you know erikson so rated the foreign minister of norway is with me here right now minister can you tell us you spoke to germany's foreign minister what kind of historic moment is this what is the west called upon to do right now 1st and foremost we are very concerned about the developments right now and we have condemned the use of violence by cute forces and also of course criticized the lead up to the to the election and what we have seen over the past days is of course people who want free and fair elections which is a very clear and also very understandable demand people should be entitled to have free and fair elections and they should be entitled to have democracy now you had eased sanctions norway is not a member of the u. but that was conditional it wants to see progress what is your expectation looking towards that meeting of foreign ministers in brussels tomorrow well i suspect that they will of course have this very high on the agenda and also have discussions on whether or not the conditions that are now no longer in place for easing the sanctions again will make it necessar

that there will be free and fair election that can be observed also by international observers in erikson's a rate of foreign minister of norway thank you very much and with that back to the studio. after months germany was seen as the poster child of efforts to deal with the coronavirus crisis but now health minister young bomb has described the continuing increase in new infections as worrying and he's been urging germans to be very alert is warning comes the country's rule book called the institute for public health reported the highest number of new cases for more than 3 months. temperatures aren't the only thing rising during germany's heat wave the robert koch institute for public health reported 1445 new cases on thursday the highest number since may 1st. i want to say on behalf of the government the development of these numbers is worrying and they should laureus we don't have a single big outbreak but many small and medium sized outbreaks across the country . many cases have been traced back to holiday makers returning from vacation as well as family gatherings and parties at 34 th