That there is a huge boom in kobe cases all across europe and i think the average age is lower this time were already swung all our beds are occupied. The situation threatens to spiral out of control here in germany as well. The virus seems to be spreading more and more in family settings. We need a new lock down and we need it now. It doesnt make any sense to wait till december but failure to get this right will make a cycle of damaging oxfams with all of the hardship and suffering thats entails. Also coming up should the Catholic Church support same sex civil unions pope francis says yes it is a Seismic Shift that the pontiff has been signaling for years. But its been a gay and someone whos gay and he searches for the lot and has goodwill who might a judge. 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 with the lockdowns going up again here in Europe Countries have begun cold. The pandemic emergency break from spain to ireland to germany each day comes with more and more in new cases of the coronavirus levels are as high as they were in march and april thankfully the number of deaths is not more testing tracing and more knowledge about how the virus works it all means fewer people are dying from cove at 19 it does not however diminish the ability of the virus to spread and infect we saw that today here in Berlin German Health minister yen spahn revealed that he has tested positive for the corona virus and immediately went into self isolation he has reportedly developed flu like symptoms now the news came just hours after spawn attended a Cabinet Meeting with german chancellor Angela Merkel. We want to go straight now to our Political Correspondent she is following the story for us tonight him its good to see you the Health Minister tested positive just after attending a Cabinet Meeting that included the german chancellor Angela Merkel is there concern now that the entire cabinet could be infected. Well brenda i cant imagine that all those who have been in close contact with the house minister might get tested quite soon however we also got a Statement Today from the chancellor is press office highlighting the fact that the federal cabinet meets in compliance with hygiene and these says rooms and that ensures that theres no need for participants to be quarantined if a person who later tests positive for corn the virus is a present of the meeting that we dont know yet if the chess either has been tested about daddy had these serious she immediately went into quarantine when her doctor had tested positive shortly after having given her vaccine shot now in terms of continued here within the House Ministry for now. Will provide the it continue working from isolation he also tweeted that c. Only suffered from a cold like symptoms as you mentioned but of course he wont be meeting ways anyone of course to has minister has been a leading figure behind i got america behind the chancellor for the governments response to the pandemic so this is of course a setback but theres also no reason to believe that this was the stuff the country is governance and handling of the pandemic to be used on the story for us tonight here in berlin and i thank you for staying here in germany but they were used to government has expanded restrictions in an area that has become a viral hotspot bars and restaurants are not allowed to hold more than 50 people and closing time is now 9 pm in western germany the situation is just as serious in the state of north wind was failure millions of residents are now required to wear face masks in public wearing a mask is mandatory in central gelsen cation in the room region of western germany the city was recently declared a high risk zone expanding the mass mandate was an important 1st step for the health department. The Army Sergeant makes sense as we have a situation where there is high population density and the commercial district when a lot of people are out shopping at certain times there are times of the week where these shops are relatively empty but the mask mandate is still in force you must almost the entire rural area with roughly 5100000. 00 residents is now considered to be a coronavirus hotspot the mask mandate in effect in many parts of the densely populated region aims to avoid lock downs and to protect high risk patients there is much concern and care homes throughout germany. Who thought for must make preparations concepts for visitors and taking the important step of making rapid tests available for visitors to the facilities so that everyone involved feel secure and that no one who is already infected with the virus is entering here but its too late the measures aimed to prevent the isolation of nursing home residents but various also cracking down to limit the spread of coronavirus by imposing curfews such as in fact its gotten. A day after the u. S. Department of justice launched an antitrust lawsuit against google the Search Engine giant is saying that it is ready for legal battles that will take years google has denied the trump administrations claim that it is abusing its market dominance to snuff out competition the u. S. Case could eventually lead to the breakup of google which makes the multibillion euro fines imposed against it by the European Union seem pale in comparison and googles legal problems they are not only transatlantic all straw years competition watchdog is also considering an antitrust lawsuit this is how australias Consumer Commission chairman reacted to reports that google is paying apple billions of dollars to remain the default Search Engine on the web browser so far. And you know ahead this morning on the news google saying. Well it doesnt matter either way it just pop it up if would be there anyway well if thats the case why are you paying 1000000000. 