well the summit continues and the fact it's doesn't have to mean anything of for anything alfie you leaders here in brussels because they are wearing a mask there are practicing social distancing during their meeting so as for now they continue in their discussions however of this incident of course shows how covert 19 is impacting all our lives and how officials who are travel a lot who need different people are at risk and was a law for the law and it's known the not the 1st or the only official who has to ours who had to quarantined michel it shall michel be rippin council presidents had to self quarantined and even to postpone their last summit 2 weeks ago alexander phenomena in brussels thank you. germany has it registered a massive increase in corona virus cases with more than 6 and

a half 1000 new infections over a 24 hour period let's take a look at how rapidly new infections have served us surged over the past 7 days so here last wednesday the 8th of october we were up to 2828 new cases you can see the gradual increase and this decline here because over the weekend when some local health districts don't report the figures after vast you see this the sharp increase to 6638 newly registered cobbett 19 infections with numbers more than doubling in one week this means case numbers are growing exponentially the figures were released just hours after german chancellor angela merkel met with the leaders of the country's 16 federal states to agree new pandemic control measures. once seen as a role model for europe germany now feels the pandemic is getting out of hand that a country has fared relate the well so far with cases rapidly rising i'm glad

america has issued a stern warning. as image warning does if you ask what worries me it is the exponential rise and we'll stop it otherwise it will not end well. we can see deaths all over the place and i don't need to look at germany here i only need to look in the neighboring countries that's a point of regional leaders have agreed to shut hospitality venue some 11 pm in areas today become virus hotspots a regulation already adopted by some cities like bellina and frankfurt contact restrictions will also be enforced in hotspots social gatherings will be limited to 10 people from a maximum of 2 households in a bid to curb the number of infections at the political level one bone of contention remains leaders can't agree on domestic travel rules that mean travelers from hotspots cannot stay in hotels without a recent negative test i'm putting the accommodation ban is

a contest to demand to stay disease someone to keep it up at any cost to majority of states are skeptical because it's related inefficient to prevent infections but in the end it causes a lot of agitation anger and disruption but some under street say it's not more roads that are needed. those are some good existing rules are not being followed and they're not being enforced all too often you see people be dealt a mosque on buses and subways i believe the rules should be better executive it's a fine line when you see all the weddings are kind of course understand but on the other hand it's also a risk for others as well as the abilities i think we all need to be reasonable the numbers are different. if the number of infections keep rising i'm going to america has warned that even tougher steps may be needed. let's take a closer look at this with d.w.

political correspondent kate. kate so it doesn't sound like the chancellor is completely happy with the outcome of yesterday's meeting with stateliness absolutely not and that was after 8 hours long hours of talks yesterday even with the 16 state premiers and it seems that 1st and foremost medical once you already see some tougher measures implemented here in germany to stop or to rather flatten the curve while germany is still ahead of what is widely been seen now as the 2nd wave but on top of that merkel has also voiced concern yesterday evening once again about the number of people who are still not daring to the recommended rules and guidelines and measures already in place even the most basic things about making sure that social distancing is held in making sure that people are wearing masks as well where that requires and one of the big problems for machall yesterday evening as well was the fact that there was still no decision reached on domestic travel

within germany and some of the bands that are currently in place for people traveling within germany from hot spots to other states and that's going to be discussed again at the beginning of november of germany's handling of the pandemic started so well so what went wrong. well there were a lot of faxes that contributed to germany being able to handle the pandemic so well in the spring times it's not so much a question of what's gone wrong yet we have with you look at the figures at the moment as you say there's been a huge jump in the last week or so and we've seen in the last 24 hours more than 6600 new covered 1000 cases reported here in germany that's partly due of course to increase testing at the moment in germany about a 1000000 tests are being carried out per week at the moment but of course the situation is changing more and more people and i hadn't indoors it's harder to be out in the fresh air and keeping distance and one of the

a large contributions to this increase in cases so far has been knighted by the public health institute here in germany is private celebrations and we've seen reports in recent weeks of a lot of outbreaks whether being whether it be at birthday parties whiting's even wakes after funerals as well so that's why these new measures the stricture measures as well focus particularly on those group gatherings and private celebrations kate bravely thank you. germany is one of several european countries by case numbers appear to be rising significantly french president emmanuel mccraw house announced and nighttime curfew from paris and other cities from the weekend it's really spades catalonia region are also introducing new restrictions. restaurant owners in paris will be sending their customers home very early from saturday that's when

a nighttime curfew goes into force people won't be allowed out between 9 pm and 6 am except for essential purposes politically said would be our objective is to reduce the private contacts. they're the most dangerous contactless. sociable moments when we loosen up when with people outside our family units the curfews in response to the high number of new infections and increasing strain on hospitals 40 percent of the intensive care beds in the paris region are already occupied by coated patients. the pressure is growing we also have to care for other patients and the system can quickly reach its limits i'm very concerned about what will happen in the coming weeks. or. hospitals and many french regions have already activated their emergency plans. a bleak situation too in spain since last friday nobody's been allowed to enter or exit madrid for

