Been defying pandemic restrictions to take part in knightly march as a court ruling last week a banned abortions in cases where the fetus has congenital defects. Police in france have arrested a 2nd suspect over the knife attack at the basilica in nice that left 3 people dead security has been increased across france after the 3rd is the most attack in 2 months in term minister is warning about more militant attacks are likely. The news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at state news or visit our website. For. The coronavirus pandemic has the world in its grip and its not letting go Health Systems in some European Countries are reaching the point of overwhelm and there reimposing lockdowns a varying severity from spain state of emergency through the u. K. Steer system to germanys lock down light but are we doomed to a cycle of lockdown and beliefs this case numbers for and then rise again until someone comes up with a vaccine that we trust enough to take im filled in berlin and this is the day. The more countries share information the better we can cordon ate the response we are not devoted to admit one more throw it to the patients come through the emergency room we are trying to throw in the poor another or. They are. The basic. Secret. When you have only one bird and think asking for the same there you are with one you are. Wrong we are together united because we are in the same boat. Also on the day with just days to go until the u. S. President ial election its not just americans depending on the results well take a look at a Womens Health center in kenya whose funding was cut by President Trump we used to provide pretty primitive planning free information we had on him would provide Family Planning clearly today because we dont get them anymore for free. This effect the most this is a report when theyre pregnant when theyre not ready for their pregnancies so this forces some of them to deliver or for them to how absurd proportion. Are welcome to the day well europes coronavirus caseload topped more than 1300000 last week according to the World Health Organization and its hospitals are filling up the e. U. Held a video summit on thursday to discuss closer coordination of the blocks efforts to fight the pandemic among the items agreed were 220000000 euros to fund patient transfers across National Borders and countries with more cases of make it handle to those with spare i. C. U. Capacity also agreed with the need to coordinate testing trace systems and the palling of coronavirus data e. U. Commission president sir sort of on the line spelled out the situation after the meeting i think it is enough to say that it is very serious. Numbers of cases are raising numbers of hospitalization are rising number sudden death of death are rising not as fast fortunately because we understand better today how to treat covered patients and how to deal with the disease but the spread of the virus will overwhelm our Health Care Systems if we do not act urgently. So lets take a closer look at this with a fresh metoos an Award Winning science journalist based here in berlin welcome to the w m how bad is it with the war what we heard sort of on the line there saying its bad but were its almost too bad how bad do you think it is. Well i think it really depends on you know what you what you want to compare us to i mean it is very clear that we are in a situation where the numbers you know cases rising very fast we have a rise in hospitalizations and deaths so from the spring the idea was always to try and keep the Health System from basically come from overloading and failing now that you know some countries may not even manage to do that i think a lot of countries still have the opportunity to turn things around and manage that but even you know even failing that it is a really serious situation if you count not just the best but if you remember you know the long term consequences of this for many many patients also unclear so i think it is high time to act and now so 8 months into this pandemic the European Union has has has put together this idea of a coordinated action to deal with a pandemic well what do you make of what youve been hearing of it. Well i think the noises that were hearing are the right ones i mean clearly you know more coordination helps. But i also think you know in the end we do have different situations in Different Countries and you know in the end you have to fight this virus locally by the on the ground you know in in the hospitals but also in your senior care homes and then just in the communities so its i think the idea or you know i mean it is important to coordinate it on the european level especially i think it is important to kind of agree on a strategy because theres a danger that you know some countries try to really keep the numbers down in the other countries dont do that and we have Free Movement in Europe Clearly thats going to be a problem so i think the structure needs to be there of a common strategy but then of course in the end the efforts have to be done on the local level not even a national one and so while europe is sort of getting itself into a panic we have china saying well were open for business now what can we learn from the chinese handling of the crisis just under 91000 cases they say unless of 5000 deaths compared for instance to the situation in the usa. You know i think in the in the early days of the debate we could have learned a lot and i think you know we will have to take a very serious look at some point to understand why we didnt you know early on understand some of the lessons that were emerging from china quite quite early and at this juncture the question is a little bit i think what we can learn you know is there really something we can learn from china that we cant learn from our own experience in spring and im not so sure about that and the reason is really you know china