at the time as dick turks went just having a difficult time in greece. in neighboring bulgaria joining the 1980 s. the communist authorities and balts on a brutal policy of force assimilation including giving ethnic turks slavic names. this was the impetus for the because of the so did that it's because their names were changed through christian mass which for a muslim to have a christian name is in france. and in the sound of 100-9000 think way 350000 troops left for the u.k. . it's unsurprising that so many left people would be eaten and fined just for speaking turkish thousands were jailed across the country at places like better than a an infamous to tension center where 500 turks were. imprisoned without trial for resisting the forcible changing of the names. but that was bulgaria a communist dictatorship in greece the birthplace of democracy in the heart of the e.u. things were supposed to be different but athens has always been a world away from west and thrice and most just geographically as we soon find for ourselves from the moment we arrived i

this is deja vu news live from berlin greece begins relocating unaccompanied children from its overcrowded migrant camps to other european countries germany is already well come to grips with nearly 50 children due to the coronavirus pandemic they now have to spend 2 weeks in quarantine before going to their new homes also coming up. the mayor of cape town proudly shows off his facility for homeless people during the lockdown but those on the other side of the fence don't see it quite the same way plus. the civil defense volunteers aiming to cheer up residents confined by the lockdown in spain with a bit of song and dance. i married to evanston it's good to have you with us germany has welcomed the 1st group of unaccompanied minors to arrive from refugee camps in greece the camps have been criticized by human rights groups as being dangerous for children with greece facing a crisis within a crisis migration and the coronavirus pandemic at the same time you can trees are stepping in to take some of the pressure off germany will take in $350.00 children young people in total around $1500.00

but that was bulgaria a communist dictatorship in greece. the birthplace of democracy in the heart of the e.u. things were supposed to be different but athens has always been a world away from west and thrice and most just geographically as we soon find for ourselves from the moment we arrived in the region to make this film we were followed by unmarked police cars stopped and interrogated about our movements on one occasion although it was always all of us we were journalists we were even briefly arrested on suspicion of espionage and threatened with years in jail after being held overnight have a lawyer secure whatever they. were they get hired your bunch of guys they teach in touch with. some other still must look. this is pretty big you can like yucatan the correct me check out this is another. quote this if i don't put it. earlier amman is the editor of a turkish language newspaper. when police intimidation fail to silence the paper was sued for 1000000 euros. beating your you will get out of your your pond because they teach in. becaus

new homes in germany are due to arrive this weekend greece has faced criticism for failing to provide decent conditions for minors at its detention centers the plan is to relocate hundreds of them to a dozen you states but germany says the process has been held up by red tape arrival in luxembourg these were the 1st children to be relocated this week from the refugee camps on the greek islands 1600 unaccompanied minors are being relocated around europe and initial group is travelling to germany on saturday isn't asleep we are striving to provide help as policy of a european solution we offer that early on already on march the 8th the german government decided to accept at least $350.00 children from the camps. 5 of the children will eventually travel here to parts time just south of berlin mayor mike shubert has been demanding action from the german government for months because we could certainly take in more we've already said that in january it's wise to me it's interesting i'm quite a positive person so i see it as an initial step in getting people here but more have to follow qui

the impact of the pandemic here in greece very very low we've just had about 100 deaths here compared to the thousands and tens of thousands that we've seen gripping europe as far as the refugees these measures have applied from the start so much more in these abysmal camps and refugee camps there have been cases the government has quickly isolated them and what it has managed to do is not to allow them to spread to further communities within especially these islands and to care saba there in in greece for us thank you so much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the world health organization says many other countries will probably have to follow china in revising their death tolls upwards w.h.o. experts say discrepancies arose because the chinese health system which they warn that other nations may be facing the same challenge. u.n. chief. has urged richard nations to grant debt freezes to developing countries he told a virtual conference that africa needed more than $200000000000.00 to cope with the pandemic. the powerful chief of staff for nigerian leader

