who stayed behind and simply my husband went to peru because of the crisis. if you hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger. let alone one of them. starts oct 16th. this is d.w. news and these are our top stories germany's capital berlin has been declared a coronavirus hotspot after the number of cases passed a key threshold that could lead to even tougher restrictions officials warn about the spread of covert 19 could become uncontrollable if people don't stick to hygiene and distancing rules. next week's u.s. presidential debate will likely be postponed after president trump refused to take part in a proposed virtual debate describe such an event as

a waste of time the president is still being treated for covert 19 after testing positive for the coronavirus last week. dozens of people are reported injured in a high rise apartment fire in south korea the blaze in the city of all sun apparently started on a lower floor and quickly in gulf the 33 story building in flames. american writer and poet louisa glick has won in this year's nobel prize in literature she's already won a prestigious pulitzer prize in the u.s. as academy said she is an unmistakable voice that with austere of beauty makes individual existence universal. this is due to the news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at state of the news or visit our website dot com. vice presidential candidates mike pence and couple of horace hof now battled it out

in the debate that restored some dignity to the u.s. election process it's a contrast to last week's a bruising affair between donald trump and joe biden but did they shift the needle of public opinion in their guy's favor i'm phil gale in berlin and this is the day . very. minimal. and i believe. all of that.

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presidential debate. we need to. just one of many issues of good. tension between mike pence and camila harris the american people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country undermining the pen's who hits president trumps corona pandemic taskforce on excel went on the defensive from the very 1st day president donald trump has put the health of america 1st before there were more than 5 cases in the united states all people who had returned from china president donald trump do but no other american president had ever done whatever the vice president would depend demick still affecting millions of americans leaving many worried about keeping their health care coverage harris went straight

on the attack if you have a preexisting condition heart disease diabetes breast cancer their common feel if you love someone who has a preexisting has it thank you they don't say how many are you if the vaccine ends his response avoided specifics obamacare was a disaster for the american people remember well president trump and i have a plan to improve health care and to preserve protect preexisting conditions for every american and here's the abortion also came up as always an important factor in american elections were informed. i'm pro-life i don't apologize for. and this is another one of those cases where there's such a dramatic contrast joe biden kamel harris support taxpayer funding of abortion all the way up to the moment of birth late term abortion they want to increase funding to planned parenthood of america issues before us can be more serious there is the

issue of choice and i will always fight for a woman's right to make a decision about her own body it should be her decision and not that of donald trump and and the vice president michael pence though most viewings of the debate to place virtually at home some locations host a small viewing parties like this one in cincinnati. well i think it was a lot more like a debate than the previous recent presidential that be a lot more like what normally happens. when i was pleasantly surprised to see more civility in this debate than the previous presidential debate. it's unclear how much these mice presidential debate will change the dynamics of the presidential race. well let's get more on this from conservative political commentator david froome he's a senior editor at the atlantic was a speechwriter for republican president george w. bush welcome to w.

what do you think it did either candidate managed to shift the needle of public opinion that needle of public opinion has been slowly moving through the month of october as the economic news gets worse as the disease news gets worse president trump is sinking and sinking sinking below his 4040 percent threshold i think we are on the way to a white epic result in the election of 120. ok that's that's quite clear come on harris's condemnation of the trump administration's coronavirus response has got a lot of people talking so let's take a little listen. well the american people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country and here are the facts 210000 dead people in our country in just the last several months over 7000000 people who have contracted this disease one in 5 businesses closed on

january 28th the vice president and the president more informed about the nature of this pandemic they were informed that it's lethal in consequence that it is airborne that it will affect young people and that it would be contract it because it is airborne and they knew what was happening and they didn't tell you. that it froome there was nothing new in that but it is interesting to have it all sort of put in one place to how damaging do you think that accusation from that come last was. sometimes there is a tent city to exaggerate the importance of campaigns in messaging people watch this debate watch this debate from home they watched with their children at home they watched it out of work they watched it with businesses that are close they watched it knowing that their loved ones are sick made or have been sick in fear of

sickness themselves they watch it knowing that the president is sick they saw a vice president who did not look well they know the chairman of the joint chiefs are all quarantining it's not a matter of what you say it's sort of what is true and what is true is the country is in desperate trouble and that is not just our country but all around the world and that is i think the reason why you see this this collapse in the president's support so what does he need to do then what needs to happen for the president to close that gap. by. i think he needs to build a time machine and go back in time and completely alter not only his response to this disease but i mean it's her i'm being silly but look you can't you can't it's done the consequences of this catastrophe are upon us and i think one of the things that the president's been struggling with and the reason is his is twitter behavior and other behavior so radek is because he realizes that there's nothing to do at

this point the record is the record the suffering is the suffering the economic the disease results are what they are there isn't some formula of magic words i used to write speeches for president george w. bush and one of these politicians sometimes believe not george w. bush many of them is there's some there's a magic formula there's something you can say they can change people's experience but actually people vote on is the base of what is happening to them every human being is the world's leading expert on the life of that human being and they know where they are they know their children are not in school they know they're out of work they know they're sick or fraid of becoming sick. i still have a look at quite an interesting exchange that i had on rice last week the president of the united states took a debate stage in front of 70000000 americans and refused to condemn white supremacists and. it wasn't like he didn't have a chance he didn't do it and then he doubled down and then he said when pressed

