A full month after the beirut explosions rocked new urgency for a merge and see workers sifting through the rubble of a collapsed building from the massive explosions that left scores of people dead. And u. S. President ial contender joe biden meets the family of a black man shot and injured by police in wisconsin and he issues a challenge to President Trump. Plus it was 5 years ago today the thousands of migrants left budapest hungary on foot to reach germany well talk to journalists who were there and ask them about an event that changed the course of european history. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today nato members are convening in the. Wing hours to discuss the poisoning of russian Opposition Leader alexei germany says it has evidence that he was targeted with a deadly nerve agent created during the soviet era a crime what is the now in the charges and has cautioned against a rush to judgment. While germany and the International Community wait for russia to answer questions only 8 can surrounding the attempted murder of anticorruption activists Alexei Navalny kremlin critics are already putting a finger at one man. There is only one person can be named is what amir putin because will he be older or more than 20 years in power socalled power vertical were they actually nobody dares to sneeze with his permission save on the 2nd murderous attack on a major putins political opponent no one else could have done it there is 0 possibility that social parisian could have been carried out without personal prudence permission over the years the kremlin has been blamed for poisoning political foes something it denies denounced continued on thursday as it rejected accusations of russias involvement in these poisoning. The opposition figure has been a political thorn in the side of russian president Vladimir Putin and his United Russia Party for a decade drumming up a vocal and growing opposition against putins 20 year grip on power. Herein avani is pushing for change shortly before hes poisoned in the hyperion city of tomsk. Because im traveling around the country to declare war against united russia its clear that this place should be one of the 1st its sorely needed in this war. In the footage recently released by his team and have only challenges United Russia Party members in tomsk calling them corrupt bloodsucking creatures and urging the community to both come out and the september 13th local elections his supporters hope the 44 year old will be awake to witness the outcome. Lets bring in our chief Political Correspondent linda crane to talk more about the. Chancellor merkel in the coming hours is going to be consulting with nato with the e. U. On a coordinated approach what to have in mind. Well germany is currently holding the rotating a u. Council presidency which is why germany has in fact been very active yesterday evening we heard the e. U. s Foreign Policy chief Joseph Burrell condemn the poisoning in terms very similar to those that were used by the chancellor and we also can get a 1st idea of the e. U. Response from what he had to say he called for thorough and complete investigation of the poisoning and for those found responsible to be brought to justice and were told that the e. U. Would like to see russia in that investigation work with the organization in the prohibition of chemical weapons because in fact no the chalk is a prohibited substance so this is is a violation of International Law now the last time that nobody chalk was used namely to poison the former russian spy sergei script all the poisoning that occurred in 2018 in the u. K. Afterwards there was a response by a number of e. U. Member states taking concerted action to expel Russian Diplomats this case is a little different because it did occur on russian soil but as i said this is a violation of International Law another possible and quite likely response would be sanctions e. U. Sanctions currently apply to russia because of its occupation of crimea but we might see additional sanctions imposed as well sanctions sanctions are very much a part of the International Discussion right now domestically german politicians are urging merkel to abandon the nord stream to project which is now nearing completion actually that would bring natural gas from russia to germany can you fill us in on why this project is taking center stage right now. This project has long been controversial anyway because in fact it would allow russian gas to flow directly to germany bypassing poland and ukraine that would deprive those 2 countries of transit revenues and it would also make them more vulnerable in their dealings with russian gas giant gazprom its also faced a lot of pushback from the u. S. So already a controversial project we are now hearing calls not only from opposition parties here in germany but from the head of the parliaments Foreign Affairs committee who is a member of the chancellors own party to put this project on hold or even terminate it all together with the chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee saying look if we continue with this now it makes germany even more dependent on russia and it sends a message to russia that it can simply flout western objections and condemnation with impunity linda thanks so very much for coming in on this today Melinda Cramer our chief Political Correspondent. There we have a developing story right now rescue workers and baby ruud are searching for possible survivors of the massive explosions ripped through that city a month ago a chilean search and rescue team with audiotape meant and rescue dogs have detected a