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coronavirus pandemic has the world in its grip and it's not letting go health systems in some european countries are reaching the point of overwhelm and there reimposing lockdowns a varying severity from spain state of emergency through the u.k. stea system to germany's locked down night but are we doomed to a cycle of lockdown and release this case numbers for and then rise again until someone comes up with a vaccine that we trust enough to take i'm phil gale in berlin and this is the day . the more countries share information the better we can cool the response we are not devoted to admit one anymore so it's the patients come into a very modern through a transfer to another oath to.

support. my secret was that when you have only one vector and 24 out of a thing called a thing that you have to compute with one you are a. sort of gold we are together united because we are in the same boat. also on the day of with just days to go until the u.s. presidential election it's not just americans depending on the results we'll take a look at a women's health center in kenya whose funding was cut by president trump we used to provide pretty. pretty information we had on him but provide them. today because we don't get them anymore for free. these are for the most cases they report when they're pregnant when they're not ready for their pregnancies so this forces some of them to deliver or for them to know how

of their proportion. are welcome to the day well europe's coronavirus caseload topped more than 1300000 last week according to the world health organization and its hospitals are filling up the e.u. held a video summit on thursday to discuss closer coordination of the blocks efforts to fight the pandemic among the items agreed were 228000000 euros to fund patient transfers across national borders and countries with more cases of make it handle to those with spare i.c.u. capacity also agreed was the need to coordinate to test and trace systems and the palling of coronavirus data e.u. commission presenters who were found alive spelled out the situation after the meeting i think it is enough to say that it is very serious. numbers of cases are raising numbers of hospitalization are rising number sudden

death of death are rising not as fast fortunately because we understand better today how to treat covered patients and how to deal with the disease but the spread of the virus will overwhelm our healthcare systems if we do not act urgently. so let's take a closer look at this with a fresh metoos an award winning science journalist based here in berlin welcome to the w m how bad is it with the war what we heard sort of on july and they're saying it's bad but we're it's almost too bad how bad do you think it is. well i think it really depends on you know what you what you want to compare us to i mean it is very clear that we are in a situation where the numbers you know cases rising very fast we have a rise in hospitalizations and deaths so from the spring the idea was always to try

and keep the health system from basically from overloading and failing now that you know some countries may not even manage to do that i think a lot of countries still have the opportunity to turn things around and manage that but even you know even failing that it is a really serious situation if you can't not just the best but if you remember you know the long term consequences of this for many many patients also unclear so i think it is time to act and now 8 months into this pandemic a european union has. has put together this idea of a coordinated action to deal with a pandemic well what do you make of what you've been hearing of it. what you think the noises that we're hearing are the right ones i mean clearly you know more coordination helps but i also think you know in the end we do have different situations in different countries and you know in the end you have to fight this

virus locally by the on the ground you know in in the hospitals but also in your senior care homes and just in the communities so it's i think the idea of you know i mean it is important to coordinate it on the european level especially i think it is important to kind of agree on a strategy because it is there's a danger that you know some countries try to really keep the numbers down in the other countries don't do that and we have free movement in europe clearly that's going to be a problem so i think the structure needs to be there are a common strategy but then of course in the end the efforts have to be done on the local level not even a national one and so while europe is sort of getting itself into a panic we have china saying well we're open for business now what can we learn from the chinese handling of the crisis just under 91000 cases they say unless some 5000 deaths compared for instance to the situation in the usa. you know i think in the in the early days of the debate we could have learned a lot and i think you know we will have to take

a very serious look at some point to understand why we didn't you know early on the understand some of the lessons that were emerging from china quite quite early and at this juncture the question is a little bit i think what we can learn you know is there really something we can learn from china that we can't learn from our own experience in spring and i'm not so sure about that and the reason is really you know china clearly you know has had a good strategy and i think there are things that are possible in china that just wouldn't be possible in europe so they managed to act really early and i think that is something that we should have realized sooner but i also think europe does need to find its own strategy i think it helps much more to look at south korea or japan and you know that have kind of a more similar structure and have had some of if they had a 2nd wave and things like that but they just managed to take care of them much earlier on but much less stringent measures so i do wish we would talk more about

