become followers who stay behind is if my husband went to peru because of the crisis. if he hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger. letters on one of them. just starts october 16th on the job. the corona virus pandemic has now claimed more than 1000000 lives globally this incredibly high death toll reflects an epic failure in public health policies from the u.s. to russia from brazil to chile covered 19 is quickly becoming one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases it took 9 months for the virus to kill 1000000 people doctors say it could be just a matter of weeks until that number becomes 2000000 i'm bring in berlin this is the day.

all or will this reached an agonizing milestone the numbers that are currently reported probably rhetoric represent and on their estimate yet we must never lose sight of each and every individual's life will do through good and. be pretty good. and still there is no end in sight to the spread of the finals i think it is that it's to live it that. hopefully that thing comes we can overcome these children between must learn from the mistakes. also coming up the growing hostilities towards gays and lesbians living in poland ambassadors from all around the world have signed an open letter reminding the government in warsaw that l g b t rights are also human rights i agree with the letter of the ambassadors when they

say that respect is due to every person. moving on to i completely disagree with the letter of the ambassadors when they say that there are persons in poland for whom respect is taken away. to our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day. counting the dead the 1000000 dead the death toll in the corona virus pandemic has now surpassed 1000000 a tragic marker in a health crisis that is not even one year old and nowhere near its end it took 9 months for covert 19 to end the lives of 1000000 people that a virus could become so deadly so quickly in the 21st century has less to do with advances in medicine and practically everything to do with paralysis in politics

here in europe the government in belgium has come under fire for being slow to ask belgium has the world's 3rd highest pandemic mortality rate doctors say that figure could be inflated by belgium's broad definition of related causes of death but no matter how the statistics stack up what remains constant is this every coronavirus death represents a human tragedy. teri schultz introduces us to one belgian family tonight grieving over what they lost to the virus and reminding the rest of us of the humanity we share despite the viper's 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 what he got and we made it all merch and after that. we just

played the couch and just did what we wanted to deal. mostly i got snacks easy but their hometown st truth 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 he said if i don't make it police to a group. he didn't make it on march 23rd luke became seen truants 1st corona death jeanine and their daughters nellie and elaine and lorenzo didn't even get to see goodbye now that really hot. it struck was really all. mayor very 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 but 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 that we share. with each other what we feel what we want or are and she and charlotte do 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 fly. hours have been planted by city landscaper d.d.'s summers on with the tree of life and a plaque bearing a poem in a heartbeat that. the flowers will come so yeah even when it's sat. it will be a little bit. beautiful. for the memorials dedication september 13th

lorenzo was asked to commemorate his beloved grandfather he told his mom nellie he was too afraid because i shot they were gonna laugh at me. but lorenzo changed his mind and wrote a letter leave. your grandpa i miss you very much i am mad about corona mad about what happened you were dead best and always are going to be the best if you think. that i was brave and that i was happy that i did it that i. know it all out. please happy. everyone lies. the sunni grandpa. no one here will forget him.

well before the new coronavirus had even been heard of in belgium and it was already spreading in china the city of new salt to be where the pandemic began and it was the 1st epicenter of the outbreak today it life appears to be returning to normal but it was a different story when the number of new cases was peaking in march and april all 11000000 residents of who hong were placed under a strict lockdown new hospitals were built almost overnight while critics and whistleblowers were silenced including this man you see right here doctor. when young he was one of the 1st to sound the alarm on the deadly disease now that was almost one year ago and in. it seems like a lifetime ago. it's the story of

a reenergized metropolis recast as a heroic victim of the coronavirus thriving again. traditional opera for example can be found outdoors in the crowded and well to do central city. china shows off hahn as a city reborn and save the government media says by china's efforts to fend off and almost send off the coronavirus that emanated from here and. now that everything is so good what risks can there be on as the place where the epidemic broke out in the 1st place and i believe it must be the best managed. things are so relaxed they've put together a massive pool party not long ago attended by thousands of mask less people a viral video led to international criticism of recklessness beijing conjuring the party showed its success in taming the coronavirus. has restarted life has

returned to the kind of flavor we had before so everyone living in will hand feels at ease. that easy feeling required a massive lockdown of millions and was a near ghost town from all appearances last winter. this well after a would be hero the late dr levy when liang sounded the alarm on the virus and mohan but was quickly censored by the government he died of covert 19 since then a 1000000 more people have died worldwide that's i'm. looking at it from china's point of view they've really done badly maybe they never really comprehended how serious this thing was. and back then many people left this world because of it and. this fire is this terrible thing of being as a make up with maybe every country like us never imagined it would break out all around the world i never imagined it background. beijing though maintains the world

