this is g.w. newswire from berlin a coronavirus clash between the presidents of the us and china should follow the guidance of some of us is to diluting it rolled off the old post how can i say should i launch joint international response to this. we must hold accountable the nations which unleash this plague onto the world china donald trump made a lot of claims speaking to the un general assembly today will do a reality check on those claims also coming up another tragic milestone the

pandemic has claimed more than 200000 lives in the u.s. the highest death toll in the world what does this mean for the presidential election just weeks away and wildfires ravaging california the amazon and other parts of the planet's climate activists are pushing the united nations for concrete action to protect the environment scientists are on their side many powerful politicians are not. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome the united nations general assembly has held its annual debates as the you when marks 75 years since its founding it was the 1st assembly where world leaders did not gather in new york city but. addressed the forum via video because of the coronavirus and did

a far from delivering a unifying message us president donald trump repeatedly lashed out at china in his speech this prompted un secretary general antonio good terrorist who warns against a quote new code. let's have a listen now to one of trump's attacks on china we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this play on to the world china in the earliest days of the virus china lock down travel domestically while allowing flights to leave china and infect the world all right we want to go now the fact checker you know they were joins in jos to tell me is it true what trump says here of belgium china i mean can we put all the blame on china for the pandemic. well we all know that president trump keeps calling the crown of ours the china virus which is part of his tragedy

to blame this country for the outbreak and his prerecorded speech for the united nations he demands consequences as we have heard and he gives us this example why china acted in his opinion intentionally whether international flights while the domestic travel was locked down in china clearly no we checked this together with our china department and it's true that from generally 23rd on there were practically no flights with passengers from will hand but domestic travel in china continued we saw both types of flights international and national being reduced for example china canceled on february to around 24 percent of the international flights and 50 percent of their domestic flights other china airlines acted also in that way so no you can't say that there were just international and no domestic flights in china at that time all right so that's the one is you don't want trump he's also attacking china for other reasons for example for polluting the

environment take a listen to what he said today. that emissions are nearly twice what the u.s. has and it's rising fast so is this claim based in reality. this claim is correct china's share of the global carbon emission is around 28 percent while the us are accountable for nearly 15 percent china is far and away the world's top carbon amator close to $10000000000.00 metric tons of c o 2 from burning fossil fuel were emitted by china in 2017 more than 5000000000 metric tons by the us later trump said in his speech that the us reduced its carbon emissions by more than any country in the world and again this claim is true following numbers of the international energy agency the united states saw the largest decline in energy related c o 2 to diminish emissions in 2019 on a country basis so this point is correct we have to say are

a very good the us president praised his administration's response to the pandemic in that speech today let's take a listen to what he said about the u.s. and its handling of the crisis in the united states we launched the most aggressive mobilization since the 2nd world war we rapidly produced a record supply of ventilators creating a surplus that allowed us to share them with friends and partners all around the globe are georgia the biggest mobilization by the u.s. since the 2nd world war is that true. well we know this claim already as trump tends to praise his management of this crisis but again this is not true we all remember the 1st weeks for example of the outbreak in the u.s. to the country wasn't prepared for this virus and for example in new york governor andrew cuomo was asking for help and for more ventilators 30000 to be precise but

to receive just 400 of them the governor even raised the question of theology so the question who should be denied this important medical treatment to survive and on the other hand germany offered ventilators to the u.s. as an act of help but this offer was denied at this point so trump's claim is false here and we shouldn't over see that this disease has killed already 200000 americans so the you as our and the role model like trump is trying to tell us in this situation all right in us we know that the u.s. president he spoke for only 7 minutes in the video of speech today and he spoke during the 7 minutes partly about the u.s. economy let's take a listen to what he said about that we also know that american prosperity is the bedrock of freedom and security all over the world in 3 short years we built the greatest economy in history and we are quickly doing it again our i know she was

going through the numbers is that exactly correct what the president said. you know the us are in the middle of an election campaign so it was expected that trump would address the voters within the united states and i think this claim can be seen in this context as the economy growth was full long time let's say the key argument for his government but even if we can't say what exactly is the influence of press president on the economy situation in the country the sets the statistics prove trump very wrong a closer look on the economy growth and of the 13 presidents of the u.s. after world war 2 shows that president trump isn't the number one he is actually position 9 the average annual economic growth of his 1st 3 years as a president was 2.5 percent lyndon b. johnson for example produced a solid 5.3 percent of growth and the source of this information is the u.s.