pulse 2 meters below the rubble of a collapsed building now they began their search thursday afternoon theyre now continuing to dig fever slowly and remove some of the debris there more than 190 people were killed in the blast august worse more than 6000 were injured. Lets go live now to beirut and basile our correspondent there youve just arrived on the scene can you tell us whats happening right now. In fact i thought they was. Yesterday. Because of the heavy pressure by the people about the president s residence. Or the authority that the security in their words. And then sure am this morning they bring this train behind me huge crane behind me to move the rubble and to continue the search worked this moment they have the detective this can detect the the area whenever they turn it on the journalist and everybody in here to turn off their phones to move back few meters just to make sure that nothing. The machine worked so well right now the work its interest. And the Civil Defense the Civil Defense how did rescue workers detect the pulse in the 1st place how did they find the sign of life. In fact the a team was moving from the area just to check out the area. They noted that this is some signals on their machine and that they have to choose a theme i mean the name of this lovely dog. Detected the impulse that the. They believe they believe that one could be what the dont indicate that theres one dead body and one still alive most probably that small kid but not too according to the chilling theres nothing nothing sure yet the dog named slash gave gave the signal but according to the members of the team you know. For us yesterday that there is nothing yet theres just before the. Voice of hopefully that you can as you can see behind me all these trucks have to do you because they think its here in this rescue thats certainly very hopeful news so far but how confident are you are the rescue workers behind you and then youve been talking here how confident are they that theyll be able to reach this potential survivor in time. They know digging they believe. What what they think that there is some survivors. More or less according to the. You. Know some heavy trucks also i mean. I dont know why it. Works but its all good for the u. S. So i couldnt get him to keep it to you but he didnt need to been because they believe that they can. Do the i dont need to more or less to find to reach. That human body but. I think. They are afraid that it will remain all that big through. What made of florida they all said that. Theyre searching that might. Thats what. These. 3. Look you did look. Ok we wish for the best for the rescue workers and all those helping right now fossils thanks so very much for that from beirut. If youre briefed on some of the other stories making the news today at least one person has died in a blaze on a supertanker off the coast of sri lanka the indian entry along to navys trying to prevent the fire reaching the oil storage area of that vessel they say no while has so far leaked out of. The number of corona virus cases in brazil has topped 4000000 some 125000 people have died only the u. S. Has seen more cases and desk rizzos president also narrow has said vaccinations will not be compulsory when they become available. The mayor of rochester new york has suspended 7 Police Officers involved in the suffocation of a black man daniel proved body cam footage shows him placing a hold over the victims head and holding him on the ground his family is calling for murder charges. While staying in the us where a suspect wanted in connection with the Fatal Shooting of a member of a Pro Trump Group during a protest in Portland Oregon has been shot dead by Police Law Enforcement killed a suspect a 40 year old man as they tried to arrest him southwest of seattle it is unclear why that suspect was shot dead. The incident occurred as president ial candidate joe biden visited the city of can osho the sight of unrest after protests against police and racism. At conneaut his grace through from church democratic president ial hopeful joe biden met with local politicians and Business Owners as well as members of Law Enforcement his stated goal to try to unify this fractured community after the Police Shooting of jacob blake that sparked days of protests before arriving at the church biden and blake talked on the phone. As i got off the airplane. I had an opportunity to spend some time with jacob on the phone hes out of i. C. U. We spoke for about 15 minutes he talked about how nothing was going to defeat him. How were they want to go to not he was not going to give up. And went on to the level of thinly veiled accusation of President Donald Trump look for encouraging race based hatred i thought you could defeat hate. It only hides only hives and when someone authority breathes oxygen out of that rock. The gentlemans use folks to come on. By didnt stop here comes just 2 days after trump visited can osha in contrast to bud in the trunk did not meet with blake or his family but rather threw his support behind Law Enforcement denouncing protestors as domestic terrorists while biden has been widely supportive of the black laws matter protests he made a point of condemning looting and violence none of it justifies 30 bernie or anything else so we guard us how angry you are if you lou do you burn you should be held accountable as someone who does anything else period. A small group of protesters was also on hand to welcome but aside from blocking traffic there were no signs of. For more lets bring in boris foreman u. S. Political analyst at bard college here in berlin