clearly you know has had a good strategy and i think there are things that are possible in china that just wouldnt be possible in europe so they they managed to act really early and i think that is something that we should have realized sooner but i also think europe does need to find its own strategy i think it helps much more to look at south korea or japan and you know that have kind of a more similar structure and have had some of if they had a 2nd wave and things like that but they just managed to take care of the much earlier and with much less stringent measures so i do wish we would talk more about japan and less about sweden to be honest ok looking ahead i wonder if the next set of serious headaches isnt going to be more about in which countries i get the vaccine when it arrives lets hear from the German Health minister yet on calling on a soul to play nicely so important to me to make clear from the beginning that all 27 Member States know that there are big they are small they are the g. P. s and all the participants and get. Those from the very beginning of course new to the population sizes but i find most important. The way it is made clear from the big event we will wait for it will try its trial space 3 results before there will be an approval so cal Cooper Schmidt this is massive focus everybody is waiting for i vaccine to be developed but we actually seem to be making a lot of progress on treating patients as well. I think there is the size here also that a vaccine is just going to take care of things and the truth is until we get the results from the vaccine we dont really know that and of course itll take a long time to to produce enough doses to really fascinated you know enough people and then the vaccine has to have a certain effect is the. To even have an effect on you know on the on the societal level now with treatment i think that kind of been talked about less but of course when we can really treat serious cases and maybe even you know try to prevent serious infections in people who have mild infections that is a big that is a big change for us the biggest breakthrough in a way that weve had was realizing that thats the methods on the recovery trial in the u. K. That found out that extra methods on you know can reduce deaths in the hospice patients and severely sick cost those patients by more than a 3rd so that is one reason that we see a slightly you know slow up tick in the in the deaths now than we did in spring is that we have learned better how to treat this disease and the the other thing that is around the corner i redid the monoclonal antibodies now that is the drug that most experts from the beginning were kind of you dont pin the highest hopes on you have to remember that in the 1st phase of the pandemic people said ok lets take whatevers on the shelf the trends we purposed this drug lets take things like hydrochloric weight and other drugs looking of there are a ton of here that are not meant to treat this disease but maybe you know were lucky and we find something that works but were now getting into the 2nd phase where drugs that were developed especially to stop this particular virus are going through the clinical phases especially the phase 3 trial and hopefully early next year we will have some that actually work and that could make a big difference is a glimmer of hope out that thank you for joining us i can cook fish mix science journalist advice check and. Thank you. Belgium is a base in European Countries to announce that new restrictions are nonessential shops will close as the country battles a surgeon covered 900 factions hospitals are struggling to count the number of patients in hospital with 19 has outstripped the 1st wave in april doctors and nurses are under enormous pressure to keep caste system running. This used to be the Recovery Room for patients whod had surgery now it serves as a makeshift intensive care unit for cope with 10000 patients on life support hospitals in the belgian province of lea is are now the epicenter of europes 2nd wave and struggling to keep up we are not able to admit when you anymore so if a patient comes in the emergency room with a through the we have to transfer him to another or be done in belgium until the flemish both of them will be old ford devo tells us his team is not only short of beds but also personnel one in 5 nurses in the region have tested positive for the virus themselves but the pressure is so high that those who dont have symptoms continue to work under strict safety precautions doctors and nurses here are working tirelessly to take care of covert 900 patients some of them are even infected themselves but despite all efforts the Health Care System here in belgium has reached its breaking point as the overall number of infections continues to rise the actual number of infections is likely to be higher than the official figures across town at least as University Hospital testing is ongoing. I cant smell or taste any more and i have a headache. Because after the medics here can conduct 280 tests every day but these tests are strictly for those who have a doctors prescription family members friends or coworkers who have been in close contact with them but dont show any. Symptoms cannot get a test remote as the moment we have so many positive cases the problem is there are far too many contact persons given the huge number of people who have symptoms wed be unable to test them as well as all the people theyve been in contact with at least not with the amount of tests we have currently if we had more tests we probably could back in the covert ward dr duvall fears the lax handling of the crisis in summer will put him and his colleagues in a very difficult position very soon when you have only one bet and 10 people out of a thing for the same bit you have to choose between the team but which one you were after. No doctor want to do thats one thing its