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brent: this is "dw news," live from berlin. tonight, a reminder that going on vacation is no vacation from social distancing. on the spanish party island of mallorca, hundreds are packing the bars and beaches ignoring guidelines. germany's foreign ministete wars that reckless rerevelingouldld trigigger a second wave of coronavirus. in p peru, out of working out of options. coronavirus leaves some of the country's poorest residents struggling to stay afloat.
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victory for poland's eurosceptic president. andrzej duda gets a second term, edging ahead of his euro friendly challenger. what does this mean for the rest of the continent? brent: i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world, welcome. it warning about vacation and the pandemic. there could be a renewed outbreak of coronavirus is tourists let down their guard on summer vacation. the german health minister says he is alarmed by images of germans flouting social distancing guidelines what partying on the beaches of mallorca. he says the danger of a second wave is real, a a he is urgrging tourists to follow the rules. reporter: on mallorca's beaches, holidaymakers enjoy the sunshine and fresh breeze.
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but at night, all the coronavirus-related rules seem forgotten. on the party strip, tourists are drinking and dancing with few face masks and little social distancing to be seen. german health minister has expressed concern. "we have to be very careful that it does not become a second distro. what i mean by that is the risk of infection is particularly high when people don't stick to the rules." the austrian ski resort was one of the first coronavirus hotspots. from ski parties, the virus started to spread all over europe. the healalth minister urged hoholidaymakers to stay vigilant in order to prevent new infections. "when i see pictures from the baltic sea resorts and there is
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a reason everyone is looking out for one another, i don't get nervous." "but when i see people partying and drinking out of the same bottles, when people are hugging, that of course increases the risk." spahn said he undererstood the totourists a impatatient after momonths of lockdkdn, but thahat their behahavior would i increae the e risk of sprereading coronavirurus and potentntially trigger r second wavave of infectionsns. brent: for more, let's go to wendy urquhart, a reporter for the " mallorca daily bulletin," based on the spanish island. a lot of partying going on, apparently without social didistancing. whatat are the locals saying abt this? wendy: you know, they are rereay worrieied, brent. we had one of the strictest lockdowns s in the whole of europe. everybody abideded by it. there were very few instructions.--infractions.
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now we are in a situation where we have hundreds and hundreds of english and german tourists doing whatever they want and not giving a damn about the locals, and they say the police are not doing enough. it is a really difficult situation, because we need tourists. tourism is the lifeblood of the island. but at the same time, health is more important. it is a difficult balance to get right, and at the moment, as we saw at the weekend, friday, saturday, and sunday, party town leleft, right, and center, no social distancncing, people drdrinking out of the same bottles, passing them around to strangers they didn'n't know. hugging,g, kissing dancing in te streets. ,not really giving anyny credene atat all to the roles that have beenen set here. don't know where and the things might change today. brent:t: you have got these ruls now. on a party island --mallorca is
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known for being a party island -- were the local authorities naïve in ththinking thahat hoholidaymakers would stick to e rules? wendy: well, you know, there is a lot more to mallorca than just people who party. that is two specific areas of mallllorca, on one side of the island a and the other side of e island. they both are party destinations for the rest of the island is not like that at all. the rest of the island is very quiet, very l local, very subdu. people respect each h other. there is only those two areas that are the problem. but the thing is that the crowds now has become so huge in the past couple of days that the police are finding it hard to cope. they are sending it elite forces to deal with the crowds to try to quiet things down. they have brought in a raft of other rules.
