A special report. A giant statue of buddha set for demolition in china with this heartland its part of beijings clampdown on religion and spirituality will take a closer look. Plus spains a former King Juan Carlos flees the country a medical russian probe hes accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks from a Saudi ArabianRailway Project. Im sunni so misguidance going to have you with us will there be a 2nd wave of covert 1000 in germany while the head of the german Doctors Union says it is already here and a newspaper interview suzanna you and i said there was a danger germany would fritter away the success it had the cheve so far the number of cases has risen steadily in greece. Weeks with over 870 new infections counted on tuesday units that hospitals were prepared but urged people to stick to social distancing and hygiene rules and to wear masks. Lets get some perspective on this story now we have toby esquith with us hes a professor of Public Health in epidemiology and director of the institute of Public Health at the childhood berlin to b. S. Good to have you with us do you agree with the head of the Doctors Union are we seeing that 2nd wave now already in germany well its a little bit of a definition question the numbers are rising for sure a way if you can actually see over time when you have the rising and then decreasing which then has the form of a wave but yes the numbers are certainly alarming and we have to really really take care that we keep distancing Wearing Masks cetera are you worried that people are precisely getting tired of some of those restrictions on things like Wearing Masks and also a social distancing. Will most people take it very seriously some are getting tired or dont take it serious and thats the issue and also in trouble are travelers coming back as you know theyre getting tested its very important to take a test that because as symptomatic cases right now the further increase the spread of the virus what measures do you think should be put in place to stop a 2nd wave from taking over here in germany are further measures needed i dont think at the moment for them it measures are needed if you really really have to take care of keeping our distance and bearing masses wherever you are Indoor School pulling out is also an issue that we have to very carefully watch how is it its going and some of the states that are opening right now to schools you mentioned that other big challenge here in germany the fact that schools are reopening again yesterday was the 1st day back in the state of the mecklenburg West Pomerania lets take a look now at a report on how that went. Finally back where they wanted to be in the schoolyard with all of their friends for the 1st time in 5 months these children from John BrinkmanPrimary School in rostock can play together without a mask and without daring to social distancing rules. Even hugs are allowed although not recommended. And specify it is better now because were allowed to sit next to each other again and we can see all our friends again you know. And its i i find it great because we can see all of our friends again and also our classmates and teachers. Its even my sisters very 1st day at school so thats really exciting results in this choice turk. Just like this class all 11000000 german pupils are supposed to return to a daily School Routine in the next couple of weeks a great relief for their parents as well but playing and learning so close to each other every day comes with a certain risk of infection that to make some teachers uneasy. As of course were anxious its not just school it goes beyond that. Im thinking about my family my grandmother is 91. 00 you dont want to be a carrier plus i have to be extra careful as my child has asked me a. Lot of pasta with coded 19 infections rising again in germany parents have mixed feelings about the new start to. This is the mother giving theres a degree of uncertainty you dont know where people have been on holiday. Im glad its starting up again the last 6 months have been exhausting. Comes to that but. I could see that. Distancing. Keeping the kids at home even longer isnt an option for the School Head Teacher should the goal is really in port. For the children and their families as well i think schools can restart despite the rising cases. For the most part everyone is trying to keep a distance even though some hugs i just inevitable for the kids they hope to be able to continue their school year as normally as possible. Ok to be a so when i ask you about some of those points because we heard some of the concerns that kids could for example become infected and bring the virus home to their families so how worried are you that we could see a big outbreak of because of schools reopening. I think its a mix of things schools is certainly an important point to travelers its not a point of the mixing of all of the us are raising concerns and i personally would like to see you after the children are Wearing Masks in school so that the risk is further reduced i also agree however that we need to reopen schools to get somehow back to to a live that is mentionable and that the parents can and can do their their work and their jobs so its very problematic and we have to watch it carefully what we also needs to understand is that we will see cases kids will test positive determine who will test positive and then the question is what will happen after do we have a plan b. The entire school needs to be shut down so all of these questions are very difficult to answer right now so we have to watch it basically on a daily basis and very carefully move along and toby as just one more question what would your message to germans be of why they need to be vigilant as these weeks go on and as the schools continue to reopen. Well we have been very lucky so far so that was not a major hit in terms of major consequences as not of countries but we have to try very hard to keep this measures to not allow a further spread of to virus despair is still out there to spiders is dangerous i mean seeing in other countries what the consequences of the virus can be and we should do everything to avoid just to have this like in germany to be as quick to rector of the institute of Public Health at the charite berlin thank you so much for joining us thank you. Lets check in now on some other headlines from around the world australia is deploying the military to enforce stricter lockdown rules that have come into place in the state of victoria people found to be breaching isolation orders will now face hefty fines with penalties for repeat offenders as high as 14000. 