A key speech should the bundestag chancellor merkel warns of tough months ahead in the battle against covert 19 and appeal directly to the german public not to underestimate the threat of a 2nd when. The death toll climbs in the breakaway negara no kind of back to the region as our median and azerbaijani leaders say now is not the time for peace talks. Plus colons l g b t community is being marginalized by the warsaw government it is hoping the european commissions new report on the rule of law could change that. Im sumi so misconducts good to have you with us u. S. President donald trump and a democratic challenger joe biden have faced off on whats being called the worst president ial debate ever the chaotic 95 minute televised clash touched on issues including the coronavirus Race Relations and the economy but the discussion descended into a series of interruptions and personal mudslinging. President ial debates are meant to eliminate educate and engage this one offered up little of that and instead a chaotic skied of lies insults and interruptions mostly the work of donald trump who made hectoring an art form. You should go out and vote youre in voting now vote and let your senators know how you get on are you feeling that vote now that impact they were sure you in fact let people know his or senator russian im not going to answer the question i always answer that because for us china is the newest us is the radical left would you share with us out madison who is on your list this is on your right gentlemen is i think this is so is a tactic or do you have not set the tone trump defended his record on covert 19 and attacked by did over his handling of swine flu. You could never have done the job that we did you dont have it in your block you could have never done that yet i know how to do the job i know how to get the job where you dont do very well in swine flu h one n one you were a disaster your own she stands out a Disaster Team 1000 people died not 200000 there were develop their economic classes sure you made a good r. L. As no or just made a point by now and there was no one know we didnt shut down the economy this is his economy its been he shut down any attempt at meaningful debate was spoiled by cross talk. To the scientists that are in charge the way they will have the vaccine very says it doesnt but with you that it was not going to get the final word its hard to get any word in with this clown excuse me this at one point the exasperated moderator ton teacher scolding donald trump. I think that the country would be better served if we allowed both people to speak with fewer interruptions i am appealing to you sir to do that perhaps the moment that will live longest in the news reels was when trump to claim the invitation to condemn White Nationalist groups. Give me a name give me a white is a problem thats unlikely to can die out process on right proud of my list stand back and stand by but ill tell you what ill tell you what somebody has got to do something about anti for and the left because this is not a right to sell is a levy. It kept on an edifying spectacle in which donald trump people over his policy blindspots and his competitor to biden people over his each the paramount has been this you are formalisation t. He with the consensus the way are known when us. Did have used chief International EditorRichard Walker follow the debate 4th hes with us here in studio hi richard lets pick up on one of the points we just saw there in our report President Trump when asked about White Supremacists declined the invitation to condemn them and this got a lot of attention tell us about it thats right i mean this moment is really being parents to pawn by democrats that donald trump is still in the business of dog whistle or even even more openly than that too far right groups. And even using this expression stand by seeming to suggest that he might want to mobilize them some point now you can certainly expect this to get a lot of airing i think in campaign ads in the weeks ahead leading up to the election the thing is its not really certain how much will impact that will have because trumps wording did manage to say stay just enough on the side of ambiguity that his spokespeople love playing it down and theyre saying you know it was quite clear that what he meant was knock it off. The thing is that the members of this group the proud boys dont seem to see it like that theyre celebrating this and seeing it as recognition by the president of the Group Richard this was a pretty difficult debate to watch and there was so much mudslinging and interrupting insults who do you think came out on top if anyway yeah well i think it is fairly clear that neither nor biden really landed a decisive blow me there has been a lot of outrage about trumps aggressive behavior constantly interrupting constantly haranguing biden but i think that was to be expected and its no accident i mean this was strategy what he wants to do here is come across as you know aggressive guy who stands up you know this is his trademark but also it serves the purpose he wants to try and disorientate and distract joe biden who has a starter and who has a bit of a you know character of a kind of rambling speaker to try and throw. Im off to try and disorientate him which sometimes was effective joe biden was most effective when he was trying to come across as the reasonable guy you know his pitch is essentially you know he wants to return kind of on a stature to the presidency so he was most effective when he was really calm and just trying to play the reasonable potential president but he did allow himself to get distracted by trump quite a lot so i think between the 2 of them they both you know achieved part of what they wanted to achieve