only the council because we know that there are member states who are not willing to do what we need to do when funder lion took office late last year she presented a long list of projects by the covert 19 pandemic slowdown 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 free zones are sure manatee 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 moral 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 her who will be judged on its outcome. or shortly after her speech to brussels bureau chief alexandra for naaman caught up with a found alive and asked her about the blocks priorities for the near future. well there are 2 things 1st of all this coronal world of uncertainty and fragility we don't want to stay in we want to move on. and we have a plan we have the concept and we have the investment next generation use 750000000000 and therefore it's now that has to lead the way that has to

show the direction we want to move on to a society that is more resilient an economy that is more sustainable therefore the european green deal and that is more modern therefore the digital decade decade for the european union still there are many issues and member states don't agree on like migration for example have he received any signals that after what happened at moria member states are more willing to change the course the good news is that next week we go on the commission is going to put forward a migration pact and this is a holistic concept to manage migration and i expect that the member states will engage in the discussion so that we can really move forward and have a common plan to deal with that topic and you made a point starting your presidency with a trip to africa so what concrete steps are you planning to actually build a threat egypt partnership between europe and africa we are already. building

a strategy with africa but for example if it comes down to the pandemic right now we are strongly investing in the cooperation on fighting the virus and important that we created a global framework to find them not to not only find a vaccine but also to make sure that if we have the vaccine. it's accessible to all not only the high income countries but also the low and middle income countries and these for example is a classical work that we do together with our friends and neighbors africa. thank you. now a number of police officers in the german state of north rhine-westphalia have been suspended over allegations that they shared far right content in chat groups 29 officers were suspended 11 are now under criminal investigation they are said to have exchanged images of adult hitler and nazi symbols such as swastika and doctored photo graphs of refugees in gas chambers other offices investigation are

accused of failing to report their colleague's activities. the chief political adviser is mccain a coup for the welcome mccain or so nazi sympathizers within a german police force the sound serious i'm significant absolutely because this is way beyond being tasteless it's illegal and these officers should have known better after all they swear an oath on the german constitution at the same time this is kind of a lucky find this was just simply one mobile phone that was checked and investigated after there was a suspicion that one police officer passed on information to a done so this raises of course the question how much bigger this pretend this scandal really is and what the find was today but were due to then that i guess of the coming days but this is not the 1st time the right wing sympathizers have been discovered within germany's security forces the army the police so is there a bigger problem well this doesn't this is not evidence to kind of

a big network but yes that is an issue that's been recognized at the very least since the few murders here in germany a whole chain of most of those conducted by an underground group called the end it's you and with the police having played at the very least a very passive role being blind on the right i as it was put here in germany and now finding more and more sympathizers among the police here in north rhine-westphalia but also in the state of hesse are there been a find before that of course raises a lot more questions how big a problem this actually is so who is doing what to address that the wider problem well recently we've seen an investigation after demi special forces in the military were led to the german defense minister is still investigating that there was actually one official who was then suspended as well over a suspicion of having far right views and i'm sure there will be an investigation

into this is well but these are groups on private mobile phones raising the question how fast the bottom. frightening sympathies within these forces one can actually get thank you for that the to be chief political absent we cannot confirm its. will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now authorities on the greek island of last boss are charged for man with arson in connection with the fires that swept through the crowded mall refugee camp last week the men all migrants from afghanistan have been given 3 days to prepare their testimony. has been formally elected as japan's prime minister following a vote in parliament to replace issue by who resigned his run for health reasons as he takes over the helm of the world's 3rd largest economies to see you guys expected to stick closely to policies championed by his predecessor. this is d.w. news live from baghdad still to come hollywood fiction or scientific reality look

at the plan to stop asteroids crashing into the. first though to the united states where president trump has approved a request from the governor of oregon to declare a federal emergency this attracts increased government assistance in fighting the wildfires sweeping the state oregon washington and california have all been hit hard by record fives this year the w.'s all of a salad has been to bury creek california a small community that's been devastated. 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 wildfire 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. like torrijos sinclair lost everything back then yet she was the 1st to rebuild her home. and with the new evacuation warning in place for old memories interferes returned it next to me and it fell down and then all the embers there 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. india's coronavirus caseload has now passed $5000000.00 with more than $82000.00 deaths health experts are warning that the fatality rate is likely to increase as restrictions are eased the authorities have ruled out a 2nd nationwide lock down home to 1300000000 people india has reported some of the world's highest a day the increases in case numbers over coming weeks it's expected to overtake the united states as the country worst hit by the pandemic. we'll get the latest from

d.w. india comes from let me show just well and delhi welcome asia despite a huge number of cases india's death rate as seem still to be comparatively low why is that. the soldiers are still trying. but they're. in yeah well i'm going. to. have my doubts and what i have. but we don't want missions the duty of musicians is actually there so this could be a part of. an announcement you know there's a little and. she'd like you. obviously she was going to have a. fight doc just going to. what to do what happened there. do you need. me while the hospitals are saying they're having

trouble getting enough oxygen definitely but it's something that i think. has been writing i didn't go and say. now well the 5000000 people this is hiding on the chin in these hospital bottoms it's a. fact the snow was. like this like. this is on the bottom line is that now this is not like what was it to us but it's but this right isn't that bad but. i'm not so the fact is that and. so this is literally a choice. and is not meet the size. of. this by the rise in case law as the government has rejected

a 2nd nationwide lockdown and this continuing to lift restrictions how do people feel about this. but we can't seem to achieve that. the government says not to lift the debt on ira's. massive also. not only in the us. and insist that we must. not. ok richard just in delhi thank you. we can take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. national hurricane center says the eye of hurricane sally has made landfall close to the city of gold shores alabama forecasters say the category 2 storm packing sustained winds of 105 miles an hour is likely to cause catastrophic and life threatening flooding along the north central gulf coast. and the government of

