cut her before you surprise yourself with what is possible who is medical really what moves them part of who talks to people who follow along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joiners from eccles law stops. just over 4 weeks to the us election and president trump has tested positive for corona virus and is exhibiting symptoms in the 1st lady in the self isolation while the washington establishment on both sides of the aisle wonder what do we do now well we'll see if we can provide some ounces over the next half hour i'm filled. and this is the day.

the president the 1st lady says. scary. trying to score political points. i think would be a huge mistake. in severely. impact his ability to be desired. welcome to the day to day it has begun with just 4 weeks until the u.s. election the white house says president trump is experiencing mild symptoms now

that followed the announcement that he and 1st lady. had tested positive for corona virus democratic rival joe biden's tested negative despite sharing a platform with mr trump in tuesday's presidential debate when the president's diagnosis was revealed hours after it became known that senior aides who had contracted the virus she. been traveling all week with the president and seen here on that wednesday throwing crap caps into a crowd of supporters at a campaign event mr trump tweeted that he had madonna quarantining at the white house where he said to be continuing he's duties so what happens now well let's run through some of the potential synonymous with john he's a senior fellow at the brookings institution's 10 to 4 effective public management joins us from washington welcome to d w i see that you've written that

a positive coverage test for the president is not in itself a cause for emergency action so when showed people start worrying well as you said it's not necessarily a cause for emergency action for millions of people who had old it and they've. either no symptoms or in the president's case so far mild symptoms and presidents get sick from time to time and that's not as much of a problem but if the president's condition deteriorates and he is older he is obese and those are all. conditions or situations which can make symptoms worse it would be something that could become a real crisis in the united states if the president were to need a ventilator or to be sedated or to be hospitalized in a serious way ok so let's let's talk through some of those scenarios if for instance if the president if his condition takes a turn for the worst and he does become incapacitated and unable to govern the

presumption is there is a system so talk us through what that system is. there's really 2 parallel tracks that are laid out on the 25th amendment to the united states constitution the 1st would be the president for seeing that he is going to be hospitalized for sedated or made in some way incapacitated and he can voluntarily transfer the powers of the office to the vice president temporarily and the vice president would then exercise the powers of the presidency until the president recover the alternative system is one in which the president is incapacitated in a very sudden way or in a way that he has not voluntarily turned over the powers of the office and in that case the vice president along with the majority of the cabinet can notify the congress that the president is incapacitated at which point those powers automatically transferred to the vice president and this is a well trodden path that they have been examples in the past of the 25th amendment being deployed. so there have been charts of the 25th amendment that have been

deployed over the course of the past 30 to 35 years of presidents have needed to undergo medical procedures president reagan needed some polyps removed president bush had a colon ostap during which time they were under either anesthesia or sedation and when that happened each of those presidents bollen terribly transferred power to the vice president who served as acting president temporarily until the president came out from the drugs that you was under in could take the powers back over which is typically only a few hours this situation in which the vice president and a majority of the cabinet forced that transfer has never happened in american history ok so when we are a long way from that at the moment so how important is that the president is now so i think he has been tweeting for about 13 hours which is

a long as anyone can can remember how important is it for the president to remain visible during an airless like this and to keep the public a dated. well i think visible is sort of in the eye of the boulder the president doesn't necessarily have to appear physically but he could give interviews over the phone he can tweet he can do a variety of tasks that can communicate with the american public that he is there that use doing well i do think if the president is well enough to make a television appearance or to speak directly to the people that would be important to settle some jitters and there are genders among a lot of americans right now about what the president's health actually is and certainly there are concerns i'm sure we've been his family and others as well as an american market about what the future is going to hold and so i think is much is

the president can he should communicate about his health and wellness to the american public ok this is a fag and that it's speculating but it's fascinating. let's look at the president sits situation deteriorating what happens if he is incapacitated come election day. if you say incapacitated on election day it would be the same as if you were incapacitated any other day. would the powers of the office would transfer to the vice president he would be not in holding the powers of the presidency the vice president would it could have political effects shortly but i think is long as the president's condition is seen as temporary that will instill enough faith in the individuals going to the polls that they can continue to vote for him if they so choose if the president's condition is quite serious or quite grave i do think

