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misery is she leading by example the european commission was responsible for the maria cam who did it send after the fire not. this president. this is the. migration is a european challenge and a follow up to our must have its. meeting this target. european union firmly on track. for climate neutrality by 2015 this with strong agreement. took 3 years to negotiate it cannot be unilaterally changed disregarded thought to supply so i want to be crystal clear l g b t q i've sold our show managed to free zones and they have no

place in power. also coming up scientists say president donald trump has badly damaged the united states because he rejects facts and see the pandemic see climate change. if we ignore that science we're not going to succeed to get it protect in california it will start getting cooler but i was just you just watch i wish science and everybody else but. i don't think santa knows actually. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a promise from europe to do better today the new european commission president live on the line and delivered her 1st state of the union address a report card and to do list all the more to say that her goals for the next year are ambitious would be under statement to say that those goals will be met well

that would be wishful thinking underlying touched on human rights migration brags that in climate change she wants the european union to cut its greenhouse emissions by 55 percent now the agreed reduction is 40 percent her plan is doable but it would come with more economic pain its prospects however appear better than a plan to overhaul europe's welcome mat fund a lion has scolded the european union for not coming together to craft a fair and equitable policy on dealing with migration she called for more unity saying the disaster at the maria camp in greece cannot be allowed to happen again but leaders such as german chancellor angela merkel leaders with much more power they have tried and tried and they have all failed we have more now on the state of the european union in this report plus enough on them i and i had

a 1st arab state of the union spades waiting to unveil more ambitious climate goals for the block we need to go faster and we need to do things better they european commission is proposing to increase the 2030 targets for emission reduction to at least 55. and catching emissions and becoming climate neutral by 2050 are part of the european green deal one of funding lines priorities decision taken partly due to the mounting pressure of climate activists but ramping up the u.s. time at targets is not enough for some i expect from 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 lion 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 yours 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 sones l g b t q i've 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 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 underlines commission will present a long awaited proposal for a new impact on migration on september 23rd and its her who will be judged on its

outcome. or more now i'm joined by andreas nick he's a member of the german buddhist talk for chancellor merkel's christian democrats she's also a member of parliament foreign affairs committee mr nick it's good to have you back on the day. first of underlying she laid out lofty goals for the coming year they need the backing of e.u. countries to become reality they need the backing of wall makers such as your self we should remind viewers to that that you and commission president from the line you're both members of the conservative c.d.u. party how much of today's state of the union message was wishful thinking in your opinion. i think it was a phenomenon is absolutely right as europeans i want and as christian democrats i should quit should not fall short in terms of our ambition of strategic determination to shape the european future on issues we discovered as ation in issues like building it its real economy in safeguarding the rule of law and

technically. pressing challenges like the migration crisis i think we should in this change you will we should not be overly defensive in a world roche as europeans would have all reasons to protect and defend our european way of life to shape a model for an economy for a society that will stand up in the competition with autocrats and populists around the world want to pick up a migration policy ursula find alliance today called for more unity she wants a true e.u. migration policy i want you to take a listen to what germany's interior minister is saying about the state of european migration policy take a listen. i think everyone must have realized by now that if the european union does not act and formulate an immigration policy that starts in outer borders then europe will repeatedly be faced with an undesirable immigration situation and surely nobody wants that. in this. district

europe already has an undesirable migration policy and if we look at the falwell from the maria camp fire again we see it is germany that had to step up and take in mind. i think what we have been doing and i have been arguing for that last week with a number of our colleagues in the german parliament i think we put a very careful balance between our your humanitarian ambition our humanitarian openly gay ssion to help in this. situation and help particular the most vulnerable unaccompanied minus of families with little children while not creating the situation that will would again create an ordered list of uncontrolled flow of migrants into the center of europe i think it has raised the stakes again for europeans to come together in the joint solution we cannot. over the long term

