let's get more now with our chief political international correspondent rather richard walker richard good to see you can you confirm these reports what are you hearing. yeah well there's no official word from the interior ministry yet to brian but it does look like this is on we are expecting to hear from the interior ministry jury in the course of the day now the plan that's being reported is that these 1500 refugees are from they all 400 families and these are families whose asylum applications have already been approved now i think also one interesting detail that merging from the reporting is that these refugees are not all from the moria camp or even all from the island of lesbos but rather that they come from other greek islands too and i think that might be something that we hear stress that i think there's a concern potentially of suggesting that there may be incentives to light fires in refugee camps if it does end up being confirmed as the greek authorities suspect that this fire may have been started by migrants in the morea camp so i think that's going to be one thing to

s chief international editor richard walker richard it's good to see you we've heard so many times that the best diplomacy is done in person this year thanks to the pandemic we're not getting that we're getting diplomacy. does that make a difference i think it really does i think it really is a real problem i mean of course it's normal for these speeches by the leader in the general debate to be used as grandstanding opportunities and we've certainly seen plenty of that today who are going to talk about that sure in a moment but still like the event every year in new york is unique in the diplomatic calendar is the only time when all of these leaders get an opportunity to come together and it's what happens outside that chamber and outside those speeches that really matters when there are opportunities for their lives and also their teams to talk to each other and have kind of serendipitous encounters which you know can be fruitful so it is a real concern particularly for believes in diplomacy believe is in the power of last resort and we heard today beginning with president trump he op

well that's period for international editor richard walker. welcome richard we just had the chance of going through quite a list. yeah that's right phil and it was interesting to compare with the press conference which happened after the last round of talks which the 2 sides had which was back in june when. on the line the president of the european commission and show the president the council came out and they were they were pretty glum in their moods and their mood music surrounding the talks that they had had saying that they were not seeing enough progress on the investment treaty that they want to negotiate with the chinese side and also being very notably open in their criticism about china's breaches of human rights in hong kong . where but i think it's interesting that was in june when hong kong was much fresher in people's minds it was much harder to duck that it's quite interesting to compare the tone just now where hong kong that all did get mentioned but it was not a tool the centerpiece the mood music was much more positive talking

and with me here in the studio richard walker our chief international richard a lot on the plate here and this went far longer than we expected she said she wasn't doing the details but we have plenty of them online saying it's all about european values strengths and ambitions you know broadly where does she want to take the european union i mean it was striking wasn't it we were we started to look at the clock close to the hour mark and i think she hit one hour and 17 minutes at the end and it's usually 3 languages even rivals some of the longest u.s. state of the union speeches but i think i would agree with alexander what she just said at the beginning there about trying to present you know opposed to a message while at the beginning of the speech she acknowledged the kind of trauma that europe has been going through and is still going through in the anxiety the people feel i think you know a big part of her speech was about projecting confidence. i think a key line that she made early on in this speech that she's saying that this is now the moment to make change happen by design n

s chief international editor richard walker was at the news conference given by the 2 ministers welcome richard the seems to have been something of an argument . yes that's right phil i mean taiwanese always a very sensitive issue for the chinese government they're very very prickly about anything that could give the impression that taiwan is some kind of independent country that can stand on its own 2 feet and that's exactly the impression that they feel that this czech delegation visiting taiwan gives off and just yesterday before arriving in berlin. the chinese foreign minister really openly threatened the leader of that delegation he said that he would pay a heavy price for the visit so in this press conference with his german counterpart heiko mass just earlier today he really doubled down on that explaining why he made that threat and for his part heiko marse really shot back at him saying that that wasn't really in order so let's have a listen to what they said drug war ship that is foreign interference in china's internal affairs. sure china must respond appropriately there's on