it raises some questions among voters about what they're going to do now that said in the united states we vote for president and vice president on the same ticket and so if you're supporting president trump you're also supporting vice president tents were of course will take over in the event of a presidential incapacitation or presidential death and so i think going into election day voters will have those types of thoughts on their mind particularly if the president is incapacitated. so the center of this story has a 74 year old man with a potential made life threatening condition the concerns of a big of the health of the man on they we're talking about the office of the president. that's right and i think it's important for our your viewers and you know today i've been reminding american viewers as well the presidency is about more than one person the presidency is a system of offices that help support the person who happens to be in power at that moment but of course there are contingencies in place to ensure not only that there

is a line of succession but there is continuity in that succession and so while this sort of situation as you said and elderly president with a disease that has now killed more than 210000 americans is a very serious situation but we do have a process in place for when these occurrences do happen want to an acting president to penn. gets to do his own thing in this in this next month and presumably if he got that elected all what he's dhobi to just keep the show on the road and not invade anyone. well this their head this is uncharted territory the vice presidents who have served as acting presidents in the past have done so only for a couple of hours and because they knew that the president was under some sedation or some anesthesia that said if vice president pence were to become acting president he would wield all of the powers of the presidency and could do if he

wished and now i think that for vice president pence particularly given that he has a close relationship with the president he would see that role as a caretaker role with the hope of course that the president would recover and he would just essentially carry out the president's wishes during that time and not make many major political or policy moves that said if the president were to resign from office or god forbid if he were to die in office the vice president would elevate permanently to president and then would likely do what predecessors who have succeeded a president to do and that is take the helm of the office and do as they wish fos and i think thank you for your analysis and john who that from the brookings institution thank you. so how will the president's illness affect the campaign with just over 4 weeks to go blue cross

joins us from us election to welcome with him to the 2nd presidential debate issues will take place in just under 2 weeks the president is self isolating though i suppose this doesn't rule him out completely no i mean and we don't really know what's going to happen next but we keep hearing we we there's a reason we say this is an unprecedented moment in an unprecedented election these are that's not just a word we use although it does get thrown around unfortunately a lot it does mean something here the next debate is within this quarantine time so donald trump depending on his recovery on how he feels if he's able to be tested negative may not actually bill to be there in person we could be looking at a zoom debate which of course might fill a lot of people's wishes and they'll be that mute button that i know of the last debate a lot of people on both sides particularly donald trump who interrupted the most would have liked to have seen chris wallace employ remember there's no legal basis for debates this is an informal tradition that's developed over over decades in the

united states even the debates themselves are run by a private organization a privately funded organization it's just tradition that the candidates meet the specific republican and democratic candidates 3rd party candidates tend to be excluded from this. show up to have an a platform to present their ideas and go face to face with their candidate so that these debates can be postponed they could be canceled there's nothing that would throw the election off because of whatever happens to these debates ok so that's not such a big not such a big deal but suddenly the vice presidential debate is how does that takes on a whole new significance and we've seen this the last many months months ago knowing that we were going to election with 2 men of advanced age both joe biden and donald trump we knew that the vice president might take on a particularly important role and that voters might. looking at who is in that 2nd seat which generally vice presidential candidates for all the talk in our circles

we might have about the role the vice presidential candidate plays in balancing the ticket alternately doesn't play a huge role in voters' decisions but in this case they might because you're looking at kaamelott harris a far younger woman and you're looking at mike pence a far younger man than donald trump who could seriously more seriously than in past president sees be looking to possibly fit to step into the role of the president as we heard in the previous talk possibly immediately depending on how the coronavirus develops with donald trump but even over the course of the next term regardless of who wins both present both presidents both candidates getting on in age we could be seeing the need for a vice presidential candidate to step in as president. so here's the tricky thing i think joe biden do you would think that on paper the president being. is a win for the democrats but i suppose biden has to be careful not to look like he's kicking a man when he's down democratic leaders have been very careful to not be gloating

today to be extending their thoughts and prayers to saying all the boilerplate expressions of sympathy when anyone is sick regardless if they are ally or your opponent because of course you know we saw this in the kingdom when boris johnson was fell ill of coronavirus he actually got a lot of sympathy even from from people who tended to not like him or were as a political politically opposite in ideology to him so the democrats have to be careful how they're going to use this opportunity for them politically and we see that already where they're trying to shift focus from donald trump to the american people to broaden this to their number one issue this election which is health care and health insurance because donald trump as the president is going to get the absolute best care possible to fight and battle and defeat this virus which which many americans including many of the $200000.00 plus americans who have died from this virus did not have the luxury couldn't afford health insurance that donald

