it is a map of germany 2 months ago now to the right it's clear half of germany has changed color. and. so the situation is now very serious the number of infections is rising quickly in many places and we don't know where that number is headed but we can still slow the spread everyone can play their part we're not powerless if we follow all of those rules if you don't you do to. 1.5 me to distance hand washing and compulsory masks in public places such as while out shopping those rules seem to work for germany the majority of people don't catch the virus that work or on public transport but in private setting such as a private parties or weddings. the virus spreads where people enjoy coming together and where they want to get to know each other there is more intense interaction in those settings you discuss things you laugh you're having a good time then the virus naturally has a much better chance of spreading if there's an infected person present. where the

infection rates accel orating fast some labs in germany like this one in ryan and platon it a warning that smaller facilities are already working at full capacity and wouldn't necessarily be able to cope with rising numbers. there's also increasing concern that more areas in germany will have to implement restrictions again like kiran back to london in bavaria where even schools have closed down again to curb the spread. but joining us now is d.w. political correspondent huns plants hun's what these numbers into perspective for us just how serious is the situation here in germany. well one thing you could say is if germany was a foreign country germans wouldn't all be warned against traveling to that country because germany as a whole has exceeded the critical level of 50 cases of call the 100000 in the last 7 days but of course germany is germans are not being warned against traveling

to germany itself the situation in germany is being looked at in a lot more detail of the fine detail in other words tones where the incidence of covert 19 is particularly high are being given special restrictions and so on also one other thing you could say is if you look at something the angular knuckle said about 4 weeks ago at that time she warned that by christmas we could have something like 19000 new cases per day at the time 4 weeks ago people thought she was being alarmist now we've reached a very close to the number within 4 weeks so this is your ration really is the number of cases is rising much faster than expected at the same time the authorities are saying they're still have matters basically under control especially if people stick to the rules and stick to the hygiene control rules and if people refrain from private parties and private festivities what about in the

hospitals i mean how bad are things looking at the forefront. if you look at hospitals at the moment the situation is not yet critical there are a ball of 950 covered 9000 patients in intensive care at the moment the ball half of them are on ventilators in other words are very serious cases and in total there are both the rate falls and intensive care beds available at the moment but this situation could change very quickly we both orators warn that the situation in the hospitals reflects the infection rates of 3 or 4 weeks ago because that's how long it takes for people to end up in hospital so we might have capacity still for another 2 or 3 weeks but then things could well get critical. political correspondent hands on thank you for that update. well here's a look at some other developments in the global pandemic ireland has gone into

a 6 week lockdown it's the 1st european country to order a 2nd lockdown non-essential businesses will close with bars and restaurants limited to take away service and indonesia is reporting nearly 4 and a half 1000 new cases the country has the highest number of infections and coated 90 deaths in southeast asia and astras in the neck and oxford university say a vaccine trial will continue despite the death of a volunteer in brazil regulators say there are no concerns about the safety of the brazilian trial. now a quick summary of some of the day's other headlines a prison in central lagos nigeria has been set on fire witnesses in the city's upscale neighborhood also reported hearing gunfire at nearby they claim seems to match reports by local police who have told the media that the detention facility was under attack by assailants. lebanese lawmakers have voted inside hariri

as the country's new prime minister designate hariri previously held the post resigned last year amid nationwide anti corruption protests he pledged to quickly form a government of experts to help the country out of its political and economic crisis . 12 children have been killed and several wounded in an air strike on a mosque in afghanistan's northern tac region afghan security forces believe taliban fighters who killed 40 soldiers were hiding in the mosque but the militants had already moved on. a russian soyuz spacecraft carrying a u.s. astronaut and 2 russian cosmonauts back from the international space station has touched down safely in cassocks down nasa astronaut chris cassidy spent a total of $378.00 days in space the mission marks the last federal russian flight carrying a u.s. crew member. well the european parliament has named belarus's democratic opposition and civil activists as the winners of its top human rights award the secor of

freedom of thought prize recipient same clude exiled belarus in opposition latest taken off sky mass protests attracting tens of thousands have rocked the country since the presidential election in august despite police threats to open fire the opposition accuses long time long time leader and xander that of rigging the vote. well for more let's bring in larry carlo he's a deloris an opposition politician and part of the movement that's just been awarded the prestigious prize currently in riga mr carlos good to have you with this how are you feeling right now. well i think that 2 tours the right decision to nominate 3 great for women who started to fight against what they saw rigidly against the locus and courage of you and you know i think

that is a safe area decision to cora set now of course of fighting and still just fighting for himself but you swallow war for his wealth and these 3 women and they were out fighting for so very or principles the principle of democracy and defy all use their wealth was their time very orton to lead whole european countries to the whole european continent and. planets you know they were fighting not for themselves and the soup line was fighting not for herself as a only bishan as a leader as a president while they were fighting for the rights of bill was equal to freely elect the leadership there were only warrants and i think that these were made them different from. the goldblum and surf. around europe or what exactly does this precipitous prize mean for the belarus and opposition. well i

