but let's start with you would you make of johnson's statement. well clearly he's increasing the pressure on the european union at the same time he's not completely abandoning the talks he's not constantly explicitly the visit next week and you have to bear in mind that he all the way during the referendum campaign and when you campaigned to be prime minister he said that you have to be able and you have to look like you are just willing to walk away from these talks and he always criticized the former prime minister to resign may for not looking tough enough and for wanting a deal that any price so this could be just his way of saying this is the maximum pressure i can put on the european union you also have to bear in mind though that you always promised the british people that it was over the ready deal to be had and if they voted for him as prime minister it would be very easy so if you really did work away if you really did stop at this point there was no deal it's not what the british people have voted for so a lot of them will be very very disappointed and surprised and potential

negotiating ploy there alexander all use leaders met in brussels today what was the reaction to johnson's statement. german chancellor angela merkel reacted soberly with her typical no nonsense attitude saying that talks continue. to compromise but she also said that it's best to strike a deal however if it's not going to happen that the european union would have to plan alternatives i tried to press her with a follow up to get a direct reaction to johnson's demands but she just told me that she's not going to negotiate with the media it was the french president who was more outspoken emanuel mccoll told the press that it's not just a joke of the european union to make boris johnson happy and that the british people were misled to believe that you were a peon union who needs

a deal badly it's the u.k. that really needs a deal mcauliffe that. i want to go back to you about something boris johnson spokesman has just said that the talks are over unless the e.u. shifts that's a direct quote its position is another tactic potentially to increase pressure. it could be i guess we have to just wait and see the proof will be whether these talks are actually happening and on the next week or not we just have to see how this plays out over the weekend you have to just step back and just realize that the u.k. is really hit hard very very hard because it is the biggest recession the biggest downturn of the u.k. economy and it's history now economists are warning that bracks it would. probably be even harder hit to the u.k. economy so a lot really is at stake here for the british prime ministers and business leaders

are really improving boris johnson and the government to come to an agreement with the european union the morning that might be my mass unemployment if there was no deal so really they clearly will be hoping that this is more or less just rhetoric . last word for you you negotiators are set to go to london next week do they still believe a deal can be done. well i think they want to show that they're determined to keep on trying you took negotiate him a show bunya told us yesterday that there are prospects of a deal and i think the message from the european union is quite clear here they are determined to to show that they are not the one step that will walk away from them negotiating table. correspondents burgard monson alexander von naaman really appreciate it. fears are rising that europe is running out of

time to control the resurgence of the corona virus infections are hitting record davey highs in many countries including right here in germany let me give you a quick review overview of how the situation developed on march 1st health departments across europe registered 401 new cases now you have to keep in mind that testing was not as widespread back then as it is now so the actual numbers could have been much higher in germany for example the number of tests has increased nearly 10 fold but nonetheless you can see a clear day to day trend of how infections were rising sharply in the spring peaking at the end of april early may by then most of europe was in lockdown and you can see the effect here with new infections dropping to a low point in mid july since then numbers have been creeping up again with new cases rising since august which brings us to where we are now more than

120000 cases registered here in europe since last monday. now london is the latest british city to face lockdown as the government tries to combat a steep rise in covert cases but the decision to impose tougher measures on other parts of england has brought a backlash. queen elizabeth us public engagement since march of reg joint to parents between the british monarch and her grandson prince william the duke of cambridge. the 2 a socially distanced but neither is wearing a face mosque at this military research facility even though covert 19 is on the rise once again across the united kingdom detectors. london is the latest british city to be told it's about to face

a local lockdown on saturday tougher restrictions will include a ban on more than one household meeting indoors. type thing it would think so why sitoy expecting to see this thing is kind of the right thing stokols the numbers are going up in all fairness a wise binondo does not show shambles. earlier this week liverpool became the 1st english city to be put into the highest risk category. pops and was a closed and no one can meet outside their household. this pub renaming itself in protest at the government's decision. manchester or another city in northern england desperate not to be next it is wrong to play some of the poorest parts of england with a punishing lockdown without proper support for the people and businesses affected

all the older but in westminster ministers on defending bad actions we make these decisions with a heavy heart with the soul of. nation through troubled waters things will get worse before they get better. meanwhile schools in northern ireland plays temporarily as well as pubs and restaurants nothing much to cheer about here. there's also a bitter debate over new german corona rules with measures just introduced already landing in court in friday's most significant ruling a court in berlin overturned a late night shut down of bars and restaurants that went into effect just last weekend the judge ruled 1st curfew in 70 years was an unreasonable infringement of the hospitality industries freedom. let's bring in chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda the courts overturning corona

