Absolutely that been over 200 people that were killed during several attacks it all started with the shah attack there were other attacks in november 25th gain against the musicor for example where about 100 more than 100 people died and obviously france is still on edge however the situation has changed i recently talked to a policeman who said you know now were not really looking into a big plots that are being organized but the police is rather wary of those lone wolves who could just you know commit attacks suicidal attacks suicide attacks of just attack people in the street just as what might have happened today here really and our correspondent in paris for us lisa louis on the story of police there saying at least 4 people have been wounded in a knife attack thank you so much lisa. And well continue of course you keep our eye on any developments in that story for now though well move on to some other news of the fridays for future climate protests are back on today for the 1st time since the coronavirus pandemic started 6 months ago the unprecedented rallies calling for climate protection went online with the pandemic began today more than 3000 climate strike events are planned and theyre taking place all over the world. Standing on an ice floe at 82. 00 Degrees North in the middle of the arctic ocean. 18 year old mile wants you to notice the sea of slush surrounding her. Coming down on to the level of the wall with all of the ground. Has reminded me how easily we could lose everything here she may look like a lone figure but shes one of thousands calling for Climate Action around the world from Sydney Australia to stockholm sweden would lead aggression back at the helm outside parliament. Beneath you treat chronic price crisis it just simply thats the kind of person that one thing i think thats right and unless we treat us the crisis people do so for so. It comes after a long pause for the fridays for future movement which was forced to move online Coronavirus Spread definitely the beginning of march it very much though down a promise because we were planning to have a really big strike a pro however it has given us time to connect as a movement internationally across borders there were a lot closer than i was a movement the opening even if we cant physically be as many. Here demonstrating students have been striking on fridays for more than 2 years their aim has remained the same in all that time to put pressure on those in power before the damage becomes irreversible nowhere is that more pressing than in the arctic. With pos the point of a wakeup call with possibly ignorance we have to right now over going to lose everything. And we need to make sure the leaders a decision may cause understand and care enough to do something about it. For more on the story we can speak now to kwang on poche from fridays for future one of the organizers of the climate protest today here in berlin thank you for joining us what are you specifically calling for today. Thank you very much in the middle of a pandemic and you can not. But we also need to note that the Climate Crisis isnt taking a break the Climate Crisis is still here so we need to take action and we have to be modern Climate Action. Ok well we do know that the pandemic has affected the way that your movement has been able to operate the last few months in what really has changed. Coverts 19 pen down make really challenge a way how we can protest we thought of something new we had a new strategy and we have a new creative approach but we need to get back to the climates right on friday and we need to see how we are going to the edge here will be in the future we are still in the middle of a pandemic we cant forget and we are talking to science because we are united behind the science it really has become a Global Movement has and its right its your future i mean do you think that things have changed politicians are now are taking notice. I think the fire chief notes that we are in the middle Climate Crisis economic economy knows that we are in the Climate Crisis and the politicians know it too but they dont really because they dont really feel that were in a Climate Crisis they know that it would be a huge challenge so we have to demand even more we have to demand to parity agreement we have to demand Climate Action and Climate Justice climate is not separate from social justice so we need to take action now and we need to demand to the politicians that they have to act now ok so if you were to speak directly to politicians what concretely do you want them to do right away what is the number one priority for. You. The number one priority of the 1. 5 degrees so we find to play with agreement that we need to think today that its nothing new and we have to find if that are demanding for 40 years to take Climate Action we are not demanding anything new we are demanding the facts and a scientific facts. Will leave it there going on past from fridays for future thank you. Thank you very much. Now 2 friends frustrated bar and Restaurant Owners in the Southern City of mar say have rallied today to protest tough new coronavirus restrictions the government has ordered bars and restaurants there to close amid a surge in new 1000 infections the french Prime Minister says tighter measures there and in other cities are necessary if the country isnt to return to the kind of a National Lockdown seen in march on thursday france reported more than 16000 new infections and more than 6000 people are hospitalized with the virus. Marci on maximum alert as the number of patients in intensive care searches nonemergency operations are being cancelled to keep Critical Care beds free authorities worry a 2nd wave