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Before europes largest refugee camp the maria camp in greece went up in flames last week it was already referred to as europes shame 12000 migrants were living in squalor on a Remote Island europes migration policy out of sight out of mind where today the european Commission President delivered her 1st state of the Union Address and she called on all European Countries to take responsibility to end this migration misery is she leading by example the European Commission was responsible for the maria camp who did it send after the fire not. This president. This is the. Migration is a european challenge and our own of europe. Meeting this target what European Union firmly on track. For climate neutrality by 2015 this was strong agreed. Took 3 years to negotiate it cannot be unilaterally changed disregarded taught to supply i want to be close to clear l g p t q i have 3. Hour show managed to free zones and they have no place in powers union. Also coming up Scientists SayPresident Donald Trump has badly damaged the United States because he rejects facts and see the pandemic see Climate Change. If we ignore that science were not going to succeed to get it protecting californians it will start getting cooler i was just you just watch i wish science but i dont have i dont think science knows actually. Going to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a promise from europe to do better today the new european Commission President or slip on the line and delivered her 1st state of the Union Address a report card and to do list all the more to say that her goals for the next year are ambushers would be under statement to say that those goals will be met well that would be Wishful Thinking underlie untouched on human rights migration brags and in Climate Change she wants the European Union to cut its greenhouse emissions by 55 percent now the agreed reduction is 40 percent her plan is doable but it would come with more economic pain its prospects however appear better than a plan to overhaul europes welcome mat fund a lion has scolded the European Union for not coming together to craft a fair and equitable policy on dealing with migration she called for more unity saying the disaster at the maria camp in greece cannot be allowed to happen again but leaders such as german chancellor Angela Merkel leaders with much more power they have tried and tried and they have all failed we have more now on the state of the European Union in this report. Was enough on the line i had a 1st amorous state of the union speech wanting to unveil more ambitious climate goals for the block we need to go faster and we need to do things better they European Commission is proposing to increase the 2030 targets for Emission Reduction to at least 55. 00. Catching emissions and becoming climate neutral by 2050 are part of the European Green deal one of funded lines p. Priorities decision taken partly due to the mounting pressure of climate activists but ramping up that years time at targets is not enough for some i expect on the lie and to keep on working with her commissioners and really to put pressure on the council of course we know that there are Member States who are not willing to do what we need to do when funder lion took office late last year she presented a long list of projects by the code 19 pandemic slowdown many of them or brought them to hold she now said its the years 1st priority to pull each other through this that you commission chief also put a focus on human rights not only calling out chinas treatment of minorities but also criticizing your member said poland for introducing socalled free cell phones l g b t q ive 3 zones are sure manatee free zones funder line also said the e. U. Finally has to decide on a solution on how to handle migration one of the most disputed topics among Member States i expect that the Member States will engage in the discussion so that we can really move forward and have a common plan to deal with that topic underlines commission will present a long awaited proposal for a new pact on migration on september 23rd and as her who will be judged on its outcome. Or more now im joined by andreas nick hes a member of the german buddhist talk for chancellor merkels christian democrats shes also a member of Parliament ForeignAffairs Committee mr nick its good to have you back on the day. First of underlying she laid out lofty goals for the coming year they need the backing of the e. U. Countries to become reality they need the backing of all makers such as your self we should remind viewers too that that you and Commission President on the line youre both members of the conservative c. D. U. Party how much of todays state of the Union Message was Wishful Thinking in your opinion. I think it was a felon is absolutely right as europeans i want and as christian democrats i should include should not fall short in terms of our and mission of strategic determination to shape the European Future on issues we covered as a ssion in issues like building it its still economy in safeguarding the rule of law and tech ling pressing challenges like the migration crisis i think we should in this changing world we should not be overly defensive in a war approach as europeans we have all reasons to protect and defend our european way of life to shape a model for an economy for a society that will stand up in the competition with autocrats and populists around the world want to pick up a migration