trump was going to be able to get ok so that elevates health insurance the political agenda but. this it's important to somebody wins of course. when if. joe biden doesn't ask what he has to sort of change his tone and how he goes about winning doesn't that it's a make or break moment or could be a make or break moment for both candidates really i have been thinking all about 2007 also about this time in october just before the election and the financial crisis hit and the 1st banks insurance companies started to go down the ones that were too big to fail and i remember back then we look back at it now and it seems like peanuts compared to what we're dealing with now all the things coronavirus social unrest the economic problems that have come from that but at that time it felt like the world was ending but the united states very system was over and john

mccain and barack obama both gave press conferences john mccain looked uncertain he looked out of place he looked like he could handle the situation can handle this crisis and he was suspending his campaign going back to washington to fix this problem barack obama came out cool confident ready to take on the crisis and continuous campaign and while obama was already leading in the polls and probably would have still won it was a very decisive moment a very interesting moment where a lot of americans said this guy this guy knows how to do both how to be a politician to run for presidency and handle a major crisis and that's what we could see joe biden trying to come out to do in this case can you see any upside for the president getting ill like this. there is the the whole idea that maybe he turns around and comes back stronger than ever and says i beat this virus this virus is no big deal like i've always been telling you as well as the sympathy aspect like i mentioned earlier that people might swing towards him and just by having sympathy for for a sick man but i don't see

a lot of upside for him i don't see a lot upside for anyone and no one should be gloat. and no one regardless for you come down should be should be happy about this turn of events if you are conservative if you're a republican a trumpet supporter of course you are looking at a big hit to your leader and if you are a democrat if you are someone who does not like trump you are looking at all 'd kinds of potential conspiracy theories that have just made this election a total mess and have made it really hard to separate fact from fiction to know what to truly believe in it makes the whole system that much more difficult to deal with and you have that will include from day 2 of the us elections. well let's have a look at how president trump has handled the greatest public health challenge for decades he's long been dismissive of coronavirus the precautions recommended by his own experience from initial optimism in february looks like by april you know in

theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away i hope that's true to a number up to about face in march that specific case today i am officially declaring a national emergency us president donald trump has gone to extremes in his public attitude toward the coronavirus he's always saw a silver lining even as the death toll skyrocketed america will again and soon be open for business. we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself we're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem is going to start seeing some related the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful. very very painful 2 weeks that trump soon turned a medical problem into a political issue forcing the public to choose between him and the experts when government scientists recommended wearing masks he scoffed at the idea is no one myself it's a recommendation they recommended. i don't see it for myself i just i just maybe

i'll change. he didn't change his mind but as the pandemic refused to go away miraculously he mused in public about rather unorthodox treatments supposing we hit somebody with a tremendous whether it's valid or just very powerful like what i said supposing you brought the lady in you can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way right and then i see the disinfectant but not in a minute. by june as testing ramped up along with case numbers he seemed exasperated if you don't test you don't have any cases that we stepped us the great now would have very few cases if any. and he started marking the virus making racist jokes and blaming the pandemic on china. it's a disease without question has more names than any disease and history i can

name. comes lou i just i 90 different versions of they said with the election looming he doubled down on mocking masks even during the presidential debate i don't have i don't wear masks like him every time you see me he's got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from it he shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen that attitude held up until the last minute at this rally in minnesota on wednesday trump threw souvenirs barehanded into a packed audience where few wore masks it remains to be seen how seriously trump's diehard supporters will now. take the virus that has put their hero into quarantine and. well many journalists are cover the white house have noted the lack of masks and social distancing around the president so how surprise should we be by the coming situation lawrence our gostin his university professor at georgetown

university he's also director of the o'neill institute for national and global health law welcome to d.w. were you surprised that this happened well i certainly wasn't shocked i mean. the president is probably the most protected human being on earth you know he's getting cold the test says he's getting medical monitoring but he's been very lax in his behavior he basically doesn't wear a mask he goes into the crowds he shakes hands he has big political rallies and so no i mean the virus is all around us and if you're not truly careful. you can easily contract a virus so we're talking about a 74 year old man 6 foot tall obese and exhibiting mild symptoms were told what will doctors be looking for. well you know he's in

