Great single challenge to human rights around the world. Client climate calamity looms. Biodiversity is collapsing. The United NationsGeneral Assembly opens the assembly with world leaders, including president donald trump, stanandg away. And a cririsis of dementitia n india, alzheimers is more prevalent there than in other countries. We take a look at what is to be done and how the Global Pandemic has complicated efforts to tackle it. I am brent goff. To our viewers in the United States, and viewers around the world, welcome. European Union Leaders have failed to agree on sanctions on belarusian officials linked to president Alexander Lukashenko, and that is because one member of the European Union, cyprus, vetoed the move. They union had implicated as involved in violence and electoral fraud in last months election. The belarus and belarusian Opposition Leader was in brussels and urged Foreign Ministers to be brave and we can Alexander Lukashenko by disrupting his funding. I ask you not to finance the regime and program from state to nonstate actors. I also ask to reconsider partnerships with state organizations close to lukashenko. Finally, and most importantly, i call on you to Work Together with us toward a free, fair, and transparent election. And these were the scenes after the disputed elections in belarus in august, which the eu agrees were not free or fair. A unanimous vote by eu Member States would have slept travel bans and frozen the assets of 40 mother goose and officials accused of electoral fraud and violence against demonstrators. But instead, the island of cyprus blocks the plan. Its government wants to tie sanctions against belarus to win on a related to an related dispute that it has with neighboring turkey that is over rights to explore the Eastern Mediterranean for natural gas deposits. It is a move that drew criticism from other eu members. This is becoming a personal commitment because i understand clearly that he depends that it depends very much on the credibility of the European Union and the forging of a policy, our capacity of sanctioning love the shank of lukashenko. The next chance to greenlight the sanctions could come on thursday when eu heads of government are due to meet. Brent lets go to barbra on the story in brussels. Thing the eu from imposing sanctions on belarus is a small Island Country known as cyprus. How is that possible . Barbra it is quite simple, actually it is something you would not expect to happen in foreign policy, but cyprus decided to blackmail the European Union, they decided to simply take the whole eu council of Foreign Ministers hostage to their own wish that at the same time there are sanctions against belarus there must be sanctions against turkey. We know that for some months, cyprus has been complaining. Of course they have a lot of support in the European Union for that complaint, that turkey is showing aggression in the eastern editor in. There are drilling Eastern Mediterranean. There are drilling actions in the coast of cyprus, looking for gas and oil. All of this accompanied by rhetoric. Cyprus that we need to put a stop to that, so if we have sanctions against belarus, we have to have sanctions against turkey at the same time. They have no connection, but this mall on the nation decided to make that connection, and in the end we have something in the European Council of Foreign Ministers that looks like bankruptcy, or maybe relatives whatever you choose. Brent barbra, you were at the press conference later earlier today. What was her message to the European Union . Barbra she had spoken to the european ministers before she knew it wouldnt come to those sanctions, so she was very mild in her verdict on this endless dithering the eu has shown. This is more than six weeks since the elections in belarus, and other than strong talk, nothing has absolutely happened on the european level. She said she understands european leaders need to be careful in their decisions, but she hopes they could be more brave. This was the best part of the day, but she also asked for Financial Support they should figure out what is to pay money figure out ways to pay money to the opposition and not go through official channels bypass the regime in minsk and try to support particularly poland suggested there should be about a 1 billion package to support belarus in its battle against the michiko. Liver shank of lukashenko. Brent thank you, barbra. Some of the worlds biggest banks are facing a scandal of gigantic proportions. A collection of documents leaked from the u. S. Treasury show that banks around the world have helped divert and conceal criminal crash cash and helped to divert fees to process those actions. They include Germanys Deutsche Bank as well as britains hsbc, and the u. S. Bank, j. P. Morgan chase. The leakeded documents show how banks have helped to circumvent sanctions against the run and syria. Many of the the banks say many of the transactions took place a long time ago. Further, we spoke with a member of the european parliament. He is pushing for a parliamentary hearing, a problem he says has bebeen neglected way too lolong. The main issue is in momost Member States in europe, but also globally, the controls, in order to make law effective, are really lax. We have Public Institutions which are underresourced. Ththis holds trurue for much lar financiaial centers, and equally the sanctions s the m maximum sanctions outside e of the u. S. Arare far too lowow. Therefore we have not the right incentives in place. Even after the financial crisis, basically, hardly anyone who was responsible for criminal activity in the banks was jailed, and outside of the u. S. , fines were relativelyy low. Ththese two ththings have to c e more effefective oversight ad harsher sanctions on the other side. That was a member of the european parliament. Lets s take a look at some of e other stories that are making headlines around the worldld. A huge wildfire northeast of los angeles is making its threatening homes, but Officials Say calm her wind could help firerefighters get under contro. The bobcat fire covers 447 square kilometers. Thouousands of residets have ben told to evacuate. The blaze has been burning for more than two weeks. Mollys ruling military junta has promoted the former defense minister as interim president to lead the country to new elections. A coup overthrew the president last month, but the death has been under the death has been under junta has been under pressure to return power to civilians. Many are thought to be trapped in the rubble. Dozens of survivors have been pulled from the wreckage. Many residents were unable to leave as they had nowhere else to go. Lufthansa has announced further cutbacks on flights