Despite restrictions to try and slow the spread of the run of ours. Italy is reporting hospitals stretched in the capacity, and france is also struggling with a Record Number of coronavirus patients. At least 74 migrants believed to have drowned after the ship heading for europe capsized off the coast of libya. More than 100. 00, people were on board when the incident happened at the port of crooms, the libyan coast guard rescued more than 40. Its the latest in a spate of migrant bud sinkings in the mediterranean. This is news from berlin. You can follow us on twitter and instagram at news of his about website at www. Dot com. , u. S. President truong predicted that the media would stop talking about the coronavirus pandemic a day after the election. Well, the election was more than a week ago when people are getting sick, like never before. 1000 hospitalizations are at an all time high here in europe 2 weeks into their 2nd national lockdowns, germany and france say that the surge in new infections is slowing. The probability of catching the virus is going down. The likelihood of a no lock down christmas is not. Im for golf in berlin. This is the day good because the corona situation in germany is still very serious and the numbers are wearing me high and we havent reached the plateau yet. We expect gross domestic products to shrink by 5 point one percent and 2020 groups would come on and good luck. We dont want our hospitals to be overwhelmed. And thats because we have more people in intensive care than in april. And the numbers have doubled in each of the past 2 weeks. Regrettably economy also coming up is the u. S. President planning to order all american troops to leave afghanistan by years end, socalled, Islamic State and the taliban. They appear ready to fill any void with violence. Everyone was screaming, but suddenly it was quiet and we heard someone saying a prayer behind the door that was the suicide bomber right before he blew himself up. Its only thanks to god that we got out alive. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world. Welcome, we begin the day with the 1st signs of a pandemic turnaround. Here in europe. When november began, the number of new Coronavirus Infections was exploding in france and germany. Partial lockdowns to slow the spread, have now been in effect for almost 2 weeks. And there are hints that the restrictions are beginning to work. Modest indicators that the curve is being flattened again. What makes me cautiously optimistic is the fact that the number of cases has been increasing at a slightly slower rate over the last few days. Because the curve is not so steeply off, what it appears to be flattening out. And if we do not yet know whether this is a stable development, whether it will continue like this or not. This shows that we are not helplessly at the mercy of this virus, and if we are not powerless, trying to give time for some fresh air to distract myself a little. You can think nonstop about the corona finance thing, but it is indeed a very challenging time. And i want germany to get through this in good shape. And the paradox is that sometimes you have to act and then get through that time of restrictions foster want to do it. Its called our politics and the pandemic to talk about both of those. Tonight im joined by our political correspondents. I mean young, good evening to you, simon. Id like to start by sharing with our viewers. A comment that was made today by the German Health minister in spawn about these 1st positive signs that the walk down is pushing back the pandemic. He said that this doesnt mean that things can really get going again everywhere from december or january. And that we can have wedding parties or christmas celebrations as if nothing were happening. I dont see having events with more than 10 to 15 people this winter. Simon 2 weeks ago, the chancellor, she pleaded with the public to cooperate in this latest partial lockdown. So that, and im quoting here so that we can save christmas. I suppose she meant to save some semblance of the season. Well indeed nobody knows how bad things are going to be when it comes to the christmas holidays, which of course are very important to many people here in germany. And the chancellor was speaking today. She said the government is doing everything. It can to make some progress during the coming weeks and ahead of december. But were facing a hard winter. She said so this pretty somber time. Theyre pretty un christmas the stuff from mangler maclin, she appeared appeal to people to be sensible going forward. Even if she said there is this small ray of hope in that the infection numbers off flattening off a little bit just on the 22000 infections across germany in the last 24 hours, a slightly better number than in the last few days. But still a high, really a in terms of what weve seen this year, the on number, which tells you how quickly that the disease is spreading is still just below one. It means that it shouldnt be getting worse. Its getting slightly better. But all of these numbers should be, you know, treated with some caution. The medical experts say that, you know, theres still a long way to go before were going to turn this story around in germany. And of course other countries seeing an even worse trend in many cases. Thats right. Of course that includes the United States and on both sides of the atlantic were entering the season to get togethers. We have thanksgiving coming up in the u. S. The holidays in late december new years. Do you have the impression that the German Government is gently letting the public in