well, that whole justified, if you look at where the lockdown that we have right now, do you, do you think this lockdown is strict enough? we hope it will flare to the dance floor. we are very much, there's a point that doesn't change the high rates of infection rate. so we think the chancellor and the presidents of countries were all of germany with think about it again. so we hope that in new measures will slow the infection rates down and then it will have better infection rates around links to 235, if that still lives in this higher rate, it will be quite a big pressure for all the people. health care workers in germany. working on the intensity or do you think if you look at the holiday period that's coming up christmas? what are, what can we expect there?

as you know the answer and the president desired, the ladies drawing the measure and a lot of the people coming together around christmas. we understand that the people will be together, but we really think it is not a true to open this whole town. people are coming together and we fear that there will be new rising infections in these families. we know that will happen. we know it from the 2nd hello there, or whether people kept together the families and as a result, in fact, rates raised up again. and we will have a heavy load afterwards to we later on in terms of i think it's not about the young sins. thank you very much for this update. thank you.

hungary's prime minister, viktor orban, says his country's health care system is quote, under enormous pressure because of the coronavirus crosses, the government introduced restrictions to curb the spread of the virus 2 weeks ago . but they have failed to stop the number of infections and deaths from going up as a w.c. alexander phenomenon reports. another problem in hungary is a lack of information yet not hass is happy to be back at home. the writer has just recovered from carver tenting at times. his symptoms were so bad that he had to be hospitalized for almost 3 weeks. the medical staff were very helpful, but terribly overworked, even though the number of people hospitalized then was 7 times lower than it is now . i knew there was no point in calling a nurse. there are only 2 nurses for more than 40 patients here. and it wasn't the

only problem. yanno shasta shows us photos he took at the hospital. this is the bad he slept on. and this is the rundown hospital home of some of the sometimes patients are even asked to bring their own cell. human rights watch has documented the poor conditions of hunger in hospitals. evidence of the government's failure to invest in the health system. the group says, we need with jule our conciousness, the president of the hungry and chamber of doctors. not many doctors are willing to talk about the situation a suit get estimates that mr. current buckle, that is part of the wider picture that we lack, specialist doctors and nurses as the us the problem. that's what we need. you can't just go online and buy a nice that is from china. that then bash out on the honest as you will, boost your in the 1st wave after pandemic. how we reacted quickly by closing borders, shops and schools. now the country has tightened restrictions once again,

wearing masks in public is mandatory, and a curfew is in place to fight the coronavirus. the government is considering using a russian vaccine. the also it is here say hungry. it's one of the better for tech to eat. you can treat against the corona virus, but critics are doubtful about the official data and decry elect of transparency, long existing problems in hungary. it covered in 1000 has now brought into sharp focus. the writer janish past believes it's crucial for ordinary people to know how bad the situation with me is. people don't have the information without it, it's easy to get fooled by the nonsense spread by covert deniers and the mosque refuses. without information, you cannot make responsible decisions for them. and that's what the government has to heat. janish pass says, only facts can help hungry. get the pandemic back under control. final tough look at some of the other stories making headlines this hour. russian opposition

leader alexander volume has addressed a virtual conference of the european european parliament's foreign affairs committee, together with other position activists not only briefed lawmakers on the situation in russia and head of parliamentary elections next year. about he was evacuated to berlin in august after his near fatal poisoning with a soviet iran nerve agent. thousands of farmers in northern india, marching on the capital delhi to protest new followers. demonstrators faced tear gas and put on charges from police as they broke through barricades. pharma say the reforms will benefit large corporations. the government insists the changes are needed to boost incomes and productivity. chaotic scenes have erupted inside taiwan's parliament over the government's decision to ease restrictions on the us hawke imports, opposition lawmakers dumped buckets of awful on the floor before hurling the organs

