thank you if it helps you every piece of video has found a new house for the family crusade will pay the $300.00 euro's rent for it plus and has been accepted for training as a nurse you know not happy. because i'm. ready for the 1st time in such a long while i have the feelings the ones taking care of me. it's the someone supporting me. i've got something i can lean on. i no longer feel so hopeless about everything in my life and yet it's like a new beginning is that when some of the boston of you 1st walked in all human boy we try to give young people who are very capable more intelligent than a chance at the future with scholarships and to keep them so they can get a job and eventually stand on their own 2 feet and then. under seize intervening as her rescuer. to live together i think this is

a store that subsidized but the local authority on who can do her shopping cheaper . hundreds of greeks come here because they can't afford to shop anywhere else. but a part of this it's very hard to buy things like clothes for myself and my children and young men at the other but you. get one of those i come here to buy groceries just so i can scrape by. and then i put on paper here to everyone is very welcome audie cornish leon the store manager appreciates his efforts we come every month we don't forget you're there you know him congratulations for all the work that you do because it's very important about there are people like you and i mean because they know their friends that you made is this. the dance it's really so hard to see people in europe going hungry and

not knowing how they're going to make it through the crisis. and they don't know how they're going to get their children through it became a good thing in store for you and i can relax at last she can look forward to making a better life for her children with job prospects and rent paid by greece ate everything should have some. like if you have some hopes nothing else will. less work and fair pay sounds like an offer that's hard to refuse especially for truck drivers who are to lease and weeks away from their families transporting goods on tide deadlines it's an industry that employs around 60000 romanians they were to lease 10 hours and traffic jams and weekends and parking lots the e.u. wants to put an end to these working conditions but as truck drivers like me and are finding out it's

a road that's paved with many blind spots. on the road to day end day out stephan dami and from romania has been a truck driver for 6 years crisscrossing through france germany spain a long way from home it's well paid he says but not easy to be born on the beaches some after a year but they don't want to go back there when your loved ones my daughter was only little. but now i realize that this is where jobs are supposed to cost i'm just going to. stefan is in protest north of bucharest getting ready for his next trip he's getting his 40 ton truck a once over he can't afford to break down in 3 days he's delivering an order to a client in france. his wife and daughter bring him clothes kitchen equipment and food for the journey. he's been doing this job for years but it's

still hard to say goodbye. stefan's a little worried the used new mobility package was recently rolled out across europe and he's not sure how it will affect him what if a lot of people who told me they've been working nonstop for 5 months well it's to work. that's not how truck driving works. here. there are around 60000 romanian truck drivers working in western europe many spin their breaks and weekends sleeping in parking lots new legislation says the employer must pay for a hotel for drivers weekend breaks and they're supposed to go back home every 3 or 4 weeks the rules are intended to ensure fair competition within the single market and prevent exploitation of eastern european truck drivers in particular.

as usual there's a long tail back at the border to hungary romania is not part of the xing an area so whenever he leaves home and heads back to western europe he has to wait hours if not days to cross the border. stuff indomie and won't make it over to hungary tonight he prepares his bed for the night. he's concerned about the future and what will happen if he can only work for one month at a time which. you otherwise would have if i were shorter hours i will obviously earn much less vulnerable to the more that you probably have i'm still wondering whether all this makes sense within the given that if you know she had almost a fortune but money for your family. i can't see the purpose of this anymore but

we're on the move romanian truck drivers have been able to earn 3 or 4 times the average salary in their home country but this will probably change. we need to increase the slope of the grovers we need to pass the cost of the or mandatory hold tolls to the clients so he says that many transport companies will survive with the extra costs those which can afford it are already looking for alternatives abroad. we've already started to move apart before where ration from rumania or western countries his firm already has a branch in northern spain. stephan dami and crosses the border the next morning. a romanian official checks his papers while the hungary and officials pay a bit more attention to what he's transporting.

finally he's back on the road again. for good and think such a life. i don't plan on living a long they've been sort of. just like just to the new rules. perspective on this i hope that the situation will improve somehow and the strivers . open if it's from the improvement. for the love she got about. 24 hours and 900 kilometers later stephens stops to make sure he has a clear view for the next stage of the journey. next stop is the ana. and he's hoping that he'll be on the road for some time to come. friday's for future has grown from a one person strike to a movement of millions of young people around the world fight for action against

the climate crisis but their progress has been curbed by the pandemic and for sure dispensing rules well that's not stopping a group of teenagers in the village in germany's north they are digging deep to make sure their message is heard there's no vaccine against the climate crisis. it was another hot dry summer in germany. some places experienced water shortages young people living in the flat north east plains see the effects of climate change and are doing something about it. they're planting trees in the finds of the heat and drought ridden one of them removed now is the german state with the most lakes and when you've lived here for years and love these lakes more than anything it's sad to see them dry up that there's suddenly only

