Tictac tiktok and we chat from sunday. The white house says s the apps could bebe used to spy. And, president bolsonaro placed doubt on dangers as climate scientists raise the alarm. Welcome to the program. Israel is reimposing a nationwide lockdown with authorities saying its the only way to slow storing coronavirus infections. The measures will restrict movement for three weeks and come into effect as the country marks the jewish new year. Critics fear that the new restrictions will hit the economy already battered by the first time restrictions. Midday in jerusalalem, shorty before festivities get underway, it is Rosh Hashanah, the jewish new year, but the streets are empty. The countries second lockdown has just begun and despite the festive season, visits to relatives in other neighborhoods are banned. Israel has been registering about 6000 new covid19 cases per day. In a country of 9 million people, thats a lot. It has one of the highest infection rates in the world. According to the prime minister, officials have declared code red. In the last two days, we have witnessed another alarming increase in morbidity and a continued increase in the number of critically ill patients. I estimate in light of the mortality rate and as many of the experts have recommended, we may have no choice but to tighten the guidelines. Many accuse netanyahu of ending the first lockdown to early and setting up a second wave of infections. The crisis has hit the economy including Small Businesses hard. It will hurt us because businesses continue to pay full rent. No one helps us with the extra expenses a and the workers are home. The three weeks of closures will be significant for us. I dont know if this closure will help or not. We will only know after its over. If there is no change in the behavior of people, it is not worth. This lockdown is expected to last for three weeks meaning it will affect a number of major holidays. Thousands of Police Officers are being deployed to enforce the measures. Prime minister netanyahu has already said if the situation worsens, even tougher strict and could be imposed. Now some other developments in the Global Health emergency. Boris johnson says a second wave of the coronavirus is now inevitable in the u. K. Restrictions in parts of england have been tightened, but he says he wants to avoid a second fullscale lockdown. Spain has introduced lockdowns. It currently has the highest number of cases in western europe. France has registered a record increase in covid19 cases. Or the 13,000 in the last date. Margaret harris speaks for the who and joins us from geneva. As you just heard, we have cases spiking in france, spain, and the u. K. How concerned are you about the european situation . Good evening. Yes, we are particularly concncerned about the european situatation. Above the norm or northern hemimihere. The Northern Hemisphere is about to enter thehe colder months. People are going to crowd into small spaces to keep warm. Thatats the e worst thining yon do. You need to avavoid conontact ad avoid being i in enclosed, crowd spaces with poor ventilation. Also, hospitals tend to geget overcrowded with other illnesses in the colder months. We are saying that now is the time to suppress the transmission. What should those governments in the Northern Hemisphere be focusing on . Really getting the message to the people that it is in thehe hands of every one of us. Every person needs to be a coronavirus stopper. How do you do that . . You are seriouous about sosocial distancing. That means i if youre goioing o socialalize, youou socialize distantly. You dont hang out together in crowds. You really wash so you make sure its possible for people to wash their hands and they go into the office, get out of public transport, go into a shop. Should be the meansns to clean your hands everywhere. Because we are going to be in crowded circumstances, wear your mask. We have t talked about t the situatioion in europe where you have seeeen spikes. We have seen a report from israel where they are going into a Second National law. Why are we seeing these dramatic spikes and why do they appppearo be happening at t the same time . The really began in the middle of f the summer. People did go through tremendous hardrdship in the lockdowns. When governments decide to lockdown the society, they are doing it because they h have so much transmission, their hohoitals are e overwhelmed. The idea of the reason for doing that is to put everything on pause. Bring the transmission down so you can restart. Unfortunately, the methods that seems to have been received was that everything is over, back to normal. Now there is no back to normal. It is learning the new, safe way to live with coronavirus. That opportunity was missed. As transmission began to rise in the middle of the european summer, it is now accelerating. Thank you for joining us. That was margaret from the world health organization. The news does not look any better in india which looks set to take over the United States and the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. India has decided to reopen schools next week. They can only reopen with covid protections in place, but many parents are still nonot convincd their children will be s safe. She says being at home hahas been quite well. When she is not completing assignments, she is spending time with her twins sister. A senior, she has been taking all of her classeses online. That hasas become the norm since schoolacacross the country havae been shut for the past six nths due t to covid19. For her, studying online hasas t been as efficient as going to schoolol. In schchool, we have been concentrating way much better. At home, we cannnnot concentrate much because there come in actitions that are lost. We cant hear the teacher, and we cant write a a notes that she is giving because again, the connection problem is the main problem. After a long gap, the Indian Government is going to permit schools to partially reopen. From september 