this is news coming to you live from berlin remembering the victims of a global penda the credit box is now officially claimed more than a 1000000 so it's a tragedy spreading across nearly 200 countries. in belgium left grieving but there are. also coming out. with tears for the 1st presidential debate after reports saying he's he massively in debt and pays almost nothing taxes will his democratic opponent joe biden turn. into his.

fellow i'm terry martin good to have you with us. 19 has claimed its millionth life the milestone has been reached today according to johns hopkins university the virus has spread around the world and daily deaths have been rising through most of all ghost and september the u.s. for zille india and mexico account for more than half of the total and new hotspots keep emerging such as in smaller countries like israel. it led the world in new cases per capita over the past week despite a return to law. it's the w.'s teri schultz reports now from the belgian tell of sanctuary and one family's heartbreaking loss to the panda. the

world has lost a 1000000 lives. one of them meant the world to 10 year old lorenzo my grandpa was the best his grandpa luke picked him up from school each day and when he comes to we made it all merch and after dad. me just played in the couch and just didn't really want to deal. mostly i got snacks and anything but their hometown st true then was hit early and hard by the coronavirus we had 53 people. who had to enter the hospital and we only had bets for 20 people but luke was already hospitalized failing fast and he said if i don't make it police take good care of the children he didn't make it on march 23rd luke became seen truants 1st corona death janine and their daughters

nell and lane and lorenzo didn't even get to see goodbye now that really hold. the truckers we hold. mayor very early hit and felt it personally her husband became critically ill but survived it was a terrible time for the families but also for us as a mayor and also all the people of my policemen and you know the people in the town working for 24 hours a day 6 months later same treatment has the infection rate under control with strict measures father room in and says now inhabitants need to heal it's important to share. with each other what we feel what we want or are and she thinks are the 2 but also or the. mayor here and decided to create a space for that a corner of a city park is now

a memorial the theme forget me not plenty of those flowers have been planted by city landscape or d.d.'s summers along with a tree of life and a plaque bearing a poem in the heartland that. the flowers will come so yeah even when it's sat. it will be a little bit. early for the memorials dedication september 13th lorenzo was asked to commemorate his beloved grandfather he told his mom nellie he was too afraid to look at life there or they were again to laugh at me. but lorenzo changed his mind and wrote a letter even oh dear grandpa i miss you very much i am mad about the corona mad about what happened the order bastogne always

are going to be the best putting these items. that i was brave and that i was happy that i did it that i for all would l. out. please happy. no one here who forget. well here in germany chancellor angela merkel is due to meet the country's regional leaders to discuss a fresh strategy for combating the pandemic nakul on monday said if current trends could lead to a major spike in infection rates before christmas but just how ready is germany for a 2nd wave d.w. visited one doctor's office in the center of berlin that's hoping to get ahead of the curve. 12 meters long and growing.

that feeling of today's line at a medical practice in berlin. people have come here to get tested for corona through the window no appointment necessary. i think it's a really nice option doesn't take so much time and it's it made the safer than going to a cost bottle and sitting in the close space where patients can be sick but here everything everyone is wearing masks and that's just for the window so i think it's really nice that the doctors ability cuts and runs the practice she's bracing herself for a harsh corona winter with many more patients to deal with. any time you want my advice i don't want to be a prophet of doom and gloom but the numbers are clearly going up we all want to prevent another lockdown so we don't want to have to close the schools again somehow we've got to get through this winter. to prepare for what's coming germany

wants to set up more testing stations they would receive people running at a high temperature or with other corona symptoms additionally the public health office which tracks infected people was promised more personnel but that has yet to materialize. and the politicians have pledged to bolster the health authorities over the next 5 years this requires the creation of 5000 new jobs but now as october and november approach the jobs don't yet exist in the health offices this is a problem that urgently needs to be addressed. but instead of relying solely on germany's health care and tracking system dr cuts is done would rather make testing at home possible. if you miss a good move to cut it will have to be given the chance to do a test without a doctor to go to the pharmacy and buy a test although they do not guarantee 100 percent accuracy and they provide an excellent indicator and are absolutely adequate from an epidemiological point of

