it 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 sept 7th saying that you know this virus was 5 times more deadly than the flu so it created penny because americans did not understand essentially what they were up against 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 the unrest that we've seen in connection with the black lives matter protests as the biggest threat to the suburb in the safety of americans he's betrayed by not radical socialist that the you know that the fate of the country in the security of the countries at stake here so those 2 things don't really add up

and 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 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 won't need more voters than just you know his base you need suburban voters he will need older was a lot of those people have turned their backs on from because of his handling of the pen demming and so a lot of people and that's what we saw especially a lot of social media today saying he has you know essentially failed his most sacred duty as a president that is to protect americans peter thank you very much a little a dud. let's 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 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 zis is spreading there at 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 and 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 a body was poisoned by the nerve agent no betrayal from payers said washington what about the way its response to the attack. and following international outcry over the net volumnia case russian president vladimir putin has announced a committee will investigate what happened that's according to italian prime

minister 2 separate kaante he told an italian newspaper it was ready to work with german authorities russia said it had no evidence that he was poisoned. thousands of like brits 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 place local officials suspect arson say it may have been a protest against a coronavirus lockdown imposed earlier this week u.s. 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 maría camp left homeless fighting heat and hunger a. little over 3. i'm left north

of north doing nothing really and yet we do the will of the fuel for. no money put up listen. now we will sleep on the street what can we do that we don't have food 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 since because 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 his daughter has. amid the ruins of what was moreas notoriously crowded camp aid workers say the tragedy has been a long time coming. we are shocked about. the

situation that time and. the. night. 5 years of progressive police finally had to take the party state run by. as much as. people in. the race 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 satin. 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 it under control but that doesn't match up and square up with what we're seeing on the ground which is 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 have gone into parking lots others i saw trying to erect a tent in a cemetery next to to stones to shelter the families these are scenes of complete and other chaos and a lot of state 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 discount situation this camp which was built initially to house 2300 people now housing 6 times over 12000 in overcrowded in abysmal conditions so many here are saying that this wasn't and 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 at this island but it's definitely a worse because so this is not coming entirely unexpectedly and yet there

apparently is no plan in place what is going to happen. to these 12000 mind prince 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 in 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 bit that 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 for an 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 shows during the migration crisis the prime minister yesterday was very very firm 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 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 played the coronavirus albright weeks before he publicly acknowledged

concerns about a pandemic trump said he was not lying to the public but did not want to calls. this is g.w. nous remember you can always get all those news and information on our website at e.w. dot com i'm terry margins thanks for watching. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if your newspapers when official information has attorneys i have walked off the streets like many cantrips and their problems are almost the same point to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans on seeing the microphones who have decided to

put their trust in us. my name is jenny harrison and i work at the. european companies complain about the bullying from beijing they say officials are refusing to let many of their executives and stuff back into china for walked up to being expelled when the pandemic broke out just. a luxury spache breaks out over a make of tiffany soup l b m h calling off the deal a french firm blames the french government for getting involved. and the immobility race heats up g.m. announces another major electrical vehicle partnership this time with the stuff up

nicola. had been physical and let's do business as a face a judge. 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 his entry 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 tone 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 on 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 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 in your paper what what are we meant to believe when i mean we had many promises of we had baby steps in the opening up of what we

really need is that deal is something that science it deliberate is 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 in this china summit so the way yes we heard many words of opening up we call it sometimes problems for pique 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 mantle 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. the technology transfer he did 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'd say his approach is his failing is backfiring. i guess it is i mean it we are all losers in this point definitely had a good point in saying china 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 china to compromise to make a step forward to open up and we have terms and the last thing we want is john and the car what more can fund a line and medical do i mean please an appeals have got your of 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 held fast and so forth at the same time we have to work on our own toolbox that they invest in

screening as a 1st step then we look into a 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 mattress in 3rd countries. where sometimes european companies have discipline to comparison chinese and so he's 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 markets and go shopping at the same time they have a high regard for quality coming out of europe and they know that luxury items are european of nature and most cases after all 50 percent of all luxury items globally up 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 to 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 at $16000000000.00 bid to buy the famed new york jeweler tiffany it says france ordered it to ditch the deal look up and says it merely advise 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 luxury sector making a deal less attractive to l b m h tiffany is suing. and it still free without financial manager frank of 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 recession than the bad transatlantic trade relationships the problem. now is that they simply change the contracts they're facing now a costly and tedious lawsuit in the u.s. state of delaware that's what if any is incorporated thank you conrad. and electric field for general botha's the 2nd let in less than a week is time

a $2000000000.00 agreement with the nicolette to produce its electric pickup and supply batteries in both companies put pedal to metal but who or what is nickel is a look at the other company named mr. this is it nicolai headquarters this so proclaim disruptor of the transportation industry greets visitors with a variety of sleek and shiny beagles 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 of 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 considers himself

a gifted man with plenty of ego and smarts of course primarily he just. lucky he says. started this it was it was a very risky you know the odds of starting a company and succeeding are 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 you're the 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 has 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

the. diesels dead. this creating embedding a unique business model that he wants to apply to the trucking and transportation industry is now multibillion dollar. vehicles powered by hydrogen gas. to be of 0 emissions one stop shop for truckers and transportation competence how. can 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 he has we're going to be building 50 hydrogen stations throughout europe and we'll just take order for his company we'll build and deliver up to 2500 electric garbage trucks for america's 2nd largest waste management company. needed as analysts and perhaps some investors complaint the reason so far only really sold t. shirts and pets but no trucks other vehicles for. maintenance packages.