japan and less about sweden to be honest and looking ahead i wonder if the next set of serious headaches isn't going to be more about in which countries i get the vaccine when it arrives let's hear from the german health minister yes on a calling on assault to play nicely so important to me to make clear from the beginning that all 27 member states no matter our big they are small they are g.d.p. years and all up to get. those from the very beginning of course new to the population size so much i find most important by the way it is made clear from the be in bed we will wait for tryouts child's face 3 results before they will be in approval so chi cooper schmidt this is massive focus everybody is waiting for vaccine to be developed but we actually seem to be making a lot of progress on treating covert patients as well. i think

there is the size here also that a vaccine is just going to take care of things and the truth is until we get the results from the wreckage. we don't really know that and of course it'll take a long time to to produce enough doses to really fascinated enough people and then the vaccine has to have a certain effect is the. to even have an effect on you know on the on the on the societal level now with treatment i think that's kind of been talked about less but of course when we can really treat serious cases and maybe even you know try to prevent serious infections in people who have mild infections that is a big that is a big change for ask the biggest breakthrough in a way that we've had was realizing that that's the methadone that's the recovery trial in the u.k. that's found out that next semester is on you know can reduce deaths in the last less patients and to give the sickest those patients by more than a 3rd so that is one reason that we see

a slightly you know slow uptick in the in the deaths now than we did in spring is that we have learned better how to treat this disease and the the other thing that is around the corner i redid the monoclonal antibodies now that is the drug that most experts from the beginning were kind of you don't pin the highest hopes on you have to remember that in the 1st phase of the pandemic people said ok let's take whatever's on the shelf let's try to sweep up with this drug let's take things like hydrochloric weight and other drugs looking up there it's one of the that are not meant to treat this disease but maybe you know we're lucky and we find something that works but we're now getting into the 2nd phase where drugs that were developed especially to stop this particular virus are going through the clinical phases especially the phase 3 trials and hopefully early next year we will have some that actually work and that could make a big difference is a glimmer of hope out that thank you for joining us akaka freshman science journalist of mischief and. thank you. belgium is

a european country to announce that new restrictions are non-essential shops will close as the country battles a surgeon covered 900 factions hospitals are struggling to cut the number of patients in hospital with 98 has outstripped the 1st why even april doctors under us is under enormous pressure to keep caste system running. this used to be the recovery room for patients who've had surgery now it serves as a makeshift intensive care unit for cope with 10000 patients on life support hospitals in the belgian province of lea is are now the epicenter of europe's 2nd wave and struggling to keep up we are not able to admit one new patient any more so if a patient comes in the emergency room with a through the we are to transfer him to another oath be done in belgium and the flemish both of them will be or through 4th devo tells us his team is not only

short of beds but also personnel one in 5 nurses in the region have tested positive for the virus themselves but the pressure is so high that those who don't have symptoms continue to work under strict safety precautions doctors and nurses here are working tirelessly to take care of covert 900 patients some of them are even infected themselves but despite all efforts the health care system here in belgium has reached its breaking point as the overall number of infections continues to rise in the actual number of infections is likely to be higher than the official figures across town at least as university hospital testing is ongoing. and i can't smell or taste any more and i have a headache. because after the medics here can conduct 280 tests every day but these tests are strictly for those who have a doctor's prescription family members friends or coworkers who have been in close contact with them but don't show any. symptoms cannot get a test for

a moment as the moment we have so many positive cases the problem is there are far too many contact persons given the huge number of people who have symptoms we'd be unable to test them as well as all the people they've been in contact with at least not with the amount of tests we have currently if we had more tests we probably could back in the covert ward doctor duvall fears the lax handling of the crisis in summer will put him and his colleagues in a very difficult position very soon when you have only one vet and 10 people out of a thing for the same bit you have to choose between the team but which one you are after there are no doctor one who does one thing it's like you know we are not doctors who do that kind of thing we all looked up to treat patients not the truth which patient treating germany has started to take patients from belgian hospitals with infections expected to continue to rise here in the coming weeks and medical staff already at their limit will need all the help they can get.

