Harsh measures experienced earlier in the year. Theyre going to have you know its like the 1st time its catastrophic we would just have to try and survive weve had some state aid and that something its better than nothing but well see. But belgian Officials Say the measures are absolutely necessary the countrys Health Minister says the Health System could soon be overwhelmed by infections and warned of a coming through nami of cases many doctors share his concerns. The sky is more or less blue but we can see a huge wave is about to arrive its inevitable authorities hope the drastic set of measures will have a quick impact they say theyll review the results in 2 weeks time. And for more lets bring in our very own they are mattis who is joining us from brussels they are why has belgium been hit so hard. Well sarah a big issue here is of course the book mortality rate the 3rd highest in the world but to explain that you need to understand the broad criteria that belgium uses to get to these numbers and the reason is that only 50 percent of the cases are actually confirmed caray corona cases the other ones of possible cases that have not been confirmed whether coronavirus testing the reason is that in the 1st wave of the pandemic here in belgium the country was so hard hits that they wanted an easy way to to count deaths and that is why they installed the system that now makes the numbers of the death rate look really bad on the other hand youre right of course numbers here i stream the high with belgium having a small population extremely high numbers 2 possible explanations one is that the tracking system has been rather weak its not been running smoothly a corona app has only been installed in the past 2 weeks and another thing is testing and thats not running smoothly either i had one test where of waited 5 days in order to get the results back and we have to acknowledge and mention that it is not just belgium that is seeing this uptick it is also the broader year given that dark how are restrictions being balanced with principles of Free Movement across the block. Id say the use doing much better than in the 1st wave a lot of more coordination is going on a traffic light system has been introduced so the e. U. Member states agreed that they do not want to restrict Free Movement within the for the visa free travel area of europe if youre traveling from a green area to another green area now that at the moment the city isnt much the case with a lot of orange and red on the map now with the in these cases its still not clear entirely its not come theres no common standard for you Member States how to handle this so it really depends on the National State to decide whether or how long you should go into care and time and what test you need in order to travel to the neighboring country or to another human mistake and given all of that there are where the solidarity stand right now in the block and it has coated been more of a strain or or a united or id say the lesson is well learn from the 1st corona wife that waif that hits europe so nobody wants to go back to traffic jams and medical products being blocked going to another year Member States so when you look at it from a broader picture the e. U. Not being a nation state but brother being an organisation i think the level of cooperation you see on the regional level is i would say its above the monks the best in the world so there is quite a bit of courting nation now when it comes for instance to buying or ordering mutual of vaccines that are then can be handed out but also when it comes to research and hospital cooperation so quite a push at the moment from the European Commission in order to be in a good position to face the 2nd wave of matzos with a view from brussels thank you. And russia is also logging record case loads of covert 19 more than 16000 on tuesday alone authorities there are doing all they can however to avoid another unpopular lockdown theyre also touting new russian made vaccines due to be rolled out soon and as you found out for many people thats music to their ears for. Music is his drug nikolai morrow jokes to him its essential. For the professional musician directs an amateur choir in moscow the group is getting ready for an Upcoming Event as if nothing has happened no 2nd wave of coronavirus during the pandemic that has swept across russia and the whole world no one here wants to stop singing despite the risk of infection. What were doing with the risk here is no greater than the risk of riding the subway or going to the supermarket every day of course we had here to Safety Measures keep our distance while sitting constantly pour disinfectant all over ourselves and so on but ultimately belief and hope remain. A very immature little critter. Hope that all goes well something the russians now could use as their country has ranked number 4 world wide in new infection rates for weeks about 15000 covert 1000 cases are registered each day in russia despite this dramatic situation officials want to avoid another lockdown like the one this spring. Weve just extended the School Vacation to 2 weeks all businesses are 1st being given the recommendation and later will be ordered to have their employees work mostly from home more than most would be doing that is a bit of both bars and restaurants must obey hygiene measures in order to stay open the city performs frequent checks on individual restaurants and supermarkets. And imposes penalties of customers or staff dont wear masks for example. Starting this week all guests must register with an electronic code when they visit bars. But many are not especially worried about the risk of infection so do the were all going to infect each other anyway half the country has already survived mild cases a coronavirus myself included. That it will be i had coronavirus without symptoms and im not afraid now i think that sooner or later well all get it. They get tested for corona virus regularly so that they can attend as many rehearsals possible if one singer tests positive for covert 19 he says everyone would be notified immediately. This was a kidney was more