could overwhelm the health care system. To contain the flare up bars and restaurants in france the 2nd largest city will be forced to close for at least 15 days starting on saturday the decision is left many bar owners and staff seething some feel they are being unfairly targeted or we are unjustly punished stigmatized fingers are automatically being pointed at us bars and restaurants we are responsible for the rise in kobe cases and mar say its nonsense how and why are we responsible for this when we do everything to comply with the rules with the others almost all their friends as Prime Minister disagreements speaking on a t. V. Programme he said the industry has contributed to the surge in covert cases. Dont think about throw it in the wall many people in cities see bars where a lot of people dont have masks and dont respect a social distancing measures so they are hotbeds of contamination i mean ashore. And we are a full 3 times more likely to be infected in a bar than in a normal business with. Other french cities are also bracing for tougher restrictions in the capital paris bars and restaurants will have to shut at 10 pm. Lets get some perspective on the story now we have John Campbell with us hes a Health Analyst and educator in carlisle england hi john good to have you with us why do you think that were seeing this spike in cases in regions and countries really across europe not just in france. I think were actually paying the consequences of what happened over the summits i mean some unsightly cases went down and people thought things were getting much better so there was quite a lot of tourism so a lot of people went on holiday to spain a lot of people from france went abroad and came back and that was spreading the virus around and as well as that in some a time as you would expect of course nice summer evenings young people out drinking out socializing and that was a major driver of infection the infection was spreading amongst young people because young people usually get minimally symptomatic or even asymptomatic disease they were really suffering from it themselves but what they were doing is they were going home taking it to their parents generation on their grandparents generation so what were now seeing as well is the increase in young people across europe the increase in the older people and indeed in the elderly now which is a concern because more of these are going to get sick consumer going to potentially die on fortunately and john the result is that we do now see infection levels in some regions and in some some countries that are similar to those that we saw at the beginning of the pandemic but are we better able to handle outbreaks now compared to that time. Thats a very good observation the numbers are quite similar but testing is way better now so weve estimated that the numbers back in february march april in the u. K. Were Something Like 50 times underestimated so the numbers were getting now in reality arent yet as high although they appear to be only graphs so were not quite back to where we were but in terms of being better prepared yes of course we all were massively back to bad weve got the Contact Tracing ups in most countries weve got data collecting facilities people are well educated and one knows about hand hygiene covering this spaces between individuals these things are well known now the problem is motivation theres been quite a bit of covered fatigue over the last month or 2 people are just fed up of this understandable of course but the point is the virus is not going away and 80 to 90 percent of the population of europe is probably still susceptible to this virus they can still get it theyre still relatively naive to this virus and can get it and theres no question we can see greatly increasing cases this winter if we dont have to really quite quickly john lets take a look now at the race for the vaccine which is ongoing right now is registered but next 5 as the worlds 1st maxine against a chronic virus a lot of Scientists Say it is too early for widespread use lets take a look. He washing his hands multiple times a day just one of a series of hygiene measures and godparent undertakes the doctor doesnt want to take any chances with corona virus but he knows a vaccine would offer the best protection against covert 19 thats why hes volunteered to take part in testing a new russian one. Someone has to do it. Without Clinical Trials there are no medicines in the effectiveness of his vaccine can only be evaluated in the 3rd phase of Clinical Trials. The stage 3 trials began 3 weeks ago but the vaccine which has been named sputnik 5 was already licensed in august before they began and mass inoculation in russia is planned for later this year something numerous experts have sharply criticized the russian government has rejected the criticism it says the vaccine has been developed from already known substances and doesnt pose any health risks rusher urgently needs an effective vaccine the country currently has the 4th highest number of corona virus cases worldwide and the numbers continue to rise with around 6000. 