without beethoven. this week on. this is the w. news live from berlin european commission president also a funded line gives a wide ranging 1st state of the union speech from migration to digitise ation to a new european health union and bigger cuts to greenhouse gas emissions come from the line to bring together a divided e.u. to realize vision also on the show israel signs

a historic agreement at the white house with ryan and the united arab emirates to stablish inc diplomatic relations president trump says they're just the 1st of many such fields to come also on the show india's government is under pressure for its handling of the coronavirus crisis the faces have surpassed the $5000000.00 mark on post but also across the country say medical oxygen is running out and there's space projects that's no longer just science fiction oh europe's planning to save the world from catastrophic collisions with asteroids. thanks for joining us. has given a 1st state of the union address as european commission president in a speech laid out ambitious goal. calls to make the european union more resilient

and united to confront future crises for the on the line double down on the flagship goals she set up and she took office last december promising a digital revolution for the block action to tackle climate change a commission president also outlined plans to relaunch europe's economy in the aftermath of the corona virus pandemic which she said underscored the need for closer cooperation in the many areas including health so for me it is crystal clear we need to build a stronger european health union it is time to do that thank you. and to start making this a reality we must now draw the 1st lessons from the health crisis we need to make our new if you for health program future proof. and this is why i had proposed to increase funding and i'm grateful at this column and is ready to fight for

more funding and remedy the cuts made by the european council. president goes off on the line speaking there let's go to brussels now ever joined by alice cooper a member of the european parliament for green party others and speech was dominated by the coronavirus pandemic rightly so you think. yes and 1st i need to address the fact that the president from the lion is a great speaker and as a responsible leader of course she was forced to she needed to address to the pandemic and all the health care workers that really have saved lives are still saving lives and i think that was great ok so what would you say are the other main takeaway when takeaways from that speech. will be and as a green put a t. shirt on of course the fact that the commission president from the lion are now admitting

that we need to decrease their emissions to 55 percent instead of what is now on the table 40 percent is a step in the right direction even though we want at least 65 percent to be able to reach their paris grievance i may also think that the way she's show us all that she is an anti racist how she addressed to racists how she wanted us to be more clear in protecting the rule of law and how she condemned what's happening in poland with the energy b.t.i. free so this was a really clear and very strong message from the president you mentioned the greenhouse gas emission targets that she and she raised the issue of climate change very prominently there let's take a quick listen to what she said we need to go faster and we need to do things better. really looked in depth in every sector to see how fast we could go and how to do it in

a responsible evidence based way the european commission is proposing to increase the 2030 targets for emission reduction to at least 55 percent. does this proposal go far enough or you. know it doesn't go far enough for me is not far enough for the greens and not far enough for the planet we know what the scientists are saying we need at least 65 percent and i think the president from the lion is in a big dilemma i think she knows that we the greens are right but she can't get the council with her she can't get all this people and the politicians within her own party group to p.p. with but this is not enough so we need the greens need to fight more to make sure that we pushing them forward because we need to do more to be able to to have

a future for our children and grandchildren. and as a member of the european parliament for the swedish green party thank you. thank you. the israeli army says it has struck around 10 hamas military targets in the gaza strip the missile attacks early wednesday morning came in apparent retaliation for rocket fire from the hamas controlled territory the previous evening palestinians began firing rockets over the border at the same time a ceremony was being held in washington to mark the start of diplomatic relations between israel united arab emirates and bahrain u.s. president donald trump also at the white house ceremony placing himself in the role of international peacemaker ahead of us elections in november. thank you very much please the decision by the united arab emirates and bahrain to normalize ties with israel breaks decades of consensus within the arab world a peace deal with the palestinians has long been upheld as a prerequisite for

a stablish in relations with israel. and trump and netanyahu are hopeful though that all the arab nations will follow suit creating a major shift in ties in the region. and the blessings of the peace we make today will be enormous. first because this peace will eventually expand to include other arab states and old timidly it can and the arab israeli conflict once and for all. but the agreements do not address the core conflict between israel and the palestinians bahrain's foreign minister also made it clear that it was too early to celebrate a just comprehensive and during 2 state solution to the palestinian israeli conflict will be the foundation the draw of such peace. in the

palestinian territories the new agreements have been met with angle. warning siren sounded as several rockets fired from the gaza strip hit israeli territory. hundreds rallied in the occupied west bank and the gaza strip. this agreement today is an agreement that betrays the palestinian cause and stubbs the palestinian people and this is a mirage raimi an agreement is a withdrawal from our of the nations of the arab unison or we say no it doesn't normalization and this normalization is a betrayal of betrayal to the palestinian cause and pan arab ism of course the palestinian people denounce this agreement and the palestinian leadership has made it clear that only israel's withdrawal from the occupied territories can bring peace but as israel and gaza again exchange file that seems as far away

