well for this attack it's a breach of the couldn't mention that prohibits the use of particularly chemical weapons and so therefore we have to respond and do what this shows really is a hardening off european policy towards russia if we remembered 2018 when the it solves for me is some attack happened also it was not be chuck in the united kingdom it took european foreign ministers almost a year off sort of moving up and down and back and forth to the same place now this time it's just so good 2 months since the event and it seems they're really fed up with russia in. barbara very little in brussels for them thank you ok let's turn to some of the other stories making news around the world starting in baton rouge where the government says it will now allow police to use lethal weapons against protesters if necessary the minutes the interior ministry said it was responding to what it called leave radicalization of anti-government protests the lusa seen

a mass protest every weekend since the august presidential election but often groups say it was rigged. as year's nobel economics prize and with it nearly a $1000000.00 has been awarded to 2 americans all milgrom robert wilson specialize in option theory and work outs in training everything from landing slots to buying and selling goods online. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has announced that the platform will ban posts that did not or distort the holocaust users who search for information about a nazi genocide will instead be directed to stories as if sources the change is part of facebook's attempt to tackle conspiracy theories and misinformation ahead of the u.s. presidential election. more european countries are very imposing coronavirus restrictions as the continent grapples with the rising infection rates spain has you have highest caseload with more than 860000 the central government has declared

a state of emergency in the capital madrid doctors there have told the w. they're preparing for the worst. the lineups continue to get longer in front of moderates health care centers. the workday should already be over for dr mano garo 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 and she remembers only too well the disastrous weeks back in march when moderates 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. epidemiologists 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. after 1st declining to deal with the accusations that the bits deputy 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 without 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 economic

consequences for citizens in the last friday the central government finally. he imposed a temporary state of emergency in madrid effectively overpowering the regional government since then strict rules have been imposed again local only allowed to leave the city in exceptional cases the virus would be less destructive if our politicians actually did their job it's a sentence that you hear more and more on the streets 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. she takes a short coffee break 3 hours after her shift was supposed to end and will then attention to more patients she's worried that the coming days will even be longer for her and her colleagues. well horses in germany have also introduced new

restrictions infection levels in some cities reach what they say are worrying. classed as a virus hotspot private and public gatherings their limited to 10 people but only 25 big events like weddings and birthdays. in the western city of cologne imposed a new rule. clubs and restaurants. night. chief political correspondent. how worried is the german government about these increases in spots. it's definitely worried the government spokesman said today that the situation is serious that the country is standing sensually at the beginning of a 2nd wave and that germany is also seeing more severe cases involving the need for intensive care and hospitalization and so he called this

a very decisive moment for germany going forward and people in germany are looking at a posh work of new regulations as each state introduces its own rules why well under germany's federal system state authorities local authorities do have the right to decide what kind of restrictions to impose and the fact is that the situation is very very different if you compare say a big densely populated city like berlin or munich with the much more rural regions for example in the north of the country in the federal states. or mecklenburg for palm island and therefore it's perhaps not surprising that authorities in those more rural areas are looking to impose different rules and in fact are trying to some degree to limit travel from by people from hotspots but that is causing

much frustration and consternation for example here in berlin with all vacation approaching and berliners having hoped to spend it in those rural areas so the chancellor now says that she is going to hold a video conference this week with state and local authorities to talk about those discrepancies and what if anything can be done in terms of the way you've outlined it there you can see the sense of it in it some of the restrictions have a don't appear to make sense like for example berlin is are not allowed to stay in hotels in brandenburg which is just 30 kilometers away but they are allowed to travel all the way to greece. yes and. just do call into question some of these measures like those in their german travel bands of course much as it was at the beginning of the pandemic political authorities are often looking to establish an appearance of control and perhaps also not always analyzing whether all of the measures imposed are truly effective and briefly

melinda are there strict measures on the way there could well be authorities particularly in those hotspots cities that we mentioned they say we may see tighter rules regarding the wearing of masks we may see more limits on gatherings by groups especially parties by young people because they seem to be one of the main sources of spreading right now and berlin's mayor said that if necessary he will be considering some form of lock down going forward if the city doesn't bring the numbers down thank you for the chief political correspondent melinda crane of the u.k. has recorded europe's highest pandemic death toll a new infections that growing at an alarming rate especially in the north of england prime minister barak's johnson has just outlined a new system of measures to control the virus telling parliament but targeted restrictions of the way forward. but we must act to save lives and the