on the truth that this lockdown, this partial lockdown is a matter of months not weeks . Well, i think ive made no secret of the, of the cautious approach and it really all depends on what the development is in terms of infections. For instance, we had the bavarian state premium marcus. Busy of areas, one of the parts of germany has been worst affected by coated 19, he was saying today will, people should think about christmas in terms of as much family as possible from the authorities points of view. Thats to say they shouldnt be thinking about where they can go abroad. Its just about which family members they might be able to spend a few days over the holidays with or Angela Merkel again saying today, she couldnt rule out, keeping restaurants closed. After the end of the current lockdown, the beginning of december. And of course, restaurants too are an important part of christmas for many people with dining and big events that people would like to have. It really is pretty clear that a lot of that wont be able to happen. They see it. Is it realistic, simon, to expect that this partial lockdown that were in right now that it could last until we see the 1st distribution of a coronavirus back. See . Well, this vaccine weve been talking about in the last few days, thats giving real hope now that the Health Minister said the other day he expects it to become available in the 1st 3 months of next year because itll take a lot longer to roll it out to get the vaccine out there in the population so that we can really turn the corner. I dont think people are expecting the lockdown measures as we see the now to continue. But some form of restrictions will certainly continue over the coming weeks and months. Our political correspondents, i mean young on the story for us tonight here in berlin. As always, i mean, thank you. Afghanistan faces many threats, threats with an increase in the number of attacks claimed state its capital kabul especially has experienced more violence earlier this month. And storms kabul university, killing 32 people, most of them students. There is little confidence that the government can protect the people. And theres even less hope when it comes to the government negotiating a deal to end the years of still finds it hard to go anywhere near the university of cambridge. He seeing his fellow students for the 1st time since the attack. The only topic of conversation is how they managed to survive. That day when they heard the shots, they knew something terrible was happening. Everyone was screaming, but suddenly it was quiet. And we heard someone saying a prayer behind the door that was the suicide bomber right before he blew himself up. Its only thanks to god that we got out alive. Not everyone was so lucky. 32 people died in the attack and more than 50 were wounded. The attackers left a taliban flag behind the socalled Islamic State later claimed responsibility by jumping out a window his physical wounds are one thing, but his Emotional Trauma runs deep. Changed my life completely. I had before my life was carefree, but it isnt anymore. I think about my friends at university who i couldnt help the ones who didnt make it across the country. They were similar attacks almost every day. There were more than 50 deaths and hundreds of injured. The spiral of violence is growing worse, and the Islamic State is kind of the attacks. Their base of support is growing. And speaking out for a long time, the Afghan People supported the taliban. They bought them ammunition and weapons. But thats over. The taliban are negotiating with the invaders from the us. They are traitors. They dont want to kill americans anymore. Instead they act against devout muslims. As an image of a mosque outside of, he preaches of the Islamic State. He says the groups goal of a caliphate in afghanistan justifies its violence. Afghans dont want democracy. Thats a western invention. We need extremists and a dictatorship for this country. We are real muslims, and thats why we support the dictatorship and not the liberal elites. Feminine democracy. Like many of his generation that it was possible to negotiate with the radicals. He doesnt believe that any after all the attacks people here have become very pessimistic. I dont believe that there will be peace anytime soon. To get a sense of what afghanistan was like as a peaceful country, such as it has to ask his grandmother, theres been nothing but war here for 40 years. Hed like to change that. But he has no idea how you hope for more tonight im joined by ian bremmer. He is president of the Eurasia Group which specializes in global risk assessment. And its good to see you again. I want to pick up on afghanistan for a moment. There is talk of a purge at the pentagon right now, President Trump installing loyalists who have 2 things in common. Their opposition to u. S. Troops remaining in afghanistan and their desire to bring those troops home. What is the likelihood in your opinion that trouble order a total withdrawal by years end . You know, theyre also really inexperienced. And the news that im getting indeed is that disagreement on afghanistan was a top reason why President Trump decided to sort of call the top of the d. O. D. Look that this is the longest standing or in american history. And President Trump campaigned on many things, but one of them was bringing the troops home. So even though frankly, this decision is not going to have any impact on the elections, and nor is he going to have any real impact on trumps level. I do think that he individually would like to be able to say that i personally end this