00 u. S. Dollars the philippines capital manila and surrounding provinces are back in lockdown starting today thats after Health Workers urge the government to bring in stricter measures after a surge in corona virus infections public transport has been suspended most businesses are closed for the next 2 weeks. In bolivia the Health Care System has been overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic most of the more than 80000 infections are in the capital or hospitals laboratories and Funeral Homes are close to collapse in just 5 days the police collected more than 140 bodies from the streets. In this car a 68 year old man has died as a result of covert 19 he never made it to hospital just a few hours earlier a friend and Family Members had tried to get him help at 5 medical centers but they were denied. The dole the hospitals are full we were sent to the hospitals in la porte and in court to houma he stopped breathing when we were underway and thats why were here. The dead mans sister says her goodbyes while the police examined the corpse. And officer hands over the death certificate since the coroner hasnt turned up the officer says people arent just dying in their cars theyre also dying on the street and at home hospitals are at breaking point and its becoming harder to access treatment threating even less because while searching for help people often go from one hospital to the other some of them die in their cars are Department Records deaths that occur in private vehicles and on Public Transportation but a lot of this if you go. Bolivias currently in the Community Transmission phase santa cruz la paz and cochabamba are the worst affected regions the average age of death is about 75. 00 with more men dying than women. Rebeccas father died in his home because no hospital in alto would admit him. Well we can do is bury him thats all we can do my father is no longer with me. These stories of being shuttled from hospital to hospital are repeated every day during the pandemic and theres no end in sight cemeteries are almost full and funeral parlors have run out of coffins but this man complains that he had to say goodbye to a Family Member in a particularly painful way. They simply put him in an improvised box you cant even barter with them about the price saying youre willing to pay for better but there is nothing else than annoying. Family members arent even allowed to enter cemeteries and they have to say their final goodbyes from a far touching flowers at the perception of cars bringing in the bodies for burial and every day police pick up an average of 70 bodies from the streets 85 percent of them infected with covert 19. For more on the story we have have yet to get us from to get to latin america with us high have yet those are really troubling images what do we know about regional differences and fatalities well as far as the official figures go we could save the urban regions the most populous cities like santa cruz and the which is adjacent to the boss are the ones that are most affected but lets not forget that on top of the hospital crisis we also have a crisis in the testing abilities of the government and in the management of statistics so we really dont know to what extent this is spread out throughout the country and unfortunately the images like those of corpses on the street that come from many parts of the country are. The only a more reliable source of information to know whats going on in the country than the official figures while many bolivians are desperate some are turning to chlorine dioxide which is a toxic disinfectant to treat the virus i mean how our thought is responding to that well the official position of the government and of the Health Ministry is urging people of course not to take it but lets not forget that there is a political problem in bolivia as well a political crisis actually where there is only an interim government and the opposition which holds the majority in Congress Just passed legislation thats a populist move to help people out that allows for the production and sales of that substance so people are taking it and that is of course a major problem because of 2 reasons 1st of all because bolivia lets not forget has a high indigenous tradition which reliance on alternative medicine in general so they are more prone to maybe not going to have an official doctor if you will in general and the 2nd big problem is that we have a country in bolivia with more than 30 official languages so getting a message across like do not take this medication or wear a mask or prevent the covert spread is more difficult than in other countries we mentioned the political crisis in bolivia i mean what is the political fallout been from this well there is a big political fallout the 1st and most tangible thing is that the election that should have been held in september has now been moved to october we dont know if thats actually going to happen and in the meantime of course there is political confrontation and this is a very important problem because in this whole Coronavirus