on their governing party. rivals and trading punches concern over the safety of an additive in u.s. pork protests in taipei last week. and the use chief briggs's negotiated the showdown years traveling to london for last minute talks on a trade deal. but he has spent the past week in corn team after team member tested positive for corona virus. media reports say he has told diplomats that significant differences remain, and he is unsure whether a deal can be reached by the december 31st deadline. french president tomorrow marks cause said he's very shocked by footage of police officers beating up a black music producer in paris victims lawyers said he was lucky to have c.c.t.v. evidence. as a result, concerns are growing over new proposed legislation that would restrict the filming of police on duty. there,

watching the news still to come. the teenagers who changed the conversation around climate change creates its own bug and other young activists. start a new documentary by a german photographer jem'hadar here to the 1st human rights activists are trying to use the courts here in germany to prosecute the perpetrators of 2 chemical weapons attacks against civilians in syria and 20132070. the activists want members of syrian president bashar al assad's regime to be called to account for the atrocities he denies involvement. but opponents say there is enough evidence to bring an indictment. they also say they have evidence that the syrian regime has carried out more than 200 nerve gas attacks over the last 7 years, despite agreeing to destroy all their chemical weapons back in 2013. the human rights groups have filed a criminal complaint with germany's federal prosecutor and hope now is that germany

can deliver justice for the victims. reporters from d.w. and the german news magazine deshpande it been given exclusive access to some of the evidence the screams of 3 teams who died in the searing gas attack in ghouta to this day. still echo in the ears of syrian news simone. she wants nothing more than syrian president bashar assad and the perpetrators of the attack to be charged. she and her husband one met our witnesses of a criminal complaint filed in germany by human rights groups. they wish to remain anonymous because they fear for their family's safety. wise, i fear for my mother and my sisters who are still living in syria and the whole because the regime is my room and unjust, and it has no mercy. if it had a conscience, dick wouldn't have done these things. on august 21st, 2013,

at least 4 rockets loaded with sarin gas warheads struck, rebel held parts of eastern kentucky. was more than a 1000 people were killed. many of them children. among them was imminent, marmet eldest son, they too were exposed to serin and were unconscious for days to this day, the syrian regime denies any responsibility for the attack, and i would hope that one day i can stand before a judge and tell them what these chemical attack did to us on the rethinking how long it was an arab scene that i cannot describe to you. give your lying on the ground like ants being killed by bug spray. these images never leave my mind was convinced that the syrian regime was behind the attack. for years his organization, the syrian archives, along with 2 other human rights groups, have meticulously analyzed the attack from the suspected launch sites to the

rockets used. there falso documented undisclosed chemical weapons facilities, including west's hair and was hidden after 2013. we think from our investigation that most probably branch 450 a network of different entities that are responsible for the coordination and execution of these attacks. the w.'s investigative team, along with german news magazine, was given exclusive access to parts of the criminal complaint. it includes testimonies from 50 defectors was 1st hand knowledge of the chemical weapons program, and names suspected perpetrators, such as bashar assad and his younger brother mohammed. we have one witness who described the request for the use of sarin gas comes

and then is communicated to the presidential powers where it is approved. we believe it is approved or ordered by the criminal complaint was filed in october with the chief federal prosecutor and consul. well, while crimes unit has been investigating atrocities in syria for years, federal prosecutors here in germany confirm to us that a criminal complaint was fired. but they would not comment on its contents. instead they said they would independently appropriate evidence before deciding whether to open a case against individual suspects. but that can take weeks or even months. a man was traumatized by the events she suffers from depression and needs medication to make it through the day. but the investigation in germany has given her strength and hope that the people responsible for all the suffering will finally be helped

to account. for some more background on this story, i'm not joined by mark michaud. he works for the organization of the prohibition of chemical weapons or p c w for many years and used to be in charts charge of its labs. he's with us from germany. he works with the samples from syria when you were with the opi c.w. . what information can be gathered from samples collected after an attack? morning. so when you take samples after nerve agent or in this case, terror in attack, if you are early, you can sometimes detect the real agent. it's a volatile agent, it also breaks down and then environment. if you do not find the intent, you are certainly able to find breakdown products which are indicative of the agent used. this can, you can be done years afterwards. people who are investigating the luxor case in

