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which devastated the last lebanese capital the army says the blaze started in a warehouse storing oil and tires last month a blast killed nearly 200 people and left 300000 homeless. the world wildlife fund says wildlife populations have shrunk by 2 thirds since 1970 journey to forests being cleared for food the groups living planet report ones that continued natural habitat loss increases the risk of more pandemics as humans expand their presence closer to wild animals this is deja news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at the news or visit our website good of you dot com. in early february us president trump knew how deadly the coronavirus was yet in

public he downplayed the dangers saying he didn't want anyone to panic 190000 people in the u.s. have died from the virus and the pandemic reaches on in america tonight reaction to trump's revelations republicans are reserved others are not some accusing the president of putting his political interests 1st the people last a man campaigning to win reelection even if it meant life or death i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. it's also for good leverage your you know your even your secret us this is at least it's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for haven't looked at the web that's a good question but it was. never down to face designers once again the president

expressed calm there is damning proof. that donald trump lied and. well i think if you said his order to reduce panic perhaps that's. also coming up what does u.k. prime minister boris johnson want most for christmas millions and millions of coronavirus tests and no 2nd lockdown with new infections increasing is that wish list wishful thinking. and if everything comes together it may be possible even for some of the most difficult sectors like the theaters to have life much closer to normal before christmas. lots of our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we've begin the day with explosive revelations about u.s. president donald trump and what he did and didn't do at the start of the corona virus pandemic veteran washington reporter bob woodward interviewed the president

18 times for his latest book about the trump administration those talks were recorded and have now been made public the words of donald trump unfiltered undeniable and unnerving the u.s. president knew in early february about the dangers of the corona virus but he chose to downplay those dangers to the public he knew the virus was spreading through the air yet he continued holding rallies with thousands of people indoors no masks no warnings 190000 people in the u.s. have died from the virus and the outbreak in america is still not under control 40000 new cases are reported every day yet trump is defending his record saying he said what he said when he did in order to prevent a national plan in the red. river. he needed. to downplay.

the well i think if you said in order to reduce panic perhaps that cell effect is i'm a cheerleader for this country i love our country and i don't want people to be frightened i don't want to create panic as you say and certainly i'm not going to drive. this country or the world into a friend. 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 we've done well from any standard you look at our numbers compared to other countries other parts of the world it's been an amazing job that we've done. as president speaking there are critics such as democratic presidential candidate joe biden say that the president is guilty of unprecedented negligence that he failed to protect the people take

a listen to what u.s. senator chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi said about the revelations we all know president trump puts himself 1st but this time the consequences were deadly and when i think about how many people in my state died in february and march and april it just makes me angry i cannot believe he deceived the american people the way he did how many people would still be alive today if he just told americans the truth he had not been a geisha and to tell them the truth ex post facto he comes up with excuses they don't carry any weight it's the truth that matters especially when it's life and death and this is a tragedy beyond words what the president did say with him yes in those comments showed his contempt contempt for the american people and their have contempt for science can and contempt for any real effort to crush the virus

contempt for his supporters their children their parents he had the facts and if used to take the threat seriously making the entire country exposed an unprepared the one across the panic what because of the stock market. all right richard painter joins me now from minneapolis he's a law professor and he's a former chief white house ethics mr painter it's good to have you on the program we wanted to talk to you because these already are recordings they speak not only to the truth about what the president was thinking in saying but also to the ethics of the u.s. presidency what did you think when you heard these audio recordings terrorist are numbers the united states are are not were are worse that much of western

europe including jeremy and countries that dealt with it brought a virus crisis quickly decisively without lying to the public. the fact that we passed hundreds of thousands of americans die of the drop of virus is directly attributed to look back at our government did not respond at that time with a president who knows about the dangers of this virus is it made it an take that he knew about the dangers and yet he isn't lying to them bear up and that is tragic and this idea that he didn't want to create a document makes absolutely no sense this is not trying to prevent a stock market crash of a mansion crashes or panic might be relevant this is a public health emergency and the sooner a country gets on top of the situation and deals with the better and that is why our numbers in our states are death toll is much higher than it was say much of western europe but japan korea the list goes on and on the countries that dealt