a goal as ever and. it's. some of the other stories making news around the world. mexico's president manuel lopez obrador has asked the country's senate for a referendum on prosecuting 5 of his predecessors for widespread corruption he's also accused them of presiding over quote excessive concentration of wealth and monumental losses to the treasury. hurricane sally has picked up steam on its crawl towards the u.s. gulf coast the slow moving category 2 storm is already hammering the florida panhandle and southern alabama with heavy rain storm surges and winds of more than 150 kilometers an hour some 150000 homes and businesses lost powers. in russia found an immaculately preserve of an ice age cave bear with its teeth and

even its nose in times previously scientists had only found the bones of such bears became extinct 15000 years. urged to pan now where he has been formally elected as the country's new prime minister his confirmation comes after a vote in parliament he replaces outgoing shinzo arbor who resigned earlier this month for health reasons as he takes over at the helm of the world's 3rd largest economy is expected to stick closely to policies champions by his predecessor. it was an easy victory for the former prime minister's long time right hand man thank you oh she was so go won the palme entry verge by a landslide for the last 8 years he has occupied the powerful position of chief cabinet secretary as such he was defector number 2 to shinzo of a and

a king in force of government policy as part of his effort to secure the top job he vowed to stick to those policies presenting himself as a safe pair of hands at a time of a pivotal but his top priorities will be far from the coronavirus and turning around the economy battered by the pandemic. human i will strike a balance between preventing the spread of the current virus and maintaining social economic activity he said i will create a government that will overcome this crisis and be trusted by the people by will create a cabinet that will work for the public better than i don't need he. he is not seen as a flamboyant or passionate person often described instead as someone who operates behind the sayings he's also said to be

a pragmatist rather than an idealist but some critics lamenting what they fear could be a lack of vision on his part but in one respect he stands out from most of the japanese lawmakers he does not come from an elite political family he grew up in a rural part of the country as the son of a strawberry pharma and has now worked his way to the country's top elected position. returning to our mideast story now that we have in the program earlier we're now joined by in jerusalem this breakthrough is being celebrated in the u.s. and israel but it's a different story in the palestinian territories and. yeah that's right i mean for palestinian stares the realisation that there might be a substantial shift in the region here in the middle east they're very much concerned that some of the arab sunni countries are moving closer to israel that

israel is no longer seen as part of the problem but rather as a solution also of course depending on the interest of these countries and it also breaks of course with this publicly how few and that's something palestinians could count on at least for years said arab nations would not normalize ties until israel and its occupation over the palestinian territories until they reach a state that is very much concerned i think this is why there is so much anger and disappointment among palestinians because once again they're feeling left out being pushed aside with their daily hardships and the issue of haitian and not having a state. do you think it is this the beginning of a new era of israel developing ever closer ties to contras in the arab world. well i think it depends you know how these agreements and the declaration with

brain how they will be implemented i think for many israelis said do really appreciate and acknowledge this is a historic breakthrough that's something that's not out in the open because those ties were usually in the past years they were behind the scenes everybody knew about it but it was as somebody said the worst kept secret of the region but now it's all open and there is now a space for cooperation of course with their with each country having their own interests maybe also forging an alliance against iran for the israeli prime minister this is a major foreign policy achievement in the line of as some people have described it as a peace agreement with egypt in 979 and with jordan in 1904 although you have to stress that israel was not at war with the united arab emirates and bahrain so this is of a different nature having said that it comes for many israelis also at a bit of an odd timing because people have really busy with preparing for

a nother nation wide lockdown starting on friday there has been a lot of criticism directed at the prime minister and his government of handling the crisis this is what preoccupies people here alongside of appreciating this is story agreement and this is what will become center stage in the coming days and weeks ahead. thank you donna. we are going to india now where corona virus cases have surpassed 5000000 and more than 82000 people have died health experts warn that the fatality rate could rise as restrictions eans authorities have so far ruled out imposing a 2nd country wide lockdown in the home to 1300000000 people as reported some of the highest daily case jumps in the world it's expected to overtake the united states as the country worst hit by the pandemic within the coming weeks. and

joining me now is the india correspondent image as well from delhi india strong a virus cases have surpassed the 5000000 mark the 2nd highest in the world after the us but its deaths are still comparatively low why is that but i have this didn't research on. me. so did this to me but that wasn't. if that indian ocean. oxygen supplies are also running low then in the air can you tell us more about that might get our oxygen to rest so indeed after. you get up 100 back. with my oxygen and let your reply off limits i'm afraid we haven't trouble with the audio line.

