Climate emergency in what he says would be the defining task of the 21st century a new report on wednesday found 2020 is on track to be the 2nd hottest year on record. The United Nations has reached an agreement with ethiopia to allow aid into government controlled areas of the te grier region for weeks the un has been warning of a possible humanitarian crisis due to the conflict between and rebel forces tens of thousands of civilians of already fled the fighting and to neighboring sudan. This is d. W. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at the top news or visit our website d. W. Dot com. As the world enters what is predicted to be a long pandemic winter there is a deadly disconnects the euphoria over a Coronavirus Vaccine although no vaccine has been delivered yet see the u. K. And the exploding death toll from coated 19 people losing their lives by the thousands see the United States 2 parallel tracks and there is no guarantee that the vaccines will end this pandemic
The box we need some designers creating spaces a for a post condemning while. And whats been described as the final throw of the dice a british and European Union negotiate as a scrambling to try to secure a postbox a trade deal so follows saturdays talks between Prime Minister Barak Johnson and European Commission president on july and now the u. K. s chief negotiator david frost has arrived in brussels are going to be a few very hard to try and get a deal were going to see what happens in the case today and well be looking forward to meeting the european colleagues later on so thank you very much. Well britain formally left the e. U. Back in january but has until december 30 fast to strike a trade deal but the main sticking points include access to british waters by e. U. Fishing fleets and rules concerning business now if the 2 sides do not reach an agreement border checks and taxes will be introduced for goods traveling between the u. K. And the e. U. At the end of the year the dea
Sanctions forced Western Union to close operations in cuba and a big blow to those depending on money sent from abroad. Heads one week to election day in the u. S. And the candidates are hitting the battleground states polls indicate Democratic Party contender joe biden holds the lead nationally but its a close race in a number of must win swing States Mike Hanna reports. A final frenetic week of campaigning before election day president trying doing a swing through 3 of the states with polls indicate he is neck and neck with joe biden wisconsin michigan and the brask. Attempting to remove one issue from the agenda at the beginning of the day tweeting Fake News Media is going full on. We are rounding the turn 99. 9 percent. And hes attempting to reset the conversation around an economy he claims to have provided its trouble believe the number one reason that im standing here because of trade and how we turn that around thanks 7 days from now were going to win the great state. Were goin
Elusive. And suppose he says the house is. Transformed samsung into a global tech giant has died. Paul lets take a look at the markets right now. The asx in australia has just opened for trade at the start of the new week. We do have a staggered open. Pretty hard to get a bead on things. Pretty flat at the moment. We are waiting for cocacola to open on the news of this deal that the European Partners are moving to acquire the Company Valued at 9. 3 billion to underscore some of the consolidation going on. The aussie dollar holding a threeyear gain as the u. S. Stimulus talks continue to drag on. U. S. Futures looking a little weaker as well as nancy pelosi and mark meadows but he might accuse each other of quote, moving the goal post. Nikkei futures are pointing weaker as well. That is going to be a busy earnings week in japan. Starting off with kanaan reporting today with cannon reporting today. Lets start off with china at where the leaders are gathering in beijing to map out the fiv
Apparently drifting further apart while the u. S. And beijing fight out of bitter trade war here on to the points we ask or rival how dangerous is china. Thanks so very much for joining us here on to the point where my studio guests are political scientist t. D. Kirsten tuck blow who believes that china will do away with a liberal democracy if the west allows it to also with us is journalist felix levy who argues that europe must be hard and firm in its dealings with the chinese leadership just like the chinese themselves and a warm welcome to 2 author alexander girl who say as long as there are a concentration camp. In china that can never be normal relations with that country. Thank you all 3 for those initial comments felix id like to begin with you it is not been a good week for already troubled relations between the e. U. And china one Senior Member of the European Parliament a green member of the Parliament Said those relations are now as bad as it any time in recent decades do y