announced within weeks and it's going to be delivered cost of such down by didn't condemn trump's record of dealing with the crisis through 120000 americans dead and he want his response for that many deaths should not remain as president of the united states of america all right we're going to the issue of race was also in focus. fact of the matter is there is institutional racism in america and we have always said we've never lived up to it we hold these truths to be self-evident all men and women are created equal guess what we have never ever lived up to put it we've always constantly been moving the needle further and further to inclusion not exclusion this is the 1st president to come along and says that's the end of that nobody has done more for the black community and. if you look with the exception of abraham lincoln possible exception of a claim that has been repeatedly challenged by critics as patently false

nonetheless voters finally got something resembling a substantial debate but it may be too late to have a major impact on the election result a record number of americans have voted early and polls show most remaining voters had already decided how they'll fill in their ballot. oh i did overviews myself stockman has been of course tracking this story for you great to have you here on the set michele what a difference is the 1st debate were there any knockout moments i mean who came out on top well what both needed to do was to make their final pitch the american people of why they should be the president of the united states and so they needed to do that both in tone and substance so if we look at say president trump with his tone he was heavily criticized for making the last debate very fighting and interrupting and so he was disciplined at least at the start there were times when he really had some aggressive moments come out he hit joe biden over

an alleged corruption scandal over his son hunter he went after him also over failures of the obama administration of which joe biden was a part of on issues such as immigration and again we talk about the substance that he was trying to put out there he's trying to show voters who support him hey i'm a guy who came out. i thought i was going to do an immigration i got tough and i did it i i also really good with the economy for this because of the plague from china came over so i was a president who did what i said it is going to do now critics would say well some of the ways you solve that in terms of immigration separating children from their parents of the border create a whole other host of problems but again voters who support him would say ok he did what he said he's going to do if we look at biden. he also in tone and substance needed to be presidential he needed to be focused and disciplined unlike the meandering joe biden he was at the town hall and in substance he really hit trump

part of the pandemic he really hit trump hard on racism in america he said you know basically trump is responsible for pouring gasoline on races fires in america and he came across as someone who said i'm going to bring america together i'm going to be a national healer and get us through these crises that we're in right now. to believe we're just 2 weeks away for the election but you know here we are did this debate move the needle did it change people's minds ok you know as the report said a lot of people are already decided america is a polarized nation so if we're talking about that crucial precious undecided voter you're going to have one person saying ok i'm looking at trump should i change horses right now well you know i'm looking around me i'm seeing my community more divided than ever i'm seeing black lives matter sign i've seen gloves matters signs i'm seeing pandemic in my own community i'm worried about my kids they might look at what trump said he came across as pretty tone deaf in terms of the pandemic he

said it's you know we're really solving it we're moving past it you might say really and also talking about immigration you might look at those children separated from their parents and say that was inhumane and cruel i think i might be ready to change horses or inside a voter might look at biden and say democrats their new. having big government i'm not sure i want that i'm going to stick with trump and let him get over this hump and get back focus on economy of michelle in the in the 20 seconds that we have left together just like that the debates are over it's crunch time now what's going to happen between now and november 3rd ok so what we're going to see is a lot of voting a lot of efforts for both campaigns to get out the vote and a record number of americans have already voted we're just going to see again that emphasize we've got to get out the vote so we can swing that needle either way from both candidates michele stockman thank you so much for you and here's a quick summary now of some of the day's other headlines in the world the head of

the world health organization has warned that some countries face the prospect of their health services collapsing during the coronavirus pandemic w h o's the director general says too many countries are seeing an exponential rise in covert 19 cases and he's urged leaders to take immediate action to prevent further unnecessary deaths. balance and hospital staff have taken part in a flash mob in brussels to protest their working conditions the country currently has the 2nd highest infection rates in europe after the czech republic authorities have warned that intensive care units and 9 out of 10 provinces could hit their capacity by mid november. the number of digits seals found on the coast of namibia has risen above $7000.00 the nonprofit group ocean conservation libya's said they washed ashore at pelican point peninsula

a popular tourist destination the group believes starvation is the most likely cause of death i mean source of food fish have moved from the area. and i just some breaking developments the opposing sides in libya's civil war have agreed to a permanent ceasefire and a u.n. brokered deal signed in geneva on friday but the deal comes after the internationally recognized government in tripoli succeeded in fighting off an offensive by warlords and if a half that the agreement calls for all foreign fighters to leave libya the north african country has been ravaged by conflict since the ouster of longtime despotic market daffy in 2011 after several failed attempts to broker peace observers are skeptical that the latest ceasefire will hold. or turn out to a gear steinberger from the german institute for international and security affairs

a good to see you go up is this the deal that will bring about long lasting peace in libya. most probably not we have seen many deals in recent years but still it is good news it shows that the united nations has some influence on the warring parties. and the deal seems to be the result of the realisation by the conflicting libyan parties to the conflict that they care and when the problem however is to what extent the libyans can force their foreign partners to withdraw their troops and whether they really will. really have the will. to give up their alliances with all these nations that have been intervened in the conflict already exactly because as you just rightly point out this is a drawn out conflict with many outside countries involved i want to have these

