German chancellor Angela Merkel has announced new measures in response to a surge in covert 19 cases shes vowed to avoid a full National Lockdown instead she announced what she called a hotspot strategy after meeting with leaders of germany 16 federal states. The us president ial hopeful joe biden has released his tax returns ahead of tonights 1st debate against donald trump biden paid nearly 300000. 00 in federal taxes last year race and media reports reveal President Trump paid nothing in 10 of the past 15 years bidens running mate comma horace has also made her returns public this is day to day news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram d w news or visit our website dot com. The corona virus pandemic has now claimed more than 1000000 lives globally this incredibly high death toll reflects an epic failure in Public Health policies from the u. S. To russia from brazil to chile one team is quickly becoming one of the worlds deadliest Infectious Diseases it took 9 months for the virus to kill 1000000 people doctors say it could be just a matter of weeks until that number becomes 2000000 im in berlin this is the day. Over will this reached an agonizing milestone the numbers that are currently reported probably rhetoric represent and on their estimate yes we must never lose sight of each and every individuals life. Through good. Times. And still there is no end in sight to the spread of the finals i think it is that its the link that. Hopefully that thing comes we can overcome these children between must learn from the mistakes. Also coming up the growing hostilities towards gays and lesbians living in poland ambassadors from all around the world have signed an open letter reminding the government in warsaw that l g b t rights are also human rights i agree with the letter of the ambassadors when they say that respect is due to every person. Moving on talk to subtly click disagree with the letter of the ambassadors when they say that there are persons in poland from whom respect is taken away. To our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day. Counting the dead the 1000000 dead the death toll in the corona virus pandemic has now surpassed 1000000 a tragic marker in a Health Crisis that is not even one year old and nowhere near its end it took 9 months for covert 19 to end the lives of 1000000 people that a virus could become so deadly so quickly in the 21st century has less to do with advances in medicine and practically everything to do with paralysis in politics here in europe the government in belgium has come under fire for being slow to ask belgium has the worlds 3rd highest pandemic mortality rate doctors say that figure could be inflated by belgiums broad definition of related causes of death but no matter how the statistics stack up what remains constant is this every coronavirus death represents a human tragedy. Teri schultz introduces us to one belgian family tonight grieving over what they lost to the virus and reminding the rest of us of the humanity we share despite the vipers the world has lost a 1000000 lives. One of them meant the world to 10 year old lorenzo my grandpa was the best his grandpa luke picked him up from school each day and what. We made all merch and after that. We just played the couch and just did what we want to deal. Mostly i got snacks. But their hometown st truth was hit early and hard by the corona virus we had 53 people. Who had to enter the hospital and we only had bets for 20 people but luke was already hospitalized failing fast he said if i dont make it please take good care of the children he didnt make it on march 23rd luke became seen truants 1st corona death jeanine and their daughters nellie and elaine and lorenzo didnt even get to see goodbye now that really hot. It struck was really all. Mayor very hit and felt it personally her husband became critically ill but survived it was a terrible time for the families but also for us as a mayor and also all the people of my policemen and you know the people in the town who are working. 24 hours a day 6 months later seen tradin has the infection rate under control with strict measures father room 10 and says now inhabitants need to heal its important that we share. With each other what we feel what we want or are and shrinks are the 2 but also or the. Mayor here and decided to create a space for that a corner of a city park is now a memorial the theme forget me not plenty of those fly. Hours have been planted by city landscaper d. D. s summers along with the tree of life and a plaque bearing a poem in a heartbeat that. The flowers will come so yeah even when its sat. It will be a little bit. Beautiful. For the memorials dedication september 13th lorenzo was asked to commemorate his beloved grandfather he told his mom nellie he was too afraid because i shot there or they were gonna laugh at me. But lorenzo changed his mind and wrote a letter even. Your grandpa i miss you very much i am mad about corona mad about what happened you were dead best and always are going to be the best if you think. That i was brave and i was happy that i did it that way to throw it all out. Please happy. Everyone lies. No one here will forget them. Well before the new coronavirus had even been heard of in belgium it was already