it seems people. want to use today for their future. g.w. dot com for. the meeting. click. arrivals of international aid for buy roots are gathering pace following this week's devastating explosion of the city's port as the shock settles anger is rising people are demanding change and that the government be held accountable but can lebanon really change without radical change at the top i'm phil gayle in berlin and this is the day. i think it was cool sort of time for 13 months to get rid of all the awful lot of

that. kind of. i think you thought about it we have the for you to thank you thank you think through undertaking an impartial independent are of crimes are investigated. you can hear about very clear on the streets and there were no nos on it that we are reconsidering our system which is built on consensus because it is power lines down incapable of swiftly executing decision as he said. people you have to hang them because they're responsible for what happened just so corrupt and so criminal. also on the day president trump imposes a sweeping ballad on chinese tech what does the u.s. descent into cyber nationalism mean for the future of communications. if we were the. people from china in the us we have to find another solution that

could cost the world but politically it will be getting more difficult. leadership is facing growing anger over the deadly blast that killed more than $150.00 people and injured thousands more opponents accuse the government of corruption incompetence and failing to give an economic meltdown and now there are demands to know why nearly 3000 tons of explosive ammonium nitrate was sitting at the port for years but if people have now lost patience with the political debate. and the eruption of the anger that has been mounting in lebanon over the last few days police fired tear gas to disperse a small but enraged crowd on thursday night with some throwing stones at the officers. a return of the anti government demonstrations that had been ongoing

before the explosion of beirut support their call for change has now even been acknowledged by lebanon's president a longtime member of the country's scorn delete. their. we are reconsidering our system which is built on consensus because it is paralyzed and incapable of swiftly exit cutin this citizens which have to be consensual and go through several authorities. there were 4. but the change president own is willing to promote is not enough for lebanon's distraught people a major protest is planned for saturday in central beirut. as investigations into the cause of the explosion continue the leader of hezbollah has denied any involvement hezbollah is the main shiite muslim political party as well as a militant group and part of the lebanese government they're going to zation has

been accused by different sides of bearing responsibility for the explosion. leader haas. said neither weapons nor explosives belonging to hezbollah were being stored at the port describing also such accusations as false. at the blast site rescuers are working in difficult conditions to try to locate those who are still missing likely buried under the twisted metal and broken concrete they are still hopeful of finding people alive 3 days after the explosion that shook beirut to its core. so how did we come to this robin roberts chats a g.'s deputy editor in chief of german language magazine he joins us from berlin welcome to the w. let's start with the investigation french investigators are already assisting the lebanese government with this investigation and there have been calls for an

independent inquiry the president says the independent investigation would dilute the truth what do you think. well a lot of different claims are being made some of them are contradictory nothing with clear at this moment. into the test for the feet the lebanese government puts must manage to set up a crisis management center giving updates on the status of the investigation and the rescue operation president pretty much and now wants his own plan probably surprising even this holes and a lot of this from from outside as well that very far to the center of reform of the political system. so do you trust the lebanese government to launch and conduct a thorough investigation into this. we're presented to us of the lebanese

government at this moment almost seem to be afraid to face their people and the anger of within especially the population especially in the areas that have been hit hard is how even going so far literally demanding capital punishment for their political elite so they're walking a very tight rope they can still claiming that there are a democratically elected government and then a change has to take place within within the institution and the procedures laid down in the constitution on paper that's right but any attempt of meaningful reform that has. been undertaken by this new government of prime minister has and has been stall for. the minister of foreign minister of his

government if you just a few days before the test if he resigned and then there are criticizing the lack of will meaningful reform with this that means the government now you've written this week that this explosion marks seek professional peak of state failure and corruption that has plagued lebanon for decades so is lebanon a failed state. it has been a failed state that has feeling function in this quiet a while mainly because it could bear on the spur of the transfer of huge amounts of money and have another way of failing state still afloat so basically the lebanese government always bet on the feelings of the lebanese for their compatriots at home the real divide unleavened on in the population now it's really between those who are part of benefit from the system of distribution

and those who are not and even these systems of tissue groups they grow or even that. by far up as much as. before to pay for the contingent and the basic bottom of the party it's definitely rolling but this still has held sway and that's one of the population especially in the countryside and that's where elections are being reviewed determined that's where all the basic services that the lebanese and that the state doesn't provide like being distributed by local networks connected to the political elite so any attempt at freefall will have to start at this level and have to take into account this really very special set of the lebanese political landscape. effectively this to system of patronage seems to come up time and time again but it's hard to see what's to do

