this is. the 2nd way across europe step up their efforts to contain the corona virus as the consonant for for the highest number of new infections since the start of the patent. is among the nations cracking stage is in force. another badly hit regions the north of england with people in cities

like liverpool facing a host of harsh new restrictions those inspections. also coming up pick for the u.s. from cork backs away tough questions from senators any tony burke tells them she doesn't have an agenda and her religious views influence her decisions. plus world famous players forced to go birch will one of the biggest states on germany's cultural calendar. with opening to the public. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us countries across europe are taking new measures to try to contain the spread of the corona virus in the czech republic officials have imposed a 3 week state of emergency schools' bars and clubs are to close until at least november 3rd. it's a reversal of fortune for

a country that emerged relatively unscathed from the 1st months of the pandemic we'll have more from the u.k. in brussels in a moment but 1st this report from prague. almost 500 people have died of coke at 19 in the last 2 weeks in the czech republic more than in the 1st months of the pandemic another 400 are in critical condition. because. i think people are not taking the virus seriously. medical stuff at this hospital in prague are doing all they can to protect themselves nearly 3000 doctors and nurses have been infected with the virus meaning many are unable to work. in klein and come in small hospitals where there are not so many stuff it can be problematic if one infection turns into a cluster. no other

country in europe currently has a higher rate of infection per capita as the czech republic many let their guard down in the summer and became lots about protective measures like the wearing of mosques. just that they don't if they say please wear a mask then very few people will do that it was recommended in the holidays but no one more a mosque the ability to put a chimney effect on you don't you could end. the government has decided to take action theatres cinemas museums and gyms have already closed and even tighter restrictions go into force from it nice. bars now have to show us and restaurants can only offer takeaway it's another heavy blow for an already struggling hospitality sector. european union countries have agreed to call in strategy for restricting travel from coronavirus hotspots even astri's want to

traffic like system showing regions of red orange or green depending on the number of infections leaders hope to avoid a repeat of the confusion disrupted travel across the e.u. at the height of the initial outbreak in the spring. of more let's bring in. good he's following the story for us in brussels belgium to talk us through these european traffic lights how's that supposed to work. the european traffic like to test for colors actually red for dangerous is owns orange for medium infection rates and green for countries and regions which ok and great for those countries who don't give the data to the e.c. d.c. the european center of disease control in stockholm that do publish this new net of europe not only of the countries but the regions and this is new broken down to $200.00 regions and the new point is that not only the incidence and so the new

infection cases will be rated but also the number of tests and the positive tests that are returned so that you have and you. criteria to to apply and that might change the met did a bit for example in germany the number 50 incidences is no longer valid it can range between 25 to 150 incidences but you also have to apply the positive return rate of tests which should around 4 percent and not higher and all these measures are designed only for tourism travel essential travel business is not afflicted by this in all these measures voluntarily so the member states are not obliged to take part in this new traffic light system ok well this system does sally can provide some valuable orientation to travelers how soon could it be put in place. but it could be in place actually next week because the data

over there and the e.c.c. the european center for disease control did publish this on the website reopened europe dot edu and then everybody can see good about the measure at that photo out of this new map this new indicators. also up to the member states so they can decide if they put in place and you look down fuse or the patient to go into quarantine this is all up to the member states and while europe waits on that traffic light scheme infection numbers continue to rise what are the main hotspots spent right. well according to the news numbers and i have to look on this map. its western europe is mostly affected so it's spain france the united kingdom which other current hotspots also belgium here in brussels but no check the czech republic is on the rise and also the netherlands

again and you can see also a surge in bulgaria and romania according to this new traffic like system only finland and parts of eastern germany would be in the green zone all the rest is orange or red and the tendency is that the case is going up but the difference to the 1st wave mortality hospitalisation and accessible to t. a fairly low but the trend is upwards and now it's the problem how to to flatten the curve again of europe orange or red bentley good in brussels thanks so much. it's while the united kingdom has recorded europe's highest pandemic death toll and new infections there are growing at an alarming rate especially in the north of england prime minister boris johnson has outlined a 3 tier system reinstating restrictions in high risk areas.