00 a year to apple is a serious money for some people not in 1000000000 so. What were going to do now to answer your question is were going to look at it and say whether theres any value in what we might do about you know this is i this is the biggest data trust case in the world one of the biggest a trust crisis in the in the last in the twentys into law. Today i was taken on a move really closely. Well my next guest tonight agrees that google is taking up all of these Search Engine oxygen leaving none for competitors such as his company weinberg is the founder of the Search Engine duck duck go now if you havent heard of duck duck go that may have to do with the fact that google hosts more than a trillion searches each year duck. Has about 3000000000 correct me if im wrong there weinberg joins me tonight from pennsylvania its good to have you on this show mr weinberg so lets talk about duck duck go d and google youve been described as a david versus goliath partner if you will is this antitrust lawsuit is it going to do what you need most and that is to make the market say or. Thanks for having me i mean so dont go as a Privacy Company we really offer a private alternative to google so if you would like to air you know. Your search has been tracked or an option for that all we would like is consumers who would like a private option to be able to choose what usually and the issue right now is theyre not really able to easily choose us especially on a 100 kroner because google really locks that down and makes a very complicated pretty user is to choose an alternative. Is is that mr wonder is that the crux of the argument here i mean give me an example of how googles size and dominance and how does it hurt your business on a daily basis is it with the enjoy as you were saying. Yeah i mean that beth through other parts of it android is one of many examples but for example on android we put out a post last week showing that it takes 15 plus taps to make the default on major search entry points on a device like the home screen which and the default browser and that doesnt even include all the search entry points some of them are actually impossible to change and so in that landscape its very difficult for a consumer to be able to use an alternative to google and thats really the issue a case here is that google has a search monopoly but they also have monopolies in browsers in operating systems and theyre using the operating system and browser monopoly is to a naturally prop up the search. Your Business Model as you were saying is very different from googles it means you do not profile your users. Do you feel somewhat vindicated by news that the department of justice has started this antitrust lawsuit. Yet were were fairly pleased that this is a great staff theyve said in no Uncertain Terms that google is using continues years you know anticompetitive tactics to maintain their monopoly but the real issue at heart is privacy as you know thats the harm at the center is googles anticompetitive practices yes they hurt Companies Like us but the negative impact the behavioral targeting and all the endless Data Collection has on society a democracy is much worse and so were just advocating in general that consumers have an easy opportunity to opt out and get privacy you know for the consumers that want and there is a lot they want i mean im wondering do you sometimes wish in another life that maybe your company would be here in europe where consumers place a higher value on data privacy and data protection. So were old wyatt actually and more than half of our user base is not in the u. S. And europe is the 2nd largest just to give you some scale were about to burst at the Search Market in major develop i suppose you reference about 2000000000 searches thats our monthly numbers so yearly its more like 2530000000000 and so we do size of a volume in europe including germany. And were really a private option the issue at hand though is that we think if consumers are really given an easy option a one click option no change there for us a device we beat and times as large and so weve done some studies showing that generally of consumers are given options you know all the european Search Engines that youve heard of besides google and us and big and yahoo but googles market share with drop by 20 Percentage Points overnight you know thats the pent up demand crowd heard of that exists right now its just theyre making it very complicated to get with us which yeah thats fascinating the numbers there are you worried mr weinberg that this lawsuit money not be motivated by purely antitrust considerations i notice that all of the attorneys general who are plaintiffs in this case are republicans theres not a single democrat who is a plaintiff in this case does that worry you. No i think thats just a its a blip in the long term trajectory of this so you know there was a house and i trust her or you know if youre here and reported on already 455th trip or about other an odd ways and that was we had by the democrats in the us theres also addressed the issues by democratic attorney generals going on and we expect them to file