♪ >> this is "dw news." returning to restrictions, increasing efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus. europe has the highest weekly number since the start of the pandemic. there are plans to curb travel. the czech republic is imposing a state of emergency at midnight. >> now they say i am immune. i feel so powerful.

i will walk in there and kiss everyone. >> the u.s. president boasting about his recent negative covid-19 test, drawing harsh criticism from joe biden three weeks before election day. cristiano ronaldo has tested positive for the coronavirus, spending the past week with the portuguese national team. he was supposed to play wednesday night. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. to all of you join us in on pbs and around the world, welcome. we begin with the european union countries agreeing on a strategy for restricting travel from coronavirus hotspots. ministers meeting in luxembourg

said they want a traffic light system, showing regions as green , orange, red, depending on the number of coronavirus cases, hoping to avoid confusion that disrupted travel at the height at the outbreak earlier this year. let's take this story to our correspondent from brussels. good evening. talk us through these european coronavirus traffic lights. correspondent: it is an attempt to bring order into the chaos. what countries are trying to do is use the same data, the same criteria to determine whether you can travel. for instance, germany has a travel warning against belgium.

france does not have a travel warning against belgium. so why is that? they set the point where they think a country is dangerous atá different levels. that is supposed to change. countries are supposed to send their data to stockholm, and they are supposed to be correlated. a european travel map should come out every week with countries being red, orange, green, so you could go from green to green. the problem is criticism arose immediately because these rules are only voluntary. countries are not enforced to do them or obey them, so this may work and make things better a bit, but not really a solution. brent: especially if it is not compulsory.

standby. we will look at one country hardest hit by this new surge in infections. that is the czech republic, where officials tonight will impose a three-week state of emergency. schools, bars, and clubs will be closing, a dramatic reversal of fortune from a country that emerged unscathed from the first months of the pandemic. correspondent: almost 500 people have died in the last two weeks in the czech republic of covid-19, more than in the first months of the pandemic. another 400 are in critical condition. >> i think people are not taking the virus seriously. correspondent: medical staff in prague are doing all they can to protect themselves. nearly 3000 doctors and nurses have been infected with the virus, meaning many are unable to work. >> in small hospitals where

there are not so many staff, it can be problematic if one infection turns into a cluster. correspondent: no other country in europe currently has as high a rate of infection per capita as the czech republic. many their guard down in the summer and became blacks about protective measures, like the wearing of masks. >> if they say wear a mask, very few people would do that. it was recommended during the holidays, but no one or a mask. correspondent: the government has decided to take action. theaters, cinemas, museums, and gymnasiums has closed -- have closed. tighter restrictions go into effect in midnight. restaurants can only offer

takeaway. it is a heavy blow for a struggling hospitality sector. brent: let's take you back to our correspondent in brussels. we saw severe restrictions in the czech republic, but they are not the only country in the european union taking actions, are they? correspondent: the netherlands have just announced similar measures, because with belgium, the netherlands are the second or third worst hit country in europe. people did not want to obey the rules anymore. they thought this doesn't concern me and were really lacks. now the government has really had to announce a harsh partial lockdown, bars, restaurants, cafes, public transport taken only if absolutely necessary, and public life will come to a standstill. you are not supposed to have more three people in your home as guests. it is a severe reduction of

social life in the netherlands now. it is just short of a complete lockdown. the prime minister has warned citizens and said it is in your hands now. you have to show responsibility, because the health minister also said up to four weeks of this partiaial lockdown, if the figis don't go down, the country may have to return to a full lockdown, a threat you hear it everywhere in europe at the moment, not only the netherlands , because spain and france are struggling, and it might very well end up if these partial measures don't work out as everybody hopes they will. brent: we do hope they will, especially with winter around the corner. thank you. nowhere has the pandemic claim so many lives in europe the way it has in the united kingdom.

infections are growing at an alarming rate, especially in the north of england. boris johnson has announced a system of designating high risk areas, such as liverpool. the situation is so dire that new lockdown restrictions are set to take effect in the coming hours. correspondent: last orders for this pub in liverpool. after a lockdown earlier this year, bars are being told to close their doors. new restrictions are coming into place across england in the north, bringining a new wave of darkness. >> i got very depressed over the shutdown. i have only started picking up as things have started opening up again, seeing my friends. it is a heartbreaker. >> it is a plplace to escape t .