view because. the swap test involves taking a sample between the nose and mouth it shows the results within 15 minutes without sending the sample to a laboratory in germany though only doctors and pharmacists are allowed to order them. should infections start rising sharply in winter they might be an alternative to long lines in the cold. let's bring in our political correspondent here hons infection numbers are climbing again in germany today chancellor merkel is meeting regional leaders to hash out a fresh coronas strategy what can we expect. well there have been some leaks about what is likely to be decided today and looks as though the restrictions will be tightened again what they're talking about is that a number of people that are allowed to attend private parties for instance will be

restricted to a 25 and public gatherings to 50 the background to this is that in recent months or in recent weeks the number of infections have risen is especially because of gathering such as the religious gatherings. waiting parties birthday parties in other words things that are happening really outside public control in private in private circumstances but these kinds of gatherings ought to be restricted we have to say however that there is some dispute between the various regions the 16 federal states and germany amongst each other there is a push to have these rules imposed for the whole of germany but especially the rural federal states feel that in their cases where the number of covered cases are very low applying such strict measures would not be reasonable so there is some dispute going on about whether this will be for the whole of germany or not of course many people are concerned that there could be a real spike in infections and statistics suggest that it's possible if that

happens could there be another hard lockdown in germany. well i'm going to makarova chancellor is one of the people who is concerned about this she said yesterday in a party meeting of the christian democratic union that if nothing was done now and the exponential growth of infections continues the way it has been recent weeks then by christmas we would have $19000.00 infections per day that's obviously a very bad could worst case scenario and also a locked on the total lockdown would be. a measure of last resort that is something that the government will try to avoid at all costs but what is possible are regional lockdowns possibly even in sections of certain cities such as here in berlin the region where you and i are at the moment terry has a number of infections that is giving rise to concern so they are possible lockdowns i think in sections of the city or in certain regions that it's not

beyond the. beyond part not not impossible well the economic impact of a lockdown of course would be enormous germany's government has been spending a lot already to keep businesses afloat in this pandemic is the government prepared to provide more financial assistance if the pandemic worsens while the government is actually in fact at the moment posturing the new budget for the coming year and that provides a whole lot of billions in fact for fighting the effects of the pandemic direct assistance to companies is still possible about the major assistance to companies at the moment is that if people have to go on shore to working all those companies are being paid all the people are being paid by the state rather than being put out into unemployment that is going to continue to the end of next year at the same time the number of investments that the government plans in order to counter the

effects of the corona epidemic goes into the billions funds thank you so much that was d w political correspondent hans pont. so you look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today dozens have reportedly been killed or wounded in a 2nd day of fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of nick on a car by the fighting broke out in an area that lies within but has been controlled by ethnic armenian since 1904. protesters clashed with police in mexico city as hundreds of women marched through the capital demanding the decriminalisation of abortion ranks of female police officers used pepper spray against the demonstrators abortion is banned in most of mexico except under certain circumstances such as sexual assault. u.s. president altro and his opponent joe biden are preparing for their 1st t.v. debate such take place later on tuesday the question in everyone's minds is how

trial will deal with the investigation into his tax records by the new york times it suggests that the self-proclaimed billionaire and business genius may actually face a financial nightmare of overdue loans bad deals and unpaid taxes totaling hundreds of millions of dollars trump denies the assertions. reactions to the new york times has reflected the deep divisions that are evident across america in this election year makes my blood boil and everything he does makes my blood boil and what's going to make my blood boil even more is that there are no consequences to this why now. right now they bring it up like 35 days through election day you know i mean i think it will affect the election probably not because there's been way worse accusations against him before and people haven't cared the story adds to the troubles of a president trailing badly in opinion polls. the newspaper reported that tax

filings show donald trump paid just $750.00 in federal income taxes in 2016 the year he won the presidency and the same amount in 2017 his 1st year in office and he paid no income taxes whatsoever in 10 of the previous 15 years. that's because he reported losing more money than he made according to the times he also reported to be personally responsible for loans and other debts totaling more than $420000000.00 revelations that undermine the image trump likes to promote of himself as a successful businessman and deal maker. trump dismissed the story as untrue so it was totally fake news faith. on tuesday evening trump and his challenger joe biden face off for the 1st of 3 televised debates trump's tax history gives the democrats fresh ammunition going into the final month of the campaign. you're

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