A 100 elephants have mysteriously died the books over the last few months what is causing this must dial. And go ahead of us welcome to the program spain has all the states ceremony to pay tributes to corona virus victims and medical workers but the National Struggle is far from over spain again faces a surge in cases and you front that could prove a lifeline for the countrys battered economy is still not so todays focus was not on the future it was about remembering the 10s of thousands the nation has lost. Its been a difficult time for this country. King sleeping and his wife marina t. C. Presided over the solemn and dignified ceremony for the 28000 spanish victims of the coronavirus. Or usually get on said what emotion and restore memo to you today is a day that well never forget. It will remain in our hearts. Because today we honor with the alamos piety you know by your shoulder and the highest honor of our stage millars i think that thousands of citizens who left lost their lives due to their coronavirus or weve just you know. The European Commission president also left from the line and was among several top european figures present. Was. One after the other they showed their condolences by laying flowers. Yes also included those were most impacted by the pandemic such as relatives of the victims. Who have really had a long history of london as a Big Government rather im talking about all of them and remembering all of them to shout out to dinner it was 20 years old and there were good oh really yeah it was 100 in 2 places where young from of a say to 50 and mary no last qualia there. At the end of the half hour ceremony a minute of silence so the question is can financial help from europe help heal the wounds of covert 900 for more on that lets go to our brussel to brussels correspondent. Barbara olson if you can read as well at the memorial in madrids today whats the sign brussels is trying to send to madrid. They really desperately are trying to cya present a sign of solidarity because the European Union failed in march when the crisis began when the demick slowly begin to spread many Member States turned their back to their neighbors this their borders they hoarded medical equipment they hoarded pharmaceuticals so it was not good they had a really bad beginning of the crisis and then later in april they sort of got into their trucks and now theyre really trying to change the image because not only in italy also in spain there are many people who said after that experience what is europe really doing for us now spain is supposed to have around 80000000000 euros out of this Recovery Fund that could be a much needed economic boost at least for the country that is pretty much on its knees at the moment. As you mentioned the special summit over among other things the corona aid fund starts tomorrow how much help can spend expect in relation to other uses all sorts suffering on the crown of spain would yet spain and thats the astonishing thing would really be the biggest beneficiary off off this fund its all goes according to plan we dont know this because we know there are tremendous resistances from the frugal for the northern countries who dont want the fund or who want to really burden it was very strict regulation and control spain would get a big chunk of the money and looking at the economical Economic Situation in the country i mean the e. U. Has forecast that spain and this French Economy is going to shrink 11 percent this year this is a big hit the debt burden on the country would rise above the 100 percent marker which is also sort of really going into the red so the Spanish Government is in dire need of help. And the e. U. Is trying to provided but whether it all goes according to plan we dont know yet we will see its going to be a hard 2 days at least in brussels until all this is figured out and agreed upon you so that you expecting a hard days negotiating this special summit so you expect rather discord than unity and who are the main opponents. Theres going to be tremendous discord i mean theres going to be put it bluntly i mean theres going to be the usual haggling theres going to be blackmailed is so going to be all the dark political art that brussels knows so well from these events because when you know the talks start about money and this event like huge amounts of money then all friendships are forgotten and messiness really comes in so im going to merkel who is the president off the council at the moment is going to have her hands full keeping things together the northern countries object to spending so much money to giving the money is grants they want strict controls the Eastern European countries are want things for themselves poland for instance it was hardly hit by corona and is supposed to be the 3rd biggest beneficiary of the fund theres going to be opposition against that hungary will blackmail everybody else as per usual so everything is going to be just horrible and catastrophic till hopefully after 12. 00 or 3 days of negotiations until america can emerge as a winner and have signed agreement in her hands or not we shall see. America clearly has her work cut out there thank you very much barbara bizzle in brussels. And of some of the other stories making news around the world and we start with breaking news weve just heard that Turkish Court has sentenced german turkish journalist denis you jel to 2 years and 9 months in prison for spreading terrorist propaganda your job was held in a turkish prison for a year without being charged before being allowed to return home to germany is the case significantly damaged in germany turkish relations. Researchers say a record breaking heat wave in the Siberian Arctic would have been almost impossible with after Climate Change driven by human actions temperatures in the region were more than 5 degrees celsius higher than average between january and june this year. Social media platform twitter was hit by a massive hack that dupes people into making bitcoin donations and affected some of the networks most high profile accounts including those of former us president barack obama the heart of president ial candidate joe biden might receive from the bill gates and friends including ended up will and twitter is investigating the matter and has called it a