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Could be used to spy on american citizens. Time for gail welcome to the Program Israel has reimposed in the full nationwide lockdown for 3 weeks say its the only way to slow the countrys soaring corona virus infection rates move comes just as the country celebrates a jewish new year and there are warnings that the measures will devastate an economy already reeling from the 1st lockdown. D. W. Correspondent joins us from jerusalem welcome that how does the atmosphere at the start of this jewish new year compared with what youd normally experience. Well i think it was a very quiet evening the lockdown started at 2 pm local time here in the afternoon and then you could see some people so coming back from shopping people are allowed to venture out about a kilometer from home and of course to go out to buy basic supplies its usually an evening for jewish israelis you know to come together families and friends to celebrate this evening together over dinner with very special class ings as some people are reminded really of the 1st lockdown because then there was also a holiday the holiday of passover. When people also couldnt really come together more than you know in a smaller group. Of friends and some people told me no im not going to see my grandmother or my grandfather because you want to protect them as as has said defiantly you know i want to see friends and of course also for more religious people conservative people praying this will be a more restricted gatherings are restricted in the open to 20 people and of course also in synagogues their special restrictions in place so that people. Can practice social distancing but despite israel having one of the highest covered 19 infection rates in the world this new lockdown is proving to be unpopular. Well absolutely i mean i think people do have mixed feelings about this because on the one hand theres a lot of anger and frustration that it had come to this you know mainly at the Decision Making process as well all along the way and people are saying maybe theres something should have been done earlier so to avoid a nationwide locked on but at the same time people are aware of course of the serious situation caseload of. Covert 19 patients is rising specials and serious cases you know infection rates have been going up sharply in the past couple of weeks and people do know that measures have to be taken but they might not be happy about how they were taken. By situation all the more remarkable is that israel has gone from being one of the 1st and most successful countries to control the pandemic to the current high levels of infection what went wrong. Yeah absolutely im that has been discussed here also very much and i mean its not just one factor you have to look at i mean experts can mainly agree on that basically on one thing that there was no proper exit strategy the country went into lockdown in march and april and then you know cases went down the infection rate went down and then the economy it was quickly opened up there was a lot of focus on that because it was very very difficult for many people Unemployment Rate went up very sharply and at the time the israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said to people now go out and support the local economy also schools were open very quickly and this is where the 1st classes the 1st cases then reappeared also missing was a really functioning track and tracing. Program that didnt work too well as well as also then the new government a lot of people as perceived as government as not functioning very well that there are a lot of political interests as well when decisions are being taken for example kroner task force suggested like a traffic light system that cities and neighborhoods which where with high infections would be classified as ragin would have to be put under local lockdown this didnt work out there was a lot of pushback from mainly the religious communities so at the end you know they could only agree on a nighttime curfew and that was basically not enough. Jerusalem sankey. And we can take a look at some more developments in this pandemic starting in the u. K. Where the Prime Minister blair is johnson says a 2nd wave of infections is now inevitable restrictions in some parts of england have been tightened but he says he wants to avoid a 2nd full scale lockdown sprains introduced to fresh curbs on Domestic Travel in areas badly affected by a new surge spate has the highest number of cases in western europe and francis registered a record increase of infections more than 13000 over the past 24 hours. To brazil where the president jibe also has played down the wildfires now raging through vast stretches of rain forest and wetlands critics say hes probusiness stance as in bold and people who destroyed the forest for mining and Land Clearing federal Police Suspect farmers ignited a major fire now burning through the pan tunnel the planets largest wetland. For the past several weeks catastrophic forest fires have ravaged the nature reserve destroying a unique ecosystem in the process the director of the reserve has watched helplessly as more of the protected landscape burns each day. Last year alone 10000. 00 hectares of forests burnt to the ground this year its been 3 times that much its a huge loss. This area is one of the most biodiverse places in the world tourists flock here to see endangered animals in the wild. Like the jarvis stork. And jaguars. These are the worst fires the area has seen in over a decade for their north fires are also raging in the amazon rain forest many of them were started illegally to clear forest for farming the smoke from those fires has spread to cities with devastating consequences for the help of locals but farmers know there are few consequences for illegally starting the fires brazils president consistently undermines protections with. N. G. O. S get money from abroad and they dont have a chance of fighting me i will continue to fight and kill this cancerous tumor that is the Environmental Protection agency. Also narrow dispatched the military to the amazon to help battle the fires the same military that carved roads through it and erected settlements during the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1905. Critics fear brazils military could create a permanent presence in the rain forest. No no there will be no militarization of the rain forest were just here in a logistical capacity for example our helicopters there used to battle the fires. Its likely after the fires agriculture here will expand including more fields for products like soybeans and meat bound for the european marc. It thats why environmentalists are calling for e. U. Laws that would protect brazil against further deforestation every day the flames reach further the area is in dire need of rain but none is expected for at least several weeks. Take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now around 5000 migrants have moved into a new camp on the great canada last boss thousands more are still sleeping out in the open after fires destroyed the torah so more of their refugee facility most are refusing to move into a new camp. Position latest atlanta chicana skya has told the Un Human Rights Council that her countrys own thoughts as it was to end violence against protesters set up a free and fair president ial election isnt Alexander Lukashenko has