a bit left over. 3 years in a row of below average rainfall means low water levels and rock hard soil. it's been going to the 1st generation that will be hit really hard by climate change or the young adults are now seeing that it's really starting to happen later it's. because also at. lucy bruno and the others intend to keep climate change on the agenda even when everyone's talking about the corona virus pandemic people in rural areas have been watching the environment change more and more and they're worried the climate changes here and it's bad bit although not in the way that tell us that it's. in but there is a researcher many. murders forests for it to do at the moment it would just look at our region i was forced to get have you of a time out in the. fields and crop planter growing ever larger as hedges bush

windell the wind sweeps across on hindered blowing away and drying out the soil this has to stop say the young conservationists they hope others will see the tree planting campaign on social media and follow their example they put videos of every turn of the shovel online with commentary. that's why so many teenagers are inspired to join the project it's using their language and their channels to raise climate awareness but they're doing both kinds of trees and making videos. and they're appealing to a global audience. germany set a good example and get out there and achieve a lot maybe we'll be able to inspire people in other countries to do the same and often now 3 or 4 more loads then i think the trees will have enough another bomb dogs can look watering cans shovels and cameras that's all they need for the world

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a report by human rights watch alleges during a bombing campaign in lives. a 1000000 blue cross good to have you with us side by side but not head to head u.s. president donald trump and democratic challenger joe biden have each held a televised event tonight at the same time on different channels but for some of candidates were quizzed by voters at the town hall meetings with the topics ranging from the coronavirus racial justice white supremacy and conspiracy theories to the meetings took the place of the 2nd presidential debate cancelled after trump got coronavirus it's just 3 weeks until election day polls show by that with a strong lead millions of people have already voted early by mail and in person.

it's an election that the world will be watching closely and in his remarks joe biden touched on america's faltering status in the world during the trump presidency but the power of our example that's what's led the rest of the world to follow us on almost everything he's pulled out of almost every international organization he gets laughed at when he goes to the literally not figuratively when he goes the united nations i mean it is just not it's not about the president per se it's about the nation in the locker respect and shown to us trump was challenged on his handling of the pandemic and he had this to say i knew it was a big threat at the same time i don't want to panic this country i don't want to go out and say everybody's going to die everybody's got their it all rather you don't have misleading but you can't you know no he's not going to get washington correspondent all over salad have one eye on each of bend and joins us now for more

good evening to you oliver so what stood out to you. well you know as well it was a lot calmer and more sophisticated than the 1st presidential debate we remember that this went down very in a very chaotic chaotic fashion where nobody let the other one finish a sentence especially donald trump interrupting cell tonight was different 2 very different and separated events from each other the dominating topic dominating topic was the cold with 19 pandemic president trumps holst was very tough on him because of the many false claims the president made here and the holes then have to challenge these claims we just heard and also in the sound bites one of one of his claims was the demigod other one was on his support on the far right extremists of militia groups now joe biden wins in the attacking mold saying that donald trump

is doing nothing to rein in the pandemic biden very much in the off and see here tonight and donald trump in the defense and tell us more how did these events turn out this way to begin with 1st of all we all remember president trump tested positive on the coronavirus that was at the beginning of the months and the commission on presidential debates who's in charge of organizing these t.v. debates between the president and the challenger then decided to hold a virtual virtual debate where both candidates would be in different locations president trump neglected this backing out. then they moved the biden campaign move forward scheduling a town hall tonight and then just yesterday the trump complain announce that they would hold a doing 3 town hall event receiving a lot of criticism criticism because the voters in the end had to decide if they

could only watch one of the 2 of course either trump or biden. or salad for us in washington thanks very much for following it. and let's get more on what happened tonight with peter on the dollar my colleague on the us election team peter looking from the outside in from so far away where we're at you know we have the 1st debate it was universally panned as one of the worst in u.s. history now we have this for the not even on the same stage together it feels like you know giving a silent treatment and you know asking someone else to pass the salt. i go one step further i mean this is basically like parents going through an ugly divorce arguing over who's the worst parent in who gets to keep the kids in front of their children i mean there's really illustrates i think the deep division that we're seeing in america right now the complete absence of a willingness to engage in meaningful constructive dialogue with the other side i

will say this though before the debate and we as we just heard there was a lot of criticism but in a sense i also think it worked as a microscope you know it really magnified the weaknesses in the strengths of each candidate with bite you saw you know being calm and pathetic most up with facts also meandering and even rambling at times but you know strong unifying message with trump it also really showed why his supporters love him you was testy was feisty struck back in the mainstream media. and still has a loose relationship with the truth but he's a master at changing the topic and having the conversation happen on his terms the problem is a lot of americans won't get a chance to look through that proverbial microscope very to me they're too busy trying to figure out how to pay the bills how to stay safe how to put their kids through school at a time you know during the demo nearly 8000000 infected almost 220000 americans dead so in that sense i think this town hall as you know it may have

