this is the w. news live from berlin the european commission president sets out her vision for the block's future we need to go fast and we need to do things better. and our 1st state of the union speech from the line says a commission's green recovery plan can help the e.u. emerge from the coronavirus crisis stronger if everyone gets on board also on the program india's government under pressure for its handling of the coronavirus crisis cases have surpassed the 5000000 mark and hospitals across the country say

medical oxygen is running out. and the space project that's no longer just science fiction or europe's planning to save the world from catastrophic collision with asteroids hollywood star. as well come to the program on the line has given 1st state of the union address as european commission president and that she set out a vision for making the european union more resilient and united's to confront future crises on the line double down on the goals she set out when she took office last december. also love underly in ahead of her 1st arab state of the union speech waiting to unveil more ambitious climate goals for the block we need to go faster and we need to do things better the european commission is

proposing to increase the 2030 targets for emission reduction to at least 55 percent catching emissions and becoming climate neutral by $20.00 to $50.00 are part of the european green deal one of underlined speed priorities at the situation taken partly due to the mounting pressure of climate activists but ramping up the instrument targets it's not enough for some i expect those of us on the lion to keep on working with her commissioners and really to put pressure on the council because we know that there are member states who are not willing to do what we need to do when funder line took office late last year she presented a long list of projects by the code 19 pandemic slowed down many of them or brought them to hold she now said it's the year's 1st priority to pull each other through

this that you commission chief also put a focus on human rights not only calling out china's treatment of minorities but also criticizing your member said poland for introducing so-called free cell phones l g b t q i have free zones are humanity free zones funder line also said the e.u. finally has to decide on a solution on how to handle migration one of the most disputed topics among member states saving lives at sea is not optional and those countries will fulfill their legal and more duties or are more exposed than others must be able to rely on the solidarity of our. whole european union underlines commission will present a long awaited proposal for a new pact on migration on september 23rd and its hair who will be judged on its

outcome. of a more on this let's cross over to do w. respond. in brussels go faster and better that sounds good but we just heard in our piece that not everyone agrees with the huge eve on climate policy how is she going to find common ground. exactly get it will be interesting to see that her business targets will be discussed at a summit here in october the aim is to win over those countries particularly in the east of europe who are heavily relying on carbon intensive energy like coal in poland for instance now how's she going to accomplish that i will she has an interesting approach to this and she wants to turn a crisis into a chance which means she wants to take 30 percent of the money from the bailout package that has been agreed by member states to tackle the coronavirus effects and put that money into green energies and now let's say she would put

a lot of those 30 percent into those countries that of most are unhappy about that new approach she might as well not find new common ground but actually by that common ground but she also called for a european health union what exactly does she have in mind. you know that's an interesting goal of 2 objectives here one is more money and one has more power more money for research in the field of medical diseases for instance more power more power for instance for the medical agency that only recently has been shifted from from london to europe to the netherlands and the idea here really is europe has not a lot of powers it's mainly of member states who have the powers for instance when it comes to the issue of health and here the idea is where as an international trade deals for instance the e.u. has something to say and is beyond member states and here the idea is that on on

health issues it would actually be helpful to give you a simple example what areas in europe are risk areas regarding coronavirus well brussels from a german perspective is a risk area but from a belgian perspective it's not red it's only orange. migration of course also on top of the agenda right now and that continues to divide the union 5 years after the crisis of 2015 from the line now wants to present a new migration plan later this month how would it different from the current plan if there was one. well i think that is what many i mean i've been wondering as well and seeing that she gave such a broad speech cover covering so many issues i'm sure many any piece would have liked to hear more on that particular topic because really a lot depends on this proposal because it will be this proposal who needs to win over member states who have been resisting for instance the relocation of migrants and it will be a proposal that needs to break a 5 year long deadlock in the e.u.

