for such extensive on race this is not a hit. amid the ruins of what was more us notoriously crowded camp beadwork who say the tragedy has been a long time coming. we had our shock that. has the situation that. integrates that one the other. night. by years of progressive confinement to take apart the state run by. as much as. the ring story homes mores displaced is under way 400 unaccompanied children boarded a flight to mainland greece on wednesday the miners were placed in pointing facilities in the city to saloniki for the families left behind to wait continues their fate in the hands of leaders their futures uncertain. him and russia's

this following the latest on the story for us hi emma good to see you of the german and french leaders anglo-american and i'm on my call as we said as we said to have agreed on an initiative for the e.u. to take in around $400.00 miners can you tell us more about what exactly they agreed on well they've agreed to take in those $400.00 under-age miners and that's a 1st step since there are more than 12 pozen people currently without a roof in morea camp into conditions we've just seen in their reports and among them more than 40000 children another 400 children will be relocated within the european union and the situation was dire already in moria and it's now becoming dramatic and that's why both both france and germany will try to convince other e.u. countries to also take a more migrants from last fall so let's have a listen to what i'm going to marco the german chancellor had to say.

right. ok so it looks like we're having some trouble with that clip there emma but certainly saying that she supports this measure to bring $400.00 minors to europe several states and regions and germany we should say including berlin have expressed their willingness to take in far more migrants so what is the german federal government doing about this well you know migration and here in germany is a very polarizing topic and when i'm going to america say that we can do this in the summer of 2015 meaning that germany would manage to handle the strong influx of refugees and certainly she hadn't imagined this sentence that this sentence and this would come to define her mandate and that this sentence will also come to polarize the german population if you look at the polls 40 percent of germans are afraid of us talking through so foreigners and 60 percent on the other hand thing think that the country can cope also we've seen presence of people taking to the

streets this week to pull out the government on refugees and also germany taking takes the more migrants on its soil so the government doesn't want that's quickly as some german people would like but it shows just how divided german society ease on the refugee question there is no european migration policy in place at the moment but what is being done at least at a european level. well the european commission has granted over the years since 2015 more than $2600000000.00 euros that's around $3000000000.00 to greece in assistance for managing the arrival of migrants so each of the then 27 e.u. member states participated in that effort but also for yet is e.u. countries have also been in a deadlock over the european migration system with some states opposing to quotes as to redistribute new arrivals of asylum seekers within the block so that doesn't so so that shows that there's a sort of an antagonist ation on the european level and the european commission of

ways presents a new proposal on the migration system india end of september. reporting for us good to talk to you. now fire has broken out in beirut support weeks after the devastating explosion that killed nearly $200.00 people in the lebanese capital and left hundreds of thousands homeless flames and smoke rose from the destroyed port the cause is still unclear the army says the blaze started at a warehouse where oil and tires were being stored there were no reports of injuries but the fire terrified residents who are still traumatized by last month's blast. earlier i spoke to. in beirut and i asked her to tell us more about this new blaze . earlier i spoke to someone and i wrote and asked her to tell us more about the new place. well to me i am the standing facing the. court and as you see behind me there is small can see it and you stand and they do what. the

cause of the blaze was not here yet but the fire erupted from warehouse to morning and storing tires in the beirut port. witnesses told us that they saw that maintenance work was going on before the fire erupted the fire didn't end up in the red zone which is central to the they looked for to investigate it up today in an area that was presumed a creation. point to. well son it is still the 2nd fire at the port complex this week and this is just weeks after that massive explosion how are people reacting seeing these flames. when she knew the captain isn't it took a state of panic. witnesses that told us that when they were driving they slow cars that were reversing near the highway near the border and because they were scared

they were panicking because the memories of the poor and explosion came back to their minds and people there told us that they are through with the government and the and the need there is and they think that they are unable to manage they can she and that's that is right here i. think there's a prison and they couldn't preserve the security of the competent and on social media for youngest of the people is a break here and what are authorities doing to make sure that the port is actually security. as you can hear. the monkey they live in he's. trying. to put down the blaze and there are fire trucks that are trying to pull down these as well and. the governor of they with might want to avoid asked to evacuate the fort and all of the area surrounding

the ports and yes citizens to stay in their homes and close their windows because the black smoke. maybe talks. our correspondent was on time on reporting for us from beirut thank you so much. let's check in now and some other stories making headlines at least 7 people are dead and hundreds injured after a violent protests erupted in the colombian capital the unrest follows the death of a man in police custody a video of officers holding down and tasting the man went viral on social media. in the u.s. at least 6 people have died in wildfires in california oregon and washington hundreds of homes in oregon have been destroyed the governor is warning it could be the biggest loss of life and property the state has ever seen. us president trump is under fire again for his handling of the coronavirus in a new book veteran journalist bob woodward says trump deliberately downplayed the