00 new infections each day. Gallup parents and other doctors say theyre not worried about the vaccine safety. After all the vaccine has already been tested on several well known Public People and theyre doing well. These public figures include Russian Defense minister sergei short moscow mayor said on him and one of president Vladimir Putin daughters potent p. R. Material. Its part of russias Strategic Interests to always want to be 1st irrespective of whether its a revolution or the 1st flight into space now its about saying that were the 1st to develop a vaccine internally were showing that the situation is under control. Its a signal that russia is still mastering its role as the savior of the world. Said perry isnt thinking about his countrys p. R. Plans just now the doctor is here because hes hoping to help win the fight against the corona virus pandemic. People are tired of they want it to be over the new vaccine can help calm people and offer a way out of the situation but. It will most likely be at least several months until the results of the phase 3 trials are known only then can the actual effectiveness and safety of russian sputnik 5 vaccine be assessed. So john if this vaccine were to be made available to you would you take it. Its a very interesting question isnt the answer at the moment is no now this russian vaccine is actually based on western vaccine this in the dino virus vaccine some people even suggest that the russians were highly influenced by ongoing data that was being conducted in our under research in western countries so the develop this vaccine and there are actually rolling out now now back seems like any drug normally goes through 3 phase of Clinical Trials and the phase one of the phase 2 for the court trials for this vaccine in russia have been questioned by western peer review that only show about whats going on and normally like what weve done in the in the u. K. And in the United States weve launched large phase 3 Clinical Trials testing the new vaccine against another vaccine or against a placebo to see if it works in the real situation and basically the russians have simply not done this theyve skipped phase 3 Clinical Trials up to questionable phase one and phase 2 Clinical Trials now theres 2 things we need to know about a vaccine one is does it work and the 2nd is is it set for now the data on the russian fax it indicates that its almost certainly going to work so i do expect this to be efficacious i do expected to generate a degree of immunity but what were so careful about in the western countries in europe in the United States is making sure its safe and the only way we can guarantee that is safe is by having large scale Clinical Trials so to say its been tested on all of it but a lot to me prudence daughter in the matter russia you can argue from 2 or 3 individual cases we need large numbers of cases to demonstrate safely and at the moment that has not been done so i would be reluctant to take this vaccine i would certainly say were not theyve walked away after western phase 3 Clinical Trials however ok dennis is very quickly when do you think we can realistically expect that type of x. E. The well that the americans are starting to or hoping to vaccinate about 50000000. 00 people by the end of this year mass rollout is going to be a pool may june july next year so i would expect that you and me could hope to be vaccinated by next early next summer is my herb John Campbell health im not. Were going to have to leave it there thank you so much john thank you. Lets get around about some of the other developments in the pandemic israel has toughened its coronavirus measures after a 2nd lockdown failed to reduce new infections the new rules will close most workplaces shutter outdoor food markets and further limit prayers and demonstrations britain has reported its highest number of new cases in a day just over 6600 the government announced sweeping new measures earlier in the week designed to curb the spread of the virus and the number of people who have died from coburg 1000 in mexico has passed 75000 the country has seen more than 715000 infections. And Rio De Janeiro has delayed next years world famous Carnival Celebration the event normally draws millions of visitors it was supposed to take place in february but its been postponed indefinitely due to the pandemic brazil is grappling with the worlds 2nd deadliest corona virus outbreak. Now to some other stories making news around the world a British Police officer has been shot dead inside a London Police station while detaining a suspect the shooting took place inside Croydon Custody Center in south london the suspect was also shot and is in Critical Condition it is the 1st time since 2017 that a london Police Officer has been killed in the line of duty. North korea has apologized for the death of a missing south korean soul says north Korean Leader kim jong un wrote a letter saying he was quote greatly sorry for the incident northern troops were portably shot a south Korean Defector on a boat and then burned his body out of fear of catching the coronavirus. Protesters in the u. S. Have been marching for a 2nd night past curfew in louisville kentucky a day after a grand jury decided not to indict the Police Officers who killed black medical workers Briana Taylor during a drug raid after her home the jury said the officers used justified forces they had fired in self defense. d saying in the us a President Trump was heckled as he paid his last respects to the Late Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg a group of mourners among them the justices Staff Members who the President Trump as he stood by ginsburgs coffin. In her final days ginsburg said her last wish was not to be workplace on the court until after novembers president ial election trump says he has a constitutional duty to nominate a new justice now. One of trance promises as he won the 2016 president ial election was to get tough on illegal immigration part of that involved expanding the powers have ice immigration and Customs Enforcement it is all over salad reports on one man who has lived for years under the threat of deportation. When a drizzle camero arrives on the soccer field he knows it could be one of his last matches on american soil. He came here 20 years ago was a young boy from guinea west africa the late friends built a life that he could be deported back to africa any time soon. So its not time that in some ways off for a lie on the nile side or even been here for 20 years you know all of a simulator to the culture language customs you name it the however because there isnt that green card or citizenship khana passport best says i am an american. Of there instead of being an american. 