the biggest composer a full time icon to begin to imagine the group's class one player single willers security is discovering. world without being told. this week. this is day to every news and these are our top stories 29 police officers in the german state of north rhine-westphalia have been suspended over allegations that they shared a far right content in chat groups 11 are now under criminal investigation images of hitler and nazi insignias and doctored photos showing refugees and gas chambers where allegedly exchanged online. european commission president enough on the line has laid out ambitious goals for the e.u.

in her 1st state of the union address she promised urgent action to tackle climate change she also outlined plans to relaunch europe's economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. the former head of well as let's excess been found guilty in a doping scandal that allowed athletes to compete after they should have been suspended a french court found that live on dayak solicited bribes totaling 3000000 euros from russian athletes suspected of doping to news from berlin photos on twitter and on instagram at news or visit a website that's t w dot com. before europe's largest refugee camp the maria camp in greece went up in flames last week

it was already referred to as europe's shame 12000 migrants living in squalor on a remote island europe's migration policy out of sight out of mind where today the european commission president delivered her 1st state of the union address and she called on all european countries to take responsibility to end this migration misery is she leading by example the european commission was responsible for the maria camp who did it send after the fire not. this president. this is the. migration is a european shall be. an outcome of a must it's. meeting this target would put the european union firmly on track. for climate you're traveling by 2050 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 reached zones are sure managed to free zones and they have no place in our issue and yet. 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 i which is you just watch i wish science and anybody else . who had think santa knows actually.

went 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. also now funded my and i had a 1st amorous state of the union spades waiting to unveil more ambitious climate goes 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 percent. catching emissions and becoming climate neutral by 2050 are part of the european green deal one of funder line scheme priorities the situation taken partly due to the mounting pressure of climate activists but ramping up the us time and targets it's 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 slowdown 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 3 zones are sure manatee tree 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 pact 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 taught 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 the e.u. countries to become reality they need the backing of wall makers such as your self we should remind viewers too that that you and commission president and ally and 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 father line is absolutely right as europeans i want and as christian democrats i should include should not fall short in terms of our ambition of strategic determination to shape the european future on issues we cover noise ation in issues like building idiots will economy in safeguarding the rule of law and technically. pressing challenges like the migration crisis i think we should in this changing world 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 a line 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 an 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. 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 urgent situation and help particularly the most vulnerable unaccompanied minus of families with little children while not creating

the situation that will would again create an ordered list of an uncontrolled flow of migrants into the center of europe i think it has raised the stakes again for europeans to come together in a joint solution we cannot. over the long term tolerate this shameful situation in more of a camps we cannot leave crease and other countries in the mediterranean alone in facing this issue and. we will not be able i 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 stroke of poor from france and germany we will get closer to a more tangible solution you've got actors are just hungary's viktor orbach you

know he's declared migrants a 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 him or the migrants would really necessarily would want to stay in countries in the center is the euro but there potentially other ways for these countries to contribute but i think that will still be crystal clear as our interior minister made the point if you are not contributing to european solidarity in the challenge to like a migration then maybe an end at some point in on financial solidarity or other integration policies and on other issues. the commission president today said

that. 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 this questions 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 had the german delegation and

we have put poland on the watch list for the 1st time as you 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 of 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 renae go 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 u.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 law for centuries it will be really a very negative development. dr injury is 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 skydiver shows us the damage that barry creek elementary school 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 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 this 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 up to 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 it next to me and it fell down and then all the embers and flew across the hood of my car and i spent a lot of 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 trump visiting california to see firsthand the devastation left by those 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 pandemic president trump 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 u.s. 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 do away with out of actually enjoy it but it's going to go a lot faster with go away without the vaccine sure over

a period of time with time because many deaths and you'll develop you'll develop heard 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 all right 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 catastrophic 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 so i think you know even without the coronavirus and then i think given how you know he pulled the united states out of the parents i'm in accord he's trying to withdraw from iraq help 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 he's 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 and obviously there has been just a lot of damage in a lot of ways that from the trumpet ministration but i think you know if if i'm when and if he comes in committed to restoring the science foundation and restoring experts weighing in on all the big policy decisions facing us he starts to take climate change seriously take him demick seriously and i think those are his most urgent issues there has there's been some criticism of your decisions the author and evolutionary psychologist jeffrey 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's the one who's been politicizing science who is you know been claiming that the virus was a hoax claiming the 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 veyron but 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 truck administration 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 the scientific mind that you see 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 feel 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 troll ballot 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 that yeah it's a real problem surveys especially by the pew research foundation they've been finding it 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 and 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 it 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 the 314 project which is for the 1st digits of pi 3.4 and their scientists run courtman local state federal office there are scientists who are involved in politics and we think we just think it would help a lot. yeah i mean it would be interesting to see there's plenty of attorney used

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 continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news or you can follow me at brant go off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and this is another day we'll see that everybody.

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