says that it doesn't want to be constrained by multilateral organizations like the world health organization germany's health minister says that the country will not need another nation wide lockdown during the winter he said measures could now be more targeted to keep the virus under control and authorities in delhi have approved safety guidelines for the city's metro the network is due to reopen in phases from monday despite a new wave of coated 1000 cases in the indian capital. well the venice film festival is opening today the 1st major film with them to roll out the red carpet since the pandemic started many stars will miss the event because of travel restrictions but there are still some big names in attendance like kate blanchett the australian actress is the president of this year story tilda swinton also arrives ahead of the opening sarah. benes. as is rarely been seen with only a handful of tourists but the city's annual film festival opens today for its $77.00 sedition along with precautionary measures social these dancing mandatory mask wearing and temperature taking to global pandemic and

develop the 1st covert diagnostic test which was adopted by the world health organization and recent days new infections here in germany have risen again to levels not seen since april. wear a mask wash your hands and maintain distance people in germany are accustomed to following the safety in hunting guidelines yet despite this the rate of infection is climbing with more than 2000 new cases in a single day the highest count since april. germany's most prominent virologist christiane droste sees the development critically he spoke at a conference in berlin on thursday and detailed some of his concerns in an interview with deutsche avella. look at other countries look at france the u.k. and spain what we are seeing there is what we will see germany. if we don't react very early on. in in a way that needs to be adjusted that needs to be. let's say bearable for the economy at the same time targets and this is a very difficult task to find the right point of time. justin has praise for germany's coronavirus policy and the response by the country's leadership to the pandemic maccie says germany has been efficient and measu

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germany. and that was dale fisher from the world health organization here's a look at some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic the us public health body the c.d.c. has withdrawn guidance saying that fine aerosol particles floating in the air may spread the virus the retraction has sparked concern of political interference in mexico past 700000 confirmed coronavirus cases but officials say that the overall infection rate is still slowing down new zealand recorded 0 new covert 19 infections on tuesday there are now only 61 registered active cases in the country . let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world world leaders have marked the 75th anniversary of the united nations and a virtual online event secretary-general general antonio. called for more international cooperation and multilateralism to curb covert 90 and face environmental challenges. china has sentenced an influential real estate tycoon and critic of president xi jinping to 18 years in prison for corruption a court statement said that ram she chua a former member of the communist party elit

germany. dale sr from the world health organization speaking to us earlier what france reported a record high this weekend with over 13000 new cold cases in 24 hours the government wants to avoid returning to full lock down and instead is banking on physical didst distancing and other measures to keep public life going for students returning to university the restrictions come with their own challenge lisa lewis reports. it's a start of term like no other at this university in a suburb north of paris. despite the strict anti covert measures these economic students are happy to be here. 2 weeks of it will it's nice to be back at university this just shows that despite the virus life continues. our university has done what's needed to adapt to the situation we have split into 2 groups and have them online classes every 2nd week and every 2nd seat is off limits and we have to wear masks although that's a bit of a news and. quite a contrast to a holiday season during which many people lowered their guard most of francis recent code cases are amongst young people. believe. many of us travel ging t

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know the signs are very good dr margaret harris from the world health organization in geneva thank you very much for the question. well germany's chancellor angela merkel is due to meet this country's national leaders to discuss a fresh strategy for camp combating the pandemic merkel has warned that current trends could lead to a major spike in infection rates before the end of this year but just how ready is germany for a 2nd wave u.w. visit one doctor's surgery in the center of berlin that's hoping to get ahead of the curve. 12 meters long and growing. that's the length of today's line at a medical practice in berlin. people have come here to get tested for corona through the window no appointment necessary. i think it's a really nice option doesn't take so much time and it's it may be safer than going to oak hospital and sitting in the close space where patients can be sick but here everything everyone is wearing masks and the just for the window so i think it's really nice that the doctors ability cuts and runs the practice she's bracing herself for a harsh corona winter with many more patients to deal with. any time you wa

germany. and that was the deal fisher from the world health organization i'll turn now to were france which reported a record high at the weekend with over 13000 new covert cases in 24 hours or the government wants to avoid returning to full lockdown and instead is banking on physical distancing and other measures to keep public life going off for students returning to university the restrictions come with their own challenges the salutes reports. it's a start of turn like no other at this university in a suburb north of paris. despite the strict anti covert measures these economics students are happy to be here. 2 weeks of it will it's nice to be back at university this just shows that despite the virus life continues schoolma'am rough work a lot of our university has done what's needed to adapt to the situation we have split into 2 groups and have them online classes every 2nd week and every 2nd seat is off limits and we have to wear masks although that is a bit of a nuisance. quite a contrast to a holiday season during which many people lowered their guard most of francis' recent code cases are a

