A difference the alternative nobel prize for human rights is announced well take a look at those on 3rd for their activism. Im burnt off to our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin tonight with the question who speaks for europe at a summit in brussels e. U. Leaders are trying to agree on an answer sanctions against villa reuss a joint approach on turkey and help to distribute coronavirus recovery funds of those are just some of the issues demanding attention and unity delegates are hoping the 2 day summit will help break a deadlock over sanctions against bella roosts. He has become the end like essential if attention at this 2 day summit in brussels. Us and asked us dad as the president of cyprus has caused a big stir lately cypresses long been the only member state opposing sanctions against belarus officials and the e. U. Requires a unanimous decision to impose just measures of the e. U. Leaders say the e. U. Risks losing credibility if cyprus continues to block the sanctions so the situation on. The 2 rating decaff continuing. Crites we have to train people to track people but cyprus says its only willing to agree to sanctions if its fellow e. U. Governments also sanction turkey because it is training for gusts in an area of the Mediterranean Sea that cyprus sees at its territory but the bloc is split on this german chancellor Angela Merkel says she sent favor of finding a diplomatic solution to the dispute had a dolphin was in dozens of ill point out that our relationship with turkey is obviously very complex the European Union has great interest in developing a constructive relationship with turkey despite all the problems we have partners and nato we depend on each other when it comes to regular migration flows and we support turkey hosting so many refugees because through a normal does disappear to a guy by the fog of the a few fish the new t. V. Took a while from impede. The economically powerful bloc still has to position itself clearly and not only a regional powers like turkey but also when it comes to finding a common position an emerging superpower china prophetically europe is not only a market test to better protect its independence and resilience it has to be seen as a cio strategic powers but several Foreign Policy disputes are currently dividing the e. U. Different members are blocking progress posing the question if the union is really able to exert united. Influence on a global level is the big question is now the alexander phenomena shes on the story for us tonight brussels good evening to you alexandra its a long list of issues to go through here lets start with turkey is the European Union any closer to solving the Eastern Mediterranean gas dispute. It doesnt seem that thats the case right now we are hearing that the german chancellor and the french president are speaking now directly with greece and cyprus to try to break the deadlock on that matter however we also hearing that initial draft of the 1st draft of conclusions of that matter was rejected by greece and cyprus according to confront reports this draft was saying that the European Union was ready to use all instruments at its disposal to make sure that the sovereignty of greece and cyprus is respected and calling on target to stop its actions in the Eastern Mediterranean at the same time this trough. Reportedly saying or offering positive you e. U. Turkey agenda and that was rejected by cyprus and greece they said that its too much carrot and not enough stick all right so what does the dislike of agreement mean when were talking about seeing shoes against bella ruse we have to keep in mind that sign preserves effectively linked to the 2 issues here. Well thats the problem here with cyprus not giving up its blockade of belarus sanctions we are not going to see anything on the ground on this matter and this is of course very embarrassing for the European Union they have been talking about sanctions against officials for weeks now and nothing has happened so far and the longer that continue the more europes commitments to upholding certain values values such as democracy and the right to vote in the free and Fair Elections can be called into question all right you dont use always on a phenomenon all the storyboards tonight in brussels alexander thank you the u. K. s departure from the European Union may become a matter for the courts today the e. U. Launched legal action against britain after the u. K. Refused to drop a controversial legislation that would violate the brits agreement and break International WallEuropean Commission president. Announced the move in brussels ahead of todays summit. In brussels had given london a hard deadline europes british friends as was on a funded lion puts it had been given until wednesday to revise their proposal and because london did not react brussels is now doing so the commission has decided to send a letter of common notice to the u. K. Government this is the 1st step in an infringement procedure. The letter invites the u. K. Government to send its up separations within a month. The british lower house only approved the controversial internal market bill on tuesday it would no more find the border agreement the Northern Ireland in the already existing brecks a treaty. Will lose the earlier deal was meant to avoid a physical border with each member ireland. London says it will answer the letter in due course but this dispute puts a further strain on the talks with britain over a free trade deal time is running out if no agreement is reached theres the risk of a hard brecks it and the reintroduction of custom duties. Covering