Often taking place on the sidelines. To what extent do you think a video summit can really replace these face to face meetings . I think its really difficult for a virtual for much to replace what a normal g twenty summit. Even if you just talk about the textual in case you, asians, on the final declaration, you cant just walk around the table and suggest a different formulation. Its really difficult to get to the same clear where youre working to get any virtual forward. And of course, if donald trump calls possibly the most important figure in the room, still place go for most of the time that makes it easier. Right . Christan third from the bench as one foundation. Thank you very much. Well, the g. Twenty summit certainly wasnt the first for uncle americal. The german chancellor, known internationally for her diplomatic talents, is marking fifteen years at the countrys how today, when the countrys crisis manager in chief or wraps up her final year in office, she will have equalled the record of her late mentor. How much call for the longest serving chancellor in german history . And after a challenging decade and a half in office, she looks poised to go out on a high note. The president accepting the vote in two thousand and five. She has been rated by Forbes Magazine as the worlds most powerful woman, nine times since being sworn in. During her time in office, she has become known as a diplomatic powerhouse working to build relationships with world leaders. Boss watching, many of them come and go through what you did. Merkel has built up her reputation as a crisis manager from the two thousand and eight financial crisis to this years global pandemic. The two thousand and fifteen refugee crisis was perhaps the most emblematic moment of marcos chancellorship. When she led almost a million Asylum Seekers into germany, the controversial policy exposed deeper rifts in german society, but she justified terry decision. We can do this, we can do this. This socalled eternal chancellor says she will step down from her role when her fourth term comes to an end next year. A recent poll shows more International Confidence in angola marcos leadership than in any other world leader right now. Lets take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. Ethiopian military has warned us civilians to get out of mackay the capital of the region. Before they launch an all out assault, the army said it would show no mercy and told civilians to stay clear of rebels. Fighting began over two weeks ago between Ethiopian Government and rebels in tikrit. Thousands of people in taiwan have protested against the imports of pork products from the united states. Taiwan is lifting a ban on importing u. S. Pork in an effort to seal a new trade deal was banned in taiwan because of a controversial additive by american a farm. Ours and the head of the u. S. Covert nineteen Vaccine Program says he expects the First Americans to be vaccinated by the twelfth of december. He told us media that vaccinations could begin in two days after it is approved by the food and drug administration, which is needing between the eight and tenth of december. And the people of faso have been voting in a president ial election that has been overshadowed by rising and she had just threats. President rock is expected to win reelection though opposition. Candidates have criticized his failure to contain the violence. No votes have been cast in a fifth of the country where jihadist attacks take place almost every day. Opposition parties have warned of massive fraud and threatened not to accept the results. Due to your correspondent, funny, fresh air is on the ground in faso with more people are going to the polling stations today to cast their vote, both for a president and from members of the parliament for the next five years. Not everyone has the opportunity today to actually make it to such a polling station due to security concerns. In fact, a government of incumbent president that nearly half of all thirteen regions have limited or no access to polling stations. The incumbent president says he has no intention of delaying to selection because he says this would result in more chaos. And then the other president ial candidates on the bed, at least today, two of them stand out for one thats the ousted president. And then theres the former finance minister and main rival of president. His name is now all of these opposition candidates are promising change to bring much needed stability and peace. But the very same promises made by president probably in twenty fifteen. If you doubt any significant change, there is heavy security to protect voters heading to the polling stations today like here in vogue in the capital city of. Now, regardless, who will be the next president . Only a few here expect life to get better after the election. Is to be a correspondent for the fresh air there. Well, here in berlin, a radical new law that will slash the cost of renting living space takes effect tomorrow. An estimated one in six tenants living in the german capital will be eligible for an automatic rent reduction. Its part of a controversial housing policy introduced by berlins a Center Left Government to make the city more affordable. But opposition parties say the rent regulations are making it harder for people to find. The law is