A rate that is even exceeding what many countries saw earlier in the summer in june and july so its difficult to say that this is a 2nd wave many countries are still in what looks like the 1st wave other the pandemic is global the drivers of new cases in different communities may be very different and reflect the nature of the communities and the kind of meeting and mingling of people that is happening in those communities in many places after some are locked out measures in which people. Restricted their travel restricted interacting with others socially blocked on measures were able to slow the spread of the virus and dramatically in some cases slow the speed at which new cases appeared but as communities began to slow those rates and lift the measures and become more conducive in terms of being able to get out of the house being able to dine at restaurants being able to mix socially as well as going back to work and back to school were seeing people mix and in new ways now were seei
West coast President Donald Trump arrives in california to visit areas ravaged by the blaze its locals pointing to a warmer planet but blames the fires on poor forest management. And is there life on venus scientists have found what might be our 1st clue. Im in tilton welcome to the program we begin in the u. K. Where british lawmakers have given their initial approval to a controversial new brecksville despite concerns that it breaches International Law. And hes in the house of commons back to the u. K. Internal market billed by 340 votes to 263 clearing the way for further debate over the next 2 weeks the bill gives the government power to override parts of the parts. Withdrawal deal agreed with the European Union just last year. Again these countries thats. A british reporter Jill Dougherty joins us now and hes been following that vote in the u. K. Parliament so joel walk us through this here what exactly is the significance of todays vote but with this bill Boris Johnson and his co
A former east german factory still going strong. This is day to day business on robots in berlin welcome to the Program European Commission President ursula found a line says brussels is launching legal action against the u. K. For a breach of good faith articles in the brics Withdrawal Agreement these decision was triggered by the u. K. s internal market bill which westminster passed on choose day the controversial bill aims to guarantee smooth trade between Northern Ireland on the rest of the United Kingdom but brussels fears it could trigger a hard border between Northern Ireland and the republic of. Well lets cross to financial correspondent Ashutosh Pandey who joins us from frankfurt worth talking to you from there actually because figures are starting to show that places like frankfurt are benefiting from brics it at the expense of the u. K. Absolutely thats what this unsaid younger report shows us 7500 jobs have moved out of britain 1. 4 trillion euros have moved out of britain
Waters we says its a positive 1st step. Changing habits for changing times how the coronavirus endemic has inspired a move to a plant based diet in some parts of asia. But welcome to the program our top story this hour at least 250 people have been arrested in the battle russian capital minsk following an escalation in violence against protesters. The. Police have been seen beating demonstrators and forcing many of them into military vehicles about 100000 people flooded the center of the city today in defiance of the deployment of riot police making their way to one of the president ial compounds the government has now shut down the internet activists have been demanding the resignation of president Alexander Lukashenko following that disputed election result last month aljazeera step vos and has been with protesters in mens consent us this update. The spike hundreds of detentions at the start of this rally thousands of people have managed to still gather despite the roadblocks by poli
With businessmen ready to exploit them. This man for example on the left. He appears in footage shot in 2014 at a security meeting in oval. That day he was handed what was clearly a confidential map. He refused our requests to film it and with good reason. I dont remember if it was the map was addressed to the colonel of the American Armed forces she. Said mark feels some this is mark pearson. Apparently hes a cultural adviser. But what a cultural advisor be doing and. That goes and why entrust a cultural advisor with an American Military map. 4 years later i looked into who mark pearson really was. Before following the American Military into the area he was employed by jim diamonds a multinational diamond operation. It boasts turnover of some 300000000 euros with mines and prospecting projects all over africa including one in the Central African republic. But the only area of diamond exploration officially declared by the company is in the west of the Central African republic one and