because. it simply my husband went to peru because of the crisis. if you hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger. let's let it all down. starts october 16th. this is news and these our top stories german chancellor angela merkel has outlined new measures to deal with a steep price a new coronavirus infections in the country the rules on facemasks and private gatherings will be tightened in grown hotspots germany is a critical point and called on young people to do it without a few parties in the weeks ahead. france has reimposed a public health state of emergency nationwide to present

a minor mccall's that the health system is reaching of limits and announced a curfew in paris and 8 other cities from saturday people won't be allowed to leave their homes between 9 pm and 6 am except for essential reasons a 3rd of france's intensive care beds currently occupied by covert patients. protesters calling for reforms to thailand's constitution and want to keep have set up camp outside the prime minister's office in bangkok wednesday's match was the biggest in 3 months of demonstrations against the government which these power in a military coup and 2040. is the news from berlin follow us on twitter and on instagram at a news visit our website w dot com. for . the corona virus pandemic has revealed that 2 important differences between the

united states and germany the approach to keeping people healthy and the approach to keeping people employed if you live in the u.s. you are 6 times more likely to be infected with the virus than someone living here in germany and if you take an american worker and a german worker put them both in the pandemic the american may lose his job the german probably will not i'm bringing off in berlin this is the day. he can't fix the economy until you fix the code the crisis i think the people across this country are fed up at a time when they're kind of playing where their next meal's coming from and here's no intention of doing anything about making the better in 47 months i've done more than you've done it 47 years just talk made it crystal clear that rush.

is more of. the american people if there is an additional round of stimulus then that would add 2 percentage points to growth in 2021 which then would bring us much more quickly back to pre-crisis level investors are frustrated that washington can't seem to get its act together to get a package to the country which is sorely needed especially for small business for the alert. also coming up french president emanuel saying tough new measures against the spread of covert 19 including strict lockdowns in paris. it ok this is you know the decision we have taken is in effect a curfew a curfew which will be imposed in the paris region. where the virus is spreading very actively and did 8 other metropolitan regions apart from paris.

which you our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with the different designs for recovering from a pandemic and an economic near collapse in march when the u.s. and countries here in europe began shutting down their economies to slow down the virus no one knew how this would end a self-induced economic coma had never been attempted in modern history it was uncharted territory for both europe and the u.s. but now as we enter the 2nd wave of this pandemic it is clear that we did not get here the same way germany and the united states have taken different paths since the 1st shutdowns were imposed last march and the outcomes so far are like night and day jobs and joblessness life and death more than 200000 people in the u.s. have lost their lives to cope with 19 germany despite the current surge is nowhere near that level by any metric and when we measure economic health the numbers for

both countries remain out of sync germany and the u.s. both switched off their economies at the same time from that point forward policies and politics diverged. place closed bars boarded up. the pandemic could washington's entertainment district hard. kaufman takes out what's left. restaurant workers like him or some of the perth to lose their jobs. thank you the only bartender left where he works and he does know how long the owner will be able to keep him on he's scared of joining the 19000000 americans who lost their jobs in the pandemic and he worries what would happen if he does. i'm renting right now i've already got one month's forgiveness of rent from my landlord i'm very fortunate a lot of people haven't been in that situation

a lot of people might be forced out of the city that might lose their. lives or vehicles or a way to get around the city. be affected or face that it at some point. if the government feeling to pass another who would stimulus package he fears businesses that employ people like him who could that. given that winter or won't have as much outdoor seating a capacity to serve our guests it probably won't be enough to save some of the small businesses from closing anyway if small business were to fail specifically bars and restaurants there would be a ripple effect all the way through the supply chain that would probably have an economic impacts all the way across the country. what would it mean for is that personally no action is taken before a new president is elected or this one is reelected. it's not something i like to

think about but it is something that keeps me up at night i fear that maybe i'll be out here myself for you know people that i know and love might be out here in force and these kind of conditions i know personally in a lot of my colleagues are really worried about getting affected maybe early next year if nothing happens for no help we could all be facing you know almost miss or having to relocate and it's really a big fear of a lot of us right now. the fear of losing everything is everywhere in the united states not just here in washington a school with numbers continue to rise in businesses continue to close more and more people like they do see their fears turn into reality. are delivering in washington post economics correspondent heather long her latest analysis compares how the u.s. and germany have weathered the kobe 1000 crisis economically she joins me tonight from washington heather it's good to have you on the day that the headline for your