war and i think thats a big piece of it. He was slow, rolled by general mattis back when he was the secretary of defense. It was one of the things the 2 men came to blows over, and this is been something the troposphere pretty consistently about. And you dont think with him calling the top echelon of the pentagon. He is he creating a situation in which if he gives an order for the withdrawal, that there will be top people, he will define the president to mean could it come to that . Do you think, you know, this is a little unprecedented in the sense that youve only got a couple of months President Trump himself is saying still that he won the election when he hasnt. He refuses to concede, its not supporting the transition, even as youre starting to see. Republican senators calling joe biden, congratulating him on his victory. And weve not been in a situation like that before. I consider that the military of the us, a professional in general, but institution and when theyre given orders that are clearly running against the interest of the country, they will say no. You saw that, for example, with efforts to use National Guard and deploy them in ways that could have had politicized implications. Or for example, when we had those demonstrations in lapierre part during the black lives matter issue. And President Trump wanted to go in, you know, sort of have a photo op. He got pushed back with, with basically leaders that refused to follow his orders slash suggestions. But when it comes to removing troops from afghanistan, if the matter keep has absolutely every right to withdraw those troops, those are orders that he would, you would need to, you would need to follow. And if the former secretary asked for said that he was not going to, it was completely within drops rights to to remove him from office. It has been 9 days since the election. We have seen the president , i think twice in that time im. Hes posted hundreds of tweets, almost all of them are about efforts to maintain his power. Very little. If any, about the pandemic, for example, record hospitalizations. Is this a president who is completely missing in action if you will . President trump did say that we were not going to hear anything about coronavirus after the election. He just forgot to say we were going to anything from him. And that has, with the exception of, i think, one tweet about the vaccine when pfizer made that announcement, which is, you know, obviously very good news. Indeed we have seen virtually nothing. And you know that anthony ouchy has been increasingly very public in saying this is ministration is failing to lead on coronavirus much. It is the reason that President Trump lost if it hadnt been for on a virus that the timing hadnt been so bad as well. I think was he talking about a 2nd term for President Trump . Well right now, but thats not where we are. We do have, we had 144000 cases yesterday, that is a 2 Record Number. We have Record Numbers of hospitalizations and death rates are going up yet again. Across the entire country, this not just south of the northeast, President Trumps interest that actually leading any response that goes to 3 and or ordinated what the incoming by his frustration is literally 0. In the midst of the worst crisis of our lifetimes. That is, that clearly makes you feel a lot more circumspect about how the country is going to be able to respond to this as it gets colder. Busy and as people are having more indoors and with all the panic, but lets remember that the president s actual already is limited enough federal system where its really the governors and the mayors that are setting most of the roles of the case 6 months ago. What it is the case now the does it, thats a good point to bring out the transition process. If the president obviously not cooperating, we know that the democrats are outraged, and now even a republican senator says enough is enough. I want to take a listen to what senator langford from oklahoma said yesterday. Theres nothing wrong with Vice President biden, getting the briefings to be able to repair itself and so that he can be ready to present already getting those. Theres nothing wrong with the former Vice President getting those kamel heiress is on the intelligence committee. She has all the clearances that she needs to be able to do that. There is no loss from him getting the briefings in the mail or do that. And if thats not occurring by friday, i will step in as well and be able to push and its a business to occur. So they, regardless of the outcome of the election, whichever way that it goes, people can be ready for the actual task. All right, so there you have this congressman saying by friday by tomorrow in watergate. We had a group of republican congressmen who went to the white house and told president nixon times come, you got to go, are we approaching anything comparable to that with president dropped not yet. Right now. Its still petulance. And i understand why trump is dragging his feet. I mean, hes trying to take all the troops out of afghanistan. And theres going to be a president ial Daily Briefing that talks about a lot of the negative implications of whats happening in afghanistan. If those troops go in biden, and Harris Actually get that, you can understand how that would undermine President Trumps ability to meno. Make good on that decision. But look right now, President Trump, hes lost the election. All the medias call that theres no way to fish there. Is no evidence of fraud and even if there was some level of fraud this, its inconceivable that it would raise to the number of votes were talking about that would be able to swing this election. So there is 0 chance that 5 is not going to take office on january 20th. But President Trump is completely within his legal rights to launch these lawsuits contesting the outcome. And youve got people like head of the Senate Mcconnell that is supporting President Trumps right to launch these last ill tell you i support his right to launch these lawsuits. I think theyre frivolous. I think its stupid. I wish he wouldnt do it, but he has the legal right. This is with in the rule of law and we ran our elections problem properly. 