news live from berlin greece begins relocating unaccompanied children from its overcrowded migrant camps to other european countries germany has already welcome to group of nearly 50 children due to the coronavirus pandemic they now have to spend 2 weeks in quarantine before going to their new homes also coming up the mayor of cape town proudly shows off his facility for homeless people during the coronavirus last down but those on the other side of the fence do not see it quite the same way. and the civil defense volunteers aiming to cheer up residents confined by the lockdown in spain there's a bit of song anthrax. i'm married to evans teen it's good to have you with us germany has welcomed the 1st group of unaccompanied minors to arrive from migrant camps in greece will now have to spend 2 weeks in a quarantine before they'll be able to go to their new homes that's in order to reduce their risk of contracting corona virus or passing it on to others hundreds of children are being relocated all across. europe arrival in luxembourg these what of 1st children to be relocated this week fro

yes but it's us says greece will focus on attracting visitors from the middle east and the balkans where governments have so far successfully quelled to the spread of the virus the government is spending more than 5000000000 dollars subsidizing businesses and employees so they can get back to work again when the situation improves it's a gamble the to return to normality will be a matter of weeks not months jumps out all close al-jazeera athens. you can get much more nor most stories and been telling you about it if you head over to our website. story the address under-served dot com. let's take you through some of those headlines now russia is reporting another record daily rise in new infections with more than 2700 the government says 170 russians have died but the total number of cases now more than 21000 from london need parker has more policing any kind of restrictions on people's ordinary and daily lives is going to be very very difficult indeed what we know about though a kind of restrictions that are in place in the big cities like moscow and st peters where we know that people a

a shelter in southern greece have tested positive for the corona virus the hospital in the town of kearney was placed in isolation on monday hundreds of people who live and work there were tested after it was confirmed that a pregnant woman was infected last week it's the 3rd migrant facility in greece to confirm cases of the virus. those are the top stories where you can get more on everything that we have been covering here on our website the address al jazeera dot com stay with us coming up next it's the street asking how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting people with disabilities and i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour join me that.

are fears of the continent could see millions of infections in the coming months also on the program greece begins relocating unaccompanied children from its overcrowded migrant camps to other drippy in countries germany is already will come to rebuild nearly 50 miners will begin a new life here plus orthodox christians are gearing up for their easter celebrations this weekend but in moscow churches have been forced to close due to coronavirus restrictions and congregations must instead get together online. i marry in evanston it's good to have you with us africa has officially recorded more than 1000 deaths from covert 19 but the united nations economic mission commission for africa predicts that the pandemic will likely kill even in a best case scenario at least 300000 people in the continent and it could push 30000000 into extreme poverty africa's 54 countries have so far reported a small fraction of the world's coronavirus cases but health officials say. that's because of limited testing capability they warn that in the next 6 months africa could see as many as $10000000.00 infections a

on how greece's dependency on tourism is proving a weakness during the pandemic. there are still some fine weather to be found across central and eastern areas of europe because the change is already taking place you can see a lot of had been steamy and of all see as and raining comes in quite a bit of the central areas but as i say it's not all bad and this was certainly a good day german isn't she in berlin this of course was on sunday and this is also on the coast of germany so a bit of a change there because a lot of the sun you can see probably being blown in the very strong winds coming down to the north coast of manoel so through till 8 countries but really sick i see cheese day it's about the can continue to push across these areas being so much colder on the line of rain which is working quite swiftly over towards the east now some very heavy amounts of rain again across into the balkans maybe even some snow says high elevations and a very messy taken on cheese across much of spain and portugal not see found really across the west and in fact the temperat

how greece's dependency on tourism is proving a weakness during and then again. how we got the usual scattering of showers across southeast asia some of the showers there into malaysia into indonesia i had also some showers now starting to show their hand across the philippines south and indeed across a good part of indochina so i will see some wet weather coming into thailand as we go on into wednesday scattering the showers into northern parts of the philippines now some of them all going to be on the heavy side well where sunshine and showers but they are there nevertheless and the similar picture as we go on into thursday some very wet weather once again into indonesia one of today's shaz scraping the far north of australia just around the top and maybe to northern parts of queensland much of ours is fine and dry because high pressure dominating down towards the southeast was talking of the war one there in adelaide probably the last woman we're going to say for a while 30 celsius on where to stay falls back to just 20 degrees as we go what is to thursday but

a shelter in southern greece have tested positive for the corona virus the hospital in the town of kearney was placed in isolation on monday hundreds of people who live and work there were tested after it was confirmed that a pregnant woman was infected last week it's the 3rd migrant facility in greece to confirm cases of the virus. those are the top stories remember you can get more on everything that we have been covering here on our website the adverse al-jazeera dot called stay with us coming up next it's the street asking how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting people with disabilities and i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour journey that.