piece reads as u.s. unemployment soared to germany's barely budged is america's safety net enough it made me think of president george bush sr and his vision of a kinder gentler america which is definitely not the america that this pandemic has exposed. yeah i think you're right on so many levels and it's interesting back in april there were actually a number of republican senators including josh holly of missouri who actually proposed doing they call it the british model but it's similar to the german model they propose doing 80 percent. wage subsidies to keep workers and ploy and keep more workers attached to their companies as opposed to doing what we normally do in the united states where people have to get laid off millions of people applied to their state unemployment office for aid there were these horror

stories where these computer systems weren't updated since the 70s so it took weeks if not months in some cases for people to even receive any aid and on top of that we're still sitting here in. october and now there's a huge crisis about whether the united states will do more stimulus once again let people flow from bull you know when we look kids. in the u.s. germany really good beginning at the start of this year we can see clearly the economic impact on the u.s. labor market i mean the u.s. experienced a shock the german labor market did not and it still has it you know what we see is a picture of 2 very different philosophies about the role of the state in the economy especially in a crisis on its face the german approach seems to be more humane

would you agree. well certainly i spent most of my time as economics correspondent the post talking to unemployed workers and if you ask people what they rather get laid off the u.s. model and get a check from the government or would they rather be in the german model where they stay employed and get a check through the government and their employer most would say the german model because it's more stable they don't have to go through the anxiety of what am i going to do next but when you talk to a lot of economists at least in the united states including ones who are more liberal or left leaning it's interesting quite a few still argue in favor of the u.s. model and the reason is really this debate about how many jobs are going to go away because of kobe 19 for instance the airline industry you know we probably won't have this many flights even after the pandemic ultimately is hopefully solved in

a year or 2 they just probably aren't going to be as much business travel 9 again so is it really make a lot of sense to keep those workers employed in attached to airlines when we know they're probably going to have to find another job yeah and so what's happened is that stimulus money you were talking about it's run now and congress cannot agree on a new stimulus package we've got the election coming up and i'm hearing that we probably won't see anything new in terms of stimulus maybe until after the inauguration in january i mean it looks like it will fall hormone to the economy being done by members of congress. well there are certainly a lot of business owners and employed people who would agree with what you just said there's just a lot of shock that congress and the white house can't come together especially since the white house and house democrats nancy pelosi are house speaker who isn't democrat from california they are pretty close right now the democrats initially

wanted about a $2.00 trillion dollars proposal at the white house has come all the way up to 1.8 trillion so it's pretty close yes a lot of the details still have to be ironed out but they're surprised that you can't bridge that gap when it's really not that big of course weather center republicans would want to agree to that package remains on scene but i think this sort of illustrates that at the moment it started out in the spring and summer there was a lot of the united states about how germany was controlling the virus and your system of short term work that kicked in for the unemployed but now i think there's a lot of envy in the united states that germany has 'd more stability then you have this 10 year plan and people can disagree about it but in the united states you know and changes by our it's very chaotic right here are we still going to have a what is going to happen in the next few weeks and you know in the states people

continue to argue about face masks and i want to take a look at a new billboard that schooling up in berlin right now and if you can see it have there but it shows a woman she's wearing a face mask and she's giving the camera the bird to the middle finger and the takes reads this is for all of you not abiding by the coronavirus rules i mean we can't even should the finger on us television the media speaks volumes about the different public discourse is we've got going on in the u.s. and germany doesn't. and that's one of the debates we had as we put this article to gather as you know has germany just been that much better at controlling the virus partly because the germans are better rule follower is i walked out of my street and a lot of people of various people are crossing in the crosswalk for instance so i don't know how much that difference in culture and rule following and respect for

