this is news coming to you live from berlin officials here in germany sound the alarm over a spike in corona virus infections there are concerns about returning holiday makers bringing buyers back with them and over the reopening of school but a new survey shows most voters are not that worried. lebanon's leadership faces growing anger over incompetence and corruption following the deadly blast in the capital beirut international donors pledged aid for rebuilding but demand top level reforms from within. the u.s.

pratchett's up efforts to couple from china a new executive order targets social media sensation talk and trying to paint the messaging service from. the i'm terry martin thanks for being with us here in germany health officials are worried about a steady climb in corona virus infections the number of new cases has topped a 1000 for the 2nd consecutive day it's the highest number for 3 months there are concerns about holiday makers returning from other countries bringing the virus back home with them the return of the reopening of schools is no other source of anxiety for many but most germans don't seem to be that alarmed. summertime and the livin is easy. the threat of the corona virus is waning for

many in the country. i don't think about it at all not at all. when they try to remember to wear your mask. but when you leave public areas it's easy to forget. discipline is falling to the wayside people are letting their guard down because the threat doesn't seem so serious anymore according to this psychologist. the stuff does even more out of point where they think of testing the limits some say maybe i can take my mask off here when it's actually necessary. and other person sees that and then there's a snowball effect of not wearing masks missed. the numbers are rising germany's public health institute has recorded more than a 1000 coronavirus cases twice this week the highest number of new infections in 3

months officials are growing concerned. and shot so how does it being a virus in check is a marathon and a team effort we can only do it together you might see. an increasing number of clusters have emerged there's also the danger of people bringing back the virus from other countries frankfurt airport is offering free voluntary tests and starting this sunday people returning to germany from high risk areas will be required to take a test free of charge if taken within 3 days. they have a voice i am very aware that this is an infringement on personal freedom but i think it's a reasonable one if those who don't get tested in time face a fine of up to 25000 euros so will there also be steep fines for those who don't wear masks their practice so she'll distancing this government official says yes.

it's good to have someone with can do there are states in germany that already have penalties in place and i have the feeling that people are becoming more aware of the importance of wearing masks but if it's necessary then tough penalties should be implemented and you didn't carefree summer while trying to contain the coronavirus a balancing act for germany. so how worried are germans about the next stage of the pandemic a new trend poll suggests not much it found that 59 percent think the government's current measures are adequate well for more results of the poll i'm joined now by d.w. political correspondent kate brady. we saw 20000 people in berlin last weekend demonstrating against the government's coronavirus restrictions but the new poll shows a clear majority in the country still support the government's measures is that

surprising. i don't think that's surprising at all we have to remember of course yes 20000 people hit the streets of berlin last year and certainly made headlines around the world as well but they are still a minority and a very interesting if not bizarre minority as well a mix of people from the far right from the fall left people say that a conspiracy theorists in corona deny assert so only not really a representation of the majority of german society that said though while the majority of germans it seems according to this poll think that the measure is adequate 53 percent of respondents to the dots on trend poll said that they think that they measures that are in place in adequately controlled so they want to see strikes a controlled all of these measures put in place particularly when it comes to people violating that rule of wearing masks in certain public places ok let's talk about some other measures on thursday germany's health minister announced that

travelers returning from high risk regions will face mandatory testing so you look at what the survey tells us about reaction to that the testing by the way applies to people returning from most countries outside the european union 93 percent of respondents said they support the measures which kick in on saturday so take overwhelming support there for testing returning travelers is this going to work in practice and how will it be enforced. so as you say from such as a everyone coming into germany from an area deemed as high risk by the german government will have to have a current virus test now one way to avoid having that test is if you have a negative test statistic that that is no older than 48 hours and anyone refusing to take the test could face a fine of up 225000 euros one of the points of contention though right now is who