restrictions why in a nutshell. well i would say in this case it's the court doing its job within the democratic system acting as a check and balance in regard to other branches of government in this case the executive which is responsible for laws and rules so this is not the 1st time we have seen a german court overturning corona rules that it viewed as too restrictive and disproportionate for example the highest court in germany in april overruled a blanket ban on church services or a local court in the state of north rhine-westphalia in the summer sent back to regulators a lock down extension on the meat packing industry saying again it was too broad so what courts are essentially doing is weighing the purpose the goals of

a measure of legitimate goals against the costs of that measure and in this particular case in berlin the court pointed out that it is not proven that restaurants and bars are one of the major vectors of spreading corona and that in fact there's another rule in place in regard to restaurants and bars that would serve the same purpose as the one that was overturned here namely bars and restaurants here are not allowed to serve alcohol after 11 pm and the court at least in this case viewed that as sufficient to ensure that people wouldn't relax their inhibitions and get too close to each other if the restaurant stayed open a little longer. i wonder whether you see a tendency or at threat there runs through these rulings. i absolutely do and it would be the attempt to balance justified the public goals of trying to ensure public health and safety against the constitution's protections of

individual and commercial freedoms so in this case the court saying that the rules went too far in encroaching on businesses freedoms without enough of a clear public purpose for doing so. i should mention german health minister yen spawn finds the court's decision regrettable let's listen to what he had to say earlier. i deeply regret the colts' decision to overturn the rest fictions on opening hours but we need to know the precise reason i was distributing just came in this decision reminds us once again and this is why the so that you know constitutional state we have to get a good reason for our actions this week. which will linda is the german health minister sending a message to legislators there yes he is and it's the same message that the court is sending saying. rules side but they must be carefully crafted to

ensure that there is no disproportionate burden on fundamental liberties whether it's the liberties of businesses or the liberties of individuals and of course that is a very very important message going forward as local authorities its local authorities here in germany who are responsible in the 1st analysis for promulgating rules and regulations on public health that they need to be very careful in this period where we are going to still be coping with the pandemic that the rules they pass do really have an element of proportionality that the court didn't find in this particular case. melinda crane as always melinda much thanks here are some more coronavirus developments hundreds of hospitality workers have protested a 15 day shutdown of barcelona's bars ordered by the government the region is one

of spain's worst hit with over 20000 infections in the past 2 weeks a new study has found. drug widely used to treat covert 19 does not lower the death rate of patients new zealanders can now travel to australia without quarantining under a new one way travel bubble arrangement but anyone arriving in new zealand will still be required to isolate. let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world former french president nicolas sarkozy is facing a new charge over campaign finance scandal prosecutors have accused me of criminal conspiracy finance his 2007 campaign with money from libya he's already on trial over the affair because he denies the charges. several european countries say they are deeply concerned israeli plans to build more new homes in the west bank in

a joint statement germany france italy spain and the u.k. called the move counterproductive israel has approved the construction of thousands of settlements in the occupied territory. 13 bodies have been recovered from a landslide in central vietnam triggered by torrential rain it's nearly all the victims were army officers trying to rescue missing workers already buried by another slip flooding has killed in recent days. police and protesters have clashed in the capital bangkok during a 3rd day of anti-government demonstrations police used water cannon on the crowd of thousands protesters marched in defiance of a ban on public gathering they're calling for reforms to the constitution and monarchy and for the prime minister to step down. before the latest clashes

thailand's prime minister rejected calls for his resignation. well aware of the situation. the government must use the emergency decree. well we have to proceed because the situation became violent. and some of the things happening now have never happened before. the protest is demonstrating to coalfield resignation. reading decision. i'm not quitting. so there you have it thailand's prime minister is refusing to step down and protesters have been defying the state of emergency what's likely to happen next i put that question earlier to snipe faso song human rights watch asia. before he said that there was a matter kerry did have been commanded by the prime is there who basically told

you in protest that they might not pour you a lot off there and i'm basically it's a dance war began to unfold and. only to make them half a day after you say that we saw i change off i think you would have started to work for that and now you would fight and again i'm a fan. so today you can see peaceful protests that are being beefed up with violence by riot committees by police commandos and if you think going on right now as we speak. some observers are calling the state of emergency a pretext for a crackdown on protesters i think i take it that's what you were just referring to . the state of emergency provide. i'm chase powerless to authorities to ban thickly carry out i know ray has been

taken and he while i'm commie human rights violations with impunity so far what ever got to happen today authority can not be. held accountable they cannot be put on call or they're going to be taken to be put in court on trial . no remedy use no compensation cannot be stolen so this is a blank check for all repression and i'm thailand has sadly a return to solitary and rules then they will be more and more repressive our goods coming from the problem is. not we see a crackdown on protests that we see. on the issue we see a number of. people protests are being put in custody with no access to the. next the crackdown on the media and stirring speech we have already beaten informed