can learn from its handling of the coronavirus triumph it says even as it faces bitterness overseas from covert 19 and the initial attempt at covering it up. well no matter how beijing tries to sell its version of a recovery in will haunt the fact remains that china's standing in the world has suffered due to the pandemic what beijing claims about the virus may or may not be taken at face value the chinese artist and activist i way way he can attest to his home countries duplicity w.'s melinda crane spoke with him and she asked should the people in china have more or less trust in the government post pandemic. polls that show that actually the pandemic boosted trust in the government do you think that's right that's accurate i think the entire. arab broadly being viewed

home government. more you fact through than the western government because the brainwashed because. some believe that just comparing sums in which different society have this very different way to look at human. individual. decisions and the government functions very differently say. the explosive new york times reports on the tax situation of u.s. president donald trump is raising some uncomfortable questions for germany's largest lender deutsche bank namely why did deutsche bank loan mr trump $2000000000.00 at the same time other banks including all u.s. lenders were not willing to do so and while those who bank may be handling those loans we cannot say tonight who or what is behind that money in other words we don't know who owns the debt of u.s.

president donald trump and adding to this puzzle is the role played by the son of a former u.s. supreme court justice just in kennedy son of former justice anthony kennedy was a division head and contact for donald trump at deutsche bank kennedy was close to the then future president at the same time that he was lending money to mr trump now the objects of this are horrible for deutsche bank so bad that author and political scientist norman ornstein tweeted yesterday if i were door to bank executives who gave loans to trump when no one else would including anthony get the sun i would be very very nervous right now. arliss speak with the man who voice that opinion norman ornstein joins me he's a political scientist at the american enterprise institute he's also an author and editor at the atlantic it's good to have you on the day mr ornstein so do you think

georgia baking executives do they have something to high. we don't know what they have to hide but as you say the optics are terrible but it's more than just the optics we know from these tax returns that donald trump was in dire financial shape had very few assets and deep deep liabilities was concealing information about those assets and if you look at some of these tax returns the only logical explanation when he came up with bundles of cash and was buying golf courses all over the place all courses which now in many cases are ambridge in law. it looks like money laundering where did that money come from and what rule to do it your bank play in facilitating all of that and was it was a reputable bank lending huge sums of money to somebody widely viewed everywhere

as a significant credit risk and then you throw in something else that you alluded to but didn't quite get to justice anthony kennedy retire prematurely and to enable donald trump to pick a much younger individual and that younger individual was anthony kennedy's protege brett kavanaugh very controversial and something that's altered the nature of the supreme court what was going on there given the personal relationship and business relationship apparently between the younger kennedy and donald trump through do it your bank there's an awful lot here to unpack and i ramble a lot of it looks bad and those look bad and i mean it sounds like if i'm understanding you right that i meet at least the optics here it looks like there could be a connection between justin kennedy's relationship with donald trump loaning donald trump money and the decision by supreme court justice anthony kennedy to retire

early in other words in exchange for loan money there was a guarantee of the ability to impact the future of the supreme court in my understanding you correctly. we you know we don't know we can only infer things from this but none of the looks good and it's all tied together and considering that deutsche bank has had other issues including russian money coming through and being laundered in some fashion we can connect some dots here that don't sound good it requires a lot of investigation and that's why i tweeted 1st that if i were those 2nd if that deutsche bank i'd be nervous right now and then i followed with it's probably time for the southern district of new york the federal 1 prosecutors who've been investigating some of these areas and the district attorney and attorney general of the state of new york to depose young mr kennedy and perhaps begin to get to the

bottom of what this was an issue right now isn't it who all means these loans that don't want trump has to pay back more than 400000000 u.s. dollars of me we don't know but maybe some executives at deutsche bank maybe they know. well one would think that you know you can follow you know tongue in cheek i said we need to follow the rules but we don't know for sure i will tell you that a very good journalist associated with the new yorker and of davids who wrote a long piece about connections with us or by john and money laundering going through some of the. figures they are the miscreants there which apparently indicated a great interest in golf courses. you know might have some ties here as well and of course we also have reason to believe that trump in decades past had gotten loans from russian sources if you look at the president's relationship with vladimir

putin and the actions that he's taken including the promise to withdraw troops from germany that serve the interests of mr putin and russia we have even more to be concerned about you know our constitution has in it was is that we call 'd amal humans clauses right now the main one is to prevent a major figure especially a president from getting anything of value from a foreign interest in a way that might compromise america's national interest in its foreign policy 'd there's an awful lot here that we have questions about that are vital to america affleck if you know and we we've tried to get comments from deutsche bank but it's been incredibly difficult to get them to talk about this and as you say get maybe up to us prosecutor issue subpoenas before we can actually get anything from the bank what do you say. and you know the problem we have right now is that those