think that means they built those people on not so low face to face with the stick that all real reach that it belittles people feel is support from the side top the european community and from the side of the global community but the whole world actually source on what is happening and below groups and the whole world has sued or to or don't use democratic hold. and what impact say you hyping this prize will have on the movement. well you know it's very hard to say on any particular way back so i think this is just a probe says no to that fact that the so were it worse. 2 or 3 grades we had to go to an actual event or some people also waiting colluded in these frauds is. what i think that you know we will need all the role

support over the european community of the european and democratic government to hold to the old or old to do to pull the movement to the roost and i hold it to within a couple of months these words you will be finished and those people will get to know what you need to do to build there for you and your credit so great state why do you think the european parliament chinese amazement for this award. well dick morris no this is real we have big story at least these year. or so. it's not very overwhelming when you know the world will start fighting against dictatorship and the particular. feature over movement builder who's there it. 3 men were taken out of the race 3 brave women

are substituting them and so you know just their heads are killed as far as i know it never happened before. when the whinnying were fighting it yang's they should normally you know just do their prerogative but not we and below who's worse has these just doing it features so pro-democratic will after all i think don't use nation war because the original lucian and all just saw the last people already have them and you can not stay in our world when you are 80 why most don't belong wrist the ball and what is happening in connection to it lucas encouraging war on the merits of comedy part of the belarus in opposition movement that's being the winner of this is human rights prize awarded by the european parliament thank you.

we've less than 2 weeks to go before the us presidential election and tell intelligence officials believe that iran and russia have interfered in the upcoming votes they accuse iran of being behind recent intimidating a mouse targeting american voters in multiple states and also alleged that tehran and moscow obtained voter registration day tells with the goal of altering the vote democratic vote is in a place for battleground states received a mails that threatened we will come off t.v. if the recipients didn't vote for president donald trump. sumi some of scandal is in washington she gave us more details about the f.b.i.'s accusations groups from iran and russia got their hands on voter registration data they use that information the iranian groups did to send these threatening e-mails as you mentioned and as you said in those e-mails that said vote for president trump or else now these e-mails were actually signed by the group the proud boys this is the white supremacist group some of our viewers might remember that the president

refused to denounce in the 1st televised debate and this is a group that does support the president but that was a false flag there is a lot of information we don't know at this point to tell you what that is that's crucial we don't know which groups were behind this we don't know if voter registration databases themselves were accessed because that would also be a really key here and we don't know what the intent was the f.b.i. director said the intent was clearly to hurt president trump but if you think about it if democrats were intimidated from going to the polls and perhaps didn't cast their ballots that certainly would hurt joe biden so we are hoping for more information to be revealed in the coming days. state abuse to me so misconduct in washington and racism and police violence have become k. election issues after a series of killings and the months of protests that ensued in minneapolis the police killing of george floyd's found global protests and people is still trying to come to terms with what happened many are asking if trust between police and citizens can be restored.

minneapolis may 28th the 3rd precinct building of the minneapolis police department said the blaze during protests against the death of george floyd in police custody . the burning police station becomes a symbol for the protesters fury for their demands for an end of police racism and patella. 5 months later abandoned boarded up and secured with cement barriers precinct 3 still a symbol now signifying the city's struggle to make the changes the protesters demanded to the local police department and how policing is done many appaloosas is still. dealing with the fall out and the controversy and the trauma so rounding george floyd being killed by the minneapolis police department there is definitely a breakdown in terms of trust between our elected officials and their constituents

as well as between their constituents and our law enforcement community volunteers from your copy mom and prepare to patrol the neighborhood and the 9th ward of minneapolis where george floyd done their christian and local law and growing in number we just thank you for your blessing to watch over us as we walk the streets one of the group recently recognized and supported by the city is filling the gap created by the collapse of trust between police and the black community with police patrols largely absent from this part of town they have taken on the task of pro act. if we protecting the community from rising crime we want to have selected police are not going to be who live in our community who look like our community and then there'd be a better peaceful like how we can direct talk to them and how we communicate to each other minneapolis police recognize the need for urgent and fundamental change says that to the chief eric force he sees new recruiting strategies this critical

for any real progress one of the best things you can you can have as a department that's as reflective of your community as you can get it especially people from the community and that's really what we're pushing forth stresses that from his point of view there are at least 3 other top priorities for reform there needs to be deep in gauge went with the community secondly would be trainings with how we deescalate situations and lastly with what that requires all of this is the personnel to do that. but words are not enough so as they've been a local activist with a group called communities begins police brutality there's been talk of reform there's been some radical talk from the city council but there has been virtually no action whatsoever and we're not seeing a lot of initiative for action from the city council the mayor the police chief the city council talk of abolishing the current system of policing but was hit by