thanks so much for joining us today Race Relations is emerging as a Campaign Issue but when you listen to the 2 candidates it seems like theyre talking about completely different topics whats behind the different takes on the same issue. Yeah i mean youre absolutely right they are talking about well theyre talking about the same issues but theyre talking about them from very different angles its obvious that Race Relations has shaped america from the very get go so its not entirely surprising that it would become a companion to at some point biden is trying to send a message of healing and reconciliation between minorities and majority groups the whites well the white population trump does quite the opposite hes been following and pursuing a politics of fear at least since well the last year or so after the Congressional Elections 2 years ago and what hes trying to do is to fuel anger because he things where he seems to think that this is the way for him to mobilize his vote ok now just hours after joe biden visited kenosha President Trump held his own rally in the battleground state of pennsylvania he was again stressing the law and order message youve been referring to now how much is that resonating with the voters that matter the ones that he needs to win over to when. Well his Approval Ratings have been pretty stable for a long time all the way through his administration the 1st 3 years of his administration it dips with the with the coronavirus and his responses its sort of slowly taking momentum again if we trust the volatilities that are happening his message is clearly one of potential loss and hes trying to appeal to the white vote what hes basically saying is if you vote democrats youre going to you youre going to lose your your god youre going to lose your statues youre going to lose your car youre going to lose your job because of the industrialization so its clearly an attempt to mobilize people through fear what more successful that is going to be remains to be seen yeah that that is the main question though what whats going to become the main issue will it be President Trumps call for long order or will it be bidens call for Racial Justice and unity which one is going to emerge do you think or has the best possibility to emerge as the central Campaign Issue well i think both will stick to their narrative of whats going on trump has been doing so for a long time. But its not the only issue the narrative is obviously important to whats also important just gets the vote out and whats also important to talk about is voting suppression and. The way the Voting System works in the u. S. And obviously the way that trump has tried to depict the electoral system as rigged and potentially fraud is for potential fraud is quite problematic because no matter what the result will be there will be challenges and the full well that will end up in a very problematic position that brings some level of uncertainty to this campaign and the vote thanks very much for coming in for us for many us political analyst still to come on our show. I german car conductor. Says he will not for a pandemic and celebrates beethovens birthday in south korea. But 1st of all this week here on d w weve been marking the 5th anniversary of decision that would change the course of european history on this day september 4th 2015 thousands of refugees who had been stuck in limbo at a train station in budapest set out on foot for the german border for them it was the start of a new route to the heart of europe for the European Union it was a challenge to its Core Principles by the end of 2015 more than a 1000000 people had sought refuge in the e. U. With many making the long trek from turkey across greek and greece and then through the balkan countries all the way to the german border. Lets talk about it with someone who was a correspondent back then now the head of news max hoffman max welcome to the show you were there you were in budapest on that day 5 years ago you covered it from the very beginning what are some of the impressions that that today stand out for you the most you know brian i thought about that all week and its all coming back after all its been 5 years and its of course its the demonstrations just in front of the station which is the name of the train station in budapest about 3000. 00 people together there in a makeshift camp you had Police Officers you have violence there was the lack of water the lack of food but surprisingly what came back 1st to me and thats not representative of the situation of course but the 1st thing that came back to me was when the sun was setting in the evening very hot that 35 degrees and the sun was setting cloudless and everybody was kind of tired of the demonstration everybody was tired of all the hardship that they had had throughout the day and then they gathered together families huddled together they left they played in it was almost like the like a vacation atmosphere and that showed me back then that in spite of all the hardship and the obstacles that these migrants had to overcome they still felt hope they still knew that they were in a better place than they were coming from mostly at least and they were still hoping for a much Better Future most of them in germany theres a real contrast to some of the tensions we also saw at the station between the migrants and the police in budapest back then it seems looking back for me and perhaps this is the same for you that that all our reporting pretty much back then being on the ground it was very very hard to be balanced and looking back i think we should explain more why the one daring