The chancellor is the e. U. In danger of becoming too german and in turkey 20 saudi nationals are being tried in absentia for their role in the killing of journalist john to show. And the mysterious fate of fox one of the elephants an investigation is underway into what is killing hundreds of them in the country. Im sara kelly walked into the program well get to our top stories in just a moment but 1st we want to bring you some breaking news french president at wafa leap has handed in his governments resignation to president Emmanuel Mccall now felipes decision to stand down paves the way for a reshuffle which was widely expected there was no indication as to why. Felipe will stay on as the head of a new government and we will of course bring you more on this story as we get it while meantime the u. S. Has reported a Record Number of new corona virus infections where there were 55000 new covert 1000 cases on thursday that is as the country gears up for a Holiday Weekend the 4th of july is usually an occasion for parties and fireworks but with many u. S. States re imposing restrictions among a steep rise in cases this Year Celebrations may be more muted lets look now at data showing daily new cases from the beginning of the outbreak in the u. S. Because after rising steadily you begin to see the curve flattens and then cases they level off they even dropped from the end of april to men june but with the widening easing of lockdown restrictions we see the curve ticking up new infections skyrocketing again and amid the pandemic events have been scaled back officials there are caution that both public and private gatherings is Washington Bureau chief u. S. Poll visited a popular beach resort to gauge the mood. For Many Americans this is the 1st time out of the month. They are hungry for fun and some. Want to celebrate this 4th of july weekend as they normally do id like to keep moving on do the fireworks continue normality as much as we can moving back to normalcy is what wed like to do and i think if you take the right precautions theres nothing to be scared they dont want your party to know what you enjoy yourself but you have you know how many thousands in a group one at protests how to deal with the pandemic is highly politicized some fear that the restrictions are taking away their personal freedom others just see in the responsible action. I expect here in our community in maryland that because its tore season now that these cases are going to come back as people do not socially distance or where there are mass while visiting our beaches i dont think are going to do anything i think he will continue to say its a hoax and not believe in the science that is there causing so many cases and. This lack of guidance creates a turn them off for Business Owners between Health Concerns and remaining competitive. Runts in the bar and grill in the 5th generation. We want them to wear a mask but if they dont want to wear a mask we can tell them where im at because if theyre right to wear a mask or not i dont feel safe with them when im not when im at you know that quiet where im at. But yeah i would rather that where. You can make it out you can make it a law that you know that we have to wear it recommended for our safety and our health. You know you could make it where you know you get fined 500. 00 if you know where. The United States are facing a new record high of with 19 takes at least a little would you know here at the boardwalk in ocean city maryland the majority of the people is not wearing a mask they tell us we are here to fun we want to celebrate we are done with this why was the Business Owners obviously do have a different approach they fear that after the weakened they will face a new wave which will lead to a new locked all in and that would bring them to their knees in 2 weeks time we will know whether the right steps were taken if people celebrated this unprecedented pull from to life in a responsible way for the worst fears of the next wave. To come true. Now lets get more on that we are joined by tyson barker from the Aspen Institute in berlin tysons thank you so much for joining us this morning what do you think we should expect to see this upcoming weekend. Well i think its going to be quite uncertain its a specially in the in the sun dot states in the south where the numbers have been rising it is extremely hot actually theres a heat wave going on and its like texas and oklahoma as we speak so what that tends to do of course when youre having Family Gathering barbecues is that drives people indoors thats where the air conditioning is one of the things that led to a big population migration to the south was the invention of air conditioning but that leads to a lot of air circulation and of course those are the right conditions for contamination so people are going to be getting together the spike that were currently experiencing came up for the memorial day weekend a similar holiday thats when the bigger so its quite worried come up with us a little bit more about the message that americans have been getting from the very top from the u. S. President donald trump and the general state of leadership amid this pandemic as cases continue to rise in the u. S. Its quite mixed primarily because you have Different Centers of leadership saying Different Things so from the white house and particularly from donald trump himself you have heard a minimisation of the threat over recent months and sometimes he takes a little bit more towards you know take precautions but obviously as we saw in the toss around 2 weeks ago hes not taking these precautions himself and purging others to attend this rally continue with mention planning is better then you have another layer of technocrats like the 1000 task force that are saying you know where math. Exercise social distancing and then you have this other layer of