we cant live without music when we were in coron teen for nearly half a near the spring and couldnt sing together we nearly sobbed in despair. Many of the choir singers want to get vaccinated against coronavirus as soon as possible russia has just approved its 2nd vaccine against coven 1000 despite International Scientists grave safety concerns. And lets cross over now to day that he is moscow correspondent yury of a shadow yury we just heard in your report it mentioned those 2 vaccines that have been approved there in russia do we know how effective they are and what is the outlook for distribution. Well. This week putin announced to the approval of this 2nd new Coronavirus Vaccine even though neither of the russian vaccines have passed to the 3rd phase of rigorous safety trials required in the u. S. And europe earlier in august put in a report of the 1st books a nation even more one of hes daughters has been given the russian vaccine hes sad this is surely called the authentic its clear that the 1st to develop a vaccine is a winner in the eyes of the establishment and ordinary people for putin this might be his personal back through. A visit to taste face of the vaccine will only end in spring only then we will be able to see the effectiveness of the russian vaccine despite all the knowledge hes talked with us a little bit about the general situation because the number of cases in russia is increasing how well prepared are the medical facilities there. Well from a medical perspective fresh air has of course learnt a lot from the 1st wave its not so to the old country but the basic Service Works here and its mostly for free even meaning crude basic medical service of course of the authorities have also learned a lot how to avoid next in the hospitals but we shouldnt forget about the huge gap between the capital moscow and the province. Solely western european the city with pretty high medical standards but most is russias calling card and the western bubble the countryside is very different pandemic is much more dangerous there because many hospitals are poorly equipped theyre also shot at just over well trained to stuff since wages are extremely low and the best doctors all here in moscow compared with other nations i mean we least we saw those pictures for example of the choir that was practicing there they werent Wearing Masks you know they they were singing. Are the russians in general a bit more relaxed about the pen dymock and if so why is that the case here ie. Well until a week ago i would say people in moscow were actually very relaxed you could cardless see any face masks its partly due to a long and tough lockdown russians experience in march. Muscovites sat at home for almost 3 months and of course people felt relieved once the resurrection swore lifted a memory of the lockdown is still present the film nobody wants to do its to happen again secondly there is also the russian mentality of this socalled voice a voice means everything will be fine somehow thirdly is the governments Information Campaign plays also are all aims it aims to avoid hard to lock down as i showed it in my report but as i said it was like this and we could go now the tide is turning in russia to and we see for example Police Officers officers taking people at subway entrances for we are in the face much so lets see if in another knock down may be imposed here in russia to the area shuttling muska thank you. Its going to take a quick check of some other stories making news around the world the United Arab Emirates and israel have signed a series of accords in tel aviv thats after the 1st ever government delegation from the u. A. E. Arrived on israeli soil last month the u. A. E. And bahrain became the 1st arab gulf states to establish formal ties with israel in a deal brokered by the united states. Firefighters in the u. S. State of colorado are battling the states largest wildfires on record new blazes continue to erupt across the drought stricken state and have destroyed 26. 00 homes Authorities Say that the burning is happening at an unusually late time of the year in a period where it should be snowing. The u. S. Supreme court has ruled that the state of pennsylvania can count some mail in ballots for up to 3 days after polling day even if they do not appear to have a clear postmark the ruling is a blow to republicans who had sought to nullify such balance it could also prove consequential with pennsylvania one of the most critical swing states in the election. Youre watching to come on the program will the pandemic spell the end of berkeley and able to nightlife many people think the partys over. But 1st another victim of the Global Pandemic has been for press freedom in some countries journalists there have been harassed and arrested for reporting on the spread of the virus and some governments have introduced laws punishing those who share information that doesnt support the official line muzzling the press can also in danger public health. Behind the mosque of corona virus censorship spreads journalists around the world have come under attack for reporting on the pandemic it started in china where citizen journalists dared to deviate from the official narrative. Images of overstretched hospitals in ruhani which hundreds of viruses right in front of me are chinas criminal prosecutors are behind me im not afraid of death do you think im afraid of you communist party of china or pas going well. Chang she should wear disappeared in february and was only seen again by friends in September Fung been another reporter remains missing he had released secret videos of corona virus victims. She. Reporters without borders has documented coronavirus coverage restrictions in nearly half of all u. N. Member states those who are jailed are at risk of infection. Al jazeera journalist mohammad more near died in july from coronavirus after being arrested in egypt as did reporters. Jailed for documenting corruption in saudi arabia the deliberate targeting of the press has worried the United NationsHuman Rights Commission all across the world called 1000 is also being instrumental lies to