sure. there are still lingering sense that. this is deja vu news live from berlin the u.s. slashes troop numbers in germany nearly 12000 soldiers will either be deployed elsewhere in europe or sent back to the u.s. that carries out president trump's wish to punish germany because he says the country doesn't contribute enough on the facts also coming up corona virus infections soar in europe with many people traveling just as europeans head to the

beaches governments are re imposing restrictions to look at what could lie ahead for europe. feeling close to one's god while keeping a distance from others the annual hajj pilgrimage which normally draws millions begins on her tight and democrats stretch just. i'm serious i was gonna glad you could join us the u.s. will withdraw nearly 12000 troops from germany defense secretary mark esper announced the move as part of a redeployment of forces in europe he said was aimed at strengthening nato and president donald trump had said previously he intended to take troops out of germany after accusing the government here of being delinquent in defense spending now here is mark s. 1st speaking earlier. the current you can play and we reposition approximately 11900 military personnel from germany from roughly 36000 down

224000 in a manner that will strengthen nato enhanced the deterrence of russia and meet the other principles i set forth of the 11900 nearly 5600 servicemembers we will be repositioned within nato countries and approximately 6400 will return to the united states though many of these or similar units will begin conducting rotational deployments back to europe. ok dave used chief political editor michelle is following the latest developments on the story for us hi michelle and now we finally have the details on this troop withdrawal how big of a blow is that for germany it's a significant vote particularly the communication this was seen as more of an off the cuff comment by u.s. president donald trump in june he had not previously consulted his allies particularly not many before announcing the withdraw some 9 $1500.00 now

a couple of months later we see that figure going up to almost $12000.00 and it's presented as part of a strategic review which we heard mark s. the announce as a move to strategic says to strengthen nato but also to reassure its allies will certainly germany doesn't feel reassured although we will certainly see german leading politicians from a friend from that we heard the term and transatlantic coordinator peter bio already say today that this simply doesn't make sense to him because less soldiers on the ground in europe is seen as weakening nato and that's also cause a lot of internal debate in the united states yet we want to ask you about that point that we heard from mark esper that this is going to strengthen nato i mean do the allies agree. well we haven't had the initial response that we know that we have that he informed the nato secretary general who will certainly his job is to reassure the world that nato sticks together but this doesn't really sound like it

does it with also headquarters being sifted out of germany it certainly leaves germany with less soldiers and less strategic importance for the united states which of course is the benchmark of the security but also the the strength of nato we heard a key though to this being presented strength in nato see more rotation that means that soldiers won't be physically station but they will be rotating through but the bottom line is this is more than a super symbolic slap in the face for the german government over that spending issue but realistically it would actually cost billions and take years to see this relocation plan through so do you think it's going to survive the trumpet ministration well that's a big question and we're already seeing signs not just in germany across europe even in the united nations that mentee many countries really don't want to make any headway on many issues until they know whether donald trump will have

a 2nd term in washington and will actually be able to enact a plan coming back to this specific review it will cost single digit billions of dollars we heard mark s. the say it would take years to implement so not knowing whether all of these people will still be in office just after november does put a big question mark what is no doubt a big slap in the face for germany our chief political editor michelle o'keefe now with the latest thank you. as coronavirus cases rise in parts of europe governments are re imposing restrictions just as people go on summer vacation europe is looking for a more coordinated response as national governments act alone to contain the virus . that it's high season for tourism in europe the region terraces are glowing museums are open again vacationers have returned to the

beaches. but with a recent rise in corona virus cases in several european hotspots governments are putting the brakes on holiday making the u.k. reimposed a quarantine on travelers from spain after reporting cases there rose by almost 1000 on monday tourists in barcelona were not happy with the news i think stupidity of the. place that i love the beach and see where people are so frightened your so no i. don't think i want to come here a friend said that i find that very excessive i'm enjoying myself and i feel safe they've taken every precaution offered. to get the outbreak under control madrid imposed a new rule minatory masks in public. and catalonia nightclubs have been forced to close once again. belgium is also struggling with a new spike in cases the city of ants were reinstated a curfew no one allowed outside between 11 30 pm and 6 am except for essential