non-essential purposes. and catalonia is now shutting all bars and restaurants except those offering takeaway service. over 33000 people have died from coated 1000 in spain since the beginning of the pandemic and the government's alarmed it could lose control of the outbreak again let's not fool ourselves the next weeks will be complicated. primary care physicians in barcelona have gone on strike calling for better working conditions and resources to deal with the virus and epidemiologist warned that a shortage of contact tracers across the country is making it impossible to break chains of infection. it may not quite be a love affair but the face mask has become a constant companion in italy where it has been compulsory in public since last week rule breakers face a 1000 euro fine the government's also urged the public to be cautious when

gathering at home by wearing masks around vulnerable friends and family members and keeping groups small. let me be clear we will not send the police into private homes the private sphere must be protected but we must all be prepared to act prudently to manage this phase. in italy the intensive care beds are slowly filling up again but in contrast to the early months of the pandemic in the lead became the 1st country in europe to be badly hit the government now has been able to implement a test and trace system to help suppress another wave of devastation. we can turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world starting in the united states where democratic vice presidential candidate cam harris is suspending a campaign travel after 2 staffers tested positive for corona virus the campaign said the staff was a precaution and that ms harris had had no close contact with her staffers in

recent days she will resume travel on monday. israel's prime minister to send to our turn has said she'll resign as leader of her neighbor party if the party doesn't to win south a general election and she made the comments during the final leaders' debate polls showed labor with a comfortable lead of the center right national parties dealing with 3 yemen's warring sides are exchanging more than a 1000 prisoners captured during years of conflict the trade is part of a deal reached in switzerland in september and it's been a war since 24 course in the humanitarian crisis the deaths of more than 100000 people. last month was the hottest september since records records began 140 years ago in fact the last 44 september as well all warmer than the 20th century average scientists from the u.s. national. oceanic and atmospheric administration said rising temperatures have

contributed to all sorts of disasters from forest fires to floods. from sunbathing on england's south coast to outdoor bodybuilding in berlin the september heat waves were a welcome surprise for many but the late summer sun brought devastation to a smart change the meaning of a global temperature you need to change an extreme extreme weather last month they go and stronger hurricanes pounded the u.s. gulf coast while wildfires burn through millions of kilometers of western states scientists are little doubt manmade climate change is exacerbating matters. and so what we're seeing right now he's actually to wait for a heat wave more frequent more intense and we're racing on introns well the general areas that are trying to dry here and there is there are. just

this week up paula explora return from the arctic with a year's worth of scientific data and a stark warning that the ice is dying. and has a right amount if we go on like this the arctic will be ice free in the summer in a few decades and the world that i described would be gone. it's not just arctic ice melt planet earth is warming. and scientists say there is a good chance that 2020 will be one of the hottest years in history. of thousands of pro-democracy protesters have rallied in the sense of thailand's capital in defiance of an emergency decree banning mass gatherings police trying to disperse the crowds found themselves pushed back thursday shrubby comes a day after police broke up a demonstration in another part of bangkok protesters are demanding the resignation of the government a new constitution and reform of the mosque. a showing dr

a wall from russia in the cologne in germany he's a political scientist and taiwan specialist with the university of the international institute for aids and studies and life in the netherlands welcome to d w so these protests have been going on for months why do you think the thai government is only now declaring a state of emergency. well the thai government has. try to not escalate the demonstrations and i think one important step for escalation actually comes from the monarchy now so you know what what happened yesterday was that actually when you returned from bulgaria to bangkok choose to you know have a car right exactly past the democracy monument where the protest happened so this kind of was a major step in you know stepping out of the if you confront issues of that a government cannot hold back on the right that the king seems to be

a significant part of as the protesters according to constitutional reforms and a reassessment of the country's moloch able to know so is that just part of the psych geist or is that to do with this particular case. well i think we really have to our you know recall that this is kind of basically opening the floodgates so this has never been on the streets before and. as as we know you know a single mentioning or kind of remark on the king could easily give you 15 years in jail so for a long time you know this this censorship has you know prevented any discussion about the monarchy and with the old being a large part of the population actually it was behind your king and supporters demonic keep but the present king had his behavior and also you know the and the pressure from cope with 19 crises has kind of led to

a situation where people are you not trying to and you know talk about the real problems of the country and suddenly after students started in a fresh and maybe naive. to you directly target the king and the monarchy this opened the debate and it cannot be drawn back i think we have been looking at pictures of people on the streets and clearly there are tens of thousands of people joining these protests but is that a fair assessment do you think of the amount of support that this movement has across the country. well it's difficult to to know but what we can see and what we can judge basically from social media is that their readiness to discuss about the monarchy is quite high and higher than it used to be at any point in history basically so you know there is this very prominent