pay you dismantle and a good thing to do because i've been living off that rent for the past month greece is spending $15000000000.00 supporting affected businesses and workers until june it's locked down began early carnival celebrations were canceled in february schools were closed on march 10th a week before france and germany and 10 days before the u.k. people who don't live on the islands aren't allowed to sail there so ferries a traveling light mainly to keep trade alive all this has led to greece having a fatality rate of 9 per 1000000 much lower than the death rates in most european countries sources close to the prime minister say the government knew the national health system couldn't cope with a major outbreak early measures would create a recession but so would a health crisis so the government opted to trigger an early recession calculating that this would save lives and give it a stronger economic recovery but some say there was another goal stemming from greece's decade long economic crisis. crisis and the virus and what we want to show you. can respond to. an expected even

growth next year if that assessment is correct coronavirus could mark a turning point giving greece the economic recovery many here want after a decade of economic crisis jumps at all plus al-jazeera athens. turning now to other news and the death toll from calendars worst ever mass shooting has risen to 18 the shooter was disguised as a police officer as he opened fire in the province of nova scotia on sunday bodies were found around the town of or to peak prime minister justin trudeau paid tribute to the victim saying the attacks and shaken the country. this happened in small towns quarter peak truro milford and infield are places where people have deep roots places where people know their neighbors and look out for one another there everyone knows of mountie because they're everything from police officers to social workers to team counselors now these communities are in mourning and canada is in mourning with an interim told daniel lack says they so still trying to piece together what happened. these are tight knit communities indeed the province as a whole is fairly tight knit p

exhausted and with nowhere to turn to these young pakistani men managed to slip into greece when bashir says the turkish military force them to the border he tells us they've been walking aimlessly for the last 10 hours. we're being moved from one side to the other the military is doing that we're stuck in the middle in the beginning there were 20 to 25 people that only us 3 made it the others were arrested they know that if they are caught by the greek police they too will be arrested. others didn't even get that far like these migrants who gathered behind the border fence in turkey in an attempt to cross greek security forces used tear gas against them and allegedly even deadly force. these images from the other side of the border were given to us by the turkish government injured migrants being carried around from the fence. on caresses greek security forces shot live rounds into the crowds killing one and injuring 5 others a claim the greek government has called fake news. people here in the border town of custom yes for a long have felt abandoned by the european union local mayor.

greece quarantines the 1st greek migrant camp to be hit with an outbreak the concerns that conditions inside a recently spreading the virus. here president putin extends russia's paid leave for non-essential workers and home isolation until the end of april as coronavirus case is by. very good afternoon this is out international from moscow it's just to midday this friday my name's kevin owen i'm here with this next 30 minute world news roundup for you and 1st the latest figures in the covert 19 pandemic today to brief you on the total number of corona virus cases around the globe as now exceeded 1000000 with the largest numbers of cases registered in the united states italy and spain the number of deaths to continues its troubling rise it's now more than 53000 however there is some encouraging news as well the number of recoveries is also soaring and it's now exceeded 213. in other news in israel making sure all communities abide by strict lockdown rules is proving difficult apparently there are more than 7000 known infections there despite intense movement restrictions one hot spot