policy ursula find a line today called for more unity she wants a true e. U. Migration policy i want you to take a listen to what germanys interior minister is saying about the state of european migration policy take a listen. Talk its moves you that i think everyone must have realized by now that if the European Union does not act and formulate an immigration policy that starts an outer borders then europe will repeatedly be faced with an undesirable immigration situation and surely nobody wants that this can mean that in this. District europe already has an undesirable migration policy and if we look at the falwell from the camp fire again we see it is germany that had to step up and take in mind. I think what we have been doing and i have been arguing for that last week with a number of our colleagues in the German Parliament i think we put a very careful balance between our your humanitarian ambition our humanitarian obligation to help in this urgent situation and help particular the most vulnerable on the company at minus of families with little children while not creating the situation that will would again create an ordered list of uncontrolled flow of migrants into the center of europe i think it has raised the stakes again for europeans to come together in the joint solution we cannot over the long term tolerate this shameful situation in morea of the camps we cannot leave crease and other countries in the mediterranean alone in facing this issue and. We will not be able to think to wait until maybe the last one in europe will be able to agree to something but it is something where we urgently need a european solution and i hope that now towards the european summit later this month. Under the leadership of the commission and was a strong support from friends in germany we will get closer to a more tangible solution youve got actors are just Hungarys Viktor Orban you know hes declared migrants a migration a threat to National Security and that is happening within the European Union he wants the status quo germany doing the heavy lifting here he wants that to remain unchanged do you think hes going to get what he wants. I think we have to find a balanced approach where everyone can make a contribution that may look differently from country to country it is also question whether him or the migrants would really necessarily would want to stay in countries in Central Eastern europe but they have potentially other ways for these countries to contribute but i think that we also be Crystal Clear as our interior minister made the point if you are not contributing to European Solidarity in a challenge to like migration there may be an end at some point in on financial solidarity or other Integration Policies and on other issues. In the Commission President today said that. Free zone have no place in the European Union she obviously was was talking about the situation in poland talk is cheap here when youre talking about values what do you see europe being able to do to tangibly change the mind sets in poll. I think its one of the most challenging issues when you look at the rule of law issues including those of as it should be ira its in countries like poland. I think unfortunate you may come to the conclusion that the only language that some member countries will understand is where the buck stops when you also include the financial dimension to discussions but clearly were also talking about a rule of law mechanism were talking about that in the European Union we have certain procedures in the council of europe where i had the german delegation and we have put poland on the watch list for the 1st time as you member state has been newly put on the watch list in the council of europe and at some point countries who have to realize that they cannot ignore everything that is going. On around them without having consequences for issues that are there hard like economic integration like Security Issues with regard to foreign threats and that is i think a progress that we will need to see over the future in europe i want to ask you before we run out of time want to ask you about brags that underly and today warned the u. K. Not to rename go on the Withdrawal Agreement and again this may come down to what berlin can do with london more so than what brussels can do with one did what do you see happening here. I think what we observe i think has major repercussions that only in the European Union and with major e. U. Member states if you watch carefully what is coming out of the United States in terms of comments with that regard i think that a u. K. Government that would. Sway away from the rule of law from being a reliable partner in International Agreements this would have to be a serious issue for the q. K. In the future as various former prime ministers have warned over the last couple of days and for a country that has been the home of democracy in the rule of rule for centuries it would be really a very negative Development Dr injury is nick member of the German Parliament mr nick we appreciate your time tonight we had a lot of issues to go through there thank you for your insights thank you cannot connect. Us President Donald Trump has approved a request by oregons governor to declare a federal emergency and boost government help to fight wildfires weeping across the state oregon Washington State in california have all been hit hard and early by unprecedented fires this year we use all of salad is in california tonight and he takes us to bury creek a Small Community that the flames almost burned off the man. Were entering the restricted area of the north complex fire one of the biggest wildfires in california in history. Whole communities burned to the ground within hours more than a dozen people died in this section of the fire alone. Firefighter and even skiver shows us the damage that barry Creek Elementary School was completely destroyed and the wildfire still isnt fully contained. Our biggest challenge right now is the size of the fire with the resources that we have is there are so many large fires burning in california right now and compound that the train in this area is very steep so we have inaccessible terrain. The Mountain Community berry creek is at the epicenter of the fire many of the former 1400. 