tolerate this shameful situation in more of the camps we cannot leave crease and other countries in the mediterranean alone in facing this issue and. we will not be able to think to wait until maybe the last one in europe will be able to agree to something but it is some see where we urgently need a european solution and i hope that now towards the european summit later this month. under the leadership of the commission and was a strong support from friends in germany we will get closer to a more tangible solution you've got actors are just hungary's viktor orban you know he's declared migrants and migration a threat to hungary and national security and that is happening within the european union he wants the status quo germany doing the heavy lifting here he wants that to remain unchanged do you think he's going to get what he wants. i think we have

to find a balanced approach where everyone can make a contribution that may look differently from country to country it is also question whether immigrants in michael's woodridge necessarily would want to stay in countries in central eastern europe but they have potentially other ways for these countries to contribute but i think that we also be crystal clear as our interior minister made the point if you are not contributing to european solidarity in the challenge to like migration there may be an end at some point in on financial solidarity or other integration policies and on other issues. the commission president today said that l g b t q free zone have no place in the european union she obviously was was talking about the situation in poland talk is cheap here when you're talking about values what do you see europe being able to do to tangibly

change the mindset is in poll. i think it's one of the most challenging issues when you look at the rule of law issues including those of as it should be i rights in countries like poland. i think unfortunate you may come to the conclusion that the only language that some member countries would understand is where the buck stops when you also include the financial dimension into discussions but clearly we're also talking about a rule of law mechanism we're talking about that in the european union we have certain procedures in the council of europe where i have the german delegation and we have put poland on the watch list for the 1st time as a new e.u. member state has been newly put on the watch list in the council of europe and at some point countries who have to realize that they cannot ignore everything that is going on around them without having consequences for issues that are there hard

like economic integration like security issues with regard to foreign threats and that is i think a progress that we will need to see over the future in europe i want to ask you before we run out of time want to ask you about brags that underly and today warned the u.k. not to renege on the withdrawal agreement and again this may come down to what berlin can do with london more so than what brussels can do with london what do you see happening here i think what we observe i think has major repercussions that only in the european union and with major e.u. member states if you watch carefully what is coming out of the united states in terms of comments with that regard i think that a u.k. government that would sway away from the rule of law from being a reliable partner in international agreements this would have be a serious issue for the q.k. in the future as various former prime ministers have warned over the last couple of

days and for a country that has been the home of democracy and the rule of rule for centuries it would be really a very negative development. dr andrea's nick member of the german parliament mr nick we appreciate your time tonight we had a lot of issues to go through there thank you for your insights thank you good night good night. he was president donald trump has approved a request by oregon's governor to declare a federal emergency and boost government help to fight wildfires sweeping across the state oregon washington state in california have all been hit hard and early by unprecedented fires this year. salat is in california tonight and he takes us to bury creek a small community that the flames almost burned off the man. who are 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 skiver shows us the damage to the berry creek elementary school it was completely destroyed and the wildfire still isn't fully contained. so. 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 then to compound that the train in this area is very steep so we have inaccessible train. 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 fire 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 after the deadly camp fire many plots remain empty in november 2800 nearly wiped 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 and peters returned next to me and it fell down and then all the embers of flew across the hood of my car and i spent all the time on google maps looking at the distance from my house that if i had 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 victorious favor but the fire season in america's west will last at least another month. earlier this week u.s. president from visiting california to see firsthand the devastation left by the

wildfires before he arrived he blamed the fires on poor forest management and he refused to admit that global warming is creating conditions favorable to ever bigger ever deadlier blazes whether it's climate change or the coronavirus and president trunk repeatedly rejects advice from specialists he refuses to follow the science well scientists have apparently decided it is no longer anough to let the facts speak for themselves this week scientific american the oldest magazine in the us ended a 175 year policy of staying elad of presidential politics the magazine's editor in chief laura hellmouth tweeting this for the 1st time in the 1775 year history of scientific american we are endorsing a political candidate please vote for joe biden to support science help the environment evidence based policy and reality over information.