with this part but then the united states went online to the big misprint i'd like for you do take a listen to what leading republicans in washington said today when they were asked about these audio recordings and then i want to get your reaction take a listen. general well 1st let me ask you about the coded ad that he downplayed the seriousness at the coronavirus despite telling woodward privately that you know how deadly it is i'm not this is the 1st i've heard of that so i'm not the bombshell 100 be it your response to the allegations reported in bob woodward's book present on tape i haven't read the book the president on tape says i always wanted to play it down the coronavirus i still like playing it down was the president lying to the american people who then died because their president was downplaying a threat to them. didn't look at the woodward book will

later but i haven't even seen what you're referring to yet clearly that's a question for the white house anyway the question for the white house. do you agree with mitch mcconnell is the painter is this a question so leave for the white house now i was a republican or 8 years a certain age or don't rush it but astray should. and let's not throw up i'm already i'm. what's all right for as wind of america. with hundreds of thousands are there other 'd this is the responsible and not just the president ought to call 1st including mitch mcconnell who presided over 8000 donald trump for his attempts to extort ukraine to the election. so the senate had a responsibility to have a real good so they're really just covering president from which is very tragic

what's going to happen president trying to get over to much of the republican party may suffer because of this this well. and serve as you said in the white house if you can you imagine what the mood must be like inside the white house tonight. i have no idea what's going on in the in the trump white house this is america bush white house the obama white house they just received that rulers lost as white house is. screaming at everything it's the president's reelection campaign and then wonder why did america 'd. we've had as they are of our but of justice every arba our government turning what our president little campaign and i later found out shot list of serious violations in n c i don't live up to the american people those on and on a lot so i can't imagine what the mood is in the white house with these

a bunch of if then i certainly don't want to have been any more if. people were supporting president of the ways but i think it's very dangerous. you say that there are lies coming out of the white house yet the doctor found she who is the us is tough public health official he he has said just yesterday that he does not think that there was any distortion in the communication about the pandemic from the white house task force or coming from the white house. you know you as an ethics expert what do you think dr felt she is trying to do there. i have no idea why he saying that because for the several months in this and that's a key it was very clear that we needed to address that so in 1000 crisis of what he is way out ahead of the white house he disagreed with the white house you risk

being fired by donald trump now apparently wants to try to save his job by or speaking out for the president about his representation of us so we know a quote welcome subject record that art is oh yes agree with the president particularly in the early states march april may with respect to how dangerous this cyrus was so it's very very tragic the united states as we can't focus on sots and solve problems by response was supposedly woke up and yet you know president was a perpetual fake news not only about our foreign policy of the russians and so forth for the final series that requires him as well as the senate to order a 1000 american law do you think mr painter that those doctors in the white house the white house task force they did not contradict the president in public very often if at all do you think that they've failed in their responsibility to protect

the public health the moon should they have said in front of the president no mr president what you're saying is not true. well a perhaps should or c. would have fire and we wouldn't have any doctors at all today with this. problem when the president united states has the power to fire when mobile. who are ordered out are 2 of our own to just fire people at their jobs because they disagree with those we have public health officials and others who shout out as president feeling that they could do more public goods thing and their jobs and kowtow. rather than standing up to them and the rule i believe this is very dangerous for our democracy which is as you've seen is different if we run out of time you are republican you say that the republican party is also in crisis do you see these revelations being

strong enough to impact the results of the vote on election day in november do you think this could ensure that donald trump is not reelected. well we'll see what happens. i was republican for 30 years i left republican party 2000 i think because i simply cannot spare a lot it's coming from donald trump and i can't imagine the american people who don't want to send 4 more years and this is on top of everything else that's happened everything well it's rush praying for the fire as if i was the target in the middle of criminal investigations lara's the public right left the secretary of state over jerusalem and basically giving him. while he supposedly conducting middle east policy file a shit about how much act it goes on and i think the americans he will have seen i'm not and that we really need a fresh start to settle just by him or them again unless tribal this is this is