facebook group which was founded only in april and it has now 1000000 over 1w1cw followers it's the 800 biggest facebook group it's exclusively referring to the monarchy and critical remarks on the monarchy so judging from what's happening in the social media there's an enormous amount for discussion. we're talking to you thank you that's very clear. thank you. let's look at some more of the day's top stories now a media publisher and activist jimmy lie is one of several pro-democracy activists appearing in court in hong kong facing charges of illegal assembly campaign has been arrested on the new national security law imposed by beijing hours before his court appearance police launched another raid on his private offices and confiscated documents. kurdistan's president via a jam backoff has resigned after 10 days of protest the unrest follows this month's

disputed parliamentary elections back of had promised to step down but only after new elections were a cold he now says he'll resign immediately to prevent clashes between security forces and protesters demanding his removal. hundreds of israelis are protesting outside the supremes court in tel aviv on wednesday they're calling for an investigation into potential involvement by the prime minister benjamin netanyahu in a submarine scandal a new affidavit suggests the prime minister pressurised government officials to spend billions on warships from germany. ok we'll start with athletics and former london marathon winner daniel daniel jiro has been banned for 4 years for a doping violation when jiro who is from kenya or won the event in 2017 and he doping investigators found increases in his red blood cell count at the very said

were impossible without the use of a prohibited substance or method but denies any wrongdoing and has 30 days to appeal. now the german cup often throws up david and goliath matches and tonight's game is no exception european champions byron munich face fifty's division side f.c. durant in the 1st round starting a run of 8 matches in 23 days the underdogs from durant will be looking to take advantage of byron's hectic shadow although they are modest to say the least. quaint sleepy isn't used to the big time 100000 people call this place home it's also home to 5th division side f. c. . the club's pride and joy is the stand the oldest in germany now the latest chapter in this club's history a cup game against the mighty buy in munich. home which is of

course we've been having a bit of a joke about it just get them out the way and then will be one round closer to the final rule excited you don't get drawn against by and every year will be a huge experience for us. to browse niche the game will have some personal significance used to play at each level. in with current brian style. they remain in contact to this day. that we write every so often how we're all doing the distance is a problem and now we're both parents we don't see each other too often but we're still in touch and get on really well. friendships will have to be put to one side during the game the team has been stepping up its preparations and then add a match a shake they have a form of bundesliga player in that squads. we haven't spoken a huge deal about by and yet or analyze them in any great detail but i think

everyone knows what to expect it's hard to find any weaknesses with them so it's just about giving it all we have enjoying the game and then seeing what happens at the end. usually when a lower league side meets a team like by and they shy away from setting themselves targets but not. transition for be ashame magine if we manage to can see fewer than 8 goals in the game then we can say we're better than shall occur in barcelona and that's where something. shall care and cross alone i have both found themselves on the wrong end of the buy and go machine in recent months success after all is all relative. and the company that manages the south korean boy band b t s has made its trading debut with its shares more than doubling to net more than $800000000.00 after the initial public offering this huge interest reflects what

a massive global success story korean pop has become. even though she could only watch the show online wearing a mask in the presence of a few friends b.t.s. fan angie one was deeply touched. she was one of more than 100000000 people worldwide who logged on to watch a b.t.s. concert last week and. this 7 piece group of korean 20 somethings clearly means a great deal to her and many others around the world where. they are both their sons are really good their songs gave comfort in these tough times and made me a fan. such devotion is lucrative for korean pop purveyors it's easy to understand why big hit entertainment the management company behind the band decided to launch an i.p.o. demand was huge the share price almost tripled within minutes giving the company a market cap of almost $10000000000.00 comparably making it one of south korea's

tarty most valuable. my name is jim is now a major worldwide industry leader with their smooth american accents and seemingly universal appeal b.t.s. are at a global forefront. big hits successful i.p.o. is also good news for this man buying see the management company's founder is now a multi billionaire well might be buying his drum. for its passionate fans though the appeal of b.t.s. is about something much more personal than a share price. well south korea has lots of boy bands so what makes b.t.s. so special we asked jim who's chief editor and anchor for iraqi t.v. in seoul that's a great question everyone loves an underdog story and b.t.s. surely has when they made their 1st in real u.s. 7 years ago under this much a less certain no musical management company they kicked and despite having fewer

resources and connections to to that other key pop group the role is in global popularity and over the years since then they stayed really personally connected with their fans and social media which their fans say in various cottonseed shoes factor that keep them devoted to this would be and there's also say the fact that each and every member of the group write their own songs and lyrics is a huge plus and most of their songs are messages to their fans. as jenn moon from outer on t.v. and so this is t.w. news here's a reminder of the top story this out european commission she. left e.u. summit in brussels after just one hour after finding out if she'd been in contact with someone infected the current times she said she was going to send isolation somebody continued without. next here on the day w. that is the focus of your i don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website you don't come i'll be back at the top

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