limit peoples rights to speak to express opinion and to participate in making decisions that affect their lives in the Russian Federation china kosovo many other countries i know of reports of threats and intimidation against journalists brokers and civic activist particularly at the local level with the apparent aim of this courage in criticism of the oil for this response is to keep it 19. At a time when information can save lives press repression can fuel the pandemic. And lets get more on this we are joined by errol under he is joining us from istanbul a journalist and a representative of Reporters Without Borders in turkey welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us well as we just heard there there are reports of some governments around the world attacking journalists for reporting on the coronavirus even jailing them what are you seeing. I think the policy in turkey has started very rightly when some 15 threw a can reporter. Arrested in the 1st few months so. They were mainly covering and trying to raise awareness about the. 19. Turkish authorities preferred to monaco lies. The day time and the coverage of. The 19 Mainstream Media refrained from covering the critical voices and just the general minister of have himself was. Made as for person today we understand that its not enough to create Awareness Among the society the government complain of the lack of Awareness Among the society but. This government has done Everything Possible to to arrest rate critical voices when they argue that the case the scorn of irish cases. Was more than what is revealed by o. Pressure ok so youre observing the restriction of critical voices you say there how do you see that impacting Public Awareness about. Gays its very difficult to explain to people that 7 months later they have. Their wish to lead a risk of. Gaining themselves. And. Many many. Of these. Hopi shall return are not. People to take the most draconian measures today and. Probably to stream media. He was told he didnt homophobe you didnt to refer to financial crisis or social challenges that were not vibrant. Produce you got to survive and the british we are we have a. T. V. Show which now we have to go cory. Byrd dr drew but not pretty good for you too true weve had a guy be reheard to social challenges thank you so much for joining us to tell us more about that errol. Joining us from Reporters Without Borders from istanbul. Heres a look at some other developments in the coronavirus pandemic the World Health Organization has linked rising case numbers in the Northern Hemisphere to a failure to quarantine people exposed to the virus its called for more consistency in enforcing self isolation measures ireland is reactivating its highest level of her struction zz from wednesday on words bars and restaurants will only be able to serve take away and people will have to stay within 5 kilometers of their home for all but essential purposes schools however are allowed to stay open india has posted its lowest daily number of cases in nearly 3 months infections have been decreasing since a peak in september. While berlin is famous for its nightlife especially the club scene that all came to a grinding halt of course earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic nightclubs remain closed now the citys government has tried to impose an 11 pm closing time on all bars and restaurants some bar owners have gone to court they have won so they are allowed to remain open for now weve been out and about to see what has been happening to the party metropolis in berlin. But i mean once you have nightlife capital has quietened down since the beginning of the pandemic doors a closed dance rules empty club as a not the only ones affected onus face a whole winter without business many believe the citys Cultural Landscape will be the poorer. One script as had time to hear us there are 2 priorities during respond or the 1st safe people 2nd safe club culture leave experience what its like to dance together to amazing music to feel free and safe within a friendly crowd. You know people often function better in a poll about honesty and then in the mainstream society. You realize that club culture is an expression of how society should be different and better because their stuff. But it is now known as a haven for artists and musicians in particular theyve been especially hard hit professionally and in that every day that i. Turn to it. The worst. Of. The measures have put a damper on socialising in the capital and theyre a big challenge for the restaurant and bar owners that a fee and limits on Opening Times and alcohol sales will threaten their livelihoods once again. Escaped antigun there are some things that we as a Hospitality Branch find out seemingly necessary up on social distancing wearing a mask those are really Good Measures in some ways making sure the bars are not crowded but what we dont understand is why for months the gastronomy and nightlife sector has been saddled with all the blame youve been treated as culprits and thats not the case because you are just it out of a situation. The water going customers team have had to adapt some though willing to make sacrifices find images to fix and i had to think about what i was about to do more but i dont think it changed the number of people i so in this sense side dont know with these measures was so with fissions now like that youre like you need inside your house if youre Close Friends like they change the laws so you get to know the People Better and you get to this and much more time with this people for safety sake most people have accepted the restrictions on their social lives with grace but many do wonder whether bending i have to be the same again. To football in the Champions League group stage starts on tuesday night among the matches germanys rb leipsic host by shock share of istanbul leipsic reached the tournament semifinals last season and despite losing their star striker in the summer theyve started with the Current Campaign with a bang. He has every reason to smile at the moment you know goldmans like a secret top of the brightness League