them. stand by senator harris conveniently omitted have to after the president made comments about people on either side of the debate over monuments he condemned the k.k.k. neo nazis and white supremacists and has done so repeatedly you're concerned that he doesn't condemn neo nazis present trump has jewish grandchildren his daughter and son in law are jewish. this is a president who who respects and shares all of the american people i mean for what why do you think donald trump can't seem to shake this perception that his arrest. well there are some subjective realities is also very personal reality which is don't trump cannot accept any kind of criticism so he makes an initial misstep even if it's innocent and it usually isn't but even if it is he can't fix because fixing

a misstep would be would be too it would require him to acknowledge a misstep but it's also true that the president he draws strength from some dark places in american life and he's not willing to stand up against them because he views the world only through one prism are you for me or against me he is not he is indifferent any other moral standard is only for you for him or against him so if you are an e.o. nazi who's against donald trump and he's against you if you're a neo nazi who is for donald trump and he finds it hard to be against you it's interesting that listening to your talk a man who has written for who has written speeches for a republican president. when you when you're talking about the current republican president here in your same aghast i buy have spent 4 years writing about this look we my party the republican party is a shattered party and it is important to understand how many republicans are opposed to president trump the democrats one. more than 60 seats in the election

of of of 2020 or 2800 and they won them in the areas will republicans have historically been strongest the seat that was held by george h.w. bush back in the 1960 s. in that state republican from 1966 until 2018 that's now democratic seat newt gingrich's former seat in the suburbs of atlanta that's now a democratic seat the seat of eric cantor who's the number 2 republican in the house of representatives under president obama but that's now a democratic seat what we have seen is a rebellion of many of the traditional republican heartlands against the presence of donald trump ok back to they visit by the pens vs horace was a much more dignified a fat than trump biden last week but there was still the interrupting issue we'll take a listen you will not raise taxes on anybody you make less than 400000 to hear people the trump tax cuts mr vice president speaking well i'm speaking be important to you so the truth is the only going to repeal part of the trump talks because if you

don't mind letting me finish we can have a conversation ok police ok in 861 i'd like you to answer the question this vice presidency taking speaking. yeah let's talk about packing the court then let's talk about yeah i'm about to. according to c.b.s. news mike pence interrupted the hottest 10 times to 5 interruptions and b c has it 16 times to not i was mike pence being sexist or just rude. look my parents compared to don't trump is a psychologically normal human being is a can very conventional american conservative politician and and his career is on the line so he's he's under some pressure i think it was also evident and this is not something we that the norms of our contrition journalism allows to come and it was also evident that there was something i mean and well about him he was not in

good shape he was very pale his eyes were pink he had a canker in the corners mouth and so he may not have been in top form he was trying to bring some level of assertion because after all he is side is his is side of the debate is losing the trump and pence ticket is anywhere from depending on who's counting $6.00 to $8.00 to $10.00 or more points behind so there is a certain not a psychological pressure under under him so he tried to do what he could do and he is is aware that there's an audience president trump me has to keep happy who insists on the most aggressive possible response to any challenge especially want from a woman good talking to it's very interesting david frum from the atlantic thank you thank you. and the german capital berlin has been declared a coronavirus hotspot after the number of cases in the city passed a critical threshold for the introduction of tougher restrictions germany's disease

control agency the robert costa institute is warning about the spread of the coronavirus would become uncontrollable if people don't stick to hygiene distancing rules german chancellor angela merkel says she doesn't want a repeat of what happened in spring when europe's largest economy went into lockdown. more than a foot has a new infections in the past day that's germany's highest rate since april when the kountry was today knocked down has mr yen span want of growing complacency and a population and called for responsible behavior the next 6w8xw people cooperate the chances of the virus spreading will drop dramatically like that is the good that this pandemic is or so a character test for us as a society and we can only pass if we pull together. in recent days authorities have tightened restrictions in high risk areas such as the capital beilin from saturday on words

a curfew will be imposed on bars and restaurants as germany braces for soaring cases but according to the account trees leading vajrayana g.'s rest trick sions alone one suffice it is not sufficient to impose rules that people don't understand them so the cooperation of the population especially in the coming weeks and months to. go over the autumn and winter. is probably one of the most important functions in the whole concept to intervene. with full school holidays about to begin the government has called on citizens to avoid travel abroad most of germany's 16 states have also agreed to abandon overnight stays at hotels for visitors from high risk areas in a bid to curb the surge of new infections. and it's been 5 years since russia entered the war in syria in support of president bashar assad tipping the balance in favor of the regime assad forces assisted by