additional cases and or joint this last year im a little later do you see this lawsuit being strengthened its were talking about it Joe Joe BidenAdministration Come next year. You know i think that the higher level point is this is a bipartisan effort to see itself it is a bipartisan issue its not on the right or left in the u. S. Or it in any party in europe as you noted most people are looking at some poll numbers here 90 percent of people say privacy should be a human right and 93 percent of americans fur us datafile say they would choose a private operator would consider choosing a private option given the option thats the issue you have and here is theyre just not options no ones really going to ask whether they would like to use google even if the majority of people would still pick google a large percentage of people would opt for other things and if google is so clear that they would pick google and they should make it easy and we can test that argument let me ask you before we run out of time this antitrust lawsuit it could result in google being broken up how would you been if it from a break up of google. We actually are advocating it differently they want that is much simpler and easier which is just when you install a new device or browser youre really given the option to select your search provider and one click thats much easier to break out but also gives us the benefit yeah i agree with you and say its seems like a much simpler solution to the situation i think is going to take a lot of litigation to get there weinberg founder of duck duck go mr weinberg its good talking with you and please come back again i have a feeling this story will have some very long legs nice talking with. The news is explosive it is set to ignite fiery debates and it has all to do with how people love pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples he made the comments in a new documentary about the pontiff entitled francesco which premiered today at the room Film Festival the statement marks a decided shift for the roman Catholic Church the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Are for more im joined by our religious Affairs Correspondent martin tonight good evening to you martin we know that language is very important here so what exactly did the pope say about same sex unions. Well the statement as its been reported which comes out of the mentor as you pointed out has basically 3 legs the 1st when he said that gay couples have a right to a family. The 2nd element is that they cannot be completely left in a situation of well nervously or in a situation of pricker rioting and the 3rd when you study in fact the best way forward would be civil unions and sort of the big probably one of the most surprising statements is that in fact he says i stood for that so that means that you know this solves already something that has been. Part of the heart of these folks agenda but he did not use the word the term same sex marriage and thats important is it. Well i think it is important but i think that its also very important to put this into perspective we have basically that both indorsing openly. Gay couples across the globe. I mean you know one needs only to look at this recent church of Church Politics and church positions see sort of the sea change that we are actually witnessing and. So i think in a sense yes this will never satisfy all of the mansour necessities of people that are actually fighting for gay rights or for sexual minority rights at the same time i mean the gesture is just such and such a scale that you know the political impact is immediate and youre seeing it. There have there been clues martin to the popes thinking on this subject back in 2015 the pope visited the United States for the 1st time as the pope and were going to show you some video here he paid a visit to a dear friend of his and that friends same sex partner you see them right there that. Was a student of pope francis in argentina years ago now this meeting that were looking at right now here it generated headlines it was part of the pontiff unveiling if you will of his own evolution on the subject of homosexuality and same sex couples i mean this is its not a complete departure for the pope what has what would have been his views on civil unions that we know of. I think that you know with various. There is pro there are only 2 very clear periods one is the period in which you know the science had been sort of systematically there and its not only been jesters but his being pretty much open statements believe it was in 2016 when he was on the way back to rome and he said that you know if there are gay people of pure hearts who is he to judge the of course the reaction was immediate the left the journalist said that this was not enough the right condemned him for essentially supporting or endorsing homosexuality the previous period which is argentina in their continuing buster a work was one that was very much sort of. You know involved in the what he later came to call the church of the people so that meant that he dealt with a lot of sort of human tragedy a lot of sort of for himself you know a social a social disconnect in social a nation and people that were actually the screaming against and that were big himself violence and abuse for being on the sexual or being. Part of minorities which meant that hes position in relation to the Gay Community has always been more or less the one that we see now i think that