workers. germany fearing imported infections is requiring travelers from high risk areas to take a coronavirus test upon arrival german authorities are not ruling out the possibility of border closures if outbreaks cannot be contained. does is all that's the job of politicians and the media to make it clear that the danger is not over when we don't get things right then we'll find ourselves in a 2nd wave which will also have economic consequences if that's why we have to be vigilant. it's clear that despite the heat of the summer the virus is not melted away but many are hoping europe has learned enough from the 1st wave to keep the virus at bay. let's get around to some other headlines from around the world separatists in southern yemen have pledged to abandon self rule in favor of a peace deal with the u.n. back government there riyadh agreement was signed in november but has since stalled

both sides are part of a saudi led coalition fighting who the rebels in the north. turkey's parliament has passed a law that gives authorities more power to regulate social media platforms will have to comply with strict conditions or face fines and banned with productions a president to one cold for the law opposition lawmakers say it further limits freedom of expression in the country. hong kong authorities are warning the city is on the verge of a large scale coronavirus outbreak they've imposed strict new social distancing measures including limiting gatherings to people and there are reports that the government could also postpone legislative council elections in september a blow to pro-democracy campaigners. and for a 2nd day german police are searching a community garden near the city of hanover as part of their investigation into missing british toddler madeleine mccann the piece of land is thought to be connected to a suspect in the case mccann was 3 when she vanished on holiday in portugal 13

years ago. in saudi arabia muslim pilgrims have begun the annual hardship in mecca normally huge numbers of people travel from around the world to take part in islam's most important pilgrimage but this year it's taking place on a more modest scale. like no what are these people are among just 10 times and saudi residents allowed to attend the 5 day pilgrimage this year strictly controlled because of the coronavirus usually over 2000000 people packed together to praise allah before the structure known as the cup. the pandemic has made safety central to the pilgrimage health workers have disinfected the holy site in mecca and there are strict rules for those attending. they have to be between the ages of 20 and 50 years old with no terminal illnesses and show no

signs of coronavirus the pilgrims have also have to undergo temperature checks and virus tests where wristbands that monitor their movements and quarantine before and after hatch. inconveniences that permit this year's relatively small number of pilgrims to enjoy a possibly once in a lifetime hotch experience. i don't it's absolute from good of you arabic is with us to tell us more about this story thanks for joining us can you give us a bit more information about the restrictions that are in place this year. for one of the number has been just sickly reduced to between one and 10000 polygamists contrast to last year it was 2.5 kilograms was a 3rd. which is like his difference between last year

and this year but also the restrictions have affected the religious rituals for example people cannot count for this year select their stalls which is also a religious ritual to the devil but the stones must be selected by organizers and also this effected also travelers are not allowed to freely drink from holy water of the holy well of. them and what else the. there are for traditional i think for every parts and to kiss. as a grand storm and this is definitely for this is not allowed must be a blow to muslims outside of saudi arabia that they can't attend this year exactly i mean the house is one of the 5 pillars over slum and it's also. duty to god by everyone to undertake so this means

there are some exceptions for people for example who are cycle count for the also for social unrest rest of actions which also applies for they call the pandemic. it's actually a blow for for realest people who. they plan to come this year and they can't do it especially for religious people definitely what is out for saudi arabia itself i mean this is also an economic blow i imagine with so many people usually coming in bringing obviously money is what the country definitely it is i mean like billy graham they spend a lot thousands of dollars each year in makkah also many local people. they depend in their annual income on this season but definitely it is i mean coupled with the job. prices also if you took over 90 in this definitely putting a dent in revenue that was special if we compare last year they gand about $12000000000.00