coming up tonight so you'll meet 5 year old mohammad one of thousands of children in refugee camps in greece with the coronavirus threat the situation is looking bleak for him and many others and did it take a virus to end israel political paralysis after 3 elections in less than a year prime minister benjamin netanyahu agrees to form an emergency unity government with his rival. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with a journey back in business but still at risk today stores and shops in germany reopened after what has been a 5 week coronavirus induced shutdown it is a 1st step in what will be a long gradual return to economic normality and it comes in a world that still dominated by the new normal the coronavirus the german chancellor issued a warning today. it's shopping but it's not as we knew it at this store in cologne customers are required to keep a safe distance from one another. but will that happen when more people come. chancellor merkel and that it's the easing of germany's strict lock time just days ago but now she says she's worried people may think t

now greece has sealed off a migrant camp near athens after 21 people there tested positive for hiv 19 they include a mother who had recently given birth in hospital she was traced back to the red sonja camp crop prompting doctors to test other asylum seekers there while john seraphina's joins us now from athens john i understand this campaign has a capacity for around 2500 people so what's happening to them all now. well the authorities are now testing people who knew the pregnant woman who delivered a few days ago in hospital i'm on the 1st of april. and was found to be positive for corona virus there so they're now testing her family and friends and they're moving outwards in concentric circles as these things generally do to zen test the people that they came into contact with and so on it's not clear whether they're going to eventually test the entire camp of about 2400 people but the tests are ongoing today and those 21 cases you talked about control the big worry of course here in greece is not about its own account but about moria camp which is much bigger the largest increase

greece begins relocating unaccompanied children from its overcrowded microchip camps to other european countries germany is already welcomed to group of nearly 50 miners will begin a new life here plus during. the civil defense volunteers even to cheer up residence confined by the coronavirus lockdown in spain where the rate of song and dance. omarion evanston welcome to the program africa has officially recorded more than 1000 deaths from covert 19 but the united nations economic commission for africa predicts that the pandemic will likely kill even in a best case scenario at least 300000 people on the continent and it could push so. 30000000 into extreme poverty africa's 54 countries have so far reported a small fraction of the world's coronavirus cases but health officials say that's because of limited testing capability they warn that in the next 6 months africa could see as many as 10000000 infections and global economic groups saying well over 100000000000 dollars is needed to assist the continent. on joining us now is emma naylor in google and she's the regional director of the

came in as part of the troika that the whole greece meltdown in ireland the down at that time you know are leading up to that crisis the i.m.f. was rumored to be bankrupt or i met was going to go out of business because there was no need for the i.m.f. and there was a lot of speculation at the time that you know the i.m.f. was kind of greasing the skids for yet another metaphor. to cause the greek meltdown remember there was a lot of shenanigans going on goldman sachs cooked the books for greece that they could get into the euro under the master trading they they obliterated all the rules and regulations they got them in then greece quickly went into the garbage dump became a flaming dumpster and the i.m.f. suddenly had a role to play it something was relevant to the yen and now here we are in 2020 and the i.m.f. is like bailing out half the world over there i made a good job themselves of it because they've become somebody in this world you know the i.m.f. from from being almost completely marginalized and worthless well back about 100 years ago we had this notion of communism and soc

on safe ground the 1st unaccompanied minor bring children from greece's overcrowded camps landed once the birth to begin a new life. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us germany is about to take the 1st step to reopening its economy beginning next monday stores in. will be back in business schools will be back in session beginning the 4th of may the decision was reached today during consultations between chancellor i'm going to america and leaders of germany's 16 states. describing the country's success against the coronavirus pandemic as fragile with little room for maneuver or mistake. it's been 3 weeks since chancellor angela merkel announced the initial restrictions on contact now that being largely extended social distancing rules will remain in place until may 3rd groups will remain limited to 2 people and at least 1.5 metres must be kept from of us. from may 4th schools will gradually re-open 1st for school leave us in primary and secondary education day care will remain shut religious gatherings will also remain banned while major events including germany's beloved foo

on a safe around the 1st unaccompanied migrant children from greece and overcrowded camps land in luxembourg to begin a new life and her. current big dreams may have been boxed in for now but this tunisian fighter is doing all she can under lockdown to prepare for the postpone summer games next year. i'm claire richards and welcome to the show germany is about to take the 1st steps to reopening its economy beginning on monday smaller stores will be back in business while some schools are set to reopen on may 4th the decision was reached on wednesday during consultations between chancellor angela merkel and leaders of germany's 16 states described the country's success against the pandemic as fragile and partial. it's been 3 weeks since chancellor angela merkel announced the initial restrictions on contact now have been largely extended social distancing rules will remain in place until may 3rd groups will remain limited to 2 people and at least 1.5 metres must be kept from of us. from may 4th schools will gradually re-open 1st for school leavers in primary and secondary education day care wi