well i am joined tonight from washington d.c. by laura hellmouth editor in chief at scientific american it's good it's good to have you on the show we're happy you're with us this evening before we talk about your decision to endorse joe by we want to remind viewers of of what the us president has been saying i want you to take a listen to an exchange at a town hall event broadcast on a.b.c. this week and it's probably going to go away now a lot faster because of the vaccine it would go away without of actually enjoy it but it's going to go a lot faster with the away without the vaccine sure over a period of time with time because many deaths and you'll develop it you'll develop herd like a herd mentality it's going to be it's going to be heard developed and that's going to happen that will all happen but with a vaccine i think it will go away very quickly so that's just one example and it's not he meant to herd immunity not herd mentality but we were wondering today how do

you agree to change 175 year policy was there a particular moment in his presidency when you thought ok now we have to say something. yeah it's not a decision we took lightly you don't break 175 years of tradition and we've got a really good cause when we came together as an editorial team about 3 months ago to discuss our election plans your every it was all hands everybody came together we talked through it and it was unanimous and it was pretty quickly it came to agreement that trump has been just so had a strong pick for science throughout his administration particularly during the global pandemic that we can't be silent and that we have to show what we know and stand up for reality was it was it was it the pandemic then the coronavirus is that the you know the straw that broke the camel's back for you. yeah i think you know

even without the coronavirus and then i think given how you know he pulled the united states out of the paris i'm in accord he's trying to withdraw from the world health organization he's in just been devastated the federal science force his travel bans have interfered with international collaboration so he's really been harming the process of science in the united states and around the world throughout his administration but i think that the pandemic shows just the deadly consequences of having policies that are based on piano c.d.'s and rejection of expertise yeah got more than 190000 people dead just in the united states you write that trump has damaged the u.s. do you believe that president joe biden would be able to repair that damage yeah i think so and i think it should be his top priority obviously there has been

just a lot of damage in a lot of ways that from the trepan ministration but i think you know if if i hadn't wins and if he comes in committed to restoring you know the science foundation and restoring you know experts weighing in on all the big policy decisions facing us he starts to take climate change seriously take a pandemic seriously and i think those are his most urgent issues there has there's been some criticism of your decision the author and evolutionary psychologist geoffrey miller tweeted some things today he tweeted that scientific american gives up all pretense of scientific objectivity betrays its historical principles and goes full partisan just for some cheap short term virtue signaling. let me ask you or are you politicizing science with your decision. we don't think so i mean this isn't a legitimate defense if there's like

a school room fight but we didn't start it i mean trump the one who's been politicizing science. you know in claiming that the virus was a hoax claiming that climate change is a hoax and sharing conspiracy theories about you know really important things that we actually have scientific evidence about so from our perspective you know he's the one who's politicizing science by by calling you know by misrepresenting it and rejecting it and you know it's scientific american we consider it our mission to kind of show how the world works which you know in better times is talking about how black holes work or evolution or virus that we feel like it was part of our mission and our responsibility really to say given our expertise in the enterprise of science we can say really clearly based on the evidence from the trunk of ministration that he's not qualified and joe biden would be so much better for the u.s. and for the world. if you acted too late or do you wish that you had made this decision

earlier. yes so in 2016 when trump was a candidate a scientific american we ran an editorial saying that he has shown it distain or contempt for science and that any world leader needs to use as a bare minimum accept reality accept evidence you know be open to scientific findings and so at that point we came very close to saying don't vote for trump but we didn't make that next step and say do vote for hillary clinton and his administration has just been even worse than we expected even worse than we warrant and so this time we felt like we needed to make that final step and say really here is you need to vote for if you care about science you know it seems like we have 2 developments going on here we've got trump's attacks on science and we've got you know a part of the public and its willingness to reject science you can vote trump out of office at the ballot box you cannot change the minds of masses of people as

easily or as quickly what do you say to them. yeah it's a real problem the surveys especially by the pew research foundation they've been finding a kind of a growing polarization in acceptance of science or respect for science and it used to not be that way you know science used to have really strong bipartisan support and it's really been a few wedge issues climate change the top one where there's been just a disinclination campaign where people try to undermine the science and say it's all a conspiracy and you know scientists in journalists are all part of some cabal and we're somehow making money off a client to climate change and i mean none of us want climate change we would all be delighted if that was somehow an error in the data that we see every day in wildfire in hurricanes in temperature records that it's not a fluke and it's not made up it's happening now and it's already herm people do you

