Finally get a common european asylum policy. Because. My conduct of could look at that i cant see often enough that migration is a global issue of enormous importance and one company has for many years to come near the feeling shifting that the e. U. Commission assured me in a Video Conference just hours before the fire that it would present this common solution on september. 6th in september these are good men somebody who swung before leaving. So what next im joined from geneva now by hunt on your veto do you know hes the director general of the uns International Organization for Migration Greece is overwhelmed by the vast number of migrants arriving in general now some countries are stepping in to help us we just heard in our report is that enough its not enough but the great help in these secret stances what happened in more of a catastrophe a humanitarian catastrophe that to be honest was just a catastrophe in waiting because the camp is overwhelmed you have mentioned before 100 him and a companion miners that were taken out of schools by o. M. And other International Partners and we very much hope that we have a will to relocate those and a companion minors Different Countries in europe like germany and france at the current moment the actors issues really in camps in northern greece that are managed by i. O. M. But definitely the situation requires. The assessment of what is going on in the greek islands and as ministers are all for a 7 day fully agree we need we have great difficulty system off here responsibility i want you to be a member state how hopeful are you that this predictable system is on its way. We have definitely expecting that the pact on this island migration that European Commission s problem is to put forward by the 30 of september but lets be clear there are splits among the european Member States in relation to migration and as i look we need to build a Strong Political will put dress the deep root causes of migration and thats the major election lesson from the 2015 crisis European Union is been looking carefully ending gating and thats positive with neighboring countries not just 30 but also the north african countries countries of transit but also countries of origin the un itself i. O. M. U. N. H. C. R. And other agencies together with the African Union and the deal will be in the union if we try to assess jointly the deep root causes of these movements and what i would do you address in housing plan to address the deep root causes for migration what what is what are concrete steps that could be taken there ask short term and long term the short term is to prevent people from embarking in dangerous perilous straits there might and we had their deaths thats the situation in the mediterranean we need the predictable mechanism of these embarkation of those who are rescued in the body to regen but there is also the long term issue which is addressing the deep root causes that the drivers of the movement and that is above all a question of these Security Community stabilization and economic Gold Development and tony with the you know that the general of International Organization for migration thank you very much for joining us today here on news. Time now to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world india and china have agreed that troops should pull back from a stand off disputed border in the western m. L. A. As the countrys foreign minister issued a joint statement after a meeting in moscow tensions have been high since a clash in june left 20 indian soldiers dead. Mining Company Rio Tinto has announced the resignation of its c. E. O. Over the mining giants destruction of sacred of original sites in Western Australia from target an outcry from shareholders and the public after blowing up to action caves for its expansion of an iron ore mine. And his 9 people have died in 2 nights of violent protests in the colombian capital bubbletop hundreds of people were injured the demonstrations was sparked by a viral video of Police Tasing a man who later died in hospital. On president s and wildfires have forced almost 600000 people to flee their homes across several western u. S. States as unusually hot and dry weather fans flames half a 1000000 people have been evacuated in oregon thats a 10th of the states entire population washington and california have also been hard hit all 3 states have reported casualties in San Francisco the fires have been making their presence felt even from a distance. As if 2020 wasnt strange enough already this was the morning commute over San Franciscos Golden Gate Bridge this week. Small can die from wild fires mixed with the cool Pacific Ocean air to produce an otherworldly effect. 1115. Crazy 11 in the morning and its. Like the middle of the night and it looks like youre part. Of the weirdest like the weirdest thing ive ever seen. You go come out and experience it together take a break from work and come out. Historic fires are ripping through 3 western states and california almost 5000 square kilometers have. Firefighters dont expect to bring the blazes under control until the middle of. Some villages have already been lost. Describe the flames advanced. Of the one was wrong for hard and wouldnt have been daylight but it was dark. And the ashes were everywhere just ridgeley bad. That. A driver in oregon filmed the dramatic scenes as an unfair engulf the forest. While a birds eye view reveals the total obliteration the fires left in their weight. The governor told residents to brace for a huge loss of life on property and said this would not be a one off event. We are feeling the acute impacts of Climate Change we are seeing at the devastating impacts in oregon on the west coast and frankly throughout the entire world. In Washington State 2 fires have retired and heartbreak. Everything done close. Everything. Has firefighters continue their bottom across the west coast meteorologists are warning that it is nor yet even peak wildfire season. Still to come we take a look at the painstaking restoration of the cathedral in paris. To restore stability architectural. Position activists say theyve faced increasing intimidation ahead of Regional Elections this weekend this week police in moscow raided the office of the open russia Position Group and an intruder smashed a bottle containing a chemical substance in the siberian office awful position say. The kremlin critic who germany says was poisoned with agents to Office Volunteers were taken to the hospital before the attack on his office. Been caught up with to him about his campaign and his hopes that his vote could shake up the status quo. Yes. Sergei boyko prides himself on being alive and edited social media is the main way the politician is reaching out to voters in novosibirsk hes up for a seat in the siberian cities parliament on his you tube channel the politician promises to clean up his hometown and sweep out corrupt politicians and we have a mafia here boyko is leading a coalition of 31. 