being challenged in court with a decision extracted next year. Will tell us all of, lets bring in a reporter. Hes been following this story closely, including by presenting a podcast all about the rant phrase. Welcome to joel. Break this down for us if you can. What exactly is berlin doing with this new rent reduction . The city of berlin is running a huge experiment in housing policy, and the question is, what happens when you effectively freeze the free market for rent of property for several years . Nothing like this is been attempted anywhere in the western world, at least on this scale for many decades. Now the pulse of the whole policy is called the meat dekel, which literally means rent lid. And it has three Main Elements which we can take a look at now. Now firstly, there is a five year rent free zone, almost almost all slots, so the prices cannot increase much in the coming years. Then the price of rents has been capped at around ten years, a square meter, except for brand New Buildings and starting tomorrow. Those rents which are above the regulation price must be reduced and landlords who do not comply face huge fines. Now the bill in City Government says around three hundred forty thousand tenants are eligible for rent cuts starting tomorrow, and that is one in six residents. And this is a city where eighty five percent of people are renters. So this really is a significant policy, and youll have to say as someone who lives in berlin, i rent freeze or rejection even. It sounds fantastic to me, how the other berliners feel about this policy. Well, most of pretty happy, but theyre also confused and concerned because there is a chance that this rate cut could be taken away. But first, lets look at the some of the celebrations going on on twitter right now. We can see that years or less, austin says she found out her rent will be reduced by thirty six percent and no, it is not a prank. Another user says shell be paying one hundred sixty euros less per month, which is really quite a lot. And she says, thank you both lyn and finally, a user who will be getting a ten euro, one hundred euros, monthly rent cut says adequate housing is a human right and not a Financial Assets now, but for every tenant who is celebrating, there is also one landlord who is quite upset, and indeed many Property Owners are challenging these rental regulations in court. And sometime next year, boeings hot germanys highest court will issue a ruling on whether these laws are indeed constitutional. If it strikes down his rental regulations, then tenants will have to pay back all of those reductions that theyve just gotten. And that sounds like a nightmare scenario, right . Having to pay back the money that you actually got in your initial rent reduction. So what effect has all this been having to date . Whats the actual situation in perl . And so far, what we should say from a start, the property prices are quite low compared to most major cities around the world. However, the have been rising rapidly in the past decade that theyre almost doubled in the past decade. In fact, now these new policies have put an end to that skyrocketing in the last year. Rental prices have reduced by around six percent, but so too has availability. In fact, the number of slots be advertised for rent has fallen by almost fifty percent this year. And thats because apartment owners are holding them back waiting to see what happens in court. So if you have a play or you have an apartment, its good news if youre looking for one. Not so its not so good, but this is all a big policy. Big a big experiment. This whole policy. We dont know whats going to happen. But many people around the world to looking to berlin right now to see what happens with this rent freeze, because if it does work, then other cities around the world might use it as a model for their own housing issues. Right . Ditto the reporter and joel and all right, with an update for us. Thank you so much. Lets go to some sports news now and in the bundesliga. Dortmund have closer to within one point of buying a new nick at the top after thrashing here to berlin. The berliner is that took the lead us through a stunning a shot from the tail to make it one now at half time. Dortmund of course, stung into action after the break erlang, holland scored four goals as the visitors of storms, twelve five to a victory. That leaves them breathing down byrons neck in the league standings. And there was more than just a win. Just celebrate. For dortmund, the matches saw their forward you so far become the youngest bundesliga player ever. Who came on for holland in the eighty fifth minute taking to the pitch at the age of sixteen years. And one day was born in that cameroon has scored an incredible one hundred forty one goals for the clubs youth teams. And you certainly want to watch with holland calling him quote, the biggest talent on the planet. And it went as late as early sunday games are done and dusted, so lets take a look at all the results. Mines beat freiburg, as we saw, dortmund destroyed hard to berlin on saturday. Frankfurt tell champions byard were surprisingly held at home by better bremen. Bielefeld last Wolfsburg Hoffenheim drew it with while gladbach and alberg shared the spoils and a cologne, and when youre on berlin are currently locking horns. Youre watching