science perhaps plays between the united states and germany and the response of this particular crisis but it is certainly a factor has along with the washington post the other fascinating talking with you we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thanks. but 1st president emmanuel mccrone has reimposed a public health state of emergency saying that france is in quote a worrying situation when it comes to the corona virus outbreak in a televised interview the president announced that paris and 8 other cities will have a 9 pm curfew and he stressed that the virus is not out of control but he warned the health care system has little capacity left to deal with the pandemic it comes as french authorities reported more than 20000 new coronavirus infections for the 3rd time in a week. are the scourge now into lisa lewis she is covering this for us in paris

good evening to you lisa so france has declared the public health state of emergency over cope with 19 what exactly does that mean on the ground. well that actually just means that the government or local governments can impose local or nationwide. now that's obviously something that france just as germany one stew prevent from happening that's why the government has now decided to impose that curfew in several cities just like here in paris so if i want to go out after 9 o'clock at night i need to have a good the right reason as the president put it the government is also recommending for people to only meet up with about 6 people to you know if they meet at home or in the street they should limit their circle of friends to 6 people but the government has sat in the past that they can't really impose that massive measure

it's a recommendation but that's really the president really wants to appear to the commonsense of the people here to limit the spread of the virus and the curfews are part of that measure really. just a moment these measures they come as many are still struggling to recover from the impact of the 1st coronavirus. since take a look. there's not a lot going on in this paris restaurant today because of the coronavirus pandemic hardly any guests are stopping by always break through it and we were following all the rules but the tourists are still staying away it's very complicated. to turn over has dropped by 50 to 60 percent on. the french economy is suffering from the coronavirus in the 2nd financial quarter of the gross domestic product fell by 13.8 percent and into the realm of play we're expecting the economy to shrink by 9

percent in france in 2020 that's gigantic and this is despite high government spending on employment will continue to rise in the future. almost 23000 new infections were reported within the last 24 hours in the greater pair. area over 40 percent of the intensive care beds are already occupied by coronavirus patients with the predator and growing and we still have to take care of the other patients we might reach the limits of the system soon i'm very concerned about what will happen in the next few weeks or. the government will now implement more coronavirus restrictions in response yet lisa let me pick up on the intensive care patients i understand the number of french i.c.u. patients for corona virus earlier this week surpassed the peak that we saw back in may now if we're dealing with that already in october that doesn't bode well for

the coming fall in winter in terms of the health care system in france being able to deal with it absolutely you are you're right and that's what the president was insisting on in the interview tonight he was saying you know as our intensive care units are also already starting to be stretched and we need to really bring down the spread of the virus also because the situation is actually now worse than in march in that now it might actually have any basically paris and surroundings concerned and the east of france now the virus is spread across the country so whereas earlier in the for young the 1st lockdown health workers doctors nurses could come to the concerned regions and help out now this is no longer possible because there are needed across fronts of the president has said we really need to limit the spread of the virus otherwise our system is really going to crack under

the amount of patients and it needs to deal with you know and if we were to see a 2nd walked of i know the no one in france wants to see that after the 1st walk down the experience do you think that we're looking at coronavirus fatigue playing a role here in the spread of the virus. absolutely we are already looking at that obviously many people here are complaining about the fact that you have to wear masks almost everywhere like in paris you have to wear them outside on public transport at work but actually that's also one of the reasons the virus has been spreading a lot more over the past few weeks because once people get home at night many of them take of the masks meet up with friends and family and that's where the spreads take place really the government is now insisting that people really need to stick together to to win this fight against the virus the president has said that this will go on at least until mid 2020 run by the police that the country can make this and that they should all stand together and win this fight so to say allowed to use

these laws for the way just like in paris we thank you. well the numbers tell the story of this latest surge in new infections the daily number of new infections here in europe is hitting about 100000 now that's twice the figure that we're seeing in the united states most european governments eased restrictions over the summer now they're backpedaling fast and furious. it was what the hospitality industry was dreading most a return to law from midnight restaurants bars and cafes in the netherlands must shut their doors for 4 weeks. masks to will not be mandatory in indoor public spaces the government says it was left with little choice in the face of spiraling infection rates. that is unheard of both it's a hard on message and the new rules are going to hearts but it's the only way because the facts don't lie we have to be stricter on ourselves and stricter on our