think lord that the situation would be better for everybody concerned if we had more scientists going into politics. i think so and i hope that more scientists get involved and i think a lot of them have been moved to do so we have an organization called think the 314 project which is for the 1st digits of pi 3.4 and there i have to surround for the local state and federal office there are scientists who are involved in politics and we think we just think it would help a lot. yeah it will be interesting to see there's plenty of attorneys in politics i think maybe a good dose of science would do everybody some good lore the hell with editor in chief at the magazine scientific american or we appreciate your time tonight thank you very much for taking the time to talk with us and get your story out thank you so much appreciate it. well the day is almost done but the conversation it

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a period at the life. this is. neo nazis was in the german police force felice raided some of their own officers earlier today 'd 29 have been suspended for sharing images such as swastikas in chat groups a love and criminal investigations also coming up we need to go. and we need to do things better european commission president. said her vision for the

future of the e.u. in her 1st state of the union address plus he's guilty of corruption the former head of world athletics is sentenced to 2 years in prison following a doping scandal his attorneys say the court has made him a scapegoat. it's good to have you with us we begin right here in germany where police have launched raids against some of their own colleagues officers and suspected of trading neo nazi images in private online chat groups 29 police officers in the german state of north rhine-westphalia have been suspended 11 are now under criminal investigation images shared include pictures of adult hitler and nazi symbols such as swastikas

and this is not the 1st time germany's security forces have been at the center of a scandal involving far right extremists. by this grace and a slap in the face for germany's police forces that's what the interior minister in north rhine-westphalia called the discovery of czech content in which 29 police officers shared right wing extremist material. including for example pictures of hitler of swastikas of imperial war flags but also many more horrible images like the fictional depiction of a refugee in the gas chamber of a concentration camp of police officers from different cities and $34.00 police departments took part in the check groups they were all suspended pending the results of the investigation they could face charges of inciting racial hatred a spokesman for the federal interior ministry said the reports are worrying. what we're hearing from north rhine-westphalia is very alarming. it is

a disgrace for the police force there but of course it also has an effect on the entire police profession throughout germany. it's not the 1st case of far right extremism spreading within germany's police and military forces in july a former police officer was arrested for threatening politicians across germany referencing a neo nazi cell in his e-mails and in june germany's defense minister disbanded part of the army's elite commando after allegations of far right extremism within its ranks. earlier i spoke to sociologist alexander yen bell and i asked him what he makes of this scandal affecting germany's police force. well i'm always shocked when it comes to my agreement extremism but i don't not not at all surprised it's not the press time that the put it that police officers have appeared in this way we remember that many minutes. of the station.

and also police officers. spreading it might be. a few years so it's not surprising at all of course when it's working and it's not surprising do we have an idea of the size of this problem within the german police force. one of that's. a problem we only know that there is a problem and it's not a minor problem you know it is problems with racism i think it's risen was a police brutality he's violent but the thing is there's not much much research released and was solely in the ministry of interior i don't have a great interest in doing research on this. on this topic so we don't know much about the expense of wiping risen in the police but we can what we can say is

that it is problem for instance we know might mean willie is which we interview and they actually don't bother with the police because they say there are police officers who actually members of. the whites. and what we also. know is. there are. months which. you know so we only know that the extent we don't we. do we have an explanation for why it seems that police officers in particular are such seems acceptable to right wing extremist ideas we hear that time and time again. well i mean they're going to. release all prisoners. of course korea but it's a who is an organization and illegally irons and that are all trying.

