this is d w news live from berlin european governments restricting travel and issuing curfews as new corona virus infections spiked to spain is the worst hit and authorities there have declared a state of emergency in the capital dread a doctor on the front lines tells us why the virus is once again taking hold. and a truce in nagorno-karabakh quickly collapse by john and our media trade accusations those missiles kill civilians and the fighting continues. plus it is back to base

scientists return from a year long study on the polar ice and with them some devastating findings expeditions leaders of the arctic is heating up that just. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today more and more european countries are reimposing tough coronavirus restrictions as the continent grapples with rising infection rates spain has the most cases in europe some 860000 central governments declared a state of emergency in the capital madrid and doctors there have told the w. they are preparing for the worst. the lineups continue to get longer in front of moderates health care centers. the workday should already be over for doctor but she's making time for

a quick interview outside her clinic the authorities have banned doctors from talking to the media however she won't be silenced she remembers only too well the disastrous weeks back in march when margaret's health care system collapsed. did not get him or do not want to experience that again the government has to do its homework and must keep its promises and more personnel that's the only way we'll be able to master the situation and protect the population. the number of those testing positive in madrid has been increasing dramatically for weeks but instead of dealing with it the conservative regional government got in broiled in a dispute with spain's ruling center left government. epidemiologist under gothia together with $600.00 health care experts released a report accusing decision makers of not having learned from what's happened in recent months. that actions are simply negligent and they

aren't intervening the pandemic has worsened again since the end of july and they are apparently hoping that the problem will go away by itself. showing up watching these after 1st declining to deal with the accusations that the big step here chief minister of health is ready to state his case despite about 10000 people having died so far from the disease in the spanish capital he sees no reason to be self-critical. so we're not magic it is a safe city it has a fantastic health care system we already saw that in spring and considering all measures taken we certainly should not disregard the possible social or economic consequences for citizens in the last friday the central government finally imposed a temporary state of emergency in madrid effectively over powering their regional government since then strict rules have been imposed again locals are only allowed to leave the city in exceptional cases the virus would be less destructive if i

were put it to actually did that job it's a sentence that you hear more and more on the streets of madrid people are increasingly tired of a political system in which power games seem more important than pragmatic crisis management and they hardly see any sign of improvement. dr overall isn't done yet she takes a short coffee break 3 hours after her shift was supposed to end and will then attention 2 more patients. she's worried that the coming days will even be longer for her and her colleagues. let's get more now do you have views young fellow shows who put that report together for us thanks so much for that report and good to see your young philip spain's capital madrid again europe's trying to virus hot spot it has an infection rate more than twice the national average you can you tell us what's what's driving that. well that's exactly the question everybody is asking in spain at the moment why are we why is our capital of the most affected regions in

europe one more time and it's also a question that i asked the deputy health minister at the region in madrid some days ago and she was probably quite honest but also somewhat disturbing he said he simply has no idea some people say that it has a lot to do with a spanish lifestyle with people living very close within the families and so often i think from the very close with him and their families because of limited resources but i think that's only part of the problem i think the main problem is really the catastrophic political crisis management a lot of people say the regional government is just as prepared as it was in spring there are no more trace. implied. system is very weak so a lot of people say this is the main problem is the most the local government was opposed to the partial lockdown that the federal government imposed on the dread i can you tell us more about that. it's west central government it seems to be the

last resorts to declare a state of emergency now because the regional government refused to take any serious action even when infection numbers exceeded 1000 new infections 100000 residents so in the end they even tried to challenge any action in courts restricting any movement in madrid so the central government in the end only saw the option of the glaring at state of emergency and effectively over powering regional governments what about the people in madrid john philip howard how are they dealing with what's becoming a very difficult situation for them the onus on the one hand and on the other hand all the new restrictions well i think it's not excited to say it's the traumatised population that has really terrified to be traumatized again we already saw horrible pictures in spring and people feel they could see the same pictures

this week next week or in the coming weeks but they are not only the straits doubts i'm very confused because nobody really knows which measures are in place at the moment and which measures are not in place i came into the city by other the central station and they were actually no official controls but they were also very few people at the station anyway but i think it's not only that people straight they are also very angry at the government that the regional government as well as its central government gone soul shall strike so very much for your reporting and. let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic the city of munich has been added to the list of corona hotspots in germany after a key threshold was passed on monday chase numbers have surged in germany in recent days triggering tighter restrictions in urban areas. researchers in australia have