prosecutors are mostly federal prosecutors associated with the justice department when we have an attorney general who is in donald trump's pocket and basically acting more as his attorney then the attorney for the united states but the notoriously dependent southern district of new york may move ahead and the state of new york which also has direct interests in this including questions of tax fraud that the president trump might well have engaged in. can issue its own subpoenas so i think we're only at the beginning of a story that is not going to probably be result until after this next election and if donald trump wins again it may not be result for a very very long time if at all norman ornstein political scientists of the american enterprise institute and editor at the atlantic mr ornstein we appreciate your time and your valuable insights tonight thank you. that thank you.

it is not easy being gay or lesbian in poland if you think that poland's post communism rebirth and its membership in the european union have brought more enlightened attitudes well think again president andre dude was reelected last year and he won with a campaign that attacked the l g b t community duda said publicly that gays and lesbians have been more destructive to poland than communism was now that may explain why a 100 towns in poland have voted to declare themselves free of gay ideology and this in a country forever marked by the inhumanity of the holocaust at auschwitz now this has not gone unnoticed 50 ambassadors from countries all around the world have signed an open letter it calls on the polish government to respect human rights for

everyone and for polish lawmakers to remember their place in the western world the ambassadors writes that we express our support for the efforts to raise public awareness of issues affecting lesbian gay transgender and intersex b.t.i. community and other communities in poland facing similar challenges of this week the polish foreign minister offered a response. from both of their own look at their cup i can only say to my dear ambassadors that tolerance belongs to polish d.n.a. just. a look at our recent history is enough to confirm that no one has to teach us tolerance since we are a nation that has learnt such tolerance during centuries and we have given much proof of this tolerance. that i agree with the letter of the embassadors when they say that respect is due to every person. i completely disagree with the letter of

the ambassadors when they say that there are persons in poland from whom respect is taken away some are that was the polish foreign minister speaking there it is exactly that attitude that motivated by next guest to ensure that that open letter was written signed and published i'm happy to welcome to the day the belgian ambassador to poland mr luke jaco's ambassador young because it's good to have you on the program you just heard the response that was given by the polish foreign minister to that open letter he says no one in poland is being disrespected what do you say to that. well thank you for a for having me and to give this photo much i think it is important to fuel or a joint letter in its proper context i mean does it lead to results of the fall of a letter of birth or an expression of moral support to the g.b.i. and g.b.i.

community in all of that is restating universal principles of human rights and it is also containing every positive and constructive call to join to work in order to create an environment. of nondiscrimination tolerance immutable acceptance and this initiative already exists it's not the only. seen said to townson 12th when the 1st litter was initiated into vision 2013 so since the end of the room at the community in old publishing this letter again as a sign of. orange and every year there is another embassy coordinating the collection of signatures chord meeting dialogue liaising with the g.b.i. community and also preparing the participation of the diplomatic community in

one and you will recall a great scene in warsaw can better let me let me if you could talk to me about how this letter came to be what did you see happening in poland to be why did jean say that now is the time to take action. well you've seen again and this is already this myth that it's a tradition and. or create these shifts that are seen in 2012 decided that tool to try to this should should letter also a feeling that the motto of the o.t. v.i.i. community in poland for this forthcoming from abroad will be continued the tradition because things. are changing not not to the extent that we would not see reasons not to lend these shoes or to do you know a cheapie i community and in the introduction to your conversation you had given

a number of recent developments of the need to. raise questions. in or respective capitals so mentor of political debate there are cities in our respective countries that are wondering whether they should continue or not cooperation agreements that they have if we'd. be better at the scene poland attempt to describe through these family challenge attention and so it is a. situation in the. raises questions and when we feel the need of the g.p.i. community fault is forthcoming from countries that have. had a track record. in every trick to go but it's a typical trick track records into and some of the fencing equal rights for dungy to be i ambassador i have about about 30 seconds left i want to ask you this letter

that was written it reminds the polish government of what poland agreed to when it joined the european union the values of the e.u. including protecting the rights of sexual minorities. how do you explain that we've got entire governments now coming to power in europe on platforms that attack these values. well sure but it's happening in poland i would not say that this is the soul of political issue or at the moment we see that it is indeed to reach the heated political debate in the in poland's about g.d.p. i put it is not of biotechnology to be either that or fortunately very often at the expense of energy could be ice to people and not creating let's say secure. the border and firemen feel for their influence in iraq it's ambassador unfortunately we're out of time belgium embassador poland mr lu jacobo bester we

