Reasonably under control i would say this is abundant deficiency. Also coming up tonight its it was the summer of 1905 construction cranes dominated the berlin skyline a city preparing to be a capital city once again it was then that the artist christo presented berlin a present not to be unwrapped it was astonishing to see that every fold and wrinkle he had painted was exactly what you could see in real life later. It was as though he could envision the whole thing. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a decision to reopen the beer gardens and a promise to close them if the coronavirus returns today leaders of all 16 german states along with german chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on far reaching measures to put the economy back in business. And to breathe life back into public spaces all stores will reopen this month along with restaurants including beer gardens just in time for the summer weather and after an unprecedented period of no play germanys football bundeswehr games will resume albeit in empty stadiums while these represent some of the bogus steps towards normality that we have seen so far here in europe chancellor merkel said today that the country has succeeded in slowing the spread of the coronavirus however if that changes an emergency brake will be pulled and the lockdown restrictions reimposed. This is what the new normal in germany could look like all the shops are open more people out on the streets wearing face masks. Restaurants and beer gardens to reopen as well but there will be regional variations due to germanys federal division of path. We have seen Good Progress as far as the number of new infections is concerned that means we can now take 5 the steps. That. Buttery have to be careful to keep control. And the Emergency Response mechanism we have to fight it means i can feel quite confident. Him off his new definitions to full home that means the state premie as have agreed to adjust their measures on the grounds of the number of new infections if they rise above a certain number tougher restrictions must be reintroduced. We dont see the Big Decisions we made today dont just concern the question of how can we ease the restrictions but also how can we continue to ensure Public Security we know its difficult finding a balance between Public Safety and Civil Liberties its because if the german states now have to find that own ways to gradually start sending children back to schools and kindergartens and most german states popular sports will be allowed and a deadly anticipated the bundesliga the German Soccer League will we see in the season in mid may. All rights Political Correspondent linda crean she joins me now good evening to you melinda these are really some of the boldest moves that we have seen in europe in terms of moving back towards some semblance of normality there were 2 important factors here today science and business talk to me about the science the success that germany has seen in slowing the corona bar. Well i think really that Good Progress that the chancellor mentioned was based on 3 Different Things a little bit of luck some competence and trust so starting with the luck germany the fibrous essentially hit here a little bit later than in some other countries such as italy and spain and therefore germany could learn from its neighbors and had a chance to put precautions in place before the virus really began to peak and then some of those who were affected early on were younger and healthier than perhaps those in italy for example and that was because young skiers from punic and from handcart were infected in austria and they got somewhat less severe cases than might otherwise have been had been the case secondly competence when the government did take action it did so strongly and decisively and it put into pleasure place a number of measures that were designed to ensure that Health Services wouldnt be overburdened and the fact is that Health Services themselves had some reserve capacity that hasnt always been there in other countries including for example the us germany has more intensive care beds per person than that in the United States or in many other European Countries so thats the competent side and then finally trust the fact is that german citizens have been very compliant with the measures that were put into place here perhaps in part because those measures were quite district as they were in some other places and there has been a very high degree of trust and cooperation between federal and local authorities with some minor exceptions but all in all pretty strong so all of that adds up to a pretty good picture so far so far and you mentioned trust we understand the during todays meeting with state leaders and the german chancellor that tempers flare leaders saying that local businesses have been patient long enough. Thats right and thats where the business side comes in so you set science of business well the chancellor is a physicist and she has listened to the viral logis to the epidemiologists to the experts and she has big pete at least stress that we are just at the beginning of dealing with this camp down there and that we must be cautious and careful on the other hand we have states perhaps especially those very populous states that dont have a whole lot of money in their coffers that really want to move ahead with reopening the economy and some of them have essentially moved ahead unilaterally and she has is said to have have complained that in the case of at least one state from the east that she was simply not going to go along with what they had decided in terms of easing of contact restrictions but in the end in what was apparently a somewhat heated Video Conference there was agreement and they did agree on it way forward that essentially represents a compromise in terms of contract restrictions and other steps as well and really you know this comes as the European Union today predicted the worst recession in europe since the Great Depression is about to take place is germany best prepared for the coming recession and will it be pressured again to help those who are being hit even harder im thinking about italy spain in greece. Germany is better positioned than a number of other European Countries thats what the e. U. Said today it looks like the level of recession in countries like spain italy greece will be a couple of Percentage Points higher than what germanys likely to experience and germany it is the biggest it is the wealthiest economy in europe it is already under pressure in terms of the solidarity that it needs to show to these hard hit countries there was a lot of discussion about that in last weeks video summit 6 of heads of state within the e. U. The ball is now back in the court of the European Commission to come up with a plan that will help these hard hit states and that will ensure solidarity but its going to be a tough road our chief Political Correspondent linda gray on that tough road melinda thank you. Visiting friends going shopping going out to eat the return to a sense of normality is underway here in germany and that also includes germanys born this league a soccer today german chancellor Angela Merkel said that the government is giving the green light for the bundesliga season to resume. Their number of other areas that we looked at for example retire. When we have now lift. The ban on larger shops to be opened but of course there will. Also talk that sports and recreation and courses. Weeks will. Resume operations and are to join you now at the big table by my colleague Chris Harrington from e. W. Sports so when will they be able to play again word is. May 15th is the date thats Big Community its all of the but is that the size the 1st and 2nd division and its a matter of when you plan your work your work your play and thats what the league has been working on since day one of the break theyve been working closely with medical professionals as well as the state plotting their return and then weve actually seen it come to fruition and its a big day not only for german football but also for european football isnt it yeah i think it is a big day because it does def it is definitely represents a blueprint of what other major leagues can do in terms of football i could just look