now what has she said about it she says opening legal pathways that will be interesting to what extent she can achieve that and also a clear distinction between asylum and migration so sending people back more effectively on the extra borders that will also be could also be a deal breaker for some member states you know use europe correspondent go matters in brussels thank you. and to japan now where he has been formally elected as the country's new prime minister is confirmation comes after a vote in parliament he replaces outgoing shinzo who resigned earlier this month for health reasons as he takes over the helm of the world's 3rd largest economy so guys expected to stick closely to policies champions by his predecessor. it was an easy victory for the former prime minister is a long time right hand man thank you yes she did

a super one the parliamentary vote 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 lobby and to kill 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 upheaval but his top priorities will be far from the coronavirus and turning around the economy battered by the pandemic. she said i will strike a balance between preventing the spread of the current virus and maintaining social economic activity or if i will create a government that will overcome this crisis and be trusted by the people if i will create a cabinet that will work for the public better than i don't need he. he

is not seen as a flamboyant all passionate person often described instead as someone who operates behind the saints 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. 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 restrictions ease authorities have so far ruled out imposing a 2nd country wide lockdown india's home to 1300000000 people and as some a report of some of the highest daily case jumps in the world suspected to overtake

the united states as the country worst hit by the pandemic within the coming weeks . joining me now is that india correspondent emissions as well from delhi india's corona virus cases as we've just heard have surpassed 5000000 that's the 2nd highest in the world after the us yet the deaths are still comparatively low why is that going to happen since i have to. wait i'm going well what exactly is all of this but let's see how well that sure is why i didn't even know what creationism john laughed my younger than mental back to bennett's missions and so much was it wasn't me in addition there's also. the activity this music being mean enough location and other. things well to undergo no matter which is actually a lot of these populations to fight off this who are no one is in a battery was going to see that region does need be up to god it should not look

that much on the beach or do they have anger and jealousy since you have and you can get. well we're hearing that oxygen supplies are running low in india can you tell us more about that. yes going to have the option basically of crossing yeah it's a light but approximately 800 i actually think distilling going quite often and sliding in the fast and not neck enough to do this with her hand and the rest of the neck to the factories due to bottom line of the sport itself however now when the kids know i'm racing to magically the dumont office and the head and going up dramatically as many. producers in the night if you can get by that i'm not these are these really as the factories are buying up again and once undermining office it's almost usable. indian ocean here quietist to wrap up its oxygen supply jannat. but india's government has rejected

a 2nd countrywide lockdown that is continuing to lift restrictions what's the public feeling there about this strategy well despite the frightening numbers and a grim milestone there is writing back in india actually i heard that people actually agreeing that the government that another knock down is i'm likely to have the government have that the white people must continue. he must learn to live in the cruel whitest and people seem to actually get a lot of things worse g.d.p. what do require attractions in the arts new mums and not just concerns about that matter is back to do we want complete and so on india has a plan b. when we are ready and meet women as one of the government say that you must start actually live in the pandemic and try our best to tap up you just as lana support in developing a vaccine. and then thank you very much michel. and time now to take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world mexico's

president under a smuggler lopez obrador has asked the country's senate for a referendum on prosecuting 5 of his predecessors for corruption he's also accused them of presiding over quote excessive concentration of wealth and monumental losses to the treasury treasury. the u.s. national hurricane center says the eye of category 2 hurricane sally has made landfall close to the city of gulf shores alabama and this storm is packing sustained winds of one to 105 miles per hour forecasters say it's likely to cause catastrophic and life threatening flooding along the north central gulf coast. pope francis says the coronavirus pandemic shows that there's a link between people's health and the state of the environment the pontiff greeted crowds who turned out for a general audience and vatican city people were spaced out as part of efforts to prevent the virus from sprinters. to the u.s.

now where president trump has approved a request borrow against the governor to declare federal emergency and boost government help to fight wildfires sweeping the state oregon washington state and california have all been hit hard by record fires this year the w.'s all of a solid is in california where he visited berry creek that's a small community that's been almost totally razed to the ground. we're entering the restricted area of the north complex fire one of the biggest wildfires in california history. whole communities burned to the ground within hours more than a dozen people died in this section of the fire alone. firefighter and even skydiver shows us the damage the very creek elementary school was completely destroyed and the wildfires still isn't fully contained.