the governors which are the real front line leaders in this fight and they get the message just been quite makes you have democratic governors like new York New Jersey connecticut who are saying this is a severe crisis and then you have governors that have kind of oscillated between its more important to reopen the economy and that ticking back towards the direction that this is a severe crisis like governor decentest in florida and Governor Abbott in texas and with that with all of those different dynamics at play which you know are sometimes so incredibly divergent types and what does all this need for the election in november. Honestly its too soon to tell because one of the things thats going to be quite determinant in this election is turnout and clearly the code crisis in the United States not only has the messaging been mixed from poetical leadership but it has been extremely politicized things like Wearing Masks social distancing exercising these precautions planning for a vaccine these have all become political issues in the United States and and Party Political issues so people are very exercised very aware of it was on the one hand but on the other hand people are going to take safety precautions and who count in november that means if youre forced to wait in the election infrastructure as an employee and youre forced to wait in a line for 7 hours close conditions often inside that school going to probably have an adverse effect on turnout so mailing voting by mail this would be a safety valve for that but the honest truth is that who is being politicized with people for questioning whether or not there could be voter fraud in that particularly from the top from president from those are unprecedented times and so many ways tyson barker from the Aspen Institute thank you so much for joining us to share those insights thanks for having me. For you have to date with some other developments in the coronavirus pandemic mexico has reported a record daily tally of new cases almost 7000 in a single day the number of confirmed Coronavirus Infections there is approaching 240000 japan the capital tokyo has recorded its highest daily number of new virus cases however the japanese government has stressed that there is no need to reintroduce a state of emergency and the u. K. Government says that from july 10th it will lift its quarantine requirement for people arriving in england from countries including france spain italy and germany. Well with Germany Holding the e. U. s rotating presidency for the next 6 months chancellor Angela Merkel will be working closely with European Commission president are still a fund and her former protege its something of a 1st to german women at the helm of the e. U. A debut correspondent bound to have the opportunity to ask them about the impact that they will have on the block. Then we got the question to both president s is a coincidence that 2 very powerful german women elite these negotiations about the Recovery Fund and you know each other very rose is that is a hindrance with respect to the other 26 other maybe afraid of too much germany. To start. By i got soaked. And were talking about 2 dedicated europeans thats whats more important here. But of course i cant forget my german interests either im in a 3. This is when i see president s often we are aware that the presidency also brings us an additional responsibility. And im very pleased that its 2 women in germany there has never been a few male chancellor before me in europe theres never been a female Commission President. In the past 2 men have always managed all this now we 2 women have to handle it and we are confident that we can do it right ursula. Its their fight and that is indeed the case and the good thing is that weve known each other a long time and we trust each other deeply knowing someone well allows you to speak efficiently and openly. We can dive deep into the details and achieve a lot. Of stuff and lets get more on that we are joined by our chief Political Correspondent melinda crane melinda is the e. U. Set to become more german centric. Well that question actually implied not just more german centric but more women centric so let me start with the women part the fact is would we ever pose that question or imply that when it comes to 2 men saying wow 2 men are at the helm is not a little too much manliness secondly the fact is the countries many of the countries that have come out of the corona crisis best are governed by women so maybe this is quite a good thing this convergence the german centric part the fact is germans always wield a good deal of influence in brussels but its often behind the scenes now its on the main stage but that does not make this a power grab it was the french president who proposed ursula fonda lying to the Commission President and its just happens to be the fact that angler machall is still in the german chancellor now that germany once again after 13 years has its term at the rotating presidency the fact is also this word centric implies Something Like domination but leadership is not the same thing as domination leadership is responsibility is it appropriate to germany the use biggest economy absolutely dependent on the welfare of the rest of the you because its a trading nation now takes leadership absolutely and what can we achieve with all of that in mind. You know there are challenges in building consensus within the e. U. Right now so with the 2 of these leaders together whats realistic. They are both known as very skilled negotiators and we are going to now see the 1st in person meeting in quite a while of leaders of even Member States in the middle of july the main goal of both or so if underlying and uncle americal is to push through or to persuade the others as quickly as possible to sign on for this very ambitious Recovery Fund and the fund has one particularly