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Pandemic measures to impact the economy plus as the world heads into recession theres an urgent appeal from the United Nations proper tour on housing i am proposing that governments around the world set a standard that no household should pay more than 30 percent of their income on rent. She says that a drastic rethink is needed to help people pay their rent during the tandem. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Germany is set to extend social distancing measures im told may tempt that is according to chancellor Angela Merkels chief of staff who was commenting ahead of a government meeting on the countrys Coronavirus Response now merkel and the 16 state leaders are set to. Proposals on reopening schools and resuming sporting events but will not decide on any further easing of restrictions until may 6th thats when data is expected on the impact of the 1st round of easing which saw some shops reopen from last week. At the head of germanys Public Health institute is urging people to remain cautious is warning the pandemic is far from over they want to put me compendium it like this can only end when 60 to 70 percent of the population has been infected then we have a chance to stop the penguins with them according to our data the percentage of germans in faked it is still in the single digit growth so its clear this is a marathon more clothes but its not clear how long that will be until this marathon is. This well lets get more now were joined by t. W. Political correspondent thomas ferro times what will come out of chancellor merkels talks with germanys state premiers today. Sorrow this is about the next reopening phase germany already had a 1st reopening phase a few weeks ago in which certain shops shops under 800 square meters were allowed to reopen in which schools were told to prepare for a gradual step by step reopening on their discussions today are about trying to find Common Ground on that next step of reopening which could include the announcement of the reopening of museums for example pox that are now closed certain parts of closed or the reopening also of memorials and as well this is johns on how to specially i love our religious gatherings as you said earlier it is not expected that we will have any big announcements today big announcements are expected in next weeks meeting on may the 6 but it is all about today trying to find that Common Ground taking stock as you yourself said understanding whether the measures so far have been effected and how the government can actually implement them and in the meantime we have interesting new data coming from germanys leading veralyn just and lets just have a look at what he indeed wrote on twitter check out this graphic it compares viral loads in children and adults that have been tested in recent weeks now in minutes its kind of complicated this this graphic here but what the study basically says is that children may be as infectious as adults again children may be as infectious as adults thomas so i mean this is really remarkable data given that schools across germany will start reopening next week. And if you look at that study the authors they caution about an unlimited reopening of schools in the Current Situation so that gives you an idea of how difficult that decision was by German Authorities both at a federal not to regional level when it came to that reopening of the schools and in particular the conditions that schools have to meet when it comes to opening their doors as off next week schools across the country will have to maintain those hygiene standards will have to maintain social distancing measures will have to make sure that kids are protected that kids can remain healthy and this is a huge cost for german schools and that also gives you an idea why German Authorities are working on a 2 week plan step by step so 2 weeks ago they told schools to prepare for the reopening which starts officially next week and thats why schools have back time to prepare but based just gives you an idea how difficult the situation is not only from a Public Health perspective but also from the rights of those children from the families a big challenge all in all for schools and also for authorities in germany tom a sterile environment thank you thomas. Well germany has announced a ban on the iran backed Hezbollah Group and declared it a terrorist organization the move comes on top of a 2013 e. U. Ban on has military faction and includes all activities conducted by its political way as well is a shiite military and Political Group based in lebanon early this morning German Police took action against it suspected supporters in 5 german cities. Early morning raids with dozens of police and special forces in cities across Germany Police searched mosques associations and private residences collecting evidence to be used for investigations into hezbollahs activities. Were searching for locations here in following the ban on hezbollah the aim is to find out if theres a connection between these locations and hezbollah the organization which is now outlawed. Hezbollah doesnt have an official presence in germany but a network of associations is thought to provide Financial Support and deliver propaganda for the group while the groups military arm is classified as a terrorist organization in the entire interview most countries havent banned its political wing on thursday germany moved to do just that. Interior minister who us a whore for said the Group Questions israels right to exist something germany cannot condone. Questions regarding hezbollahs operations in germany arent new in december the bundestag adopted a motion urging the government to outlaw all of hezbollahs activities in the country. Hezbollah supporters have repeatedly brandished the groups flag and used and the israelis