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tv   Zu Tisch  Deutsche Welle  October 18, 2020 2:00pm-2:31pm CEST

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this is deja vu news a lot from berlin new corona virus infections here record highs across europe millions now face tighter restrictions as governments try to slow the surge france is leading the way cities streets there empty as nighttime curfew kicks in. a show of mass defiance of thousands of proto mockers the protesters rally in thailand for a 5th straight day despite increasing government efforts to stop them. in the buddhist leader treble winners buy in munich thumped newly promoted bielefeld rob
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it with moving down and thomas mueller give the new comers double trouble. a michael ok welcome to the program countries across europe are imposing tighter restrictions in the hope of slowing the spread of the coronavirus as cases continue to rise france has recorded a new high of 32000 cases in a single day authorities haven't acted a curfew in major cities requiring all public spaces to be shut by 9 pm but not everyone has welcomed the new rules more chairs for more guests saloon has his hands full his parisian restaurant liaison a mob is packed and his guests all want to be looked after before the curfew takes effect. we have changed everything we now begin serving dinner at 5 pm.
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the bartender and servers struggle to keep up with orders jeff as guests have arrived much earlier than usual. because it's a little stressful we have to be hyper efficient in order to have a drink and be home on time even though no one looks ready to go home most of the patrons are happy to comply with the new curfew. sooner it's not such a bad idea considering the high infection rates it doesn't bother me that much. shortly before 9 pm jafa tells his guests that they have to make their way home and quickly. then it's a race to close on time with jaffa determined to avoid the penalties that come with being open mass 9. percent food it's frustrating having to keep people out at 8 30 in the evening. before the shock. usually were open until 6
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in the morning this is. just after 9 pm the metro is deserted anyone found outside risks being fined over $100.00 euros the only exception being emergencies and work. it is the hump of the can i do shift work and i don't finish until $915.00 so after the curfew begins i have a permit from work. the streets of paris transformed at night as the curfew brings an unusual quiet. italy is set to announce tough new national restrictions as it battles its own surgeon cases the government has already twice tightened the rules in the last 10 days including making masks mandatory outside the home the aim is to avoid another full lockdown to limit the damage to the economy. earlier we spoke to correspondent in rome who gave us this assessment well the situation we're seeing
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is really a steady spike in the number of coal with 19 cases the new cases just on saturday 10925 new cases another highest tally that we've seen in fact have been daily records being set in the alarming rise if you compare to the fact that just a week ago that was half the figure but it's also important to note that the amount of testing is also at a record high on saturday as well more than 165000 tests were carried out in the country so those figures are really significantly higher in terms of the number of tests as compared to what the situation was back in march and april the death toll unfortunately old so on saturday another 47 people have succumbed to cope at 19 but it's not the figures again of what we were seeing at the height of the pandemic of more than $900.00 deaths so interesting fact to perhaps to look at is the
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admissions into the intensive care unit because that's creeping up it's now about 705 compared to just 40 back in july so really the authorities are saying whereas in the q. ses and the virus is circulating throughout the country. here are some more of the latest developments israel is starting to loosen restrictions after its 2nd month long lockdown its reopening pre-schools canoe gardens beaches and national parks slovenia has suspended contact tracing after the caseload became too high new zealand has reported its 1st local case in 22 days after twice eliminating the virus and saudi arabia has allowed its citizens and residents inside the kingdom to perform prayers at the i'll have a mosque in mecca for the 1st time in 7 months demonstrations are expected across france today in a show of solidarity after the beheading of a teacher on his way home from school authorities believe samuel petit was killed
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for showing cartoons of the muslim prophet muhammad in a class on freedom of expression police have detained an 11th person over the killing the suspect was shot dead by police soon after the attack. community a country standing together in shock and in defiance all across france people gathered to honor teacher samuel pety yes if you could put it that we are in shock and now our focus is on the well being of our children for them it's especially horrifying if it is ogres and he was my teacher for 2 years he was very friendly one of the few teachers who would help us. here as a secular country we've been under attack and now our education system that's going too far for us. patty was on his way home from school when he was attacked. shortly after police surrounded the suspect and ordered him to drop his weapon
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authorities say they opened fire on the suspect after he attacked police. i. france called it an attack on french values in europe but. it is no accident that it is a teacher who has been killed by a terrorist because he wanted to kill the republican the values it represents the enlightenment the possibility to make our children wherever they come from believers are nonbelievers whatever their religion to make them free citizens the seat where young people francis said to hold a national tribute for the victim in the coming days. let's briefly highlight some of the other stories making news around the world armenia and azerbaijan have accused each other of breaking the latest ceasefire in the disputed not going to cover buck region just hours after it came into force the truce agreed to late
