Welcome we begin with breaking news u. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has ended his bid for the democratic partys nomination in the president ial election his announcement clears the way for his rival joe biden to challenge President Donald Trump 78 years old. In the early primaries but later fell behind biden who has been a substantial lead in the race for delegates. I wish i could give you better news but i think you know the truth and that is that we are now as the 300 delegates behind Vice President biden and the pain of Court Victory is virtually impossible so while we are winning the ideological battle and while we are winning this award so many young people and working people throughout the country i have concluded this for the democratic nomination will not be successful and so today i am announcing with the spread of my campaign lets bring in our correspondent in washington stefan Simone Stefan how surprising is sundays decision. Not really surprising actually everybody had the bets out when this is coming it was necessary that he did this he couldnt do he couldnt get the numbers right that its all coming down to math even if there were any primaries right now and even if he won would have won a few and they are no primaries to the coronavirus presence in the u. S. As you all know but if they were. And he would have won he wouldnt have the numbers anymore to really challenge joe biden and i think he came to this conclusion to now important why because the timing is the most important here with him dropping out of the race now the democrats can throw all the weight of support behind joe biden that means the clinton sellery clinton bill clinton the obama can now speak out come out and support and campaign if they want to and if theyre asked to for joe biden and if necessary and that is the most important thing resulting out of this decision from Bernie Sanders to drop out right now but when you began the race Bernie Sanders was doing extremely well why has he lost so much support. I think that has something to do with mainstream democrats thinking about electability and Bernie Sanders did not get the africanamerican democratic vote did not get the older democratic vote he got a lot of young people to be very very very loud and enthusiastic at his rallies thousands of people really good energy isnt the problem was though even those young people did not show up at the ballot at the primaries and thats why he lost against joe biden on super tuesday for example remember that was a disaster joe biden went through super tuesday democratic super tuesday like a steam machine and got almost all states so for biden there was no 4 for send us pardon was no other chance as to at some point come to grips with the fact see and that is he cannot beat joe biden in the in the in the president ial campaign or and in the president ial race 2020 but Bernie Sanders also spoke of winning the ideological battle or was that offense to. That is mr sanders been very proud and rightfully so its leave very proud of his campaign not being just a campaign he always generated himself and made this campaign a little bit more a grassroots a Grassroots Movement so discouraged there is of course a debate of how d. Significant this is or larch but. Again it is a little more than just a campaign he has support and he wants to support to sustain for the Big Convention in whenever it happens because that gives him power on topics defense or bones in washington thank you so much for that. The European Commission is urging your Member States to extend the current ban on nonessential travel into the passport free zone until the police the 15th of me the emails to contain the cone of august pandemic the bad was agreed on the 17th of march for an initial period of 30 days but it is up to Member States to decide whether to go along with the proposed extension some European Countries are starting to relax their lockdown restrictions while others are tightening their. Silence reigns in europe paris is like a city deserted france is 3 weeks into its coronavirus lockdown and there are signs its finally beginning to work. Like italy and spain france has seen a slight decline in the rate of new infections but the fight against coated 19 is far from over and attempts to ease restrictions on public life could be disastrous once the World Health Organization. Know is not the time to relax measures it is that dying once again. And. Efforts to suppression with the whole support of the society. Several European Countries are not planning to heed that warning austria is set to become the 1st e. U. Country to scale back its lockdown rules the conservative led government has announced that some nonessential businesses will reopen next week. Optimism is not the prevailing mood in the u. K. Where the daily death toll from the virus is on the rise Prime Minister blair as johnson spent a 2nd night in intensive care fighting the virus and handing the reins over to foreign secretary tommy robb pressure is building on London Hospitals as they take on more and more cultivate 19 patients patients like enron have made you dont know. How bad it is until it actually hits you and so i would absolutely. Everybody to listen to the government guidance and stay away from people. The British Government is due to review lock down restrictions next week. Like the u. K. Many other countries have imposed lockdowns which will fit their economies so much sort of the World Trade Organization has been forced to issue a dial warning about what this