countries that are involved committed to allowing libya to make steps towards reconciliation. well i see no signs yet we have seen in recent months that the libyans themselves are ready to talk to each other they are ready to agree on a truce they have even started producing and exporting oil again something that has virtually stopped since january 2028 but foreign nations like russia turkey the united arab emirates qatar even some of your europeans like italy have invested heavily in this conflict they have not only sent weapons but some of them have sent fighters and i do not see for example the turks or the russians withdraw their support and let the libyans live together in peace i find that

really hard to imagine after all these years of conflict and is specially because some of these nations have only intervened forcefully in recent months so this is basically asking a lot of all the parties involved so how we let's take is it's in in its in its goals. well in its goals the whole deal is realistic simply because there is no major conflict between. between religious groups or between regions in libya by and large there is no conflict between these parties that is not solvable but after all these years of conflict libya has been the victim of foreign intervention is specially since 2014 and since last year the russians and the turks have taken over on both sides of the conflict and we do see

russia and turkey in a conflict in syria we see them in as a vigilant armenia and libya is because libya is such a rich country a country rich in oil. it is hard to see that especially these 2 nations will withdraw. that that might be the bigger problem today the problems on the ground the libyans have no major no major issues except power issues and i think they have realized that no party can win this conflict samara from the term an institute for international and security affairs thank you. thanks for having me. to paula now where police in warsaw have clashed with protesters voicing their outrage over a court ruling that effectively bans legal abortions in the country the nation's top court ruled on thursday that abortions for fetal abnormalities violate the polish constitutional anti abortion campaigners including president andre judah has

praised the ruling women's health activists say it will force women to have illegal abortions or go abroad. their revolution is female they shouted hundreds of protesters marched through warsaw last night against the tightening of abortion law stones were thrown the police resorted to water cannons and tear gas the protests were triggered by a ban on abortions by the polish constitutional court even when fetal abnormalities are detected to use abortions will only be allowed after rape with incest or if the mother's life is in danger. birth defects are the most common grounds for abortion in poland this problem and to keep systems on the polish state is illegally trying to ban abortion in poland of course we are devastated that the state is standing against women. what makes me happy is that people are protesting and doctors are

also fighting to oppose it because it was as was almost the pro-life side regard the new legislation as a win for their campaign they have been fighting for it for years. in 2019 there are about 1100 legal abortions and polish hospitals women's rights activist estimate the number of unreported cases to be around a 150000 more demonstrations are planned from this weekend they will be restricted due to new coronavirus regulations. makes sure to stick around our corner of our special program is coming out. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour corona. 19 special next on d w. has

a virus spread. through the technics and weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the crawl of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast. your podcast you can also find us at. science. of whether you're a skeptic or a true believer who cries during the vows weddings bring us together and celebration of family community and love but these days before the happy couple can even make it down the aisle coven 1000 is changing our rituals from forcing cancel travel to trimming the guest list and even forcing us to make new rules to minimize

risk. in portugal new restrictions mean that only 50 guests are allowed a wedding. and here in jerusalem a hospital even allowed a couple to get married on its grounds so that the groom's father a covert patient could watch the wedding from his room. ceremonies and parties that were months or years in the making are now changing significantly or being canceled altogether. what does that mean for how we celebrate the most important events in our lives. this is the $1000.00 special alone. welcome to the show i'm stephen beardsley in berlin well be it a wedding or a birthday everyone likes a good celebration but no one wants the virus as a guest and that's when many people are changing their event plans it's some do move forward here's one communities take on a wedding and the time of crowell. the

joy is infectious among these wedding guests but no one wants to spoil the occasion with a corona virus outbreak. precaution is now part of the production and authorities have put strict limits on gatherings and families are having to drastically trim their guest lists. we were expecting to have a gathering of more than 800 people but unfortunately due to the spending we do to discourage 19 i would guess the guest list has been shot tonight 251-0150 only. it will still take an army of cooks to assemble the west sun and elaborate kashmiri marriage feast of up to 30 courses but the wedding business and the rest of region is hurting after a double hit from the security clampdown and now the pandemic oh well that was the group we had hopes that we do good business this year with your interest but i've

suffered a loss of about 80 percent. and a pandemic era wedding means some other updates to old traditions waiters decked out in hazmat suits and individual servings. a ton of wasn't worth everything went nicely but we could not enjoy your food traditionally eating on a copper platter for 4 which dates back 300 years we still enjoyed the feast but we missed the traditional way. but some things will never change the. oh the anticipation the excitement as 2 families joined together to witness a new family began. and i'm joined now by joe went to feel and she's