Unbeaten and scoring goals like this. I fear is big me star striker t. Mo van there after his move to chelsea seen misplay so far novels mannys more than happy with the balance of his team. The young skin on the equipment and all the boys all get along with each other really well and so do the Coaching Staff is a good spirits among us and i hope the players notice that we all speak the same language and all have the same desire to win of the at the moment machine and spirit under my little socks given under. Light cigs run in last seasons Champions League was ended by paris and your man in the semifinals the french side along with bush actually here in Manchester United are in light seeks group tricky but doable according to the man between the posts. Flies. It is clear our group this season will be a little bit tougher than last season. But its we want to do as well as last season and get out of the group and the 1st step in doing that laying down a marker against the sharks are here weakest team in the group. A quick reminder of our top story here and news european states have begun reimposing their toughest distractions to fight the resurgence of covert 19 ireland says that a new lockdown will take effect on wednesday authorities in belgium call the situation there worse than during the pandemics 1st wave. Up next sunday it is kick off im sorry kelly in berlin thanks for watching take care. A. Kick off. Still on top of. My sequins against alabama and defend their championship game. The longer at the bottom. Some good scores a point against union berlin breaking free from last. Night. Americas election crisis. Voters suppression of electoral districts manipulation and truth was diminishing. To hold hard fast sinister tools in the fight for power. Is there a way out of the election game. Closer. In 60 minutes on w. Ws crime fighters are back africas most successful radio drama series continue. This season for stories focus on hate speech color of prevention and sustainable charcoal production. All of a sows are Available Online and of course you can share and discuss on africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. Crime fighters tune in no. Im going to give it. To him but im going to go to give him a bit of a read then. All right in this biggest stars its go time trying to warm up the Champions League which kicks off this week byron jordan in light flashback all graham now hoping to head into their upcoming tour of p. N. Tussles in top form. Robert lewandowski and prior. To this time i went toe to toe with. Newcomers are relative unknowns but good luck trying to surprise them by getting it to. Match who knows and that its a common time no simple task as hoffenheim have been a shock going into it inside in recent years. Now hes not. Like fish didnt have it easy with his outfit playing away and surprise 2nd place. In the match the likely top billing. Was the flat black market. They hosted was to continue to prove themselves one of the leagues top decides to play against. Champions league hopefuls and all the rest its match for. Playing host to the bundesliga match this unlikely scenario came down to the bavarian strongest ever stop 7 points from 3 games still coach heiko hellish who just returned from a long operation wasnt letting the swelling chorus of praise sway him. Never seen a marathon run to start celebrating in the 3rd. We want to put in a Strong Performance push ourselves to the limit and see what happens of course we want to hold on to as many points here as possible which will miss a few. Caligiuri has helped build our success as the clubs top scorer and he represents our clever off season transfer policy at the club consolidated this wont im going to affordable players with experience. Against. Like seek out spoke focused on remaining compact and shutting down the visitors pacey attacking play leipsic had plenty of the ball early on but despite near constant possession that defenders were forced to have a kick about amongst themselves. Out School Keeper geeky beach was really cool just serious action arriving this offseason on a free transfer like caligiuri hes also had an instant impact conceding just one goal in his 1st 3 games. But just before the break the visitors probing finally broke down ive spoken to friends taking the lead thanks to. 5 jillian youre. Towering half over 1. 7 meters tall this is angelinas 2nd headed goal already this season the combination play with fellow spaniard danny almost was planned to the team i saw him that we spoke during the week and he knows that i will run the back post so. He knew that i would be there and i was lucky and i got in. The opening goal put wind in leipzig sails and they kept attacking off to the huff the only thing preventing dialed obama cano from doubling lexis lead on the alamar was some last ditch defending for months page isnt. Much. But a couple of minutes later on came yusuf polson. 5. And he needed just 33 seconds to find the net with his 1st touch of the bull to nail in the 66 minute polson one the strike was also set up by obama. At the beginning of this tech i was a bit angry because dani played a vote a 1st touch and was a. Crazy pass to see who wasnt dead at that. Level. Played a ball in this space but the. Great shots great finish i think perfect. It took a perfect goal to cement 1st defeat of the season putting the brakes on their high flying stars. It was a smooth warm up for them midweek Champions League match against turkish charm special action here and the club record breaking one at that theyve now got 9 away matches undefeated in the competition. Of fellow Champions League participants could only have dreamt of this away form ahead of match day full. Here we go again poor old jordan had to travel to their bogey team hoffenheim picks hasnt been the happiest of hunting grounds for the visitors in quite a while their last win here was in 2012 and they have failed to win the last 5 encounters the fact that hoffenheim last home game was a resoundingly 41 win against plying wasnt exactly a confidence boost either. And surprisingly the 1st chance of the game fell to hop