been a disastrous president's 'd for the united states i believe the best which our american voters will realize that i'm alexion. richard painter former chief white house ethics lawyer for former president george bush mr painter we appreciate your time and your insights tonight valuable insights thank you thank you very much. like the united states germany has been building a fence along its border but the aim here is to keep out african swine fever which is widespread now in neighboring poland where now the 1st case of the disease has been confirmed here in germany in a wild boar the infectious disease is not dangerous to humans but it is deadly for pigs and authorities have been preparing containment measures to protect the country's pork industry which is europe's biggest this symmetric fence was unable

to keep african swine flu from crossing into germany from poland. a dead wild boar found near the border tested positive for the virus that prompted the state to take quick action. essence einstein on this 1st of all limits on foot and vehicle traffic inside the specified area where african swine fever has been found 2nd blocking off the restricted area. 3rd limitations on or an outright ban on hunting for its limitations or a ban on agriculture in the area. the virus spreads by direct contact between animals via animal blood and through improperly disposed of contaminated food it can survive for months or even years and meet eventually if the economic consequences are that producers in the affected areas will be cut off from the

market and put under strict restrictions and germany as a whole wouldn't be able to export pork to countries outside the e.u. and. into atlanta also exposed. an export ban could only be lifted after 6 months from now the highest priority is to contain the virus. and that means we're prepared to support farming operations that have been affected so in districts in typical fans and the farmers association has demanded a call of wild boars. britain is also struggling with a resurgence of covert 19 infections and prime minister boris johnson has a plan to reverse the trend he calls it operation move shot it aims to test up to 10000000 people every day by the start of next year at a cost of $100000000000.00 pail it's our plan this moon shot that i'm describing

will require a joint collaborative effort from government from business from public health professional scientists the just the experts and many many more. work he's underway non-o. and we get home at pace and 2 we get run the clock and there was boris johnson there for more on the story let's cross now to carlisle in the u.k. and bring in dr john campbell he also works as an independent health analyst he's generated a sizable following on social media to do his reasoned and rational insights into everything corona virus pandemic kemas good to see you again let's say that and let's look at the numbers here 10000000 tests a day now if you look at the population of the u.k. you could test the whole population of britain in about a week and have most of sunday off is this a sensible idea. this is an interesting unfolding story which is part based on fact

in part based on fiction the factual part is the prime minister's briefing last night at the regular downing street briefing where we talked about this saying there was going to be a trial of this new method in sulphide in the u.k. but then there was a leak occurred earlier on today where the british government was communicating with the scottish government and somewhere along the way this story leaked out and was picked up by the british medical journal and they got hold of these ideas that there was going to be $10000000.00 texts a day that the entire population was going to be tested every week but it's still based on the sort of into sort of paper at the moment so to it to be coming to the author or it is i think we could describe this is the government thinking aloud because there's many reasons why this idea really is a complete nonstarter i mean the costs of it are completely absurd the practicality practicalities of it really are not there it's described as a merge ing technologies you know that was the technologies we don't really have

yet it would require a very simple test like a saliva test and the governments have said the result will be back in 20 to 90 minutes but then what are you going to do with the results when you get it now the more tests that you have the more likely it is to be a poor quality test so that could be lots of false negatives and that means that people could get a false sense of security they think that negative then they go out and they're actually turn out to be positive the next day could be spreading the virus all over the place thinking they're negative and as well as not people that symptomatic would still need to self isolate as well even if they tested negative and then of course there can be false positives one or 2 percent false positives quite easily could even be 3 percent false positives and even if it's only one percent false positives that is $660000.00 people a week who would have to isolate who are testing for false positives and their family that means about one and a half 1000000 people so. of isolating week just on false positives and it was 2