67 percent of americans actually voted in the middle of a pandemic. Thats the highest percentage turnout since 1960. Very proud of that, and we should be proud of the Electoral College working the way its supposed to the President Trump decides he doesnt want to conceive, you know, what democratic candidate for governor in georgia, stacy abrams lost by 55000 votes. She didnt like the outcome. She thought it was stolen, but the regularity she never conceded. It didnt matter just so. If trump doesnt want to concede, if he doesnt want to go to the inauguration, he could be a child. And thats unfortunate. But that doesnt, doesnt stop biden from become president , by the way. Doesnt stop trump from running in 2024 thats at the nation. You know, thats right. Maybe well be talking about in the foreseeable future. Ian bremmer, president of the reason professor it is always be appreciate your insights. Thank you. 3rd. Britains conservative government has just approved a new road tunnel that would run directly past one of the worlds best known ancient monuments. Stonehenge, the 3 kilometer long underground highway would replace the congested road next to stonehenge. But that plan collides with warnings by britains planning inspectorate, which says the prehistoric site could suffer quote, permanent and irreversible harm. Unlike any in stonehenge is 5000 year history. Local people and archaeologists have also been campaigning against this tunnel warning that it could destroy as yet undiscovered prehistoric treasures. Im joined now from the stone henge alliance, which is a group campaigning against the tunnel. Kate, kate, its good to see you this this road. Its a bottleneck. I mean, i was just there a couple years ago and i remember looking at this 2 lane road full of cars. Is this tunnel . Is it a realistic way of, of getting rid of the traffic problem . And no, i dont think it is the tunnel itself, of course could cause bottlenecks and it will be closed from time to time. And then there will be total chaos of calls on local roads. And the problem that we see in it, in the midst of all is that this is a World Heritage sites. Its just 5 mins 5. Hostilities across the tunnel is only 3 kilometers long. So that means to each side of the tunnel well within the World Heritage site designated for its prehistoric archaeology, there will be massive road crossings down to the tunnel or false major interchanges on the boundaries of the well tariff sites to the site. So all those essential parts of the World Heritage sites will be more traction to businesses. Whats this is in place. It will absolutely devastate the landscape to each site and to be huge loss of ocular chicle remains. So this is basically a cosmetic project. And the inspectorate, im just, im wondering havent these concerns that youre talking about . Certainly theyve been, theyve been voiced and it where they just dismissed it when disapproval was given. Well, this is a government scheme and the governments advice. This is advice they are currently following. Obviously going to recommend the scheme to go ahead because that the governments, the ones you know, sco are opposed to it. Weve now had today because of this sudden surge of plus publicist 10000. 00 signatures on our petition. There are people from 147. 00, countries around the world to objects and skins. What about saying that if the tunnel is going to go ahead 1st, there has to be an archaeological appraisal, an excavation, i mean maybe that would be a chance to find what is actually there in the ground. Well, yes, the house being an evaluation in advance of this for examination, but that was only a partial examination of whats that and not all this amount of research has been done in recent months through noninvasive conventional techniques. Jessica, and thats a show that is masses of this is still to be will check your site. Now, doing ok, not too takes in advance of a great city, means that youre just working along a section across the landscape. Its not easy to research questions. The, the wont be enough money to do the job is apparently as 1. 00 would night. And well, of course, just to do it within the means of a house will do the best job also. They wont be able to cover all of them. Thats really needed for proper research. Keep filled in with the stonehenge alliance. Could we appreciate your time and your insights tonight and please keep us posted on what happens. Thank you. Thank you. Good night. Well, the day is almost done, the conversation continues online. Youll find us on twitter either news or you can follow me at brant go off t. V. And remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day. Well see you then it to the point. Strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives. The dust has not really settled on americas president ial election. The one thing seems certain if and when joe biden enters the white house, hes going to adopt a very new and very different foreign policy. 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