and personnel due to the coronavirus pandemic. At least 150 planes are due to be junked, and the company iss warning they would be forced to align it more than the previously announced 20 eliminate more than the previously announced 22,000 jobs over the next five years. In germany, the city of munich is stepping up measures to contain the spread of the virus after becoming one of the main hotspots. Authorities in the bavarian capital say they will make wearing face mask compulsory in parts of the city center. They have also announced further restrictions to public and private gatherings. Infections in munich have been reaching over 55 for every 100,000 residents in the past week. Now, that exceeds the limit of 50 set by Public Health authorities. The new measures are set to come into effect on thursday unless the level of infection drops in the meantime. Lets bring in our Political Correspondent simon young on the story for us. Munich is snapping back restrictions, as we just heard. Are they the first up as towards what could be a new lockdown . Simon they could be. Definitely tightening is going on in munich. As you say, the sevenday infection number is creeping up. It is now higher than in any other major major german city. It is also going up in hamburg, cologne, but munich has a serious problem right now. One of the things the officials are saying is unfortunately there is no clear focus to the infection. It makes it clear to do effective compact contact tracing. They are limiting the number of people you can meet say no more than five people in a family group can meet and they are saying cutting down the number of people that can attend family events like weddings. They are enforcing masks, face masks, in public places. They are announcing if those measures are not effective, they may well spread the bands elsewhere. There is a lot of worry with this being the time of oktoberfest some are saying will they take it indoors Authorities Say that is a bad idea, a good way to spread the virus. Spread the virus and spread some cheer, im sure they would say. The Health Ministry has announced that would be a new coronavirus strategy for the country up it what we know about that . Simon he is focusing on a couple of things, opening what he is calling fever surgeries to say if you have corona symptoms or suspected corona symptoms, respiratory problems, come to those clinics rather than mixing in doctors weightings rooms waiting rooms. They are also talking about rolling out a big program of quick tests to do saliva tests, particularly in care homes where they might be to get a result in 20 minutes and that, they say, should really help to protect care homes for the elderly over the winter season. The Health Minister saying germany as well placed to deal with corona at the moment, but there is worry a lot of germanys neighboring countries are seen much higher infection rates and that can spill over here as well. Brent standby. With rising infection numbers and automate winter ahead, there are worries on how schools will cope with the situation. Are they better prepared for digital schooling from home . Take a look. Pencils are sharpened. Books are out. German students are back in the classrooms, but it seems not much of the Digital Learning put in place during lockdown has survived here at the school in berlin. The teacher says many of the challenges involved in Digital Learning remain. The foundational problems are still there. A lot of parents dont understand technology. A lot of damage to not have internet or Digital Technology at home, but the schools are better prepared. We are able to have clouds, messenger services, and email that is all in accordance with Data Protection laws, which was not the case before. The corona craybas the corona crisis has made teachers aware of what needs to be done. The German Government has put aside 5 billion to digitalized the classroom. Money desperately needed since the coprinciple when looking at his equipment. It is definitely the case that teachers and parents are investing their own private resources to digitize the school. There have been initiatives, but that always s comes with a lot f bureaucracy, which we see now with the current fund. In the end, you have to make sure you take all that you can get. Until now, only one of over 1200 students at the school has received a tablet financed by the state. Students are aware of how slow things are moving there is not enough equipment for all students. It was not enough to make proper home schooling possible. E. At the beginning, it was new for all of us. Now i think that it worked better than the first time. The ideal classroom that could switch effortlessly from the school to each students room remains a distant goal. Brent it is not easy for the students, for the teachers, and we understand Angela Merkel is so that some of the house going during the pandemic can be improved. What are the most important topics on the table . Simon education is the responsibility of 16 individual states, but this meeting is to see what the Central Government can do to help those states it is not just about the challenges with Digital Learning, wifi, and laptops for some of the kids it is also things like ventilation, which is a big problem in changing School Buildings and some cases Technical Solutions like filters, and a shortage of individual desks for some classrooms. There are a lot of things schools need to do and probably they need financial help to do it. Brent the money always helps. Simon, thank you. Now to india, with more than 4 million cases, has the third highest number of people suffering from alzheimers disease in the world after the United States and china. Experts a lack of awareness surrounding the disease means many elderly people go undiagnosed and for those that do give treatment, the coronavirus lockdown has been in isolating, difficult experience of many family members having go ststep in toto care for their ld ones. Quarantine has been fun for she has spent it playing games, attending online classes, and coloring with her online nineyeaearold granddaughter. R. Ththey have takeken on an added purpose in managing alzheimers. Living with the disease for nine years has led to memory loss and limited heher speecech, but engg with h her granddaughter servess cruciaial cognitivive therapy. She has drawn up undnder gn up understandiding her grandmotr is different. When she was younger she was at times frustrated that she was the one looking after her instead of the other way around. Now, she talks excitedly about the fun games s she dreams up fr her grgrandmother, making limitd together, and her mother proudly calls her her primaryry caregiv. She keeps giving me commands and comomments. It