we try and reestablish that for the time being i'd like to thank you now and apologize to our viewers for the bad audiobook. we want to our next story here's a science experiment that sounds like a script for a hollywood disaster movie the european space agency has signed a deal with a german company to build a set of spacecraft that mission to find a way to redirect killer asteroids before they hit a planet. science sometimes takes a while to catch up with fiction more than 2 decades ago the film i get and proposed to bombing asteroids to save planet earth from a collision in the inside out like now a similar plot is being hatched by the european space agency and. the. until now humanity has been powerless against the impact of asteroids and other

objects circling close to earth in the meantime we have the technology and the capital to defend ourselves. a series of spacecraft will be launched from june next year 1 will crash into an asteroid to see if it can change its trajectory another craft will analyze the debris from the collision if it succeeds it will be the 1st time human technology has shifted a celestial object. before. it's like billiards a small false hits the asteroid that is heading for earth. which should cause a deflection. we want to practice this so that we are ready if an asteroid is really heading for us we took a course of worms and the whole mission will take more than 6 years to complete better late than never earth is already being bombarded. and it continuously

happens we get tons of material from the sky falling on earth lucky 3 fourths of the earth with water and a large quantity is also there. but. that's luck. of scientific were you to approach the problem. photography asteroid is intending to us but another one might be this mission could help us prevent a real life armageddon. very exciting story and joining me now is john van a he's the director general of the european space agency so the idea is to test a method of not just an asteroid of course that is heading for us why not go all the way and just blow it to pieces how that would be a very bad idea if you blow it in pieces you have not only run asteroid hitting the air spent hours and millions of particles and they might be still big enough to

destroy people on or so therefore it's very better it's much better to really play bill yet in space and it was said to try to direct an asteroid which is directed towards us. with asteroid 7 a measuring 50 meters across or larger if such a an asteroid would hit 50 diameters or larger what could we expect. so we have a lot of tradition in that field and lot of experience we have about $170.00 street really confirmed traitors on earth from us towards one very big one boss which was causing the dying out of that you know so so we should not be the same same experience so it depends really where kids can really destroy buildings it can have auto it struck rafe killing people directly so it really depends ren and where it hits you cannot say of total directly one result only it will be create all of it

depends whether it hits in the city where they take on land or wherever so it's difficult to estimate so we want to avoid any getting off when asked why it was there us well the space agencies are watching asteroids that are flying around in space and looking at the weather valley to hit how many are that can become dangerous at some stage so for scientists really looking always to asteroids in our solar system and the one in which reality visiting going to raise it is also in our in our solar system but we had 2 years ago we had an asteroid coming from outside outside our solar system so there are i have no number millions is for sure that too small to say so there are many many many but lucky enough we don't have so often that they hit the earth directly so therefore but there is enough to do well

this mission of course comes at a staggering cost of what is the actual likely hold of a deadly asteroid heading towards us. i started to convince caesar member state sums 3 years ago to pay for such a mission and the question i got immediately rowlett happened during my political term and of course this question i would not answer and so therefore you cannot say it but the probability that it will happen this one it will happen the only question is i cannot answer now if you ask me really in the next 5 years next 10 years the next 50 years this question nobody can answer so therefore we can just say it will there will be a big asteroid hitting the earth for sure and we should be prepared. bracing all selves for the impact of that director general of the european space agency thank you very much for joining us here on the news thank you and from space to sports

german politicians have decided that football fans across all 16 states can return to stadiums in time for this weekend's 1st match day of the bundesliga season for a 6 week trial period clubs will be allowed to use up to 20 percent of the stadiums capacities strict coronavirus measures will be in place but there are no plans for the fans to be tested. football grounds in germany are livening up once more slowly but steadily the fans are returning at a recent friendly between on your own berlin and nuremberg 5000 socially distanced supporters were allowed back on the terraces it was the 1st time that they'd seen a live game or indeed a live gold since march and fans would grateful for the opportunity to be back with the law was of course it wasn't completely normal because a few people were missing but it was still nice. i fancy everywhere will be subject

to strict measures on their return but on your own supporters were impressed with their club safety protocols. live 1000 people in a stadium that holds 23000 on the big problem i think. 'd i agree on your own did a good job of executing their plan there were no problems no risk of infection or anything like that. recently german cup matches have seen even bigger numbers of spectators returning welcome 7 and a half 1000 fans back to now motorists and 10000. previously the decision making power rested with local authorities but now there is a single solution for all german sports clubs 20 percent of the stadiums capacity may be used away fans won't return yet and no alcohol will be sold normality might still be a long way off but the days of actually empty terraces are numbered bit by bit fans

are coming home. and from the pitch to the pitch black of a deep sea of friendship for a diver has set a world record off the coast of the greek seaside town of. dive is the deepest ever recording recorded using so-called by fits with what attached to his feet. that 25 year 24 year old son 112 meters and a diet that lasted 3 minutes and 24. months made 2 efforts to break repeats record of 111 meters but failed to get his attempts. you're watching the news here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you the european commission's chief fund a lion has delivered

a wide ranging 1st state of the union speech touching on the coronavirus pandemic green issues digitization and migration she acknowledged the crises europe faces but focused on how the bra could osher a change in the areas of health economy and the clock. and u.s. president on a composite presided over a ceremony marking the normalization of relations between 2 arab states and israel united arab emirates and baumrind joins trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to sign a formal agreement it's the 1st time in more than a quarter of a century that an arab state has established diplomatic ties with israel. don't forget you can always get news on the go just download all rock from google play all from the app store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking sun if you are part

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