our biggest challenge right now is the size of the fire with the resources that we have is there are so many large fires burning in california right now and to compound that the train in this area is very steep so we have inaccessible terrain the mountain community berry creek is at the epicenter of the fire many of the former $1400.00 inhabitants lost everything to the flames knowing there is little they can do puts an additional strain on the 30000 deployed firefighters in california just makes me feel horrible you know people put their lives into this you know and to have a far just come through and destroy it all in an hour or 2 it's it's devastating only 25 percent of the wildfires around perry creek are contained trees are still smoldering but some areas have been inexplicably spared what happened here in the berry creek mountain community was like a little miracle because if you look behind me the whole forest was on fire

buildings burned to the ground livelihoods destroyed and just a few steps further this very gas station and its gas pumps are still in place with the gas tanks underneath but this is just a rare exception it will take years for the community to recover. the town of paradise has been through that already 2 years up to the deadly camp fire many plots remain empty in november 2018 that nearly wiped paradise off the map. victoria sinclair lost everything back then yet she was the 1st to rebuild her home . and with the new evacuation warning in place old memories in theaters returned next to me and it fell down and then all the embers of flew across the hood of my car i spent all the time on google maps looking at the distance from my house to the fire and so. you become hyper vigilant and i want to say

paranoid but you become very very aware and last week when the skies went to the outworn color just brought us right back to to this day. for knowledge seems like the winds are blowing in victoria's favor but the fire season in america's west will last at least another month. the israeli army says it has struck around 10 hamas military targets in the gaza strip the missile attacks early wednesday 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 salmon he was being held in washington to mark the start of diplomatic relations between israel the united arab emirates and bahrain u.s. president donald trump hosted the white house ceremony placing himself in the role of international peacemaker ahead of u.s. 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 establishing relations with israel. 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 1st 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 big draw of such peace. in the palestinian territories the new agreements have been met with anger. morning sirens 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 the tray's the palestinian cause and stubbs the palestinian people and this rainy in agreement is a withdrawal from the arab initiative on the arab unison. or we say murderous normalization and this normalization is a betrayal of the trail 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 also a science experiment that sounds like a script for hollywood disaster european space agency has actually signed a deal with a german company to build a set of spacecraft and their mission to find a way to read direct asteroids before they hit a. science sometimes takes a while to catch up with fiction more than 2 decades ago this film armageddon proposed to bombing asteroids to save the planet from a collision. like now a similar plot is being hatched by the european space agency and nasa. 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 force 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. and the whole mission will take more than 6 years

to complete better late than never is already being bombarded. with material from the sky. 3 fourths of. the target asteroid is attending to us but another one might be this mission could help us prevent a real life drama get a. very exciting story. he's the director general of the european space agency so the idea is to test a method of nudging an asteroid off course that is heading for us why not go all the way and just blow it to pieces. i don't how that would be a very bad idea if you blow it in pieces you have not only one asteroid hitting the

air spent thousands of millions of particles and they might be still big enough to destroy these people on earth so therefore it's very better it's much better to really playbill yet in space and it was said to try to redirect an asteroid which is direct directed towards us ok with asteroids that have 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 stree really confirm traitors on earth from a store it's one very big one was it which was 'd 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 the total directly one result only it will be greater all of it depends on whether it hits in the city where that it's on land or wherever so it's difficult to risk a minute so we want to avoid any getting off when asked why it was theirs well the space agency's watching as strong as that flying around in space and looking at them whether they are likely to hit how many are that. become dangerous and some stage. so from scientists really looking always to asteroids in our solar system and divine which riyad no 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. you see i started to convince caesar member states some street 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 will it be in the next 5 years next 10 years the next 50 s. 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 self for bob in power jump out of that director general of the european space

agency thank you very much for joining us here on the news. from deep space to the deep blue a french dive set a world record off the coast of the great seaside town of kalamata and those are all dive it is the deepest ever recorded using so-called by fish which were attached to his feet 24 year old son 112 meters in a dive that lasted 3 minutes and 2024 seconds. to efforts to break the previous record the 111 meters but failed to get his hands validated. it watching the news is a reminder of the top story we're following for you and the 1st state of the union speech european commission chief also a fund of god says the e.u. is green recovery plan can help the bloc emerge from the coronavirus prices strong

. a message from the me of a new scene from our live update for you at the top of the hour but up next in court africa is a company harnessing sugar canes potential as a green field office in berlin thanks for.

good. to. go to africa. these freshly hatched sea turtles in an ivory coast are under threat . humans are their greatest enemies. but one in geo is working with researchers in the maritime police to protect. the saving the sea turtles the ivory coast. the coast of africa. next on.