evidence shows that in changing our behavior in restricting transmission between us our actions are saving lives. left unchecked each person with the virus will infect an average of between $2.00 and $3.00 others but sage assess that the current are nationally is between $2.01. so we're already suppressing that are to well below its natural level which is why the virus is not spreading as quickly as it did in march straight to london than where we join t w correspondent mass welcome big national lockdown had been feared for the u.k. that's not going to happen what else can relate. well we learned feel that as you

said an alarming increase in those people that need to go to hospital we are more or less in a similar situation as we were in lockdown when you look at the number of people in hospitals not the same amount of deaths yet but we know that doctors particularly in the north of england have been warning and one of the doctors described it as a tsunami coming towards them so doctors really fear that hospitals might soon be overwhelmed if the spread of the virus isn't stopped and this is where boris johnson has acted today not in national lockdown because he wants to also balance the needs of the economy with this fighting the virus as every leader around the world this is trying to do but he has announced a system a new system which is going to be england wide see if we are on a medium high level of alert it's more or less what we're seeing now so pubs for example need to close at 10 and mixing between households is restricted but not forbidden and then there is a scale but so far not

a national lockdown to talk about. alert level water restrictions would be imposed for those areas. well also the high alert out level is not a complete lockdown there for example schools will remain open but pubs for example would have to close and household mixing would be more or less banned so it's going to be quite an imposition on people's day to lives in the way that people go about prime minister boris johnson is trying to regain trust the opinion polls of late have shown that many people have not not trusting the government to have a good grip on the crisis there's been a lot of criticism particularly from leaders in the north of england that measures seem arbitrary and for example also that the government was too early to come out of lockdown and that particularly the north of england that those regions weren't ready yet and that everything happened to fall so that the numbers weren't down

enough so that this is the numbers that we see in hospitals in the north of england are now a result of just opening up the economy to the so a lot of criticism towards the government and the prime minister would hope that with these new measures he's trying to get agreement and control the situation better get mass in london thank you we'll take a look now at some of the other developments in this pandemic researches in australia have found the corona virus can survive on some surfaces for up to 28 days and the right temperature light conditions far longer than previously thought china has ordered a mass testing drive from the city of quando after detecting several asymptomatic cases of thora to say all of the city's $9000000.00 residents will be tested over the next 5 days and south korea is relaxing its rules on social distancing after a downturn in infection numbers as of today and nightclubs karaoke bars buffery

restaurants and fitness studios are able to reopen. well scientists have warned that the arctic ocean is dying after spending a year studying climate change in the region german state the chairmanship has just docked in its home port of bam a half and after completing the longest arctic research at addition to date scientists say that if the warming trend very observant in the north pole continues there will be ice free summers within decades is a closer look at this historic expedition it's a temper 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 there him to gain new insights into almost wish the changing climate. in october the ice breaker docked onto

a huge ice floe and locks into the ice. the scientists set up their state of the art instruments to money toward the flows lifecycle from its formation to its credible destruction at the end of the arctic summer and. the doctors of. 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 toots 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. to pull ashton was forced to temporarily abandon the flow and head to the no vision point of. the corner but let me others 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 else that's of a get up that. they get the flow research activities were resumed as expected rising temperatures credulously melted the ice until in late july the floor finally

broke apart. the groups trembled 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. will turn out are some of the other stories making news around the world at least 21 people have died in central vietnam after tarantula rains flooded large parts of the country about 50000 people had to leave the affected areas as asshole forces warn of more rain to come neighboring laos and cambodia have also been hit. turkey says a seismic survey ship will resume the gas exploration that's raised tensions between turkey and greece over recent months and cross of the vessel would search areas of its coast near several small greek islands the dispute over sea boundaries

has raised fears of a military confrontation between 2 countries. in the in the united states the senate has begun the process of filling the vacant seat on the country's top court and cementing a conservative majority there before november's presidential election republicans are rushing to confirm president trump's nominee amy county ballots will undergo 4 days of questioning. health care abortion and gun rights and nominations far apart is our fight over filling vacancies preen court seats in election years if approved she would be president trumps 3rd appointment to the cause. i think at 48 to judge amy connie barrett could shape the supreme court for many decades to come 3 years ago trump appointed the staunch conservative to the federal court of appeals in chicago she has indicated support for gun rights trumps immigration policies and restrictions on abortion and l g b