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What we would however we feel if that happened the breadwinner sure our physiologic son thought the same. If there could be justice with mercy i think its the thing that we need to find a way to have in our system. Immigration lawyer hans meier is trying to get a legal status for idris sir to lift the threat of deportation. d meyer says the trumpet ministration is reckless in its deportation policies why. He got entangled for one case in the criminal Justice System and it completely destroyed his ability to obtain status here regardless of the fact that hes done all of these Amazing Things with his life and that hes been sucked into this sort of kafkaesque bureaucracy right where the goal is to crush people through the process the process of deportation. Was not crushed by the process but while in detention his wife committed suicide waiting for his release it says he is fighting for her legacy and for himself he is one of hundreds of thousands living in limbo. To sports now and the u. S. To super cup it took place in budapest last night Champions League winners byron munich League Winners of the 21. 00 lucas accomplice opened the scoring for severe in the 13th minute but leon gorecki hit the net for biron 20 minutes later having martinas back the winner during extra time. And a British Charity is honoring a workers life saving achievements and clearing mines in cambodia the honoree is mug an african pouched rat the Animal Charity p. D. S. A. Cited him for bravery in clearing 121000 square metres thats 20 soccer fields of explosives in half an hour can seek out mines in an area that would take humans for days to clear his keen sense of smell and is lightweight allow him to safely enter mine infested area. Lets get a reminder now of our top story paris police have arrested one suspect after 2 people were wounded in a knife attack that took place near the former office of satirical magazine charlie and dolan the motive for the attack is unclear of the trial into the challis of dog attacks is currently underway in the city. Coming up next on g. W. Our defaced show to the point looks at the question how corrupt are banks stay tuned. To the point. Clear position the International Perspective of such. A massive new leak of financial documents shows their internationally renowned banks are continuing to a attendant that illegal Money Laundering kokura are the banks thats our topic onto. Quite. To the point. That the 2 next to the t. W. What keeps us in shape what makes us see and how do we stay conscious. My name is dr carlson the i talk to medical experts. Watch them at work. And then discuss what you can do to improve your head. Stay choose and lets all try to stay in good shape. In 60 minutes w. Beethoven is for me. Beethoven is for you. Beethoven is for health. Beethoven is for her. Beethoven is for the. Beethoven is for cause. Beethoven is for eleanor on. The a beethoven 2020 the 250th anniversary year on dio a new. The road to corruption is paved with good intentions or so it would seem after this weeks revelation that after years of claiming theyre getting their houses in order to banks continue to aid and abet illegal Money Laundering an International Consortium of investigative journalists is behind the massive leak of documents from the u. S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or fins for short documents that are studded with prominent names from United StatesPresident Donald Trump on one side of the atlantic to germanys deutsche of buck on the other it seems to have complied with rules to report suspicious transactions but took few steps to rein them in our topic Money Laundering terrorists how corrupt are the banks. Welcome to to the point its a pleasure to introduce our guests daniel is editor in chief of buzz feed news germany and he says the suspicious activity reports give banks a free pass to keep moving dirty money on collect the fees. And its a pleasure to welcome our few carnatic to the program hes chief europe correspondent for politico and he believes this councils are just the latest indication that germanys Banking Sector is neither financially nor culturally sound. And great to have with us as well then delete the fund brito she works for the british economist and she thinks justice was finally starting to recover the revelations related to its involvement in Money Laundering in the simpsons files. Huge setback and. So let me begin by asking about the backstory on these revelations buzz feed news in fact was one of the media institutions that was involved in proofreading and essentially researching the document so can you give us a short version of exactly whats going on here sure news in the u. S. Or us in the thicket of team shared these with the ice age a the International Consortium of investigative journalists and they got in all these different i mean joins us from all over the world like that it was put in the papers part of the papers all these other big leagues over the last few years and then about 400 people went to work and which. Cleaned them looked into them and got stories ready for about a year and so we published and the original source of the documents whistleblower you know he doesnt comment