this is d.w. news coming to you live from berlin president trump under fire for playing down the credit virus outbreak in its early stages. want to instill panic we don't want to jump up and down and start shouting that we have a problem. u.s. president defends his response after a new book alleges he knew about the dangers of the virus but failed to warn the public also coming out left with nothing what for the $12000.00 migrants with nowhere left to go after a massive fire destroys the morea camp on the greek island of les paul's we'll hear from the n.g.'s trying to help the ground.

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us u.s. president under fire again for his handling of the corona virus outbreak following an explosive new book in that book veteran journalist bob woodward says trump deliberately downplayed the danger posed by the virus in the 1st weeks of the pandemic at a news conference the president defended his handling of the crisis from said he was not lying to the public but that he did not want to called panix more than 189000 americans have died from the virus so far i don't want people to be frightened i don't want to create panic well joining me here in the studio for more is to reporter and us expert peter went to tell peter what do you make of trump's xx. the nation for apparently misleading the american public about the dangers of

a credible right i mean i think one thing to understand about trump is that he is he's a big believer in the power of positive thinking right he likes to talk things up rather than play them down except for apparently in this case he likes to call himself a cheerleader for the country and said you know he wants a project strength and confidence and i think he said one thing last night the really kind of summed up that that. that i think embodies let's listen and certainly i'm not going to drive. this country or the world into a frenzy we want to show confidence we want to show strength we want to show strength as a nation and that's what i've done and we've done very well right and so of course you know what he actually did by withholding information from the public is was in a sense actually create more panic because he created

a false sense of security he repeatedly told americans not to wear a mask even though he very early on knew that the virus was airborne he said that it was no worse than a flu even though we have him on tape on temporary 7th saying that you know this virus was 5 times more deadly than the flu so. he created penny because americans did not understand essentially what they were up against the economy has been tanking asked result because they didn't know how to respond to the pandemic and one last thing i will say mean for him to say that he did not want to create panic really just does not square with you know his basic campaign message that we've seen in these past couple months where you know panic is very much driven his message he's you know to treat the unrest that we've seen in connection with the black lives matter protests as the biggest threat to the suburb and the safety of americans he's betrayed by radical socialist that he you know that the fate of the country in the security of the countries at stake here so those 2 things then

really out of ok well all of this of course is happening right in the middle of the u.s. election campaign and the democrats have been watching what these revelent revelations that have been coming out of that bob woodward book let's take a listen and what democratic candidate joe biden is saying about these latest revelations he knew how deadly it was it was much more deadly than the flu he knew and purposely played it down worse he lied to the american people he knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. he had the information he knew how dangerous it was and while this deadly disease ripped through our nation he failed to do its job on purpose it was a life and death betrayal of the american people. so joe biden is saying that trump failed in his duty to protect the american people even though he knew there was an imminent danger could this further damage trump's reelection prospects do you think

yeah i think you know biden is not just up by 8 points you know the national average he is also the one that voters say they trust most to get this pandemic under control. you know we saw essentially republicans trying to paper over a little bit the revelations that came out of this that are coming out of this book by saying you know what expects purge really got it wrong as well. and i think what democrats are going to try to do and i think that's going to be potentially quite effective is to say you know this is exhibit a in their case to voters saying that they can't trust trump that he only has his own reelection in mind and not the lives of americans trump well do his best to convince voters that he can still be trusted that he has now got the pandemic under

control he will need more voters than just you know his base needs suburban voters he will need old oppose a lot of those people have turned their backs on from because of his handling of the demi and so a lot of people and that's what we saw especially a lot of social media as they say he has you know essentially failed his most sacred duty as a president that is to protect americans for you thank you very much a little a dud. take a look at some of the latest developments in the corona virus and i think the global death toll from the pandemic has now passed 900000 the united states remains the were the world's worst affected country with deaths exceeding $190000.00 as mention however india continues to see a rapid rise in case it's france's covert hospitalizations have served to a one month high of more than $5000.00 z's and spreading their the fastest pace since it emerged and germany's foreign ministry is advising against travel to