21. Only for senior students who need guidance from teachers and are completely on a onetoone basis. They are finalilizing reopeng strategies and t the phases they will be taking which include not allowing students to take public transport, cutting down on school time, and multiple entry and exit points along with other measures. Some students have been giving orientation classes to the students on the rules they need to follow if they return to the classroom. At a time when the covid cases are skyrocketing in the country, this m move is proving to be a challenge for schools. May be some students who dont follow this and we cant keep our eyes on them alall the time. That is a challenge. Therere is additional expense on the school. Now w with the fumigation, sanitizazation, provididing thee things. Its all up to the school. Guidelines even by the government have done little to reassure parents and students about their safety. Firstst of all, there will be no parody. I havent discussed with the fellow parents, i ththink 80 of them in my circle, ththey are nt in favavor of sending their kid. Despite the partial reopening next week, school adminisistrats and d the government are still encouraging students to stick to online c classes for their safe. Heher school will not open stors for a couple of weeks. Even when it does, she will not be going. She says she misses attending classes and in with her friends, but she knows it is not yet safe enough to return to school. Lets look at the other stories making news around the world. Around 5000 migrants have moved into a new camp onon the greek island of less post. Cash was most. Lesbos. Officials in california have been forced evacuation as fire rages in essentialist county. Officials say the blaze is only partially contained. Here in berlin, a synagogue has opened in time for jewish ceremonies. It has allowed residents to celebrate Rosh Hashanah while practicing coronavirus protection measures. The u. S. Has threatened to ban tiktok and we have we chat. They will be bananned on sunday. President trump says he is concerned the tiktoks Parent Company could pass data from the u. S. Citizens onto the chinese government. The band might be canceled if the Trump Administration agrees to a deal betweween tiktoks chinese owners and u. S. Investors. To explore this further, our guest is an expert on online regulation at a german institute. Welcome to dw. Tiktok a and we chat, are they threats s as president nt trump . Note. Its a bit more comomplicated tn the last t time i was here in m. We talk about section 230. Now, h he has a bit of a aoint t tiktoks content moderation practices and its handling of user data are not the reason hee is doing t that. Its because off the chinese provididence and thats ththe cx of the matter. At core, its about whether or not to ban the app. The problem is that the data that supports his decision i is sketchy because under u. S. Constitutional law, he has the authority in matatters of f natl sesecurity. You talk about the providence. You are saying the fact that it is owned in china. Exactly. That is undoubtedly a challenge. The handling of tiktok of the user data and its termsms of servicice, it statetes that Data Collected ovoverseas, while stod at u. S. Servers can bee shared y its Parent Company. Again, thats not the reason it is doing that. You are saying this is popotical. Downloading the apps is banned, how is that going to affect the u. S. Users who already h have it on their phones . For the moment, they will not be able to get security patches. They wilill not be able to get other updates. Wechat users will not be able to use their app at all. At least until midnovember, tiktok users will be able to use the app just without security patches which is a problem in itself. Vanessa is general manager of tiktok in the u. S. Lets look at what she tweeted today. She said this will be bad for the industry and she invited facebook and instagram to join tiktoks challenge. This is the moment to put aside the competition and focus on Core Principles like freedom of expression. She said. I wonder could you see facebebok and instagram joining tiktok . I could not agree more with her. Her facebook, this sets a dangerous precedent. It is not at all of facebookk that the governmenent uses its polilitical power to shut outut entrepreneurs and to claim National Security as a justification for that. Do you think is because went to get involved westmamark . Do european governments have similar concerns about tiktok . Partially, if you look at eurorope some countries havee banned anonother chinese compan, huawei. Sweden, poland, the czezech republicic have all adadopted te u. S. Approach therere. As for tiktok, we dont see any man on the horizonon there. There approachehes differerent. The court of justice, they just validated the rightht for europn data to bebe traraferred to thte u. U. S. Comompanies, whicich is something of a problem foror facebook. European approach is in the courts. Thank you for helping us with that. Now belarus where activists say there have been at least 500 incidences of state torture. The humor i counsel is calling for free access for german journalists. President lukashenko has rejected the demand as interference in affairs. Ominous scenes near the polish border. Russia and belarus conducting joint military exercises. According to alexander lukashenko, poland and with the way near or onon the verge of starting a war. Poland and lithuania are on the verge of starting a war. We are forced to withdraw trps fromm the strtreets, put te armyn high alert and close our western bordrders primarily with lithuania and poland. We arere forced to strengthen ou borders. [applause] poland is considering sanctions against belarus. The lithuanini foreign ministerr sees these moves as desperation. This is truly unnerving in the sensee that this is s an inadequate reaction to the sisituation by a an inadequate person thatts the only thing e can say. Unfortunately, this is