to. find him and it's down. to. a race these experienced islands it's not only. german nominee but we also know have problem with what i think extremist especially. ok sociologists alexander joining us tonight mr we appreciate your time your insights thank you and we remember our here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world hurricane sally has been downgraded to a category one storm it's pummeling the southern united states causing severe flooding in the coastal city of pensacola florida the storm is dumping huge amounts of rain on the flood prone coastal area as it pushes to the west and north of the united states justice department is charged 5 chinese citizens with carrying out

computer hackers that targeted more than $100.00 companies and institutions in the u.s. and elsewhere the 5 chinese are not in the u.s. to be charged in person deputy attorney general jeffrey rosen accused beijing of allowing the hackers to operate and hinder south africa's president cyril ramaphosa has announced a further easing of the country's lockdown which has been one of the world's strictest borders to most countries will be open from next month in a televised address ramaphosa told the nation we have withstood the coronavirus storm this. greek authorities have formally charged for afghan migrants with arson for their alleged involvement in the fires that destroyed the migrant camp on the island of was books the fire last week destroyed most of the camp and it left thousands of people without shelter the greek army and international aid organizations have set up temporary camps but some migrants say they need a different solution. row upon row of tents on the greek island of les

boss that's been set up for migrants displaced by the fires that gutted the morea camp but they're mostly empty. migrants and choosing to stay on the streets in squalid conditions many say that rather remain here than run the risk of being detained for months in a completely new camp. some of even returned to what remains of moria. they say the temporary tents are not enough they want long term solutions. done in a bunker he needed that comes to know that i want to build one when we want to free life we've come here to live we are human and we are not animals. they put us in a place where there's no life and it's like a jungle. a human cannot live in such tents. so far only about 1200 of the roughly 13000 migrants rendered homeless by the fires

have moved to the new temporary accommodation the u.n. refugee agency says there's a capacity for another i found as and and is urging people to move it says it's the only way forward. people have been can come to this camp and we encourage them to come there because it's from here that their process will continue that their procedure will continue that seditions can be found and that people can leave the island. because the idea is not that people remain forever on the idea that it is worth but while several european states have offered to take in my currents from lesbos others say they will not the offering to provide more and even more tense and state. the president of the european commission has laid out her vision for europe to tackle the climate crisis addressing the european parliament ursula fund

a lion's wide ranging speech also called for china to improve its human rights record and it made a not so veiled attack on member state poland for its attitude towards gay people and she urged member states to resolve europe's paralysis when it comes to migration. also love underline had a 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 2050 are part of the european green deal one of funding lines p priorities at the situation taken partly due to the mounting pressure of climate activists but

ramping up the u.s. climate targets is not enough for some i expect from 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 lyon took office late last year she presented a long list of projects by the car with 19 pandemic slowed down many of them or brought them to hold she now said it's yours 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 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 impact on migration on september 23rd and its her who will be judged on its outcome. the former head of border whether exams been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in prison a french court found that. so that it had bribes totally 3000000 euros from russian athletes suspected of doping he then used the money to help them compete in events such as the 2012 london olympics. he was one of the most powerful men in

sports during his tenure at the governing body of track and field the international association of athletics federations and a french court says he used that power to rake in piles of money. that included a scheme that allowed russian athletes who paid millions in hush money to keep competing when they should have been suspended for doping some of those athletes went on to claim medals at the 2012 london olympics medals that should have gone to athletes who didn't cheat. runner crystal do and they said she was all smiles after the verdict and i think it says less than a warhead you can see the grin on my face with the mask i'm wearing but i'm very happy to have been recognised as a victim of the corruption by the i double f. leaders and i'm also happy for all the other athletes who were told this he would have to pull to cause that. dia has long professed innocence in the scandal maintaining over 16 years he turned the track and field body into

a much admired organization. now diac son. was given a 5 year sentence for illegally funneling out some $15000000.00 during his father's tenure but he spent a lengthy trial comfortably in his home country senegal which has refused extradition requests. on these accusations i can say that based on everything i've read i'm not very reassured that the french justice system has no basis for condemning lamine. to remains free for the time being as his lawyers appeal the verdict a verdict they say made their client a scapegoat that after the judge told the he had purely and simply violated the rules of the game that i mean to do that there is a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you this hour 29 police officers in the german state of north wind was failure have been suspended over allegations that they cheered for white content in online chat groups and said it

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