in hind we are the chino bitch keep the door in defense quite the scare and the game was only 4 minutes old. Short when we believe that it was on break from march on the ball the host top goalscorer missed the game with a corona virus infection. Got in stops where it wasnt on the pitch either and then holland was being rested and watched on as his side created their 1st memorable chance on the half hour mark. Probably still didnt i g o raina. Minutes later thomas noone yet hit the cross. Our. Men seem to freighted living hoffenheim empty handed yet again lucianne father had to react at half time and made to fight all changes 1st becoming more aggressive. And possibly even more important bringing on Game Changing substitutes in the form of marco royce and holland which paid off almost instantly to 2 combined in a 76 minute to fight to get a hand over their home. The mental block was finally overcome dortmund were ahead and. Mark overall it was about the market his 1st goal since the beginning of january. The players and their captain knew how important this goal was for their side. It must be hard we knew if we scored the 1st wed have a good chance of winning thats what happened and of course were very happy that will come when youre on the threesome as a full. One could argue that youre going to do well should have done more to put any fear of losing their lead in hospital time the on down. But it. Is special when hop in time substitute christophe bound got there keep the pressure on the visitors mob and hicks was the only one capable of keeping dortmunds lead intact. Busy constantly into believing we remained fully focused and v. F. Authentic in what we needed to defend we did launch small sometimes they pushed us through but we wanted to play hard and we pressed well on several occasions fulvia feeling we took risks yes but i think its important that we do that consistently does the stick. Thats. During a common rank curse is over they finally and deservingly take home all 3 points thanks to a value for many cases you well expect to see them start again slaps you in the Champions League. With. Royce dont miss match winner and our man of the match day he couldnt have done it on his own so hes sharing the limelight with another to open stop this week. Early hollands times captain marvel royce ready to come on to potential Game Changers for goldman. 5 but not as long as hed of been hoping for or stick to the cut to find its enough. To keep. Him sassy replied it feels pretty good. That was let him settle something to put the play station long boys getting his 1st goal of the super sub keep the ball that he got since march 24th. Not hold it to provide just the ticket price but. I think that over the last weeks and months hes shown us all that hes incredibly skilled people and 5 almost impossible to stop when he gets going its just so explosive and fosamax was i just had to keep up and he saw me. Put on the middle thats a partisan i. Hold and provided the heroics also but they still keep me when i make good clean sheets of the season. Half. Blind with. 0 points based later couzin who had 0 winds. At 38 meeting foreigners deliver the match is only goals in lucas ilario an interesting technique for living who is and with most of their players trying to 10 years away from goal. Play because in finding it a win well minds 7 are still searching for the 1st point of. Discussion between coach John Morse Liston and a few fans in the stadium which he did but at least theyre talking to each other. The atmosphere was barely better in cologne another team seeking their 1st point and the businesses went ahead here as well and the silvas penalty made up one mil to frankfurt in 1st half stoppage time. Alone didnt look great but still managed to equalise early in the 2nd half you standing on the way to the loss of home his 1st goal in a cologne to. Have won the whole draw the 1st point of the season and a massive relief okello under fire coach marcus just told little to fight another day. Shout to a club what absolutely nobody is happy and nothings going right no fans in attendance no money no points there dismal start to the season and minus 14 goal differential is a bonus they got a record theyve already replaced their trainer with man now bali facing the difficult task of writing around the sinking ship not an easy task given shelters leaky defense only on very little which is their belief that after 55 minutes. A glancing header for modern 3 jewish looks up to the hosts. But instead of folding as in weeks past shall get actually respond to the 1st step in scripts the force they save from one young keeper andrea saluted. The ensuing corner songs and salo past you can see i can pretty equalizer 11. Shot goes our prayers back to me this is only their 2nd this season it was enough to end them their 1st point as well though they still carry the burden of a 20 match with st. Paul hard defender philip lined hard grab the headlines in their match against braman he scored his 1st league goal in his 51st bundesliga march though 5 books lead only lasted 10 minutes because line up delivered some catastrophic costs forcing a foul on luna to keep the court. Penalty for braman couche back home a 100 lead by mccluskey proved his force of the season. 100 how the final whistle in a match Philip Meinhardt wont forget anytime soon. Are in the Champions League face season but they havent been performing like it in the boonies they got so far they needed help where they could get. Fixed the wolves triggs not sounds like swap they started the short back cause chaos in the box was a penalty. In his home and stepped up to convert with a quarter of an hour to go. Till. No sign of that Champions League form however especially not at the back about their course nicu equaliser for the final whistle. Outline all come so close frank is cooler theyll have to do a lot better in competition this week. Spent head of the season only by them splash more cash to clubs who choose to be on the up but. Other writers. With just 9 minutes on the clock. Only backend took advantage of a sleepy berlin defense for the lead