A moment of reckoning at the u. N. General assembly, word leaders convene for a special session, is there a multilateral way out of this pandemic . And the number of deaths in russia suggest the virus is taking a far greater toll than the government is admitting, we will meet an undertaker who tells us he is overwhelmed. A key architect of the European Union and the g summit dies from covid19, former french president led france during the 1970s and laid the foundation for europes single occurrence currency. To our viewers all around the world welcome, we start tonight with the latest from the pandemic here in germany and the news is not good, the head of the countries of look Health Institute says that germany is still nowhere near bringing the second wave of Coronavirus Infections under control. A partial lockdown in place since november has stabilized numbers, but those numbers remain too high. The coronavirus pandemic is not yet leading up in germany. The head of the countrys federa
Vaccine the u. S. Drugmaker, mud dharna, says its vaccine has a success rate of nearly 95 . And a country without a leader, peru plunged into political crisis after the interim president steps down, but peruvians are celebrating in the streets. And flying drones near airports can cause danger as well as travel chaos. German researchers say they successfully used rain threat radar technologies to identify drone troublemakers. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs, in the United States and all of you around the world, welcome. We start here in germany and the wrangling over more or less lockdown. German chancellor Angela Merkel had been expected to announce tougher restrictions to the partial lockdown, known as lockdown light, but that did not happen today. Speaking after a meeting with the country 16 states, she says the state leaders objected to introducing stricter measures at this stage and that they would meet to discuss further measures next week. The restrictions imposed had not ha
Shots within hours. Armenia begins handing over disputed territory to azerbaijan. Im phil gayle. Welcome to the program. 75 years ago today, the trials opened in nuremberg of high ranking members of the nazi dictatorship. Today, a ceremony took place commemorating the historic event, including witnesses from the time. The judicial proceedings with the first of their kind. The nuremberg trials sought to hold individuals to account instead of punishing an entire country and laid the foundations of todays International Criminal court in the hague. 20th, 1945, many leading nazi figures had gone intoiding or committed suicide, including hier but for the first time in history, the rulers of a country had to answer to an International Criminal court. Allies wanted to show that the individuals were being held responsible for the crimes of the nazi not the german people as a whole. The charges against the main war criminals included conspiracy against world peace, planning, unleashing, and cond
Long rule of Alexander Lukashenko will his government crack under pressure from the people. Hello im terry barton good to have you with us the recent poisoning of the russian Opposition Leader alecks in the bonnie has raised tensions between germany and russia he is being treated in berlin after collapsing in siberia the German Government says he was poisoned with a nerve agent nova truck the affair is casting doubt on the future of a strategic pipeline being built to carry russian gas to germany. Construction is in the final stages yet the north stream to pipeline might never be completed because of the diplomatic storm over the poisoning of alexina valmy it is what you know not all over 100 companies are involved in this project half of them a german backlash against the project would hurt them to perform for an hour or so but it would be wrong to assume that whats happened will not have any consequences after this point. Must go denies the allegations of an avowal nature and to hit
Opens a fresh rift between germany and russia and now on the future of a crucial gas pipeline. Defining a dictator tens of thousands marching calling for an end to the decades long rule of Alexander Lukashenko will his government crack under pressure from the people. Shot at the u. S. Open as number one seed Novak Djokovic is disqualified and the serbian hits a line judge with the ball and appears on intentional and he has apologized but Officials Say he still had to be thrown out. So im terry barton thanks for joining us another break said showdown between britain and the European Union british Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying the u. K. Will. Pull out of talks aimed at striking a free trade deal between the bloc if there is no agreement by october 15th in a stable Statement Released to the press johnson said there needs to be an agreement with our european friends by the time of the European Council on the 15th of october if its going to be in force by the end of the year if we can