Including reforms to ensure its own future relevance plus wildfires ravaging the planet in the u. S. In brazil and australia scientists point to Climate Change but in many countries theyre battling politicians. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Countries across europe are scrambling to contain the corona virus pandemic after a surge and do infections british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce an early closing of bars and restaurants and targeted lockdowns took effect in spain on monday france is seeing massive spikes in infections and increasingly full hospitals meantime in germany the city of new and in stepping up its measures after becoming one of the countrys main hotspots masts will be compulsory. He and busy outdoor parts of the city center and authorities will further restrict public and private gatherings. In a normal year huge crowds of people would be packed into tents here in munich for october fast but the any tents here right now a temporary Coronavir
Including reforms to ensure its own future relevance plus with wildfires ravaging california the amazon and other parts of the planet climate activists will be pushing the United Nations for concrete action on the environment scientists are on their side some high ranking politicians are not. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Countries across europe are scrambling to contain the corona virus pandemic after a surge in new infections british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce an early closing of bars and restaurants now targeted lockdowns took effect in spain on monday france has seen massive spikes and infections and increasingly full hospitals in germany of the city of new nick is stepping up its measures at. For becoming one of the countrys main hotspots masks will be compulsory in busy outdoor parts of the city center and authorities will further restrict public and private gatherings. In a normal year huge crowds of people would be packed into tents here in mun
Europe is no wrestling with coronavirus all over again and hoping to defeat it without shutting down public life entirely. Earlier we spoke to the chair of the global outbreak alert and Response Network at the w. H. O. Dale fisher and we asked him how prepared countries are for a possible winter spike in coverage 1000. 00 cases its a funny question to be asking in september is and. Its really quite disappointing i guess to have these sort of numbers going into the colder months and as youve just pointed out that there really need to be some things done to bring these numbers down or else youre going to be right back where where you were. In in much and. Theres nothing fancy its all the same things that weve known about for a long time its a solution of cases and strict quarantining of of contacts we should be able to do much more efficient contact try saying different mechanisms and the other thing which we we didnt know at the beginning of this outbreak was the effectiveness of mosque
A new zealand recorded 0 new code 1000 infections on tuesday there are now only 61. 00 registered active cases in the country. If youre just joining us youre watching to debut new special coverage as we track the opening of the general debate at the u. N. General Assembly Meeting in new york and we have some live pictures of whats happening at the moment coming up in the next 15 to 20 minutes were expecting the head of the state head of state of the host country of course u. S. President donald trump who will be delivering a video message President Trump is a harsh critic of the United Nations so bill will be watching to see what he has to say this is a very different u. N. General assembly this year around the World Leaders to live delivering their message via video because of coronavirus restrictions as we said we will return to the u. N. When it is time for President Trumps speech. That was the one from london with a chair of the European Parliament Justice Committee meanwhile the r
Thanks so very much for joining us here on the show where my guests are Helena Marshall an environmental activist with fridays for future she says supposed to stop the Global Warming we need to change the way we do things and to do so now im also with us is denial to read all from the business and finance paper im going to plot who argues that if the economy doesnt pick up then well be going right back to where we started because theres no more funding for Climate Friendly modernization. And the very woman who comes to this stuff on drums dolph hes a climatologist of the institute for Climate Impact research he believes the Climate Crisis is far more serious than the corona pandemic. Thank you all 3 for being here thank you all 3 for your statements id like to begin. With you helen or Climate Change activists that you are. Im guessing there was perhaps a moment in your life when you said or thought to yourself we cant go on like this you know if there was such a Movement Tell us about