a very high risk group. is age is is it is also an old age he's got preexisting conditions like prior history of cardiovascular risk and he's also. by c.d.c.'s definition obese certainly well oh wait those are the for those are 3 major risk factors and so doctors will be looking to see whether or not he has breathing difficulties other signs of severity but he's he's make no mistake he's he's at risk of grave illness and remember boris johnson you case prime minister a missionary didn't seem that bad but then ended up in hospital and then to critical care i mean i i hope and pray that doesn't happen but he could. where

about 7 months into this into this pandemic are treatments now do they differ significantly from the treatments back in march when we were just getting a grip. yeah i mean we've made a lot i mean we've made a lot of progress we hear a lot of. hype about the progress on vaccines and that has been quite remarkable we've also made some really good progress aren't treatments. some of the treatments like cortisone treatments. aren't appropriate for the president and shelly's hospitalized but others like that are investigational some of them like. antibody treatments or immune therapy he's and they will be appropriate or not understand his doctors are considering you know may even have administered one of those treatments already. we're talking about

a 74 year old as you say getting the best medical care but his is a stressful job one of the dangers of going back to work too early. well you know eat it can be weak it can be fatigued he could have mental acuity problems you know we don't know i mean one of the things about this coronavirus call sars kovi 2 days is that you know it can cause no symptoms whatsoever and that may it might be a very mild disease for him we hope so but it can cause great disease it also can cause multi-system failures or deficits. and it can be long term so the truth is is that he needs to be really carefully monitored we shouldn't just assume this is like he said you know a little bit of the flu this is a really serious disease and he could incapacitate and there's no question about it

. was it so much worse for over 60 five's. you know we don't know exactly but probably when you get older your you've got a less robust immune function and then your mean system really can't fight off the virus as well as a younger person can that's probably the most likely explanation but in addition to that the older you get the more co-morbidities you have the more you know you might have diabetes or or hypertension which he does have or chronic other chronic conditions so for all of those reasons you know there is a you know a significant elevated risk for somebody that's all 'd and particularly if they're they're well overweight which the president is we thank you for joining us professor professor lawrence agustin from the georgetown university thanks good to be here. and not the day as every other conversation continues

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this is the only news line from donald trump being quarantined after testing positive for corona virus a month before the u.s. election the white house says the president is suffering from mild symptoms but is in good spirits and will carry on working isolation. we have a president that. is only on the job will remain on the job. i'm optimistic that we'll have a very quick and speedy recovery. we'll bring you the latest from washington.

i'm for welcome to the program president trump is in quarantine in the west wing of the white house suffering from what he's aides say are mild symptoms of confidence i'm taking taking him off the campaign trail just a month before the u.s. presidential election the president and 1st lady tested positive shortly after one of his senior aides was found to have been infected mr trump's doctor says he's fatigued but in good spirits democratic candidate joe biden has tested negative despite sharing a platform where mr trump during this week's heated presidential debate he's urging americans to wear masks in public and follow official guidelines so for president trump it has been an extraordinary election campaign during an unpredictable yeah and that. before the president shocked the world by revealing he and his wife

malani are the most powerful couple on earth had been infected by the corona virus he tweeted tonight the 1st lady and i tested positive for covert 19 we will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately we will get through this together. the president does have mild symptoms as. to try to. make sure that not only his health and safety and welfare is good we continue to look at that war of the american people. he continues to be not only in good spirits but very energetic. at the white house anxiety have been rising after the news that a trusted campaign aide was diagnosed with the virus on thursday. topix seen here in the brown coat often travels with the president trump and his in a circular tested regularly and now the race is on to trace and test the people who

might have come into contact with the president and the pool of potential people is huge with an election to win trump has been on the road addressing voters and he hasn't always want to face mask or follow guidelines on social distancing. here he is 2 days before the positive coronavirus test result at a campaign rally in minnesota. but for now in person campaigning is on hold and trump's handling of the pandemic and questions about his health are at the front of voters' minds. of 40 years of i just recently about this hour and to be honest i'm not surprised i think the united states in general. handling the curb in 1000 cross says it will have to go over the next. his body responds to it if he has to be. they are not. our prayers go out to the prison