cement as they were should have been a momentous day with a dubious chief international editor richard walker pritchett to us conspicuous by absence has this ever happened before and what does it tell us you know they we didn't know about how the temperament station feels about the way yeah i mean i don't compas already gone further than pretty much any previous president in his open criticism of the united nations so so this snub is not really asked of carrots but it is still very striking isn't it now he is due to speak at the opening of the general debate which starts tomorrow so we'll see if he shows up for that but even if he does show up and doesn't snub bess's well. then we can expect some pretty outspoken forces them to come from him. by the way i mean trump really does represent the sort of antithesis almost of the united nations values you know earth global cooperation with the rights of climate change all health you know he's pulled out of the paris climate agreement he's pulled out of the world health organization so nobody was expecting some sort of glowing tribute from him i gue

and let's get some analysis on the debate now we have to use international editor richard walker with us here in our studio hi richard you could say it wasn't really much of a debate there was a lot of interrupting a lot of mudslinging a lot of insults as well what do you think we actually learned from the debate yes i mean it wasn't really the most illuminating debate was it and i think joe biden after after the 1st section even even said that himself i think what we have learned from this is on the one hand we've seen their debate strategies how are they going to position themselves in these debates each candidate and what kind of a strategy they're going to pursue and i think it's fairly clearly on the biden side it's to play the kind of the reasonable guy the reasonable alternative to donald trump and to portray him as extreme. and on donald trump's side is to try to wrong foot joe biden every opportunity hence all of the interruptions. and i think they you kind of see revealed in the strategy that each of them to some extent wants to make this a referendum on the other you know n

chief international editor richard walker was at the news conference given by the 2 ministers welcome richard and the same should been something of an argument. yes that's right phil i mean the taiwanese always a very sensitive issue for the chinese government they're very very prickly about anything that could give the impression that taiwan is some kind of independent country that can stand on its own 2 feet and that's exactly the impression that they feel that this checked allegation visiting taiwan gives off and just yesterday before arriving in berlin. the chinese foreign minister really openly threatened the leader of that delegation he said that he would pay a heavy price for the visit so in this press conference with his german counterpart heiko mass just earlier today he really doubled down on that explaining why he made that threat and for his part heiko mass really shot back at him saying that that wasn't really in order so let's have a listen to what they said. that is foreign interference in china's internal affairs. should have you china must respond appropriately there'

of them on these developments we've got our chief international editor richard walker with us and our correspondent mike sunda who is in moria in greece richard 1st to give us more details about these reports. yes well the reports emerging say that germany is getting ready in a cabinet meeting tomorrow of the german government agree on a plan which would see 1500 refugees come to germany and these are made up of 400 families whose asylum applications have already actually been approved now one interesting detail that's coming through in the reporting is that these people are not all necessarily from the morea camp or even from the island of lesbos but from the greek islands more broadly as well and i think that there is this going to be a certain pressure certainly not to give the impression of potentially giving incentives to refugees to take dangerous actions because the greek government says at the moment that their suspicion is that the fire in the morea camp was actually lit by one of the people living in that camp or some of them so i think that will definitely be a concern now

did have used chief international editor richard walker follow the debate for us he's with us here in studio hi richard let's pick up on one of the points we just saw there in our report president trump when asked about white supremacists declined the invitation to condemn them and it's got a lot of attention tell us about it that's right i mean this moment is really being parents to pawn by democrats that donald trump is still in the business of dog whistle ing or even even more openly than that to far right groups. and even using this expression stand by seeming to suggest that he might want to mobilize them some point now you can certainly expect this to get a lot of airing i think in campaign ads in the weeks ahead leading up to the election the thing is it's not really certain how much what impact that will have because trump's wording did manage to say state just enough on the side of ambiguity that his spokespeople love playing it down and they're saying you know it was quite clear that what he meant was knock it off. the thing is that the members of this group the proud boys d