the story for us from london. The e. U. Launching legal action against the u. K. Certainly makes for dramatic reading this after all could end up in the european courts of justice and it shows the e. U. Means business but the big question is will this do whale ongoing trade negotiations well it doesnt look like it yet and the legal timeline it will be key the e. U. Has given the u. K. A month to respond within that time both the e. U. And the u. K. Is that they want to see a trade deal done and in the words of the Irish Foreign minister the contentious issues within the u. K. As intel market bill will become quote knowledge the irrelevant if it deal is done so not a game changer yet but there are voices on both sides who say that at the very least this controversy will undermine trust in the u. K. There was charlotte shows until their reporting from london lets take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world for testers in the mongolian capital lawn but tar and demanded the release of ethnic mongolians who were arrested in china for criticizing a language policy in schools the requirement to teach certain subjects in mandarin rather than in mongolian and sparked weeks of protests thursdays game ahead of the visit by u. S. Secretary of state mike. Police in hong kong have arrested dozens of activists who were defying a ban on protests it comes as the city marked the 71st anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china officials denying permission for a rally citing security concerns and coronavirus restrictions russian Opposition LeaderAlexei Navalny has accused russian president Vladimir Putin of being behind his poisoning with a soviet era nerve agent the volley has posted comments online and his recovery in germany progresses in his 1st interview an evolving said quote i dont have any other versions of how the crime was committed. At least 4 people have been killed and a dozen more injured in wildfires in Eastern Ukraine the authorities in the region say acres of forest and grassland have been destroyed by fierce flames residents are being evacuated from the area. Spains government has ordered the capital madrid back into lockdown amid a surge in the number of corona virus infections the countrys Health Minister said thursday that new cases in the madrid region accounted for almost 44 percent of new infections across the country in the past 24 hours the Regional Government had opposed the measures but now says it will comply and instead launch a legal challenge against the law. This hustle and bustle could soon become a thing of the past as madrid prepares for its 2nd lockdown. Its exasperating not knowing whats going to happen tomorrow but i understand that given how cases are increasing in madrid a lock down is the only solution so will have to do it. With the hospitals that capacity and infection rates by rolling out of control the Spanish Government had little choice but to act. Conservative regional leaders fiercely opposed plans to lock down the capitol after weeks of political infighting they finally agreed on thursday. For now they agreed measures are mild compared to those spent in force throughout the entire country in spring this time Madeleine Hughes will not be restricted to their homes but will still be able to venture outside to go to school or work or to go shopping crossing municipal borders for nonessential reasons will not be allowed but bars and restaurants will be permitted to operate at 50 percent of their capacity though they will have to close early. Some fear this could be too little too late because so many of the measures that this vanished government have proposed are in my opinion insufficient because they are minimal but they could contribute to preventing the collapse that we had in march with. The economic consequences the coming lockdown could have on those are already in dire straits are also a concern if we have a new lockdown in madrid sales will drop by 30 or 40 percent but health comes 1st without health we cannot work with about it to me and the measures seem fine to me if we can continue a canonic activity inside the city as long as we can keep that up so people dont lose their jobs and the crisis doesnt become worse than their pedometers. The coming weeks will show whether this frail political compromise will suffice to turn the tide of madrids rising infections. Are lets take the story now to madrid im joined now by journalist im a valid used inside the zone that is in this new lockdown good evening to you as anyone offered an explanation how the spanish capital has become one of europes coronavirus hot spots yet again. Well theres many possible explanations and one of them is the lack of contact trains in that these 3 gemma has been you know. Lacking for for for for many months now but probably the main its the nation might be slow response. Measures that should have been take in. Weeks ago for example catalonia. Over hogs very high transmission rate and now they have around 100. 00 less than 200. 