is s nice to hear f from your grandmother after r a long time. I think she is s fighting the disease,e, trying to get a holdf herselelf, and trying g to talko me. She is trying to converse during this locockdown. But being surrounded by family, she has been one of the more fortunate patients. S. Centers like this fourinch method providing patient care before the pandemic. Doctctors say s socialization hs immensy y in managing the disease, but now things look different. Group sessions are no longer held, and all the caregivers wear protective gear and maintain social d distance. The change was confusing and isolating for residential patients. They were used to the caregivers sitting next toto th, hugging them, giving ththem comfort. They were peperplexed what is this . They werere always calling them come here, come here. The residenents adjust to the new circumstances. The nga ngo is also helping patients at home. They have developed a schedule and activity kits with cognitive exercises which they have had the patience tackle through video calls. Keeping patients engaged helps avert episodedes of violence, which can be aggravavated by isolation. They can become very aggressive. Therere was a totatal lockdown they were not taken out into the park and even o outside, andnd n they can become very aggressive, but after following this routine the routine that we gave them there is a lot of difference now. They are not aggressive. They have managed to keep any such as those in check. She misses her friends at school, but enjoys the praise and affection she gets for looking after her grandmother. She is certain she quietly enjoys it, too. Brent worlds leaders are marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. It comes as the coronavirus pandemic poses immense challenges. The secretarygeneral called for multilateralism to curb covid19 and face environmental change changes. The event is taking place mostly online with many leaders delivering speeches by video. As the host nation, the u. S. Gave the opening statement. According to the schedule, u. S. President donald trump should have been the speaker. He was not. For the Trump Administration this anniversary is an important moment to mark the many successes of the United Nations, but to do so with clear eyes and a real need determination renewed determination see this intended body service intended purpose. The 75th anniversary of the u. N. Is the right time to ask questions about the institutions strength and witness weaknesses, review and learn from its failures, and celebrate its a competence. Brent that lukewarm praise today is in stark contrast into the high hopes that maybe you and arrieta 75 years ago. At the time the world was devastated by war. Today, the world faces possible catastrophes on an even greater scale. Born out of the ravages of world war ii, the u. N. Charter was signed in 1945 by 50 founding members. Its aim, to save succeedinin generatitions from the s scourgf warr a global organanizationo help buiuild a better world. One unshahakable unity of determination to fd a way y to end war. 75 years on, every country in the world is represented in the u. N. s General Assembly. The organization has lost none of its relevance but it also faces unprecedented challenges. On this 75th anniversary, we face our own 1945 moment. We must meet that moment and show unity like never before to overcocome this ememergency, ant toward m moving, w working, andd prospering again, and uphold the vision of the charter. That vision is to Work Together to bolster International Peace and security, offer humanitarian assistance, and protect human rights. The u. U. N. And its affiliated agencies have b become indispensablble in crisis situations. But the work of the u. N. s most powerful body, the security council, has come in for heavy criticism. The councils five permanent members of the second world wars principle victors, including china, russia, and the u. S. It manages 13 peacekeeping missions around the world, but the council is often paralyzed by this agreement and vetos. On syria, the most lethal and stabilizing conflict today, it has failed to take any decisive action. Many have argued that these old structures need to be urgently reformed. There are other big challenges. The corona crisis has exacerbated geopolitical rivalries and put the u. N. s health body, the who, under enormous pressure, not least since the u. S. Pulled out of the World Health Organization in the midst of the pandemic. And ththere is feaear that with growing nationalism in some countries, support for the u. N. And its mission may be fading. Donald trumps america firirst policy has seen the u. S. Turn its back on multilateralism the very principle the u. N. Was founded on. Brent not to sports, opened the bundesliga campaign. The match allowed fans to see their heroes in the flesh again after months of pandemic restrictions. Frostburg recently celebrated their 75th birthday and the fans were back on the ground to give them belated congratulations, but there was little else to shout about. Despite playing in the european league, frostburg looked afresh or saipan john brooks missed their best chance of a goal in the first half. Nine minutes into the second half, the ball was into the leverkusen that, but the offside net cut short the joy. The swiss internationals face neatly summed up again. Despite the lack of action, the public was glad to be back. For the players it was a lame start to the season from bob both sides could smile about it afterwards. Brent herere is a remininder, e top store we are fololwing for you, eururopean unionon foreign minister set failed to agree to sanctions against top belarusian officials. The eu identified 40 officials linked to violence against demonstrators as well as voting fraud in the wake of last months president ial election. You are watching dw news live from berlin. After a short break, i will be back to take you through the day. Stick around. I will be right back. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] c. Twenty four correspondent. Around awhile. Emirates is welcome to life. This world news and analysis from france twenty four im not going these are the main world news headlines. The United States imposed sanctions on individuals in iran involved in defense and nucleus is to measure the distance all previous s sanctios on iran posted. Well be talking very shortly with the us special representative for iraq. On this issue. Trump says hell announce his Supreme Court pick by the end of the week. Of the season pressure from republicans to leave that choice to the winner of the november elelections. Justice ruth baderer ginsburg couple lie states the public viewings wednesday and thursday