spreading in china the city of new is thought to be where the pandemic began it was the 1st epicenter of the outbreak today it life appears to be returning to normal but it was a different story when the number of new cases was peaking in march and april all a loving 1000000 residents of all hong were placed under a Strict Lockdown new hospitals were built almost overnight while critics and whistleblowers were silenced including this man you see right here dr lee. When young he was one of the 1st in sound the alarm on the deadly disease well that was almost one year ago and. It seems like a lifetime ago. Its the story of a reenergized metropolis recast as a heroic victim of the coronavirus thriving again. Traditional opera for example can be found outdoors in the crowded and well to do central city. China shows off han as a city reborn and save the government media says by chinas efforts to fend off and almost send off the corona virus that emanated from here and that. Now that everything is so good what risks can there be. On as the place where the epidemic broke out in the 1st place and i believe it must be the best managed. Things are so relaxed they put together a massive pool party not long ago attended by thousands of mask less people a viral video led to International Criticism of recklessness beijing conjuring the party showed its success in taming the coronavirus. Has restarted life has returned to the kind of flavor we had before so everyone living in will hand feels at ease. That easy feeling required a massive lockdown of millions and was a near ghost town from all appearances last winter. This well after a would be hero the late dr levy when liang sounded the alarm on the virus and mohan but was quickly censored by the government he died of covert 19 since then a 1000000 more people have died worldwide. Thats im. Looking at it from chinas point of view theyve really done badly maybe they never really comprehend it how serious this then was. And who hung back then many people left this world because of it and. This virus is terrible to be in the eyes of the make up with maybe every country like us never imagined it would break out all around the world i never imagined it back around. Beijing though maintains the world can learn from its handling of the coronavirus a triumph it says even as it faces bitterness overseas from covert 19 and the initial attempt at covering it up. Well no matter how beijing tries to sell its version of a recovery in will haunt the fact remains that chinas standing in the world has suffered due to the pandemic what beijing claims about the virus may or may not be taken at face value the chinese artist and activist i way way he can attest to his home countries duplicity w. s melinda crane spoke with him and she asked should the people in china have more or less trust in the government post pandemic. Polls that show that actually the pandemic boosted trust in the government do you think thats right thats accurate as in the entire. Arab broadly being viewed home government. More you fact through than the western government because the brainwashed because. Some believe that it is a comparison between which Different Society have this very different way to look at human. Individual. Decisions and the government functions very differently say. The explosive New York Times reports on the tax situation of u. S. President double trump is raising some uncomfortable questions for germanys largest Lender Deutsche Bank namely why did Deutsche Bank loan mr trump 2000000000. 00 at the same time other banks including all u. S. Lenders were not willing to do so and while those who bank may be handling those loans we cannot say tonight who or what is behind that money in other words we dont know who owns the debt of u. S. President donald trump and adding to this puzzle is the role played by the son of a former u. S. Supreme Court Justice just in kennedy son of former Justice Anthony kennedy was a Division Head and contact for donald trump at Deutsche Bank kennedy was close to the then future president at the same time that he was lending money to mr trump now the optics of this are horrible for Deutsche Bank so bad that author and political scientist Norman Ornstein tweeted yesterday if i were door to Bank Executives who gave loans to trump when no one else would including anthony get the sun i would be very very nervous right now. Our atlas speak with a man who voice that opinion Norman Ornstein joins me hes a political scientist at the American Enterprise institute hes also an author and editor at the atlantic its good to have you on the day mr ornstein so do you think georgia bake executives do they have something to high. We dont know what they have to hide but as you say the optics are terrible but its more than just the optics we know from these tax returns that donald trump was in dire financial shape had very few assets and deep deep liabilities was concealing information about those assets and if you look at some of these tax returns the only logical explanation when he came up with bundles of cash and was buying golf courses all over the place golf courses which now in many cases are ambridge in law. It looks like Money Laundering where did that money come from and what role did do it your