several cities including prague geneva and to broad nick due to local spikes in infections. catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today in the united states at least 7 people have died in wildfires in the states of california oregon and washington hundreds of homes in oregon have been destroyed with the governor warning it could be the greatest loss of life and property due to the blazes the state has ever seen. u.s. secretary of state my phone peo has said the alleged poisoning of kremlin critic alexina bunny was likely ordered by quote senior russian officials doctors in berlin saying the volume was poisoned by the nerve agent nobody from papers said washington would have value 8 its response to the attack. and following international outcry over the next balm the case russian president vladimir putin has announced a committee will investigate what happened that's according to italian prime

minister separate conti he told an italian newspaper it was ready to work with german authorities russia said it had no evidence that at all he was poisoned. thousands of light currents have spent a 2nd night without shelter after a fire ripped through the morea facility on the greek island of les boss a fresh fire broke out on wednesday night and part of the camp that had survived the 1st blaze local officials suspect arson and say it may have been a protest against a coronavirus lockdown imposed earlier this week you know officials say the migrants fate must be made a priority. a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding on the streets of lies false solutions of exhausted men women and children some born in the now destroyed maria camp left homeless fighting heat and hunger.

over 3. i'm just north of you know doing not really. do the will of the fuel for. no money put up listen. now we will sleep on the street what can we do if we don't have food and if we don't have anything what can we do. meanwhile officials point the finger of blame for the fire at residents angry over strict coronavirus quarantine measures. and. is this going to cincy i recognized the difficult conditions however nothing can become an excuse for violent reactions to health checks and even more so for such extensive on rest as is that it has. amid the ruins of what was moreas notoriously crowded camp aid workers say the tragedy has been a long time coming. we had our shock about.

the situation that all the time and the groups that. are there the. night. of the 5 years of progress will find it difficult to take the party state run by the bottom and as much as. people have. the reach to really house the displaced is under way 400 unaccompanied children boarded a flight to mainland greece on wait and stay. for the families. left behind the week continues their fate in the hands of leaders their futures on saturday. for more i'm joined by journalist. and. it's going on 2 days now since fire gutted the morea camp on lesbos forcing thousands of migrants on the streets what's

the situation there now. well we've heard some pretty bold remarks by the government coming out especially the prime minister saying that the situation will be brought out under control and that the government is scrambling to place her under control but that doesn't match up and square up with what we're seeing on the ground pooches just harrowing images of thousands of people out there on the streets childless pregnant women elderly handicapped just trying to seek and find some place to to to put their belongings to the where they've slept out in the rubble people who had gone into parking lots others i saw trying to erect a tent in cemetery next to tombstones to shelter families these are scenes of complete and other chaos and a lot of states initiative and involvement but what the authorities are telling me

is that they have presented the local authorities with 4 proposals i think 5 actually of where they can actually set up a tent city to get these people to get these refugees into a safe shelter and these proposals have been knocked down by the authorities who are simply frustrated by this lingering situation here on the island of lesbos this camp situation this camp which was built initially to house between 2300 people now housing 6 times over 12000 and overcrowded in abysmal conditions so many here are saying that this wasn't an you know and accident that was waiting to happen in a tragedy that is unfolding it's not the 1st time we've seen such violence gripping these this island but it's definitely a was a case of this is not coming entirely unexpectedly and yet there apparently is no

plan in place what is going to happen. to these 12000 migrants who are now utterly dispossessed. you're absolutely right. the plan calls for them. to be taken to a facility an enclosed facility and to be relocated that because the camp and malta is just inoperable it's been raised it's been destroyed down and in fact we had a fresh fire overnight that destroyed even whatever remaining could have been used to restructure it so but again there's a lot of local opposition what kind of support is the e.u. providing in this situation if any. what we have an e.u. commissioner who's coming in from brussels to athens for an eyewitness friend on