a lady died in april. she had health issues. >> i live by myself. we are support for each other. i just feel as if i'm being punished. correspondent: like many, even paying rent will become difficult. after uncertainty, he thinks the government in london is failing as this is in the north. >> it is disgraceful how they have let people face the worst, not even speaking to local leaders until thehe last minute. it is horrible in normal times, never mind when everybody is afraid what happens next. correspondent: there is no getting away from the case numbers. liverpool has one of the highest rates in europe. the u.k. has more hospital admissions than before it went into lockdown in march. it is inevitable that other

cities will follow. >> before anyone enters the restaurant, we have a temperature gauge. one restaurant owner is doing everything she can to keep our doors open, but living every day on a knife edge. >> i did not know what to stop this week, if i am honest. i did not know whether to take bookings or whether i should open up or not, you can't operate when things are so uncertain. the lady in red is my grandmother, and she opened one of the first chinese restaurants in manchester. correspondent: they are third generation restaurateurs, now facing an unprecedented challenge. >> we are already struggling. it is the entire family. that is a lot of pressure. i don't want to let them down or my customers down, and yet, with the conditions, i might have no

choice. with every order, we break them a little note. correspondent: take boxes are now just one possibility for risk hunters. >> we have a lot of life to live and examples to set. correspondent: a message of hope to a community holding his breath for more bad news. brent: the coronavirus has claimed more than one million lives worldwide and increase the threat of hunger for millions of people. the world food program said it will need to $7 billion over the next six months to help deal with famine amid the covid-19 crisis. last week, the program was awarded the nobel peace prize for efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war. during the covid-19 pandemic, they have dispatched supplies of food to more than 120 countries. our chief political correspondent spoke today to

germany's economic cooperation and development is to. they spoke about the dangers of people going hungry in a widening food crisis. correspondent: minister, the world food program has one the nobel peacerize -- won the nobel peace prize and has used the occasion to one the world of a global hungeger isis. are we heading towards a drastic world hunger crisis? >> we are missing $5 billion worldwide to take care of all her crises. but the hunger crises in africa is worsening, and in india, the situation has grown into a hunger and poverty crisis from which more people are dying then from the original virus. corrrrespondent: according to te study that was published in the ministry at an event today, the world could be freed from hunger

if industry in those countries would invest only 14 billion euros over the next 10 years, not that much if you look at what is being spent at the moment on economic recovery. >> there is a lack of political will worldwide, because 14 billion euros is not a sound that is not possible. if i compare that to the spending on arms, then this year alone, armament spending has increased by an additional 70 billion worldwide. correspondent: you say it is a question of political will, hohw is the situation with political will in germany? is germany ready to double its expenditures for development, as the researchers recommended in the study? >> not is germany ready to, we have doubled the budget over the past few years during angela

merkel's time in office, and investing a third of our ministries expenditure in food and educational structures. i have set myself the aim of showing how to do it. and for this, we have implemented 15 innovation centers in india and african countries. correspondent: bill gates said today here that the absolute most important mechanism for fighting world hunger is support for small farmers. what is your ministry doing concretely to help him to mark -- help them? >> investing in decentralized energy supply in the countryside. the study also shows, which is of central importance, which we are doing, is security --

securing property rights and crating land registries, as they are pulled in germany. and, we are also demanding equal access for women to land, property, and to loans, as well. correspondent: thank you very much for this conversation. brent: let's take a look at the other stories making headlines around the world. the wto says the european union can put tariffs on up to $4 billion of u.s. goods over washington's illegal support for boeing. it is one of the largest penalties impose, coming one year after it imposed terrace against the eu over european support for airbus. germany has pledged solidarity with greece and cyprus and their dispute with turkey oversee boundaries. in athens, the german foreign minister warned turkey of a

major setback in relations with europe. turkish ships have been searching for gas reserves and waters that greece and cyprus also clalaim. a huge bomb hasas exploded while being diffused remotely near the polish seaport. no one was injured. the 5.5 ton device was discovered last year during dredging operations, one of several bombs dropped by british warplanes to sink a german warship in 1945. u.s. president donald trump is on the campaign trail, just a week since he was released from the hospital where he was treated for covid-19. his doctor say he has tested negative for consecutive days and is free to campaign again. with just three weeks until the election, trump is trading his democratic rival joe biden in national polls. >> back on the campaign trail after his own brush with illness , donald trump is now trying to

revive his reelection fortunes. ♪\ correspondent: he tossed masks from the stage at several events this week. following separation from his hard-core fans, it appears absence makes the heart grow fonder. >> i went through it. now they say i am immune. i feel so powerful. i will walk in their and kiss everyone in there. correspondent: trump sought to alleviate any concerns the tightly packed crowd may have had about catching the virus. >> so i said to my people, we are going to take whatever they gave me and we are going to distribute it to hospitals and everyone will have the same thing. >> ♪ young man there is a place you can go young men ♪ correspondent: he danced with

the crowd, even with the country in crisis. the contrast with joe biden could not have been starker. he visited another battleground state, one of several events across ohio. he attacked donald trump's handling of the pandemic. >> has donald trump's presidency , 215,000 dead because of covid, expertrts say we are likely to lose another 200,000 people in the next few months unless we take some serious action, and he doesn't know what he's doing. all because this president is only worried about one thing, the stock market. he refuses to follow the science. it is estimated that if we just wear these masks nationally, we save over 100,000 lives between now and the end of the year. correspondent: joe biden is now heading to florida. with the election day three weeks away, both campaigns are in overdrive. brent: let's go to washington,