germany. they'll fisher there from the world health organization. france reported a record high this weekend with more than 13000 new cover cases in 24 hours well the government wants to avoid returning to full lockdown and instead is banking on physical distancing and other measures to keep public life going for students were turning to university the restrictions come with their own challenge lisa lewis reports. it's a start of tongue like no other at this university in a suburb north of paris. despite the strict anti covert measures these economics students are happy to be here. 2 weeks of it will it's nice to be back at university this just shows that despite the virus life continues. our university has done what's needed to adapt to the situation we have split into 2 groups and have them online classes every 2nd week and every 2nd seat is off limits and we have to wear masks although that is a bit of a nuisance. quite a contrast to the holiday season during which many people lowered their guard most of francis' recent coated cases are amongst y

germany's leading virologists christian droste and her regularly breached the german government and developed the 1st diagnostic test for the new coronavirus which was adopted by the world health organization. to stand austin how much longer do you expect this corona pandemic to go on for still globally as well as it's very difficult to to make global projections we have very different difficult situations in countries around here in europe. the winter will not be an easy one. we will have vaccines during the next year to come. i guess it will last until the end of the next year until significant parts of the population can be provided a vaccine so we won't get rid of moss anytime soon and so even while we start vaccinating the population not just parts we'll have to wear masks in countries like germany where incidences no there will be nothing like a population based protection this is something we probably shouldn't consider for any country in europe. in other parts of the world the situation is very difficult to judge for instance enough for a car we have signals of lower. let's say disease presentation less severe presentation this may be due to the lower wage profile but we we need to

out the work the world health organization doing onto other news in the kremlin is rejecting accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of alexina valmy that's up to germany said it has unequivocal proof the opposition figure was poisoned with the nerve agent nova chuck he is seriously ill in a bill in hospital after collapsing 2 weeks ago german chancellor angela merkel says the poisoning is attempted murder and that only russia economics of the serious questions raised well alexandra stay on the vertical thread has the latest reaction for us now from moscow. so far from the official level there is no other theory offered what they're saying is basically we were not given any proof substantial proof for these statements and what could possibly be the motive now the spokesperson of russian president vladimir putin. said the noted that no one is accusing russia directly but he also said that such accusations are without any bases and the reason that the sanctions talkies unexceptable in general and he sees no reasons why there would be sanctions he also said that russia is very interested to get to the bottom of what happened with alex a now viney but has

of germany's leading virologists christian dross to regularly breach the german government and develop the 1st diagnostic test for the new corona virus which was adopted by the world health organization. and austin how much longer do you expect this corona pandemic to go on for still globally well it's very difficult to to make global projections we have very different difficult situations in countries around here in europe. the winter will not be easy one. we will have vaccines during the next year to come. i guess it will last until the end of the next year until significant parts of the population can be provided a vaccine so we won't get rid of moss anytime soon and so even while we stop vaccinating the population not just parts we'll have to wear mosques in countries like germany where incidences no there will be nothing like a population based protection and this is something we probably shouldn't consider for any country in europe. in other parts of the world the situation is very difficult to judge for instance enough for a car we have signals of lower. let's say disease presentation less severe presentation this may be due to lower wage profile but we we need to consider tha

every day and even here in germany where infections and deaths have remained relatively low we are seeing a sizeable jump in new cases all of this has the world health organization worried and sounding the alarm and this spring and early summer we were able to see the impact of strict lookdown mischa's. efforts over secretary rice this bake off in june cases hit an all time low. this is the case numbers however should serve as a wake up call for all of us are going to bring in now my colleague public early on here the big table. this is deja vu for us but for the people in madrid why is madrid in this situation yet again well 1st and foremost it comes down to a lack of preparation with regards to what's happening now in the medical system there's a lack of staff while they're more prepared in the sense that they have all that the masks and all those sort of things that they didn't have back in march and april and that they have a problem with staff numbers so often it's very difficult for people to actually even get a test because a lot of the medical centers of the primary care facilities are just not able to go to the nurses died who will visit there are a lot