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this is g w news live from berlin another grim milestone in the pandemic the corona virus has now claimed more than a 1000000 lives around the world in less than a year koch at 19 has shattered lives and livelihoods in nearly $200.00 countries also coming up the steve just said in just a few hours president trump and his democratic challenger joe biden face off in their 1st televised presidential debate it comes one day after a shocking report about the income taxes that trump has not paid can biden turn

trump's tax troubles into a campaign couth am. i being flayers between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh the 2 countries have rejected calls for peace talks as the conflict threatens to escalate into an all out. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with 1000000 the 1000000 lives lost to the corona virus the pandemic which began just 9 months ago has now claimed more than a 1000000 lives globally and from europe to the u.s. cities are bracing for another surge in new infections a 2nd wave in the pandemic could hit 19 has quickly become one of the world's deadliest. infectious diseases and the virus has spread to at least 188 countries

and tell of these have been rising yet again since august public health experts say that this crisis this health crisis is far from over. or earlier we spoke to margaret hearer's she's with the world health organization in geneva and we asked her whether the emphasis should be on developing a vaccine and drugs to treat the virus or on code testing it tracy. emphasis should be on it well we're saying is do it all say yes the side just racing in 24 seventh's i mean but really for humanity how is that every day when i think of what the scientists are doing but we ourselves every one of us have to be responsible for stopping the transmission and yes and health systems and health authorities have to be increasingly testing ensuring that they are tracing every person making sure every person who is infected is put requirement and make sure

everybody has a contact itself isolating and following those people and making it possible for people to take the actions we know can stop the transmission that's margaret here is with the w.h.o. there germany's chancellor angela merkel she has announced new measures in response to local spikes in 1000 infection rates she's very willing to avoid a full national walk down instead announcing what she calls a hotspot strategy that after meeting today with the leaders of germany's 16 federal states merican met with german state leaders for 3 hours to dress disagreements about whether measures to curb the spread of coronavirus should be ratcheted up the outcome they will be. if you get out and visit often we've learned a lot we got through the summer pretty well but we know that more difficult times lie ahead in the fall and winter months when the mood of the busy man we are seeing

a progressive rise in infection rates partly and then sleep populated areas if you see it. parties appear to be a significant infection source one party in bielefeld resulted in hundreds of people being tested nearly $1000.00 were quarantined and schools closed the leaders agreed that the size of parties will now be limited. every increase should mean more masks less alcohol and smaller parties everyone managed to be on one thing no one wants to reimpose the measures seen at the beginning of the pandemic assessors phylicia my laptop in the minutes and what we want to avoid a lockdown of the kind we all went through in march so that schools can no gardens and places of work can stay open and we intervene only where infections are occurring in fact. it peels were made to the people to regularly air out rooms and avoid travel to higher risk countries but no announcement was made on how some

of these measures will be policed. well some of the country's worst hit by the corona by responded make are not the ones making headlines every day peru which has topped 800000 infections has had one of the world's highest mortality rates and its economy has shrunk by 30 percent but new cases they are slowing prompting the government to go ahead with easing restrictions many fear that could be too soon. finally able to be by her husband's side this doesn't cemetery in northern peru is the final resting place for local coronavirus victims now that restrictions have been eased relatives are allowed in to visit even though it isn't at the spot ana maria and her husband had planned for your method to get everything but yes in the when i went to town to make burial arrangements they told me i couldn't bury him in the plot we had chosen. i was told that an order had been issued that everyone who

died from coated had to be buried in this summit terry. others are still fighting for their lives peru's president says the country's health care system is stronger now than it was at the beginning of the pandemic. and the government is expanding testing including in low income areas of the capital lima. so with the rate of new infections on the decline the government is pushing ahead with plans to reopen more of the economy and even start letting in international flights starting with neighboring countries but some health experts are warning against reopening too fast. the nasty reopening gyms bars discos and other forms of entertainment will be terrible. yeah. so yes it could bring about

a 2nd wave quicker. i think we definitely need to reconsider these steps. the fear is that peru could repeat that pattern of other countries seeing a rise in cases followed by a new wave of mass burials. artless take a look now at some of the other stories of making headlines around the world french president emmanuel mccrone has said on a visit to lithuania that he would help mediate in the political crisis in bello rubes with the builder who see an opposition leader so that lana cotton and sky get that was seen as a major show of support for the activist french police have dismantled a migrant camp in the northern port town of tell a makeshift camp was home to around $800.00 migrants mostly from iraq afghanistan sudan and eritrea every year thousands of migrants try to cross the english channel to reach the u.k. the international space station is leaking above normal volumes of