00 cases 100000 people so days we acted out. And migrate has been you know just expected and watching how. You coronavirus cases were piling up and they were not really ready to take action against it also has to do with the fight between the Central Government of the socialist party and the conservative government of the regions by dean who is going to take that the blame for the missions that are very unpopular and whos going to take the blame for the high transmission here in madrid that might be one of the main main main reasons. We dont have those measures in place 2 weeks. Trying to use the 8 yeah and its just astounding to considering what madrid what spain went through earlier this year that youre in the situation yet again the Regional Government as you were saying wants to challenge this new lockdown and most by going to court what do you think the chances are of the Regional Government winning. Well thats complicated we know the judges in the spade most of the time they have backed all the restriction restrictive measures a man named you know controlling the virus but this is a different situation because. I did in india the bottom of whole new program is how do decision was taken in the Regional Council of health that got us all in the region seen in spain and the Central Government the government of madrid says that the decision should be taken by consensus and the. Government the ministry of. You know in these cases the ministry has the n. P. T. And the power to rule. They havent yet filed a case in court in their Supreme Court so we will still need to see in the next 48 hours what the judge is going through if hes going to assault these measures or hes going to let it go until they have the stations yeah right correspondent jamie a last resort reporting tonight from madrid where that lockdown is going back into effect on me thank you. All right lets move now on to the coronavirus developments the latest developments around the world there was a 61 percent increase in positive kovan 1000. 00 cases in englands latest weekly data results from the countrys test entry scheme show where than 31300 people tested positive for covert 19 in mid september in italy a proposal has been put forward by the countrys Prime Minister to extend the covert 1000 state of emergency until the end of january 2021 germany has classified individual regions in the love in the e. U. Countries as high risk areas due to the high number of corona virus infections belgium iceland wales and Northern Ireland are now included on the list. The new University Semester starts today here in germany and for a launch of students that now means learning from their laptops rather than inside the lecture hall but the pandemic has also left many in precarious situations especially those from abroad who receive less state support others planning to study abroad they have not been able to get to their universities at all and are even having to juggle assignments across different time zones. This was not how main house dean imagined student life in germany his whole 1st semester canceled because of the pandemic minos came from bangladesh to berlin to study and hes still here though the pendant has also cost him his student job hes worried that that means his residence permit will not be extended. We have. To get the family and i dont know why. Its 10000 you know because its no joke im not getting any help from the government. Is studying for a doctorate in economics at a university in australia she wanted to be there in the spring but is stuck in berlin. You know she has to keep up with her lectures online. Work very very tough pm their time is for am our time here and. Have constant 10 am their time i have to be away here to em. Just by the irregular hours my heart has gotten used to online learning. At any point in time i want to go back to the lecture check my notes i can just do that i can just look at them and we watch the lecture and that actually gives me a little bit of. Yeah a little bit of kind of support. She gets financial help from relatives and is trying to make the best of things until she can finally get to australia. I mean house didnt like living on his own in empty Student Housing so hes moved in with friends but he still has to pay 300. 00 euros a month in rent to the University Hostel he feels germany has let down foreign students like him their thing it ends theyre living their life they are paying to supermarkets so these are all going to the economy so maybe somehow they should find it we. Give us back in this situation. I mean hasses whole family in bangladesh has been infected with the coronavirus. His parents have lost most of their income and are counting on their sons education for a main house thats a big responsibility i can be kicked out from this part of. My dream my. Dream of questioning how. To feed my caddy it goes the it all can be jeopardized i do not owe them these things because if i tell them it will be most of them and i dont want these for them i mean haas is hoping to find a new job and renew his visa so that he can get on with what he came to germany for to study. Well it is known as the alternative nobel prize for human rights the winners of the right livelihood award were announced today organizers say the 4 activists were picked for their dedication to fighting for democracy in their communities this selection of recipients highlights the increasing threats to democracy globally it is high time that all of us in favor of democracy around the world stand up and support each other. As we said organizers of the right livelihood award have announced this years winners they were chosen from a list of 182 nominees the nomination process is open to all individuals and organizations for contributions to sustainability equality and peace and one of this years awards is a joint on earth for the Human Rights Center the asa and its chairman alice beyond the easy right there he campaigns for freedom and democracy in bell reuss another reason be it is the iranian human rights lawyer nasri so today who is currently behind bars as she was put in prison after defending women who were arrested for protesting against irans compulsory headscarf laws another prize winner