let's bring in chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda the courts overturning corona restrictions why in a nutshell. well i would say in this case it's the court doing its job within the democratic system acting as a check and balance in regard to other branches of government in this case the executive which is responsible for laws and rules so this is not the 1st time we have seen a german court overturning corona rules that it viewed as too restrictive and disproportionate for example the highest court in germany in april overruled a blanket ban on church services or a local court in the state of north rhine-westphalia in the summer sent back to regulators a lock down extension on the meat packing industry saying again it was too broad so what courts are essentially doing is weighing the purpose the goals of a measure of legitimate goals against the costs of that measure and in this particular case in berlin the court pointed out that it is not proven that restaurants and bars are one of the major vectors of spreading corona and that in fact there's another rule in place in rega

on a synagogue in the eastern german city of hala let's bring in chief political correspondent melinda crane now who joins me in the studio melinda it's good to see you here even for this event could you briefly remind viewers what happened a year ago today. of year ago was young to poor and 52 people were celebrating getting ready to celebrate at the synagogue in the eastern german city of hala when they saw a closed circuit t.v. that someone heavily armed was trying to break down the door they then barricaded the doors of the synagogue and he began also trying to shoot through the doors he also apparently lobbed a couple of homemade bombs toward the synagogue but did not succeed in breaking down those doors while the worshipers cowered inside he then went on to shoot 2 bystanders not far from the synagogue and then got in his car and tried to drive away so causing consternation and clearly a great trauma for the people inside that synagogue it would have been the worst anti-semitic attacks since the 2nd world war if he had realized his aims and trauma for people beyond the region frankly t

melinda crane milind as always thank you so much here are some more coronavirus developments hundreds of hospitality workers have protested a 15 day shutdown of barcelona's bars ordered by the council on government the region is one of spain's worst hit with over 20000 infections in the past 2 weeks a new study has found desa fear a drug widely used to treat covert 19 there's not lower the death rate of patients . new zealanders can now travel to australia without quarantining under a new one way travel bubble arrangement but anyone driving in news you new zealand will still be required to isolate police and protesters have clashed in the capital bangkok during a 3rd day of anti-government demonstrations police used water cannon on the crowd of thousands protesters marched in defiance of a ban on public gatherings there calling for reforms to the concede to sion and monarchy and for the prime minister to step down. before the latest clashes thailand's prime minister rejected calls for his resignation. well aware of the situation. the government must use the emergency decree that. we h

well let's look ahead to that meeting with chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome can the chancellor get those 16 state leaders to line up behind one set of proposals. well her spokesman acknowledged today that the discussions would be difficult but i think there's a very good chance that the chancellor will have success 1st of all she's known as an adept negotiator secondly she has working for her that this is a personal meeting for the 1st time the state premiers are here in berlin meeting with her live that's the 1st time since 4 months and that should make it a little easier to get an agreement and then there is a precedent for consensus under her watch till i remember back to the 1st wave of corona here in germany and of march early april there were also quite a lot of discrepancies and some tensions between different state leaders and they managed to get a unified approach also under the chancellor's guidance and now we're hearing 2 of the most powerful state premiers the head of the bavarian state of bavaria and also of the north rhine-westphalia and government sayi

forward if the city doesn't bring the numbers down thank you for the chief political correspondent melinda crane of the u.k. has recorded europe's highest pandemic death toll a new infections that growing at an alarming rate especially in the north of england prime minister barak's johnson has just outlined a new system of measures to control the virus telling parliament but targeted restrictions of the way forward. but we must act to save lives and the evidence shows that in changing our behavior in restricting transmission between us our actions are saving lives. left unchecked each person with the virus will infect an average of between $2.00 and $3.00 others but sage assess that the current are nationally is between $2.01. so we're already suppressing that are to well below its natural level which is why the virus is not spreading as quickly as it did in march straight to london than where we join t w correspondent mass welcome big national lockdown had been feared for the u.k. that's not going to happen what else can relate. well we learned feel that as you said an alarming increase in thos

is where i think we have to see not only words but action sank you so much kate brady and also melinda crane here in the studio with me really appreciate your insights this is of course news live from berlin our headlines. the eastern german city of holland has been marking the one year anniversary of a neo nazi terror attack on a synagogue that left 2 people dead german president frank salter shai meyer said at the ceremony that anti semitism was the canary in the coal mine for the state of the country's democracy and the more it was expressed the more german values were under attack watching the news from berlin my name is michael oku don't forget you can get all the latest. i know nothing out of well i guess i'm gonna sound but mostly i'm laughing with you but i don't think deep into the german culture. you did seem to think that as grandma kayo east coast it's all about who they know i might go join me for me to get on the golf course i was going to. tell my managers you know good day nothing. changed. you know the banks and you know why and so what's the language of the bank money. for

is chief political correspondent linda crane is following the story for us melinda germany was doing pretty well fighting the pandemic it was considered a good practice country is that still the case well germany's situation at the moment is certainly better than some of its neighbors but government authorities say that the situation here is very serious that the infection rate indicates that germany is at the beginning of a 2nd wave and that the current moment will be decisive and the juror and germany's chief vi rolla just its chief expert on corona said just a day or 2 ago that in fact he agrees that it's decisive and that this is the moment when we will see whether individuals behave responsibly enough for germany to preserve the advantages that in fact and the credit that it did build up in the springtime and we saw in our report there how is german state seems to have its own rules it's causing a lot of confusion why is there not a more coherent approach in germany. germany is a deeply federal country it has a very very long history of federalism and therefore it is in fact leg

take the story now to our chief political correspondent linda crane she's on the story for us tonight here in berlin good evening to you melinda so how worried is the german government about these increases in urban hotspots the government is worried this folks men have for the chancellor said today that the situation is very serious that the country is on the verge of are already in a 2nd wave and that germany is associating an increase in the number of severe cases requiring hospitalization and intensive care so he called this a decisive moment for germany and we understand that each german state is introducing its own rules here why news there. well according to germany's federal system the it is to state and local authorities that have the power to impose rules and restrictions related to health and hygiene so formally they have this power and the fact is that the situation there isa a great deal between. densely populated urban areas on the one hand such is munich or land which are in fact virus hotspots right now and on the other hand rural areas like those in the north the cities of the states is the host i work next an