been this microscope but it was a huge disservice i think to a lot of american voters and modesty and you know trumpet you have a day like them or not he is the president and he comes with a certain amount of. and vantages to that but you know these debates or these town halls whatever format they take i really wonder if they even matter so close the election so many votes have been cast you know people have very strong opinions about who they're going to vote for you know yeah that's exactly right i mean to be you know these debates are you know historically has been when most americans start paying attention you know the average american doesn't pay a lot of attention to politics surprise. a lot don't vote but you know this may not necessarily be true this time enough to 4 years of trying where are saying that most americans have made up their minds of these about how they feel about him the reality is that the election will not be decided by the popular vote it is the electoral college 2270 votes toral college votes 22 when

biden is leading in almost all the key swing states 8 key swing states that may have end up deciding this election by holds a double digit lead nationally he's leading every demographic group except non college educated white men which trumps which is bread and butter really and you know we're getting sick electoral votes you know where does that leave these campaigns a few weeks out with biden up in the polls how is that affecting their campaign strategies right is a great question so biting biden is sitting on this shooting war chest he's been is really out racing trump he's running ads in a lot of states that you know just a couple months ago many didn't even think he had a chance of winning he's the campaign stops in recent days he's having swing states but he's also hitting more unlikely states like georgia trump on the other hand is barnstorming the country as well

a lot of rallies and it really suggests that trump is entering this final stretch asked the underdog which is highly unusual for an incumbent so close yet so far away i guess we could say hero of all of our u.s. election team thanks so much good with. let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. social media platform twitter has been hit by a global outage the company says it was caused by a system changes affecting most of its servers and it's working to get the service running as normal for all users again. tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters have ended a huge demonstration in the center of the thai capital bangkok they vowed to return on friday protesters gather despite the arrest of activists overnight and in defiance of an emergency decree banning gatherings in the capital. israel's parliament the knesset has ratified the u.s. brokered agreement establishing relations with the united arab emirates prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the deal moved it were closer to peace agreements

with other countries in the middle east 80 lawmakers supported the measure 13 were against. europe is scrambling to bring a resurgence of the coronavirus under control as infections reached levels not seen since the beginning of the pandemic some of that is due to more testing then we had back then but it's clear the virus remains a serious threat even to the highest levels of european politics or covert disrupted the 1st day of the e.u. leaders summit. we may never find out what prompted angela merkel to make this gesture when talking to a french president in mind when mark wrong mosques make it impossible to eclipse but it's not only the modest that our reminder that there coronaviruses casting a shadow at this meeting in brussels you commission chief funder line left the talks early one of her staffers tested positive for covert 19 and final and chose

to self isolate a separate caution so she was no longer present when the leaders discussed how to better coordinate their pandemic response to the question of how we can get out of this is of course on all of our own minds most of the time the health of a great many people hinges on this question it will determine how many must die in our economic future since he is your leaders also talked about the clocks climate goals for now the failure to agree on a more ambitious emission reduction targets when it comes to post directed relations with the u.k. your leaders speak with one voice for them it's clear that the e.u. and the u.k. must compromise we are determined to reach a 3rd of the through the u.k. . we really do everything we can. but not at any price the u.k. says it's disappointed with the outcome so once more illegals concluded

a summit day without getting much closer to a trade deal. the ngo human rights watch says russian and syrian air strikes on the rebel held city of it lived last year may constitute crimes against humanity the group has released a report that looks into dozens of what it said were unlawful strikes on civilian targets over a period of 12 months it says those strikes were deliberate meanwhile attacks in the region continue despite a cease fire. a classroom destroyed by an air raid numerous rockets struck the school in the south of province luckily no children were killed in the attack bombings or an almost daily event in this region despite a ceasefire being in place no lessons have resumed but attendance is low hot young . children have returned their parents are afraid they don't believe it's safe to send their kids to school because of the attacks. strikes on schools markets places

of worship clinics go on for days or months and this year just like last year. this is the last rebel held region in syria during their offensive syrian and russian fighter jets are said to have targeted civilian facilities their goal is to demoralize the local population in order to make their events easier according to human rights watch the organization said it reached this conclusion after analyzing some $550.00 satellite photos and videos and interviewing dozens of witnesses. and to the facts that we have gathered here clearly indicate that we are talking about war crimes and crimes against humanity. human rights watch is now demanding those responsible to be held to account and says it's time for the united nations to step in. italy's sport minister has said that christiane aldo who tested

positive for corona virus in portugal this week they have broken italian health protocols the portuguese international travel to his home country even though his team you vented was isolating after 2 staff members tested positive for covert 19 event just as president of the club had followed the rules and although has since returned to italy at a private jet where he's quiet taining help. watching d.w. news here's a reminder of our top story at this hour u.s. president donald trump and democratic challenger joe biden held competing televised events instead of a 2nd presidential debate trump deflected criticism of his coronavirus response saying the nation is rounding the corner joe biden said he'd consider making a coronavirus vaccine mandatory. that's in the 14th of the union is for now don't forget you can always get the

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