a air but nasa has said the russian american crew is not in any danger the crew which is made up of one u.s. astronaut and 2 russian cosmonauts the crew plans to resolve the problem in the coming day. firefighters have been battling to contain wildfires tearing through northern california's wine country ever since the weekend extremely dry conditions have led to the rapid spread of the blaze in napa valley and near the city of santa rosa nearly 70000 residents have been forced to evacuate. with just hours to go until the hotly anticipated presidential debate democrat candidate for the u.s. presidency joe biden and his wife jill have just released their tax returns biden paid nearly $300000.00 in federal taxes last year that's much more than the $750.00 u.s. president trump paid in recent years biden's vice presidential running mate come

away harris also made her returns public today the release adds further pressure to limit the damage that this information may calls the trump reelection campaign. all of a sudden it's about the taxes let's cross live now the washington bureau chief in his poll she will be following the debate for us later at a party in wisconsin good evening to you anus i mean this is the 1st of 3 television debates. who is going to wait is this a debate for biden to lose or is this a debate that trump has to win. well brenda i think it is fair to say that it is much easier for donald trump because you know for his supporters they don't really care what he's doing he has to appear as being strong he can bully biden he can be aggressive he can even lie they don't really care

about that and that's very different for joe biden so he has to prove that he's alert that he's there we all know his nickname probably sleepy biden sleepy joe that's how donald trump called called him so he has to show that he's there but he can't come across as too aggressive either because that's not what his supporters won so i think it is fair to say that it is much easier for trump to win than for joe biden and these are these debates many times focus more on star then than substance and it's an arena where someone like donald trump can do will a bully pulpit if you will and we know that is not joe biden's street visit. no it's absolutely not and we saw him over the coals of the last months and public appearances he was really like kind of meandering he has sometimes really

a hard time to be precise you know he starts a sentence somewhere and ends somewhere very different and indeed as you just said plenty has kind of to lay out his plans how he wants to bring this country forward again and therefore he has to find a way to to really be very very precise and very easy to understand and this most definitely has never been his strong suit and over the last couple of months i think he got even weaker in that regard we will see tonight if all of the practicing in the rehearsals if they will pay off in this poll on the story for us tonight in wisconsin in just thank you. well tensions are flaring over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh with both armenia and azerbaijan the forces accusing each other of attacks on their territory armenia claims turkey has shot down one of

its warplanes which the turkish president and his eyes are by john the allies denied violence in recent days has been the region's worst in decades but eyes are by john and armenia they have rejected calls for any peace talks. these scenes have put the international community on edge. but for the residents of both mania and as a by shun they have been a long time coming. that was a little the as i by johnny ami will win this war and we will return to our historical lands a lot of this i get it as it is for that victory is out as if my country needs me as a soldier i am ready even at my age. of course we are afraid of a long war but the civilian population and the military must be ready for it. it is better to be free later and to continue this false pace. the focus of the fighting is that or go on a car back region the dispute itself is decades old beginning in the early 1990 s.

when the ethnically armenian region declared independence from us a by sharon that independence has never been recognized by the international community which is urging for calm from both sides the secretary general strongly called on all the sides true mediately stop fighting deescalate tension and return it to meaningful negotiations without preconditions or delay world leaders fear the fighting could lead to full scale conflict which destabilizes the south caucasus region a kargil for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets. regional players like russia and turkey's also at risk of becoming in broiled in the conflict and escalating it further. is that today we are at the side of our azerbaijani brother and in the defense of the homeland mania must immediately cease its attacks and send back the mercenaries that have brought from abroad to. dozens of people

have been killed so far including civilians and hundreds more wounded at the request of germany and france the un security council is expected to hold imagines talks on choose day but with both sides accusing the other of starting the battle and of continuing to use heavy artillery a quick and clean break from the violence seems unlikely. in the galapagos islands in the pacific ocean a group of $36.00 giant tortoises has been released into the wild born in captivity the tortoises are an endangered species at risk of extinction they were released into their natural habitat on san cristobal island after a rigorous quarantine process the tortoises play a critical role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem in the unique go up against archipelago. our here's a reminder of the top story that we're following for you the corona virus has now claimed the lives of more than 1000000 people around the world the number of deaths

has been rising since august with the u.s. brazil 'd india and mexico accounting for more than half of all closed 1000 related deaths you're watching e.-w. news from berlin next up monica jones with you business stick around she'll be right back. free to any list to tries it. all out. in the footsteps of the great preacher. in. the fleet street. preacher who wants. to marry him and.