at the English Premier League they dont even have a plan in place you know not only england but also you have spain you have italy as well you know these leagues are obviously going to be pushing and watching closely how germany is going to get back on track in a positive way theyre going to revamp everything the venue is going to be turned into qualify medical centers the infrastructure will be in place to make sure that you know they can move forward without a hitch. Can you imagine that crystal were going to be seeing these German Bundesliga soccer games and new spectators right you know seders us right now spectators well you know their bread and butter is t. V. Revenues but t. V. Revenue if they didnt get things done in fact if they dont get things done by the end of june that means several clubs face insolvency you know ive heard numbers as high as 13 teams are facing insolvency right now 300000000 euros they stand to gain if the season concludes so theyre pushing for that you know you know but all in all i think one c. E. O. From the defending champions byron munich call hydes ruminated basically said this can be a symbol to the rest of the world of how our plan work and get back to some sense of normalcy what does this decision mean for other sports than around the world are they looking to see what the Business League is going to do you know with it without doubt of course they are but you know a lot of credit to the press conference i did take note of a lot of credit went to the population of germany you know for at harry into all of the social distancing the restrictions in place a lot of times 2nd wave of infections you know get out of hand because people do not adhere to those policies you know be a lot of credit goes to the people in germany is well but i think all of leagues are going to be watching this because this is a very lucrative league and you know its the biggest show in town in this country so i think all eyes will be on the bonus league and specifically may 15th may 15th the movie watching to see what those empty stadiums look like too thats going to be something new for the people watching on t. V. As well Chris Harrington from sports president you ok. Well a day after he announced that the white house is looking to phase out its Coronavirus Task force us President Donald Trump who apparently has changed his mind in a tweet the u. S. President says the task force will continue on indefinitely with its focus on safety and opening up our country again now he. Added that the members on that task force could change so is a task force with a different focus and different members still the same task force thats up for debate for now trump says that dr anthony found he will remain on the team at least for now. With the corona virus crisis has highlighted just how interdependent the world really is a new Global Initiative called one shared world it is launching today with the goal of creating a movement that aims to find Global Solutions to global issues the initiative hopes to influence government leaders to Work Together and has drawn up a declaration of inter dependence which you can sign up to on line Thomas Jefferson he wrote the us declaration of independence the Thomas Jefferson of the declaration of interdependence you could say joins me right now im happy to welcome jamie metzl he is founder of one shared world james good to have you on the day ive been reading through your resume here council of Foreign Relations council of the u. S. Senate committee on Foreign Relations an advisor at the department of the state i mean youve served us president s on issues such as iraq and Kosovo International global multilateral and that also describes one shared world doesnt. It really does and ive also worked for the United Nations right now im an expert advisor on human genome editing to the World Health Organization but even if i was the greatest nationalist in the world even if i thought that everyone should just look out for themselves the way that we all need to do it is by recognizing how interdependent we are and that we cannot survive if we dont look out for each other and if this virus is teaching us anything its that walls dont work the way we protect ourselves is by protecting all humans and up to now the voice of our collective humanity he just hasnt been at the table we have our countries they come and negotiate with each other and our government representatives are doing what we asked them to do which is represent the National Interest but nobodys looking out for our collective interests and thats what were trying to do to create a social movement and a Political Force doing just that is one shared world and the idea that the rooms because governments have failed maybe not failed their voters but maybe failed humanity. Absolutely our governments have failed us thats what this pandemic is it was totally preventable it was preventable had china or the United States or others didnt did it better done a better job front that would have prevented if we collectively had created a World Health Organization that had the resources and the mandate to do the job we all needed to do need it to do that could have prevented this crisis this is an entirely avoidable crisis and the core issue isnt just the coronavirus or deadly pathogens its that we arent organized to solve any of the major existential shared challenges we face in until we do that were just going to keep jumping out of the frying pan into the fire and thats what this movement is about where you say were not organized to do to deal with these global problems but isnt that what the United Nations was created to do would you say that the you when in the World Health Organization have they failed us as well. They have but its not their fault i mean i love the u. N. As i said before i used to work for the u. N. I do some work now with the w. H. O. These are incredible organizations staffed by some amazing people working their hearts out but the problem is we have a world essentially controlled by states the International Organizations are created funded and largely controlled by states and thats the issue is that we dont have the w. H. O. That we need i might guess if you ask everybody at the w. H. O. Do they have the tools they need to do their job they would say no were not giving them those tools and the reason were not is that there isnt a collective voice of all of us demanding that actions be taken to protect us and whether thats having a real way of responding and preventing pathogenic outbreaks or addressing issues like Climate Change ecosystem destruction mass hunger which produces refugee flows weapons of mass destruction all of those things and want to set make another point about the creation of these wonderful institutions like the United Nations in the old days in 1941 in the heart of the crises that weve that we faced then we had great leaders like f. D. R. Like Winston Churchill who had a vision for what the world could be and how it could be different in most parts of the world we dont have those leaders now and so what we need to do is to divide up that job among all of us and we have these incredible tools and you called me the Thomas Jefferson of the declaration of interdependence in the lead in but really what we have done is we have hundreds of people from 35. 00 countries who have come together to collectively draft this document and so we really need to come together in a new way and its made seem in. Possibly crazy but the whole idea of the modern nation state thats not that old its 648. 00 treaty of westphalia and then 1905 the end of the 2nd world war is the beginning of all these really wonderful International Organizations including the un and the e. U. And other things that over the years were were created and now 2020 in many ways its the end of the postwar period and were going to build something new and the question is what will be the foundations of that new thing and we are fighting to make sure that the new structure represents everybody well jimmy i like what youre saying but for this for the time being were stuck with the nation states and that means leaders such as donald trump have a lot of power and a lot of authority under President Trump you know as well as i do that the u. S. Has retreated f