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welcome to the program germany's institute for infectious diseases says it fears a 2nd. could be under way the institute said there had been a significant infections in recent days authorities have been on red alert for people bringing the virus back from abroad. from high risk regions. relatively well in suppressing with just over 200010000 deaths. now here's what the head of the robert institute had to say about the latest developments. but don't any noise

ladies and gentlemen this latest rise in covert 1000 cases here in germany is leaving all of us here at the hole but institute once very concerned. after we had managed to keep the number of cases stable for several weeks so we have again seen a significant rise in the case and for several days. so a significant rise in the number of cases for more we're now joined by dr to be a school's who's a professor of public health and epidemiology at the show it's a hospital here in the berlin dr ruth as we heard the infection rate in germany has risen sharply why is this happening now well we all getting less careful in the gathering with people restaurants open and opening up pops opening up the pockets of all the weather's nice and people travelling coming back and they get in fact it's doing their travel and so it's not a surprise that the number of infections are rising you speak of travellers coming

back to germany now germany has decided to introduce mandatory testing for trouble was returning from particularly high risk regions do you think this will be an effective way to limit new infections is not going to be perfect because we're not will we will not get all the infections that people are getting you into trouble spots a good intervention to really assured that we do the best possible to identify those who have been infected it's our scope to able to get this virus to another person in germany. no britain has imposed a 40 day quarantine on people returning from spain do you think other countries should be following britain's need. well we have to watch the situation very carefully and not outside of the e.u. but also inside of the year doubt some hot spots and we have to based on a pretty much daily evaluation of the situation and see what we can do testing is

one thing we can do the other thing is to put or to ask people to stay in currency and so yes probably other will follow this depending on the situation in spain other countries in the e.u. and elsewhere speaking of these rising infections some experts have suggested that europe is experiencing a 2nd we've of course all of us infections what are your thoughts on this so is the question how we define a 2nd wave certainly we see the rate of infections going up and this could well be the beginning of the 2nd wave this means that we have to be very very careful to not risk what we have achieved particularly in germany but other regions in europe as well to really stay on a very low rate of infections what really needs to be happening across europe for instance to keep this to be a different direction or. it's very difficult to say it's all to depend on the

specific region we are talking about certainly wearing masks keeping a physical distance trying to keep places that high risk that it is in the world where many people gather together. lower risk situations and so these are things that we have implemented in parts of europe certainly very important to also implement elsewhere in the world if your dog does experience a 2nd way of looking it was just a matter is not of this question if you want to experience a 2nd wave would it be far worse than what europe is already experienced. it's also difficult to say but we certainly have to be concerned and we have to prevent that people getting severely ill and also that the hospitals are getting full as we've seen during the 1st wave as we're waiting for a vaccine we really have to ensure that those regions where you have high rate of infections are really not isolated but certainly taking measures that the infection

rate continues to slow again dr to be as coach professor of public health and epidemiology of the shot at a hospital in berlin thank you so much. thank you let's have a quick look now at some other developments in the cone of august pandemic global deaths from the virus have topped 650000 with nearly a 3rd of those thought to have been in europe alone that's as fears of a renewed surge in infections push a number of countries to reimpose restrictions not long after they were lifted china has reported its 1st cases of domestic transmission in more than 2 weeks with a number of new clusters of the infections scattered around the country and in vietnam all thought of these have put the country's 5th biggest city done and on lockdown up to 15 coronavirus infections were discovered in the hospital but big transport has been canceled in and out of the city which is home to more than 1000000 people. now to some of the other stories making news around the world new zealand's foreign minister says his country has to spend its extradition treaty

with hong kong and. china on a number of matters it's a response to security law which significantly limits civil liberties in hong kong . in pakistan heavy floods inundating karachi have killed at least 5 people experts blame flooding on design development clogged drainage systems and climate change which is affecting monsoon patterns. iraq's new prime minister has. offered to protest as were killed in clashes with security forces in baghdad on monday most. said the protests were legitimate but demonstrators accuse him of failing to stop response to the rallies. now former prime minister of malaysia has been found guilty of corruption in the 1st of several trials linked to the stealing of billions of dollars from a state development fund the case is being seen as

a test for malaysia's efforts to stamp out corruption. the court in kuala lumpur found former prime minister najib razak guilty on all 7 charges during his time in the government billions of bringeth disappeared from state investment fund one m d b prosecutors allege some 700000000 dollars landed in his private account and were used to buy luxury watches and diamond necklaces to fund one malaysia development or one m d b was founded to finance infrastructure projects including in the energy sector but in 2015 evidence of money laundering and theft emerged in 2018. month was ousted and the judicial proceedings began.