crucial aspect it would allow the e. U. Commission to borrow on the Financial Markets with essentially the larger evil budget as a surety for that borrowing that is a crucial step toward fiscal integration for the e. U. Germany has long dragged its feet on any form of mutualization of debt germany therefore his well placed to be the 1st country to really move forward on this and to be able to take the skeptics along and another thing very conducive perhaps to americans bargaining capabilities she comes out of the corona crisis riding high her trust levels have rarely been as strong as they are now that mean she can take both people within her own party who might be skeptical of more fiscal integration with her as well as german citizens and as i said shes a very pragmatic negotiator when it comes to the other members the states certainly interesting to see germany take now with this these platform these goals that arent traditionally german we have to say belinda crane our chief Political Correspondent and berlin thank you. And we are going to go back now to that breaking news that we brought you earlier in the Program French president if you the french Prime Minister at waffle leap as hands it in the resignation of his entire cabinet to president emanuel mccrum felipes decision to stand down paves the way for a reshuffle which was widely expected there was no indication as to whether felipe will stay on as head of the new government. Putting this into context for us lets bring into that you correspondent barbara vessel in brussels probably heard it there of the resignation and wofully was expected but why did the entire government resign now. Because president mike wrong a once a complete reshuffle it seems incredibly brutal but its something that happens again and again in french politics the president in france is more or less like the king and he determines who his court hears the people working for him and definitely under him are going to be and it was clear for weeks on end that didnt president mike wrong and yet announce it wanted to relaunch himself he wanted to relaunch his politics and that all was means in france it is going to be a bloodbath politically he wants new people new faces because hes things that faces that have accompanied him so far on his way throughout these difficult times was the yellow vests protests and and all of the strikes against the pension reform and everything that happened and didnt go well and did go very badly in french politics in the last 2 and a half years that needs to be sort of cast off and new team brought in ok but other than personality politics barbara what is this likely to be for actual policy in france. It means that president mcclung wants to reinvent himself he has been hinting at it when you look at the communal elections awful last of the last weekend by the way knew what was coming obviously and he has put himself up and gained the seat as mayor of the i have there and that is a place where he can later to 2 years ahead maybe reemerge and even challenge president mike wrong but mccollum so far at the helm he wants to reinvent himself he has 2 years to go till the next elections and he knows that he really has to sort of reprieve zent themselves to french voters he is going to sort of shift to the to the left and to is going to put more social looking policies fall with and hes going to become so green the greenest president you have ever seen because during those 2 mutilations we have now seen that was green wave in france the greens again several big cities the mayors of several big cities in front something that has never been seen before so he knows what the times want and what the voters might reply to and so he wants to get on that feeling on that wave and sort of presented itself as the the greenest the newest and completely revitalized president ever what are the next steps now barbara in terms of getting a new government in place. Within a few hours were going to know what this government looks like who will be on who will be off there might be even some people coming back maybe in a different position we dont know that yet and then well get some policy announcement from president mike wrong and there will be some people in paris who will rub their eyes and say when he was elected in 2017 we didnt hear anything of this he was the president of the revitalizing economy he was more seen more as a right wing or the president of the bankers as people who hate him always say and so they will see a completely different president whether they believe in this fantastic change in on not thats another story but hes going to try ok just to recap for our viewers french Prime Minister and why felipe handing in his governments resignation to president among a mark on a move widely expected or provisional put it all into context for us thank you barbara. Now lets get a check of some other stories making news around the world press claim maxwell the former girlfriend of the late finance here and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested in the u. S. On sex trafficking charges maxwell is accused of recruiting girls to give epstein massages during which they were sexually assaulted maxwell has previously denied any wrongdoing. Colombian authorities have arrested 8 leftist rebels suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Police Academy last year the january 21000. 00 car bombing in the capital bogota killed 22. 00 people the suspects face multiple charges including murder and terrorism. Then ismail an Opposition Leader want to know has praised a u. K. Ruling that sides with him on a dispute over gold on thursday a judge ruled that since the British Government recognises why go as venezuelas president he controls the countrys 1000000000. 