should be footing the bill for these tests a lot of people saying that if people have trouble particularly for the necessary travel to high risk areas then it should be they footing the bill and not the government so there are still presume going to be some teething issues as the tests of rolled out over the weekend and in the meantime anyone that's coming into germany via alarm the board there recommended to go to a testing center arrive of course they won't have those facilities the same way that someone arriving in an attaboy port would do or have us talk about schools are starting to reopen social distancing and hygiene measures are in place but many families are still concerned that the virus could spread in the classroom here the figures from the poll 58 percent of parents with school age children said they believe schools are poorly prepared to deal with the pandemic. so deep reservations there but many parents do want to see their children back at

school of course what can they expect moving forward. well the measures in place vary between states but one of the big questions right now is whether or not children should have to wear face masks schools state different states in germany taking a different action here and so there is still a question over whether they should just be required within the school grounds or indeed during lessons and in the classroom as well but in the meantime of the measures in place in good smaller groups which of course is going to put some strain on the teaching staff as well but that is going to be increased testing as well both of teaching staff and supported administers of staff as well with the expectation that in some places teachers might be tested even up to 5 times in the coming months as we head into into autumn and winter test test test since for you know they're telling us our political correspondent kate brady thank you very much

. levon helm's leadership is facing growing anger over the deadly blasts that have killed nearly 150 people and injured thousands more shock is turning to fury authorities responded with force when protesters gathered outside parliament in beirut opponents accused the government of corruption incompetence and failing to a burthen economic meltdown french president who many well michael flew into beirut promising aid from the international community but he also says there will be no blank checks and insists there must be internal reforms from the top. as the people of beirut come together to clean up the debris from tuesday's catastrophic explosion world leaders are lining up to provide aid. french president landed in beirut addressing the anger felt by the people towards the corruption regarded as making the loss possible and that has plagued the

country for decades he has also promised assistance. but what i can guarantee you is that this aid will be transparent it will go to the field and it will not go in the hands of the corrupt was. lebanon as a former french protectorate and the 2 countries still have close ties today. surrounded by crowds mccraw and listen to the outrage and pleas for help chance of revolution and the regime sounded all around. i have here today i am going to propose a new political pact this afternoon and i will come back by september 1st and if it has not been up taint i will take responsibility for it. across and later announce the launch of an international conference in the coming days with the aim of raising funds to support the people of beirut. 6

even believe we are no longer able to continue this way in the situation people do not have enough money to continue what they started their country cannot take it anymore but she's come since we have been fighting for 50 years in order to raise our family in these circumstances that we live in now are finished we have been working for our retirement but they finished us your good life and my. hopes rest on an international aid effort to pull together so the residents of beirut can rebuild their homes. their city and their community. our correspondent rosen solomon is in the lebanese capital and joins us now from there we're getting reports of violent protests near the parliament in beirut what more can you tell us about that. yes terry

a clash has occurred between security forces and protesters and tie government demonstrations that took place yesterday near the parliament and security forces deployed tear gas on dozens of protesters who gathered near the parliament. asking for the government's resignation. and then they gave the government for the 200-2750 tons of ammonium nitrate that were stored in a warehouse and again. it would quit for the last 60 years and they think this because there are accounts of it for the cause of the explosion. these tons of that when you nightshade were stored with very low security measures ok lebanon is a former french protectorate and press president obama. promised as promised international assistance to lebanon on he traveled there calling on the country's leaders to launch anti corruption reforms how is that message being received there

. well this morning given his authorities they put 16 individuals under custody as part of an investigation into the force exclusion. and they assigned and investigative committee and they gave it to 40 days to. tell it to tell the government who is responsible for the explosion and on the other hand 44000 live in you signed an online petition asking took least lebanon under the french mandates for the next 10 years since they compete in all the churches and. that it's man it's the country. ok that's the political side there's also the humanitarian angle here how many i mean there are many people still missing how's the rescue effort going.