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good food also was the creation of our solar system with our flat it is a bit like when. a lot of rank that up there is a little going to. what is the 1st word you need start september 18th on d w. had to know everyone good to see you it's a beautiful day here in lagos not sunny but just the way we like it now did you know that too much of its official life can have a negative effect on our health and the world around us i'm sure you didn't think of that we'll have more on that later on on the show welcome to the environment show eco africa a military way i've been to visit kano park in lagos now let's see what's coming up

on the show today. we'll take a look at a cleverly designed an admissions free street sweeping devising gotta. find out why farmers in the netherlands are big fans of bags. and hear about how people in the ivory coast are protecting baby turtles. and now we're off to kenya the east african country has a high domestic energy demand i mean many sectors including the t.v. industry people are kings of final tonnages to fossil fuels. is africa's leading producer in cary coal country there are several t. processing companies that are using sustainable energy sources from the local area let's go have some tea. when the sun shines the rolling landscape of county comes to mind the fields are

covered in. the special climate here makes its king is most important growing regions. ruing has a plantation here he's one of hundreds of thousands of small will the farmers who make a living. he is the pastis most of income the main source of income i have the bullies completed and i've been to. 4 points of support he said on the. chance. oughtn't to need to be sunny the fact tree here walkers divide up the leaves into batches and prepare them for the drying process. the factory uses a great deal of firewood but because of deforestation wood is becoming us cause for source in the region. so the factory has begun replacing it with

a brick it's made out of sugar and residue you. about the compacted want to grow local storage space and there it's also very easy to transport them no less bulky and from units you move with top of care to be able to generate more image of the road. liberal get some made in a nearby fuck tree the end made of sugar cane fibers a west product that is left over in sugar can production sugar factories often dump the residue at the roadside where explored and emits the greenhouse gases stop on the yolk site and me thin. but in this processing plant it is turned into a file you pull resource fast the sugar can residue is dried and shredded. then it's pressed into briquettes system made out of a west product no additional land has to be put under cultivation.

brasier diaz chavez is an expert for sustainable energy and has been assessing the environmental benefits of briquettes. b.c. same language circular economy so this is what we want to promote with bio energy and by the economy how you can really have around that cycle for biomass back to the tea factory it has been able to replace one 5th of its firewood with pre-k. . and other t. factories are following suit training their workers on how to make this week the hope is that one day they will be able to face out firewood completely. if they succeed it will help preserve the remaining woodlands and protects the habitat of numerous animals and plants it would also benefit to the tea plantations

in pharmacy. and he said when they use the brigades the company. uses the expenditure and this is money and the money saved goes to the farmers for the environment and the t.v. producers in kenya to bring a sustainable solution with great potential the potential to make even. in germany like in many other places forest fires are a growing problem so understanding how best to help forest recover i regenerate is more important than ever a group of scientists decided to see what would happen if a force destroyed by fire well left more or less change own devices for several years we may think we are vast in many ways but as is so often the case when given the chance mother nature will heal herself even from damage caused by humans like

us. whether beech trees maples or estens jeanette's blue murder and aebischer are always glad to see a new member of the family arrive about 12 months ago the 2 researches began documenting changes big and small to this section of a forest ravaged by fire. we got what we hoped for i mean the ecosystem is starting to recover and certain species are quickly appearing and spreading such as these aspens they've now brought about changes to the area that are in turn helpful for other species. good 6 and in august 28th seen a forest fire raised almost 4 square kilometers of woodland outside the town of twine pleats and in eastern germany an area larger than $500.00 soccer pitches the usual practice after a forest fire is to clear the entire area and replant trees as seen on this private

land but not in this case thanks to a government funded project here dead trees are left standing. local forest think it is testing an alternative solution removing most of the dead pine trees and plaguing other species in their place the idea is to create a mixed forest that's also home to oaks poplars and other deciduous trees. to me so i can i 1st wanted to see which species of tree i could use and how old they needed to be before being transplanted carrying out tests is important to get the full picture. and that's when the forest abroad in the expertise of these researchers they're here to find out the best way for a forest to be able to regenerate and become more climate resistant with or without human assistance. the researchers take