00 opposition candidates their goal is to push united russia the ruling party out together boyko says the kremlin is watching the Regional Election campaign closely. Of course and their friends are united russia has a thin majority here if we can break the majority in the us and there is can been example for the rest of the country if you consolidate forces and go to the ballot box you can change the situation and destroy their monopoly. Boy goes Campaign Recently got a boost when he appeared alongside his close ally opposition politician i like saying. You know video that has gotten millions of views now news team expose the alleged corruption schemes they say helped united russia politicians in the get rich and buy Luxury Properties now he was poisoned shortly after filming this video he uses it to call on russians to support the candidate most likely to be united russia in the poll a strategy he calls smart voting that we can use russias the 3rd the biggest city as an example of how to take down the insatiable told that is united russia. Novosibirsk is siberias main Industrial Hub more than one and a half 1000000 people live here. United russia current li has the majority in the city council and the Regional Assembly and their campaigning to keep it that way. Regional united russia is the party of the president of the government the party of respect. And kara we work in the interest of the citizens of the russian federation. But not everyone in the city feels cared for by the russian government. People live in fear of what the future holds its not clear whos shops could be closed cool might be fired. The situation now is a far cry from how things were in the ninetys and early 2000 i think a lot of things are good no but isnt. This. We pay taxes like good citizens but who knows where those taxes go. Boyko wants to drive the city in a new direction he hopes that if his Coalition Wins a majority they can turn novosibirsk into a city for its people. People from united russia are not interested in developing the city or talking to voters instead of running the place they are just defending their own personal interests i believe that despite the extreme weather here and the fact that it isnt of the richest planes in the us a beer can be a modern european city i think it says the main challenge is to convince people their decision in the polling station can break through the status quo and that smart voting against the ruling party here can set an example for change across russia. Was from emily. Correspondent who joins us now from there emily how important are these elections in general. Well gerold on the one hand these are Regional Elections in a very centralized country but on the other hand these elections are being seen as a kind of litmus test for the mood among voters ahead of russian parliamentary elections next year elections to the russian duma and thats both for the opposition in campaigns like save a boy goes who is do we just saw in that report and also for the kremlin of course and all fortys are likely to be paying particular attention to the regions because 1st of all there are protests in neighboring valorous which happened after elections there and also there have been protests in various regions across russia and thats actually pretty unusual in russia usually protesting takes place in moscow and in St Petersburg so in the biggest cities but weve recently seen protesters taking to the streets in the far eastern city of pub ato square they have been protesting for for weeks and weeks against the removal of a local governor who was also elected in a protest vote and there have been environmental protests as well and rush court to stand in the southern year olds and also in the north of the country so i think its likely that the kremlin is watching these elections very closely well. Of ali who is in a german hospital at the moment and recovering and say boy call close allies and theyve been calling for a small vote saying as you mention in your report in these elections to the government united russia policy does this tactical strategy pose a serious threat to the. Well sergey boyko in no severe sky actually went so far as to say that i would say that the new strategy of smart voting was perhaps such a big threat to the kremlin that that was the reason that he was actually poisoned that was his his theory at least that he that he told me about after all it seemed that finally was in siberia and also in novosibirsk before he was poisoned filming videos kind of advocating smart voting smart voting has had some success in the past in 2019 it cost united russia about around a 3rd of its seat in the Moscow City Council elections and now it will be getting a kind of broader testing ground so well have to wait and see what that yields if you dont use any sherbet in moscow thanks emily meanwhile the German Government says its looking at the entire set of instruments it could use in taking action against moscow for the poisoning of alexander vonnie chancellor Angela Merkels spokesman has underlined that she would not rule out consequences of the multibillion euro north stream to pipeline project if moscow fails to authority investigate the case he also says the german leader is open to all sanction options. The north stream to pipeline through the baltic sea means a lot to both parties for russia its a source of solid foreign currency to germany and other e. U. Countries its a major Energy Conduit befalling the poisoning of russian opposition figurehead alexina vonnie a crime blamed on moscow the German Government has for the 1st time considered Holding Construction of north stream to it wouldnt be the 1st time the e. U. Has levied sanctions against russia the number of cases in which countries impose sanctions on others is climbing accelerating rapidly from 2004 on besides russia the countries most often targeted are iran and north korea as well as some african countries. The main pretext for such sanctions are violations of human rights and democratic procedures theyre also often a stance simply aimed at trying to prevent terrorism and war but how effective are sanctions really have to achieving their aims opinions oh widely divided. Well seen a business that has been physically and has been for the story and joins me in the studio not been this is not just any little project is it and is this the place where politics and business really collide well it sounds like a big project 900000000000. 