the current virus outbreak hit greece at a time when it was still recovering from a major refugee and financial crisis but fatalities have been relatively low after the country introduced a lockdown measures earlier than most other european nations and the countries there hoping for a quick economic recovery john psaropoulos reports from athens. says the coronavirus has been good for his business especially in the run up to easter and. people are stocking up on food because they're afraid of shortages but they're also sitting at home watching cooking shows and experimenting with new recipes. is one of the businesses considered essential by the government that didn't have to close due to coronavirus customers have to keep their distance one per 15 square metres but for other firms it's a different story. they look down measures were announced on a friday night i was about to pay my rent i'm such a morning and called my landlord to say i'm not going to pay you dismantle and a good thing too because i've been living off that rent for the past month greece is spending $15000000000.00 supp

and the 1st case of 19 is detected in one of greece's overcrowded migrant caps activists warn an outbreak they could devastate one of the vulnerable populations one of the most vulnerable populations in europe. i'm jarid rate i'm glad you could join me vera now more than $300000.00 confirmed cases of corona virus in the united states more than anywhere else in the world in hot heat regions like new york state and california medical supplies have started to run lower the death toll already stands at 8000 speaking to the american public on saturday president donald trump warned that the coming weeks would likely see that number climb even higher just will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week. they'll be a lot of death unfortunately but a lot less death death than if this wasn't done but there will be death. we're looking for an obvious focus and the hardest hit regions some of them are obvious and some aren't so obvious they spring up they come and they. they hit you like you got hit by a club and that was donald trump speaking to the american people on saturday wit

for greece not to allow these neurons was an opportunity to apply for asylum on the basis that because they carry this extra suspicion and threat of infection they should be treated separately and kept in separate courses and quickly to put it back to their home countries given that there are no infections among them as yet that may be a strengthening argument in favor of allowing these people retroactively to apply for asylum in europe thank you thought out that they don't stop us live from athens . a quarter of a 1000000 european union citizens are expected to be flown home soon in a large scale repatriation effort by their governments 350000 others mostly tourists have already been airlifted from all of the world by chartered airliners and military aircraft reports. it could be a hospital reception but as bolivia's airport the country's airspace is closed part of measures to contain covert 19 it came back to life on saturday after the french embassy organized an exception to get european tourists home but i remember. actually my return date had expired the airline hired rescheduled

it's not just one greece past that's proving controversial. these people are protesting over all bans plan to close hungary's leading educational establishment the central european university known as the see you which in shrines the ideas of democracy and liberalism it is not only about. promoting about preaching about open society democratic but it's about studying no imperfections of democracy. the c.e.u. has an open door policy to students regardless of ethnicity and so the brights multiculturalism. a stance which puts a total it's with all but who in 2017 decided to close it sparking incredulity. congo ariens should ask themselves who benefits here. does it benefit budapest to chase an institution out of the country does it benefit hungary. thousands came out onto the streets angry and bewildered at the time greece finest university was being forced to relocate to the n. many believe open slaving for the c.e.u. is done to the fact that it was funded by george soros they for destiny neither is a link and claim that the universities ability

greece quarantines a migrant camp after 20 asylum seekers test positive for the virus. and a pakistani court overturns the magic conviction of a man accused of killing wall street journal reporter daniel. i'm joining us though with the sports top tennis players say they devastated out of this year's wimbledon championships a cancelled but the delay in the season is also leaving many players financially. now spain has just recorded a record jump in daily deaths from corona virus anywhere in the wild 950 people as we've been saying have died in the past 24 hours bringing the toll there to more than 10000 with another 8000 people infected in the last day the number of confirmed cases it's now surpassed 110000 these latest numbers put spain on par with italy well now most are rare is joining me live from madrid even more sobering figures today not only a new record for spain but the while too. $150.00 coronavirus dead in spain seems yesterday again did that lead us day and with more than $10000.00 in total the death rate rises to 9.07 percent more than $800.00 new infection