t rights group called her quote an absolute threat feminists fear she may move to restrict abortion rights in 2013 as a professor at the university of notre dame she was quoted as saying life begins at conception the senate democrats grilled her on her religious views during the 27000 appeals court confirmation hearings and in california senator dianne feinstein was even accused of anti-catholic bigotry i think york case professor. when you read your speech is. the conclusion one draws is that the dog lives loudly within you there attests has repeatedly that her faith wouldn't interfere with her judicial decisions if barrett is confirmed to be for election day on of them a 3rd one of the 1st cases in front of her will be about the fate of the affordable care act known as obamacare trump wants to invalidate the law which provides health

care to millions of americans. if you take a closer look at this with william blue cross from do you know news the u.s. election to welcome william so what sort of start of these hearings going off to well so far a respectful one at least on the surface republicans that run this committee because they are the majority in the senate are saying you know this is a highly qualified appointee she absolute deserves to be on the court and they want to have a respectful 4 days of hearings to let you know the world let america get to know who this potential new supreme court nominee will be and democrats are walking that fine line not to attack her personally but to say that she's completely out of step with what a many americans find important especially when it comes to health care which with the backdrop of coronavirus is something that they're really trying to make a big election issue it's pretty clear that democrats know they're not really going to win this battle they're not really going to keep keep her off of the court and

keep republicans from confirming her both out of this committee and then after that from the full senate this is very much an election pitch there speaking to americans to try to remind them what is at stake which is 1st and foremost the affordable care act otherwise known as obamacare which is something that republicans are trying to dismantle for years now democrats have been defending many american support and will be coming up in the next you know supreme court period which could be very decisive in putting a final nail in that in the coffin of that health care. the way you've summed it up this is almost as though we're talking about a politician a judge why all these choices so controversial i mean this one specifically because we are so close to an election it is fairly unprecedented to be going through this kind of nomination process these hearings so close to an election and polls show that some americans or a slim majority of americans would prefer to wait till after the election for the next president to choose this pick but there is nothing unconstitutional about what

republicans and what donald trump has done it is fully in their right to do what they're doing many people are saying just because they have the right is it right but to step back every supreme court nominee is a controversial topic and a controversial issue as as u.s. politics have become more and more partisan as congress has been able to simulate get less and less done is put more responsibility and more focus on the court specifically the supreme court to get stuff done actually doing things not really supposed to do the courts are not supposed to legislate and i'm supposed to create law that is the job of congress and the courts are supposed to decide if things are constitutional or not if laws can stand or not but in the absence of congress the one turning more towards the courts which makes these picks all the more important and with a 54 split in favor of conservatives democrats are looking at a possible 63 split in favor of conservatives which could you know determine the the course of american history american politics for decades to come. from to w.'s

election to thank you quick loan of sports and basketball the los angeles lakers have won the 1st n.b.a. championship title for a decade they beat the miami heat to claim a 4 to seniors victory the team dedicated their win to form a player kobe bryant who died with his daughter and 7 others in the helicopter crash in january. in victory they chanted his name the man who guided the l.a. lakers to their last n.b.a. title fight it out a man 30 years never less or us. no. encore the players paid their own tribute with a performance to make the proud the bron james name the series most valuable player their one of gretsch they had won earlier wearing that coby inspired black mamba jerseys. who wanted to win in a moment you're just you know so bad you know we didn't do it but you know this is the colby goes with jersey i don't know we have. an aggressive

nation this is especially. after the victory thousands of fans poor onto the streets of los angeles it was a heavy police presence and some disturbances were reported the fans had ignored place to stay at home due to the coronavirus they weren't going to miss this moment we wanted to examine experience in l.a. i normally go out and again and then actually go out to see if the play doesn't mean here it's amazing you know the league when you win a championship it gets crazy it's crazy to be here i told myself since the 2010 finals i'm going to go to l.a. to win it we want a championship and celebrate. despite the droughts this was the lakers 17th n.b.a. title equaling me all time records. the state of new zion from berlin has reminded of our top story this hour they use agreed to sanction russia

for the poisoning of opposition leader alexei navalny the move was proposed by germany and france are said the poisoning could not have happened but moscow is involved. essential of today's i'll have more at the top of the hour up next here on the science program tomorrow so that today. well about covered 19 i'm to cross over to.

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