00 euros is a lot of money and were talking about a lot of gas but talking about germany becoming more dependent on russia as far as energy goes though and the project if youre using that as a bargaining chip in this whole in this whole deal there are huge sanctions that you could bring against russia that would hurt a lot more than just its my blood so analysts actually say its only a little threat the best sanctions of course are the ones that not use the ones that are threatened before imposing them and theres some sort of change in behavior but we do not see russia changing its behavior russias a best as are also shrugging this off they they dont see a huge threat here most his finances are extremely strong it actually has the strongest public Balance Sheets in the world would you believe i was talking about the effectiveness of this you would have to hit all sectors that would hit all of russia the russian people as well it would also hit europe the ultimate sanction here is to make it illegal to own russians over and it and the problem there is that the u. S. U. S. Residents are 10 percent of russians over and it europe is also a big investor canada is to japan is as well and getting all of them on board is going to be extremely difficult i asked an economist about that this is what he had to say. There since be a bus to good beat that is the enlarged action but we would need a coalition there is a lot of excess sitting around in the road so theres a lot of savings that seeking basements and we would need to brought. You know all d ways of russia selling their bombs if its just europe that wouldnt be enough we would need the United States on board on this and probably also Asian Countries so i think theres no real knowledge ever. To believe it or. If we will use sashes and these need to be almost universal sanctions and getting the United States on board how well does trump get along with putin. We do know. Can you think germany and the u. S. Can see eye to eye on they could on some certain factors the pipeline for example trump would love it if the pipeline gets cancelled because it would mean hed have the opportunity to increase Energy Exports to europe and that means a whole lot more fracking he would love that im not sure about the rest of it and thats also something that mr fed them i was worried about. Without the us boards very difficult to call sanctions and to make them effective in particular because of course the growth residues the dollar without us those actions would be very difficult and we do see a large pollutions effect against patrick that through is a result of. The past experience large lucians you something but even if a country like germany were really be moderately or indeed National Financial markets like you go alone then the chances of success are im sorry to see that. Low chance is there for germany going it alone but germany is definitely underlining the fact that dialogue with curtain does not come free very multifaceted and very interesting story thank you very much ben. Now its a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world u. S. President donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden due to mark the anniversary of the 2001 september 11th attacks will separate visits to the crash site of one of the hijacked planes everyone on Board United Airlines Flight 93 died when it came down in pennsylvania a battleground state in november surprise eventually lives. A new exhibition featuring the work of anonymous street artist banksy has opened in rome it showcases more than 90 office provocative works doing paintings sculptures and prints the submission titled the visual protest runs until next april. Few people will forget the images of the draw and paris being engulfed by flames and. Its archaeological kryptons only just reopened but meanwhile painstaking continues on the rest of the building with restoration meeting challenges at every level. Restoration work on the roofs of saddam at dizzying heights climb as saw through the 200. 00 tons of melted scaffolding piece by piece for months they feared the walls of the cathedral would collapse under its weight but the huge crane the parts the carefully lifted out and lowered to the ground its precision work. When we have a wind speed of 20 to 30 Kilometers Per Hour then you can see that the containers sways 5 majors in both directions so we have to be careful not to hit the scaffolding. The fire broke out almost a year and a half ago when i pull 152019. Not only discovering but also toxic lead dust has posed a constant threat to the cleanup crew with the entire structure in danger of collapsing and precious artifacts needing to be salvaged countless sculptures and stones were removed. And taken outside of paris to geologist john d. M. s because the stones are still contaminated with lead he needs to wear protective clothing these angel heads fell 33 meters to the ground when the vault dome collapsed only their wings are broken these stones are in Critical Condition badly damaged by the intense heat of the fire some are as fragile as glass and ultrasound scan determines how porous they are and whether or not they can be used again in the restoration at the same time researchers want to know more about the cathedrals construction the research is making the big. Of the situation. Similar to you we would never have been able to take these kinds of samples had the fun never happened we never could have oscillated such big pieces it would have been impossible to see the back of the building saw the workers on fortune head the scaffolding needs to be removed by the end of september because they too will be reconstructed exactly as it was before the fire and that hopefully before 2024. This is the dummy news up next to the point where the debate. Danger posed by conspiracy theories and update for you at the top of the hour thanks so much. To the point. Clear position inter. National perspectives. This information is going viral endemic has given a boost to conspiracy theories like those of q one not how dangerous our conspiracy theories thats our topic on to the point joining us. To the point cut the next chicago d w. I used to live work all you really need shelley. Healthy all the time is my topic today. The x. 