this could not possibly come to a surprise to anybody within the church but i think its very important to remember as i said before that this statement is of such magnitude that the political impact of these its necessarily going to be actually very strong as well what before we run out of time what a balanced the the impact on this an inservice of the congregations and im thinking of the Catholic Church in poland the Catholic Church in africa which is conservative and is growing compared that with what you see here in europe or in north america. I think i mean the reactions are clearly going to be very loud i just do not think that the polish church hes significant enough in terms of like the global Church Politics but the american Catholic Church which has one of its branches at least which is the one thats a seated usually with figures like Cardinal Burke are you know extremely extremely conservative had been extremely critical of this pope in have full o. Sort of a form of god only see some done away from the principles of mercy that this pope as he has tried to push forth that you have studied already helping gather care for other human beings you have taken position much closer to american imagine jenny Police Something which has really brought you said i virgins from from the Current Church those people are already out into our airwaves and are already out online sort of offering really love bihari criticisms of the spot pacy i think its very important to point out that the reaction by and large its been quite busted if and to make sure our place like menuhin place like all in and probably not places like San Fransisco or new york all right our religious Affairs CorrespondentMartin Jacques martin as always we appreciate your valuable insights into this thank you my pleasure. Are there less than 2 weeks to go before americans elect the president will it be a 2nd term for donald trump or switch to challenger joe by people around the world are following the campaigns especially if they have personal ties to the u. S. The w. s alexander phenomena visited poland which has seen many of its people migrate to the u. S. She wore the find out whos the favorite there. Sophia corrodes grandfather was the 1st to go hoping to make hes American Dream come true since then her familys relationship with the u. S. Has been an enduring love story sophia corot spent 15 years there. Is no practical issue id like to be or i just got to like america a lot but i was going back and forth for a while. But i had bag could settle back in poland to finish building her house but her 4 children and their children stayed in america for good its nothing unusual in southern poland here in question the school in the foothills of detached from mountains roman krupa is their mayor he tells me almost every family here has relatives in the us. d d we like america a lot because we are with them most of the houses you can see here were filled with money out peoples what i want to make in the us. The ties go back to the 19th century when the 1st people from the top from mountains left their region to escape poverty and seek a better life in america many followed up until today poland has always been able to rely on the you asked says district administrator a p. R. Bung he is a fan of president and is rooting for his reelection bank believes trump will keep poland safe. To ensure. The fact that the american troops are in pole. Ansell allies to deter potential enemies is important for us and one of the reasons why his reelection would be good for us. An assessment that its in line with paul unselfish and Foreign Policy and never try victor we would be good news for the conservative polish government the current you asked administration sees warsaw as an essential ally in a deeply troubled critical europe and in return america supports poland in a number of important areas such as defense and Energy Security that might all change if joe biden gets elected. Joe biden doesnt have many friends in the region says mayor krupa most people here are conservative and prefer a trump agenda and you know. I like his rational business oriented approach. And i support his efforts to secure the border to make it more difficult for margarets to get. Sophia quran says her family in the u. S. Will certainly vote for trump and although she doesnt follow american politics closely there are things she likes about him. 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Yes and lo pope francis says he supports same sex civil unions observers are calling it the clearest the lady when she get from france is on gay rights and christianity is also coming up germanys Health Minister has tested positive for cope with 19 yen spawn is now self isolating at home did he posed a threat to the german chancellor today plus defiance after a deadly crackdown on protesters take to the streets again in was. Gunshots in the city as demonstrators who came out onto the streets despite a curfew this after a peaceful protest was broken up by shooting allegedly by nigerias Security Forces so. Im going goth its good to have you with us it is a major shift in the roman Catholic Church pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples he made the comment in a new documentary about the pontiff entitled francesco which premiered today at the rome Film Festival this statement marks a decided to shift for the roman Catholic Church the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change and sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and she says. Well earlier we asked our religious Affairs Analyst john berry what exactly did the pope say that it was the responsibility of societies to hostages lieschen to protect the rights of people in same sex unions this is groundbreaking its exclusive its incendiary its really the most productive thing. Hes done i think since he got into a bus at immediately after being elected pope and went back to the hotel it appears and it said im bill i dont know that its going to have any immediate Effect People of course around the world saying that it will that the church is changing its teaching on homosexuality and on the possibility of homosexuals marrying in the church i think thats going too far thats the expectations are too high but its never the less explicit and does it threaten to create another cleavage if you will in the church i can imagine that in poland for example or in africa where the Catholic Church congregations are growing and where you see more conservative views that this attitude will not be appreciated but perhaps in north america it will. Well i think it wont create a new cleavage the cleavage is there the Catholic Church is really split wide open. People talk about conservative and liberal groups i think thats misleading there are 2 really 2 basic ways of looking at the Church Francis represents one and his predecessors after the vatican 2 in the 1960 s. That is pope paul the 6th in particular Pope John Paul 1st Pope John Paul the 2nd and benedict the sixteenths were all somewhat inward looking they all paid tribute to vatican 2 to the reforms vatican 2 but in fact they were peddling as it passed as they could against the stream theyre trying to turn things back the Catholic Church has a kind of myth that it doesnt change but in fact it does change of course it mustnt be seen to change and francis is the 1st pope really since the vatican 2 who has taken the Council Teaching very serious and wants the church to go out into the world and to engage with the world where it is and he has been signaling ever since he became the pope that this is what he is thinking i mean hes been saying things about not not condemning gays we know that one of his Close Friends for example is a gay man in the u. S. Who we visited with that mans partner in washington d. C. So the signals have been there of acceptance and love were you surprised by the news today. No i think its just really yes another balloon that hes sending out this is his way of doing things right he has to be very careful about it changing a Church Teaching that as i said the Catholic Church continues a kind of myth that it doesnt change its teaching it gets things fall away by the side that it doesnt want to emphasize anymore but he just has to try and carry the church with him and its very difficult to do this at the moment if you were to change Church Teaching on homosexuality for example overnight then he would create a precedent hes already 83. 00 hes going to be succeeded by another parent pretty soon and if he did that he would create the president that the next pope could reverse that decision ok john barack explaining what is a significant piece of news for the roman Catholic Church today john thank you germanys Health Minister yen spawn has tested positive for the corona virus she immediately went into self isolation and is reportedly experiencing cold like symptoms the announcement came just hours after spahn attended a Cabinet Meeting with chancellor Angela Merkel as Health Minister spawn is a prominent figure in efforts to control the corona bottles. We want to go straight now to our Political Correspondents Emmanuel Shah she is following this story for us tonight him its good to see you the Health Minister tested positive just after attending a Cabinet Meeting that included the german chancellor Angela Merkel is there concern now that the entire cabinet could be infected. Well brenda i cant imagine that all those who have been in close contact with the house minister might get tested quite soon however we also got a Statement Today from the chancellor is press office highlighting the fact that the federal cabinet meets in compliance with hygiene and distance a rooms and that ensures that theres no need for participants to be quarantined if a person who later tests positive for koren of virus is a present of the meeting now we dont know yet if the chess either has been tested about daddy had these he or she immediately went into quite insane when her doctor had tested positive shortly after having given her vaccine shot now in terms of continued here within the House Ministry for now. Will provide the continue working from isolation he also tweeted that he only suffered from my cold like symptoms as you mentioned but of course he wont be meeting with anyone of course the has minister has been a leading figure behind i got america behind the chancellor for the governments response to the pandemic so this is of course a setback but theres also no reason to believe that this was the stuff of the countries governance and handling of the pandemic w. s Emanuel Johns on the story for us tonight here in berlin thank you well heres a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic spain has become the 1st western european country to record 1000000 corona virus infections doubling its tally in just 6 weeks astra zeneca and Oxford University say their vaccine