to kenya where health care workers providing family planning services are keeping a close eye on the u.s. presidential election and donald trump the united states reinstated a ban on foreign aid for abortions had just the massive reduction in services offered by these clinics a sub a struggling to stay open the w.'s america reports from nairobi. for frieda kansi getting pregnant was a disaster she was studying at a secretarial college the bright future she was working for suddenly seemed threatened when i knew i was pregnant i had no old shillings and lit it was only mine just thinking of killing. no these. was just thinking that. i'm not going. to and these.

lucky break she was referred to even know my clinic she underwent an abortion and now feels she has control thanks to contraceptive implants. plus they didn't distract me indication. of the whole is a lot of things in a future but the clinic is under threat decisions made a world away from here slashed its funding us president donald trump reinstated the mexico city policy restricting funding for going to his asians which provide abortions or anything related to them it made life in many towns like here in 1000000 down the canyon caused more dangerous for women and girls were used to provide free for me to planning free information we had and it would provide for me probably really today because we don't get them in the mall for free these are

for the most because as they report when they're pregnant when they're not ready for their pregnancies so this forces some of them to deliver or for them to have a safe abortion. kiffin i was younger runs they've been all my clinic that helped free down the cuts forced her to cancel an outreach program helping $15000.00 other girls and women in rural areas that have had included cancer screenings and age i.v. treatment she dips into her own personal finances so that what is left can keep running a priority is to protect girls and women from unsafe abortions if i don't do the i'm afraid the next limbaugh the next possible to do it the wrong way that close in that store and. the threat of financial punishment for having anything to do with abortions is affecting kenya's national health policies says

kountry reproductive health coordinator kenneth miller building in maine that our constitution gives to be presidents to secure the productive we have resorted to to not falling off. because of fear. the choice of the u.s. president not only decide whether kenya can follow its constitution says the man who ends up sitting in the white house could mean life or death for patients who would wish the somebody sits on that seat somebody in the style is a human being you need that fly and that is a human being done simply because there's no information given to her once these plus a little bit of that. didn't he is sure of a girl's going to have the information and they're going to be quickly lawyers great doctors great. in the future because they will have information to prolong

their life let's get more on this from the washington correspondent susan miscounted welcome so make tell us more about this mexico city policy that we heard about in the report. i feel you have so the mexico city policy this was essentially the brainchild of president reagan in 1984 and what this policy did is it said that if you're an ngo and you want to access federal funding you'll have to agree to neither performant nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations and was actually named after a u.n. population conference that took place that same year in mexico city and it's actually been revoked and reinstated a few times since then most recently in 2017 by president trump and his administration has actually expanded this policy to include groups that don't perform abortions themselves but support ones that do and critics say this is essentially a gag order it prevents many organizations from providing key services in the

reproductive health sphere in family planning and feel that's precisely what we saw in that report of that ngo and kenya hit by the wide ranging implications of this policy so clearly a difference in approach between democrats and republicans on this. absolutely i mean i said you know it's been revoked and reinstated a few times that's actually happened every time there's been someone new in the white house since 1904 so president clinton revoked it president george w. bush reinstated it president obama revoked it and now a republican president president trump reinstated it and what that tells us is one n.g.o.s really have to live with a good deal of uncertainty in terms of planning their services they have to look at what's happening politically and too it really underscores the fact that abortion is an issue that has remained a bedrock of conservative politics for many years and the access to abortion has been really an important issue for democrats also for many years regardless of who