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

medical dissent in russia can be life threatening poisoning alexina is just one example. militia leaders who are used to being intimidated. human rights are disregarded in this country freedom and justice don't exist here you can spend already days behind bars just for calling for a protest. song goes on in the world.

today don't miss our highlights. programme. w dot com highlights. hello and welcome to this week's focus on europe on this show and it's great to have you with us the russian opposition leader alex a nepali is still recovering after being poisoned by the military grade nerve agents novacek the attack on him has also poisoned relations between the e.u. nato and russia. this video shows the volley before the attack campaigning in the

russian town of novelty beers he became popular for uncovering corruption and mismanagement and for his videos exposing the luxurious homes of politicians loyal to the government he's regarded as the leader of the opposition not only has been a thorn in the side of russian president vladimir putin for a long time the kremlin has tried to stop now with exclusion from elections prosecution and even jail time but all the efforts have failed so far russians who openly criticize putin are aware of how dangerous it is especially for the leaders of protests and opposition are moscow correspondents met up with some of them. piotr there's the love knows all too well what it means to enjoy life one day at a time ever since he was poisoned in moscow in 2018 much like opposition activist alex a never any in august this year unlike now finally though he showed no signs of the nerve agent 90 chalk. ways that aboard the ship with 3 engine my poisoning was

weaker my recovery went faster. by the 2nd we can treatment i could talk again with . the new the child is a very strong choice of a future for good i can cripple or kill someone. is ideally suited to murder their wives that over. the way it's. like never any where's the love a long time spokesman of the punk band pussy riot was treated in berlin sherry tate hospital based on the symptoms doctors found the activist had probably been poisoned though they could not identify a specific toxin as they now have 4 never any support. i think with the use of newbie chalk carries the handwriting of the russian president with. one thing is clear that only the secret services have access to special weapons agents. and they could only have carried out this operation with the express consent of law the mere

puton or that of with dmitri good coffee is certain it's meant as a warning shot to all well known opposition activists the liberals were not allowed to feel candidates for the election to the moscow city duma. from the rhinestone planning part of this country freedom and justice don't exist here anyone who calls for a demonstration can be put behind bars for 30 days. good cause knows what he's talking about he spent 36 days in prison the mass protests came to a head when opposition candidates were barred from running in the election to the moscow duma. in 2019 independent local politician. was another well known face at the mass protests in moscow. that bought the rights of we live in enough for a tarion state a dictatorship whose beginnings could be made out as soon as lattimer putin took

office. i mean i paid for her political activism with several prison terms each a few weeks long the last time she was arrested alone in moscow with just a poster while protesting against the detention of a reporter charges were brought for violations of the right of assembly and she was sentenced to 5 years in prison. and you both neutral nor i'm not afraid but this trial is making things hard for me i'm not allowed to leave moscow for example i'm not allowed to take part in any more protests that restricts me quite a lot with. the governor was more. in the state as your 1st 3 you're on protected. nobody guard will be able to say for life. so most of the state of what you might protect you from hooligans but not from poisoning or murder. even so he has no intention of giving up the poisoning of alexei in the heinie might weaken the

russian opposition. but he was only its best known face not its only leader. about. this effect only works that the opposition start just one single leader but if you have several heads it doesn't they can't poison us all and in fact there are lots and lots of people in russia who aren't afraid to protest anymore because the desire for a change in the system is growing stronger and stronger. since he recovered putin critic. also has been politically active again he sees it as his responsibility to press on for himself and for his daughter. my friends my family and my daughter to live in a magnificent country without putin and his treacherous system. i'm certain. this thing. but in the meantime. won't let his daughter out on the street alone

every morning he brings her to school personally. would you say no to this job offer like robinson crusoe you get to live all alone on a beautiful island located between corsica and sardinia you're surrounded by nature and you're only task is to protect the famous beaches of the italian island well the man in our next reports took on the dream job of island guardian for over 30 years but now he's been ordered to leave although his job is nonce unimportance very. well you can't come in here because you see the red boys. roam around he is able to drive these 2 would be intruders away. if i were into year they'd already be lying on the beach. would follow their lead and soon