a hands off approach limiting their work to observing which plants and animals settle in they have a chance it's a rare opportunity. it's now standard procedure to see to it that we repair the damage that humans have done all too frequently we do not give nature the time or space to do that itself and that deprives us of the chance to learn from nature to forgive him for all the false. among the things they have learned is that in addition to providing shade deadwood also in the hands of the soil when it falls to the ground it creates more humors which gives the soil more moisture the work is carried out on his test areas is on a smaller scale than is common in conventional forest management they're barely accessible by car and he's a wreck did

a fence around the forest to keep larger animals at bay he left a number of dead trees standing leaves have also been spread to keep the soil moist and protect it during drought. we're seeing large scale forest fires in the region and that's going to continue so we need to learn how to respond. and that's why researchers in that blue murder is here she's been collecting data on soil humidity and temperature which plants and animals settle there and how all these factors impact on the ecosystem 8 other research institutes are also involved in the project the data gathered over the project's 5 year time frame is being collected at her university and has filed a near bilin but it happened habits like death data shows that natural reach even nation far exceeds the number of trees planted by humans as. we have seen up to 3 times the amount. naturally resettling compared to the prying

or oak trees that were planted on the area i sent it off to the fans wouldn't. the researchers are also part of an international network they're eager to hear about the experiences of colleagues in the us and mediterranean countries and to learn if and how forest ecosystems can be made more robust. to go on thoughts pooling our work is really important it can help us to compare biomes or large ecological zones so that we can discuss common patterns or and also told. one thing the number of studies show is that even the remains of trees killed or damaged in severe fires help the forest ecosystem rebound which supports the argument of letting nature of being. now we are

africa love people who take initiatives to help protect the environment our next report looks at a young innovator in ghana who has a truck with a view of finding cost effective solutions and sustainable wants to do the problems facing his community his latest will brainchild a bicycle that doubles as a little sweep up here is this week's doing. this is no ordinary thought i can trade on. this weeping bicycle collects trash as it travels the streets of a crime on its inventor frank tucker is on a mission to help clean up ghana's capital. and that's a i'm not happy you're going to go outside of a day and i see so many robberies from a grown up is so sad and i want to see someone if from another country go can i run i feel like typing but i want to toss in the regime so really is my new

invention i am i believe i come if i can be an icon to all i can put on and welcome to do something to do that to restrain a risk from st. p. puts his sweeping bicycles together from discarded bikes and scrap may so. it takes the south to engineer around a month to complete one. it's just one of several inventions he's working on. from dhaka and hopes he will one day own a factory and his eco bike idea will sweep across the nation. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. after doing your bit. sharing your stories. pollution is a problem all over the world and comes in

a range of forms some obvious like plastic waste in our rivers and oceans all of a cloud of smoke billowing out of factories but even some things we consider useful can be the souls of pollution and have their own kind of impacts on our wellbeing we shed a little light on the issue in a new segment called eco. gazing at a sky resplendent with stars. something many people around the world are sadly no longer able to enjoy. and that's thanks to artificial light while there are no up to date figures available in 24 team the skies over hong kong were already 82 times brighter than they might be naturally. we suffer sleep deprivation from too much artificial light including that emitted by

smartphones. it also just wraps the orientation of nocturnal birds and insects. our energy consumption could also be cut drastically by ensuring responsible outdoor lighting. daughters it would help if advertising signs and building facades weren't eliminated all my long. and if nighttime lights were used only for the places where it's really needed. some cities have already committed to minimizing artificial light such as fold in germany it's among the $29.00 places so far to earn recognition as international dark sky communities. cities like these make it possible to see the starlit sky again and he. the body clocks of us creatures below to their natural

rhythm. darkness not only helps us get a better night's sleep it's crucial for maintaining a balance in nature light pollution poses a serious threat to nocturnal species like bats however scientists in the netherlands seems i've found a solution to this by creating special refuge areas for the flying mammals and that isn't to keeping the bats safe they also make sure their role in the eco system is preserved. and there's one. in their social and i figure at least 5. far away from the bright lights of amsterdam ducted commute is actually a creature that likes to.