it's not so it is for this pub in the northern english city liverpool after 3 and a half month lockdown at the the pubs and bars here are once again being told to close their doors new restrictions are coming into place the cross the north of england bringing a new wave of dawkins' to both businesses and custom it's. like a very depressed local shut down. a lot of stuff that you can just push up to go to get you to see my friends in a couple of these children in. the right. place to stay true to what you know. how to lead you to be. with this code which you show how to shoot he didn't shoot you hard it was like the question still sleeping discipline financially i just feel so i would be punished. like many law on the tape on a phone he says even paying rent will become difficult after days of one says and

see things the governments in london spain and businesses in the new world think it's hard to screw this fall hard they have let people fear the worst before it's known what help they will not even speaking to local leaders until the very last minute often consist of horrible by over and normal times never mind when everyone's afraid to move over the top of the next but there's no getting away from the case numbers liverpool has one of the highest paid rates in europe amounting a the u.k. now has more hospital admissions than before it went down in march and it's never to pull other cities will follow in the post that step. before anybody into 3 restaurants we have a temperature gauge so we'll just check the temperature in neighboring manchester would winning restaurant chain a hen scenes doing everything she can to keep head was a pen she's living every day on and i think. i didn't know whether to want to stop

for this week of all this. i don't know whether to take bookings and then even know whether i should open up or not you can't operate when things are so uncertain you don't know what they're going to be close to the lady in red is my grandmother lily quark and she opened one of the 1st chinese restaurants a month just in from thailand and his sister is a generation restaurant tez there now facing an unprecedented challenge where already struggling if i'm honest it's not just me carrying the burden is the entire family that's a lot for her and i don't want to let them down i don't want to let my customers down and yet with the trading conditions i might have no choice but with every order we write them a little note. and take away books is now one of just a few rays of light the restaurant has like helen we still have a whole lot of life to live and a whole lot of examples to set the message of the community holding its breath for

more. here's a look at some other developments in the coronavirus pandemic the world bank has approved 12000000000 dollars to help developing countries to fight the virus the money will find its tests treatments and possible back scenes xico is planning to vaccinate roughly 90 percent of its population by the end of next year the government says and officials in australia's most populous states new south wales say they will ease coronavirus restrictions that's despite reporting the biggest one day jump in cases in 6 weeks. it's we could smell the stories making headlines around the world today too promising anti coronavirus drug trials suffered setbacks in the u.s. pharmaceutical giant lilly calls paused a clinical trial of its antibody therapy over safety concerns and johnson and johnson put its vaccine trial on hold after

a participant fell ill. china and russia have been elected to the united nations human rights council the vote went through despite warnings from human rights groups that the un's un groupings credibility is at stake saudi arabia failed to win a place or the 47 seat international body. and scientists are warning that australia's great barrier reef is declining at an alarming rate a new study has confirmed that it least half the corals at the world heritage site have died over the past 25 years researchers say climate change is irreversibly destroying the renowned underwater ecosystem. in thailand anti government demonstrators and royalists supporters have gathered in bangkok in a rival show of force progress protesters stepped up their call for reforms to the

constitution and monarch calling the capital's democracy monument meanwhile royalist supporters gathered along the route where the king and queen were due to pass criticizing the king is traditionally seen as taboo but protests have gained momentum over the past few months. well for more let's bring in journalist mathias path from bangkok mathias what exactly are the protesters demanding what or these reforms we keep hearing about. yet to give a shot on sight they are demanding democracy and freedom of speech as you know highland has been ruled by the count prime minister of china china who came to power in a military coup in 2014 and since then thailand has been electing basic democratic freedoms according to human rights activists and yeah if the protests came to power he changed the country's constitution in a way that guarantees the military to keep very high influence over the country's

politics to protest us now they have been minding to us those constitutional changes and they are also calling for u.s. government to step down and to make new elections possible at the same time there is also another group of those activists and they are going a step further and they are also calling for significant reforms of the country's monarchy that used to be completely. topic in the last few years in thailand but now those protests they are demanding that's the money he and king with remove himself from the country's politics and to make more democracy in the country. ok in both cases though we're talking about significant political constitutional reforms is there widespread support for such reform among the thai population.