found a trend of our risk conservative on some surfaces for up to $28.00 days that's far longer than originally thought under the right temperature and like conditions and china has ordered a mass testing drive in the city of qingdao after a number of asymptomatic cases were detected but the orders say all the city's $9000000.00 residents will be tested over the next 5 days in an attempt to stop an outbreak a russian brokered ceasefire in the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh has failed to hold or by john and armenia are blaming each other for breaking the truce and escalating weeks of fierce fighting shelling has killed a number of civilians and wounded dozens more the conflict between the 2 former soviet republics dates back decades. for an evening walk on the streets of ganja azerbaijan 2nd largest city taking comfort in a strained ceasefire. a safe spot that hasn't held

following shelling in a residential area of ganja locals describe a night of terror. were sleeping it was around 2 in the morning we heard an explosion and after that our house blew up it was washing us that in that we didn't go to much to not strong fell on my face when i opened my eyes and another rocket hit. i said to myself what is this all i can see was clouds of dust. as if by john also ignored the cease fire releasing this footage of as strikes on alleged i mean in military positions. on the ground the brutality of war strikes time meaning mourners trying to come to terms with the loss of a family member. a

prisoner exchange meant to take place sunday was also part of the ceasefire the leader of the so proclaimed meaning republic of nagorno-karabakh says azerbaijan is not living up to its part of the deal. according to the agreement this process was supposed to take place today with the support of the red cross. there are hundreds of dead bodies lying there and the government is indifferent to that. as about john says it's a mania that is acting in bad faith. seems that the army inside continues to use the ceasefire to its advantage their attacks on the civilian population of azerbaijan these events where. also covered by foreign journalists in our country. it's now been 2 weeks of fighting inflaming old hatreds. that decades of negotiations have failed to put to rest. the kid.

let's turn now to some of the other stories making the news this hour hong kong's chief executive gary lamb is postponing her annual policy address originally scheduled for wednesday the speech clashes with an event involving the chinese president xi jinping. lam says she's aiming to speak by the end of next month after a trip to beijing to see if you know me. it's. at least 8 people have died in nigeria after a 3 story building that was under construction collapsed and lego's number of others were injured the building industry is mired in allegations of corruption with developers supposedly paying off regulators. scientists who spent more than a year studying climate change in the arctic ever turn to base with unsettling findings the german ship. as just talk with that information a home port of bury my hofmann after 389 days in the arctic scientists board say

the arctic ocean is die and warn of ice from summers there in just decades here's a closer look at the historic expedition it's september 29000 the german research vessel palash then sets out on a historic expedition with hundreds of scientists from 20 countries. their destination is the polar region the aim to gain new insights into almost swiftly changing climate you know toba the ice breaker ducked into a huge ice floe and looks into the ice. the scientists set up their state of the art instruments to morning toward the floors lifecycle from its formation to its credible destruction at the end of the arctic summer. the arctic is heating up at a much faster rate than the rest of the world we see

a dramatic change we need to understand that process as the arctic is an integral part of the global climate system if we don't understand what's happening in the arctic we can't predict the climate an hour later today that's what we're here for we need to collect the data so that we have a solid foundation for basing political decisions. from their floating lab the scientists took water samples examined the arctic flora and fauna measured the sea ice and launched weather balloons. all in extreme conditions for months they worked in total darkness at times the temperature drop to almost minus 40 degree celsius getting supplies through to the researchers was a constant challenge but everything went according to plan until the koran up and damage threaten to undermine the complicated logistics chain. the palash done was forced to temporarily abandon the flow and head to the no vision port of.

the corner but let me have that. we faced huge challenges because of the pandemic we were forced to replant the entire logistics how to replace the crew deliver supplies and refuel the ship we had to complete and we organize the entire process it's a unique situation and we're happy we found a quick solution or not that's a very good laptop. bag at the flow research it to were resumed as expected rising temperatures credulously melted the ice until in late july the flow finally broke apart. the group scrambled to save their equipment. in the last 12 months they have collected over $100.00 terabytes of data which will take several years to evaluate. but one thing is already clear the polar ice is melting and at an even faster rate than the scientists fear it.

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