Crisis trust in government is key you have to trust the authorities in what they are telling you and the opposition which holds the majority in congress and also the majority of intention in votes they have to discredit the government that is their political role they have to say these are the guys that are responsible for this and listen to us so that imminently leads to a confrontation of positions and leads to confusion among the population we are seeing more protests also riots for example in prisons where people are getting infected and this all contributes to that mistrust in the government that. Ultimately causes deaths and harsher spread of the virus and what do you see the government doing to battle that issue of mistrust among the population well they are trying their best but lets not forget that in the government itself we have seen the interim president genuine yes infected with the virus as much as 8 ministries or ministers also. Spreading the virus so it is very difficult to gain the confidence especially because they are also losing in the polls and i think the only real solution would be an election to regain the trust of the population how do you give us from day to the latin america thank you so much for sharing that reporting with us now in china the government is not only cracking down on muslims but on other religions as well as it pushes to assert communist ideology with this temples have been closer demolished while a campaign has been launched to destroy hundreds of statues of buddha the destruction of the giant kuan yin blood that has drawn International Condemnation as we hear now from correspondent my ts banana. You mean is a devout buddhist view is not his real name hes afraid of repercussions in his hometown of sudan have come under pressure from the government since they started protesting against the destruction of a buddhist site on the outskirts of the city 3 faced statue of one year in the date of mercy in chinese buddhism is being demolished. Suddenly the government friends to set you off here during works inside. But they have not told anyone about the reasons for the destruction its left us buddhist and those who worship the goddess one even inside and outside china quite bewildered. The 3 faced kuan yin and religious monastery were built in 2002 when a company donated a giant statue to the Buddhist Community made of white jade it quickly became famous. I am trying to get a look at the site the statue is located in a mountainous region about an hours drive from the city center. The decision to build the statue here in these mountains was not a coincidence but islam has a long history. In this area is Something Like the cradle of chinese buddhism many of the buddhist classics with 1st translated from sanskrit into chinese in monasteries located in this area as we approach the statue we see security guards posted at the roadside stopping and taking pictures of the demolition is strictly prohibited the government does not want these images to spread on social media we can only film out of the car window. It is unclear how far the demolition has already gone activists have written to the government and complained on social media to save the statue which is thats a cia sions as far away as malaysia have protested against its demolition but to no avail. Sheehan is an ancient capital of china tourists from all over the world come to see its Historic Sites including its buddhist heritage but in recent years the government has pushed for a revival of communist ideology even inside Datsun Temple the world famous buddhist heritage site a sign reminds visitors to a poet socialist values. Its not only buddhism but also christianity and islam the Chinese Government is putting immense pressure on religions buddhism is treated more leniently because the government considers it to be more in line with their norms but ive witnessed myself the pressure theyre putting on buddhist temples and that activity is increasing. Temples have been caused to cancel religious events monasteries have had some of their buildings demolished experts estimate that the 3 face is just one of up to 800 statues that have been destroyed in recent years. That story from correspondent us spelling and he joins us from beijing now for more on this story have a ts why are we seeing this push now to destroy these above the symbols weve seen of push the communist ideology for the ideology of the communist party in the past few years weve seen a hardening of the idea logical line within the party and a great push for date ideologically and ideology in Public Discourse so religion is always of course something that is in competition with this ideology that is at theist and the communist party member must promise to be a nothing is cannot be member of any religious organisation in theory at least and so what weve seen recently is that displays of spirituality of religion essentially recently like these 800 or the statues recently in iraq did. The statues. Obvius torn down are being demolished Choo Choo Choo to make religion less visible in the public. Other religions as well nutty as right i mean theres also pressure on the countrys muslims and christian minorities out there yes there is and the pressure on them is a lot higher especially in the Western Region of sin john where there are distinct muslim minorities the weakest and because of pressure on them is very high praying can get you into an internment camp there but theres also pressure on other muslim groups muslim groups that are not in the focus of the earth or it is because of their ethnicity but on their display of religion for example mosques have been destroyed or have been remodeled if they were built in an oriental style in a middle eastern style they had to tear down some of the these features and replace them with chinese features