but entirely successful and richard another point thats getting a lot of attention is again the president casting doubt upon and eventual result of the election calling mail in voting really vulnerable to fraud what does that what implications does that have for us Going Forward when we look at the election coming up i mean this could have really huge implications i think this moment towards the end of the debate was perhaps the most concerning for a lot of people watching whats happening in the us the moderator asked both candidates whether they were pledged to kind of calm among their supporters and pledged to recognize a result once it was certified. Because there is this big question about whether a clear result will come out on Election Night because so many people are going to be voting with mail in ballots which take a long time to get counted trump said things like the ballots or a disaster its a rigged election this is not going to end well really kind of cuing up the arguments that hes going to use potentially in the days after the election where we dont have a to result to say any mail in ballots should not be counted this and throw complete out of the of the election result and i think perhaps the most concerning think that he said that was he said that it could be months before we know brazil which really does raise questions about a transition of power in january thats meant to take place our chief International EditorRichard Walker with us thank you very much. Well whats the reaction been here in germany to the 1st president ial debate we asked andreas nick a member of the committee on Foreign Affairs in the bundestag for chester city your party what we have seen. Unfold in the last night also means i think that we should be prepared for the democratic process in the United States and for the Democratic Institutions to be tested to the maximum in terms of their resilience and for what we increasingly hear is that one of the candidates seems not to be prepared to accept a defeat in a democratic election that. Is highly vora sum in terms of what it means for what happened after december after november 3rd i fear that institutional setup of the United States will be tested to the limit. To recall the historic quote by Benjamin Franklin we have a republic if we if you can keep it and clearly if that were to happen this is also traumatic consequences for the standing of the United States closely and as a measure ally of. Germany and the european partner so we look at that was a lot of. Exile but we also have a lot of trust in the ability of the American People to make the right decisions in their own responsibility in a in order to democratic process what it will come up to the institutions to protect that maybe ultimately to the Supreme Court to the chief justice. Unfortunate in the party of our prime winkel and roll reagan of George Herbert walker bush and john mccain has largely failed in being safeguards to what is going on but we have a lot of trust in the in the viability and resilience of the institutions of american democracy but they may be tested to the limit and bresnik a member of the committee on Foreign Affairs in the bundestag their. Lets take a look now at some other stories from around the world belgium has a new government after almost a year and a half of negotiations the flemish liberal leader and former finance minister alexander de crow will lead the 7 Party Coalition as Prime Minister in 2010 postelection wrangling left belgium without a government for more than 500 days a world record. More than 60000000 people in india may have been infected by the corona virus 10 times more than the official figure thats according to a nationwide study by the countrys leading Biomedical Research agency it shows a far greater proportion of the population has antibodies than Previous Survey results had indicated. Belorussian professional basketball player and political activist yelena low chunka has been detained at minsk airport the arrest happened as she was trying to leave the country for medical treatment abroad the chunka earlier this month took part in mass demonstrations against president oleksandr. French president tomorrow and mccall has condemned what he called turkeys comments backing azerbaijan and its efforts to take control of the separate region of nagornokarabakh as reckless and dangerous turkey has voice its backing for the former soviet republic which has clashed militarily with armenia since the Weekend International calls for both sides to work towards a diplomatic solution have so far gone unheeded. This mans heart has been shelled beyond recognition. It now resembles a number of other civilian homes in the disputed nagornokarabakh region. Everythings broken well what else can i say. Officially the separatist region lies within as a by john but it has been under the control of Ethnic Armenian forces backed by the amenia and government since 1994 fighting has now spread well beyond the borders of the contested xyron like in this bordering town in azerbaijan and is threatening to spill into an all out war. Despite the growing death toll both military and civilian neither are mania nor azerbaijan appear ready to take steps towards pace or to build no its very hard to talk about negotiations when specific military operations are under way. It is especially concerned about the alleged involvement of turkey which it claims has begun aiding its ally as i shown. There is no evidence of turkeys involvement in the conflict and there is no such mean that Azerbaijani Army is sufficiently prepared to ensure the protection of its people and its territory we were not on. Both sides have accused the other of initiating the latest hostilities attacking civilian targets and