00 inhabitants lost everything to the flames knowing there is little they can do puts an additional strain on the 30000 deployed firefighters in california just makes me feel horrible you know people put their lives into this you know and to have a far just come through and destroy it all in an hour or 2 its its devastating only 25 percent of the wildfires around perry creek are contained trees are still smoldering but some areas have been inexplicably spared what happened here in the berry creek Mountain Community was like a little miracle because if you look behind me the whole forest was on fire buildings burned to the ground livelihoods destroyed and just a few steps further this very gas station and its gas pumps are still in place with the gas tanks underneath but this is just a rare exception it will take years for the community to recover. The town of paradise has been through that already 2 years up to the deadly camp fire many plots remain empty in november 2018 that nearly wiped paradise off the map. Victoria sinclair lost everything back then yet she was the 1st to rebuild her home. And with the new evacuation warning in place old memories and peters returned it next to me and it fell down and then all the embers there flew across the hood of my car and i spent a lot of time on google maps looking at the distance from my house if i had there and so. You become hyper vigilant and i want to say paranoid but you become very very aware and last week when the skies went to the outworn color just brought us right back to to this day. For knowledge seems like the winds are blowing in victorias favor but the fire season in americas west will last at least another month. Earlier this week u. S. President visiting california to see firsthand the devastation left by those wildfires before he arrived he blamed the fires on poor Forest Management and he refused to admit that Global Warming is creating conditions favorable to ever bigger ever deadlier blazes whether its Climate Change or the coronavirus pandemic President Trump repeated in the rejects advice from specialists he refuses to follow the science well scientists have apparently decided it is no longer enough to let the facts speak for themselves this week Scientific American the oldest magazine in the u. S. Ended a 175 year policy of staying elad of president ial politics the magazines editor in chief laura hellmouth tweeting this for the 1st time in the 1775 year history of Scientific American we are endorsing a political candidate please vote for joe biden to support science help the environment evidence based policy and reality over this information. Well i am joined tonight from washington d. C. By laura hellmouth editor in chief at Scientific American its good to have you on the show were happy youre with this evening before we talk about your decision to endorse joe by we want to remind viewers of of what the us president has been saying i want you to take a listen to an exchange at a town hall event broadcast on a. B. C. This week and its probably going to go away now a lot faster because of the vaccine it would do away with out of actually enjoy it but its going to go a lot faster with the away without the vaccine sure over a period of time sure with time because many deaths and youll develop it youll develop herd like a herd mentality its going to be its going to be heard developed and thats going to happen that will all happen but with a vaccine i think it will go away very quickly so thats just one example and its not he meant to herd immunity not herd mentality but we were wondering today how do you agree to change 175 year policy was there a particular moment in his presidency when you thought ok now we have to say something. Yeah its not a decision we took lightly you dont break 175 years of tradition and weve got a really good cause when we came together as an Editorial Team about 3 months ago to discuss our election plans your every it was all hands everybody came together we talked through it and it was unanimous and it was pretty quickly it came to agreement that trump has been just so catastrophic proscience throughout his administration particularly during the Global Pandemic that we cant be silent and that we have to show what we know and stand up for reality was it was it was it the pandemic then the coronavirus is that the you know the straw that broke the camels back for you. Yeah i think you know even without the coronavirus and then act given how you know he pulled the United States out of the paris im in accord hes trying to withdraw from iraq help organization hes in just been devastated the federal science force his travel bans have interfered with International Collaboration so hes