it seems like a significance of all those in minds especially for the at the moment for the governments to step down and. to. hold new elections in the country. no public opinion pause and so it is very hard to know that for certain but when you walk around him bangkok are not a part of the country it is quite hard to find anybody who is defending the government at the moment one reason for that is also that failed to deliver on his promise to bring positive economic changes to the country now during the coronavirus crisis at highland has the worst economy basically in whole or southeast asia with a deep recession going on at the moment and i mean people who lost their chops and that is. why not much confidence in the government at the moment today it seems like the government is trying to show it instead has some support as you said many

. people in the yellow shirts got of that account the protests today but it seems like this is more some kind of government organized propaganda and i really show of support to see any sign that the government the monarchy the military might be open to the protesters demands. yes so far prime minister hasn't given any indication. that it's going to step down. you know it's going to find a compromise with those protesters. yesterday we saw some remark of the scenes when their king but your longhorn who's now in thailand normally he spends most of his time in germany but at the moment you from thailand and yesterday evening he went all its streets to meet some of his support us and we saw pictures of him smiling so it seems like he's trying to present itself now in a more positive light but that. all of you can could see at the moment as it

approached this is they don't seem to be willing to. rise with the government so the confrontation will be ongoing for quite some time i did you know these protests are happening of course during the coronavirus pandemic how's that affecting the situation in the past the government often such that the protests cause a risk. in the country but also that seems not so realistic at the moment and it's one of those countries that was basically able to completely stop dependent make inside the country a close at the moment and hasn't reported its community transmission of the virus in the many weeks now so the new cases down to 0 so it doesn't seem like there's a big risk that those protests costs to flare ups of the virus but yes thank you

very much for bringing us up to date there that was journalist mathias pier in bangkok. fell to the us where president on trial nominee for the vacant seat on the supreme court is being grilled by senators amy kone barrett who is a devout catholic told the judiciary committee that her religious views would not influence her decisions trump is pressing to have confirmed as a justice before the presidential election on november 3rd. to 6 of her children her husband and her siblings amy connie barrett brought them all for day 2 of her confirmation hearing the tropic chime to persuade democrats that she is ruled by the law and not by politics all of my colleagues on the other side i interpret the constitution as a law that i interpret its text as text and i understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it carry that meaning doesn't change over time and it's not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it

democrats prosperity to weigh in on hot button issues like gun control and marriage equality but her answers are mostly elusive barrett was a protege of the late justice antonin scalia he disagreed with the roe versus wade ruling which made abortions legal it's distressing not to give a straight answer so let me try again do you agree with justice scalia's view that roe was wrongly decided again i can't pre-commit or say yes i'm going in with some agenda because i'm not i don't have any agenda but on the steps of the supreme court the agendas of the right and left are clear both want an appointee who will tip the scales of justice in their favor with barrett on the bench conservatives believe they can finally see abortion rights stripped away and therefore double health care act or obamacare repealed for liberals these are prospects that was strip americans of basic freedoms and erode the legacy of justice ruth bader

ginsburg that. election day in the u.s. is still 3 weeks away but in several states across the country large numbers of early voters headed to the polls or than 128000 georgians cast their ballot on monday a record for the 1st day of early voting in the state but some cites voters injured hour long waits delays technical issues and long lines have led some to raise concerns of voter suppression. of course so was fun and went there for us and sent us this assessment from the city of mara. another day of early voting in georgia another day of very long lines here in marietta i'll show you where the line starts it actually starts way at the end of that block behind me snakes around in front of a building and continues all the way over here and the people at the very front of the line they tell us they've been waiting around 5 hours and you see people have