obstructing negotiations the clashes have continued into a 4th day despite International Calls for a cease fire. French president emanuel macron is planning to hold discussions with both russia and the u. S. On ways to end the conflict in. Maine while both armenia and azerbaijan continue to see this citizens queue to enlist in the military and join the battlefield. Chancellor Angela Merkel is warning of tough months to come during the winter ahead and says the people of germany need to prepare in order to avoid a 2nd nationwide coronavirus lock down she made those comments during the annual budget debate in Parliament Michael defended her handling of the crisis so far rejecting criticism from the far right opposition a. F. D. That her government views the pandemic as a pretext to spend taxpayers money. Michael acknowledged the difficulty of coping with coronavirus restrictions but said that it is too soon to ease up completely. This is one time you didnt begin with a moment what i miss most is the spontaneity in encounters with other people. Thats the way it is and i think we all want that spontaneity that naturalness back we all want life as we knew it back especially our countrys young people. But we are currently putting everything that we have achieved in the past few months at risk. We must not allow a nation wide restrictions High Economic and emotional losses again. We cannot allow a dying person in a hospital or nursing home to die all alone because their loved ones arent allowed to hold their hand to say goodbye. Im speaking here because i want to do everything i can to prevent another nationwide shutdown lets bring in our chief Political Editor michelle or because now shes at the german bundestag for us. So is germany like other e. U. Countries moving closer towards a full lockdown scenario again. Well it isnt for now but certainly there are more nuts and bolts in place is a common agreement on when more measures are needed at this particular moment is the threshold of 35. 00 infections per 100000 people per week so theres now a socalled hotspot formula in place that was agreed on yesterday and now were here to day in and usually emotional speech appeal to germans to keep that discipline to be patient and to prepare for worst times to come once again this autumn once again vowing that she wants to avoid a nationwide shutdown but its by no means being ruled out despite the fact that is in terms of infection rates and deaths doing so much better seems to be pretty much an exception within the European Union for now while germany is halfway through its 6 month European Union presidency as well the agenda there also is being dominated by the pandemic what did she have to say about that. Yes shes determined to take the lead in making this a european issue also an International Issue but there she sees this as the moment for the European Union to actually pull together she herself of course has done that policy turnaround where she after a decades long resistance from germany suddenly allowed the European Union to take on joint bets thats the closest germanys come to socalled a euro bonds scenario so far that says have a listen to what she specifically had to say on Europe America we noticed inflammation was the case before the pandemic but this is intensified with the pandemic that multilateral cooperation is under considerable pressure in many areas. We hadnt experienced such pressure in recent decades this changes the world and if you look at history a pandemic like this kind tends to find such a development and thats why i think its very important that we resist the tendencies towards renationalisation and protectionism. This is a multiple of that has nothing to do with being able to be sovereign on certain matters of them was mine but overall we have to push for joint collaboration before so you can and we also understand when they say to a certain extent aggressive world that were faced with. The e. U. Member state we can achieve little alone. For me this is europes our. So a pledge there for you have to stick together and the absence of her mentioning the u. S. Let alone us President Donald Trump quite clearly thats where she sees a key risk for that multilateralism that she is so calling e. U. Leaders but also internationally leaders to act upon and times as she maps out those geopolitically but also specifically and regional regionally through the corona crisis our chief Political Editor at the bundestag for us thank you as we heard their chance america has introduced what shes calling a hot spot strategy after a meeting with the leaders of the country 16 states the new steps come amid a rise in case numbers here we visited a major clinic in berlin to find out how they have coped so far. Uno teagle had just started working here at the helios clinic in berlin and the curve on of iris pandemic reached germany a young assistant doctor still impressed by just how quickly the hospital reacted last match. For that. We reallocated parts of our central surgery room to be used as a new intensive care unit within 24 hours thats a lot of football are few and far to. Parallel to this entire coronavirus Treatment Centers were set up in berlin equipment was scarse and management was worried there were not enough then to late as many hospitals had to improvise the 1st wave of infection also had the helios clinic by surprise. With an order from a cup of tea paper as far as testing capacities are concerned in terms of mass and protective clothing we are prepared because we know where and when to hospitalized patients we can make quick diagnoses and quick decisions. Everyone who arrives at the hospital is tested for coronavirus before they are admitted and patients are strictly separated those who test negative