iraq sampled sort of there are 8 years after the incident and still from breakdown products. you also take biomedical samples that is blood or urine. and there you have specific markets that prove the exposure of victims to the agent. the number of old p.c. w. reports have pointed to a unique sarin, compounds in the samples from syria. why are these compounds so important? well in principle, the o.p.c. doubly amended for many years was to establish if chemical weapons attack happened or not. some very qualitative, yes, no answer. yes, there was a quick weapon attack, but it did not deal with the perpetrator of potential perpetrator. there was a body called the joint investigative mechanism that was the joint un o.p.c. w by the cold jim and it existed in 2 installments and the 2nd time they're also investigating nerve agent cases. and the gym had a mandate for a tribute,

and they look for a specific chemical signatures which would allow to track the agent on a side to a stockpile or to a production method. and the gym in one of its reports did that. they also then brought that there are these market chemicals they identified, could be linked to the stockpile of the syrian arab republic. although that report was not accepted by the u.n. security council. so it was not noted the regime in syria. the assad regime has denied that it has anything to do with these chemical weapons attacks. but what can, can anyone the handle these weapons? what infrastructure is needed to have a rockets with sound to warheads? there are notion sometimes that you could make this and basically a boss talk or

a kitchen. i don't think that it's possible. these are highly toxic compounds. and in case of sarin, they're also very volatile. which means that if you do not protect yourself and you do not work with them with their require expertise and knowledge and protective gear, you will probably kill yourself. and so whoever deals with these kind of weapons needs knowledge, extra tees, and also protective gear to deal with it was organization able to evaluate the samples off of the top. it's not my organization anymore, so i have stopped working for the old p. c w. anyone in 2019, but there's an important difference between the good type tech in 2013 and everything that followed because syria was not a member of the chemical weapons convention in 2013. so this incident was

investigated under a different mechanism. the un secretary of the secretary general. it's mechanism, going to this g m and the w.h.o., the world health organization, n t o p c, w provided expertise, stop experts and never atory kept ability to that, but that's a un investigation. so if all to see w. would be interested in that, that would have to go through and we all. so it cannot simply say we will look into this because at that time, the convention was not in force and syria. had been former head of labs at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. thank you very much for this background. thank you. to argentina now where football i can diego maradona has been buried alongside his parents at a private cemetery. and when, as iris after her donor's death on wednesday, the government had planned for him to lie in state for 3 days, but they ended the wake of the scuffles broke out,

a more mourners. tens of thousands turned out to pay their final respects to the footballing legend was a passionate farewell. was massive crowds gathered to cheer their hero one last time as marriage on his funeral harness left the presidential palace in. but as there is despite concerns that corona virus infections may spike tens of thousands queued up to pay tribute to the football great at the palace and what you might feel today, the football has died. i have no words for me. he's the greatest and all carry him in my heart forever. yeah. and we got us on, but you know, not, we can't believe it. he's a guy who made a nation happy with

a ball on especially the poor, where he made us happy in a way that politicians can't lead to go. no, not when i said he made all of us happy. and there would ever be anybody like maradona. i've been crying since yesterday. yet it was very hard to see, diego cried saying, yes, yes. scuffles broke out when police moved to disperse on really, fans trying to catch a final glimpse of maradona at his burial. here was their emotions ran high as his casket arrived at bella. vista cemetery with the footballing legend was laid to rest next to his parents. number climate change that issue, we were all talking about, the folk over at 19 happened, but it hasn't gone away. it's just all the spotlight. a new film aims to change

that the documentary now follows young climate activists fighting for the planet's future. they're young and they're angry. they want change. now, was the last couple hours. i was there passion made a huge impression on german photographer, jim kate, known for his black and white celebrity portraits. now he's focusing his lens on today's youth. for a year. he followed young climate activists in the fridays for future movement, including later tonight. this film is called now i think this was the