that in times of culprits all of shadow side has been to see well what i have already given the problem in each you want me in chula social media you said that any comments any critical comments against the government against them when i get will be punished so this is a very bad side that i don't need striving for and followed me into this if the pier the ship. again that was. from human rights watch asia let's go to the united states now where president donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden have been answering questions from voters at separate televised events held at the same time on different t.v. channel the so-called town hall meetings replace the 2nd presidential debate which was canceled after trump was diagnosed with coke at 19 and then refused to conduct the debate online the rivals have very different approaches. always confident at

times defensive as the incumbent u.s. president donald trump now has a record to pick apart and he got a grilling starting out with the nation's biggest crisis the coronavirus. 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 i mean all proud of you don't have mislead but you can you know there's not a little bit and more contentious exchanges as trump made exaggerated claims about voter fraud and deflected criticism over his tax returns and his position on white supremacy not rush into it you've done this lying to everybody seem like i didn't white supremacy ok you didn't see that as a white supremacy for years my position at the same time on a different channel a different tone thomas challenger joe biden offered a forceful rebuke of trump's pandemic response it was the president's responsibility to lead and he didn't do that he didn't talk about what needed to be

done because he kept worrying and my view about the stock market we make up 4 percent of the world's population we have 20 percent of the world's deaths were in a situation where we have $210.00 plus 1000 people dead and what's he doing nothing he still could not work in mass and so on because at times that bite and he entered but he did deliver clear punch lines on a number of issues including foreign policy if they will and before the election you. our open greeba most effective as a world leader in my humble opinion not just by the exercise of our power most powerful nation in the world but the power of our example that's what's led the rest of the world to follow us calling for after trading blows remotely the 2 candidates will again face off at the final election debate next week about making the june 4th joining me now from washington is our sumi so misconduct has been

keeping an eye on things sumi good to see you what's been the reaction over there to how the rivals fared on their t.v. appearances last night. michael i think this really here is being seen as a study and how different these 2 candidates are how different they are in tone and content we saw in those pictures their president trump relatively combative evading the some questions joe biden on the other hand delivering very lengthy at times as the piece said meandering answer is really policy driven we didn't hear or see much new from either candidate but beyond that the reaction has been very predictably along partisan lines so president trump's team here are celebrating the fact that they say the president showed strength that he was able to engage with voters and shape the narrative in a way where he was able to highlight what he sees as some of his administration's accomplishments joe biden seen saying this is an example of why he needs to be the next president he spoke with voters he spent time on big policy points in there pointing out the fact that after the cameras stopped rolling in joe biden's town

hall debate he stayed an extra 30 minutes or so to answer more voters questions but michael i will say that again we saw how these 2 men are very different wavelengths and as one observer here put it i think correctly had they been on the same stage we very likely would have experienced something similar to the 1st presidential clash which benefited nobody near the net neither the candidates nor the viewers should be i have to ask you i mean do these public appearances or or debates even matter in this election given the large number of early votes already cast and the relatively small number of undecided voters. michael it's hard to imagine that anybody was really swayed by what they saw and just remember visually you had this very odd spectacle if you can call it that of the split screen dueling town hall debate format and the reason for that this constant visual reminder was that president trump as you mentioned had contracted covert 19 and refused to take part in a virtual debate so we got another reminder of how contentious this election season has been and beyond that they didn't answer some questions that might be important

to voters so president not answering whether he disavows q one on where he stands firmly on mask wearing joe biden not answering firmly where he stands on that crucial question of expanding the supreme court if anything it might be the cove in $1000.00 pandemic michael i'd like to point out that the president said that the country is rounding the corner and right now in the country it's approaching 8000000 infections and 220000 deaths 220005 dint continues to lead in the polls how is that affecting the campaign strategies. all michael tell you just quickly joe biden's team is very cautious about those polls you're referencing because one they're not entirely indicative of how people are already casting their ballots or what they will do come november 3rd and also because we could see another political earthquake in these few days still remaining ahead of the election now president trying to team strategy here is to get him out onto the road for big campaign events are really pounding the pavement they believe

he performs well there and he really feels galvanized in those rallies and he's heading to georgia now where it is a much tighter race than expected for republicans so we're going to see the president nationally trying to close that gap. in washington many many thanks. to sport now american tennis player sam currie is accused of fleeing russia 2 days after testing positive for the virus at the st petersburg open the former wimbledon semifinalist along with his wife and baby son were put in isolation by the russian authorities but the family left the country on a private jet to an undisclosed location tennis officials say it's a serious breach of protocol. brazil's football museum has reopened with a special exhibition that honors a legendary player ahead of his 80th birthday fans will be greeted by this giant sculpture of the former brazilian international as

a younger the museum is the country's leading all times goal scoring the interactive exhibit aimed at teaching young people about his legacy the 3 time world cup winner is seen by many as the greatest player of all time. up next is our environment magazine india you're watching news from berlin. for me and the rest of the team thanks so much for watching.

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