could mean for the Global Economy. The deepest downturn of our lifetimes that is how the World Trade Organization assesses the economic damage caused by covert 19 this year spring outlook delivered via video by the w t os director general. Chair or simply never region of the world in across all sectors of the economy you know not to miss that scenario or. The 5 years of Global Trading doubling by 13 percent. Now and then nick is not brought all the governments to coordinate policy responses crying will be 32 percent or more and you can see why with half the world now being asked to stay at Home Business of all kinds has shut down images of grounded planes like these symbolic of a Global Economy whose engine has simply fizzled out. Does disruption to supply chains leave even solid sectors like the Automobile Industry fearing for their survival governments around the world have been scrambling to limit the damage injecting billions sometimes trillions into rescue plan. Comparisons have already been made with the Great Depression and the financial meltdown of 2008. But this crisis lives on not just capital are under threat the stakes could hardly be higher. Lets get to some more developments on the coronavirus band make the global death toll from over 19 is now more than 83000 with almost one and a half 1000000 infections confirmed since the outbreak began finance ministers have failed to agree on a joint plan to ease the Economic Impact of the pandemic the main stumbling block is socalled code on our bonds which are favored by southern members such as spain and italy but opposed by northern members led by germany and the number of confirmed cases of covert 1000 in africa has passed 10000 according to figures compiled by the World Health Organization and its increasing caseload such as in africa that is from to germanys Economic Cooperation and Development Minister good to call for joint action to help developing countries also hold on germans to increase their donations to in jewels that help developing countries and for more on that im joined by author holtz hes a member of the German Parliament for the green Party Welcome mr von holtz can they realistically agree on a swift boat on a Crisis Response to help developing countries. Well i hoped that they could have but not that with the ministers the development administers will meeting in. A Video Conference and supposed to provide money we see that this is actually already budgeted money its not fresh money mr miller has all of the pundit you actually to provide fresh money and thats. It appears that we need more money to support the. Compendia rick crisis youre calling for more money a safari get minnows calling for more more money and you want but as well but at a time when finance ministers can decide the kind of Financial Support that should be extended to other countries within the e. U. How realistic is that demand. That is. Thats right even the ministry of minister get milan did not. Participate in the additional budget that was decided by. Which is actually not a good move because if we call for more money in the e. U. E. U. Then of course i think that germany should also be on the forefront i think that we at least for germany alone need at least 2000000000 euro as in when we want to be able to effectively support the countries that i was taught to fight corona now under today germany Development Minister also called on germans to donate to n. G. O. S that are helping developing countries and refugees i mean how realistic is that in a time when cash flows have been hit and the economy is down and people are essentially not being able to work. Its difficult i must admit this its very difficult but we must see that not one state alone all of the other countries and what they could not fight. Alone this is a Global Crisis we must fight this globally because if we do not succeed in having more solidarity within the countries. And incorporation of n. G. O. S and you and institutions then we will not be able to effectively fight fight coronal because it will return everywhere we do not succeed in fighting it it will return to any other country again over the call for sort of that is set off and holds a member of the German Parliament for the green party thank you very much thank you now lets get you up to speed with the other stories making headlines around the world russias president Vladimir Putin has announced additional measures to help businesses and workers cope with the consequences of the cut on arbutus pandemic the government will provide more Financial Support to fund a medical workers and families and there to help for small and Medium Sized Enterprises to reach a deal that. China has ended its 2 and a half month lockdown of the city of where the corona Virus Outbreak was 1st reported tens of thousands of people immediately hopped on trains buses and planes to leave the city after all thought it is allowed more freedom of movement. The German Government wants to make it harder for Foreign Companies to buy german farms its looking to change existing rules to give it veto power over any buyout of what it considers strategically Important Companies the plans treated the cotton prices but come as berlin seeks to protect its industry from foreign takeovers. Youre watching the news from a beilin ive been issued by naji thered be more news at the top of the but before we go one more bit of sad news to report american folk and country star john prine has died at the age of 73. 