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saturday was the 2nd attempted armistice in a week hundreds have died in 3 weeks of clashes over the region. voting has begun in guinea's presidential election the incumbent 82 year old condé is bidding for a controversial 3rd. term after redrawing the constitution the move triggered months of mass protests sparking fears of violence on polling day. a landslide has hit a military barracks in central vietnam at least 22 soldiers several bodies have been recovered rescuers are searching for those still missing the slide is the latest to hit the region following 2 weeks of heavy rains and storms. thousands of protesters are again taking to the streets in cities across thailand it's the 5th straight day of rallies calling for a new government and constitutional reform in the capital bangkok demonstrators disrupted traffic at victory monument protesters are defying
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a ban on gatherings despite the arrests of several activists and the shutdown of transit networks prime minister. has ignored calls for his resignation. for more on that now i'm joined by philip sure well journalist for the sunday times philip welcome to g.w. again paint a picture for us if you will what's the mood in the city today. sort of the mood is one of defiance much these protests as they are turning out several sites across the city they have. and their policy of converging on one particular site really stretching the police by choosing a several sites in in bangkok and they are very angry that angry that so many of their leaders have been arrested they're angry that the riot police and water cannons were sent in on friday night and they are also. around.
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that defines in the face of these this government decree that is supposed to find any government will in full people the police have said today that they're going to look at video evidence to prosecute people attending these rallies and they've also said they're going to monitor and look at social me your activity even people posting selfies they say they will use that as evidence that you got that illegally under this decree so we have about 30 seconds left i just want to ask you again so again public gatherings are banned the transit systems shut down clearly the government's using almost everything in its arsenal to shut down this unrest in its tracks will protesters be able to continue to organize. they they they currently are they using our social media they use to encrypted channels that bangkok is full of motorbike taxes that getting around that way the government's attempts to so close down the public transport system is probably just and of
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a change average mind calkins who are not part of the protests it's certainly not managing to stop the actual protestors thank you that's a fillip sure well in bangkok much appreciated. to the u.s. now where the presidential election is just over 2 weeks away and candidates are making their final pictures to voters on saturday president donald trump made back to back appearances at campaign rallies in michigan and wisconsin his rival joe biden warned that the campaign was still too close to call despite holding a large lead in many polls. the trump show back in town in wisconsin he didn't wear a mask neither did many of his supporters trump gave a rambling speech including memories of his time in the hospital ill with cove at 19 got better fast i got better fast i can now jump into the audience and give you all a big kiss the women wasn't just the kiss those big powerful
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men down there i won't love it but office. had a separate rally in michigan he called for the state's democratic governor to lift coronavirus restrictions you got to get your governor to open up your state was the and get your schools open the get used to us all it was supposed to have to be all right out of the trump is trailing democrat joe biden and most national surveys as well as in many key battleground states had a voter mobilization a vent in michigan biden slammed the trumpet ministration for allegedly tipping off financial executives about the pandemic before the public knew anything but here is really dirty according to new york times today this restraint she gave wall street investors a heads up about it didn't tell us the gave wall street investors a heads up. they're american people he said nothing. also on saturday thousands of
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protesters most of them women marched on washington and other cities denouncing president trump and his choice of a conservative supreme court seat. to sports now and defending champions by munich thrashed newly promoted bealefeld on saturday well but. the buyer goals the wind. up to 2nd in the table. back leading the by in line and involved right from the start playing in. 8 minutes. i never was seen on the scoresheet himself making it difficult look easy complete control the post wasn't quite as. i count. on the stroke of half time. grabs his
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2nd feed off of the restart. and there which he pulled one back for. by and had a man. can see from excite easily how gone for the full one victory thanks to 2 with the most familiar faces. for the 1st time in 6 meetings substitute early in holland voice combined with 14 minutes to go sliding into the empty net hoffenheim struggled with their top score. missed a game after testing positive for corona virus and so moved in. to 3rd on the table. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you governments across europe are introducing a new round of restrictions to contain a surge in coronavirus cases france has imposed a curfew that require. all public space used to be shot by 9 pm in major cities.