like you know we are not doctors who do that kind of thing we all looked up to treat patients not the truth which patient treating germany has started to take patients from belgian hospitals with infections expected to continue to rise here in the coming weeks the medical staff already at their limit will need all the help they can get. To kenya where Health Care Workers providing Family Planning services a keeping a close eye on the u. S. President ial election and donald trump the United States reinstated a ban on foreign aid for abortions had since the mass if he ducks and Services Offered by these clinics a sub a struggling to stay open the w. s america reports from nairobi. For Frieda Kenzie getting pregnant was a disaster she was studying at a Secretarial College the Bright Future she was working for suddenly seemed threatened when i knew i was pregnant i had shamed and legitimising mine just thinking of killing with a new include no this. Was just thinking that. Im not getting. Better and. Her lucky break she was referred to even know my clinic she underwent an abortion and now feels she has control thanks to contraceptive implants. Plus the dignity to distract me a new creation. My patents detonated a whole list of things in my future. But the clinic is under threat decisions made a world away from here slashed its funding us President Donald Trump reinstated the mexico city policy restricting funding for going to his ations which provide abortions or anything related to them it made life in many towns like here in melinda on the kenyan caused more dangerous for women and girls were used to provide free probably planning free information we had on it would provide really driving really today because we dont get them in the mall for free these are for the most because as they report when theyre pregnant when theyre not ready for their pregnancies so this forces some of them to deliver or for them to. Observe abortion. Kiffin or stronger runs theyve been all my clinic that helped free down the cards forced her to cancel an Outreach Program helping 15000 other girls and women in rural areas that have had included cancer screenings and age i. V. Treatment she dips into our own personal finances so that what is left can keep running a priority is to protect girls and women from unsafe abortions if i dont do the im afraid the next live the next person to do it the wrong way that conceiving that store and. The threat of financial punishment for having anything to do with abortions is affecting Kenyas NationalHealth Policies says kountry Reproductive Health coordinator kenneth maruti building in maine thats our constitution gives it to be president s to secure productive we have resorted to not falling off one station because of fear. The choice of the u. S. President not only decide whether kenya can follow its constitution says the man who ends up sitting in the white house could mean life or death for patients who would wish the somebody else sits on that seat somebody in the style is a human being you need that fly and that is a human be simply because theres no information given to her why is this possible deaths on that share the movie is sure of a girls going to have the information and theyre going to be quickly lawyers great doctors great mothers in the future because they will have information to prolong their life lets get more on this from the washington correspondents and recent misconduct welcome sir tell us more about this mexico city policy that we heard about in the report. I feel yet so the mexico city policy this was essentially the brainchild of president reagan in 1984 and what this policy did is it said that if youre an ngo and you want to access federal funding youll have to agree to neither performant nor actively promote abortion as a method of Family Planning in other nations and was actually named after a u. N. Population conference that took place that same year in mexico city and its actually been revoked and reinstated a few times since then most recently in 2017 by President Trump and his administration has actually expanded this policy to include groups that dont perform abortions themselves but support ones that do and critics say this is essentially a gag order it prevents Many Organizations from providing key services in the Reproductive Health fear in Family Planning and feel thats precisely what we saw in that report of that ngo and kenya hit by the wide ranging implications of this policy so clearly a difference in approach between democrats and republicans on this. Absolutely i mean i said you know its been revoked and reinstated a few times thats actually happened every time theres been someone new in the white house since 1904 so president clinton revoked it president george w. Bush reinstated it president obama revoked it and now a republican president President Trump reinstated it and what that tells us is one n. G. O. S really have to live with a good deal of uncertainty in terms of planning their services they have to look at whats happening politically and too it really underscores the fact that abortion is an issue that has remained a bedrock of conservative politics for many years and the access to abortion has been really an important issue for democrats also for many years regardless of who is in the white house so we have here then since where the decisions made by the American People directly affect the lives of women sauza is of miles away not getting much mention in the campaign. No its not at all phil and you know you have to say that this election season really has centered exclusively around domestic issues in a covert 1000 here the economy a Racial Justice issues but i do have to say that abortion is an important issue for Many American voters there was a survey here conducted by the Polling Institute gallup over the summer that showed that nearly half of all americans think abortion is an