the whole place was full of people like accused to be. morandi is defending this. on the island of delhi one of the most famous speeches on the mediterranean it's playing sad it's unique. and around he has been caring for this natural wonder for over 3 decades he got stranded here back in 1909 while heading for the atlantic in his catamaran. marandi happened upon a little island between corsican sardinia quite by accident. he's lived here on his own and watched over delhi ever since at 81 he's still almost comically self-sufficient. when i came to the island i couldn't even change a light bulb. but here i was forced to acquire all sorts of important survival skills. like a modern day robinson crusoe he uses everything the island's rugged terrain has to

offer like prickly pears and aloe vera. i also use the ilo as a medicinal plant to treat cuts and scrapes and above all summer. because the only shady spot on by his house miranda is only companions are his 2 hands to keep him hopping here's. what they jump over the brush and lay their eggs elsewhere. so he can't count on eggs for breakfast. that's a good person is the friended with supply him with food now randy was once a teacher and lives from his pension. i used to go shopping myself but then i was forbidden from using the motorboat. so now i have to rely on others his days in paradise looked to be numbered soon there could be no more rubber boat on the beach

and no more around the and. that's of the administration of the national park on the main island madalena has its way the whole model an archipelago is run from here to delhi included. to build a research station in new zealand there in place of. feature visitors to the pink beach to better consciously enjoy the natural beauty before their eyes. the operators of the national park want marandi to leave 6 years ago the italian government purchased new delhi which had been privately owned they say miranda's contract as the island's caretaker is now normal and void. in public administration positions are publicly advertised candidates must be suitable and qualified and several need to apply sort of. but morrow marandi won't be pushed out of paradise without putting up

a fight using instagram as his weapon he's won close 260000 followers they have launched a petition demanding he be allowed to stay and continue posting photos of rule breakers. i need this life here it's my mission. and i hope the folks from the national park finally get that. many day trippers who visit here legally in the summer and keep the prescribe pads think that this rosa or pink beach needs protection from the tourists towards. and those who have met. agree that he and his way of life are worth protecting to. morrow should stay not just because of the island he makes reflect what are our needs where do we come from. as long as he lives and who

knows how long that will be he should be allowed to continue. our own marandi can't imagine being banished from his island paradise he plans to stay live in his hut and continue his work protecting delhi and its pink beach. they are loud they are proud and they want to be accepted as part of the polish homosexuals and transgender people are leading a difficult life in their contrie which is still largely catholic even the government is calling for a ban of what it calls ideology but that's not keeping clear activists from taking to the streets in cities like war so and large they want their cries for equality to be heard even if that means being arrested. a peaceful demonstration. protest or serve the police

acted against them with the president and severity. go here in the right is the icon of the polish l g b t movement the movement for gay lesbian and transgender rights she was arrested during the protests together with about 50 other activists this is what margot had to say shortly before her arrest and it was a good boy we are not afraid we are gays and lesbians in poland and we aren't afraid of anything in this darn country it can't get any worse and we'll fight back if we have to because this is our country our poland our home. since this escalation there's been rallies of warsaw and elsewhere and solidarity with thousands of participants. almost every weekend they take the streets against violence and homophobia. one of the demonstrators is to write

a study at school. travel from march to warsaw to protest against the discrimination case and faces. she isn't intimidated by the authorities it represent is. we founded the group we parents because we're also affected as parents of homosexual children. our children are systematically excluded attacked speak now. but we stand by them. at her home and watch the right of her husband and son kai aton are watching a video from a demonstration in august they say the violence against gays and lesbians is escalating and it's hard for them to watch patton was also there and he too was shot in the ground and beaten up. if you watch the news from the past few days it now seems socially acceptable to do something like this. just yesterday a gay couple was beaten up in front of their own apartment. but actually is against

the law in poland is hiding a rebel flag on a memorial. a harmless it's considered a desecration of monuments according to polish law for which one can be thrown into prison. the violence of the last weeks is proof that this is becoming a dangerous war of cultures gays and lesbians are increasingly considered fair game in conservative poland some communities even the clear themselves l g b t free zones under proud of it. to stop the eskies fear for their son and even more so since the reelection of the conservative law and justice party pressure is increasing on those who don't follow what is considered the norm. one wonders between western europe and russia. and for years the country was also somewhere in between when it came to homophobia. now we're going we're in the

direction of russia. it's getting worse and worse. the polish government sees it completely differently of course and blames demonstrators for the violence with alleged video evidence. there bandits that's just banditry. the opposition is still defending only switches or regions they should apologize a little east and to the citizens song to perceive that this new torch will be. the e.u. is observing the developments in poland which concern the e.u. commissioner for equality has called on the government to respect the rights to demonstrate. those are just words they don't help the 26 year old and his rainbow community in their daily lives. the question is whether the commission wants to intervene at all. for years the e.u. has avoided clearly stating what's going on.