department of commerce so he obviously lied here in this situation again and it won't be easy for for him to rebuild the economy after the coronavirus was so costly for so many americans yeah that's a very good point and it's always good to let the truth come to light especially when we're talking about the economy w.'s fact checker notion of a your thank you. some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the european council president charles michel has gone into quarantine after one of his security guards tested positive for cocaine 19 a surprise announcement means that a summit of e.u. leaders that was due to begin in 2 days' time has now been postponed until october 1st a court in pakistan has sentenced 2 former political activists to death over their wall in a deadly garment factory fire the 2012 blaze killed more than $260.00 workers the

court said the men started the fire as part of a political extortion scheme. u.s. senator mitt romney has said that he supports holding a vote to fill the vacant seat on the u.s. supreme court before the presidential election the announcement all but ensures their president can have a vote on his nominee despite democrats objections trump says he will announce his choice this coming saturday. are now the latest pandemic news the u.s. death toll from code 19 has passed the grim milestone of more than 200000 that's according to johns hopkins university that's the highest number for any country so far accounting for more than one in 5 deaths globally it's putting president on drugs handling of the pandemic in the spotlight as he campaigns for a 2nd term in office on average the u.s. now losing around 800 lives every day to the virus trumps democratic rival joe biden says trump's wives and incompetence are why the united states has seen so

many deaths from this by this. with the us having passed that sad mark we have health expert peter jobat from oxford university hell much is politics to blame here. the united states has 4 percent of the world's population and about 20 percent of the world's deaths from cove it 19 it wasn't the 1st to be hit it's the wealthiest nation in the world with perhaps the greatest expert greatest concentration of medical and public health expertise anywhere in the world there is no reason that it should be this way and i think a lot of what we've seen over the last couple of months this tragic toll really has to come down to failures of leadership. well in this sad day for the u.s. we want to speak to our correspondent. in washington d.c. good afternoon to huge define we are what 6 weeks away from the presidential

election in the u.s. and how are these 200000 deaths reflected in the campaigns. there is flecked as you would expect them to be the president just of a day on a big rally in ohio and flat out denied that corona virus is that deadly for young people he said and of course that neglecting by that the danger which is posed by young people for all the people if they pass on the virus the president last week trying to excuse himself in taking responsibility he doesn't take responsibility number 2 he is of course largely ignoring willfully ignore ignoring 2 100000 deaths in the united states almost 7000000 infections in this country so there's a lot of avoidance going on for a very very good reason because this is not his strong suit of course he's getting

hammered with criticism about his handling about the covert 19 crises cme the pandemic the other side biden reminding this just the other day as americans to not to not become complacent about the fact that 200000 people died 200000 people died in the richest nation of the world from a pandemic which the democrats say could have been handled better even prevented to a loss to greece in terms of this death toll we've been speaking to americans in denver colorado danged if one has given what they think about this tragic milestone take a listen. i know that other from other records hungry in the world but have. been for public health. like we have a real leader here. their number be much smaller we think that is and a good job. i think that there is a story on the other side that wants to say how bad he's handled it but nobody knew where everyone where it was coming from and beginning or what it was all about. we

just heard otherwise but has this tragic milestone nonetheless has it increased or has it was and the potential of this pandemic to divide us society. kind of think that 3 november 30th when we elect a new president it has actually increased division and polarization in this country however in general terms i think it's fair to say that polarization is a staple here in the political discourse input in politics see in the united states and division in the country between the people. to war it's do i wear a mask such a simple thing do i wear a mask do or practice social distancing do i believe that covert 19 this pandemic is actually there and that we have to battle it this division of people who believe this and do the do the do the wrong thing or do the right thing and wearing