danger posed by the virus and has produced an audio recording of the president admitting to doing so at a news conference president trump defended his actions he maintained he was not lying to the public insisting he did not want to cause panic nearly $200000.00 americans have died so far and certainly i'm not going to drive. this country or the world into a frenzy and 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 our let's go right to washington now do you have a standing by for us there are high abbey so how is the president's explanation for misleading the american public on the coronavirus spend of make going down there. well so we heard him there say that he was just trying to avoid causing panic and he was tweeting rather rapidly earlier even downplaying the reaction the outrage to these audio clips by saying woodward didn't release the tapes earlier so how

terrible could they have been really trump has also said he didn't want to jump up and down saying there was a problem while there was a problem and we now know he understood that that he was aware of the deadly nature of the disease but was comparing it to the seasonal flu and he insisted the virus would be gone by summer that it was all under control but this audiotape shows he knew just how pressing the situation was and he simply was not conveying that to the american people certainly there's been some criticism of course considering what he's been saying but the white house and his administration are certainly spinning it differently well the democratic presidential candidate joe biden has come up pretty strong on this what is he been saying. he called it quote almost criminal that this is a life and death be trail of the american people this audio of trauma saying he was downplaying the pandemic is from march 19th to me but he continued to hold rallies after he made these comments to woodward rallies without social distancing rallies without encouraging people to wear face masks and even within the last week we

heard mock biden for wearing one so the democrats along with the presidential candidate joe biden will certainly point out of the president not only lied to the american people but he's continuing to ignore the pandemic now that even as his advisors told him just how devastating this pandemic could be and now with more than 189000 americans dead the devastation is a reality unfortunately but how worried are republicans actually do they think this could further damage the president's prospects of getting reelected. i'll talk to a little bit about the latest national polls show that biden leads trump in almost every category except the economy he does lead trump when it comes to the coronavirus response or what americans think that the better candidate would be to dealing with a pandemic but we have to remember this poll was conducted before all of this and we also have to acknowledge the fact that trump is fighting back some other criticism he's facing heavy backlash after reports last week allege that he insulted american soldiers who had died in combat and that he disparaged wounded

veterans a poll also shows by the leading trump by 4 percentage points amongst military voters again that poll was also taken before these stories came to light so will this all of this be the knockout punch that takes him down in november all observers have watched him dodge crisis after crisis in the past as a candidate and as a president and he may very well do it again. who have been reporting from washington thank you. for let's get a recap of our top stories here on the deja vu the leaders of france and germany have agreed on a plan to take in 400 refugee children from greece's morea migrant camp a massive fire has destroyed the facilities leaving 12000 people homeless. and a massive fire has broken out in very good sport just over a month after a huge explosion leveled the very same district in the lebanese capital the army says oil and tires and storage of burning last month blast killed more than 190

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w. a meal. it's about the environment still but society still about us on the brink spoke to some leading experts in the field. just. as. many schools closed their doors in march has covered 19 swept around the globe. 6 months since have posed unprecedented challenges students suddenly cut off from classmates and thrown into remote learning teachers navigating new technology and

parents burdened with extra responsibilities. some schools have chosen to keep holding back classes online other students and teachers are making a joyous return to their classrooms as a new school year begins. and they still insist i'm happy that the school is started and because i haven't seen my friend and my teacher for a long time. we've been locked in our houses and i forgot how the normal schooling looks. in the schools as a fundamental importance that there's nothing that can substitute schools so from our point of view. this is a huge joy to reopen our gates to our 1200 pupils. but the reopening is also a major safety concern how to bring millions of children and teachers back into schools or keeping them safe from the virus. as some schools struggle to reopen to make up for lost time others remain completely empty the picture varies greatly between countries as our correspondents around the world can explain here in uganda

capito com public schools remain closed what you see here is a reflection of what's happening across the country right from elementary level to university level classes remain closed the government is not sure when to reopen schools now especially with the rising cases of course 1000 now many teachers of already lost their jobs while you're on the government try to introduce lessons of radio and television but sustaining that became a challenge so many families have already described 2020 as the last academic year . students are back in school throughout the whole of china including mohan where the epidemic has started its students need to wear masks there are social distancing measures and staggered schedules but otherwise schools are supposed to go back to their normal curriculum here in beit would the capital of lebanon the

core of a $1000.00 pandemic is not the only crisis that faces the educational system right behind me is an exhibit of the school out of 160 that were totally destroyed or damaged due to the collusive a 2 point explosion why the school year is only a few days away the destruction that was caused by the shock waves that explosion aggravated the calamity and residents already suffering from an unprecedented economic crisis. the german government is ruling out a 2nd lockdown confident that the current testing tracing and tracking capacities will be enough to contain the current levels of corona outbreaks in the absence of a tangible health crisis and with the economy recovering faster than expected there is now an all out debate here in germany over whether the government wasn't too cautious in the 1st place a loud minority has been taking to the streets over this nationwide schools remain