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masks are compulsory in public spaces and it is a 100-euro fine if they don't wear a mask. in the firirst couple of days therere will probably be a bit f leeway, but after that it will be very strict. also strict new rules on parties. there is a lot o of illegal parties s going on in the stree, raves happepeng, because the they must clolose at 2:00 in the morning. brent: wendy urquhart on the spanish island of mallorca with the latest about the pandemic and partygoers and holidaymakers. wendy, thank you. from parties to peru -- with over 320,000 confirmed coronavirus infections, peru trails brazil as the country with the highest number of cases in south america. the pandemic is making it hard for some of the nation's poorest residents to earn a living. our next report is from the capital, lima, wherere many peoe
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have been forced to finding new ways to make ends meet. reporter: arturo is afraid of infection, but he asked no choice. he was laid off his job in retail. now he sells plastic face shields. his commission is $.50 per shield. "i have three kids. i have to earn money to feed my family." corona as it peru hard. 70% of peruvians lived day-to-day w working as ststreet sellers or in construction. locked on measures were initially y strict and a a listf possssible to follllow. some r rules have been relaxaxed since thenen. the rules hit the poor r partie. in some areas outside the capital, lima, members have set up s sp kitchenen "there are lots of children and old people in need. most of the people here live hand to mouth." intensive care beds are a luxury here. the whole country has just over 1000 beds for 32 million
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inhabitants. doctors warned that is well belolow international h hundred. "our h health system has been broken for years. noww we arare payingng the pricr having no real h health policycr four decades." oxygen tanks for sick relatives. do-it-yourself medicine where the state has fallen short. brent: for more can we want to go to a journalist who is in peru's capital, lima. the report we just saw it shows very distressing moments for lima residenents. how bad is the situation i in te country? >> kids been terrible here. the numbers alolone -- it has bn terrible year. the numbers alone tell you everything. ththe fifth, by latest count, largest number of cases anywhere in the world. the health-care system has been overwhelmed to your. the government's coronavirus
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hotline -- i know of cases where people have been calling calling during weeks. they have someone sick at home and they have not been able to get through. people are self-medicating at home, they are buying oxygen at vastly inflated rates. there is a lot of speculation here, up to more than $1000 for a bottle of oxygen in the last 24 hours. and of couourse peopople are alo dying at home. the estimate for the real ductile, it isis not somethihing like -- - real death tololl comt is about something like 20,000 unregistered coronavirus that's in peru so far. brent: we heard one report of the country has 1000 critical care beds for a population of 32 million people. that is hard to believe. how is the health-care system coping with these kinds of numbers and the numbers off infectctions? simeon: well, it's been overrun. peru is an upper middle incomeme
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country. ththere is plenty of povertyty d hunger here. but as a aroportion of its gdp come it spendsds less on hehealh care t than almostst any otherer country y in latin a america,, d one sign ofof that has been the number of icu beds. no one really knows the exact number, but before the papandemc there were like two or 300 intensive care beds in the whole country. the e health minister says t tht number i is about 1400. theyey want to get it to aboutut 2000. but there is so much catching up to do and so little time right now. brent: despite high infection rates, thehe country starting to reopen. is it ready for that? simeon: well, that is the big question. you arare still averaging something likee 3000, and little over 3000 new cases per dayay. mickey b--the peak back in may
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was 9000 in a single day. we have been on this plateau for well over a month, almost two months -- well, a month and a half of 3000 caseses a day. it is going down very, very slowly. but the e economic p pain h been so huguge that i thinknk that although the government and peruvians -- there is a strong consensus that people are taking this,, the coronavirus, very seriously. just the economic pain is t too much f for many people. ththe government feels it has little choice but to try and reopen at least partially the economy. brent: simeon joining us tonight from lima, peru. thank you. here are the main developments in the global health emergency. the head of the who says there will be "no return to normal" for the foreseeable future in the coronavirus pandemic.
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and is warning that there are no shortcuts out of the crisis. a new report by the u.n. picks tens of millions of people could go hungry or starve this year because of the coronavirus. and hong kong has tightened rules on social distancing yet again after a sudden spike in coronavirus cases. a long way to go. that is how german chancellor angela merkel describes the work to be done if the european leaders are ever to agree on massive pandemic recovery package for the european union. today, merkel hosted the a giuseppe conte in berlin. they're hoping to build solidarity ahead of a high-stakes summit this weekend in brussels. eu leaders will debate a new budget and a proposed 750 billion-euro recovery fund. reporter: diplomacy in times of corona. while the leaders of germany and italy practiced social
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distancing, they have moved closer on policy issues. the movement possible by germany's concession for europe to borrow more money to help rebuild after the corona prices. without action, economic forecasts are believed. "that is why we want to head into the talks in brussels in a spirit of great friendship and with great solidarity. we hope the talks will l give us all a chahance to come out of ts big humanitarian disaster and also out of the ensuing economic downturn in the best possible shape." conte has been telling reform plans consisting of f economic transition from green new deal, the dismantling of italy's notorious bureaucracy, an improvement to its justice system. "we need to move fast, react quickly. history has shown us that that the best reactions are not much if they come to slowly."