a mask and and listen to experts that is that is here to stay and this is not going away and we've got about 30 seconds to form we've got the politicization of the pandemic grim numbers how are things looking as we move into the fall and winter in the us. it's not good their predictions out there that there's about one around $180000.00 additional deaths in the united states by january 1st if if if we don't do anything or we don't do enough to actually really fight the virus and that is where mask keep social distancing and don't mingle with a lot of people that's what you need to do if that's not happening hundreds thousands more will die but let's hope the for cancer wrong in this case we will see stefan's i'm on the story corps in washington stefan thank you. for back here in europe france has reported a record high of new daily inspections 13 sells the new coke again in 24 hours the

government wants to avoid another walked on and is banking on physical distancing and face masks to keep public life going for university students the restrictions come with their own challenges you don't usually salutes reports. it's a start of term like no other at this university in a suburb north of paris. despite the strict anti covert measures these economic students are happy to be here. 2 weeks of it will it's nice to be back at university this just shows that despite the virus life continues. our university has done what's needed to adapt to the situation we have split into 2 groups and have them on language classes every 2nd week every 2nd seat is off limits and we have to wear masks although that's a bit of a nuisance. quite a contrast to a holiday season during which many people lowered their guard most of france's recent covert cases are amongst young people someplace diplomacy believe. many of

us travel jing the summer after all the virus is less severe for us young and many need to get it to bed herd immunity the young should get it but it is usually. the government has only given basic guidelines to the universities each institution has had to come up with its own detail plan. ours in greece masks social distancing online classes and we have written the student. because of these measures we won't have to shut down if students test positive for it because there are no contact persons at least at university to read. but the number of infections has been rising across france more than half of the country has now been declared a reds and with at least. 50 new day infections but 100000 people compared to just a dozen in neighboring germany local governments can impose additional measures in

these sayings like temporarily closing bonds and restaurants and yet social distancing and locally adapted strategies won't be enough to prevent another lockdown says this fire ologists. france doesn't even have a testing strategy for example to test those who work with vulnerable people such as the elderly the only way to control the epidemic is to systematically travel down and isolate infected people for that we need to come up with a national strategy is the most simple testing methods such as testing and retesting and we need to test massively he also went in for this must see what despite the challenge the country faces these students hope the economy will stay open they'd like to continue to enjoy parisian cafe terraces where the risk of infection is a real pickle bodies this is like a little patch of paradise we can meet our friends here without masks and have

a drink. that we need to stay united in these hard times it's important to stay in touch and form social bonds even if it's just to meeting up in groups in baghdad it's not certain this pleasure will last for very long though the country strategy does allow for local lock downs and paris has one of the highest infection rates in the country. well there are more developments in the corona virus pandemic britain has announced a series of new restrictions designed to combat a dramatic spike in virus cases the u.k. prime minister says the new measures could last well into 2021 spain is battling western europe's highest $1000.00 caseload madrid especially hard hit the government is considering expanding a walk down to include the entire city of madrid. russian president vladimir putin has called for the world health organization to be strengthened to coordinate the global response to the pandemic hooten has also offered to share russia's

controversial new coronavirus vaccine with other countries while in conjunction with this week's united nations general assembly climate activists and scientists are joining forces to push political leaders to take action against a climate emergency in all sciences are clear on the impact of manmade global warming more and more people they are becoming the living evidence ravaged by fire large swathes along the west coast of the united states have been devastated this year's wildfire season has been one of the worst ever more than 11000 square kilometers of forest and towns have been reduced to ash and rubble entire communities have gone up in smoke all of a sudden the mountains were just a blaze a few days ago it did you know it was way down to the east and i wasn't worried