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watching the news from berlin up next stock film fine tuning the climate stay tuned for that we'll be back with more news at the top of the hour until then you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's the view dot com we'll see you soon. but. to go beyond beyond those a little bit. we're all about the stories that matter to the. country a lot more or it takes. a running nut to change good enough that g.w. made for mines.
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the planet is training under the effects of climate change many researchers believe we have to intervene to prevent a must from happening which is why so many people that might sound a bit like playing god are. manipulating our seeding clouds. creating a some shade for the author of solve these are just some of the ideas. you can't tackle something this scale this moving this fast. just science modifying our climate is it hubris in iceland researchers have already time greenhouse gases and just stop on day one you can see sort of white spots and that's what this is you tube we inject it into the i love reservoir that's the solution to all but i definitely in my opinion this if you want to see the light of a large scale. scientists want to interfere with the arts process.
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can geo engineering save us not just by getting harmful c o 2 out of the atmosphere but also by cooling our planet. we're on our way to meet some research just pursuing radical ideas. i worry that climate change has become a kind of political structure people has lost track of the drive to protect there are but there are lots. of harvard university as one of the most controversial climate researchers eat believes it's high time we had an emergency plan his idea is to create a sort of screen using dust particles which would reflect the sun's rays weakening or even holding global warming. first big pilot project names copecks
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keeps being postponed and there's still not too much opposition. what it hears is it something that might in combination with emissions cuts reduce the overall climate risk maybe substantially that's the evidence we have acquired calls so the question is to what extent that sellers reduce climate rest actually harm people in the if art like extreme storms extreme temperatures sea level rise those are research questions that we don't know the answer to. so called solar radiation management is a gamble little research has been dominant the risks and yet it could be a last lifeline when it comes to curbing global warming. in practice it would mean at least 10000 aircraft injecting the stratosphere every 2 years the planes would release sulfur particles as evenly as possible at altitudes of molten 10 kilometers . these particles would reflect one or 2 percent of the incoming some might.
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the fact that dost in the stratosphere cools the planet has been shown by powerful volcanic eruptions such as pinatubo in the philippines in 1991. time but global temperature dropped by normal point 4 degrees. so much that you have to put in there well it depends how much solar we want so there's no right answer to that but you know the quantity we measured it something like a 1000000 tonnes a year which is a well it's a lot of not a lot. it's we're putting billions of tons a year of c o 2 in the atmosphere so one of the ways to think about it is there's a $1000000.00 to $1.00 ratio between the amount of warming power of c o 2 in the atmosphere and the amount of kind of cooling power of say something like acid or some other material in the stratosphere so a 1000000 times is not technologically a lot it's doesn't cost a lot but it's
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a real direct perturbation to the environment there's a net tell us also that the stratosphere is just a place you should not interfere because it's so sensitive you're speaking as if the alternative is now on interference but the c o 2 is already in the atmosphere even if we cut emissions to 0 tomorrow that's basically impossible but even if we cut emissions very quickly which we could do that doesn't make the current problem go away and humanity is a long way from 0 emissions once we started pouring some fun into the stratosphere for some shade would have to be replaced regularly otherwise temperatures could rise to levels even higher than they would be without the many people. the technology transfer takes. my biggest fear is that climate change will advance to the point where this planet who no longer sustain human life. by me time to his true jang fears the. oh no geo engineering long
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change weather and precipitation patterns damage the ozone layer and produce more assy drying some studies show some interest for dru geo engineering is washington climate change itself and even researching the methods used dangerous governments are watching this closely well companies are watching this closely the military is watching this closely. so there's a political experiment the topping that says you know what what if we could go this route and you're opening up a pathway and the further you go down that pathway and the more you make it seem real so it's an experiment as is as it is is research but it's also political theater you have that you will never stop people from thinking and from searching for ideas and solutions the idea of the engineer who's already in the world so you can't stuff that. you can't stop the idea of do insuring from existing but but what you can stop is that it being considered a good idea many people including me have talked about how an equal solar
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geoengineering is how it would help one place and hurt another but actually in climate models when we put it even amount of solar to a sharing in it seems like really every major region in the world has their climate risk for at least servant ation with this leads to a planetary wide experiment you have one planet and you're risking the whole planet to do that experiment for sure solar geo actually has risks but not doing so are jewish and also has risks. we are increasingly aware of the the facts of climate change we can't accurately predict the consequences of geo engineering. we are on our way to visit an environmental activist who's committed to strengthening nature's own capacity. to know what my biggest fear is. is that the history of the collapse of civilizations is really repetitive. and we're seeing. the tail end. of the.