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And a on supporters on both sides of the atlantic have been linked to violence our title today she will know how dangerous our conspiracy theorists. From welcome to to the point and here are our guests felix whose mind is a freelance journalist who has a focus on the far right and he says the dangers of far right ideologies were ignored too long we shouldnt make that mistake again with q. And a on its great to have with us you often goes hes a sociologist with germanys Konrad Adenauer foundation and he says the belief in conspiracy theories is a mass phenomenon that is part of our society. And also great to welcome trees along she works as an investigative journalist at online magazine vice and she thinks medias responsibility in framing q. And on is crucial for its containment and the let me start out by asking you the hose a about a study that you recently published that shows that fully a 3rd of those surveyed believe the world is being steered by secret forces why whats behind that. Well conspiracy belief in conspiracy theories is quite widespread it in societies and general also in germany. So we didnt expect exactly that level its not a total surprise we asked people the sentence you said it to. Whether its safely true probably true probably wrong or surely wrong and weve found that 11 percent say its definitely true and another 90 percent say its probably true which is quite a surprise to us so whats so what is driving nat is it fear or is it anxiety mistrust what would you say is behind that. Its some kind of distrust in some sources we have to keep in mind that behind that can be various motivations and ideas people have very different ideas if what kind of actors or organizations behind these secret forces is and what they actually plan or do or whatever so. Conspiracy theory is usually. Live by being in precise so they integrate a lot and then people who follow that follow that only partly by something reject others so its very diffuse and also the people who tend to believe it are also diffuse they they often not absolutely sure about every element but have a kind of feeling there is something going on and that can be a strategy to deal with insecurity with the very open risky situation they exist when you say in your Opening Statement that we shouldnt underestimate q and dangers spell it out for us if you would please what is the danger here well if you look at the United States there have been some murders perpetrated by q nonbelievers there was the murder of a mob underboss in Staten Island in new york by a young man who said at that he believed this mob underboss was a secret deep state agent and he was about to arrest him because dead was his mission given to him by donald trump you might debate whether. Mental a Mental Health issues might be a big underlying issue here as well but conspiracy theories posed this danger of motivating people to commit violent acts even of of terrorism. The f. B. I. Classify it she cannot as a possible risk for domestic terrorism last year in 2019 what about a risk to democracy as a whole we just heard about the level of mistrust that many adherents. Theories show is that something that you think is growing because of these kind of websites and posts yes definitely if you if you look at what. Followers belief what the followers of other conspiracy theories deeply believe and you cannot really have a rational discourse with a lot of those people if they are said to believe that there is a global cabal of pedophiles torturing and killing children to drink their blood and stay Young Forever which is basically one main narrative of. Just completely not based in reality but people believe that and its hard to argue with them because especially as a journalist everything you say. Is only. It is only giving giving them fuel because youre a part of the deep state elite then as well to resort to say that we need to talk about how media frames q. And on so tell us how would you frame it how would you describe what this movement is about and where its taking us yeah i would say that one of the most important aspects of that is that you we shouldnt get too tangled up in like the weeds of the actual belief and the belief system because we we feed it just like felix said. The problem is that a lot of the human own supporters in a year and were basically begging reporters to ask trump about what he thinks about q. And on and as we know wherever something is involved that and aggrandize assim our backs the potential to aggrandize them he replied with you know i think they like me and so of course this in this in this in this fanning on of the narrative we forget that we have to frame that as the real world consequences that happen and take place and also not our only real consequences but also was benefiting from this excess really kind of group talk about whos benefiting from this the 3 founders of q and on in nov 27th teen apparently have made very good money as their posts have risen in the hierarchy of online websites is that whats really going on here is this simply a commercial Business Model at least for some of those who are steering it wouldnt say so i mean also the media that is basically the platform carrying these things are profiting off of it because its the Business Model to be focused on attention attention seeking media and