for the best and when because the country is now in the middle of a national disaster is that the right time to change of government would not just add to the chaos. that's certainly the argument. that the government would bring in for the soul what's the alternative and it's another question at the same question that the protest movement of faith. for busy when they took to the streets and actually did not only protest. youth the sentence to come up with alternative models of any station i think you can see the spirit of self-help and community based organization right now during these rescue efforts and by route where it's really on a neighborhood basis open with asian people or even expect

any help from the state but even from the parking that works although of course they offered to get in and of course they need to prove that they have some value for society at this moment i think we should have a closer look at how their own truth themselves are able to organize themselves with all of the big conference being held and i think that these very little efforts should be definitely supported. and at some point a political reform will be necessary especially with election laws but the community base of them daisho and especially in this part of space where it's about reconstruction. this is a good approach thank you for joining us not minding that so for us robert chaff a jew from zen if magazine. well.

lizzy united states extending its trade dispute with china from the physical world into the digital space u.s. president donald trump best related tensions with beijing on thursday by issuing an executive order that forces americans to stop using chinese owned apps to talk and we chat the move against the world's fastest growing social media site was expected at the ban on beach at wasn't. in just 6 weeks those uploading videos like this one to mobile app tech talk could find themselves on the wrong side of u.s. law. the u.s. has around 100000000 tech talk users but not for much longer. on thursday washington issued an executive order banning u.s. transactions to tick tocks parent company the white house believes the app

threatens national security saying it allows china's communist party to spy on u.s. citizens china refutes that saying the u.s. is merely upping the ante in the ongoing trade conflict with the u.s. taking national security as an excuse frequently abuses national power and unreasonably suppresses companies of other countries this is an outright hegemonic act china is firmly opposed to it the controversy centers around this company by dance based in beijing it owns numerous apps including tech talk and residents in beijing were not happy about the american moves. because i don't agree with this move from the u.s. it restricts the free business growth of tech talk but it also affects those american youth who like tech talk so much. for having me well i don't want to use american products anymore and i will support the chinese alternatives and economic self-reliance that wouldn't be that way that. recently u.s.

software company microsoft expressed interest in buying tick tock from byte dance the white house says if a us company bought that up the ban could be avoided the u.s. government's executive order also focuses on 10 cent holdings the chinese owner of we chat hugely popular in china the messaging and social media could soon be banned in the united states as well. as take a closer look at this with an injunction is professor of communications studies at the. diversity of north carolina and she's an expert on china and digital technologies and welcome to you professor let's start with these u.s. allegations that the tick tocks threatens national security and then on china's communist party to spawn u.s. citizens all those on occasions credible well this is a very interesting because. the white house has not offered any

a concrete evidence so far that tick-tock is defying u.s. security standards and that he has engaged in national security reaching activities and to talk in fact as publicly stated that it's american ringback user data is stored in the united states back up in singapore and none of which is subject to the chinese law so. it seems that when it comes to cyber security and there is a lot of concern over foreign influence it's quite understandable. is it i look at this and you're the expert so you tell me i don't i wonder how a chart the chinese government might weaponize data it collects from people who are links that sinking to music videos. yes i think. to many people this seems to be somewhat of a leaf right from lip sinking and dancing videos to national security. and i

think these fears are grounded in what at the chinese cyber security laws that have been recently developed dictate chinese cyber security law while you know promise same protecting user privacy does allow wealth already used to collect and use personal information without user consent and of course this frame boruc is applicable applicable maining to chinese own networks its own citizens and so territory the you know this question about whether to talk or 10 cent or other chinese social media companies can act at the chinese government's b. has to really open question because we have seen what happened before was u.s. company and you know requested by u.s. government and they say to turn over user data from abroad for u.s.