and let's get some analysis on the debate now we have to use international editor richard walker with us here in our studio hi richard you could say it wasn't really much of a debate there was a lot of interrupting a lot of mudslinging a lot of insults as well what do you think we actually learned from the debate yes sumi i mean it wasn't really the most illuminating debate was it and i think joe biden after after the 1st section even even said that himself i think what we have learned from this is on the one hand we've seen that debate strategies how are they going to position themselves in these debates each candidate and what kind of a strategy they're going to pursue and i think it's fairly clearly on the biden side it's to play the kind of the reasonable guy the reasonable alternative to donald trump and to portray him as extreme. and on donald trump's side is to try to wrong foot joe biden at every opportunity hence all of the interruptions. and i think they you kind of see revealed in that strategy that each of them to some extent wants to make this a referendum on the other yo

contrast there in the speeches of president donald trump and president being unlikely we have here richard walker our chief international editor to shed some more light i mean it was at times very offensive what president trump said i mean i'm just quoting here what he just unleashed displayed on the world were free to china what did you make of the contrast there yeah well it is the kind of message that he has put across many times in campaign rallies in the united states to his supporters but of course is one thing to do that. in a rally surrounded by thousands of adoring supporters it's quite another to do it in an international forum like this to throw it in xi jinping face essentially. but we should bear in mind that there are questions being asked about china's handling of the early stages of the outbreak in particular in december or january. whether it was fully transparent with information with the world health organizations and with other countries around the world so that there are definitely concerns about that investigation's ongoing of course she's in pain throws that right back and

to be used chief international editor richard walker. but this was meant to be an exercise a kind of diplomatic patching up with europe after months that have really been overshadowed by just an enormous set of problems or in fact your relations between china and the e.u. it's pretty safe to say all is not well with them and this really goes back of course to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic which of course began in china and there is a sense that there are many questions about how open china was at the beginning of that pandemic whether it could have been more transparent about the beginnings of it something that could potentially have given other countries more time to prepare for it to arrive on their shores but that's far from being the only issue a whole host of problems or soaring kind of geopolitical tensions with the americans basically over trade but over all sorts of other things where europe is in a bit of a pickle about where to position itself there are human rights violations going on in grand style in shin jang in

where that report left off with me in the studio here is the good news chief international editor richard walker richard great to have you here with us we just referenced trump there in that in our report multilateralism has taken a beating to say the least how is this u.n. trying to reinvigorate multilateralism basically yeah i mean it couldn't be a bigger challenge to a body like the united nations could it that you have so many leading countries around. the world being led by nationalists of one form of another and donald trump is of course the one who gets the most attention often but there are many others as well people who say america 1st or or some version of it you know my country goes 1st and i think when talking about my last resume is sometimes that that word in itself is jargon is kind of clunky what does it even mean all it really means is countries coming together and saying we need to work together for common interests and not simply for our own interests and i think supporters of it say well it's the only way that you can tackle many of the biggest challenges that we have now we

well joining me tonight here at the big chief international editor richard walker richard it's good to see you we've heard so many times that the best diplomacy is done in person this year thanks to the pandemic we're not getting it we're going to diplomacy i guess. does that make a difference i think it really does i think it really is a real problem i mean of course it's normal for these speeches by the leader in the general debate to be used as grandstanding opportunities and we've certainly seen plenty of that today who are going to talk about that sure in a moment but still like the event every year in new york is unique in the diplomatic calendar is the only time when all of these leaders get an opportunity to come together and it's what happens outside that chamber and outside those speeches that they're really masses when there are opportunities for their lives and also their teams to talk to each other and have kind of serendipitous seek out which you know can be fruitful so it is a real concern particularly for believe us in diplomacy believe as in the power of will to last r