russia and iran now control most of the country kurdish forces still hold the northeast but have signed a deal with the sad it lip in the northwest is the last remaining province under rebel control with turkey's support as a ceasefire for. came into effect in march this year government and russian airstrikes are increasing again and many and fear a decisive battle for the province a could start soon. reports. even when he's making t. plane spotters. focuses on the job not 2 missing a military plane taking off from the bases controlled by the assad regime. the 41 year old has set up a mini listening station to follow syrian and russian radio communications at a secret location for security reasons along with other volunteers he monitors all

air traffic over you clip around the clock. just as the most we can listen into the pilots radio communications and find out his destination so we know where the bombs might fall of to look i do this work for civilians if we can warn them we can save lives. as soon as he spots anything zain warrants local civilians hospital sent 1st responders using radio and other networks. he says the number of air raids on eclipse has risen significantly in recent weeks although the ceasefire agreement is still in effect. on hold my biggest fear is that the russian air force will bomb adlib city because it is so densely populated. in recent weeks the bombs sometimes more than 20 a day have mainly targeted less populated areas but there's growing concern that

assad and his forces are set to launch a new offensive also targeting hospitals sense schools in a similar way to the beginning of the year when attacks flattened the small town of kufa. many families have since returned home but holiday khalid from the local council has no idea. housing will survive the coming winter water supplies hospitals electricity generators have all be destroyed and covered 19 infections are on the rights. and. we can't quarantine people to protect them from the corona virus. so they've got to work to feed their families we would need support from relief agencies in our town but no one has shown up and even the. hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge in the sprawling campus of northern euclid province here 2 conditions are palling but there's at least some support from relief organizations. hamas mature man is among those who desperately

need that support a year ago his house was destroyed in their right one of his sons was killed achmet lost both legs he's grateful for the 10 they were given but he's anxious about the winter that lies ahead. so right away and i'm disabled and i can't walk at all. we've got no income nothing at all. ahmed says his wife left him because she could no longer bear the gloom and the misery in the tent since then his sister has been looking after him and her 3 children they've never known anything but war never been to school. children i'm very bad change they don't listen to me. especially the eldest sister

driving us crazy they just want their mother back. so what does the future hold how could they possibly keep going what will they do for heating when winter sets in what about the koran a virus and where can they go next if forced to start a new offensive too many questions and no answers. let's bring in daniel. middle east analyst and editor in chief of magazine which focuses on the region welcome to date let's start with the humanitarian situation how many people are there rebel held areas of and what are conditions like for. well the conditions illustrated graphically in the report in the course of belief organizations it's very difficult to give numbers of the moment about controlled

areas controlled areas because the front line has been shifting and there is also different areas on the complete of different level organizations of course. we have to see that there's about maybe 2000000 people that are close to the military operations to the right of the increase of. course this is a very difficult situation. living with for quite some time and we. as. we've heard the fears and the reports that the syrian government is looking likely to try to retake the other actually in a position to be able to do that. well to be honest i think it is absolutely possible that we will see an increase in military operations aerial operations hillary shelling we've seen exchanges in the last couple of days. also

or rebels. planting regime held areas and regime troops that would be quite untypical for the syrian regime and the russians would. allow the ground operation while the winter is approaching also in light of the and then make that this savage. more of course the syrians all across the country of course syria's out supposed to the role of virus that we don't have official numbers and the regime seems to be playing that out but it's a very very serious and syria at the moment so i doubt that they would be and it was well before they can but i think there is another rather cynical of geopolitical us that. russia decides to increase its pressure at least for a bombing campaign of the this would not these 4 months to establish syrian regime control over but to put pressure turkey which is now very busy with

the military escalation in the caucasus what is supporting. russia as a corking armenia on the other side and we should not forget that there is also other conflicts in areas in libya in the eastern mediterranean and quite typically russia has been using this increasing military pressure in syria where they were what it was suitable to force turkey into some sort of a compromise and i think this is not so much about reestablishing regime control over the course of this with the presidency. alternate goal he would try to attempt this before next year's presidential election. what the russians have in mind here is something very different. it's obviously it's quite a complicated situation but it does sound just looking at the russian involvement in this conflict russia is moving to reach our own agenda and it has its own goals that it's looking to achieve in iraq not necessarily true true but interest of the

syrian regime lot of or. with would be aligned with the syrian regime of the russian foreign minister lavrov has traveled recently with a for the high ranking delegation to the moscow's to give us a i think some reassurance of reassurance but also to try. to develop some sort of a political vision for the future of syria because the russians have been now present in syria with their military power for 5 years but. they haven't really they have saved the syrian regime and they have the f.a. leverage in the middle east but they haven't really felt it will be the solution which i think they are still interested in presenting i think the russians want to keep of course the military control and there's actually no question that they want to force rebel held areas in the submission but of the other hand they see that syria needs some sort of a solution for tarion solution of course of russian gusto but. there needs to be political progress in light of the common president who are at home and so the

russians are engaged with the united nations it was their idea to bring together some sort of a constitutional committee that syrians from within held areas and from the opposition to create some compromise and and some thought of a perspective they haven't been very successful of this or are all so i think russia will remain involved militarily politically but sometimes for very different goals. very clear. from 7th magazine but if it. and that was the day as the conversation continues online you find us on twitter out. of a good day. to

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