the rescue operations are still in progress just this morning 2 people who were thought to be missing since tuesday they. were found dead under the rubble and officials they expect told to rise in the next few hours and just you know that says now once they. were dead after the explosion 5000 people were injured and more than 300000 have lost their saw 160 confirmed rosen thank you very much for that update that's our correspondent ross on solomon in beirut. some of the other stories making headlines around the world today thousands of opposition supporters of rallied in the belorussian capital minsk defying a government crackdown elections are being held this weekend president out xander lukashenko seeking a 6th term in office but the main opposition candidates but land taken off sky is gathering popular support. is facing an ecological disaster from an oil

spill grounded tanker began leaking fuel into the indian ocean while carrier was transporting nearly 4000 tons of fuel and 200 tons of diesel from china to resume. is a trade dispute now moving into the digital world u.s. president. later tensions with china on thursday by issuing an executive order that forces americans to stop using chinese owned stick talk and we chat move against to talk the world's fastest growing social media site was expected about of we chat was not. in just 6 weeks those uploading videos like this 2 mobile app 6 could find themselves on the wrong side of us. the u.s. has around 100000000 uses but not for much longer. on

thursday washington issued an executive order banning u.s. transactions with tick tocks parent company the white house believes the app threatens national security saying it was china's communist party to spawn on u.s. citizens the controversy centers around this company by dumbs based in beijing it owns numerous apps including. recently u.s. software company microsoft expressed interest in buying take from bite the white house says if a u.s. company bought the app the bun could be avoided in the u.s. government's executive orders also include a 10 cent holdings the chinese of we chat hugely popular in china the messaging and social media app could soon be banned in the united states. well my colleague stephen beardsley from d.d.p. of business has been following this story all along stephen we knew kind of that

a tick talk was coming in the u.s. now it's formalized what's the reasoning behind this move right as we've been covering this story for a few weeks now the reason that's been given is the reasoning that's also in this executive order today and that is national security there's not a whole lot more that's really elaborated on beside that but what the top administration has been trying to lay out over several weeks is that there is a concern that the data collected by the chinese own social media app would be subject to to basically being sent to beijing upon that nation's request an analyst who can see that that is a possibility under chinese law that requests for information go beyond the narrow scope of say a criminal investigation as you would see in many countries but they can be sweeping also of course as we know there's a big political dimension to this obviously president trump wants to make china. the tariff has been going on for years now and now what we're seeing is that maybe it's migrating into the digital world but of course meantime of the 2 biggest

economies in the world a rupture is incredibly difficult especially with whether it's with trade or with online ok we've been talking the talk so for so far but it's not just tick talk that trump has banned here we chat has also been a target for trump tell us more about that we chat is a very popular messaging service and payment service it's mostly in china has more than $1100000000.00 users again primarily in china you can use it there to pay for anything from a taxi to your groceries to real estate actually in the u.s. it's probably primarily used by us rather by chinese students who are studying in the u.s. by foreigners or chinese who are living in the u.s. and want to communicate back home the company is trying to make inroads into the nation mostly it's been really set up for chinese tourists for example caesar's palace you can use we chat to pay for the buffet for example because a lot of chinese tour. that's where they're coming to and business is what make it friendlier for them otherwise you can't really link we chat to

a bank account right now in the u.s. so has a limited reach and we chat is involved not just in payment services and doesn't just serve chinese clients owns 5 percent of shares in the electric vehicle maker as i understand so this is more than just about web apps isn't right in the clear for that be tense and holdings which owns we chat it has become a major investor over the years tencent was initially a video game developer by some well known video games that you might even know even if you don't play video games such as fortnights as a major investor in that world of warcraft another big part of that is tense and holdings it's branched off into investments including in the things like tesla that's really shaken the markets a $700000000000.00 company by market capitalisation right now that's in the leagues with the microsoft case book things like that so for it to be connected here in this executive order that's really troubling people right now they wonder how far that's going to go fury interesting to see how china responds to this statement where they're from v.w. business. say look now at how some some other developments in the

coronavirus pandemic health experts in the u.s. have projected that the number of coronavirus deaths in the u.s. could reach 300005 december 1st africa's confirmed coronavirus infections have exceeded $1000000.00 but experts warned that the true numbers would likely much higher amid low rates of testing officials in australia is hard hit big toria states say the infection rate has been relatively flat in the past week after mandatory mass wearing rules came into effect and the u.k. has added more countries to its quarantine list travelers returning from belgium and dora and the bahamas will now need to sign a self isolate purporting day. the number of corona virus cases in india has talked to 1000000 the national caseload has doubled in less than a month health experts fear the true figure could be even higher as much of india's population is crammed into densely packed megacities with limited access to health