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neither leader is willing to predict whether the upcoming talks in brussels will make progress, a sign that this could be the beginning of a long process. brent: he has won the election again. polish president andrzej duda is headed for a second five-year term following sunday's election. with nearly all the votes counted, the conservative incumbent has won over 51% over his rival, the liberal mayor of warsaw. reporter: on sunday, well before all the votes were tallied, with just a razor thin lead, president duda seemed confident he would win. now after a campaign fueled by anti-european and anti-german sentiment from he is striking a more conciliatory tone. "if anyone was offended by anything i did or said in the last five years from not just during the campaign, please accept my apology. i want to assure you that i have respect for you just like i have
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respect for all my compatriots irrespective of their views." this from a man who is aligned with the governing right-wing populist law and justice party. they have made no secret for their dislike of foreigners, sexual minorities, and the free press. just three points short, challenger rafal trzaskowski from the centrist civic platform party. his showing is seen as proof of her growing opposition in this deeply divided country. he ran on a platform of pro-european, liberal, and tolerant values. "it is only the beginning. i'm convinced we will change poland, that now we have woken up, no one will put us to sleep, and what's most important, we will continue fighting irrespective of the result." duda's reelection gives the law
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and justice party a shot at governing for another five years. during this time, they aim to push through controversial justice wright reforms, putting them on a collision course with the eu. brent: for more, a and joined fm the oldest capital, warsaw, by human rights observer with the osce. good to have youou on the progr. your organization -- you pointed out many flaws with the election process in poland. you consider the polish president to be a dememocraticay elecected leader?r? >> actually, i would -- thank you for having me. first of all, i would like to turn this around slightly to say thatat the election was well ru, and we said that in our ststatement todaday. this is a difficult time to organize an election, and it was well managed. what attracted from the well-managed election for -- what attracted from the
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well-managed election process was the extreme polarization and the lack of impartiality in the public media, which has a legal obligation to be impartial in its reporting on the campaign and on the candidates. it was missing. and the hostility which really hung in the air and the negative campaigning which went on particularly in the second round. brent: considering that, we know that mr. duda's election campaign has also been criticized for employee homophobic, anti-semitic, anti-german tropes. do you think this rhetoric is reflective of poland's future policies, or just rhetoric to get ththe voters to vote for hi? katya: whetherer this is gng to be rhetoric for the future in poland remains to be seen. i don't have a cristobobal
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i often -- i don't have a crystal wall. i often wish i did. the oc office for democratic institutions and human rights has a mandate to c combat -- [indiscernible] and climate hatred around the 57 countries--crime and hatred around the 57 countries. we see very worrying trends of an increase in hatred and hateful discourse and in some places, leading politicians who have easy access to microphones are talking increasingly about enemies of the people. this intntolerant rhetoric is sosothing thatat we know, sosomethinwhich h we noted in these eu country. it bececame -- it was veryy apparent in n the first rououndd maybe got worsrse in the sececod round. again, the fact that the public broaoadcaster was on n the sidef
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ththe current president, going o be future president as well, was something of great concern to us. brent: beyond the polarizing politics within poland from across europe, duda's reelection is seen as a bad omen for the future of the european union. do you agree? katya: y y know, i'm not herereo comment on the outcomemef the election. it is good that you asked me to question, because it gives me the opportunity to see that the oc observation is politically neutral. we look atat the process and w e observe whether the process is working, is in liline with international standards foror democratic elections. but we are not looking at the outctcome. we don''t have a an opinion n on whether one candidate should win
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or the o other candidate should- i leave that up to -- brent: ok, well noted there. katya, wewe appreciate yourur te in your insights tonight. thank you. katya: thank you. brent: here are some of the other stories making headlines around the world. eu foreign ministers have met in person for the first time in months. they discussed taking measures against china over the controversial new security line post on hong kong. human rights concerns in turkey were also on the agenda in brussels. kosovo's president hashim thaci is being questioned by war crime prosecutors at the hague. they accuse him of crimes against humanity during kosovo's 1990's uprising against serbia. speaking outside the court, thaci said nobody can rewrite history and that he stands for "truth, reconciliation, and peace."