is in the white house so we have here then since where the decisions made by the american people directly affect the lives of women sauza is of miles away it's not getting much mention in the campaign. no it's not at all phil and you know you have to say that this election season really has centered exclusively around domestic issues in a covert 1000 here the economy a racial justice issues but i do have to say that abortion is an important issue for many american voters there was a survey here conducted by the polling institute gallup over the summer that showed that nearly half of all americans think abortion is an important issue for this election and we can't forget that this is an issue that's been thrust back into the spotlight after the passing of the supreme court justice ruth bader ginsberg who was an advocate of the constitutional right to abortion well she has been replaced as we know by a very conservative catholic justice any county barrett and there are fears that there might be an effort to overturn roe v wade this is the supreme court decision

that legalized abortion in america so it certainly is an issue in this county in this election season filled but entirely in a domestic context so we brought a foreign policy to as we know with president trump stuns when it comes to multilateral engagement what role would be u.s. play in the world if joe biden well you acted. well i think we certainly with president joe biden would see a return to multilateralism fills that's clear that we would see an affirmation of the importance of this post war world order this shared security insured value system with european allies we know that joe biden wants to seek a common approach with european allies on iran and russia that he would return to the paris climate accord support nato he's also said that he would reverse president trump decision to withdraw from the world health organization so all of that points to more multilateralism however some things have changed over the last 4 years and we would look to president possible president joe biden to take a tougher line on china as president trump has particularly on trade and

intellectual property so some things would be different but some things might also stay the same thank you for that service members come to washington. now to engeland where businesses and local councils have stepped in to help feed hungry children of the autumn holidays after the national government decided against extending a scheme to help families in poverty and linda is the only nation in the u.k. where the government said it would not help out a nationwide campaigns been launched to provide free lunches led by an unlikely figure head shot at chelsea charlotte's chelsea and pill as more. feeding england's hungry this pub and bakery it just tears the hundreds of businesses across the country offering kids free meals over the october school holidays a 3rd guy family a piece of fruit and apple some 1400000 kids across england came free lunches

during term time than many is that only hot meal a day during the holidays vulnerable families often struggle to put food on the table mohammed is one of dozens of parents who come to the bakery this week for free meals he has 5 children how high it will really hurt it was really hard to say but. they are helping us is very good. this london district has one of the highest child poverty rates in the country and the economic toll of cave in 1000 is only making life harder. and with or without the children we provide how many they need we had one lady also. we didn't ask any more questions we just gave her. a lot of fun with the families here and we see them coming into the shop and it was it was a really easy decision for us to make to do it and just wanting to give back to the community they have been amazing to us throughout. and supporting us say we wanted

to help support them this free meals campaign is down to one man 22 year old manchester united in england footballer tends national hero marcus rash that he relied on free school meals as a child himself and is now at the center of a high profile campaign lobbying government to keep kids fed during the k. the crisis bowing to pressure the government offered families food found his over the summer but last week parliament voted against extending the scheme prompting rushford to share stories of individuals offering free lunches that set off a tidal wave of businesses and local councils also stepping in to help. so this is fresh air london one of 28 warehouses across the u.k. since partnering with rushford food distribution charity fashion has seen a surge in support this week alone they've regis tribute is nothing good for 2200000 meals but they're warning the impact of cove it could see even more kids at risk over the winter as we start to see the impact of people losing their jobs.

more and more people are reaching out to food banks and their local community for the 1st time in many cases so over the next few months we see demand for our services increasing thanks to charities like this one and the marcus rash that campaign many kids have been fed this school holiday that may otherwise have gone hungry but with coronavirus cases climbing and the next school holidays just weeks away there's growing pressure on the government to do more to buy is elwood was one of hundreds of m.p.'s in the governing conservative party who voted against the extension of free school meals he says the government has increased welfare support since the start of the pandemic. with public anger building he's now urging the government to think again. this generation of kids have been impacted have had their lives affected in a ways not seen for generations we should do i think we can to provide support get

us through the christmas of a plan to make sure that the holidays work and then we can consider the longer term changes in the spring. the stage is now set for another battle over the christmas and easter holidays but without a government you turn this nation wide community of businesses say they're standing at the ready. and that was a day as ever the conversation continues online on twitter at w news a leave you with these images of the international space station which has been inhabited by international criminals for 20 years. and i probably are.

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