barbados wants to remove britain's queen elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic the caribbean i haven't gained independence from britain in 1966 but retain the queen as its head of state the prime minister says it is now time for the country to have head of state. the spanish government has unveiled plans to tackle the legacy of spanish dictator general francisco franco through a new law almost 45 years after his death the proposed legislation aims to all of the victims of the country's brutal civil war and the subsequent dictatorship nearly a year ago franco's remains were exemption in the valley of the former foreign criticism of the massive more than liam glorify the late dictator and made a mockery of thousands of victims buried there if passed this bill would mark another important step on the path to spain because coming to terms with its bloody past. let's get more from d.w. report a problem for the welcome pablo so as i understand it this proposal is quite far

reaching so what would it come well it's basically building on in existing legislation these star ical memory legislation which is already in place and it really goes into sort of great detail on several issues one being closing down organizations that still and this may come as a surprise to people outside of spain that still glorify franco's memory particular here in germany it's very different to the way at the past is dealt with particularly with regards to dictatorship years and it would also look at the value of the fall and we sold the images there now we know in the. last year of course. dictatorship of our franco was removed from there and it's still a place which divides spaniards very much and what they want to do the government is turn it into a civil cemetery because it's a place that many spaniards would never have even thought of going to visit because it is a place which is full of emotion for people because there are so many thousands of

people still buried there in mass graves and also what they want to do is open a. special d.n.a. bank for the thousands because it's unknown how many years are buried in mass graves across the country often on the side of roads and this is still very raw for families because it doesn't actually go back that far that often it's actually fathers mothers or even grandparents of people who are still around and the final thing is that there will be a special prosecutor's office to deal with democratic memory and human rights and finally before i forget how the dictatorship is actually dealt with in the education system that it's dealt with in a completely different light nowadays ok you so you said that there was a divided opinion about those members so presumably those divided opinion about this legislation you're absolutely right i mean even within the way spanish politics is set up nowadays this is a topic which causes just a great amount of debate and it's still cause debate now 45 years almost since francisco franco's death and actually if we look at some tweets in particular the

leader of will say 2 very opposing parties firstly central who is the leader of the far right party he said the new regimes referring to the government at the moment public prosecutor doesn't want to investigate the lies in the negligence that have resulted in 53000 deaths referring to the covert 1000 deaths that's quite an elevated number actually in fact to the reality and he said instead it's going to appoint a prosecutor to rewrite spain's history to stalin states so quite strong words but also the spine it doesn't come as a surprise now the opposite. those words as he's the deputy prime minister and the leader of the demos there on the left will say and he said that today is a day of democratic pride. the democratic memory bill is being passed following its approval and also that the country will recognize the heroines and heroes of the fight for democracy with justice and remember them and also then the more moderate peoples party of the paper have said that they've sort of their remaining i will

say on the fence as to this legislation ok we'll see where that goes if another public thank you. to russia space but it sounds like a script for a hollywood disaster movie the european space agency has signed a deal with a german company to build a specify set of spacecraft and their mission to bring direct killer asteroids before they crash into the earth. science sometimes takes a while to catch up with fiction more than 2 decades ago this film probably get in proposed to bombing asteroids to save planet earth from a collision is. 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 billy it's 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. photography asteroid isn't heading to earth but another one might be this mission could help us prevent a real life get a. project scientist with your space agency's planetary defense mission and hara welcome to you so that the plan then. asteroids off course destroy them why. because not doing it is much more control it so this technology demonstration like here not yet we know that it be able to approximately predict how much shame because of the asteroids that can make sure into the case that instead of hitting us. by if it

would it blast it would be many fragments and it's impossible to control what would have missed our awesome so how big are these major heights and how much damage could they do. so as a one that you know impact next and same here not investigate it see one of the biggest oh wait until moon is about 160 meters in diameter. and it's own idea size that puts this toy a big part of it it's a vote. and it's also about medium sized i don't actually try to do something about it trying to deflect it and because i was smart. and because the way it it's ours was almost like sized and should be everybody expect you need it one day ok so how would this work and with it would you be the source of big telescope to say there's a big one on its way. how much sort of notice would you have.

yeah that's an important point it's not enough to have. to have to play it to be able to get it if necessary it's also important to know what is coming and so as important as fresh missions like like that in here. as the search and support comes out for all the asteroids. and so this is also ongoing and can't be nearly as tall it's in your eyes down to a kilometer or so in size unknown and to go over it for about the next 10 years is to know 90 percent of the asteroid it's not just an $140000.00 sites and once you know them it is likely that the horse will get c 5 or 5 or 10 years or so each time that he needs to deflect an asteroid should it become necessary ok so we know that the saying is i have been hitting the earth from from from time to time and we just

we had in the report we just been lucky. at the europeans the only ones during this or all the others launching their own space not just. yes had you what's happening now is a corporation but not an easy out so i'm not i'm going to launch next years of that spacecraft the trip actually impact in the mall for us but just the name of the moon of the minister would get you must it. and change the orbit of sea off the moon of consummate us though it and then a couple of years later if that comes in to look at success to measure the mass of the small asteroid just needed to who interprets the experiment to extract how efficient. and generally to look at the ice at last well we wish you well with that thank you for joining us compass from the european space agency it's entertainment . reminder of our top story this hour european commission president jose reform the

live has delivered the 1st state of the union address which touched on the coronavirus prime d'amico green issues digitise asian migration though a knowledge of crises facing the block the commission chief focused on planes to bring about change in the areas of health climates and the economy. to chalk up to date more at the top off beat our made in germany instead of talking about one of those i've lived a. good .

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