our chief international editor richard walker's back with us richard you've also been monitoring the general assembly as it's gotten kicked off and we saw some pictures earlier of the brazilian leader job also now delivering his video message and this is a country we should say that has been of the hardest hit in this covered 1000 pandemic so what is he been addressing yeah well last in america as a whole the whole region is really perhaps the hardest hit region at the moment and . it's quite interesting at the beginning of his speech they they played the video and then there was some kind of glitch and they had to start playing it again same kind of. effect the u.n. general assembly. and yeah i mean it was it wasn't a swaggering kind of speech at least not so far which some might have expected from him but he was really trying to justify his positions on a number of things including on the coronavirus he's one of those leaders like donald trump who's been accused of kind of downplaying the importance of the corona virus which which he did very clearly especially in the early phase o

s chief international editor richard walker richard it's good to see you we've heard so many times that the best diplomacy is done in person this year thanks to the pandemic we're not getting that we're going to diplomacy. does that make a difference i think it really does i think it really is a real problem i mean of course it's normal for these speeches by the leader in the general debate to be used as grandstanding opportunities and we've certainly seen plenty of that today who are going to talk about that sure in a moment but still like the event every year in new york is unique in the diplomatic calendar is the only time when all of these leaders get an opportunity to come together and it's what happens outside that chamber and outside those speeches the really masses when there are opportunities for their lives and also their teams to talk to each other and have kind of serendipitous seek out which you know can be fruitful so it is a real concern particularly for believe as in diplomacy believe as in the power of will to last resort and we heard today beginning with president trum

did have used chief international editor richard walker follow the debate 4th he's with us here in studio hi richard let's pick up on one of the points we just saw there in our report president trump when asked about white supremacists declined the invitation to condemn them and this got a lot of attention tell us about it that's right i mean this moment is really being parents to pawn by democrats that donald trump is still in the business of dog whistle or even even more openly than that too far right groups. and even using this expression stand by seeming to suggest that he might want to mobilize them some point now you can certainly expect this to get a lot of airing i think in campaign ads in the weeks ahead leading up to the election the thing is it's not really certain how much will impact that will have because trump's wording did manage to say stay just enough on the side of ambiguity that his spokespeople love playing it down and they're saying you know it was quite clear that what he meant was knock it off. the thing is that the members of this group the proud boys don't seem t

lowlights there for you from a chaotic presidential debate did of your chief international editor richard walker watch the debate and is going to provide us with some analysis now one of the most talked about moments is that last exchange that we saw president trump declining to use the opportunity to denounce white supremacist groups that were to jamaica yeah i mean the democrats to seizing on this of course as you would imagine as something with not just don't know not condemning this group but by saying stand by seemingly him saying that he might at some point in the future want to mobilize them to do something so you can expect that to run in a lot of democrat campaign ads over the coming weeks they've already begun they've already started coming out but it is quite hard to say what how much of an impact it will have an awful donald trump has done things like this before he said things like this before and also the comments were just ambiguously phrased enough that his spokespeople have been able to say oh you know that's not what he meant and one was quoted as saying that really what he mea

cement as they were should have been a momentous day with a dubious chief international editor richard walker richard to us conspicuous by absence has this ever happened before and what does it tell us you know they we didn't know about how the top administration feels about the way yeah i mean i don't compass already gone further than pretty much any previous president and he's open to criticism of the united nations so this snub is not really asked of carrots but it is still very striking isn't it now he is due to speak at the opening of the general debate which starts tomorrow so we'll see if he shows up for that but even if he does show up and doesn't snub bess's well. then we can expect some pretty outspoken person to come from him. by the way i mean trump really does represent the sort of antithesis almost of the united nations values you know the global cooperation with the rights of climate change all health you know pulled out of the paris climate agreement he's pulled out of the world health organization so nobody was expecting some sort of glowing tribute from him i guess we saw la