attention keeping users so you know the the facebook. And you tube algorithms they propel people down into these rabbit holes of conspiracy theories and it starts with just like my conspiracy theories like weaved and youre in there and then it starts to go deeper and one of the central and i think most dangerous aspects off q and on is that it is set out made as like this d. I. Y. Scavenger hunt that you are supposed to puzzle together and you know youre part of a community and electing community and on the fringes of that are all kinds of economy i want to ration dies and when amazon come back to that gaming element in just a moment but let us 1st take a closer look at the protests against corona restrictions here in germany which have thrown together a motley crew of demonstrators including adherence to q one on. I trust conspiracy theories more than i trust the government. Part of what everyone is waiting for the 2nd wave ive never seen the 1st one. Protests against the governments corona regulations 10 foil hats abound but not a mask in sight a rather peculiar mixture of different groups converged here in berlin they seemed harmless at 1st. But there were also extremists among them who waved flags of the former german and even tried to force their way into the German Parliament building. Brought to you by the letter q thank you anon movement was brandishing their symbol they made a name for themselves by suspecting dark forces behind the past us Election Campaign the demonstration was the perfect opportunity to spread their ideology by the hindu put down changes are being made behind the scenes that you come into effect in the next year or 2 and ill just do the time is coming up and it will all begin this fall then the banks will crash and theyll receive even more money. What makes some people so receptive to Conspiracy Theory. Definitely will say your survey concludes that even before corona before the crisis such beliefs that we just heard there in that report were in fact widespread in germany so does the fact that were now seeing q and on symbols at such protests really amount to a higher level of threat and danger. We dont know whether due to the corona crisis the belief and conspiracy theories increase that is clear up to now. But surely not all conspiracy theories are the same. And specific problem and threat of q. And on is that the bad which you always have a Conspiracy Theory i mean because prince paris is theories like a fairy tale you have the goodies and the baddies and you have the the pure in ascend to. Children in or princess is. That are all these elements. So. This specific and q. And on is that the bedi is the state institutions in whole and that is a specific problem compared to some others where i dont know the nasal faked moon landing or whatever so that doesnt make a difference but yes its widespread and one reason is simply beyond this crisis experience so even before that if you believe in Conspiracy Theory you are smarter than the others so you are better than them and you can teach them how or its a power and it also makes it more difficult to get back to say oh no i was wrong is that even more difficult but now i know that felix huisman has been at some of the protests and so i wonder if you can tell us a little bit about the alliance that were seeing there between anti vacs sears people who are simply skeptical of covert restrictions and then right wing extremists and supporters of q. And not what do they have in common. In large parts the belief in conspiracy theories not all believe. Really absurd and crazy conspiracy theories like that a lot of them believe in and have extreme conspiracy theories for example bill gates and the bill and Melinda Gates foundation are posed to poison the world with vaccines that is incredibly widespread in these protests it is the believe in conspiracy theories and the deep mistrust in the government and in what a lot of them those protesters consider societys elites and wheres that coming from. From a lot of different places also politically you have people there who would consider themselves at least rather left leaning who say antiwar ive been in peace protests in the last couple of years you have people there who at least look like hippies who are connected. As a terrorist and a conspiracist world view as well and then you have a far right extremists you have whats called the iceberg a movement in germany which are the ones that we saw in the report storming the steps of the right exactly people who believe that germany is still not a sovereign state and is still occupied by the allied forces since world war 2 and you had people in front of the american and the Russian Embassy begging for a peace treaty for germany to be signed and a lot of d. s conspiracy theories germany not being the Southern States are now intertwined with she went on before a lot of those people were very antiamerican but now with donald trump in charge as a president and as dissed savior figure in the queue nonbelief day turned to donald trump to set us free and i want to talk about that in just a minute but 1st lets a quick comparison of the numbers here in germany and the u. S. To reason like are from what ive read germany may have the most q. And a on supporters of any country 2nd only to the u. S. Well yeah. It the the way that these supporters are coming to life is hard to gauge and hard to count i think because they organize in Fringe Groups in an often fringe on the ng groups and these numbers can be greatly accelerated and not all of the people who read into these groups like one of the biggest telegram groups i think has 120000 members and also. Im a woman called tamara k. Who ordered like to storm the steps of the heist. In this demonstration that happened just recently and to corona demonstration protests was a member of his group and very active member of this group and also to a nonbeliever but. I would say that this is already a phenomenon that is that has gone global and cannot be contained we have gone past that basically and it will spread there i like q. And on armies in several countries in iran and japan and finland and. The narrative will spread i think because. The underlying current of this or the underlying bias is a projection bias and this is