about it and all of a sudden it just came across without any warning and i couldn't believe it. in brazil to the number of fires in the wetlands of ponce anon more than doubled in the 1st half of 2020 compared with last year. then there is but a guy could crater in the siberian arctic around a kilometer wide and 100 meters deep it's been created by the melting permafrost when organic matter melts it releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and that speeds up global warming. the kenya with mining can get by on a small scale the processes we are seeing with crater are happening everywhere where ice melts under ground the ground subsides that's taking place to look at that so when people look at that but i took crater they can see the perfect example of why you shouldn't joke about the permafrost smith. rising temperatures

caused by the climate crisis are leading to more drought the result is more and more intense wildfires grounded planes and nearly shuttered industry because of covert 19 saw daily carbon dioxide emissions fall globally by 17 percent in april compared with 2019 but levels are now increasing again experts say action is needed now. but i think there's also the chance if it's now the right measures are being taken if we invest into local solutions renewable energy sustainable transport that we can avoid getting back to the previous levels but this requires political will with the activists and climate advocates do to take part in 20 twentieth's biggest climate event this week in new york they'll want to kick start that elusive political will. are they joining me tonight is miron destroyer's professor of

environmental and climate policy at the bavarian school of public policy in munich professor it's good to have you on the program you know we've heard we've seen the images of the fires in california we know that climate change is to cilla tainting the severity of these fires we still have people like the u.s. president who say it's the result of bad forest management what do you say to that . i think it's pretty clear that climate change is progressing because of our c o 2 emissions and forest management is certainly not the main cause of what is going on here we see this forest fires in the area in canada in brazil so it's actually a global phenomenon that really is quite frightening and where are we in terms of staying true to the paris climate agreement of course the goal is to keep the average global temperature from rising more than $1.00 or 2 degrees celsius are we

on track to meet that goal. well. we could be but we're not really that pandemic has perhaps led to a little bit of a dip in terms of emissions for a short time but we really need to take some drastic action in the next years in order to bring ourselves on track to climate neutral 2015 and what we also heard in the summit opening in new york today was the need to really start looking at a much earlier date at 2030 and really pushing the companies pushing countries to make changes changes in how they go about money in projects taking subsidies away from fossil fuel industries shifting us towards renewable energy away from fossil fuels we have a technologies to do this we simply need to make those those choices to really start switching and to switch quickly on a $1.00 to retarget we really only have

a few years left to cut deeply in about 50 percent emission cuts in the next 10 years so we really need to at yeah these are drastic cuts but the numbers show that the public is with you more and more people around the world want these changes they are concerned about climate change but the world's biggest polluters china the united states their leaders the presidents they are not as concerned right now what can be done. to change this if the most powerful people on the planet are not them but work. i think we seen a lot of push from the bottom up and we're also starting to see some feed companies that are recognizing that change is around the corner and really want to be early platers in this process so what i can say to everybody who's listening has put pressure on your own clinical representatives call for actions on companies that

you want to see a change it really is very critical and we're talking about and finally the next generations and also what kind of climate many of us are soames will experience and risk being the place you started as we did this discussion about the forest fires in california another record year this year it's really time to take action yet you make a very good point it's no longer a problem of the future it is definitely a problem of the present as well professor marandi destroyers joining us tonight from munich professor thank you thank you in brazil a practice session of the women's national football team was gate crashed by someone apparently keen to join the squad the feathered would be a footballer landed on the head of defender bruno benito's the bird was reluctant to leave until an assistant coach finally managed to push it off with the aid of

a spare ball sadly the plucky parrot there you see failed the oldish and has not been seen since. it's about chest. best about legend michael jordan has linked up with champion stock car racing driver denny hamlin to form a new nascar cup series team the duo will have bubba wallace as their driver while the successfully campaign to get the confederate flag banned from nascar races the 3 men aim to create more opportunities for black people in racing. our here's a reminder of the top story that we are following for you the leaders of the u.s. and china have clashed over the coronavirus pandemic in speeches to the u.n. general assembly president trump called for china to be held accountable for the spread of the virus chinese president xi jinping said finding the virus requires international cooperation. this is d.w.

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