goldman sachs is also deeply embroiled in a vast financial scandal having helped set up the one m. d. b. last week the investment bank agreed to a $3900000000.00 settlement with the malaysian government regarding allegations of wrongdoing against its employees najib razak will be sentenced at a later date with each of the charges carrying a potentially lengthy prison sentence. he faces 4 more trials linked to the scandal though the former leader has maintained his innocence and he said he will appeal today's verdict. now it's being seen as the great hope for generating clean power nuclear fusion today scientists in france start assembling an enormous international nuclear fusion reactor norn by the. french president is hosting a 72. it's already taken 10 years in

a global scientific effort to get this far another mean construction of the huge complex in southern france will begin with components from all over the world the idea is to create energy not by splitting atoms like nuclear power stations do now but by fusing them together. for decades scientists have been trying to tap into the power that drives the sun nuclear fusion the hope is that it can be used to meet tomorrow's energy demands the basic science is passing conditions like those in the sun such as very high temperatures hydrogen atoms will fuse creates helium and release a lot of energy the hydrogen could be extracted from seawater making it a practically unlimited resource. is basically the opposite of conventional nuclear . power you're splitting a heavy element and it releases energy so you end up with the products afterwards

which are required to handle. a train reaction so there's no possibility for it to run away which is what causes. scientists this start up in the u.k. are working on nuclear fusion one of the biggest hurdles they face is how to get more energy out of the process than they have pushed in. researchers in southern france are also working on fusion the international project easter is building a giant experimental reactor it seeks to use he's to cause hydrogen to fuse. the reactor design is what's called to talk amok a huge hollow down us filled with super haas hydrogen plasma that flows through us like a ring of lightning held in place by powerful magnets. this is proved to be a major technical challenge and it still hard to predict how fusion energy can be

fed into the power grid many think it could take at least 2 more decades before this problem can be solved. we're now joined by hot one of the german scientists involved in the project professor told the tokamak reactor in france a giant experiment involving scientists from across the world and what is it hoping to achieve so what it's hoping to achieve is proof of principle that we can get net energy from nuclear fusion as was said this is source of energy or of the stars of our sun for example it's all the fusing hydrogen nuclei we have to make these very hot it's gas which goes off 200000000 degrees we have made this possible in our experiments already but we always had to put in more energy to heat up to get spend energy which is released from nuclear fusion ito will be the 1st

experiment that shows that we can get a net against all more energy from fusion then we can pause it in the present to eat it now nuclear fusion has been called the holy grail if you like of clean energy is it really as safe and green as it's cracked up to be. ok that of course depends who is going to crank it up to be so i think it's it's clear that it will be sustainable because the primary fuels on which is a hydrogen isotope from seawater and lithium from which we generate the treaty on the other hydrogen isotopes a little and. very widespread across the world and they are enough to sustain for a 100 percent thousands of years hundreds of thousands of us our energy months so it is getting sustainable it is clean in the sense that it does not produce any c o 2 or any emission off gas as we to do not wrong in the atmosphere it is also safe

because it can not have to sort of control it's a meltdown of all the device also of the energy contained in it is not enough for these it does however produce radioactive waste saw the structural materials are on top of which the machine can see it will be activated but different from fission these will have a half life time that after say 100 years you could touch and reprocess them very different from the millions of years we are talking fissionable you really have to put things deep underground and want to store it away for a long time so there is no long term storage in visit for the radioactive stuff which comes out of nuclear fusion reactors all this sounds fantastic and ideal therefore when can we expect to see a lot of energy needs powered by nuclear fusion. i just used to tend to be on your strategy so if you do do a sequential like we do in the e.u. we will have each other going into operation project going up to 5 years from now

and then showing a net energy gain or on 2035 we were then decided to build a follow up real reactor which would alter produce net electricity to the net which could do is buy in to 2040 s or say 2050 and then it could be deployed however if you are more hungry for energy like the chinese for example they are thinking about building a demonstration reactor in parallel to each other so these could produce electricity right 20 or 35 or 40 are 10 to 15 or 20 years earlier and started deployment could also be used 10 to 15 years earlier depends a bit on your strategy and how much you want to hop what song from the max planck institute thank you so much. they were come. in washington lawmakers and family members have been on arriving late to democratic congressman and civil rights pioneer john lewis a ceremony for lewis has been held inside the rotunda of the capitol building where

he is the 1st african-american congressman to lie in state here has died of cancer earlier this month at the age of 80. bidding farewell to a friend those who work side by side with the right john lewis paid tribute to his life and legacy. the 17 term congressman from georgia was a pioneer of the civil rights movement remembered for his on wavering pursuit of a quality floor all. through it all john was a person of greatness and also as a person of great humility always giving credit to others in the movement. john committed his life to advancing justice and understood that to build a better future we had to acknowledge the pest. house speaker nancy pelosi spoke of lewis is a man revered and beloved by post sides of the political aisle.

his body is lying in state at the capitol rotunda where lawmakers are members of the public a lock can pay their respects. to be a great man or is the joy for our civil rights and. it was my are so so many of our generation nowadays needs to look back and learn. how he helped to realize the ideals that this country was founded on that all men are created equal hopefully we as younger people will come together and continue to walk in his footsteps and carry on that mantle. arriving in washington on monday representative lewis took a final of the capital. his motorcade made a symbolic drive down black lives motto boulevard at a time of heightened racial tension in the u.s.