their 1st lady. who are all praying for her to be removed from history. and with the president recovering future events of being switched to virtual ones and trumps rally planned for friday night in florida is canceled if donald trump hopes to make america great again he's going to have to beat the coronavirus fast straight to washington where we're joined by our correspondents to simon's welcome stuff and the white house has issued a fresh medical bulletin about the president britons are today. just fresh off the press from the physician to the president and i'm going to read to you at least and pos what the physician. now issues. he says quote i released the following information with the permission of fresnel dull j. trump following p.c.r. confirmation of the president's diagnosis as a precautionary measure he received

a single 8 gram dose of reg enron's fully clonal body cocktail he completed the infusion without incident in addition to this. anti-bodies the president had been taking designed vitamin d. for me total line melatonin and a daily aspirin now want to go on one thing here as all i have for the quote as of this afternoon the president remains 15th but the good spirit sees being evaluated by a team of experts and together will be making recommendations in the president's to the president the 1st lady in regards to the next steps so 2 things a drug i mentioned or the treatment i mentioned regular on an experimental treatment it's a narrow little truck i was told this is reportedly also 2 other. networks in the

u.s. that 8 grams is the maximum dosage you can actually give somebody even if it's. just experimental so 8 grams those is the maximum here and there are physicians out there and. reportedly others who say like this statement is. definitely proof or level of concern here because again there's an experimental truck drug now given to the president there is a substantial. concerned that it might go south for the president and then there's also reportedly now sources telling the press here that the president suffers from a fever since the early this morning so this is now fatigue fever but still in good spirits however don't want to dramatize this or be alarmist but again they speak well out there were saying this is not good news this is reason for substantial

concern even if we have to read between the lines here and even if the white house is not really forth coming with the real information how the president is doing right now ok thank you for that and the democratic nominee joe biden has just made his 1st public statement since that the president's diagnosis and let's hear from him this is not a matter of politics it's a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take those wires seriously it's not going away automatically we have to do our part to be responsible means following the science listening to the experts washing our hands social distancing in these worried i'm asking public good means encouraging others to do so as well stephan simons i went to sicily joe biden's election challenge. well

joe biden has a new challenge now and that is he has to find the new in the right tone how to deal with this how his complaint deals with the predicament for donald trump and his campaign this term campaign this is over they have to find a new way how to campaign without the president without any member of the trump family being actually able to attend anything joe biden has the luxury to be able to do hold events however he has also said in this in this little impromptu press conference you just played a sound bite from that he was tested twice today and both tests were negative now there's 3 points i want to make about joe biden and what he set there number one is there was no criticism of donald trump not whatsoever to the contrary he was wishing the president and of course the extended family of the president all the best and a speedy recovery and offered his prayers for the recovery of the president that is for america and as

a message to the 2 voters to potential voters and real voters for the american public very very important and 3rd he didn't even mention that the biden campaign and he himself joe biden were not come informed by the white the trump ours the white house that the president is actually covert 1000 positive everybody learned this via tweet so the vice president biden had taken definitely the high road i would say and yes he has his work cut out for him and how he manages them and how he massages his message under those circumstances of mr trump being sick in the white house 7 times in washington found here. but will stay in washington so to political analyst rachel reserve she's the director of programs at the truman said to phenomenal policy in washington d.c. . welcome to. what impact is this is this likely to have on the

election. that's an excellent question and there's a lot that we don't know right now regarding how this will affect the election and we do know that as of now our other publican party the trump campaign has lost its best messenger and fundraiser in donald trump because he is going to have to stay in the white house for the next couple weeks and according to an along with his wife melania trump we don't know how far the sickness has gone through the highest rungs of u.s. government so that's concerning as well and the truck campaign is also rely very heavily on well attended rallies people attended the thousands there are few masks in sight and we do know that those are probably going to have to be halted for the next little while and the next debate between him and vice president biden on october 15th is up in the air as well so a lot of questions that we don't have the answers to at this moment ok clearly we're in the middle of a worldwide pandemic and the president has not succumbed to this virus does that

make him look strong or weak to his supporters well there's a lot of things that have happened over the last 3 or 4 years of the trump presidency that would make you think that he might lose support over amongst his base the impeachment proceedings cozying up to authoritarian leaders accusations of harassment but his support amongst his base has remained strong and depending on what happens with the future of this virus in the white house the trump has a full recovery in the next few weeks that will just add to his strong man messaging and that will make him even tougher amongst his base of support so i think we'll just have to watch very closely what happens on over the next couple weeks but. i wouldn't expect him to lose support from his base over this cold at night he diagnosed as i mean it's a tricky decision now for a democratic challenger joe biden trying to strike the right tone he's gone ahead