the ground account today but all again all this this entire situation has rekindled calls by greece to the e.u. to really reach out and make a difference and assist greece in this task of shouldering the migration crisis the prime minister yesterday was very very proud of in his national address saying that greece can no longer shoulder the burden of europe's migration problem and there's a huge debate today among pundits and critics about revising european migration policy and to thank you very much for bringing us up to date there that was and the chorus in a suit. just a reminder of the top story we're following for you this hour u.s. president told trump has responded to allegations made in an explosive new book that he downplayed the coronavirus and albright weeks before he publicly acknowledged concerns about the pandemic trump said he was not lying to the public

but did not want to call. this is g.w. nous remember you can always get all this news and information on our web site at d w dot com i'm terry margins thanks for watching. every day counts for us and for our climate. model mind has his moments we're going to bring you more conservative audience how do we make see the streamer how can we protect habitats what to do with all our

waste. we can make a difference by choosing smart new solutions overstrained said in what ways. the lines in those limited series a move 3000 on the road and all ma. ma . european companies complain about bullying from beijing they say officials are refusing to let many of their executives and stuff back into china after being expelled when the pandemic broke out. of the trees spache breaks out over a make. the deal the french for blames the french government for getting involved. and the race heats up g.m. announces another major partnership with the stuff.

that's to business a survey suggests chinese officials are using the coronavirus to double down on foreign firms a great deal of european companies stationed in china say beijing is refusing to grant their bosses and workers entry the findings come just days after president xi jinping promised the business community to continue to open the economy to the world. in late may several 100 german executives and their families who had been forced to leave china due to the pandemic were granted special permission to return to their work places there but it was anything but a sign of getting back to normal. many european companies in china are still waiting for their employees to return but chinese authorities are refusing to let them in again. in a survey by the european chamber of commerce in china at the end of july 13rd of the company said that none of their foreign employees had been allowed to return

around one in 5 companies stated that only some of their ex-pats had been able to come back and only 17 percent said all employees had been permitted to return to china. the european chamber sees this as a further sign of tightening restrictions against european companies. almost half of those questioned said the pressure came mainly from the chinese government 44 percent said the total of chinese media had become more strident and more than a quarter also it had negative experiences with the communist party. while europe's borders are largely open to chinese investors the hurdles for entering the chinese market are getting higher and higher those who manage to do so are often hindered by unfair business conditions in the country one big exception is the auto industry this is where cooperation has been improving for the benefit of both sides the

european chamber says this should serve as a model for other sectors head of the european chamber of commerce in china as he was involved in putting together that position paper the chinese just read about the coronavirus being reimported and rightly so. well i mean they have been beating the grown up buyer is we have no single case and a couple of weeks of the only so-called imported and they are very strict about carrying time so in a way i mean they're and this dilemma or are they going to keep the country shut or are they going to open it up so is coronavirus is that important or is the economy a more important well it was only a few days ago that the president president xi again promised a more open market in general you paint a very different picture in your paper what what are we meant to believe when i mean we had many promises of we had baby steps and the opening up of what we

really need is a deal something that science it delivered something that is committing china i mean i'm talking about the investment agreement which will be discussed on monday between i'm going to america lend xi jinping china's summit so the way yes we heard many words of opening up we call it sometimes problems for peak because they didn't really translate into actions what about president trump's approach he's taken a hard line on china is that what miss machall and others should be doing in europe i mean he's the bull in the china shop i mean that's impossible these putting up terrorists he's dismantling the relationship to a point where he actually he doesn't really ask for things he just destroys the technology transfer it to it destroys the financial system in many ways what he does is basically really decoupling and the chamber will look into this is not

a what that means for european business though it's very destructive so you say his approach is his failing is backfiring. i guess it is i mean it we are all losers and this point definitely had a good point in saying that you really have to stop talking and you have to stop walking but i mean it in this manner it's impossible to negotiate the chinese on the corner it's not easy for them to compromise we want as europeans trying to compromise to make a step forward to open up and we have terms and the last thing we want to strengthen and the car what more can a fund a line a medical do i mean please an appeals have got your a 5 surely both europe and germany have more in their toolkits than that. on the one hand we have to. talk with the chinese where we want them to open and how fast and so forth at the same time we have to work on our own toolbox