00 due to complications from covert 19 it was known for his little song writing which on him the praises of bob dylan and johnny cash and want him to Grammy Awards to sing a past away in nashville tennessee but his music as they say when they have on. An old woman. Named. Jack. Journey for life. Down. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour carona update. 19 special next on d w. Once the secret service classical. Music the sound. Or the story behind the music. For the agents great to see. Odd. Beethovens 9th symphony for the world starts tonight on d w. As the death toll of comit 19 keeps rising scientists are still uncertain about where this deadly virus came from in the 1st place its believed that it jumped from animals to humans so far pangolins and babs it was sold at the web market in ruhani china the most likely candidates for the virus doesnt stay with humans there are signs that its also spreading to other animals a tiger at the bronx zoo with new york city has tested positive for public 19 after developing a dry cough a couple of lions also show signs of infection. And there are reports in hong kong that the dogs have tested positive without having any of the usual symptoms Scientists Say that cats are very susceptible to the virus and you people around the world are now worried about what that means for them and their pets and farmers also wants to know how dangerous the virus could be to their livestock picks chicken and ducks at least im not likely to get infected but about the rest. Welcome to our covert 900. 00 special here on news and want to get jones in berlin good to have you with us what droll do animals play in the corona virus pandemic which species can get infected which is immune and whats this mean for our interaction with pets and farm animals lets ask professor tomas mitten lighter hes a bar ologist and the president of the free trade lefler institute which studies Animal Health and infections which can be transmitted from animals to humans good to have you with us on the program let us start with pets a lot of people now are wondering whether their pets could transmit the virus what do we know about that so far. Hello phone in serenes what we actually do now is that cats can get infected experimentally and by. Exposure we know very little about transmission because all the instances that weve seen so far they clearly hint to infection of the pads by their owners this is biased or not ours to infect the owners so the the owner is more dangerous for the pet than vice versa what does this mean for the interaction with with our pets i mean we have terrible stories about some owners already putting their pets down because of this no there is no reason for doing that at all i mean of course i would stay away from my pet if i am sick myself and as is particularly true if im sick with a sauce coronavirus too so i should really take caution in that aspect on the other hand its still very clear that this is a socalled anthropos so knows this which means that humans are the ones that infect the animals and not in this particular case the other way around so what does this mean for life stock i mean we already heard that picks up probably not so says susceptible to the virus but what about coulson how would a pharma know that his cow for example is infected we have Experimental Evidence that picks chicken and ducks are indeed not susceptible to infection we have no Experimental Evidence of any other of the of livestock and for producing animals that colleagues all over the goal h really testing these animals as we speak and we hope that we have more information on that in a couple of days actual so if not knowing everything yet also worries people of course certainly consume us is there any advice you have for consumers for example when it comes to milk. At the moment we have no indication that any foods really be presents a risk for con time a nation offered transmission of the infection has a 74 i mean pigs are not susceptible chicken adults are not susceptible and from what we can deduce from the previous sars correlate of our risk from 2002 and was often 3 i would be very surprised to see that cattle are indeed an infected this is under experimental. Examination at the time as we speak of course were still trying to learn more about this new coronavirus professor mitten like to thank you for now we have more questions for you so dont go away because 1st we want to look at how scientists a wetting to find out how the virus was transmitted to humans in the 1st place. When it comes to the transmission of infections from animals to humans the Global Wildlife trade plays a major role to take pets in some parts of africa in asia theyre considered a delicacy. But theyre also a source of viruses among them the corona virus. One study found that a corona virus found in bats share 96 percent of its genetic material with the virus behind the current pandemic known as sars kovi 2. But this particular bout virus is unlikely to have infected human cells directly what is more likely is that the virus jump to humans via another animal one prime candidate is a pangolin the corona virus found in pangolins has similar surface proteins which dr receptors to the virus currently infecting humans but other animals are also potential transmitters to search for the source of this pandemic is still in full swing. Back to profess them at night or on the freethinker lefler institute an Animal Studies what is the significance of bats carrying so many viruses and how does this knowledge help us deal with a current outbreak so probably bets are a g