S p up 42 at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Getting tough on china, acceptable or the tom cotton is here, introducing a bill to revoke chinas nation status and whether tiktok and oracle will keep your data safe. Ken cuccinelli on actions to block chinese products made with forced labor. Wild fires raging on the west coast as the gulf coast is feeling the power of Hurricane Sally, we have the latest on the deadly threats. One soda company has a new drink that could help you sleep. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check european markets, rising from may to july, cac quarante is up 20 and dax index in germany higher by almost 40 points right now. In asia markets mostly higher signs of make recovery in china. Up half of 1 in the month of august. Months are released by the communist party as we always like to remind people, shanghai up half percent. Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump headed to philadelphia this morning after pushing the
Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for. Beethoven 2020. 50th anniversary here on. China has declared victory over the corona virus following 9 whirlwind months for 1st responders scientists and Party Officials after denying the severity of the virus and than initially under reporting numbers beijing now says that it can keep the pandemic at bay. For normal chinese life and community are slowly edging back to normal. But chinas success is impossible for most nations to mimic so overwhelming is the communist partys grip on its population. And while the heroic narrative may resonate domestically abroad theres skepticism and discomfort over the blurring line between propaganda and leadership on the global stage. Chinas handling of the coronavirus separating substance from show. Low and welcome to georgia 19 special im Stephen Beardsley in berlin its good to have you with us a china has seen both failures and successes and its response to a pandemic began within its own borders beijings officia
Pressure to respond with unprecedented strength by canceling or pausing the nearly completed north stream to gas pipeline with russia my guest this week is germanys Deputy Foreign minister and meals on it is it time for a tougher stance against authoritarians in russia and beyond even if there is a financial cost. German minister of state meals on and welcome to calls of happy to have you tests confirm that alexina volley was poisoned with the military grade chemical weapon no he took the german chancellor she has demanded answers from russia she says the following there are very difficult questions that only the russian government can answer and must answer. Russian response has been defiant will there be kneeling for sanctions well i still hope that we can prevent this but this is entirely the russian governments decision and i have to say i want to be very clear very very disappointed about that reaction because instead of making clear what happened and to cooperate in an investigat
Thousands of people are fleeing to europe at this very moment. Can anyone tell me from what countries they are fleeing . Leighton. Ok, syria. Any other countries . Tess . Kosovo. Sarah . Russia. Any other countries . Stephen . Eritrea, thats correct. Patrizio. [inaudible] prof. Garcia thats correct. So they are traveling very long distances to find refuge in europe, and this map gives you an idea of the routes and distances they are traveling in order to reach safety. Some are traveling alone, others are traveling as part of family units. Some are traveling in search of economic opportunity. Others are literally fleeing for their literally fleeing for their lives to escape war, devastation, rape, and forced conscription into armies. The vast majority of the refugees are syrian. Can anyone tell me why the syrians are fleeing . Ok, thank you. Albert. Civil war, absolutely. Would anyone else like to venture talk . Meredith. War is very violent. People are getting killed ritualistically. [
Russia unfortunately even sometimes countries that we are more close to so germany is in the central position geographically in europe its the most important economy we are not you know projecting military problem so we are we need to rely on the willingness and ability to apply by those rules and thats what we are trying so you cannot cut off the dialogue with russia but you need to be very clear in that and thats what we are lets talk about another country where you have a lot of dialogue we have to mention lets go to china now also in the news for its continued infringement of human rights and rule of law similar to russia in a speech before the parliament on september 10th you said the following human rights are a central element of our china policy hows that working out for the prodemocracy protesters in hong kong what we are. And i hope that im not going no its not im not intending to to criticize any of our European Partners but to really think sometimes. We need as a government