and churches have their crosses removed a has been pressure on Christian Communities also on the newly established Christian Communities mostly protestant communities where pastors have been arrested but also on the traditional Christian Communities that are found in some of the locations in the countryside the communist party is pushing forward with its ideology and its pushing back and a value system that might compete with them and these religions especially christianity and islam that are forward seen as foreign religions are under huge pressure what do you think the Chinese Government is hoping to gain from repressing this religious free and. Power power over discourse in the community of power over what people think what people at least are allowed to publicly think. Being a buddhist will not get you to jail but they do not want this buddhist faith displayed as they would have allowed it 20 years ago ok question about his being reporting there from beijing thank you so much. Now to some other stories making news around the world typhoon put made landfall on chinas eastern coast early on Tuesday Morning heavy winds and heavy rains it is now weekend and has been described as a Tropical Storm as it heads towards chinas Financial Capital shanghai. 3 sailors have been rescued from a tiny island in the western pacific after writing a giant s. O. S. Sign in the sand now the man had veered off course after running out of fuel they were missing for 3 days before australian and u. S. Aircraft spotted their message all are said to be in good health. And 2 women have been injured one of them seriously while swimming with the whales off the northwest coast of australia they were part of a group of snorkelers on a whale watching trip when they were caught by the tail fin of a mother whale protecting her calf spains former King Juan Carlos is reported to have abruptly left the country his departure comes amid a scandal over alleged illegal payments linked to a Railway Project in saudi arabia in a letter to his son King Philippe the former monarch said he was leaving spain so that philippe could work unhindered by the scandal. The news is rocks by juan carlos the former spanish king is going into exile its not been announced way hes heading he says hes done so to protect the money from scandal but hes decision has outraged many spaniards. This is really bad he should pay the money back. Its a high steep decision he should stay and defend himself in court like the rest of us are you. Prosecutors have long been investigating kuan carlos the monarchy is facing accusations he took a kickback from saudi arabia when Spanish Companies won a contract to build around the way between mecca and medina there the kings former lover could its a sign of it can stein is suspected to have received the broad money spanish journalists were given late types where she admits helping to hide the some. The king made a fortune especially in the United Arab Emirates and the gulf states and also saudi arabia. He excepted gifts and nations and then he set up an elaborate financial structure to conceal that money. To me about a bill is. That if republicans have been capitalizing on the royal scandal by organizing protests against the royal family they are hoping spaniards have had enough. Of the corruption doesnt just involve a few bad apples demonstrating against the money he has a corrupt system of innocence and they want to get. Punk carlos allegedly continued to finance a lavish lifestyle with the laundered money after he abdicated the throne he could still face charges of the matter but now hes put a little distance between himself and son King Philippe and between himself and prosecutors. Well long before the scandal juan carlos disappeared unifying figure in spain especially in the 1000 and earlier we spoke to him in the last case a spanish journalist based in madrid and we asked him what this development meant for the royal family and for the country on guns to mirror what was one of the most prominent 30 years in spain and was able to glue to gether. Divided the spain but spend hes becoming more and more poor in the coming years and also the figure lets be made oh has been questioned lately stronger than done than ever especially because of those scandals and allegations regarding the corruption. Is trying to get as much distance as he can from the figure of hes father and son his people of course is divided regarding that legacy that when the middle class you know the role that he played in the. Arrival of the mo crissy here in spain as spain is divided even in side of the government for their most party which is part of the Coalition Government has already requested that we should you know look about our system but the Prime Minister by the sunset says its not time for an institutional crisis we are already in a holes and economic crisis here in spain. All right chinas time if theyre in madrid now for many of us the idea of a 50 foot monster wave would have us running from the ocean but not a lie olson the latest recipient of the worlds the worlds surf leagues biggest paddle award which goes to the surfer who takes on the biggest wave of the surf season olsons death defying ride on a 15 meter high wave in hawaii was chosen as this years winner olson is also nominated for the w s ls performer of the year award. All right coming up next our bundesliga show kick off brings you up to date on the german football and you can always stay up today by going to our website dot com thank you for watching. Kick off. To heart beat in their chest to see a startling start with truth in morocco etc then in royal blue and a young german stunt suits his way into the premier league 3 top talents 3 life stories and their journeys to the top football leagues kick off. Next on t w. 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