bank play in facilitating all of that and was it was a Reputable Bank lending huge sums of money to somebody widely viewed everywhere as a significant credit risk and then you throw in Something Else that you alluded to but didnt quite get to Justice Anthony kennedy retire prematurely and to enable donald trump to pick a much younger individual and that younger individual was Anthony Kennedys protege Brett Kavanaugh very controversial and something thats altered the nature of the Supreme Court what was going on there given the personal relationship and business relationship apparently between the younger kennedy and donald trump through do it your bank theres an awful lot here to one back and i ramble a lot of it looks bad and those look bad and i mean it sounds like if im understanding you right that i mean you have at least the optics here it looks like there could be a connection between justin kennedys relationship with donald trump loaning double trouble money and the decision by supreme Court JusticeAnthony Kennedy to retire early in other words in exchange for loan money there was a guarantee of the ability to impact the future of the Supreme Court in my understanding you correctly. We you know we dont know we can only infer things from this but none of the looks good and its all tied together and considering that Deutsche Bank has had other issues including russian money coming through and being laundered in some fashion we can connect some dots here that dont sound good it requires a lot of investigation and thats why i tweeted 1st that if i were those that could have said do it your bank id be nervous right now and then i followed with its probably time for the Southern District of new york the federal 1 prosecutors whove been investigating some of these areas and the District Attorney and attorney general of the state of new york to depose young mr kennedy and perhaps begin to get to the bottom of what this was an issue by now isnt it. These loans that dont want trump has to pay back more than 400000000. 00 u. S. Dollars of me we dont know but maybe some executives are doing to bank maybe they know. Well one would think that you know you can follow you know tongue in cheek i said we need to follow the rules but we dont know for sure i will tell you that a very good journalist associated with the new yorker and of davids who wrote a long piece about connections with us or by john and Money Laundering going through some of the. Figures they are the miscreants there which apparently indicated a great interest in golf courses. You know might have some ties here as well and of course we also have reason to believe that trump in decades past had gotten loans from russian sources if you look at the president s relationship with Vladimir Putin and the actions that hes taken including the promise to withdraw troops from germany that serve the interests of mr putin and russia we have even more to be concerned about you know our constitution has in it was is that we call d amal humans clauses right now the main one is to prevent a major figure especially a president from getting anything of value from of foreign interest in a way that might compromise Americas National interest in its Foreign Policy d theres an awful lot here that we have questions about that are vital to america that flipper if you know and we weve tried to get comments from Deutsche Bank but its been incredibly difficult to get them to talk about this and as you say it may be up to us prosecutor issue subpoenas before we can actually get anything from the bank what do you say. And you know the problem we have right now is that those prosecutors are mostly federal prosecutors associated with the Justice Department when we have an attorney general who is in Donald Trumps pocket and basically acting more as his attorney then the attorney for the United States but the notoriously dependent Southern District of new york may move ahead and the state of new york which also has direct interests in this including questions of tax fraud that the President Trump might well have engaged in. Can issue its own subpoenas so d i think were only at the beginning of a story that is not going to probably be result until after this next election and if donald trump wins again it may not be result of for a very very long time if at all Norman Ornstein political scientists at the American Enterprise institute and editor at the atlantic mr ornstein we appreciate your time in your valuable insights tonight thank you. Thank you. It is not easy be gay or lesbian in poland if you think that polands post communism rebirth and its membership in the European Union have brought more enlightened attitudes well think again president andre dude was reelected last year and he won with a campaign that attacked the l g b t community due to said publicly that gays and lesbians have been more destructive to poland than communism was now that may explain why a 100 talents in poland have voted to declare themselves free of gay ideology and this in a country forever marked by the inhumanity of the holocaust at auschwitz now this has not gone unnoticed 50 ambassadors from countries all around the world have signed an open letter it calls on the polish government to respect human rights for everyone