a invest in screening as a 1st step then we look into subsidies of companies so we have a level playing field in our backyard against chinese state enterprises and maybe we have to look into a procurement metis in 3rd countries. where sometimes european companies that disadvantage in comparison to chinese as always bidding for projects such as for example in north africa. you live in china have how do the chinese few europe. well for them it's it's a historic site it's frankly in many ways it's a boutique or they love to go where there is a tree or to see marks and go shopping at the same time they have a high regard for quality coming out of europe and that they know that luxury items are european of nature and most cases after all 50 percent of all luxury items globally want to buy chinese though they have

a normally very good at it you wouldn't perception of your own but of course europe is a democratic system and has different ideas about human rights and that's normally where you get into disagreements. the european chamber of commerce in china thank you very much for being on the show talking about luxury french luxury goods firm l v m h has dropped its 16000000000 dollar bid to buy the famed new york jeweler tiffany it says france ordered it to ditch the deal look up and says it merely advised the company to delay the purchase until january citing a us threat to tax french goods the acquisition was supposed to happen last month the coronavirus this undermines the lottery said to making a deal less attractive to l b m h tiffany is suing. and i'd still country without financial man in frankfurt red bulls and a failed merger worth billions politicians getting involved in business matters

it's a bit of a mess. absolutely mess that leaves many questions open and many things to speculate about what i can tell you as a fact is that this deal has been put into question for quite a while now h. has been rumbling that they wanted to renegotiate the deal and the reason for this is that since they signed the deal in november the profit outlook for the luxury goods sector and for tiffany has changed it's now much worse than in november and the reason for this is probably much more the coronavirus for session than the bad transatlantic trade relationships the problem. now is that they simply change the m. and a contracts they're facing now a costly and tedious lawsuit in the u.s. state of delaware that's where tiffany is incorporated thank you conrad. and electric field for general motors is the 2nd in less than a week it's time

a $2000000000.00 agreement with the stuff to produce its electric pickup and supply batteries says both companies put pedal to metal what is nickel is a look at the other company named mr fay. this is it headquarters this so proclaim disruptor of the transportation industry greets visitors with a variety of sleek and shiny vehicles and the entry hole so-called big rig trucks away from their off road week olds it's all there it's show and tell what could be all rather what will be in the near future says this man we're an energy technology company that happens to make really cool big vehicles this is true of a milton the founder of nikola 38 years old and worth an estimated $4500000000.00. his 5th company milton considers himself

a gifted man with plenty of ego and smarts of course primarily he just. lucky he says. we 1st started this it was it was very risky you know the odds of starting a company and succeeding are normally always against you and the odds of starting a company and turning it into a multi-billion dollar organization worldwide is like winning the lottery 2 times in a row perhaps not only militants relentless determination but also his ability to make others buy into his idea. to get to where it is now you start to realize that your least important person in the room it takes a long time takes a lot of you have to be able to go. at this point in time with just around 400 employees still a small company his great ambitions milton and his team do not just want to disrupt but transform the trucking and transportation industry into an environmentally friendly business and not only in america but also in europe and around the world.

destroyed diesel. diesel is dead. those creating operating and betting on a unique business model that he wants to apply to the trucking and transportation industry is now multibillion dollar. vehicles powered by hydrogen gas wants to be a 0 emissions one stop shop for truckers and transportation competence how. when you buy or truck all your fuels covered all your service your main it's all provided by us so that's the advantage that we're going to be building 50 hydrogen stations throughout europe and. the quarter for his company will build and deliver up to 2500 electric garbage trucks for america just waste management company. needed analysts and perhaps some investors complaint the reason so far only really sold t. shirts and pets but no trucks other vehicles or stations and that's packages.

will be one of the top 5 companies in the world but remember is a startup maybe its past is not long enough to say definitively more about its future than perhaps.

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