now the number of protests against coronavirus quarantine measures continues to grow around the world demonstrators are voicing their anger over a lockdown mischas in the United States and lockdown demonstrations which started last week have continued protesters some carrying guns gathered in harrisburg pennsylvania demanding the state reopen businesses they accused. Exaggerating the impact of the coronavirus on the Health Care System similar protests have been held across the country. For more im joined by the reporter chilled out right ok chill so the obvious process raney just about corona virus so is there more to this here or there attracting a very mixed crowd of discontent people some worried about their jobs and their businesses but among the signs you see be you wave at the demonstrations you see the far right are diverse do you see religious groups you see conspiracy theorists some a likening these type of process through the Tea Party Movement which is the anti Establishment Movement that preceded donald trump selections and donald trump himself has been quite supportive of these demonstrations hes been tweeting out his support mostly because they are aimed at Democratic State governors who are his enemies and who are the ones actually implementing these lockdown measures. So hes been tweeting out comments like liberate the states that where this is happening so as we can see at these demonstrations some people. But many are not and theyre certainly not keeping their distance and thats led some to speculate that these protests could be the source of a new wave of corona virus infections which were thereby perpetuate the need for the very core and measures that these people are protesting against. As social media giant has stepped in here facebook its sais that its not going to be promoting these events yes facebook has said that its going to be implementing its policy its policy around coronavirus is to not spread any harm so it has been removing posts that are related to Upcoming Events in several states including new jersey california and nebraska it says its doing so proactively without being asked to now that is angered some including Donald Trump Jr who sent out a tweet which we can have a look at now he tweeted out saying why is facebook question peoples free speech this is a chilling and disturbing shut down of peoples 1st amendment rights now hes not alone also the American Civil Liberties union which is no Trump Fan Club has also coming to come out saying there needs to be a place for legitimate protest against the governments response to this pandemic now facebook has to tread very carefully here you can imagine how it would be how people would react to this happen in a more autocratic country facebook could be accused of colluding with governments to shut down peoples free speech and silence critics. We also have seen protests here in chinese facebook also doing the same not promoting events you know well Facebook Says its policy is actually global and it will do the same in other countries we have seen those events happening here in germany also attracting a mixed crowd of people including some on the weekend now Facebook Says that it will actually shut down this information it hasnt yet done so however i check the Facebook Page for the Upcoming Events here in germany and they still exist online and theres another big test coming up which is the 1st of may and traditionally a huge day of demonstrations here in germany thats going to be a test for the police for the city people are saying organizing online already calling for an authorized demonstrations to take place even though theyve been banned so you have to see how facebook is going to react to that situation ok. Thank you. Now today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in israel and the nation has been honoring the memory of the 6000000 jews murdered by the nazis. As every year people stood in silence as sirens rang out in towns and cities many streets were relatively empty because of israels coronavirus lockdown ceremonies. Taking place in other countries also moved on lie in what is known as the march of life between former concentration camps in poland the israel central Holocaust Memorial yad vashem also found a virtual way of remembering those killed. 41 years old for large poland one by one a number of the names of some of the 6000000 jews murdered by the dots east are read out so they will not be forgotten. Israels holocaust remembrance sent out for shame and turkish people to post tweet using the hash tags remembering from home and show hourly news or he was 35 years old marguerite. Who. Lived in my hometown of. They were murdered by the nazis in 1941. That is never forget their names. People could also create commemorative plates lying that would be projected on the entrance gate to the book at our death camp this with us this year for the 1st time in 3 tickets i walked much of the cursed tracks between auschwitz and birkenau in memory of the 6000000 killed but even in these trying circumstances we will keep the flame of memory alive if. Rael a ceremony was held without a Live Audience messages of remembrance connecting with the current crisis. The outbreak of the corona virus requires the world what fight against the virus and no less important it shows the importance of national sovereignty. Unlike during the holocaust this time were going to fight the danger on time. Songs of sorrel and stories of survival as time passes how did number of survivors decreases personal stories about this darkest of times become more and more precious. Some sport now in football spanish side barcelona will be selling the naming rights to its stadium for the 1st time in its history to raise money for the fight against corona virus also known as camp is 1. 00 of the most iconic stadiums in World Football and has held its name since opening in 195057. 00 now the clubs Charitable Foundation will be tasked with finding a sponsor for the stadium spain has been one of the worst affected countries by the pandemic. Now german basketball is getting a boost because 3 young german players have been selected to start in the u. S. Womens National Boss the all association or w n b a the top ranked pick among them is to sub and shes got a pretty unique background even by u. S. Standards. Shes accustomed to change the south lead with the word ducks on her basketball jersey has played her last game with the university of oregon ducks thats because pandemic restrictions ended their season but some are too subtly left a mark on Us College Basketball with massive success before thousands of fans. Saval east 21 year journey has taken her from her birth city new york in the United States to africa and her fathers home country the gambia then to her mothers home country germany where she caught the eye of basketball clubs then to oregon for 3 years of High Pressure hoops and. Now dallas because the dallas wings select not to sell billie from the university of oregon. She was selected in the w n b a strong by the dallas wings. I was so happy when i heard my name. You know when i think i got my name called you know all my dreams. And i was so happy if like a little kid its just a call for some really believe because of the pandemic lockdown some support from family and friends has been mostly virtual. Oh. You know what she was going to. Do some research including well wishes from her german grandma. Probably is not the 1st basketball player with german roots to make her mark in dallas ski became one of the all time greats of the mens n. B. A. With the Dallas Mavericks now retired it skis already reached out to solve a lead to welcome her and prepare her for what comes next for whatever coach wants you to. Eat you know and so i feel like maybe that incident is a lot of. What i will have to do what i want to. Come out during the long sound sadly will bide my time in the oregon where she became a star of american basketball with the expectation shell be training thousands in texas whenever the coming season kicks off. 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