from last year's house says they're not sure that is a big loss and as we've been looking at images of pilgrim affair can you let us know how was it decided who is then allowed to attend in the program and the saudi authorities have initiated the selection process about many were concerned the process is not entirely clear. hold thousands of people or hundreds of thousands were rejected but still in this year 70 percent of participants are none so it would. not do so but they are still coming from the country this means there are like workers living there and 30 per cent are so what is the priority this years were given to health workers and all sorts of police officers. who were infected by called. 19 and where afterwards my very interesting i don't suffer from

arabic thank you for joining us here in our studio. it's. all right we have one more item for you a wealthy art lovers have been spending big at a massive virtual auction a very expensive paintings the london auction house of the bees use its global reach to draw on betters from around the world a series of paintings by banksy who's no way street artist one for over 2000000 heroes a trio of works of cole's mediterranean sea view of the big ticket item was drawn nero's woman in a red hat the winning bid for that was for more than 24000000 euro it's. the cycle it's. going to be it's 50 or let's get a reminder now of our top stories. the u.s. is pulling almost 12000 troops out of germany more than be sent back to the u.s. with the rest redeployed elsewhere in europe that's under a shake up ordered by president to try. to thank you for watching don't forget they

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it would start. on d w. some 660000 people have died so far from covert 19 according to official statistics poor rich young old famous the virus doesn't discriminate. even care as doctors and nurses who were there to help succumb to the illness. france and spain are among the few countries that held public memorials to honor the dead and whose departure has been especially difficult for loved ones many have not had an opportunity to say goodbye and thousands have been buried in mass graves. 19 was unexpected and fast changing our lives and the world. how do you grief when bedside visits and

funerals are banned. welcome to your night in special here and you knew someone who could giants in berlin good to have you with us all normally where here to talk about the latest vaccine studies or various other approaches to treat with 19 we shouldn't forget that the coronavirus also kills and so today we want to talk about deaths in times of a pandemic 1st a report from the u.s. . for amanda and gina the grandfather who see it was like a father to them he taught them everything heard them become who they are and dido the corona virus one of the many in arizona it was horrible to leave him alone and him knowing we had to leave him alone like what was he going through at that time one day he could have your loved ones there to support him his basing everything pretty much alone and there's nothing we could do about it. i don't know it's.

very heartbreaking. a situation l. ast has become all too familiar with even after 38 years in the funeral business the corona pandemic nothing is as it used to be. with these families so many of them haven't been able to be with their loved one at the time of death put into a hospital where they can't visit or into a nursing home where they can no longer see them so many people are dying alone and that emotionally is challenging for families just to know that they can't be there and they can't you know be supportive and so are our challenge our job is to help them kind of deal with that and start to help them heal and grieve and that's that's what we do. more than 2500 people have already died in arizona leaving many hospitals overwhelmed with the sick and the dead.

when we get a death call the hospital will say can you come quickly because our capacity capacity we don't have anywhere to put these people they're trying not to get to these mobile units but they actually are so when we go now to a hospital transfer or someone in our care they have to actually have to look and see where the body is is it in the hospital facility or is it out in the mobile facility. it's been a little over a week since they've buried their grandfather amanda and gina still need time to come to terms with their loss but they already have strong feelings about who is to blame they could have handled a lot better i feel they knew about this from john and they didn't have been i understand price so the world wouldn't go in panic mode but at the same time like what's going on like what occurred due to them knowing and not doing anything about it and i really do think they could have did a lot more to help a lot of people and people are still getting sick people are still going to the hospital people are still dying and i don't understand why. i just don't and i don't think it's fair to any of us. their feelings are shared by many mourners in

america that the lack of leadership from the white house is just as dangerous as the virus itself. so let's talk a bit more about to death lydia humaneness yorks is associate professor of the department of psychiatry and forensic medicine at the autonomous university of barcelona and she's also been part of a research team looking into the deaths and mourning process in the times of the corona virus pandemic which you have you with us let me start with the assumption western society tends to ignore the fact that we're mortal has the pandemic changed that yes. yes definitely this the whole of that on some means that we are responding to you know that until it's ironic but these critics asked to make things that he and i