the world health organization warning of a, quote, very serious situation, citing arming rates one more wn pandemic fir pked in march. the uk imposing new restrictions just this week. germany, italy and spain are all seeing increases. >>> back here at home tonight, and we're going to turn now to the fbi director christopher wray on capitol hill today, grilled on the president's claims of voter fraud. the director was also pressed on what attorney general william barr said overnight, calling some of his own prosecutors at the justice department preschoolers. and the a.g. also comparing lockdowns during a pandemic to slavery. here's our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, despite president trump repeatedly raising concerns about the potential for mass voter fraud, the fbi director telling congress he's seeing little evidence of such. >> we have not seen to date a coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election. >> reporter: but what he is seeing is hard evidence of the kremlin meddling in the u.s. presidential elections again. targeting vice president joe biden and using social media to sow discord. he also said the fbi is investigati

every day and even here in germany where infections and deaths have remained relatively low we are seeing a sizeable jump in new cases all of this has the world health organization worried and sounding the alarm and this spring and early summer we were able to see the impact of strict look down measures over efforts over a 2nd fight this off in june cases hit an all time low. this is the case numbers however should serve as a wake up call for all of us are going to bring in now my colleague public early on here at the big table publicly this is deja vu for us but for the people in madrid why is madrid in this situation yet again well 1st and foremost it comes down to a lack of preparation with regards to what's happening now in the medical system there is a lack of staff while they're more prepared in the sense that they have all the the masks and all those sort of things that they didn't have back in march and april now they have a problem with staff numbers so often it's very difficult for people to actually even get a test and because a lot of the medical centers of the primary care facilities are just not able to go to the nurses died from will visit there a

world health organization in geneva we appreciate you thank you very much. and many people here are concerned about a spike in corona virus infections during the comer winter months so just how prepared is germany for a 2nd wave the news visited one doctor's office and the center of berlin that's hoping to get ahead of the curve. 12 meters long and growing. that feeling of today's line at a medical practice from berlin. people have come here to get tested for corona through the window no appointment necessary. i think it's a really nice option doesn't take so much time and it's it may be safer than going to oak hospital and sitting in the close space where patients can be sick but here everything everyone is wearing masks and that's just for the window so i think it's really nice that the doctors ability cuts and runs the practice she's bracing herself for a harsh corona winter with many more patients to deal with it important event my i don't want to be a prophet of doom and gloom but the numbers are clearly going up we all want to prevent another lockdown so we don't want to have to close the schools again somehow we've got to get through this winter. to prepare for what's coming germany want

every day and even here in germany where infections and deaths have remained relatively low we are seeing a sizeable jump in new cases all of this has the world health organization worried and sounding the alarm in this spring and early summer we were able to see the impact of strict look down measures. efforts over a 2nd phase it's based off in june cases hit an all time low. this is the case numbers however should serve as a wake up call for all of us are going to bring in now my colleague public early on here at the big table. this is deja vu for us but for the people in madrid why is madrid in this situation yet again well 1st and foremost it comes down to a lack of preparation with regards to what's happening now in the medical system there's a lack of staff while they're more prepared in the sense that they have all the the masks and all those sort of things that they didn't have back in march and april now they have a problem with staff numbers so often it's very difficult for people to actually even get a test and because a lot of the medical centers of the primary care facilities are just not able to go to the nurses died who will visit there are a lot

every day and even here in germany where infections and deaths have remained relatively low we are seeing a sizeable jump in new cases all of this has the world health organization worried and sounding the alarm and it's putting an early summer we were able to see the impact of strict look down measures. efforts over a sector for this bake off in june cases hit an all time low. this is the case numbers however should serve as a wake up call for bring in now my colleague public early on here at the big table probably this is deja vu for us but for the people in madrid why is madrid in this situation yet again well 1st and foremost it comes down to a lack of preparation with regards to what's happening now in the medical system there is a lack of staff while they're more prepared in the sense that they have all that the masks and all those sort of things that they didn't have back in march and april and that they have a problem with staff numbers so often it's very difficult for people to actually even get a test because a lot of the medical centers for the primary care facilities are just not able to go to the nurses died from will visit there are a lot and they'

germany where experts say the crisis is far from over. and i'd like to take you know to dr margaret harris she is the spokesperson of the world health organization in geneva a very good day dr harris now with the corona virus pandemic ravaging the globe a death toll that now tops 1000000 a potential vaccine months away should we brace ourselves for things to get a whole lot worse before they get better. well we should remember that every one of those 1000000 whether it's one person or 1000000 people has died because they came into contact with these fires they will agree they're in a party they were singing in a choir they were doing normal things and they had their life taken from them often a very sad and lonely death away from friends and family so yes we have to take action now to stop it from getting a lot worse dr should the focus according to the w.h.o. and according to your expertise be on developing a vaccine and drugs to treat the virus or should instead the emphasis be on covert testing and tracing the emphasis should be on a little bit less we're saying is do it all say yes the side has to racing i want in 24 seventh's i mean my beli