is Lani Cunningham renee a lawyer from the miskito Indigenous Group and she defends the Indigenous Peoples in nicaragua as they fight for control of their land and their resources and another laureate is Bryan Stevenson a leading u. S. Civil rights lawyer he has dedicated his life to the pursuit of racial equality by challenging institutional racism in the United States and thats where we want to go right now joining me from Montgomery Alabama is Bryan Stevenson one of the for resupply of the right livelihood overboard 2020 mr seems its good to have you on the show tell me what did you think when you heard that you were one of the recipients. Well i was really honored when i found out who the other recipients where i was even more on her to be in the company of people who are doing such extraordinary things to protect basic human rights around the world a great personal cost was very affirming and im energized and excited to be recognized in this way particularly at this moment in the u. S. When were dealing with so much complexity and challenge and fear about the future of our nation you were quoted in the new yorker earlier this year saying that changing the way we police prosecute judge and punish is the essence of criminal Justice Reform worm you know theres a lot in that sentence and its hard right now in the United States to find consensus on how to make that reform move forward what needs to be done right now in your opinion. Well i think we have to 1st recognize that the fact that we have the highest rate of incarceration in the world is a problem our prison population has gone from about 200000 throughout most of the 20th century to over 2200000 and today we have some 6000000 people on probation parole there are 70000000 americans with criminal arrests histories which means that when they try to get jobs or loans they are just favorite were creating a permanent underclass of people in this country who are going to be marginalized who done terrible things to women over the last a quarter century percentage of women going to jazz in prisons is increased 700 percent 80 percent of whom are Single Parents with minor children and all of these things collide with the larger problem of racial inequality this history of Racial Injustice in the bureau of justice projected in 2001 that one in 3 black male babies born in america is expected to go to jail or prison and there was no response and i think the 1st thing we have to do in the United States we have to acknowledge that we have a very serious problem where we have to reckon with this long history of racial inequality and confront this problem of over a car separation how do you do that though mr stevenson when you have an attorney general you have a u. S. President who both say that they do not agree that there is any type of institutionalized racism in the u. S. Justice system. Well we have to do it the way you know advocates of had to do it in every society were going to have to compel this nation to commit to an era of truth telling i mean the reality is very apparent black people are shot and killed while unarmed by the police all the time we see these horrific disparities in the end after the coke at pandemic were black and brown people are dying at dramatically higher rates the evidence that there is a problem is all around us we just havent have the will to confront this problem and so i believe we have to push the nation theres been people out on the streets protesting we are a post Genocide Society and america we killed millions of Indigenous People when europeans came to this kind of weve never acknowledged that the legacy of slavery is evident everywhere i live in that region where the landscape is littered with the iconography of the confederacy and we celebrate people who should be celebrated we have a president who hasnt paid it on rejecting White Supremacy and i think thats that conversation that were going to have to have i mean in germany ive been to berlin and its interesting to me because theres a reckoning with the holocaust you cant go 200 meters through that scene markers and stones place next of the homes of jewish families that Holocaust Memorial in berlin is powerful im not aware of any adolf hitler statues in germany living in this country we havent had that reckoning let me ask you before in our time is just leaves and do you see the way that germany has dealt with its dark chapter of history do you see that as something of a pattern or a role model that the United States could look to as it tries to come to terms with its history and its tradition of slavery. Well i think its been important i wouldnt feel comfortable coming to germany if there hadnt been some reckoning with the holocaust the same would be true in south africa or was that the difference is obviously the allies wall world war 2 there was a change of power in germany that facilitated some of that discourse there was a change of power and south africa theres been a change of power in rwanda we havent had a change of power in america so our challenge is harder its greater its more complicated but its just as critical if were going to actually get to a kind of feeling of quality that many of us arent students and we appreciate your time in your insights tonight and congratulations receiving the right livelihood award 2020. Thank you appreciate it as sure youre welcome youre watching the news from berlin after a short break ill be back to take you through the days or go around to the work that. This is some no. Story stubborn rice farmer from thailand. His problem tests. 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