trial will continue despite the death of a volunteer in brazil regulators say there are new concerns about the safety of the brazilian troil russias president Vladimir Putin says he is not planning to impose any blanket restrictions to contain the pandemic his comments come as russia reported a record new daily death toll from the vice. Heres a quick summary now of some of the other headlines from today thailands Prime Minister says he will in the state of emergency that was imposed in the capital bangkok to suppress antigovernment demonstrations its the 7th consecutive day of protests protesters want the government to resign they want a new constitution and they want reforms to the monarchy in the u. S. The maker of the prescription painkiller oxy cotton will plead guilty to federal charges as part of an 8000000000. 00 settlement produce pharma is accused of criminal conduct related to the distribution of the drug it has been linked to more than 470000 deaths in the United States. Tonight the security situation in nigerias largest city longos appears to be deteriorating with reports of buildings on fire roadblocks and protesters defying a curfew to demonstrate on city streets the unrest follows the violent crackdown on protesters in law goes yesterday Amnesty International says at least 12 people were killed by gunshots at that protest. More shots fired at protesters and this despite the global outrage following tuesdays shooting of peaceful demonstrators in the nigerian capital of Lagos Military forces had reacted to protesters defying a curfew by turning the street lights off and shooting into the crowd killing and wounding dozens. Of the ideals like you got i was thinking. How we have here before us i said if. We fight why we need to refuse to fight but you can be verified if you make you feel like the protests have spiraled dramatically over the past 2 weeks they were initially triggered by anger at Police Brutality especially at abuses carried out by a notorious anti robbery squad called sars but beyond the problem of Police Violence nigerias youths are calling for sweeping changes in end to systematic corruption and widespread unemployment. 60 years ago we do it why not please why dont they see what playing to walk out. The last couple of days of violence have made waves beyond nigerias borders demonstrations of support by the large Nigerian Diaspora well held in london and in south africa on wednesday numerous stars have also begun speaking out. Thank you for telling me this. Government. Into what. It is in sending military to the streets. On protest us. And some buildings including a television station in lagos lay in flames today nigeria remains a tinderbox of deep economic and social grievances. The police here in berlin are investigating what may be the biggest act of vandalism against works of art in postwar germany over 60 words held on Berlins Museum island were sprayed with whats been described as a colorless oily substance the collection on the island includes items from antiquity such as the paragon temple. Some of the damage is clearly visible like on these egyptian site coffer guy on the 3rd of october a total of 63. 00 artworks and artifacts in 4 museums were vandalized with an oily liquid investigations are still ongoing and the extent of the damage remains far from clear police only said the liquid was transparent and not corrosive Authorities Say theyre at a loss as to how when by whom and why the crimes were committed the museums do have security cameras but. If somebody doesnt say fire a water pistol and you see it but instead they smear something in a concealed way then you might not see on the camera that theres liquid on the floor or on the object. If its cut off the board would often not be the Police Inform the public more than 2 weeks after the incident and only after media reports broke on tuesday as part of their search for witnesses theyve now written emails to more than 600. 00 ticket holder. But at least 3000 people visited Museum Island on that day and theres no confession note speculation quickly focused on a Group Supporting geminis most notorious conspiracy theorist attila hitman hitman has previously set calls for attacks on the museums because of what he calls satanist artifacts that the museums distance themselves theres some with corresponding flags still flying. We dont want to participate in such speculation where investigating in every regard directions. Museum island is considered one of the most precious art collections in europe that direct to say the security concept is currently being reviewed. Our sports news football and byron munich have begun their defense of their Champions League title with a dominant 4 neal win at home to Atletico Madrid kingsley command followed up his winner in august his final with the 1st in the group a opener by and then grabbed 2 more goals either side of half time as they turned on the style home and scored again to round out big when the game went ahead despite biomes surge in operate testing positive for you guessed it coronavirus on tuesday. In other standout Champions League games a record winners real madrid suffered a shock 32 loss at home to chuck todd dont ask the ukrainians were 3 nil before real they had equalized in injury time but the goal was ruled out for offside in the group the opener germanys which and drew 22. 00 at inter milan and liverpool 11. 00 at. 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