back. this is deja vu news live from berlin and the infection rates are up in countries across europe as politicians and health experts try to fend off a 2nd lockdown some health care systems are nearing capacity will close in british pubs early have an effect and how about munich's new mask wearing droolers europe gets ready for corona in winter also coming up with the exiled bellerose opposition leader in town the e.u. struggles for unity foreign ministers meeting in brussels failed to agree on sanctions against bellaver see an official plus racing against time in tasmania

australia rescuers trying to save these pilot whales after they became marooned in a shallow water about $25.00 have been freed more than 150 remain stranded. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program countries across europe are scrambling to contain the corona virus pandemic after a surge in new infections british prime minister boris johnson is expected to announce an early closing of bars and restaurants targeted lockdowns took effect in spain on monday france is seeing massive spikes and infections and increasingly full hospitals and in germany the city of munich is stepping up its measures after becoming one of the country's main hotspots masks will be compulsory. he and busy

outdoor parts of the city center and authorities will further restrict public and private gathering. in a normal year huge crowds of people would be packed into tents here in munich for october fast but the intense here right now a temporary coronavirus testing center is. never seen it so empty but that's the way it is this year. nearby in the city center things are also set to change again as authorities tighten up corona restrictions really good thing i don't want to see to be the largest coronavirus hospice in germany anymore told the truth. last week munich exceeded a critical threshold for the number of new cases so from thursday people will have to wear masks in popular public places including at this square. coming up no i think it's ok he says it's unavoidable hopefully people comply with it despite

rising infections taverns across the city are opening their doors to drink is and trying to recreate the october fest atmosphere is the brainchild of music's have an onus an idea which is criticized from the get go. it's taps i wish you all a happy festival. 2 days later business is quiet at this in on the whole the boss of this tavern doesn't believe restaurants and bars are to blame for the rising number of infections. we have a code of conduct for the guests that people have to wear masks i could name 10 other things we're doing i don't believe this is a safe place to eat or drink at the moment than at our restaurant. but photos like this taken at one of the city's marketplaces have shocks politicians in response or 30 several in post social distancing rules only 5 people or 2 households will be allowed to meet meaning that celebrations will only be

small affairs. and earlier we spoke with the chair of the global outbreak alert and response network at the deputy cho dale fisher and we asked him how prepared countries are for a possible winter spike in covert $1000.00 cases it's a funny question to be asking in september is not. it's really quite disappointing i guess to have these sort of numbers going into the colder months and as you just pointed out that there really need to be some things done to bring these numbers down or else you're going to be right back where where you were. in march and so what more do you think countries need to do in order to effectively cope with the virus going forward. well there's nothing. there's nothing fancy it's all the same things that we've known about for a long time it's a solution of cases and strict quarantining of of contacts we

should be able to do much more efficient contact try saying now using technology the many. apps and also safe entry type devices so that you can even track way people look to you and you can identify people almost instant instantaneously now then the community needs to to work very closely in how many government has to my good decisions and that trust needs to be to be there and needs to be strong and and the strategy needs to be communicated very clearly we've always said from the beginning the the the the and so lies with the community because the transmissions in the community so. getting all those influences a different way different languages different education levels different age groups the message needs to be sent by

a lot of different mechanisms and the other thing which we we didn't know at the beginning of this outbreak was the effectiveness of mosques and across. across asia you really don't see people not wearing masks when you were speaking earlier and correct me if i'm wrong but one could almost hear the dismay in your voice that you know it's a temper and we're going into the fall in the winter with numbers like it's just if you could walk us through the scenario if the numbers stay as they are right now what kind of fall and winter could we expect in the northern hemisphere. well with large numbers of cases depending on the age group there's a percentage number of people that will become severely unwell now we know in the elderly that's that's much more common props in 80 year olds of might be about 15

percent but it but even that even 40 year olds even if it's if it's one in a 1000 will be comes of the ileum well once you start to get thousands of people in their forty's getting disease then you will get many people in hospital and dying and the risk is of overwhelming your health systems because because everybody all most people still not immune most people are still vulnerable to this so you we know what happens if a we mustn't have short memories we must remember how those those are all months what happened in what happened in the north of italy what happened. and i'm sure many parts of germany. and that was dale fisher from the world health organization here's a look at some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic the us public health body the c.d.c. has withdrawn guidance saying that fine aerosol particles floating in the air may spread the virus the retraction has sparked concern of political interference in