it with me is chief international editor richard walker richard it was by all accounts very short bellicose i think it's fair to say he came out swinging against china talked a little bit more what's your take and that's right i mean within the 1st few seconds of his speech he was talking about the china virus which is you know an expression that he's used on the campaign trail many many times but to use it in the setting of the u.n. general assembly just half an hour or so before his chinese counterpart xi jinping was due to speak is of course a very. pretty sort of aggressive thing to do within the context of a debate. of course there is a debate going on about how china handled the early days of the outbreak whether it was fully transparent with other countries around the world as the early signs of the outbreak in the end of last year beginning of this year came along but critics would say well what donald trump is really doing is deflecting attention from his own administration's failures in in keeping the virus under control in the united states and because you know just very recently

a study in contrasts sincerely is ok richard walker our international chief international editor thank you so much for your analysis. while in the meantime countries across europe are scrambling to contain the coronavirus pandemic after a surge in new infections british prime minister boris johnson says that the u.k. has reached a perilous turning point as he laid out new restrictions today people across the continents will be forced to curtail their activities in hopes of reopening again later in the year. he's waited 6 months for this ban for the 1st time since march pumps in ireland are again pulling pints but the industry remains wary of a virus that hasn't gone away because we didn't believe until this morning we turned to the door that we were actually getting to open because because so many people started because they only have to look at the capital dublin web os have been told to stay shot to make a spiking case is that it's a stark contrast to the u.k. . are you really going to go where the government relaxed restrictions much earlier and is now warning of a 2nd wave prime mi

will but china looks like the more reasonable partner study in contrasts sincerely thank you richard walker our international chief international editor thank you so much for your analysis. and in a sad reminder of the toll that the global pandemic is taking of the u.s. death toll from covert 1000 has reached the grim milestone of more than 200000 according to johns hopkins university well that's the highest number for any country in the world so far accounting for more than one in 5 covert deaths globally is putting president donald trump's handling of the pandemic in the spotlight as he campaigns for a 2nd term in office on average the u.s. is now losing around 800 lives every day to the virus jumps democratic rival joe biden says trump's quote lies and incompetence as he calls them are the main reason the united states has seen so many deaths from the virus. while a with the u.s. having passed that sad marker i asked health expert peter drove back from oxford university how much is politics to blame. the united states has 4 percent of the world's population and about 20 percent of the wo

general assembly meeting in new york our chief international editor richard walker with us here in studio and richard you'll be keeping an eye on the u.n. g.a. for us thank you so much for joining us here in our studio. and let's move on to some other news now countries across europe are scrambling to contain the coronavirus pandemic after a surge in new infections british prime minister boris johnson said that the u.k. has reached a perilous turning point as he laid out new restrictions today people across the continent will be forced to curtail their activities in hopes of reopening later in the fall. he's waited 6 months for this bear for the 1st time since march pops in islander again pulling pints but the industry remains wary of a virus that hasn't gone away because we didn't believe until this morning we turned the key in the door that we were actually getting to open because because only people started they only have to look at the capital dublin where bars have been told to stay shot amid a spike in cases there it's a stark contrast to the u.k. the really put the word go where th

let's talk about those strengths and shortcomings we have our chief international editor richard walker with us here in the studio richard and we'll be following the u.n. general assembly we're expecting president trying to speak within the hour we'll be listening to that live but just hearing what we just saw there in that report where does the u.n. stand now 75 years then yeah well it's a mixed picture and i suppose as you would expect for any institution after such a long time. but i mean the overall picture and world affairs is obviously looking pretty battered at the moment and i think that applies to the u.n. especially. obviously the purpose of the u.n. is a vehicle for international corporation is buzzword of multilateral is what does that mean it means it's a place where countries go and they try to work together to achieve a common good so not each country working for its own but to agree there are certain things that are common goods and we try to work towards those and that very idea the whole idea of doing that is being challenged incredibly strongly at the moment by this w