00 gold reserves stored in london incumbent president Nicolas Maduro as government plans to appeal that decision. To turkey now where the trial is starting over the murder of dissident saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi because he was murdered in 2018 inside riyadhs consulate in the turkish city of istanbul he had been getting papers to marry his fiance who was waiting outside his remains were never found the trial is opening in absentia of 20 saudi nationals indicted for their role in the murder. Of correspondent giuliana standing by for us in front of that courthouse in istanbul yulia theres already been a trial in saudi arabia so why another one starting in turkey today. Well this is mainly because the turkish authorities and many others so are unhappy with how the saudis explained and prosecuted to mass murder as you mentioned there was a trial in the kingdom but it was largely secretive and human rights organizations have condemned it as a travesty of justice so in march istanbul prosecutors have presented their indictment and they have charged 20 saudi suspects over their role in just a minute to including 2 former top aides to Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin sajjan these 2 men are being charged with a leading the operation with giving orders to the Saudi Hit Team that came to istanbul in 2018 to carry out the killing the prosecution here is seeking aggravated life sentences for all the suspects but as you mentioned its a trial in absentia none of the suspect is actually here in turkey at court and according to the information we have right now there is also no one here in their defense remind us what happened when she was killed in october 28th in a song. Well it was and 2nd off oktober 2018. A u. S. Based saudi journalist a columnist for the Washington Post and a well known critic of the kingdom walked into the saudi consulate here in istanbul to get some paperwork done for his upcoming wedding but he never reemerged in the days that followed we learned that he was brutally murdered his body dismembered and as you mentioned his remains have never been found now this case has really shocked horrified many around the world especially his fiance had teacher who was waiting for him outside that consulate all the time she has gone through a nightmare but at the same time shes also impressively brave and relentless in her quest for justice shes here at court today shell give a statement at court and she said earlier that she hopes this trial will help shed some more light on jim official g. s a death and what happened to his remains what else can we expect from the trial. What to be honest i dont expect too much in the legal sense as i mentioned its a trial in absentia the suspects are not here and if its really true that there is no one representing the defense then this trial from a legal point cannot really happen so i assume this is for jim g. s fiance for his friends and supporters a way to. To draw attention and to remind the world what happened to this journalist especially since all calls for an International Court to pick up this case have a my that remained on the onset even though there has been a u. N. Probe into Jamal Khashoggi murder so in the end i think this will rather be as symbolic it might not have really implications in a legal sense yulia hanun istanbul thank you yulia. To sports now and its official Manchester City is lee roy sunday joints for the sake of champions byron munich he signed a 5 year deal until 2025 for a fee reported to be around 50000000. 00 euros byron were interested in him as early as last year but an injury put everything on hold the german winger becomes byrons 3rd signing for the new season. Meantime veteran bremen have a challenge on their hands to avoid a born to single relegation they were held to a nil nil home draw by 2nd division hiden hi im in the 1st leg of their play off is a town of only 50000 people and the club has never been in the bundesliga but they have a better chances in the rain against bremen who saw sent off a lot late in the game. The 2nd leg on. All many festivals around the world have been cancelled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic one of benton belgium managed to find a work around the Paradise City electronic Music Festival reinvented itself to adapt to physical distancing rules i put it party go on small boats of 8 friends only 400. 00 people were allowed to attend the special event usually the festival draws around 10000. 00 people per day. This is news a quick reminder of the top story of youve been following for you this hour french Prime Minister and watchfully has handed in the resignation of his entire cabinet to the president of manual mccraw his decision to stand down as the wait for a widely expected print shop. The u. S. Has reported a record 55000 new coronavirus cases in a sign of the pandemic is excel writing this comes as the country compared. To mark Independence Day with muted celebrations. And in turkey the trial a starting of 20 saudi nationals for their role in the 21000. 00 killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul the suspects are being tried in absentia. And with that now youre up to date dont forget you can always get more on our web site t w dot com you can also follow us on twitter and instagram at g. W. News im sarah kelly in berlin because so much for watching it to help you take care of. In a globalized world. Where everything is connected. All it takes is a score. To set things in motion. Local hero show called their ideas can change the world. Global 3000. Next on d w. Thrown into chinas cultural revolution. The red children. Born to immigrants who have come to help build a new nation. Raised to be loyal to the regime and event its a great helmsman now as a dont. Until the pesky shits and parents say was that lines to the truth. Childhood until now. 45 minutes on d w. 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