important issue for this election and we cant forget that this is an issue thats been thrust back into the spotlight after the passing of the Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsberg who was an advocate of the constitutional right to abortion well she has been replaced as we know by a very conservative Catholic Justice any kone barrett and there are fears that there might be an effort to overturn roe v wade this is the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in america so it certainly is an issue in this county in this election season filled but entirely in a domestic context so in broader Foreign Policy terms we know with President Trump stuns when it comes to multilateral engagement what role would be u. S. Play in the world if joe biden well you acted. Well i think we certainly with President Joe Biden would see a return to multilateralism filled thats clear that we would see an affirmation of the importance of this post war world order this shared security insured value system with european allies we know that joe biden wants to seek a common approach with european allies on iran and russia that he would return to the Paris Climate Accord support nato hes also said that he would reverse President Trump decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization so all of that points to more multilateralism however some things have changed over the last 4 years and we would look to president possible President Joe Biden to take a tougher line on china as President Trump has particularly on trade and intellectual property so some things would be different but some things might also say the same thank you for that service so much to come to washington. Now to engeland where businesses and local councils have stepped in to help feed hungry children of the autumn holidays after the National Government decided against extending a scheme to help families in poverty and linda is the only nation in the u. K. Where the government said it would not help out a nationwide campaigns been launched to provide free lunches led by an unlikely figure had shot a child Charlotte Charleston pill as more. Feeding englands hungry this pub and bakery it just tears the hundreds of businesses across the country offering kids free meals over the october School Holidays through got a family a piece of fruit and apple some 1400000 kids across england came free lunches during term time for many is that only hot meal a day during the holidays vulnerable families often struggle to put food on the table mohammed is one of dozens of parents who come to the bakery this week for free meals he has 5 children at home it was really hurt it was really hard to say but. They are helping us is very good. This london district has one of the highest Child Poverty rates in the country and the economic toll of cave in 1000 is only making life harder were just saying weve already children we provide how many they need we had one lady also i never did i didnt ask any more questions we just gave her a no there isnt a lot of vulnerable families here and we see them coming into the shop and it was it was a really easy decision for us to make today theyre just wanting to give back to the community theyve been amazing to us throughout. And supporting us saying we wanted to help support them this free Meals Campaign is down to one man 22 year old Manchester United in england footballer tens National Hero marcus rash that he relied on Free School Meals as a child himself and is now at the center of a high Profile Campaign lobbying government to keep kids fed during the cave of crisis bowing to pressure the government offered families food vouchers over the summer but last Week Parliament voted against extending the scheme prompting rushford to share stories of individuals offering free lunches that set off a tidal wave of businesses and local councils also stepping in to help. So this is fresh air london one of 28 warehouses across the u. K. Since partnering with rushford Food DistributionCharity Fashion has seen a surge in support this week alone theyve regis tribute is nothing good for 2200000 meals but theyre warning the impact of cove it could see even more kids at risk over the winter as we start to see the impact of people losing their jobs. More and more people are reaching out to food banks and their local community for the 1st time in many cases so over the next few months we see demand for our Services Increasing thanks to charities like this one and the markets crash that Campaign Many kids have been fed the School Holiday that may otherwise have gone hungry but with coronavirus cases climbing and the next School Holidays just weeks away theres growing pressure on the government to do more to bias elwood was one of hundreds of m. P. s in the governing conservative party he voted against the extension of Free School Meals he says the government has increased welfare support since the start of the pandemic. With public anger building hes now urging the government to think again. This generation of kids have been impacted have had their lives affected in a ways not seen for generations we should go thing we can to provide support get us through the christmas i set up plan to make sure that the holidays work and then we can consider the longer term changes in the spring. The stage is now set for another battle of the christmas and easter holidays but without a government you turn this nation Wide Community of businesses say theyre standing at the ready. And that was a day as ever the conversation continues online on twitter at the w. News a leave you with these images of a International Space station which has been inhabited by International Criminals for 20 years. Past the hour. To the point. The paintings clear positions of international perspectives. Cortines priority along seem to be restoring rushed. 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