the rereality and one hopes a muchh that this will not lead to something unforeseen. Our demands are simple and from exile, the belarusian Opposition Leader took part in the u. N. Human race counsel human rights counsel discussion. In an interview, one official confirmed the accusations. This already y goes beyononde soverereignty of the states because they shock the ininternational l community andy request sosome reaction or actin because ththere is so far an escalatition that could destabilize International Peace and security. This weekend will make clear whether lukashenko hears the demands of u. S. Experts for an immediate end to the violence against demonstrators. As in the last you weeks, tens of thousanands of people i in belarus are preparing to take to the streets against him. The World Food Program is warning that millions of people are at risk of starvation because of covid19. Dozens of countries including yemen are facing a famine. Yemen has five years of civil war they are facing a humanitarian catastrophe. Doctors watched helplessly as children die of my nutrition. Malnutrition. Hope is all they have. Machines and are all they have. Its an agony mothers know all too well. I am very scared im going to lose her, just like i lost my other daughter. The u. N. Says three quarters of yemens population relies on food aid and funding gaps have made them more vulnerable. War has ravaged the country. U. N. Says that despite these challenges, there is still hope. H history proves that in the midst of conflict, famine can be prevevented. Invert to prevent it,t, we must act. T. We have e to act in time to maka differenence. Unfortunately, time is running out. Time has run out for her daughter, another victim of malnutrition. Is something that we can prevent. Medical staff can only give comfort as yemen slides towards famine. Brazils president bolsonaro his play down the wildfires now raging through stretches of rain forest and land. Critics say his probusiness stance has emboldened federal Police Suspect farmers igniting a fire goioing through the nations largest wetland. Catastrophic forest fires have ravaged the nature reserve destroying a unique ecosystem in the process. The director of the reserve has watched helplessly as more of the protected area burns each day. Last year alone, 10,000 hectares burned to the ground. This year, it is three times that much. It is a huge loss. This area is one of the most bio diverse places in the world. Tourists flock here to see endangered animals in the wild like the stork and jaguars. These are the worst fires the area has seen in over a decade. Further north, fires are raging in the amazon rain forest. The smoke from those fires has spread to cities with devastating effects. Farmers note there are few consequences for illegally starting fires. President bolsonaro u undermines actions. Ngos money from abroad they dont have a chance of figightig meat. I i will continuto fightht this cancer that is the Environment Protection a agency. President bolsonaro dispatched the military to the amazon to help battle the fires. The same military that carvrved roads through it. Critics fear brazils military could pose a pump permanent threat. We are just here in a logistical capacity. Our helicopters are used to battle the fires. It is likely that a after t e fires, a agriculturere will expd includining more fields s for products like soybeans and meet bound for the european market. That is why environmementalists are calling for eu laws that protect zillow againinst further deforestatation. No rain is expected for several weeks. Lets go to brazil where we are joined by a journalist. These fires have been burning for weeks despite the best efforts of firefighters. Why . Is very dry here. We have an extreme dry season. The fires did not stop because they were set in september. The fires did it in many places we saw. The firefighters just try to avoid the fires reach houses. It is difficult for them to fight them. You can see behind me, the smoke around us. Everywhere in this region, you can see a lot of smoke everywhere. Wire farmers why are farmers setting fires that run out of control . They try to gain land, to expand their cattle farm areas because it is business which can be good for them. Theres a lot of benefit on this business. They try to expanand. In one region, its really tough. It is the worst i in 40 years. The water level was much lower than it was in the last year. This is really a tragedy and already a climate factor. Scientists say that the deforestation might accelerate this process even more. I dont understand. Are you saying this is normal for them to set the fires only would normally expect them to be controlled but things have gotten out of hand . There are a lot of fires from farmers to clean their land but dont get out of control, but yes, this is a practice that we have seen in any years recently, it is common here. It is now better than ever before. It is really stronger than before. Thank you. This is dw news live from berlin. Our top story, israel is back under full nationwide lockdown. Authorities say it is a way to slow soaring core coronavirus ininfections. The u. S. Has imposed a ban on tiktok and wechat citing security concerns. Downloading the apps will be band starting on sunday. You are watching dw news live from berlin. I will be back in a few minutes to take you live for the headlights of the day. Headlines of the day. Twenty four entrarance twentyty four. Com. Welcome back to the fronts twenty four newsroom the clocks o on now striking ten pm here in paris these all the latest world headlines. Regional authorititis tighten the belt in spains hardest hit pockets with a partiall c coronavirus lockdown set to hit some eight hundred and fifty thousand people in the madrid area. This is. Over fourteen t thousand three hurerd fresh inin. All natioion. In the past twenty four hours. Campaigning heats up for this years u. S. 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