percent it could be twice that many it's a very very impractical idea and you know you say this to depends on technology that doesn't exist and we've heard that before from boris johnson in reference to breaks it in how to deal with the border between northern ireland in the republic of ireland so this is a recurring theme in this government let me ask you about the number of people in the u.k. who are currently being tested how many are being tested and how is the contact tracing how is that going in the country. the official capacity for testing at the moment is about $350000.00 tests per day hoping to ramp that up to about half a 1000000 test by next month in practice on a good day we're getting about 200000 tests very often it's only about 17190000 tests today now the system that we actually know the works with which is the test and trace system and we know this works from numerous of the controls south korea taiwan taiwan to places where we know this works not only reaching at the moment 70

percent of contacts so when someone has definitely been diagnosed with currently only reaching 70 percent of their contacts so this is where we really need to improve or who could improve test and trace then all those people could isolate we really need to be a minimum of 80 percent and at the moment it's 70 so we need to focus on that because this all depends on compliance this is only working if the people that i contacted in told the been in contact with someone a positive a bay the self isolation rules and at the moment they're not and another complication if this was to be rolled out more widely would have to have some accreditation system to show that someone had tested negative and that would presumably mean some sort of electronic communication system some sort of electronic passport to say that we're negative and unfortunately our. past history on making out in this country is not that good we still don't have an effective opt

in england although there is one in ireland that's working reasonably well we know that the government has limited social gatherings now to just 6 people but in defections new infections are on the rock is now boris johnson says that the u.k. strategy and i'm quoting here he says it's world beating. what's gone wrong here. i think what's gone wrong really is is partly this testing traces not working but what we've seen and this is just not the u.k. that's affected here we've seen this company in france even more cases in spain that there's been a lot of i think to some extent the guard has been let down over some up there's been quite a bit of socializing people haven't necessarily being a bearing all the rules mask wearing is getting fairly good now but there's been a lot of socializing especially in younger people and there's been the spread of the virus in younger people and another infection dr this been identified in the u.k. as one family visiting another family so home to home transmission put all these

things together and that's giving as an increasing rate and as well as the schools are going back now and this is a no the source of concern because we've got new data from the covered simpson tracker up today that showed about 33 percent of children that are infected are actually going to be asymptomatic so this is another potential great driver of infection then of course universities are in the process of going back as well which could be a big driver as well so there are really significant figures in quite a few places in europe for a significant 2nd wave belgium is a notable exception is doing very well at the moment that they've got quite a few things like shopping alone restriction the bubble size all the simple things the things i think we need to focus on let's get the simple things right 1st let's do the common public health measures 1st that we all know about and then what we about these fights that things later aren't dr john campbell as always are the campbell it's good talking with you we appreciate your time in your valuable insights tonight thank you. thank you.

right now to mexico where construction crews have unearthed a graveyard of ice age mammoths archaeologists say the side a new airport north of mexico city could be one of the world's largest deposits of mammoth skeletons. officials knew it was a good spot to build an airport but it wasn't until they got digging if they realized what it used to be good for to. the bones that discovered tell tiles that may have been buried for some 24000 years. this is enough to know that this place would have been like paradise but with one great pitfall the money banks of the lake. and the story obviously repeated itself over and over again the animals venture too far out got stuck and were killed by either other animals or by man. scientists say they've discovered more than 100 mammoth skeletons here spread

across nearly 200 excavation sites. they're now working to piece together these animal stories and site i can't stress enough the importance of the find. great relevance and mexican researches. in that i mean especially those taking part in this they cut him off. at the end we still don't know why these animals became extinct. but the site is not just one on if not the eve world's largest concentration of mammoth remains it's also bound to offer all kinds of insights into other ice age mammals who lived in the like surrounds big soko city. limits in mexico i think it's almost done we'll see tomorrow everybody.

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