still ahead here on al-jazeera refugees and migrants put under quarantine in greece softer more than 100 people test positive for the virus. and we've looked at how candid is the energy sector is being impacted by the well plunge. however we've got the rain clouds gathering once again across southern parts of china be seeing some rather heavy rain pushing out of the central areas up towards japan the area of low pressure is swirling away here it's moving out of the way that will push over into the open waters of the northwest pacific still a legacy of showers just tucking in behind with that keen easterly wind just pushing its way through process guys come back in behind 9 celsius in seoul so struggling a little in the temperatures but there is that wetter weather for southern parts of china if anything it gets wet a stale as we go through thursday some heavy downpours sunny a possibility to northern parts of vietnam we could see some rather wet weather to into central southern areas the vietnam as we go through the next couple days little more clout just popping up here from time to

still ahead here on al-jazeera refugees and migrants put under quarantine in greece after more than 100 people test positive for corona virus. and bells toll in churches and temples as for lanka mourns the victims of last year's bomb attacks. hello welcome to have a look at the international forecast in place so we've got some quality weather now into the deep south of the u.s. southern parts of florida as well following on from a severe storms something of a brief rest by tash we have got more wet weather gathering a keen solidly wind pushing in across texas but in that moisture in from the gulf of mexico you can see that really wet weather setting in across the eastern side of texas as we go on us through wednesday pushes right up through oklahoma pushes right up into the central plains and that will continue to drive its way further east was into the appalachians as we go on through the next couple of days then so brace yourself for more severe storms possibly with some tornadoes but the skies come back in behind but the peppering of showers there over the high ground up towards the

greece was a prime example of the latter. surrounded by the waters of the two -- of the mediterranean, it was of prime strategic importance. it won its independence, with british help in 1832. its proximity to the flaxseed made a key to russian access to the mediterranean and the british maintained a military presence and provided economic support. later, it remained a battleground in the contest between the west and the communist world. the germans invaded and even before ve day, the country was ravaged by a civil war between government forces and communist insurgents. early 1947, britain could no longer maintain its commitment to greek and turkish security. the british ambassador delivered a note to the american secretary of state in announcing the end of his government's financial support of the teedo countries. the british postwar retrenchment would have created a dangerous power vacuum in a part of the world the soviets long to establish a presence. the united states had a difficult choice to make, whether to follow prec

on wednesday, greece began moving children out of camps, with some being sent abroad. no coronavirus cases have been reported from migrant camps on the aegean islands but there have been infections in camps on the mainland. greece has fared much better than its other southern european neighbours during the outbreak, despite being hit by years of austerity. so far it's only recorded just over 2,000 confirmed cases and about 100 deaths. the greek health system was badly hit during the crisis and we did not have the luxury of waiting. the government followed the very decisive approach from the very start where greece is one of the first countries right after italy to impose lockdown across the board. about a month since then, it was very heavily front load with the sequence of measures, but it is actually worked. the number, the curve is flattened and we started from about over 80, close to 100 cases every day and we were down to 15. it is less then less every day. the number of deaths have declined in the hospitals have been able to ta ke in the hospitals have been able

nieve barca al-jazeera london at least 150 asylum seekers have tested positive for the virus in greece the hostile outside which is home to nearly 500 people has been in lockdown since april 16 when a pregnant woman contracted the virus is the 3rd migrant facility in greece with confirmed cases of covered 19 is john psaropoulos with an update on the situation there. the government placed this hoto where these 470 asylum seekers are being kept under quarantine last thursday because on that day a woman who works at the hotel cooking and cleaning for these people tested positive on sunday one of the asylum seekers tested positive and that was an accidental discovery she is 6 months pregnant and had gone to hospital for a checkup so now everyone in that facility is being tested what makes that different from previous cases because there have been 2 asylum seeker camps that have also had infections in the past is the quantity the number of people infected presumably because they're living in close quarters. we had a case of 28 positive tests but in a camp that holds about 2000 we had 4 posi