really been harming the process of science in the United States and around the world throughout his administration but i think that the pandemic shows just the deadly consequences of having policies that are based on pianta seas and rejection of expertise yeah got more than 190000 people dead just in the United States you write that trump has damaged the u. S. Do you believe that President Joe Biden would be able to repair that damage yeah i think so and i think it should be his top priority obviously there has been just a lot of damage in a lot of ways that from the trumpet ministration but i think you know if if i didnt when and if he comes in committed to restoring the Science Foundation and restoring you know experts weighing in on all the big policy decisions facing us he started to take Climate Change seriously take him demick seriously i think those are his most urgent issues there and theres been some criticism of your decision the author and evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller tweeted some things today he tweeted that Scientific American gives up all pretense of scientific objectivity betrays its historical principles and goes full partisan just for some cheap short term virtue signaling. Let me ask you or are you politicizing science with your decision. We dont think so i mean this isnt a legitimate defense if theres like a school room fight but we didnt start it i mean trumps the one whos been politicizing science. You know in claiming that the virus was a hoax claiming that Climate Change is a hoax and sharing conspiracy theories about you know really important things that we actually have Scientific Evidence about so from our perspective you know hes the one whos politicizing science by by holli you know by misrepresenting it and rejecting it and you know its Scientific American we consider it our mission to kind of show how the world works which you know in better times is talking about how black holes work or evolution or veyron is that we feel like it was part of our mission and our responsibility really to say given our expertise in the enterprise of science we can say really clearly based on the evidence from the truck administration that hes not qualified and joe biden would be so much better for the u. S. And for the world. If you acted too late or do you wish that you had made this decision earlier. Yes so in 2016 when trump was a candidate a Scientific American we ran an editorial saying that he has shown it distain or contempt for science and that any world leader needs to use as a bare minimum accept reality accept evidence you know be open to the scientific mind that you see and so at that point we came very close to saying dont vote for trump but we didnt make that next step and say do vote for Hillary Clinton and his administration has just been even worse than we expected even worse than we warrant and so this time we feel like we needed to make that final step and say really here is you need to vote for if you care about science you know it seems like we have 2 developments going on here weve got trumps attacks on science and weve got you know a part of the public and its willingness to reject science you can vote trump out of office at the ballot box you cannot change the minds of masses of people as easily or as quickly what do you say to that. Yeah its a real problem the surveys especially by the Pew Research Foundation theyve been finding a kind of a growing polarization in acceptance of science or respect for science and it used to not be that way you know science used to have really strong bipartisan support and its really been a few wedge issues Climate Change the top one where theres been just a disinclination campaign where people try to undermine the science and say its all a conspiracy and you know scientists in journalists are all part of some cabal and were somehow making money off a client to Climate Change and i mean none of us want Climate Change we would all be delighted if that was somehow an error in the data that we see every day in wildfire in hurricanes in temperature records that its not a fluke and its not made up its happening now and its already herm people do you think lore that the situation would be better for everybody concerned if we had more scientists going into politics. I think so and i hope that more scientists get involved and i think a lot of them have been moved to do so we have an Organization Called the 314 project which is for the 1st digits of pi 3. 14 and their scientists run for the local state and federal office there are scientists who are involved in politics and we think we just think it would help a lot. Yeah i mean itll be interesting to see theres plenty of attorneys politics i think maybe a good dose of science would do everybody some good lore to help with. The magazine Scientific American more we appreciate your time tonight thank you very much for taking the time to talk with us and get your story out thank you so much appreciate it. Well the day is almost done but the conversation it continues online youll find us on twitter either at u. W. News or you can follow me at t. V. And remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see that everybody. 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Hello and welcome to focus on europe below thanks for joining us a refugee camp morea in greece has long been a symbol of europes failed migration policy now it is no more europes largest refugee camp lies in ruins after a fire at rays