a professor of clinical psychology at stony brook university in new york city join us good to have you on the show how important are rituals like weddings and birthdays for our lives they're extremely important they really provide us with ways to come together and get support from the people we care about they support our relationships they are fun things to do that take us away from the sort of monotony of every day life so they can be really really important for us in our lives through these are opportunities for family wider family to gather around are there opportunities in what we're seeing now are some creativity for couples trying to have these rituals or trying to have something in place of these rituals yeah absolutely i mean we see people doing this kind of stuff already we see people to things like drive by birthdays or you know zoom get togethers all of which are really important and really helpful for people and i think we have to work really

hard to appreciate what we can get from these kinds of rituals and if we get really stuck with the idea that there's only one way to celebrate and things won't be good unless we do it that way then we're going to be disappointed in this this pandemic time so we do have to be creative and i don't mean creative in the sense of like you know come up with entire new ideas about how we do things but just really thinking about what it is that we need and what we want to get and finding ways to get that in smaller ways than we're used to and appreciating what we can get from those smaller ways. do you get the sense that some people are waiting until this is all over you know one of the phrases you constantly hear until they have some of these rituals again these big birthdays or weddings yeah absolutely i think everybody's waiting for those kinds of things you know the wedding industry is booking weddings out 234 years in advance people are sort of

putting off the kinds of things that they might normally do in terms of parties and events and of course that makes sense there are many things that people see a special events that they want to celebrate in big ways when they can and the healthy part of that is it gives us something to look forward to the potential problem with that is if people sort of put off their lives can't live their lives can't feel so satisfied in the present with what they have then they're really going to be struggling even more during this pandemic time a time when we're already you know really our emotions are on edge and we're not feeling like i'm getting what we need so. so it's good for us in that for it too but we also want to be present in our lives now and you know celebrate in the way we can celebrate when we talk about relationships in general and how they're fairing during a time of corona this seems like an amazing stress test for so many relationships

are imagine. it absolutely is absolutely is for some people they're spending so much more time together they have so many more responsibilities in terms of childcare for example or 2 people are working at home or even if one person is working at home that didn't used to work at home they have to make accommodations and this is particularly hard for people who don't have the kind of living environment where this is easily done so there's so many more challenges that couples face these days that make it really hard for them. to. you know continue on in the way that they were before and have to ask do you think it's more difficult for maybe younger couples who are just beginning that relationship together or for older couples who maybe sort of have an established routine yeah i think it's i don't think it's one of the other necessarily i think both kinds of couples can have advantages and have some risks as well so you know older couples

have the benefit of some stability a level of commitment they know each other well they kind of know what to expect they may have. maybe more tolerance in certain kinds of ways on the other hand they don't have access to the kinds of other things that they're usually engaging in to sort of get away from the relationship they need to so that can be problematic younger couples might be at a stage of you know kind of early relationship bliss where this is a time to really just be together and bonds them at the same time if they don't know each other that well and suddenly they're thrown together in this kind of way they may start learning stuff about one another that they don't necessarily like and then what do you do with that now that you're you know kind of stuck together in the stuck together way so yeah. and the view from sunny brook university in new york thanks so much you're very welcome my pleasure thanks for having me. and now

it's time for your questions it's the part of the show where our science correspondent derek williams as the questions you've posted to you tube channel were to do. just covert 1000 transmission change depending on whether it's in that or fatah try one of the great hopes last winter here in the northern hemisphere back in february and march that cove in 1000 would prove to be seasonal hasn't hasn't really panned out and then the last months a lot of researchers have come out with with often conflicting messages about about where and how environmental factors are influencing the spread of the disease any direct links between the war temperatures and transmission of the virus seem to still be pretty pretty tenuous to me but increasingly researchers are coming to a more united conclusion that the humidity the amount of moisture in the air

could be playing a pretty big role in the spread of sars to both both indoors and out in the evidence is mounting that dry air makes the virus spread more rapidly one new study out of australia claims that when relative humidity falls just one percent in 1000 cases could rise by 7 to 8 percent and the explanation on offer is this moisture air causes the aerosols and droplets that an infected person coughs out to grow larger as they absorb water vapor which makes them sink to the ground faster but when the air is dry the opposite happens then the virus containing droplets shrink as their moisture is absorbed by the surrounding air that makes them lighter and more likely to drift around at. head

level and be inhaled by someone else another factor that could well be playing a role when the air is dry as that it also dries out your nasal passages and they're your 1st line of defense i'm against airborne pathogens like like sars co 2 and when they dry up it also makes it easier for those pathogens to gain a foothold. or science correspondent williams there and now we take our weekly look at how the new crop of cases are developing around the world. the numbers show new cases doubling in 35 nations. and increasing in another 91 countries. they've stayed the same in the 7 country is. 58 nations have seen their new positive coated 1000 cases decline while another 13 are down by at least half.

and the 6 countries have reported no new cases. here's the bar graph showing the statistics so far this year the fight against the corona virus will be over when that whole chart turns blue so there's still a way to go. but that's it for us today for more on these and other stories related to the pandemic to go to d.w. dot com and click coronavirus i'm stephen beardsley in berlin thanks for watching and stay safe.

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