last chance to make this film and he does not. i don't think we have much time left for films that explain the way out of this climate catastrophe. time is running out . if you did set and it was young people who changed his perspective activist taking the older generations to task. smart, eloquent, strategic, like german fridays for future organizer, the features of the film, the david against goalie a thing. yeah. we just think of resources that are unique and this is for us, it's young voices, it's young minds. it's john people who have a right to have a future. no one can take us away from them at the strongest argument i have. it will only affect my generation career for really, but you can't just shut it out if you know that you're living on a planet, maybe a few more decades. and the whole future will be determined by the salone. it's insane. from boston to san for the gods, and likely also in lists. director of inventors and singer patti smith has crossed

generational voices cheering on young activists efforts. the film now documents german protesters occupying a coal mine, demonstrators from the civil disobedience movement extinction rebellion and the youth climate lawsuit against the united states government. this is about our lives . this is about our future. we're seeing the executive branch of the federal government for causing climate change and trialing our constitutional rights. different movements with the same goal, get in the world's leaders to act, now cocky to doesn't hide his admiration for his and others here before if they're all very polished in their delivery. well rehearsed and in the case of fridays for future, exceptionally polite fridays for future of about us named to flourish. and his team were in new york when collated addressed world leaders at the united nations

general assembly after sailing across the atlantic. the eyes of all future generations are upon you. and if you choose to fail us, i say we will never forgive you. the documentary strength lies in the hope of the young people. it features. time for so raise a family destruction. people on the front lines fuck that. will it happen and will we do it? no idea. it's a gripping question. is this, we're starting to see some signs that it's possible. we're getting close. just doesn't that we can at least be honest. you're watching the news. here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. germany's tally of comes from corona virus cases has surpassed 1000000, according to data compiled by the country's public health agency. chancellor angela

merkel told parliament on thursday that apostle of the virus could be extended into next year. you can always good. you don't use all the gold. just download all rock from google play all from the app store that will give you access to all its tucson from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news. and if you happen to be part of a news story, you can also use the d w up to send us your photos and videos of what's happening way you are watching live from berlin, coming up next. political talk show to the point, discussing president trump's final days in office, so i'll have more news for you at the top of the hour in the meantime. course as always our website d.w. dot com with all the news and information that you want in 30 languages out of a comment you follow us on instagram and twitter as well as gabrielle 1st from me and the whole news team here in berlin. thank you very much for watching

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asked trump's last days in office lame, don't own a raging bull or . oh, thanks very much indeed for joining us. my guests here in the studio. our susannah foreign correspondent for spiegel magazine who says, trumpets, how to devastating impact on america's standing as a reliable global leader. the old america no longer exists. also with us, eric from a freelance journalist who writes for the l a times and says trump's power is fading by the day, but his failure to ensure a smooth transition to biden has become a real threat to national security and a very warm welcome to 2 german iranian political scientists with the afro middle east center in johannesburg. and ali argues that military adventurism against

iranian interests may prove too costly, even for donald trump's operations. a more likely thank you all 3 for being here today. 1st question. eric donald trump's former national security advisor, john bolton says the big question is how much damage can still do before the january the 20th inauguration. and you think he might do quite a bit of damage though. the biggest threat to national security was not giving biden's team the secret. the intelligence reports that need to be given to the new president and not cooperating with the new team that's. that's a risk here in this interim period of the incoming president not being up to speed . this is what the obama did for trump. this is something that bush did for obama. it's something that's always done in america. we've never seen a situation like this where the president is not cooperating with the incoming team . that's hopefully going to be changing. we've seen some small developments this week and hopefully that will get better. that's the big problem for national security. what do you say on that question about the threat to national security?