government was taking the decisions they were taking why they were mad about the lack of communication with the germans that hungary is now. Only the government but also its people that many of those tried to help the migrants but at the same time its a fact that the one day when authorities back then were playing games with the migrants there for exams just to give you an example i dont want to get too deep into that they did not dare to go into the crowd of those 3000 people but there was this little street in front of the train station and as soon as migrants cross that street to buy something to eat or buy something to drink they got picked off by the authorities so arrested just as they got arrested they were taken to camps and one day they were told you cant go into the station the next day they were told you to get on this train and it will go to germany but it didnt go to germany they distributed leaflets in hungary and of course none of those migrants really spoke gary and so they were playing games it was really hard to take the side of the hyundai ariens here also because the migrants most of the migrants had this earnest drive to go to germany and contribute to society and i remember thinking in my head back then please germany please help them let them work show them that they can be part of the society and not let them be in a camp for years without doing anything and destroy this motivation ok so hungry when you were there at that moment they open the borders and allow them to leave to head for germany later on they would close their borders they would take a very different approach for example to germany which kept the borders open and how would you analyze hungarys strategy in retrospect back then you know we knew the Prime Minister of hungary was on a 3rd tarion path and a different path from france and germany but everybody sort of thought that he would turn around that the pressure from the big countries in the e. U. Would turn around that has not happened what went down 5 years ago in 2015 is still one of the tough finding moments for the discord for the east west divide that we still have in the European Union it is probably we have corona now i know but probably the biggest internal problem that still persists its never been resolved the only salute. The e. U. Ever found was to have a contract with turkey to avoid the migrants even making it to the European Union they never found a solution what to do in common with the migrants that actually make it into the european so what happened 5 years ago was very much still with us in in ways unsolved. Partially at least max great to see you thanks for coming in that lets take a look now some of the developments in the pandemic around the world australia has extended its International Travel ban by 3 months borders will remain closed to all noncitizens and nonresidents until at least mid december new zealand has recorded its 1st death from the virus in over 3 months the cases part of an outbreak in august and ended over 100 days free of locally transmitted infections and former italian Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi has been hospitalized after testing positive work of it his party says the 83 year olds condition is not a cause for concern this year marks the 250th birthday of composer big Ben Beethoven special events are taking place around the world most of them virtual because of the pandemic and its forcing of music lovers to improvise but one german maestro made sure that beethoven festivities planned in south korea would go ahead as planned. To bring beethoven to music lovers this man is willing to do just about anything Christoph Poppen your 2 weeks of state sanctioned quarantine and though south korea ended up scaling back the festival celebrating beethovens 250th birthday heaving in the importance that that every concert which we can hold is really delivered to the people due to the covert 900. 00 situation few could attend schools premier Symphony Hall concerts will be broadcast christoph poppins visit came at a particularly difficult time for south korea a month ago the country appeared to have the coded 900 pandemic under control the last 2 weeks have seen a resurgence still the music played on in concert pop and conducted much of beethovens work with the aid of sheet music he extolled beethovens unique a motional commitment beethoven i think he was 100 percent himself at every 2nd when he was composing and he was fighting for every note and thats what we feel in his music and that connects with our musician and the listener in a different way. While concert goers kept 2 seats apart performers also maintain covert 900 protocols wind instruments faced glass partitions and beethoven however pop and suggested one could find inspiration. Music and really really give something to the people you music gives energy music can console can give comfort and give hope and especially during these times that the more important than ever. From the conductors podium and the stage in south korea beethovens music has provided some temporary antidote. Thats our Program Global 3000 and dont forget you can always get the latest news at our website or from our social media feeds for now though for me brian thomas the entire news team thanks so much. To. Do it yourself kenyan style lincoln wall my bills electric wheelchairs from scrap metal. He wants to help people with physical disabilities in an environmentally conscious way his clients are very enthusiastic. Global treaty. 2015. Lost his family. Spontaneously offered to home. 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