care and yet restrictions are still being lifted. $2000000.00 cases off a deadly highly contagious why it is. these are not the scenes you expect. yet india seems to have to conclude with 19 minutes trade. shopkeeper is keeping busy. the business is fossil or than what it once was he is just glad to be up and running once more safely life has to start again everyone knows that we need to take precautions people know that they have to maintain social distancing because things are going to stay this way. despite the high case load people are still finding via short and simple the numbers out of every cheek will be 1000 patients in india have recovered the official mortality is low as well and delhi has set an example. in june that he has an october home ben by

a dramatic rise in cases but that's the best thing i've been to day that is probably the it's time that 90 percent there could be more than meets the eye in a sample survey the delhi government found that the fault of the people who tested had had the quota or not by this. this would mean 5000000 cases in delhi alone yet people seem confident. but doesn't. one please them you have to move on and see if the basic needs of it been handled leave you have to take precautions and move. the hospitals are doing better people were getting pushed around while in line for treatment but now they're getting help there's no longer anything to be afraid of there's no problem we're doing ok. india does have the was fostered growing outbreak normalcy however seems to be steadily fighting its way back. a while in singapore the government has barely restricted travel abroad and so the

contract coded 19 while travelling outside the country i've been told they'll have to cover the cost of testing and potential treatment themselves it's too big a risk for many singaporeans so they've chosen to holiday. the own family is supposed to be on the west coast of the united states right now like many singaporeans they like to travel a lot but the city state is currently making it difficult returning holidaymakers face 14 days of coron in a hotel and mandatory coronavirus tests all at their own expense and their social pressure to stay at home. i mean you can however like you know. the advice you not to do so you'll still once you do it might not be you know good a good view for the boss. after a long period of lockdown the owns are happy to be spending some time on the small island resort of just off the coast the palm trees and sunshine help to overcome

their wanderlust and there's another motivating factor not to travel anyone who ignores the travel warning and comes home with covered 19 has to pay for their own health care costs to put a choice. in your hand so if you. get the virus i think it's. it's a choice you made it's a consequence you have to give. the indoor waterfall in singapore's international airport is the world's largest but there aren't many foreign tourists around to admire it they're not allowed in right now more than $1000000.00 came last year. for the tourism sector the entry ban is a catastrophe singapore is trying to convince its own citizens to fill the economic . research and spend over $34000000000.00 on the overseas travels last year so we hope that we can just

a sliver of that mystically within singapore. the government is providing around $28000000.00 euros in investment that will allow hotels event locations and tour companies to offer discounts. on. simon one off a scooter tours through scenic locations such as the arab quarter. the government is paying up to 75 percent of employees wages in the hope that businesses can stay afloat until the crisis is over. we realize that about 25 percent were actually local and 25 percent for us is profitable so if we can now work on that 25 percent to. visitors then we will still have a company that is doing ok the ons are still hoping that they will be able to go on a previously booked holiday to bangkok at the end of the year but for now 2 days of staycation will have to do they have booked into a singapore hotel to get rid of their cabin fever. i don't really like staycation

in the home country because we have a home yeah but because we sent the weenie country yes the light beings staycation nice. choice that we can enjoy the family. a foreign holiday may still be some way off the singapore government's local tourism support scheme is shuttle to run for 9 months with an option to extend. now back to beirut images of death destruction and despair there one video has gone birol for capturing a few moments of beauty and peace despite all the pain. it's . an elderly lebanese woman was filmed playing the piano surrounded by shattered glass and debris in her damaged beirut apartment the 78 year old's performance of the traditional scottish folk song hold on sign as been shared widely on social

media as a symbol of loss but also of hope. in washington w. news from berlin i'm terry mark thanks for being with us. women

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