behavior this thing is a i've had enough it's a similar picture at the forefront of europe's 2nd wave in the czech republic testing has been ramped up across the country and tighter measures have been enforced as well as the laser industries schools will be shut for 3 weeks mosques at trans stops now a must officials conceded they may have relax through too quickly in the summer on without an ability of the i wasn't strong enough in the summer and i didn't insist on measures to protect us from the 2nd wave. across europe growing infection rates for down measures and the inevitable health and economic hardship to follow is the haiti for which there are no easy fixes. to the pandemic in belgium brussels has closed its famous beer bars and cafes in an

effort to slow the latest surge in new infections it's a blow to the businesses themselves and the people who supply the belgians love their beer the country is known for its many varieties and its bars and pubs but that's no consolation for qatar has been ever since the coronavirus hit in march he's seen sales fizzle his clients especially bar and pub the owners have slashed their orders. from one day to the next there were no more orders and no more payments from our customers. as you'd expect because the entire hospitality industry was closed down all of a sudden everything changed for months after that our sales were only about 40 to 50 percent of normal. that situation's not likely to improve anytime soon. to curb rising trend of iris rates belgium has closed all bars and cafes in the capital proselytise for

a month through november 8th. and 6 a little cool to see this new decision here in brussels many brewers have lost hope that they'll be able to stem the damage. and we're also worried that this will spill over beyond brussels fix that given the rise that infection rates kathie's in the rest of belgium will also be closed that is equal to me again. and then is also worried it's hard to say how long local breweries will be able to keep their heads afloat during this long dry spell. or time is running out for a final deal beginning tomorrow teams from the european union and the u.k. will meet for a 2 day summit to assess the progress e.u. leaders are reportedly concerned that progress on key issues is still not sufficient for an agreement to be reached by the end of the year germany's europe minister warning that no deal would be bad news for everyone the e.u.

and britain the negotiations are now at a very very critical stage and we are on the very serious time pressure we will see in the next few days whether oppose it if outcome can be achieved all whether we have to intensify our preparations for ricin are you without an agreement and let me be very clear and this is also a message to our british friends no one should play down the risks of a no deal. yet serious now the heads of leading german french and italian business associations on wednesday they urge the e.u. and britain to do everything in their power to reach an agreement on post breaks it trade british interests are under threat here w corresponded big moscow reports tonight on english farmers fearing disruption to their access to french markets. with frank

languorous in the summer and 4th generation seeks from us sheesh they raise some 5000 sheep in the southern english county of kept most of the meat is export into the province. in the french like a lamb like this which has a good conformation. they want them weighing around about $18.00 to $20.00 kilos as a carcass. not too much fat just a little fat they are very discerning my like good quality lamb course if there is no trade deal between britain and the european union customs duties of as much as 50 percent could be lebanese and have a caucus an extra board at 6 might mean the meat being less fresh when it arrives and frogs go to the wall and then they go into a refrigerated truck and normally they're killed one day and they're in the paris market the next morning and he delays to that will cause big problems if they're

talking about you know 4 or 5 days of customs checks and lorries how it up it's just going to. impact the supply chain impacts on prices. the languishes also farm cattle which are subject to strict quality regulations they fear that often drags it sheep or low quality meat from the us could damage the home market despite this many farm has including some of the languish its neighbors voted for breaks are they now requesting that stores direct can. weekly cantaloupes and most pharma say it just has to him true it i think farms just got to make the most the situation but it will have the legislation is in place and whatever tires we have and get on with it we will be better off in the end but it will be very hard in the interim period albie on a softer start in our culture and on not looking forward to it because offing is going to be a long haul to hold we've brix it without government subsidies many from this might

be facing bankruptcy particularly in the absence of a trade deal at languish is furious. it's just disbelief that they can tell so many laws you know it's it's you know the whole they won't be ques it everything will be fine it'll be the easiest free trade agreement history. and it's just proved it will be so much rubbish. father and son the hoping all the same that ed children will take over the business 1st fish generation farmer despite threats it. follows the sheep the day is almost on the conversation continues online we will see you tomorrow for.

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