news from berlin, im sorry richard sent from him. The whole team. Thanks for joining us. Sure. That people are looking for g. W. On facebook and twitter up to date and in touch. Lets go to every new game to lobby with rebels against corruption. Lets turn to my coming from your family. Loves to become president and challenges america. To be incredible. Story of bobby wind starts december tenth on g. W. This week on world stories. Another Strict Lockdown in france, fighting indifference to corona in turkey. But our journey begins in the usa. The city of el paso, texas is one of the countrys carona hot spots stretching hospitals and Funeral Homes there to their limits at best. So its on the border with mexico, but no one is talking about the wall anymore. The pandemic is raging here. Numbers are soaring, right now we have about two hundred forty one in peace and cases. Now to contrast with about forty five days ago, we only had thirty, but a lot of those people that you see going into these tents will, i mean, they will wind up inside our hospital. Have authorities are already arranging to move patients to other cities. If the hospitals become overwhelmed, planning for months of strain, we have to make sure that we are ready for this winter. Not only here in el paso, but also around the country. Resources are finite. There is already a backlog in dealing with the dead. Referee generated more outside, the hospitals, serve as makeshift more to aris. Funeral homes in the past so are so overwhelmed that families sometimes have to wait a week to bury aloft one funeral director seven selves are struggling to cope and you are in this race is the level of stress is very high because it is not comparable to how it used to be some months ago, we had around thirty services per month. Right now, were having around eighteen reasons for me. And this is where the economic effects of the pandemic can most clearly be seen. Downtown el paso seems abandoned by some money of all works just around the corner for him, the president ial race is not over yet. North of President Biden is not going to be the president of the currents going to be donald trump. He feared his business might be hit by the pen demick, but now he has or until july, next year. Republicans, he says, are good for the construction sector. Despite his support for trump, he has his own opinion on covert nineteen, especially after he tested positive. Everyone is going to get the virus and were going to fill up the hospitals. Testing is one of the crucial instruments to avoid to this problem may get cordy needs ten Testing Centers in the past. So he works for a private company that is being paid by the state of texas. That his main concern in the pandemic is not political. I dont have fully knowledge of what joe biden is planning to do in his administration, but until now we havent had any kind of difficulties with the current administration. I dont think its a matter of resources. The main concern is how to communicate to the people. What to do or not . Supporters biden supporters to different sides that seem to come together in el paso. Ten European Countries have reacted to the drastic increase in corona infections with curfews and lockdowns. Frances new regulations are strictest of all impressions from paris. Even under lockdown, the french are taking to the streets as opposed to doing the first covert. Nineteen way for schools here are staying open, but teachers dont feel safe. We have between twenty and twenty five pupils per class. We are trying to impose social distancing. But in our classrooms, we can, it may still have a distance of forty centimeters between each pupil that shes the most similar said you to say we were hoping the government would dream for sanitary measures, but they havent or at least not sufficiently. So we dont understand that we fear the government is abandoning us to lash. They are getting support from their pupils who have been blocking School Entrances and posting videos online that show a lack of social distancing. Also unlike during the first cave in one thousand ways, more shops open and large parts of frances industry are still up and running. And yet, this is still one of europes strictest. Lockdowns with people only allowed one hour a day and only within a radius of one kilometer of their homes. Most french think the government was right to confine them, but many criticize the method. I dont understand why big supermarkets are no longer allowed to sell books, clothes or toys, just because small shops that sell the same things are closed. The government is just not good at explaining itself. Crossed this because lots of unemployment and bankruptcy. Why are they leaving big supermarkets open by closing small shops . Megastores often take in hundreds of clients and small shops. Only one or two think they are much safer. And yet the government is staying the course. Even though the spread of the epidemic has been slowing down in turkey, despite an increase in infections, theres been widespread indifference toward the corona, regulations. The government is trying to change that the city of sixty million, in which the corona virus is spreading. And one of the teams that are fighting to stop it was the last image on his a dentist. At least she was until the pandemic started it. Shes been a contact