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this is d.w. news live from berlin coronavirus surges back one country after another new recording fiction rights germany sees its highest daily number of covert 19 cases so to the czech republic france the us and poland where the president is among those infected countries paying the price for a relaxed summer. and sudan becomes the 3rd arab state to set aside hostilities with israel in recent months the leaders of both countries have agreed to normalize ties in
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a deal brokered by the us president palestinians feel the tragic. i'm jarid read welcome to the program germany has passed a warring milestone in the coronavirus pandemic a total of more than $10000.00 people have now died from cove and 19 in germany this follows a shop rise in cases in recent weeks a new record in daily new infections has also been sit in the last 24 hours with more than 14000 cases reported. a grim milestone painful for every family it has touched germany has become the 6th european time especially for the elderly and now we have more rate is higher in the younger population and that explains why there were talents you rate is lower because younger people
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do not succumb to 19 they usually get sick sometimes also very severe is severely sick however in these 120 neighboring france has seen more than 4 times their death rate meanwhile china and india have reported much lower numbers of fatalities per head of population those figures show germany may have dealt well with the virus so far but infections are also rising again more steeply than deaths and experts are increasingly concerned as they look towards the coming months. we don't know how the inspection situation will develop we have to assume that the number of serious cases will increase and that the number of deaths will also wrote story. if that assumption proves correct many more funerals will have to be held under the shadow of cope with 19 well spain has the fix highest number of covert $910.00 cases in the world but spanish prime minister pedro sanchez warned that the real
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number of those infected with the virus might be 3 times as high as official figures show the 2nd wave is putting massive pressure spanx hospital care with food off intensive care units already filled with covert 19 patients the government wants to avoid a new lock down but he's not opposed to a national curfew that would require a declaration on the state of emergency something that sanchez has not yet. earlier i spoke to journalist guy hedge cari in madrid and i asked him why spain is struggling so much to deal with the 2nd wife of the pandemic. there is a feeling that if they're not very strict look down the country hats in the spring which did appear to work were rather too relaxed off there was that the regional authorities in particular allowed people to try and go back to some kind of normality perhaps too far there was a lot of movement over the summer people travelling within the space between regions and those so there was
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a loss of contagion between different areas of the country there's a feeling that that may have been a problem and also perhaps that the authorities didn't take advantage enough all of that time when factions were low in order to suit reinforce the health care to prepare for a 2nd wave which everyone seems to be expecting to arrive such some point in the autumn that was go ahead curry in madrid speaking to me a little bit earlier is a look at some of the other developments in the global health emergency poland's president andre has tested positive for covered 19 as the country faces a record rise in cases a spokesperson said is feeling well neighboring czech republic has also hit a record number of deadly infections on friday more than 15000 new cases were confirmed and japan's government is asking businesses to be extended and new year's holidays until mid january to let workers travel off peak today hometowns and holiday destinations where the u.s.
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to has recorded a new all time high in daily infections with nearly 80000 new cases of the last 24 hours the pandemic was the main topic of thursday night's presidential debate and is that to dominate donald trump and joe biden's final days of campaigning. each white flag remembering an american who died of covert 19. the sea of flags by artists suzanne brennan furstenberg illustrates the devastating scale of the corona virus pandemic in the united states with over 220000 deaths. as new infections and hospitalizations grow across the country the crisis remains in the spotlight as the election fast approaches. after they faced off in thursday's last presidential debate the 2 candidates were back on the road for the final days of intense campaigning at
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a rally in the must win state of florida trump muffed biden's quote gloomy outlook for the pandemic claiming that the u.s. was in fact approaching its and all partners there loose in the media want to talk about today covert covert covert you know that you turn around see other look they're like just world eternal cheer then. you turned on them mysteriously you turn on this network is covert covert covert go on november 4th you won't hear anything about it because we're around the. war. during a speech in there where biden laid out his plan to fight the coronavirus if you were to become president a stark contrast the trends take on the virus. were more than 8 months into this crisis and the president still doesn't have a plane he's given up he's quitting when you could own your family he could in
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america he just wants is to grow not resigned to the horrors of the death toll and the pain is causing shome merik. biden said he would instead push for more masks and widespread testing and for free vaccine for everyone once it is available . according to polls the response of a coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important topics for voters in these elections something both candidates need to keep in mind as november 3rd draws closer. will see done as agreed to normalize relations with israel making it the 3rd arab country to establish ties with the jewish state brokered deals this year donald trump announced the agreement on friday the u.s. said it will remove saddam from the list of state sponsors of terror if caught compensates u.s. victims of terrorist attacks trump administration recently diplomatic ties between