were 18,000 covid—19 in greece were 18,000 people are living in a facility built for 3000. you can't travel to moria. greece has a quarantine in place for visitors and we don't want to risk ringing the virus there. but a group of young filmmakers have sent us this footage. there are water taps. there is no water inside it. yasser is 18. he's been here for five months. the taps are right next to them so it's disgusting. the few hours the people have access to water, its overcrowded and someone wa nts to water, its overcrowded and someone wants to use the water, also on the to i lets. wants to use the water, also on the toilets. you see them, they are not usable. people have no good access to doctor because of the crowding. they have no access to masks, to prevent themselves from virus corona. and that's it. while the rest of europe is being told to stay home, people here have to crowd around a truck to get a limited supply of drinking water every day. they have to queue for food and like everywhere else in europe, the shops on the island of lesbos are running out of soap and

virus is still ripping through greece's main markets. markets. the u.k. germany france and the united states so we know that there is a huge problem from the international markets and please keep in mind that greece. receipts from tourists 90 percent cash from the national markets and it says greece will focus on attracting visitors from the middle east and the balkans where governments have so far successfully quelled to the spread of the virus the government is spending more than $5000000000.00 subsidizing businesses and employees so they can get back to work again when the situation improves it's a gamble the to return to normality will be a matter of weeks not months jumpstart openoffice al-jazeera athens health authorities in china who approved 2 more experimental vaccines for testing on humans another clinical trial got the green light last month but experts say there are dangers now rushing ahead with any potential solution jessica washington has. every day there's a new frontline in the fight against covered 19 is outbreak is seemingly unrelenting

we will be joined by the greece tourism minister. thatmt beaches, what does mean for their forecast? -- with empty beaches, what does that mean for their forecast? that is our conversation next. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: good morning, everyone. this is "bloomberg surveillance ." let's talk about terrorism. more than 31 million people visited greece last year. sector of tourism accounting for a quarter of all jobs. -- what can we expect to see in easing of restrictions? the pleased to be joined by industry of tourism on the phone. when do you plan to reopen greek hotels? >> well, as you can imagine, this is a complex exercise, and our government, with the decisions of the prime minister, was moved very early, very decisively, very quickly to ensure that we have a very flat curve, and we are very glad to say that we have managed to be successful. as you can imagine, we are starting on a new phase of lifting the measures. tonight the prime minister will announce the exact timetable, so i don't want to preclude his announcements,

about how greece is falling apart. kelly cobiella, thank you very much. >>> in talking about the opening up of countries, especially to tourists, you might wonder when you can get on a plane again. i'd look to the cancellations happening around europe. octobertest cancelled in munich. so is the running of the bulls in spain. countries may be easing the lockdowns but not everybody is as comfortable as greece is welcoming tourists back in. let's go now to madrid where willem marx stands by waiting for us. what do you have? >> 15% of this country's gdp relies on tourism. they come to venues like this one. this is the cathedral of bull fighting. la plaza de los toros. 25,000 people come here dozens of times a year to watch hundreds of bulls essentially getting slaughtered in the middle of this arena. this is a $5 billion industry here in spain. we've been hearing from matadors, the tailors and breeders of these animals all asking for money from the government. $700 or so million. this arena is really a stand-in. we've seen

and reckon just like germany can help greece i think some of them. mr sharon now sweeping your time in your insights tonight thank you i thank you. well here's a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world that germany's education minister has told the w. news that the government plans to give interest free loans to students in need the loan program would be extended to international students who are not from the european union brazil's president. has joined crowds at a public rally in brasilia he criticized coronavirus walk down measures imposed by state governors brazil has the highest number of infections in latin america but continues to downplay the severity of the pandemic in australia 3 beaches in sydney are open again in a tentative step to ease coronavirus restrictions locals are allowed to exercise there but must respect physical distance to the city's most famous stretch of sand bondi beach remains closed. finally israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has agreed to form an emergency unity government with his