have. now and then he's foreseeing sourcing and changing our consciousness or our usa humans are martyrs. and those that have been closer to someone in effect. you know ready have meetings change and those that are you are a few bones home super seized in this movie heartily we have a new challenge is to gather and kirsner some exactly and of course i mean those who've experienced it and we've just seen that also in the reports many couldn't say goodbye to the dying relatives they couldn't even give them a proper burial how big a trauma is that and how do you recover from that. well she's heard we should say that. lady carson an accident nobody expects that relatives will be changed and will die and see me too or one of the sas that that was you didn't just say oh i ought to do it rita our disrupt is part of what recess and intensifies for when

the suspect. nest and mace reinforced. corey depends on many shots or most and those who have floated and also shots too early will need professional. searching meaning in life and. make a difference with the situations in date and especially as this pandemic isn't over yet and it has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives professor please stick around because we would just like to take a look at some numbers here this curve that we see now shows just how many lives were lost within a relatively short period of time it started slowly but then by mid february it became clear that we do have a problem and by april we counted tens of thousands who died of covert 19 some 6 months into the pandemic some 660000 people lost their lives the highest death toll

in the united states followed by brazil britain mexico and italy and as i mentioned and as we all know the pandemic is still on going back to professor hume in this yard in barcelona please tell me we're talking about statistics here but these are people these were lives lost why don't we see more public ceremony mornings the death. well how only because this store showed expressions of sympathy and relief as a collective august come at the end of the tragedy the tragedy of the all there is fear we are conscious that we are all one world together in them you know of these biotope still in the battle is not yet aware and also because. there are other cultures that this indian war city are tired of confrontation abiders so i think

that this country our one of the arms that refrains institutions of government in a state has gone that because we have and the waves but for many other countries we wait in a certain way that this is the art or distress waves or want to send the respect of the. right professor york from the autonomous university of barcelona thank you so much time and thank you for sharing your seat research on deaths and mourning in times of a pandemic with us thank you to you. well now time for more of your questions over to our science correspondent eric williams. what's happening with the present flu season. this is a really interesting question that made some headlines after a big wall street journal article on the topic last week don't forget that when

it's summer time here in the northern hemisphere it's winter in the southern hemisphere so for the last 5 months there should have been a spike in the number of cases of influenza as as flu season ramped up into full swing there but according to the w.h.o. global flu levels have remained astonishingly low for this time of year in many countries south of the equator in some places they drop by by 90 percent compared to average years and actually when you think about it it probably shouldn't come as much of a surprise of along with with heavily restricted travel all of the social distancing measures people have been observing to stop the spread of covert 19 are ones that would also be effective at curbing the spread of flu we've just never used them against the flu before on this kind of a scale. could sauce cove to combine with

influenza viruses to create a new strain. usually viruses evolve through a gradual process tauld antigenic drift which sees them slowly mutate as changes occur and their genetic material over time and many replications them what you're talking about is a phenomenon known as anti genic shift which describes abrupt major changes that can occur for example and some flu viruses when when 2 different strains recombine inside the host to produce a much more deadly pathogen appear. really out of the blue that's what we think for example occurred with the h one n one flu virus that caused the pandemic back in 2009 unfortunately antigenic shift that leads to highly infectious new pathogens seems to occur rarely and we're

pretty sure it only happens between very closely related pathogens so so some flu viruses recombine amongst themselves in this way and there's some evidence that that some coronaviruses might do it too but but the 2 different species recombined with each other to create some kind of super bowl. before we start worrying about to the next threat let's deal with the one at hand for people in hong kong this means no more dining in restaurants after a new upsurge in case numbers restaurants have been ordered to hold to dine in service and offer takeaway meals instead and while the threat is real with the use of such says of hong kong harbor well using outdoors may not be the worst way to spend your lunch break as you see here so many times of a pandemic. that's your night special for today for

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