traces since march one of around thirty five thousand in turkey. And here, earlier book, seen from here, the size of the city can be scary. And i sometimes wonder where this pandemic is headed. But as a doctor, i have a responsibility. I try to think positively and knowing that i help people is what motivates me and keeps me going there on the tracing team manages around ten house calls a day. They work in shifts almost around the clock. The goal is always the same track down test and isolate those who have been exposed to someone with ninety and all of this as quickly as possible. Googles first case today is the collect says all family. The mother recently tested positive. Now the father has symptoms to quote, you call, it will clear up whether if the test is positive, google will also trying to trace his call texts. The whole family has to stay at home for the next fourteen days. After each visit, protective clothing has to be changed. Good job is time consuming and strenuous but its worth it. She says. As in many other countries, peoples vigilance here has slackened in a recent survey. More than half of the respondents in turkey said the coronavirus does not effect a worry them and critics also blame the government for this lack of concern. Because the Health Ministry no longer reports the number of new infections every day. But only the number of symptomatic patients john uncuffed, undiano of the opposition c. H. P. Says the government is hiding the real scope of the pandemic. So slow here in istanbul alone, the number of cases is twenty times higher than the tally from the ministry of health from im saying this with regret, but the figures and information we have given are not correct. Were going to, you know, google an image on his, on her next house call. She does not want to take part in political discussions. She knows the debate about the numbers, but doesnt want to get involved. That more and more people disregard the coronavirus rules frustrates her meaning, which is surely good. It makes me sad. We are putting so much effort into this. But whats the point, if so many act as if nothing can happen to that one. And if this doesnt change, we wont see an end to this pandemic sticking. It is a good hold that she will soon be able to work as a dentist again. But she also knows that her new job will be needed for quite a while. Germany is currently in the midst of a partial lockdown. Schools. Stores and businesses are open, but the government has restricted social contact among people. Many oppose the measure. Alexanderplatz, in the popular areas for shopping in strolling a safe distance is not guaranteed safe on the titians. Thats why there are compulsory mosques even outside thats finished its own for i find it terrible. Why should i put on a mosque out here . When nobodys working behind me, you have to be able to bring fresh air. Im with mine at all. No one i do not find it. Ok, a mosque has to put on in certain places because i mean that its really outdoors what is actually supposed to happen in public buildings. Im just trying every way, but not here in a Public Square in cuts to politicians need to explain more clearly what theyre doing to combat the pandemic. Of can think in my view, the whole thing doesnt only depend on the politicians because the whole thing is a social, like many others in a democracy, all people have to support it in some form or another. In the law. We will have to live with this virus somehow, and we actually need a social debate. How its going to look exactly to be true, a few can get through with mobile storage because dont talk so much, something has to be pushed through. Now will it go on like this, with the wave get higher and higher . And of course, one has to ask the question, what we still have to do with the money not to lose, do you for news and were not mom doing even more hardly possible for the restaurants and cafes in the capital. They have to close for a month. Again, this can be seen almost five kilometers away in the tranny district of friedrichs, on there usually hundreds of people in this public strict tourists, but also i think everyone who is not affected is fine with it. So i dont have any big problems to do without now for a while, but also only because i dont walk in the Hospitality Industry and have nothing to do that. But i can understand that people are angry and secure and that i ask directly affects them professionally, like that stuffed up the same time. Most restaurants have invested a lot of money in hygiene measures. Some officer had to go to at least a little money when streets sparkle with color. When houses are down and the artworks are beautiful and tasty. Then its time for your home x. This time its three dollars. Stylish and a masterpiece. This mug in charge of pedal to the metal. The book small moment indeed, be a mirror image. We feel sluggish and hyper becomes the lego choice. What looks to see the full red led sixteen w. In the height of Climate Change for christmas, or whats in store for the colors listed for the future. The books come for the major cities to the multimedia insight could enter the mug. This is the breathtaking landscape in oscar was considered so beautiful that it was caught by the chinese will see more of it later on in the show. 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