mourners lined the street to honor the late congressman. our recording of the late civil rights icon was played one last time for his fellow lawmakers. you know what he. live in peace. we are 1. 1 people and i want to thank you very much. for the words he wanted the world to remove by. now to ukraine where russia backed separatists have been accused of breaching a ceasefire in the country's east the separatists have denied their position the truce agreed with the help of international moderators were supposed to end 6 years of fighting that have killed more than 13000 people. the marks of war everywhere internets people here long for peace but the most recent cease fire was reportedly broken barely after it began ukraine's army blames pro russia separatists.

between 20 past midnight and quarter to one they fired small arms short range missiles and large caliber weapons nobody was injured. to separatist rejects the accusations russian television has been reporting extensively on the cease fire and on a phone call on sunday between presidents putin and selenski moscow expressed concern that ukraine's announcement that it wanted to renegotiate the peace plan. ukrainian troops have been fighting russia backed separatists in eastern ukraine since 2014 the united nations estimates that some 13000 people have been killed in the conflict. the pro russian separatists in what they call the done yet the people's republic support the latest ceasefire but it's not clear that the agreement will hold. if we face anime aggression the people's militia is prepared

to take appropriate action. this ceasefire is seen as an important precondition for a new peace summit german chancellor and get a makeover and french president and the new i might call brokered a meeting between putin and selenski in paris in december now they want to do the same in brendan. to cameroon now where a long history of mistrust between hospitals and the public has been made worse by the coronavirus the west african country has recorded more than 12000 coronavirus cases with more than 300 deaths but some families allege that the deaths attributed to covert 19 often not really caused by it doubles blasi young reports. this is great for the 1st time. feel.

but harry and. the hospital. something else. go off. on. time. so i guess what we can be different. people. there was no wheat. income. tree that grew out of the most fundamental in the country. since come. march. to.

the health minister request. camrose medical council which represent the country declined to comment on this report. when medicare exactly 2 more days. he shows are supporters of his brother in different hospitals are brought into 17 he was diagnosed with broken pneumonia and return to cameroon last july after the family was in close physical contact with him yet none of them has contacted the coronavirus abundant of course so we know we bury we just keep it in the week end of a bury. the money so i think save not spread the spread for don't go very far because in exhausting my number of tickets like meet my friends to get. did you just out of these books short of attacking a doctor on income goes like to see. these accusations forced to declare new

patients that are being caused by the coroner virus dramatic scenes like these come one come to says there are great christabel was she is a frontline doctor at the private hospital in the capital yeah i wouldn't be here just claims made by families. just accusation calm so most of the time because of denial denial of the 1000 diagnosis most people don't want to believe that they want to family members could have 19 this in iowa could be links to a number of factors 1st and then i also forced fish on over to death often enough one who receives his family has not seen it test results should his brother was if it there with a cord of virus you want but it's all like you don't get any. quick shift of focus to sports no in the united states the major league baseball season has only just started but it has already been rocked by a positive test for the current artist mark meadows for me that was paul does he

have tell us more mark what exactly is happening well we've had more than a dozen miami marlins players and coaches test positive so that means 3 games in now been postponed the marlins game against the baltimore orioles last night and indeed tonight's game but then also the new york yankees game against philadelphia last night was also called off now that's because the mullins that played against philadelphia over the weekend and authorities didn't want the yankees using the same clubhouse at the mullens abused before they could give it a real deep clean so there's a knock on effect to the season only started a few days ago no one really expected this amount of positive cases so quickly what does that mean for the season there or is it at any risk of being closed well i mean the season is delayed anyway it's truncated rob manfred who is the commissioner of and they'll be the head of the sport is basically. said the positive test i don't see them as a night mare he said he can only envisage the season being canceled if

a team has so many cases that it can't actually field a team now because of coronavirus the rosters in a movie this season are allowed to be much bigger than usual so there's lots of reserve players who can come in and the plan is that the marlins are going to play on wednesday against baltimore with these extra squad and the yankees seems we're playing tonight against the philadelphia phillies even though the philadelphia phillies may come into contact may have come into contact with molly's players who tested positive for a hall of fronts reacting to this. they're happy the season's back but some of them feel that maybe major league baseball has kind of rushed this decision given the wider situation of coronavirus in the u.s. into a couple of fans now in philadelphia about these positive tests. honestly i was expecting it i'm a huge fan was very excited they were back but i think they were going to make it through this season i honestly didn't think it would be this quick but i'm not to write any code it is just you know really. disappointed that they came up here i

didn't think they would make the trip up here knowing that they were. and they're actually in a hard. mark what does this mean for other u.s. sports well we've got n.f.l. supposedly starting in september we've already had 2 players saying they're not going to play and the minnesota vikings coaches tested positive and in n.b.a. season is due to restart on thursday in a bubble in what disney world in florida now some players have been allowed to leave that bubble for personal reasons one of those was lou williams of the l.a. clippers but he was then photographed in a strip club now he says he was in a strip club getting food but he is going to have to serve 10 days corn thing you do go to the good for the under those that are not better off thanks so much. this is news in berlin don't forget you can keep up with the news on our website

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