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russian firefighters arere tackliling blazes across siberi, where millions of hectares of forest and burned the start of this year. response teams have been seeding clouds t to bring down rain. the regions have declared states of emergency as record-breaking temperatures in siberia continue. you are watching "dw news." still to come, it was one of the defining event in pop music history, leaving some performances etched forever in our collective memory. 35 years later, we're going to go back to the summer of 1985 and look at that legendary live aid. it is coming up in just a moment. soccer news. manchester europeans and has been overturned by the arbitration of sport. the english premier league club was sanctioned in february for serious breaches of financial regulations. reporter: manchester city's
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players can look forward to european competition next season. with the two-year ban now lifted, talk of high-profile players leaving has died down. once a 10 million euro fine is paid, life will go back to normal for one of europe's super wealthy clubs. ua for will be reeling from another high-profile humiliation. man city had become the latest club to sidestep the punishments with key figures in the game questioning the integrity of the organization and the purpose of its financial fairplay measures. gary linacre, one of the most high-profile figures in english football, has even suggested uafa itself has no future. according to the court of arbitration for sport, the claims lacked sufficient evidence, chance to dole out real punishment has been lost as less wealthy teams across europe
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wonder how unfair the playing field has to become before real action is taken. brent: the nfl football team the washington redskins has officially confirmed that it will change its name. the announcement follows renewed protests over the redskins part of the name, which is considered offensive to native american counities. the team's owner had said a few years ago that he would never change the name, but has since reconsidered after pressure from sponsors. some publicly requested a change in the wake of the black lives matter protests. 35 years ago today, over a billion people across the world tuned into what would become one of the most legendary concerts of all time, live aid. the event wound up racing more than $120 million for people suffering from famine in africa. it also offered up some iconic
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music performances. but staging the concert, it was a big gamble. here is a look at how organizer bob geldof pulled it off. reporter: it was a show like no other. more than one billion people tuned in to watch the live performances in london and philadelphia. the goal, to save millions from the famine sweeping ethiopia. >> ♪ don't let the sun go down on me ♪ reporter: the images on tv shocked bob geldof, so he turned to his friends in the music world for help. bob: had no contracts with anybody, not one. maybe they wouldn't come on the day. [bleep] reporter: one of the biggest questions, would people call in and donate? there are people --
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bob: there are people dying now! here's the number. reporter: an industry of access and the world's poorest. it was a gamble. >> ♪ we can be heroes just f one day ♪ bo>> so i said to davidwatch this, and bowie sat therere, and tears.s. bowie does "heroes," and then he says, "i wod like to welcome." that is when the phone lines everywhere in the world blew up. >> ♪ all we hear is radio ga-ga ♪ reporter: was it all just to show? a healthy british band q--it helps british band queen achieve
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a comeback, but many questioned whether it achieved its goal. >> it helped untold numbers of people at the time can those people have descscendents who would not be living. you can argue forever how effective it was in the medium to long term. it made people aware of famine in africa, just as greta teaches us about climate change. reporter: the concert paves the way for geldof's invite to the g8 summit in scotland. together with the most powerful politicians, they were able to achieve it that really for parts of africa. -- debt relief f for rts of africa. geldof says that i it is somethg that will todaday. bob: tt mafiaa ganter putin, that fool trump, that befududdld more on johnson -- moron johnson, can you imagine them sitting down and talking? reporter: his words can be
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disputed, but his passion cannot. bob geldof's big gamble became one of the defining moments in the history of pop music. >> ♪ feet of the world brent: that was the summer of 1985. you are watching "dw news." i'm brent goff in berlin. after short break, i will take you through "the day." trump at war with science, but that is not stopping the coronavirus. we will be right back. [captioning performed by the national captitioning instititu, which isis responsiblele for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]
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