open but when it comes to the question which conditions like must apply that still regional patchwork. in march the kenyan government closed schools and colleges nationwide a certain measure that affected 17000000 learners across the country including among tribal communities as data when used interest reports. 2020 was the beginning of an exacting new chapter for vincent too little high school but in mid march in response to cognate team the kenyan government closed all schools including higher education the measure disrupted the lives of nearly 17000000 students across the country for 16 year old too little it's meant hiding his family cuttle out in the wild rather than to seeing an education. develop us that was really exerted to do in high school because i have never been to boarding school. but i was frustrated when i was told schools would be closed

now i miss the interaction with students and sharing ideas when the school. long distance learning comes with other challenges to lead to simply doesn't have enough time for studying certain and i don't know it's just wake up look after cut into something you know you can do can't concentrate when you try to study so much you fall asleep. on a daily classroom would be your boss and students for children even more until the kenyan government council of the 2020 academy kiya due to the coronavirus but for these must say community one qualified teacher is all that they have. 22 year old danny my side he usually teaches near the tanzanian border but now he has taken to for the cheering home village. one of your living in a community like bees they know saw and saw is

a teacher and we have to have the kids otherwise the kids will miss our old form crossing the muscle. but experts believe there's a lot of walked down before schools can sift through the reopening kenya. i think the false point would really be training teachers once we've done the training then we need to look at our infrastructure for example if all building was able to accommodate a group of 20 goals how can we use it's now tropical more due to less goes to a number of us do social distancing. when no schools remain closed for the foreseeable future. but it's yet another day of hiding cuttle for too little counting down the days until he's able to resume his dream of an indication that perhaps over time could change his life

so let's speak to david evans he's an economist with the center for global development david at these clothes is likely to have a lasting effects for countries like kenya these are likely to have enormous implications for these students lives and for the country as a whole these kids aren't learning a lot of them have parents who've lost work so the students are working and the longer they're out of school the less likely they are to come back to school once they reopen i don't lessons especially will be working and now i ask why do i have to go back to school and what's worse during the a bola crisis in sierra leone another example of a long term school closure school closures led to a sharp increase in adolescent pregnancy so these can really be devastating to students you have something we've talked about earlier this week on the program that limiting the amount of encounters that children and young people have with the authorities can cause all sorts of problems we talk about africa that globally children are missing out on education all over the worlds. it's absolutely true at

the height of the epidemic more than 1500000000 students around the world are out of school it's an unimaginable number and even though some are coming back now there are many that still remain out a lot of kids don't have access to good information technology in low and middle income countries fewer than a quarter of homes have access to the internet and so imagining delivering effective online learning effective distance learning is just impossible and that kids who lack access the most of course are the most vulnerable kids in the 1st place so should countries be rushing to have reopened schools even though there is always that risk that children are going to go home and they're going to get coronavirus too and all of them a vulnerable person countries need to keep children and teachers safe but primary school children are the least able to learn remotely and so getting them back to school safely needs to be the highest priority and furthermore what

countries like kenya and others need to do is when these students come back invest in special efforts to make sure the most vulnerable kids make it back to the classroom and are able to have a catch up so they can get back on track so that there are starting a whole year behind have you seen any approaches around the way to the reacting of school as they have thought yes they getting that right so relatively few countries especially in low and middle income countries are are really doing this you know and so it's still still an open game what we what we do see that some countries are you know making sure that kids are in school at least for a couple of days so that you can reduce the capacity in a classroom so you can have half as many kids in the classroom on a given days you can have social distancing and keep those kids separate but at least have 22 and a half days her kind of face to face and the teacher the heavens from the center

for global development thank you so much for bringing us up to date thank you. and now it's time for your questions to our science correspondent derrick williams. just kovac 19 transmission change depending on whether it's in that or if it's hot and dry one of the great hopes last winter here in the northern hemisphere back in february and march that covert 1000 would prove to be seasonal hasn't hasn't really panned out and in the last months a lot of researchers have come out with with often conflicting messages about about where and how environmental factors are influencing the spread of the disease any direct links between the war temperatures and transmission of the virus seem to still be pretty pretty tenuous to me but increasingly researchers are coming to a more united conclusion that the humidity the amount of moisture in the air

could be playing a pretty big role in the spread of sars code to both those indoors and out in the evidence is mounting that dry air makes the virus spread more rapidly one new study out of australia claims that when a relative humidity falls just one percent in 1000 cases could rise by 7 to 8 percent the explanation on offer is this moisture air causes the aerosols and droplets that an infected person coughs out to grow larger as they absorb water vapor which makes them sink to the ground faster but when the air is dry the opposite happens then the virus containing droplets shrink as their moisture is absorbed by the surrounding air that makes them lighter and more likely to drift around at head level and be inhaled by someone else another.

dr that could well be playing a role when the air is dry is that it also dries out your nasal passages and they're your 1st line of defense i'm against airborne pathogens like like sars co 2 when they dry up it also makes it easier for those pathogens to gain a foothold. derrick williams that now so from this called $900.00 special until next time take out.

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