brought lawn chairs they brought snacks they brought water food and snacks are also being handed out here and it does raise the question for many if this is a voter suppression if this is a case of not enough resources being donated to this area for elections but all the voters he spoke to say that they will not leave until they cast their ballots because they see this is the most crucial election of their lives. the pandemic has forced many people to reassess their priorities is many in major cities are finding that they want to slower pace of life and less stressful surroundings and that's causing a mass exit from the city that never sleeps. new york is coming back to life crushing people traffic jams polluted air and on top of that people are bracing themselves for the next wave of coronavirus hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the city as fast as they can. bill and his daughter giving wood

for a campfire they are 160 kilometers from their brooklyn apartment but here what they're enjoying getting back to nature. it's easy to talk about sustainability and nature being important but to actually like really be in it every day and trying to figure out ways even if they're small ways you know to live a little bit more off that land his daughter in is enjoying the wonders of nature she likes exploring and discovering things and brooklyn simply can't compare. i really know that. even though my dad did just on this phone. only found the flags all over the air and some poisonous mushrooms right. from office work to soaring would spending time on your own on 12 hecht is in the countryside is a dream come true that not everyone can afford bill is an industrial designer and

being in the countryside is how he gets new ideas for his design company which at the moment he manages long distance. we've been in the city for almost 20 years and i think started to feel that burnout that that happens with the pace of new york city and we're kind of looking you know hoping to slow things down a little bit you know and focus more on our kids and their education the next major city is on the shores of the hudson river the liberal city of kingston used to be an i.b.m. production location but the company left and took with it the jobs that have kept the city going but now the city is experiencing an unexpected revival property prices have gone through the roof. when a good home comes on the market that lasts for an hour or 2 hours maybe a day before off or start coming in and usually within a day or

a week and it is off the market and sold about asking price rents are rising supermarkets are adapting and local restaurants a fine shooting their menus doing everything they can to make the new new york customers happy live jazz at an outdoor market on the weekend most new yorkers feel at home in kingston. the influx is obvious it seems like top of brooklyn has gathered here but the locals don't seem to mind i call them corona refugees from the city because there's i mean it's it's a it's a wave that just suddenly came up and. i think it's good for business families come in would be great you know our school district has been having fewer and fewer kids but if we had more and more families more more kids that creates community at the moment a small house with a garden and kingston doesn't cost more than a 2 room apartment in manhattan but real estate prices are rising mole quickly than corona virus infection rates in new york and in both cases it looks like there's no

end in science. frankfurt book fair is one of the biggest states in publishing every year. thousands of industry professionals descend on the city to trade rights and promote new releases this year the pandemic has forced nearly everything to go online the organizers hope the virtual event they've come up with will prove as rewarding. last year more than 300000 industry professionals and visitors came to the frankfurt book fair it's the most important industry show of the year some 7500 exhibitors meet this year because of coronavirus the trade holes are empty the book fair is gone digital. music and the trade fair holes won't be the same this year as well as a decentralized event we've had to come up with a relatively large scale digital concept and most. many publishers said they'd interview their own authors and then present the results at the fair.

of the numerous digital platforms industry professionals from around the world can communicate and present their authors to see a selection is extremely diverse from stosh if jaimie all of a to whistleblower edward snowden. the fair social political stage is this year all about europe and its culture is naturally it's online. because of the emphasis on the digital some creativity gets lost there are a few random encounters for example the great thing about physically being here is that i can look up on my shoulder and see what's going on 10 meters behind me to counter that online. 2020 s guest of honor i can address has postponed its physical presence of the fair until next year instead it's presenting a culturally diverse offering online including books on its indigenous population the 2020 frankfurt book fair is an experiment but will it remain an online event in

the future. we're trying to figure out what works digitally and how the economic transactions work how does the public interact with the digital elements of course we will use whatever works at this year's event next year the future is looking more digital anyhow but the desire to mix with others in person is unlikely to disappear any time soon. you're watching news from berlin up next close up whether china is a real threat to taiwan let's watch. the

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