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israel and the united arab emirates and. the move has angered palestinians israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu hailed the deal as the beginning of a new era for israel. today we declare another dramatic breakthrough for peace another arab country joints of. this time it's what a great development and through that in 1673 knows of the. peace of israel no recognition of a throw and no negotiations with the revenues today the 2 most saying yes to peace with israel yes to recognition of israel and yes to normalization of israel this is a new era. peace is proceeding with 3 arab countries in the last few weeks. well earlier i spoke to journalist sami sokal in jerusalem and i asked him what impact this deal would have on international relations. this will. been
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the is rarely a position. in the middle east in the arab world but also for because of the location of this with don we're talking not only about another arab and other muslim country but also about a country that is in africa so when many many countries in africa the most have relations with this route and this is a big breakthrough for israel at the same time there are also migrants who are living in israel there's a sudanese community all some of sudanese who fled from sudan who escaped through egypt to israel and. there are asylum seekers that never got to state the city is ready and it is or it is seeing this is an opportunity to expel them back to sudan and i can tell you many of them are very concerned they do though trust the sudanese government and they feel that their life might be even in danger. we have
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to look at the timing of this the november u.s. election is a little more than a week away is this a foreign policy victory for trump. no doubt no doubt the americans have been pushing this to have this kind of a statement at this timing i can tell you that the israeli foreign ministry was not in the room at all the israeli foreign minister they got to ask you know he does not know about this the developments this is a secret channel that was pushed by trying to get it within the. value service and they were pushing to have it as soon as possible and the next thing that they're talking now about is saudi arabia and the big question would be whether saudi arabia would make such an announcement ahead of the elections that would be a big game changer here in the middle east semi so-called interest on it's been
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good to talk to you thank you. here are some of the other stories making news around the world today in poland tens of thousands of people protested on friday against a court ruling that bans nearly all of the oceans in the country the nation's top called ruled that abortions for fetal abnormalities violate the polish constitution women's health activists have warned that the new ruling will force being untrue have illegal abortions were to go abroad. and as a government protesters have clashed with police in santiago in chile the unrest comes days before she lands version a referendum on whether to change the country's constitution which was recent you're in the pinochet to take the ship constitutional change was one of the key demands in a way of protests that broke out in october last year. authorities in cameroon have arrested ivory smugglers who attempted to transport nearly $120.00
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elephant tusks out of the country the smugglers had trafficked illicit cargo from neighboring bond which is hard to melt in hoff of africa's remaining forest elephants. just bought now in the bundesliga. excuse me. promoted still got strong start to the season was slightly halted in one draw with cologne the hosts took the lead in the very 1st minute through all the. final goal but the wind was cologne back through sebastian anderson's penalty as the sides had to share the points. it's supposed to be the biggest derby in german football on saturday but the receipt dortmund against shaka will be a strange game in more ways than one only 300 fans can attend because of the coronavirus while the 2 rivals sit at opposite ends of the bundesliga title. shaka fans are hardy souls they're struggling team
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a 2nd bottom of the bonders league are and yet they still turn out for a rainy training session. this is as close as the fans will get to their side ahead of the big darby the 3rd place dortmund away supporters are not allowed at the normally sold out game because of the coronavirus their presence could have been in jeopardy anyway if the shock of fans were accused of racially abusing a dortmund player at a recent youth match. show bosses are also battling major financial problems but amid the negativity fans could gain solace from last weekend's battle in $11.00 draw against me on berlin in coach manual brown's 2nd match in charge it brought their 1st point up to 4 games boosting confidence for the darby. we need a good plan we have them without the ball we've got to all flow ourselves into the game and then anything is possible so it's mostly. shouted might also be boy by dorman's recent form last saturday's wall no one at popham hein only came
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cautiously of a late marco roy strike. it was followed by a 31 defeat at lot c.-o. in the champions league. defeat like that can happen this year hopefully not very often. but the game against chelsea will be completely different and we should be able to manage a win. thanks chalco will hope the opposite is the case their fans will never stop believing. and you're up to date i'll be back in 45 minutes we've more news headlines thanks for watching.
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