and attended a campaign event in michigan on friday afternoon it's not a smart move well i think. democrats know that they have to tow a very fine line right now vice president biden tweeted his support for president trump and wished him the speedy recovery but analysts say that biden should in fact press ahead with his campaign a former aide to iraq obama ben labolt actually said that suspending his campaign would be a disservice to the country and there's no reason to do it so it does look like vice president as as of now will press ahead with the campaign and go through you know colbert 19 restrict ship and face mask larry as he's done you know in the past few months but as of now i think expect him to press ahead but also tell a very fine line in his messaging ok now when we've heard that the president has had the maximum dose of this experimental drug which doesn't sound like great news

what is the procedure if he gets if he ends up being incapacitated what happens that well it's interesting because this white house has approached the coded 1000 pandemic with a very cavalier attitude so i am concerned over whether or not there really is a contingency in place we do know that you know the united states does have the 25th amendment which allows the president to pass along the duties of the office to the vice president in case they are incapacitated the less time that this was instituted was in 2000 she went 2007 very briefly when president george bush underwent. an illness for a little while so. we have to see i think what happens with president trump if you have if he continues to get sicker and i think vice president pence and the 3rd in command nancy closely will be ready as well but again a lot of questions right now and

a lot of questions that we don't have clear answers to at the moment rachel that result from the treatment center for national policy in washington d.c. thank you. and apologize for the quality of that night just time from sums or it's news. in football when you're in berlin have hosted minds to kick off much day 3 germans were in this league and in front of 5000 fans the home side didn't disappoint only and i coasted to a 4 nil victory of a mind when it's new comer imax a cruise out in the scoring in the 1st half of this beautiful header match was the 1st start for the former germany international this season and the 1st goal awful of a 32 year old as well after the break only on netted 3 more showed up or gone pollo scored a 4th room inside the box open give valley in the 1st picture exists. to start your mind of our top story at this hour donald trump's doctor says he's 15

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william good to have you with us so the pandemic has caught up with the leader of the free world stoneage trump and his wife melania both tested positive for corona virus the markets weren't exactly prepared for the news which came just a month before november's u.s. presidential presidential election it was a roller coaster day that saw stock futures and treasury yields tumble things got quieter later on but where investors go from here could rest on how donald trump copes with a disease that has already killed more than a 1000000 people around the world. one from our last story let's cross over to our financial market correspondents quartic in new york it seems that investors aren't quite sure whether they should panic or stay cool. actually i mean a very dramatic and also very dynamic situation the big question will be what might

it mean for the u.s. economy that the 1st lady and the president have been tested positive might that mean that people will be less hesitant to go out to fly to use cruise ships and the likes and we did see some losses in those areas at some point but maybe we should not just focus on the stock market i'm standing here in front of a local gas station oil prices drop by a good 4 percent so maybe that could be a sign that investors are very at that and the economy actually might suffer in the weeks and months to come i guess what do you tell the stock markets were comments from and then see pelosi the democratic leader of the house and she said that what happened might change the dynamics of. talks about a new 8 tickets for the u.s. economy she also hinted that maybe al lines actually could get some relief even be

sites of the overall 8 pickett so so that lifted tim allen stock some quite a bit but clearly very dramatic and dynamic the whole enter situation at that will probably stay that way for the next couple of days. of course this comes at a difficult time for the u.s. economy and the latest jobs numbers they don't point to what's a strong recovery do they. well i mean that's what we've seen with the economic reports i'm all over the place in the past couple of weeks yes the year color me is skating stronger but the pace of the recovery is clearly slowing down so now in the month of september by the way that was the last jobs report that we were getting before the presidential election $660000.00 new jobs got created not bad but far less than the expected 800000 what we've also seen is that minorities actually are suffering much more which the pandemic going on than the rest of the country so clearly the pace of economic growth is slowing at this point you know ideas quarter

in new york thank you so much for the update and to have a nice weekend. now a brief look at some other business stories making news. e.u. leaders have agreed to levy sanctions against government officials in belarus however the country's leader alexander lukashenko is not among them around 40 officials will be subject to travel bans and have their assets frozen talers a violent crackdown on protestors following ogust election which the e.u. has described as break it. tesla has cleared all the major hurdles needed to get approval for its new factory near berlin according to the regional state premier it follows nearly 2 weeks of public hearings and barra mentalists and some locals raised concerns about issues including deforestation water usage and noise pollution. so this weekend germany is marking 30 years since east and west speak aimed at the fall of the berlin wall was the beginning of the