and for polish lawmakers to remember their place in the western world the ambassadors write that we express our support for the efforts to raise Public Awareness of issues affecting lesbian gay transgender and intersex b. T. I. Community and other communities in poland facing similar challenges well this week the polish foreign minister offered a response. That among at the top i can only say to my dear ambassadors that tolerance belongs to polish d. N. A. A look at our recent history is enough to confirm that no one has to teach us tolerance since we are a nation that has learnt such tolerance during centuries and we have given much proof of this tolerance. That i agree with the letter of the embassadors when they say that respect is due to every person of. I completely disagree with the letter of the ambassadors when they say that there are persons in poland from whom respect is taken away so also our that was the polish foreign minister speaking there it is exactly that attitude that motivated my next guest to ensure that that open letter was written signed and published im happy to welcome to the day the belgian ambassador to poland mr luker jacos ambassador young because its good to have you on the program you just heard the response that was given by the polish foreign minister to that open letter he says no one in poland is being disrespected what do you say to that. Well thank you for for having me and to give this photo much i think it is important to feel or a joint letter in its proper context i mean does it lead to results of the fall of a letter of birth or an expression of moral support today in. G. B. I. Community in all of these restating universal principles of human rights and it is also containing a very positive and constructive call to join to work in order to create an environment. Of nondiscrimination tolerance and mutual acceptance and this initiative already exists its not the you know every every scene said to townson 12th when the 1st letter was initiated into vision 2013 so since the end of the agreement the community in old is publishing this letter again as a sign of. Orange and every year there is another embassy poorer than aging the collection of signatures of scorn meeting the dialogue liaising with the g. B. I. Community and also preparing the participation of the Diplomatic Community in one and you will recall a great scene in warsaw to better let me let me if you could talk to me about how this letter came to be what did you see happening in poland to be why did jean say that now is the time to take action. Well you see. Again and this is already this myth that its a tradition and. Or create these shifts that are seen in 2012 decided that school to try to assist should letter also a feeling at the moment of the o. T. V. I. I. Community in poland for these forthcoming from abroad to be continued the tradition because things. Are changing not that not to the extent that we would not see reasons not to lend or to to you know t. P. I community and in the introduction to your conversation you had given a number of recent developments of the need to. Raise questions. In the respective capitals so matter of political debate there are safeties in all respective countries that are wondering where the date should continue or not cooperation agreements that they have if wed. Be publicly seen poll and that should describe through these family challenge a tense moment so it is a. Situation in the steel that raises questions and when we feel the need of the g. B. I. Community for is forthcoming from countries that have. Had to go to track record. In every trick to go but its a typical trick track record into and so advancing equal rights front on g. D. P. I ambassador i have about about 30 seconds left i want to ask you this letter that was written it reminds the polish government of what poland agreed to when it joined the European Union the values of the e. U. Including protecting the rights of sexual minorities. How do you explain that weve got entire governments now coming to power in europe on platforms that attack these value. Well i am sure voting but shipping it all into you would not see deduces the soul of a political issue at the moment he she that it is indeed it is their reach the egypt political the 18 in poland to belgium she to be i put it it is not of energy to be i but 3 very often at the expense of energy to be ideas to people and not creating lets see it it is she. Lives in financial for the rich and she writes ambassador unfortunately were out of time belgian ambassador to poland mr lu jacobi ambassador we appreciate your time tonight thank you. And just. The day is nearly done the conversation continues online youll find us on twitter either at the w news you can follow me and t. V. And remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see you then if. In. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona update. From the covert 19 special next on d w. With them. Gonna give goes up because were biased i know if i had known the boat would be that small i never have gone on a trip with you i would not have put myself and my parents in a bad danger to the bottom of the theme of the world that a beautifully would. 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