we're going to be tonight you're the big chief international editor richard walker richard it's good to see you we've heard so many times that the best diplomacy is done in person this year thanks to the pandemic we're not getting it we're going to diplomacy. does that make a difference i think it really does i think it really is a real problem bryan i mean of course it's normal for these speeches by the leader in the general debate to be used as grandstanding opportunities and we've certainly seen plenty of that today and we're going to talk about that sure in a moment but still like the event every year in new york is unique in the diplomatic calendar is the only time when all of these leaders get an opportunity to come together and that's what happens outside that chamber and outside those speeches that really matters when there are opportunities for their lives and also their teams to talk to each other and have kind of serendipitous seek out which you know can be fruitful so it is a real concern particularly for believes in diplomacy and believes in the power of his ears and we

what we're expecting that speech and just a few more moments with me now in the studio is richard walker our chief international editor nice this year richard a fine line is expected to give a speech now at a time when the european union is fragile we should say that certainly and one main goal is to reassure the bloc citizens that she has a solid pandemic recovery plan look at it look like you know well the centerpiece of this brian is the recovery fund which alexander just mentioned at the top of the show which funded line this is really pretty much the biggest achievement so far in you know less than a year in office now this fund is something that's already been agreed it was agreed back in july at a summit between all of the. much haggling and it really is seen as something of a breakthrough and that's a breakthrough in 2 ways 1st of all in the e.u. coming together and deciding to really kind of spend its way out of rice's like this but also in the way that the money is being raised a real kind of sign of solidarity among member states where member states have agreed that the europe

of them on these developments we've got our chief international editor richard walker with us and correspondent max sunda who is in moria in greece richard 1st to you give us more details about these reports. yes well the reports emerging say that germany is getting ready in a cabinet meeting tomorrow of the german government agree on a plan which would see 1500 refugees come to germany and these are made up of 400 families whose asylum applications have already actually been approved now one interesting detail that's coming through in the reporting is that these people are not all necessarily from the morea camp or even from the island of lesbos but from the greek islands more broadly as well and i think that there is this going to be a certain pressure certainly not to give the impression of potentially giving incentives to refugees to take dangerous actions because the greek government says at the moment that their suspicion is that the fire in the morea camp was actually lit by one of the people living in that camp or some of them so i think that will definitely be a concern now this packag

of the united nations all right let's get to the take now from our chief international editor richard walker the foreign minister fighting an uphill battle there yet later i mean the whole of his speech really was a kind of appeal to keep multilateralism alive you know this belief that countries should work together to. to confront common problems that they face in saying how crucial this is not just fight the pandemic but also to try and reduce the number of wars fight climate change all of the major problems facing the world and of course this is this kind of message is aimed in big part at the kind of this nationalist trend that we've seen in recent years with donald trump as kind of the most the foremost proponent of that but he's also taking aim at the united nations itself and the un's own structures particularly the u.n. security council this small group of 5 permanent members of the u.n. security council which have a veto on each other's interests which has essentially been deadlocked for many years about many of the really important things no longer is really representative of the m

some lowlights there for you from a chaotic presidential debate over chief international editor richard walker watch the debate and is going to provide us with some analysis now one of the most talked about moments is that last exchange that we saw president trump declining to use the opportunity to denounce white supremacist groups that were to jamaica yeah i mean the democrats are seizing on this of course as you would imagine as something with not just don't know not condemning this group but by saying stand by a seemingly hinting that he might at some point in the future want to mobilize them to do something so you can expect that to run in a lot of democrat campaign ads over the coming weeks they've already begun they've already started coming out but it is quite hard to say what how much of an impact it will have an awful donald trump has done things like this before he said things like this before and also the comments were just ambiguously phrased enough that his spokespeople have been able to say oh you know that's not what he meant and one was quoted as saying that really what he mea

been left to reflect on whether it has gone too far in its buddying up with beijing as did abuse richard walker reports. some a 2018 this is how close germany and china were getting until americal who sting beijing's premier league could chunk in her face with other top ministers in depth consultations it was a meeting not just of leaders but have to hold governments coming together. now what emerged from those talks was a joint statement listing no fewer than $71.00 points of agreement between the 2 sides he talks about a comprehensive german chinese strategic partnership and this year germany won. to take things to the next level hosting a european union china summit here in germany one where the 2 sides wanted to sign a sweeping investment treaty but now the summit has been downgraded to a much smaller video link up that investment treaty is in serious doubt and this document is looking very outdated all because china's aggressive behavior has been begging a big question did germany did europe get too friendly with china. in hong kong china sprang down on freedom of speech has shocked the de