threat of national security is most likely is most damage to 2 countries where the americans have a, have a big leverage and a huge impact. like, for instance, in afghanistan, like for instance, i heard that he still tries to convince pakistan to give up their resistance against israel. so he still does whatever he can. his heritage biden has to deal with it. but i think he's also, i mean, you know, trying to address 2 constituents or 2 circles of friends or supporters. one is the regional allies of trump, israel saudi arabia, most notably, who fear that with

a biden presidency, there might be another iran policy and which would, you know, tremendously decrease the pressure on iran. so they're trying to figure something out to do in this interim period. another one is appealing to a social constituency in the united states. and when it comes to the troop withdrawal enough on a sun so that this is going to going to go down well with them. so, but at the end of day we're going to see which, which of those developments going to materialize or not. i mean, trump has promised his voters. he's going to bring the soldiers back home. he's going to end these endless wars. and he's wanted to do more afghanistan all along. he had to fire his last defense minister a week or 2 ago who didn't want to withdraw the troops. this is something the trump supporters want. this is something a lot of american veterans wat. i think 20000000 americans have served in these last words the last 2 decades and there's a strong sentiment. hate we lost, there's no point. let's get out of there. just to make it about the perspective of

the people of iran, if you can, can you generalise about, you know, which direction they lean in biden or trump? well, this is a, you know, that there is a controversy in iran. i think. i mean, of course, i mean, i don't have a doesn't have any kind of fans of supporters among iranians because of its anti democratic credentials. so people are, you know, are not, do not have any illusions that this is a kind of democratic president they can rely upon and pin their hopes on. but there is a controversy among iranians. you know, one side says that actually the action of precious strategy with the economic sanctions on the regime has been quite important because it has been weakening the regime. so this is something that, you know, a lot of iranians who are critical of the regime would welcome on the other hand and in this wake actually they, they fear that biden opt for an appeasement appeasement policy on iran,

when sanctions would be eased and cash would return to the, to the leadership in iran. on the other hand, there are others who argue that state society power relations have developed negatively because with the sanctions also civil society is actually we can't. and i think this controversy is going to continue. you have to feverish, really writing down, you know, i mean, when it comes to iran, obviously, i mean, the people of iran, they don't, they don't mind the situation they're living in. it will be changed by uprise or by negotiations or anything. they need to have something changed in their country, and they're absolutely there. you know, is that they need something changed. this is for many parts of the world. so what role can america play you this? what is what is going to change with joe biden? and his now newly announced team coming into office has signals that he wants to

reopen the return to the deal. who knows his election coming up in iran. but one thing i liked about iran that's important to forget is hizbollah for 4 years ago was a real problem. hizbollah has been starved of resources because of the sanctions. the sanctions that are popular among ordinary iranians are also reducing terrorism . the threat of terrorism, thanks to trump did there. that's only one of the facts actually really. i mean let's, let's, let's be fair. hezbollah also has a problem because you have a crisis in lebanon, which actually brought everything, everything down and also hizbullah. and they are just a part of that society. suddenly the resources are cut. iran doesn't have the money to be to be active everywhere there in yemen. they're even in syria, they're in lebanon. but at the end of the day, it's a combination of a couple of things. didn't work out 100 percent, and i wouldn't,

i wouldn't like to say that. ok, let's just rewind for a moment. the incumbent president of united states of america is still donald trump, but it seems that he is slowly accepting that he can't stay in the white house indefinitely. so the question is, will it be by the front door by the back door that he leaves and will it be with a bang or a whimper? donald trump has half heartedly and indirectly admitted defeat on twitter 4 weeks after the election. the incumbent president remains in a sullen mood, judicial election result, no prospects of success, hardly completing mandatory tasks, such as the virtual g 20 summit. after a while he cut to play golf. he seems to be spending more time at the golf course. in one of his few public appearances, seeing someone inspired even his personal broadcaster, fox news broadcast. it is getting lonely for the most powerful man in the world.