on that im sorry ok Matthew Carney chick in the era of alternative facts as they are sometimes called can we be sure that these reg revelations are truly accurate and that the implications are as grave as they see you. Well to be honest i dont think we can be sure and tell it goes to the courts and tell prosecutors look at it and you know file indictments and so forth and you know this is one of one of the problems of this environment that were in there are all kinds of data leaks like as weve seen them over the years and journalistically its very exciting but we often dont really know even the people who are reporting it what the motivations of or the people who are leaking it whos really you know but behind this kind of thing but they have brought to light a lot of malign behavior it has to be said and this looks like another such case im going to find a great many viewers i think will be. To say this hardly comes as a surprise look at the billionaire towers in new york look at the mansions in london we always thought they were being financed by ill gotten gains why should they care about yet another revelation that the rich dont play by the same rules as the rest of us it doesnt come as a huge surprise youre right but 1st of all is to the extend that the sums involved you know 2 trillion dollars thats you know i think most of us cant even imagine how much money that is and then i think we all have to be aware that this is not something completely abstract this is money that does not its not used to kindergartens or a road so schools i mean ordinary people suffer because this type of Money Laundering is happening so its not something that only comes ons only gods or. It concerns a little fuss. Didnt record the institutions that we are seeing implicated here are some pretty illustrious names j. P. Morgan h. S. B. C. Just to name a few why them is there something particular about these banks are they simply the tip of a much bigger iceberg so there are a lot of banks and these obviously the biggest ones i think why they are so big and over the everyone like us looking into them as they move the most money they can they are the big man the banks that have the access to the u. S. Dollar to the Financial Market in the u. S. And lots of people who launder money youll have like my they want to like invest inject into the real economy you want to do that in the dollar market in the u. S. So they they use like Smaller Banks like f. The united or to me a bank in ahmadi or some cyprus bank and then try to find a relationship with a big bank and then move the money to germany to the u. S. And so on and matthew what kind of clients are we talking about here who is it whos laundering. Their money with these banks well it seems that most of the people would be people weve never heard of theyre not generally in the public view some of them all are but these are the people really in the background who are often pulling the strings who have their hands in various pots and know how to work the system especially in a lot of these you know energy rich countries and places like that and they need to find a way to move their ill gotten gains out of the countries where theyre operating and this network of banks is daniel says provides them you know a ready opportunity to do so. I want to just bring in a short report that we have and i think one question many of us perhaps never actually posed but have you ever thought about why is it called Money Laundering the fact is the term dates back to the u. S. Gangster al capone to legalize his illicitly acquired against he purchased a bunch of motor bouts now todays criminals oligarchy and terror groups are working at it distinctly larger scale. Laundering doesnt only happen to clothes but to money as well it is estimated that between 800000000000. 00 and 2. 00 trillion u. S. Dollars are laundered around the globe each year. Current Research Reveals how the system works using socalled mirror trades billions of dollars from illegal income such as Drug Trafficking and prostitution are pushed back and forth between different banks and the us mail to this money is then put into legal investments real estate is especially popular because it can be paid for in cash in many countries such as the u. S. The purified proceeds then flow into shell corporations in tax havens such as the cayman islands. The International Fight against Money Laundering is often inadequate because national Money Laundering author already is are not as well networked as the criminals ones its so difficult for lawmakers to put an end to Money Laundering. Let me pass that question straight to you and i mentioned in fact policymakers good intentions at the outset set of the show after revelations like the Panama Papers the luanda leaks and so when theres been a lot of talk and also some action on cracking down yet policymakers dont seem to get the problem under control why they dont and the problem is that for a bank thats a conflict of interest because. Its to maximize of profits needs to make money these this type of business is very lucrative. Its often quite hard to take because obviously the money will go to Great Lengths to obfuscate that money so there is a great temptation not to look too closely and to accept clients should not have accepted and should have known in the 1st place because maybe nobody will notice. So dan your dripper banks are required to file these suspicious activity reports that you mentioned in your Opening Statement you say that they amount to a free pass for the banks to keep on making money by laundering dirty money but isnt this filing of these reports a 1st step toward compliance yeah i think its important that these