use richard walker. but this was meant to be an exercise a kind of diplomatic patching up with europe after months that have really been overshadowed by just an enormous set of problems and in fact you relations between china and the e.u. it's pretty safe to say all is not well with them and this really goes back of course to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic which of course began in china and there is a sense that there are many questions about how open china was at the beginning of that pandemic whether it could have been more transparent about the beginnings of it something that could potentially have given other countries more time to prepare for it to arrive on their shores but that's far from being the only issue a whole host of problems or soaring kind of geopolitical tensions with the americans basically over trade but of all sorts of other things where europe is in a bit of a pickle about where to position itself there are human rights violations going on in grand style in shin jang in t

of them on these developments we've got our chief international editor richard walker with us and ourcorrespondent my son who is in moria in greece richard 1st to give us more details about these reports. yes well the reports emerging say that germany is getting ready in a cabinet meeting tomorrow of the german government agree on a plan which would see 1500 refugees come to germany and these are made up of 400 families whose asylum applications have already actually been approved now one interesting detail that's coming through in the reporting is that these people are not all necessarily from the morea camp or even from the island of lesbos but from the greek islands more broadly as well and i think that there is this going to be a certain pressure certainly not to give the impression of potentially giving incentives to refugees to take dangerous actions because the greek government says at the moment that their suspicion is that the fire in the morea camp was actually licked by one of the people living in that camp or some of them so i think that will definitely be a concern now th

richard walker reporting. u.s. president is due to visit california on monday to meet with the heads of emergency services who have been overseeing efforts to battle the unprecedented 5 days of dry and windy conditions have been feeding dozens blazes across california oregon washington state wildfires have killed at least 35 people so far and officials are warning of possible more fatalities to w.'s washington bureau chief in his port reports from northern california where thousands of people who were evacuated are now returning to scenes of us out of a station. nothing but destruction this is all that is left on the 5 acres of farmland in northern california where sarah hawkins and her husband have created a little paradise over the last 17 years to go only 4 hours before everything was destroyed left are only shards of memories programmed mother's good china items they collected over decades the fire was coming across short grass it was coming across dirt. there was no place that we knew for sure would be safe he

cohesive approach is now to follow through talking to you thank you both go matus in brussels to richard walker. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world bites down to the parent company of a popular video sharing tic toc says it has chosen oracle as its new u.s. technology partner though it won't sell the app part with its source code a u.s. president trump has threatened to ban tech talk unless its chinese parent company sells its u.s. business. david cameron has become the 5th former british prime minister to speak out against the new british government bill attempting to override the president withdrawal agreement the u.k. of the european union signed the agreement this year and the new post gregg's it will go before the u.k. parliament on monday. the a user has added its voice to an international outcry over the execution of iranian wrestler naveed after cari iranian state media reported his execution on saturday he was convicted of stabbing a security guard to death during anti-government protests in 2018 this sort of car his family say he confessed

of them on these developments we've got our chief international editor richard walker with us and our correspondent my son who is in moria in greece richard 1st to give us more details about these reports. yes well the reports emerging say that germany is getting ready in a cabinet meeting tomorrow of the german government to agree agree on a plan which would see 1500 refugees come to germany and these are made up of 400 families whose asylum applications have already actually been approved now one interesting detail that's coming through in the reporting is that these people are not all necessarily from the morea camp or even from the island of lesbos but from the greek islands more broadly as well and i think that there is this going to be a certain pressure certainly not to give the impression of potentially giving incentives to refugees to take dangerous actions because the greek government says at the moment that their suspicion is that the fire in the morea camp was actually lit by one of the people living in that camp or some of them so i think that will definitely be a concern