mexico past 700000 confirmed coronavirus cases but officials say that the overall infection rate is still slowing down new zealand recorded 0 new covert 19 infections on tuesday there are now only 61 registered active cases in the country . let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world world leaders have marked the 75th anniversary of the united nations and a virtual online event secretary-general general antonio. called for more international cooperation and multilateralism to curb covert 90 and face environmental challenges. china has sentenced an influential real estate tycoon and critic of president xi jinping to 18 years in prison for corruption a court statement said that ram she chua a former member of the communist party elite at pleaded guilty to corruption

bribery and best of months of public funds. in the mediterranean rescue charities c.i.v. says that its vessel the along current a rescued more than 130 migrants in distress over the weekend almost half of them were children sea ice says it is waiting now for italy or malta to grant permission for them to disembark. european union foreign ministers have come one vote short of you nad amisse on sanctions against pelosi and officials willing to president lukashenko a use states had intended to impose the sanctions on officials implicated in the electoral fraud in last month's presidential election and violence against anti-government protesters. the bella reason opposition leader svetlana chicken of skier was in brussels to ask for help she urged the european union foreign ministers to be brave and we can bellary see him president alexander

lukashenko by disrupting his funding. i ask you more to finance their dictator dictator regime and programs from state to non-state actors i also ask to consider to reconsider partnerships with state again his ations course talk a sham. finally and most importantly i call on you to work together with us toward a free fair and transparent election. these were the scenes after the disputed elections in bella roots in august which the e.u. agrees were not free or fair a unanimous vote by e.u. member states would have slapped travel bans and frozen the assets of 40 better reason officials accused of electoral fraud and violence against demonstrators.

but instead the island of cyprus blocked the plan its government wants to tie sanctions against bellerose to an unrelated dispute that it has with neighboring turkey that's over rights to explore the eastern mediterranean for natural gas deposits it's a move that drew criticism from of the e.u. members. it is becoming a personal commitment because on the stand clearly it depends very much on the credibility of the european union and the full ching of foreign affairs policy has a common foreign affairs policy and on our capacity of sanctioning president oleksandr call. with the european union's credibility at stake the next chance to greenlight the sanctions could come on thursday when e.u. heads of government are due to me. and correspondent nick connelly has been

following the anti-government protests in bellerose he sent us this assessment of the diplomatic deadlock in brussels. more than 6 weeks after belarus and rigged elections and after unprecedented state violence against protesters european you still incapable passing sanctions against the handful of officials responsible for the crackdown happening here in europe's door step of this is that you use international credibility no good then again that's largely a problem for brussels and it's a self-esteem realistically sanctions are always going to be more of a symbolic gesture than anything else a sign that europe is watching sign that europe cares the russians are already getting that message in other ways the european ambassadors here and means attending court hearings against leading opposition figures for european countries providing asylum and support to better russians before fall of their own government the success or failure of these protests we decided here in the streets of means

sanctions however welcome to the opposition we're never seriously going to tip the balance. now rescuers in australia are trying to free nearly $200.00 whales stranded in shallow water off the island of tasmania $25.00 mammals have been freed so far but an estimated 90 have already died as after 2 large pods became stuck there's hope the other pilot whales can be freed over the next couple of days. extraordinary scenes as almost $300.00 pilot whales peppered the shallow waters of tasmania's west coast. they became beached here on monday on the sand outside mcquarrie harbor it's a location where these mammals often get into difficulty. and when you say large numbers like these it's not surprising they're very social animals and they are

found in large groups also known as pods and force in this case we might have had a misadventure or some individuals may of navigated the wrong way and now they've become stuck in stranded scientists believe up to one 3rd of the pilot whales have already died but rescue efforts to free the rest continue despite the difficult conditions we've got them spread out over a large area in a really challenging location sorry we're going to bicycle the type the animals with the pace change to start with in the ones that we are able to do you eat soy some animals might be simply to me or you know even on to look like asian to to texturally to you if. pilot whales a response she's if you see anecdotal fin they can grow up to 7 metres long and weigh up to 3 tons that makes freeing them even harder

beached whales can quickly overheat and their muscles deteriorate. although this rescue mission could take several days everyone involved knows it's a race against time. and with that you're up to date on d. w. news coming up next peace talks the oslo diaries art. most muslim women should be trying their things and self-determination. i don't want anyone to tell me what the headstock knows how women are striving to reform their islam away from traditional prejudices. women in islam start september 24th on t w.