slogans at rallies the ban now allows authorities to outlaw the use of hezbollahs symbols at gatherings and on publications and the groups assets can be confiscated israel and the u. S. Have welcomed germanys move to completely outlaw has. They now hope that other European Countries will follow suit and look at more i am joined now by hans yacc option senior director at the counter extremism project in new york in berlin and a former security liaison at the German Embassy in tehran welcome to the program and thank you for joining us how big a threat does hezbollah pose in germany. Thank you for having me now you have to distinguish between the threat that has or is what i sympathize with both in germany in a terrorism sense and in a crime sense as far as terrorism is concerned attacks conducted in germany this is a fairly late in the law latest really. Operation that is what i did in germany was a 994 in the mcconnells assassinations however it is what has proven time and time again that it misuses germany and economy as a means to collect funds for itself it is heavily involved world wide including in germany in the drug trade in arms smuggling extortion and racket so its the terrorism and is a crime problem so thats primarily straight up with germany was that this was a massive law and order issue the widest to teach it straight right was that with this money terror operations both towards israel but also now as you know in syria are going to be prepared by ok also a law and order issue but i want to get back to the terrorism side of an image we have any evidence that hezbollah was perhaps using germany as a base from which to plan operations well as the interior Ministry Said today in its decision it prepare attacks not in jail in germany not at targets but attacks where people had outside germany within germany. How big of a role generally speaking is hezbollah playing in conflicts around the world for example in syria. Well look i mean the assad regime would have not survived without its allies in these is. Certainly one of the major allies that. Regime has including of course russia and iran it is a force multiplier both for this opera zima as well as the Main Operations on the country obviously it is quite well known the role that hizbullah plays within lebanon where it is developing a state within a state pressuring the government to do certain things exempting it from setting up big ations his play a major role in the crime in the drug smuggling operations in south america my organization c. P. A. Has just done a study 2 years ago on cigarette smuggling of his bottom right tips in south america to generate profits given all of that is a total ban the best way to counter the threat that has military and political wing do indeed posts on this decision today are you know coming on the back of the 2008 decision to ban and not television and the 2014 decision of the German Government to ban one of its. Charities that collective farms is very significant because it allows now the Security Forces to adopt a whole toolbox of measures against the activities of is germany because now you can get it as well with intelligence measures that you could not if you just looked at it as a pure crime problem and jakobsen the senior director at the counter extremism project thank you. Thank you. And now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world the south african antiapartheid veteran Dennis Goldberg has died at the age of 87 goldberg was involved in the armed resistance to white minority rule in south africa he was tried alongside Nelson Mandela when they were convicted of sabotage and sentenced to life in prison for died at his home near cape town he had lung cancer. Tesla has exceeded analyst expectations for revenue as it posted its 3rd straight quarterly profit electric car maker increased revenue by almost a quarter to 6 1000000000 dollars in the 1st 3 months of this year tesla also managed to boost deliveries despite russians caused by that wrote a Virus Outbreak. And facebook has seen earnings climb amid a growth in its user base during the pandemic the social media group earning 4900000000. 00 in the january to march quarter more than double the amount a year earlier. And early shut down and travel restrictions help to give Israels Health service a head start in tackling the corona Virus Outbreak albeit a controversial one but while the burden on medical staff appears to be easing israels battered economy looks like it will take much longer to recover. Cramer reports there are no customers but. Keeps the place ready for guests and how 6 weeks ago she had to close the familys restaurant in the kibbutz just outside of jerusalem because of the coup in 1000 pandemic she supposed over the Health Crisis by the government that could be netanyahu the chief extremely boring to go to families like if you would. The. Cleanup of after a month and a half of lupton completely closed except for deliveries and take away. But that is just a drop in the ocean. Independent business is a very much on edge not knowing if we are going to survive. That i felt that. Every morning daniela and her husband prepare peter to take away this very government is taking steps to reopen the economy and allow some businesses to start operating again the us lance can see a clear path out of this crisis like many other israelis but there is no exit strategy that is being presented to the public ok no one here say ok if we going to be under you know 200 well. People who are infected were going to open up these and that and yeah they were going to close these and how about the course what the what if you know what what is the program what is that what what they fear what if their work flow the kimono virus pandemic came the midst of deep political crisis in israel 3 elections with a need he approved in conclusive only