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most expansive. civilizations. in human history. in remote south america chris tomkins and her husband doug have given vast areas of land back to nature and together with the governments of chile and argentina they created national parks an area the size of switzerland. the 1st was patagonia park since the death of her husband chris tompkins lives here alone. she sponsors to come right on into the house and to please take our shoes off oh. it's the. local. split the end of the world yeah christine tomkins was head of the outdoor clothing
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company patagonia husband had founded the brands as brainy and a north face yet in the 1990 s. they left the business well and went on to invest around $350000000.00 in nature conservation i don't believe that technology is some sort of techno fix that will fix all the technology that got us here in the 1st place look if i thought that was even remotely possible in the short term i would say great and then i really do say well then why are you showing up so late because the party started a long time ago is there a way to turn it better there are no messiahs when it comes to this you can't tackle something of this scale this go moving this fast. would just science it would wilson said we should give i think having earth. back to nature in
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this size and scale you do it can then make an ecological difference you can enter these places and you understand what is was could be and that's an enormous enormous contribution. i have begun to see the value in things or major the value of things more by their absence. chris tomkins imams the destruction and inequality in the wild in her mind entire regions should be protected from humans and especially from the clock years of a globalised economy. cannot save us from climate catastrophe probably not but maybe there's more to it than that it's a bomb spacers where natural systems can regenerate where we can say for things
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that represent life on this planet. that. we believe that all life has intrinsic value the non human world is struggling and much of the human world is struggling so we see the health of all life on the planet guy in their own direction and have done for the last 30 years saying. they call this. the end to. end of the years i am not interested. i don't believe that gets us where we want to go as humans are the non-human world. not even sure just. want to stop mean for our approach to fighting climate change
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is it better to leave things alone or to intervene and try to limit warming to give ponsford animals in their present climactic zones a chance. in davos a meteorologist is investigating another way of cooling they are. all right i'm a no go zones are one of my biggest fears about climate. change is that water supplies will become even more unequal droughts more floods and especially in terms of our droughts that they'll be more climate refugees and more wars fought because of climate. data low man thinks it's possible to manipulate cloud formation in such a way that global temperatures fold the likeliest candidate seem to be cirrus clouds so there is clouds have a greenhouse effect be they hold more heat radiation in the earth's atmosphere than they reflect sunlight. it's the only type of cloud that we know has
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a warming effect. cirrus after when streaks of ice counted for many kilometers above the earth's surface as a t.v. radically if you got rid of all cirrus clouds you cancel out the doubling in c o 2 levels above the. count's have a big influence on climate and temperature the lower ones cool the un they should definitely stay but serious clowns have a woman a fact way for when i snooped clear i am present in the am might when an airplane's turbines condense water vapor. cirrus clouds form naturally in cold humid conditions although they do reflect some sunlight back into space they only allow some of the thermal radiation from the arm to escape so on balance sheet or song in order to cool the planet cirrus clouds would be prevented from forming like you parts of the atmosphere could be seeded
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with desert danced for example the ice nuclei would grow faster become larger and fall to earth as hail the radiation balance would change and the temperature would drop a little. live does whatever's have the advantage of such horrid dust would be that we know. it wouldn't do too much to the ecosystem it would have no side effects of. it but when it comes to testing this method out a small scale test would get lost amid the noise of natural variability of the clouds you would really have to do something on a very large scale to see if it worked i'm not sure that that would be possible politically. because who would make the decisions in v.m.s. which bodies would decide which individual countries would do something like that in their lands good as all those months. and in any
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case who would benefit from it in order to answer that question or they can no man wants to learn a lot more about. this measuring device attached to a balloon using a laser to examine individual clown particles it's not clear that any now serious pouncer in central europe would have an overall benefit and if the seeding was done incorrectly it might cause even more serious to form perhaps this method of halting warming would be effective in the far north. it would definitely make sense to see the arctic cirrus clouds especially in the winter. because we have no sunlight during the winter months so it would really just be canceling out their warming effects and yes we want to preserve the arctic sea ice of course but there are economic interests in the arctic being never composed of them so who wins out given.

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