a sobering reality check. my advice to other cities who are facing the same challenge is to ensure that when you are going to divest from our your crew policing system that you really do have. a much longer and proactive plan for instituting alternatives that have been tested and worked after hours of patrolling the neighborhoods the a godly men decide to go home they'll be back tomorrow night and tonight after that the changes they were pushing for you know it's kind of more of a generational change you know because we want to make it better for our children their children and this is this is this is like our starting block right here you know as we're trying to pave the way for. the time government has rolled back an emergency decree banning protests in the capital bangkok and has been put in place in an effort to calm anti-government demonstrations that have been

escalating for weeks but the measures failed to discourage tens of thousands of demonstrators from turning out to protests around major bangkok intersections demonstrators a demanding the time previous resignations and reforms to the monarchy. for more on this let's bring in philip show well from bangkok he's the edge a correspondent for the british newspaper the sunday times philip protests is said that withdrawing the measures was not enough what are they demanding now. well they're demanding what they were demanding before this decree was put into place you have to remember that they've been on the streets for 4 months and they have a series of demands and those remain those remain from 2 forceful them and those are the resignation of the current government now that's led by general. he staged a coup in 2014 and then kind of came we keep maintaining office last year under

a controversial election that the opposition claim was unfairly held there demanding a change to the constitution which includes unelected senators and which and embeds the current higher system and most contentiously like a reform of the role of the family which is a long venerated institution and it's been a complete to even discuss that political and military and financial affairs previously but some of the students are gone now and that is what's on their mind so all those are still outstanding and the prime minister said he will. recession apart an extra recession a parliament which is otherwise in recess next week but there's no indications that the government is really going to offer any substantial narrow 3 major areas of demand. some of them high profile later arrested during the crackdown well the rollback mean anything different from them what can i expect. at those protest leaders. some of them are still behind bars and some have been

bailed but they're facing very serious charges including sedition and several of them and the but the the the protest organizers and the protesters are now adopting the man show that you know we are all leaders they are they're taking kind of the hong kong approach in last year which is that where we're leaderless we're not dependent on particular individuals they're spreading messages via social media they're spreading messages on the street and so those protest leaders do face very serious charges and one of the main demands of the protests is that those charges are dropped of also demand from human rights groups and opposition parties but also they're not letting that undermine the actual strength of their own of the demonstrations they mentioned no real movement from the government so what about from the royal family have you heard anything have we been hearing anything from them yet the palace does not comment on current affairs and we wouldn't

expect them to know their modus operandi but the king did last week on meet a group of former communist rebels who were once fighting to overthrow the monarchy and he pointed out to them well what the nation needed was people who love the country and people who love the institution by which you meant the royal family so you know he was sending a message that we wouldn't expect him to say anything directly certainly not to address these rather extraordinary and unprecedented demands by the protests and reform of the institutional units right philip shell from the sunday times many thanks for time thank you. how far could plastic waste become a part of underwater life that's the question swiss director pascal shibli sent out set out to explore in his movie the beauty it's an imaginative take on one of the most pressing issues facing our planet that's plastic pollution. has won a student oscar for the animation which he created as part of his final faces at

one of germany's top film schools. the beauty takes us on a journey into the depths of the ocean to get a bit more watching little number. 5 and you realize it's no documentary but a parable fees for about pollution. sites starring characters made of plastic waste them just. the. basic concept was to tell the story poetically and with irony. all the videos you see featuring distressed whales and turtles are so shocking and somebody i have the feeling we've become emotionally immune. filming in post production took a year and a half. of the characters like the pufferfish made

a double wrap. over the school of fish made of flip flops where digitally animated and later integrated into night action underwater footage . so i think the concept only works if it looks realistic if it makes you believe that that's what really i'm already all made of a car tire that just swam by. shelby's photo realistic aquatic fantasy invites us to suspend our disbelief and dive into a world in which nature and waste deal with pollution by ensuring. into a supernatural symbiosis but the film doesn't spare us the harsh reality. it ends with a look at the ever growing forest of synthetic refuse that's gradually suffocating operations and everything that lives in them. the painting has rightfully won accolades the international student oscar propels prasco shelby's arts the

appeal to save the seeds into the running for the best animated short in the main oscars competition. we artist banksy is known for his graffiti paintings that spring up overnight on buildings all over the world but now it's his parody of a man a masterpiece that's gone under the hammer the artwork show me the monterey trashes the familiar idyllic water lily pond saying with consumer garbage there's even a traffic cone floating in the water one lucky via snapped up the works for 8400000 euros that's the equivalent of almost 10000000 dollars. if you're watching date over the news coming up next ended up in the news asia a tale of 2 protests we'll see how the pro-democracy movements in thailand and hong kong and gaining support and strength from each up up. and how could applications

for visas turn into a deadly stampede in afghanistan. plus we'll learn how a man in pakistan turned his disability into an asset. that's coming up with melissa chan in just a few minutes you're watching a date over the news thanks very much for watching.

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