last week Benyamin Netanyahu signed a Coalition Agreement with this former dr that the new guns to form a National Emergency government with netanyahu as Prime Minister. Is very long serving Prime Minister has been credited with quickly imposing strict measures like travel restrictions and defacto closing israels borders at the beginning of the crisis. But now the public debate has shifted to the Economic Impact of the knock down a Clearance Sale at a small neighborhood shop in tel aviv closing down because of virus it says on this window and employment has risen from 4 to over 25 percent. I dont think. Theyre clear about where theyre going it seems like theyre doing everything. Very spontaneously and without a lot of stuff behind that they are shocked that markets are in my opinion the government is stressing aside to bit too much. They could give us more freedom because people are keeping to the restriction on the same conscious of the milan player but. In many other countries these are troubling times in israel in the long term politicians here would be measured by the response to both the house and Economic Issues surrounding the coronavirus all the number of unemployed in germany jumped by 300008 for all thats a 13 percent rise from march and reflects the onset of wide reaching pandemic measures in the country economists had expected a rise in jobless numbers given widespread business closures but the figure was dampened by state support for companies more than 10000000 employees in germany are registered for wage subsidies in order to remain on payroll financial correspondent Chelsea Delaney is standing by in frankfurt so are these mounting job losses a temporary phenomenon while the lock downs are in place or something more. Its not a temporary blip these these impacts were seeing on the economy are going to have theyre going to be around for a long time what the data has shown us so far is a particularly severe blow to the Services Sector so people working and restaurants and hotels in tourism and retail thats where a lot of this economic damage is being asked celt thats not surprising given the lockdowns but even as economies such as germany do start to take steps to reopen theres still a big question mark over when people will be back eating in restaurants and people will be taking vacations again and other parts of the economy such as in for example here in germany and the Auto Industry we are seeing Companies Like volkswagen start to reopen factories but theres still a lot of uncertainty over what demand is going to look like will people be buying cars throughout this year so even in the best Case Scenario economists expect that the the economic fallout from the krona virus could last for a year or 2 years or even longer and that has left governments really to fill the gap here so what are they doing well we have seen a lot of a lot of governments pledge that no people with lose jobs here in germany france made those pledges thats really not feasible but they have taken a lot of steps in germany theyve really beefed up this short time Work Wage Subsidy Program in the United States which has a different type of social safety net network theyve increased Unemployment Benefits but a lot of countries such as italy and spain in developing countries in particular dont have the same social safety net they dont have the same financial firepower and so they are much more vulnerable to long Term Economic damage Chelsea Delaney in frankfurt thank you. So how bad could things get for workers around the world while the International Labor Organization Says that nearly half of the Global Workforce of 3300000000 people could be affected by the recession especially vulnerable are workers in the informal economy those who lack the safeguards of a contract have a look. Nearly 1600000000 workers without proper contracts or on short Term Contracts are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods because of the coronavirus pandemic we estimate that the average income of the informal economy workers around the world the hit will be 60 percent these are people who dont earn a lot of money in the 1st instance so the both the most vulnerable desperately need International Solidarity assistance simply to sonali hundreds of millions of enterprises are struggling to survive during the prolonged lockdowns the International Labor Organization Says governments will have to provide assistance to companies in the most vulnerable economic sectors to prevent job losses thats retail and wholesale its manufacturing its business says we are seeing that some 436000000 enterprises around the world all at high risk of going on as governments across the globe stepped up assistance to counteract the crisis the i. L. O. s urging them to speed up procedures for Unemployment Benefits extend support to independent workers and fast tracked access to loans for small and informal businesses that will help preserve jobs now and boost labor demand wants the recovery phase begins. As people around the world do face unemployment and Economic Hardship theres a radical proposal for how to help them pay their rent the United Nations housing representative is calling on governments to cut rents to 30 percent of peoples income to tell us more about this idea lets bring in get his jolt a rise so. What is being done to help renters in these difficult times well at this time when many people are confined to their homes some are also wondering how theyre going to pay to stay in those homes now at the start of the Coronavirus Crisis some governments promised rental holidays. Well that hasnt happened and state governments have brought in somewhat weaker measures these include a moratorium on a vixens so that people cant get kicked out of their homes during the pandemic or rental deferment deferrals where they can pay the money later