reports get fired the problem is i think twofold one is banks into making money they must make money because of this issue one for some reason and then with the most mint and so its really every time they see something we had in their accounts they seize on some shady money they have to decide do we want to let me less money and drop the client or should we just filed a report and then lets see if the authorities do something with it and we just continue our relationship with the client and this is what happens all the time in the fins and files that like a bank fight its a report its for like for norm of course im looking at this seems really clear that this should not be money being moved through doj a bank will commence bungle whatever but they continue their relationship and then they say we did this report and as long as there or thought is theyll do anything we are fine with like working with these clients and i think you know thats a problem because the authorities and we might speak about the status was definitely not well equipped enough to like these illicit money flows like him 1st and lets come back to that in just a moment but matthew let me bring you in also in response to what we just heard from ventilated because your Opening Statement said that this is a problem of the defective Corporate Culture at places like deutsche it bug but arent we in a way putting banks in a contradictory position their Business Model is as mentally they said to make money and yet were also in a sense expecting them to be self and forcers well i think weve made it to u. C. For them to be honest i mean the fact that all they have to do is to check the box and say well we filed this report you know thats thats the end of the story we dont. The worry about it anymore i think gives them an alibi where the onus should really be on them to do more to determine whether these transactions are sound or not and you know the fact is that the regulators should be much more involved here then they have been and theyve really dropped the ball the policymakers by not making life more difficult for the banks by not requiring them to have stricter guidelines in terms of reporting this activity and the regulators for not acting on it more effectively so eventually i asked you before why normal citizens should care policymakers you would think would have very good reason to care and to do a lot more because just one fascinating statistic i recently encountered the amount of money that has left africa through illicit Financial Transactions meaning corruption parking money in tech savings and so on more than equals what africa has received in Development Aid over the past 50 years so it seems like governments both dont their governments and also african governments themselves would have ample incentive to crackdown more effectively absolutely i mean the figure you cite this heartbreaking if you think about it you know what good could have been done with the money that left the country. Absolutely and policymakers to have survived and should should do more but these things happen so slowly i mean if you look at germany now the wia cuts surely must of shown that often its not really very good at its job should have done a better than being the germans or our National Supervisor or a Supervisory Authority a german regulator and if not why it caught them this latest revelation should be a reason to give him more teeth to reform the way they do they do their work to maybe employ more people. To police these things would have happened yes hopefully yes but as you know these things even with the. Stuff and pensions move slowly fall a problem off such a scope i do want to come back to the german picture in a moment but lets perhaps stay with the International One 1st of all intended drop are the customers on these mirror trades that were mentioned in our report they include terrorist groups they include drug cartels the United States government spends billions fighting those 2 entities drug cartels and terrorist groups and yet the journalists consortium behind the fence and leaps in leaks including buzz feed said that the us is the machine room in room of Money Laundering so whats behind that paradox. Like we said before i think the main thing is that its its really there is has to be a lot of effort put into finding all like how to stop this like the finton like the authority that like this these guys are named after they have 270. 00 employees but they get 2000000. 00 reports every year i think you know every month i dont know but its like its millions of reports every year and they have 270 people to check on them like how are they able to go go off to everyone everything and everyone so i think thats like the main thing is its a huge system like billions think its 5 billions of money every day laundered all over the world. Its very complicated these people go to to do to Great Lengths to hide their. Methods and then we have like you have like like a couple of dozen people hunting them down and thats like definitely not going to work and i think the other issue just on that quickly is that if something is happening outside of the United States the United States government is going to be less interested in it it doesnt mean that its not going to be interested in the illegal activity but if people are laundering money in you know congo thats not going to be high on the United States governments list and i think that they also have this problem that they have a very Large Financial Services sector which is a very lucrative business in the United States the biggest banks in the world are all american banks and they make a lot of money by shifting money around the world i think