government so i think it's a really open ended question right ok let's let's look at the wider context here you've tweeted about this space by will take a look at what you wrote with trump bonding to talk it into that freedom is officially over in fact it was over when snowden revealed the n.s.a.'s massive spying program now was he stopping other countries in a huge asia south america to do the same to u.s. firms if circumstances that are alive so so let's pick that parts of professor why does one country i t against a company on national security grounds so and internet freedom. well the idea of internet freedom and came along you know when. the united states back in 2010 protested against the chinese government's. actions against google at the time google at the time actually had

a presence in china and google felt compelled to leave china at the time the u.s. state department including secretary hillary clinton actually talked about the importance of internet freedom the idea that information should flow freely between countries across borders without in her section and that's sort of reflecting you know the offline 1st amendment freedom that we have enjoyed in much part of the united states in the united states in large part of the world that idea of a free flow of nation as we have seen recently has come under a lot of pressure because of the political rivalry between the united states and china. this is this this notion of freedom is an interesting what is it because what should the internet break free why shouldn't national governments control information that flows into its jurisdiction and out of its jurisdiction as it does

with telephones with electricity with whatever why is the into that different. well this is an interesting notion that i think we have been debating for a long time and i think. for a long time people of the you know heyday of internet freedom and really believe that internet is ultimately a force for good right and by we have recognized over the past decade or so that the internet is certainly not an unmitigated blessing while you could play a really supportive throw in toppling for example authoritarian governments doing you know arab spring can also be used by talk or seeds to spread propaganda and why not. in the recently liberal democracy we have seen that the internet has also being a big sort of a groundswell for online hate speech and spread of false information and even played a role in you know recent elections so i think increasingly countries around the

walled are grappling with these difficult question is. and you know internet as a general purpose technology it really cuts both ways in both you know autocracy is and democracies is so incredibly difficult and briefly that i do think that mr trump would be quite as belligerent if the company involved wasn't chinese. that is a very interesting question we have seen those who move from the u.s. government directing its restrictions mainly. you know countries that they label as authoritarian particularly with china and i think this is a really important to recognize that this is a continuation of what the united states government has been. doing for quite some time early and we have seen u.s. actions against the huawei right c.t.e.

china's telecom company. and this is a sort of a continuation of that same dynamic and the u.s. and china are really at the moment are locked in a chill political rivalry right to see who is the world's number one and who is the world's number 2 ok and when this dynamic is going on it's incredibly difficult to talk with you thank you for joining us professor judd from the university of north carolina thank you. ok india's coronavirus caseload has topped $2000000.00 more than doubling in less than a month health experts fear the true numbers could be even higher especially in the country's densely packed megacities where there's limited access to health care despite this restrictions are still being lifted. 2000000 cases of a deadly highly contagious virus these are not the scenes you expect yet india

seems to have taken cool with 19 minutes trade. shopkeeper than the tour is keeping busy in. the business this fos lower than what it once was he is just glad to be up and running once more secure 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 caseload people are still finding via short and simple other numbers out of every tree quivered 1000 patients in india have recovered the official mortality is low as well and delhi has set an example. in june that is pet care cost october ben by a dramatic rise in cases but that's the best thing i learned something today that would probably be it stands at 90 percent there could be more than meets the eye in

a sample survey the delhi government found that a fault of the people tested had had the code when i was. this would mean 5000000 cases in delhi alone yet people seem confident. but life doesn't keep setting at one place and you have to move on and see if these basic it is within our hands only we have to take precautions and move on because 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 fastest growing outbreak normalcy however seems to be steadily fighting its way back. here in germany hundreds of students have been sent to schools in the northern state of matter. after a student and teacher tested positive for the coronavirus in the 1st week of the

new school year health officials across the country are worried about a steady climb in infections as the number of new cases nationwide exceeds a 1000 for the 2nd consecutive day. summertime and their leavings easy the threat of the coronavirus is waning for many in the country. i don't think about it at all not at all. how do you 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 the psychologist. the point where they think of testing the limits some say maybe i can take my mask

off here when it's actually necessary. other person sees that and there's a snowball effect of not wearing masks. the numbers are rising germany's public health institute has recorded more than 5000 coronavirus cases twice this week the highest number of new infections in 3 months officials are growing concerned. in shots 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 saturday returning to germany from high risk areas will be required to take a test free of charge if it's taken within 3 days. i am

very aware that this is an infringement on personal freedom but i think it's a reasonable one of. those who don't get tested in time face a fine of up to 25000 euros so will there be steep fines for those who don't wear masks or practice social distancing this government official says yes it's good you're someone who's going because 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 so you'd care for a summer while trying to contain the virus a balancing act for germany. oh they is almost done they come sation hard continues live you can join us on twitter either at the w. news or you can follow me to. use the hash tag the day. the good to.

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