major Security Breach and says the hackers have targeted some of its employees web access to its internal systems. Dollars for further into this and for that were joined by sven happys director for International CyberSecurity Policy at the think tank schiff the voting here in berlin hes works it works with various governments on Cyber Security issues when the question everyone is asking is my twitter account safe. Well it is as safe with as it was before because the problem was is wasnt really a heck of a reach as far as we know was the employees of twitter of outsiders and criminals to make money out of it so what twitter has to do is not only to change some of the technology but also their processes procedures and International Structure which might take a bit longer. But some huge names were hacked the encoding joe biden what does this do to twitters credibility and reputation as a way for petitions to communicate with voters i mean definitely in the run up to the president ial elections i think allotted for the reputation of twitter but the attack on a fast we know right now through the help of the employees the insiders in twitter would have had access to all the accounts on twitter if they wanted to so that shows only certain high profile ones but they would have had access to every account they wanted so who do you think was likely you mentioned criminals well who is likely behind this attack on you exclude political actors well you can never really exclude them but if you look at it and invoke ockhams razor theory which is a simple solution as most probably the most likely one is they basically use high profile accounts to scam people was a very obvious scam sent me money i sent you double the money back because its in to sending them 120000 dollars just imagine you have the power to access every direct message every twitter account on these social media platform and you choose it to make 120100000 dollars in a very obvious that doesnt look like really the work of professionals well this is also a blow to twitters brand isnt it how can it convince consumers that their communications are private. Confirmation is safe and information that were getting is actually from the sources that claim to be putting it on. So thats one of the takeaways that we should have had a long time ago already but as an incident of insecurity rated your direct messages everything that you communicate on the platform is either public to everyone or public to the ones you communicating with but its always accessible to twitter ploys and as weve seen right now that might not mean so much sadly yes so im happy thank you very much thank you researchers high investigating why hundreds of elephants in botswana and Southern Africa have been found dead over the last 2 months the 1st bodies were discovered as early as march but the deaths only came to global attention in may when local conservationists spotted hundreds of carcasses during flights over the area experts have been investigating. Now lets talk to nial mccann hes the director of conservation of National Park rescue its a charity that supports National Parks around the world he joins us from cardiff now tell us whats happening with the elephants in botswana poachers responsible for this this. High get out think about me at the moment its impossible to say whether boats are involved there are 3 main candidates for what this could be poachers all farmers poisoning the elephant is one possibility the disease is the 2nd possibility and the 3rd is that this is a naturally occurring toxic Something Like a blue green algae or an anthrax at the moment so the results come back we dont know which one it is is it possible that if theyre being hit by a disease that it could be transmitted to people i mean we have weve heard about these transgressions from from species to species recently. The most famous of all being covert 19 of course were all living with the consequences of disease coming out of viral not a species probably a penguin and then into people and vast shut down the entire world so for me its vital that we rule out the possibility of that happening again theres a precedent for disease transmission from elephants into people with tuberculosis and thats not to say that this is tuberculosis or that this is necessarily a disease but until we really know what it is we have to treat this is a potential Public Health crisis as well as a conservation crisis but theres also political challenges of trying to help the elephant population and spawn and i think thats a really stupid quotes to make because not everybody in botswana likes the fact that they have the 1st lot the one 3rd of all the elephants left in africa because people that live next to elephants often have a very hard time of it because elephants are normal theyre quite aggressive they have very high dietary requirements so they eat a lot of food and a lot of that food comes from farmers crops so the fact that a few 100 elephants are dying in botswana is actually seen as a good thing by some members of the botswana public and the government botswana is having to balance their domestic impression to the rural people of botswana with the international outpouring of grief and support and solidarity wanting mystery discovered what the crisis is and trying to put a stop to it now mccann director of conservation a nest National Parks rescue based in the u. K. Thank you very much for joining us thanks for having me guys. This is d. W. News heres a reminder of our top story this hour on story mind you of all breaking news a Turkish Court has sentenced german turkish journalist dennis youre jel to 2 years and 9 months in prison for spreading terrorist propaganda well have more on that in our next program at the top off the hour. And spain has held a Memorial Service to honor the victims of the coronavirus pandemic and the workers who cared for at least 28000. 00 people have died of covert 19 inspectors in phillipa joins the families of some of the seas in paying their respects to. Do watching the news from berlin dont forget you can also several days on our web sites to w dot com and to follow us on twitter and instagram got us ill be back at the top of the. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Our corona up to. 19 special next on d w