end for many east german companies who couldn't compete with their western equivalents however some of the skills and expertise they to build up were simply too precious to lose. what his bringing out here may look unspectacular but this lens is worth as much as a family car and it represents an unusual success story optics are one of communist east germany's biggest exports but when germany reunified 30 years ago few thought the state run college size plant here in garo had much of a chance against tough western competition 3 optical engineers took a chance and bought the company shares to keep the optical traditional alive it's not as old it certainly wasn't clear to the founders at the time what they were getting themselves into order and then of course over the years we noticed or i noticed just how turbulent it was in the early days of the 990 s.

because. the on it seemed to be stacked against the 3 who had never run a business before and had little idea about the market economy. monfort shoe box was one of them. the 1st thing he did was to hire an economist. whom interlocutors i know just by spearhead to be able to recruit the money we were spending those here been. to name and as a whole we also had to build relationships with banks on oaf and develop other ties its you to create a broad network riotous nits to show off and the lack of relationships with banks in particular broke the backs of many startups in eastern germany they needed the banks money for investment. but they had no experience dealing with banks at all. this is not an issue it's an irony of fate that just after the crisis is that

these companies were not trusted as much as the old established ones that had existed for 3540 or 50 years. from when i was a photo from the top of. their strong point was their technical knowledge their company known as p o g or precision optics gave was full of optics experts even so uncertainty about its future meant many sleepless nights for the founders. but that was something they kept to themselves. your current position we couldn't tell the newly hired employee as that we'll try to make it work they could have gone to work for other companies but we wanted to keep this team togethers and bunch of fired the team step by the owners and out of 50 employees they soon grew to 180 the road to get there was an arduous one but in the end the

company clearly made the cut. on of germany's biggest event has fallen victim to corona virus munich's well famous to tell the 1st should have once again attracted enormous numbers of people to the very other usually drink 7000000 expensive liters of being of this year it's cancelled on now it's up to the regions government to cushion the blow for the local economy. must be a like the october fest but there isn't much going on munich's can explain this right now the ride and market stall operators have been able to make up some lost sales here and 9 other locations in the city. peter bausch is even selling beer over the counter but small public festivals are no substitute for the october fest says the chairman of munich's showman's association. it's a helping hand that we've gladly accepted but you can't compare it to

a whole season there are colleagues who have large stands and they don't have a place for them anywhere in the city. so they're still at 0 percent compared to last year and basically have no turnover at all. german amusement ride and store operators normally rake in around $4750000000.00 euros through the october fest and other folk festivals this year they missed out on most of that visitors though a police such alternative festivals can take place at all. so it's no substitute but it's still a nice experience it's nice here you can come here with small children and have a really lovely time. bring in. here at the olympic park many of the approximately 5300 family businesses of this kind in germany are fighting to even survive most of the international tourists who normally bring momentum into the business have stayed away this year.

yes it's really bad. runs until october the fools just like we'll have our stand here until october the 4th of course we're very glad that the city of munich has made it possible for us to have a stand here we're told. in. the munich breweries they're also trying to make up part of their normal october fest turnover at the alternative. ain't vits house reason but most visitors here are locals just a handful come from elsewhere the market stall and ride operators and now placing their hopes in germany's 3000 traditional christmas markets. in all of germany's cities we've shown that there's no threat from events like summer in the city or from temporary amusement parks or whatever else is able to take place now. hygiene concepts can be implemented and developed easily

and i hope that these concepts will help us in the christmas season because we're not sure of. version. but above all everyone hopes that next year's october fest will attract the crowds once again. to paris where restaurant owners gather to make noise after 3 months of closure. new government losing post last week will shut down all restrooms in areas with high numbers of infections that's already happened i must say in the country salsinha protests some restaurants there are openly violating the back. to business update thanks for watching.

to the point of strong opinions clear positions from international perspective such ill means marking the 1st year's end of the story of the reunification of the 2 gypsies east and west today it's a different country mold makes or died 1st the younger generation of course has its own perspective so whose germany is it find out going to the point shortly. to the point is it's a good question 16 on t.w.

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