still is the question, has he given up and he's got another couple of weeks to work with. what should we expect from those couple of weeks? he looked at the g 20 very washed out, but we have, we have the impression that he still has a lot of sort of dark. well, i mean, he's certainly struggling as someone, as i alluded to earlier, who doesn't believe really constitution some processes. so he has had a tough time and, you know, i think he is, you know, trying to prepare or to satisfy his supporters domestically and internationally. some of the moves that we have talking about, but we have to see whether all those moves going to materialize. and this is also probably if you have, as you know, probably or eventually or probable or unlikely whatever. rerun in 2024. so to

keep the support of regional allies and also to keep, keep, keep the support of the social constituencies that he has in the country. when you talk about movies being made, you're talking, i assume about diplomacy. and i'm just wondering, how did you see you indicated to the top of your, of the show in your statement that the old america is no longer the america? that was there is a different america. now. are you talking there about diplomacy? america lost its, i think it's america has 1st fog, lost its credibility. people don't know what to expect from this american and in longer and. and secondly is suddenly left a mark which will go on noticed for as a father for the next years and decades. so he has really changed the face of america, and america has changed its focus. i mean, the middle east is and europe is not, is not deaf us priority any longer. so this has begun already. it's intentional.

yes, it has their own. yeah. so, so that in the pacific area is our region is actually, they are there, they're now and we have to live with the repercussions and trump was just an extreme and extreme way to toot toot. to present this to us or to us. joe boyd says, america is back to get the confidence from gloomy and depressed as the others here . i mean, i think the united states is a leader will be a leader. and i think that's one of the reasons biden wanted to run for president. he wanted to help restore the united states tradition, the reputation as being a leader, and he likes working with alliances. he likes working with partners. he gave a very important speech last year at the munich security conference, talking about alliances. i think biden will be a lot like previous american republican and democratic presidents, i think trump will be the aberration. we look back at this period in history.

diplomacy is back so definitely, i mean look at his choice for foreign secretary of state. i mean, this is somebody who works, who's lived a lot of his life in europe and is and realizes the importance of him really realize the values of these relations and alliances and biden says himself, the united states is stronger with his partners. is a new sound, a new tone coming from washington. i think the last 4 years of hardened. a lot of people in europe, they think horrible things about their states, but it worked in the institutions work, democracy worked and now we have a new president after 4 years of donald trump. a major rebuilding job has just begun. it's already underway, surats, or do you buy into it? well, i mean, as much as, you know, trump tried to reverse its reverse everything obama did biden is going to do the same when it comes to trump's policies. yet we're not going to see a sea change on all conceivable levels. some of the things that trump did were

preceding him, the, you know, disagreements over the role of european partners and nato. the issue with china and also i mean, biden, it's true that biden has decades of experience in the foreign policy establishment, but realities in the ground in the least have trip dramatically changed since a decade ago. we have entered a process where, you know, some people call it a long term revolutionary process, where there's a lot of, you know, the satisfaction uprisings all over the place. so this is, there is changing realities on the ground. and there are probably also different expectations from the united states. so the challenges are extreme, but surely he can mend transatlantic relations. there is also an appetite for that here in europe. ok when you talk about change on the ground, the part of the world we're talking about is the one that goes from the middle east through iran, right over to afghanistan. donald trump has had an impact. now let's have

a look at what, where things stand for the time being, and then we'll talk more about those revolutionary pushes. afghanistan and iraq. the president is creating facts before the new one is sworn in trying to draw in 2000 u.s. soldiers from him alone by mid january outraged because without american air support, their deployments on the ground could become suicide missions. the taliban could regain power, and afghanistan could, once again become a haven for terrorism. but tribes policies have many supporters in the rich countries of the middle east. bahrain and the united arab emirates have established diplomatic relations with israel, with the help of u.s. mediation. saudi arabia may be the next to do so. the palestinians and their interests, however, have been completely ignored by the trial towards iran is legendary.

after he terminated the iran nuclear deal, sanctions and threats against tehran followed even an air strike on iran under trump cannot be ruled out, will transform policy become a security risk in the final days of his term in office. is there a biden doctrine? as far as i can see, there is a doctrine that he wants to, to heal. trump has created the doctrine is certainly to reunite with the allies. but the us is not an interesting country. it's a country driven by an interest. so finally what we see is a nice or a nice approach. good intentions, good.