richard walker is the managing director of iceland. thank you for being on the programme.le of this problem and the moment we pulled the handle, we were absolutely horrified. we are talking 32,000 tons of plastic equates to 1.8 billion pieces of plastic on the market. calculating that is actually very straightforward. the government already has this data, big business already has the data because of the plastic tax that we have to submit so all we want is clarity and openness. we need to put our cards on the table and be clear about the scale of the problem which i think based on our figures is much worse than anyone thought. to be fair, iceland has been really good in terms of your plastic policies andi terms of your plastic policies and i know the ceo has been really passionate about this but if nobody follows you, the other supermarkets in the uk, and not mandatory, you are just standing alone are you in this? yes, and it will be difficult to climb the mountain alone. as he said we were the first retailer to fully pledge to eliminate plastics by 2023 and we have a mount

richard walker said his supermarket chain was not planning to limit purchases. retailer boohoo knew about "serious issues" over how workers were treated at its supply chain in leicester months before media reports brought the issue to the fore. the review by the company of its own practices found no evidence boohoo had committed any crimes, but the retailer has admitted significant and unacceptable issues in its supply chain. this is bbc news, the latest headlines... supermarkets have warned that shoppers could face larger food bills next year if the government fails to agree a post brexit trade deal with the european union. the british retail consortium has calculated that if the uk's new global tariffs are applied to eu food and drink imports, it could cost an extra three billion pounds a year. our business correspondent katy austin reports. the vast majority of the uk's imported food comes from eu countries. at the moment, that's not subject to import taxes called tariffs. that could change from january, depending on whether a brexit trade deal can be reached

richard walker from iceland, tell me why it was important for you to be involved in the rashford taskeeply about because we are speaking to our customers every day and we see the issues on the ground. before covid, there were over 4 million kids in poverty in the uk. since covid, 730,000 people have lost theirjobs, and when the furlough scheme ends, that will be even more. so many families and children are being touched by this andl children are being touched by this and i don't think there's anything more important than trying to give kids the best start in life. and with seemingly dickensian levels of poverty in this country and millions of children going hungry, we want to do everything we can to support marcus in his quest to try and raise theseissues marcus in his quest to try and raise these issues with the government and affect positive change. richard, you are one of several supermarkets, pretty much every supermarket has signed up for the task. what can you offer in practical terms? people will be watching thinking, big supermarkets make a lot of money, what can you bring? fi

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contrast there in the speeches of president donald trump and president ping and luckily we have here richard walker our chief international editor to shed some more light i mean it was at times very offensive what president trump said i mean it just quoting here what he just unleashed displayed on the world were free to china what did you make of the contrast there yeah well it is the kind of message that he has put across many times in campaign rallies in the united states to his supporters but of course it's one thing to do that in in a rally he's surrounded by thousands of adoring supporters it's quite another to do it in an international forum like this to throw it in xi jinping face essentially. but we should bear in mind that there are questions being asked about china's handling of the early stages of the outbreak and.

homes for no to talk more about this remarkable address it with me is chief international editor richard a walker richard it was by all accounts very short bellicose i think it's fair to say he came out swinging against china talk to some of it what's your take and that's right i mean within the 1st few seconds of his speech he was talking about the china virus which is you know an expression that he's used on the campaign trail many many times but to use it in the setting of the u.n. general assembly just half an hour or so before his chinese counterpart she jim ping was due to speak is of course a very. a pretty sort of our gresley of thing to do within the context of a debate. of course there is a debate going on about how china handled the early days of the outbreak whether it was fully transparent with other countries around the world as the early signs of the outbreak in the end of last year beginning of this year came along but critics would say well what donald trump is really doing is deflecting attention from his own administration's failures in in keeping the virus on the control in th