both of these measures are in place here in germany and several other countries the most ambitious proposal started comes from spain which is offering no interest loans to some tenants but the problem is its not clear whether people ever going to be able to pay that money back and thats led to this proposal from the un special rapporteur to on housing lani fata now ice interviewed her earlier and asked her what governments should be doing for tenants juris Coronavirus Crisis. Im proposing that governments around the world set a standard that no household should pay more than 30 percent of their income on rent we know that thats an affordability measure and under International Human rights law the affordability of housing is tied to Household Income its not tied to what the market can bear and we know in this pen time of a pandemic people are really suffering people have lost their jobs and people are underemployed they have fewer hours of work that means they have less income to pay their rent so people are really suffering i think nobody would argue with that but i mean 30 percent of peoples income is that really realistic in this day and age and how about the landlords themselves also because you know many of them also have financial obligations especially if they have a mortgage right well they dont fire it fire is a lawyer and she says this proposal is already possible under existing International Treaties that governments have signed up to provide adequate and Affordable Housing what about pray for the owners well she proposes that they could be compensated by governments using welfare she says this is not only realistic but it would help kickstart the economy so i asked her how. If youre only paying 30 percent of your income on rent that leaves 70 percent of your income to go back into the economy so you can buy your groceries you can buy clothes you can you know spend your money and we know the people at the lower end of the income spectrum actually spend a greater proportion of their income into the economy so its actually really beneficial for governments to take this approach. So as a big idea for a big problem look some people are actually waiting for governments to give them rental relief tomorrow is may 1 and its being billed as an International Day of rage strikes tens of thousands of people in new york has signed up to say that they cant and wont be paying their rent tomorrow now rent strikes were an idea that came out of the Great Depression in the 1930 s. And now were seeing them come back again during this new Coronavirus Crisis delta roy dayton is thank you. Well were going to head to sport now and a survey commissioned by date of news for its has revealed that public support for a resumption of the bundesliga season is fading sure magically the majority of those surveyed said that they do not support football resuming with socalled ghost games played behind closed doors in may. When disney games behind closed doors are necessary for survival or sports sending the wrong message to g. W. Commission survey shows the majority of now against socalled ghost games 49 percent of people dont support a resumption in may without fans thats almost 20 percent more than an identical survey conducted 3 weeks ago when does the league or clubs and officials that desperate to play again to guarantee some 300000000 euros in missing t. V. Revenue the leagues plans for a restart would involve things like testing players and restricting stadium access the head of the league says some clubs will go out of business if the season cant restart the daughter from ally im asking all of those who are interested in the bundesliga really all of the go for leniency and support who would want to play without spectators is not what we want to avoid because the only thing that seems possible at the moment and britain the end any return to action depends on political sign off with the public mood shifting that sign off may now be harder to get. Positive note for you now captain tom moore the british world war 2 veteran who raised millions for Britains National Health Service has been promoted to the rank of honorary colonel on his 100th birthday Royal Air Force planes usually deployed for world war 2 commemorative events flew over the centennial terry and oh in Central England in his honor a fly past was supposed to be a surprise but the government had to confirm the rumors in the face of immense media interest captain tom moore is not just a celebrity in britain of course fans from around the world are wishing him well on his very special birthday. A flood of birthday wishes. Its an amazing outpouring of love for a great man the captain told me i think its called the hearts of everybody in this country and this is what it looks like really weve weve had 125000 cards in the last week and a bit. This centenarian being celebrated as captain tom moore hes famously completed 100 laps of his garden with the help of his walking frame and in doing so raised more than 27000000 pounds to support Britains National Health Service during the coronaVirus Outbreak. Its. Right here in america and they were kept in toms aim was to raise just a 1000 pounds with this charity walk but his Humble Mission became an unexpected hit as people tuned in from across the globe to watch his progress online. Believe that he will be so kind to get. To the nothing. Having raised more donations than any charity walk in history hes even earned himself a spot in the guinness book of world records. And with that now youre up to date on d w news im sorry kelly a berlin thank you so much for joining us and we wish you all a great day and we do hope that you stacy take her. Body. To. Influence. Perception. Thinking im actually. Really attractive appearances from the fortune easily find to be. 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