d.c. our correspondent is on the story for us today. good afternoon. we have the president and 40 yesterday. today, pennsylvania, then iowa. are we looking at a normal schedule for a canned ended three weeks before the election, or are we looking at the schedule of a worried incumbent who is far behind in the polls? correspondent: no, this is a pretty normal campaign schedule. we are in the final stretch, three weeks until election day. this is what candidadates normay do. it might seem unususual to us because of the covid risks, but in any campaign year, presidential candidates do at least one campaign event per day at this point, sometimes two or three. brent: we can't rule out the risk of the pandemic at these

rallies, just like the one in loretta. we have seen -- in florida. we have seen very little social distancing and people not wearing masks. how does that look to the american public? does that help trump's chances or hurt him? correspondent: as with almost anything these days in the u.s., it depends on who you ask, so democrats are appalled. they say it is reckless behavior. they are angry, too. these people you see at the trump rallies, they go home after this and they sit next to other people, so the risk doesn't really end at these rallies. trump supporters on the other hand don't really see a problem with this. they are saying this is a sign of their personal freedom. they don't have to wear a mask if they don't want to come in the virus is probably not that dangerous anyway because trump

had it and he is just fine. brent: we know joe biden has been able to raise a lot of money in the last week, spending a lot more on campaign advertising. how important is that money this late in the campaign? correspondent: money is extremely important in the campaign, and a senator in 1890 six said, "there are two things important in politics, the first is money, and i forgot with the second was." that hits the nail on head. joe biden and donald trump as presidential candidates are basically running a campaign, running 50 campaigns, if you will, in each of the u.s. states , and they need to mobilize their base. they are still trying to win over elusive undecided voters, and that costs money. brent: on the story for us in

washington, thank you. the book fair in frankfurt is one of the most important events on the global publishing calendar. the trade fair normally operates with in person encounters, but the pandemic has forced the closure of exhibition halls, pushing nearly everyone online, going digital, a huge challenge for the organizers. take a look. correspondent: last year, more than 300,000 industry professionals and visitors came to the frankfurt fair. it is the most important show of the year, some 7500 exhibitors meet. this year because of coronavirus, the trade halls are indy and the book fair has gone digital. >> the trade fair holes will not be the same this year, as well as a decentralized event, we have had to come up with a large-scale digital concept. many publishers that they would

interview their own authors, then present the results of the fair. correspondenent: of the nunumers digital platftforms, they can communicate and present authors. this year's selection is extreme a diverse, from jamie oliver to edward snowden. the sociopolitical stage is this your all about your and its cultures, naturally online -- europe at its cultures. naturally, it is online. >> because of emphasis on digital, some creativity gets lost. there are a few random encounters, for example. the great thing about physically being here is i can look over my shououlder and s see what isis g on behind me, i i can't do thatt online. canada has postponed its phphysical presence until next year. instead, presenting a culturally diverse offering o online, includingg books on its inindigenous pulatioion.

the 2020 frankfurt book fair is an experiment, but will it remain online in the future? >> we are trying to figure out what works digitally, transactions, how does t the public interact with the digigil elements? we will use whatever works this year next year. the future is looking more digital anyhow, but the desire to mix with others in person is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. brent: cristiano ronaldo has tested positive for coronavirus and will not be able to play against sweden on wednesday. all the other players on the team have tested negative. that does not mean a lot. joining me now thiso discuss is our correspondent. what more do we know? correspondent: cristiano ronaldo and his teammates have had multiple tests in the past seven days, so he came back positive

monday. normally the team would have training session tuesday morning , but they postponed that so that the rest of his teammates could have another test taken, and they all came back negative. what is interesting is on monday, he posted a photograph, which is on social media, he posted a photograph of himself along with a number of his teammates at a lunch. you can see it now. it will come in. this is the typical image we see and we are always hearing that you should not get to gather with a group of p will and obviously it is clear there that he was in close contact with the rest of his teammates and then posted it on social media. now what we do know is he is a very fit person. he feels fine, he said, and he is asymptomatic. the rest of his teammates can

continue as normal and play sweden on wednesday. brent: when you see that picture, you wonder if they are thinking, going to be the next one who gets a positive test result. he is not the only player to test positive for coronavirus. what impact is it having on the game? correspondent: a couple of players on the portugal team have tested positive. you ventas also has players who have tested positive for coronavirus. we have seen the impact in germany, where people are not being allowed into stadiums, and they have tried toestrict people entering stadiums. it has that two games being postponed and a lot of concern among people as they come together. brent: this is not just football and soccer, right? correspondent: right. one cycling competition, five

teams have seen members of their team test positive, and two teams have decided to leave, and this is not just cycling across the atlantic in the national football league. it has been forced to reschedule games because of the number of infections. it is certainly worrying. brent: indeed. thank you. this "dw news." after a short break, i will be back to take you through the "the day." today, campaigning against the coronavirus. we will be right b back. ♪

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♪ >> it is 10:00 in paris and these are the headlines. u.s. senator's grill supreme court justice nominee amy coney barrett on day two of senate hearings. the judge refuses to give her opinion on major social issues like gay rigights and abortion. the european union gets ready to impose sanctions on belarusian him as the eu tried to push the embattled leader to enter talks with opposition members.