faced weeks of mass protests over claims to big oldest election. President Martin Vickery faces an Impeachment Vote of corruption allegations or lawmakers the shores of the 2 thirds majority required to remove him from office the timing of the vote has been criticized with the country on one of the hardest hit by the pandemic. Of the us as announced plans to ban the use of the mobile apps to talk and we chat citing National Security concerns downloading the chinese arent apps in the u. S. Will be blocked from sunday with a full ban on the use of tech talk you to come into effect in mid november President Trump says hes concerned that talks Parent Company could pass data from u. S. Citizens to the Chinese Government i want to ban might be canceled if the trumpet ministration agrees a deal between chinese owners and u. S. Investors. So lets explore this further with mathias a cattleman hes an expert on online regulation german bread hour institute welcome to t. W. And threats to National Security as President Trump says. In a word no but its a bit more complicated than the last time i was here in may when we talked about section to 30 reform you know the liability exception for platforms then he did it just for politics now he has a bit of a point but darks the content moderation practices and its handling of user data the problematic is not the reason hes doing that hes doing that because of the chinese province and thats the crux of the matter at the core it remains a political decision whether or not to ban the app the procedures arbitrary the data supporting his decision is sketchy but that doesnt matter because under the u. S. Constitution law he has the authority in matters of National Security so if theres a regime as you talked about hes probably about about the profit of the so youre saying the fact that hes is opened in china exactly that is. Undoubtedly a challenge because the handing of tick tock of the use of data and its terms of Service States that Data Collected overseas while stored in u. S. Overseas can be shared with its Parent Company by them but again thats not the reason why its doing that. As far as youre concerned this is this is political so if its downloading the apps is banned from sunburn hows that going to affect the 10s of millions of u. S. Users for already have it on the phones. But for the moment they will not be able to get security patches they wont be able to get other updates. We chat users will for all intents and purposes no longer be able to use their app at all but at least until mid november to toyotas will continue to be able to use the app just without the latest security patches which will be which is a problem. Ok vanessa pass is general manager of tech talk in the u. S. Were just going to take a look at what she tweeted today she said this type of ban would be bad for the industry and she invited facebook and instagram to join a tick tocks challenge this is the moment to put aside the competition and focus on Core Principles like freedom of expression she said i dont i wonder can you see facebook joining tick tocks fight. I couldnt agree more with her for facebook this so its a really dangerous president the how its not its not in the interest at all of facebook that the the government uses its political power to interpret nursed and to claim National Security as a justification for that so do you think facebook is going to get involved in this. I think it wont get involved more than with statements what right and facebook do right now i didnt do european governments have similar concerns about tech talk. Well partially if you look at europe some Company Countries have banned another another Chinese Company for a way to even poland the Czech Republic the baltic that followed the u. S. Approach there but that it relates to infrastructure regarding a tick tock we dont see any any band on the horizon there there the european approach is different if you look at the European Court of human rights they have just started the European Court of justice in validated the rights for European Data to be transferred to u. S. Companies which is something of a problem for facebook rather your feet approach as a brother looking at the courts which will give you suck you for helping us through that a misuse i catch them up from a german is a Breakdown Institute thank you very much. This is state of the news to live from but then coming up always latest about a pandemic in the cockpit at 19 special ill be back at the top of the hour good to. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Our corona update. Code 19 special next on d w. In the. Climate change. The sudanese. People. Want to use do they have their future. Teetotal dot com africa they go cities for the meeting. Click sure. Its the worlds 3rd largest industry but that was before the cove in 1000 pandemic brought tourism to a screeching halt. Thats been especially hard for europe the worlds number one travel destination in years past tourism brought regular surpluses to european budgets. Border shutdowns or restrictions have shown just how many jobs are dependent on foreign visitors and its not Just Airlines and Tourism Companies but also hotels cafes and businesses all dependent on bustling travel. But with the full coffers of the past also king growing tensions across europe higher living costs gentrification and frustrations for locals and many sit. Like here in barcelona but also venice and amsterdam. Will tourism ever bounce back to its prepared to make highs and could this extended offseason be an opportunity to rethink travel for the future. Hello and welcome to covert 1900. 80 with us attorneys and may be a double edged sword for europe but the pandemic has reminded the continent just how important the sector is for its economy especially for jobs john Philip Schultz brings us this report from Spains Canary islands while the season is coming to an end in most of europe the real action is just beginning on the spanish. Italian. Has lived here for 15 years she runs a Kite Surfing School after months of coronavirus restrictions shes now hoping for winter vacationers sup tropical climate here is pleasant in the colder months and its nearly all the way swindon. I here and i should arrive. And i so we we have a lot of reservations i mean not like us for long term or more like asking for information how this situation is looking but i know there are a lot of people from all over europe interested in coming here and i hope it can be possible for everybody. Its far less optimistic he runs a Small Country Hotel in the interior of the island the restaurant is doing reasonably well but he says the Hotel Business has collapsed because for months people all over the world have been warned against travel to spain he has already had to let go several employees on his small team and he sees few signs of improvement. They were really good employees they always did a good job one of them ended up on the streets without work and without any form of support i think the situation could get even worse peoples fear runs deep its going to be difficult to recover from all this. About 2 thirds of all workers on 4 to ventura live from tourism the crisis is searching the african and south american Migrant Workers on the island particularly hard many lost their jobs from one day to the next and do not appear in any official statistics. 100 migrants work without papers and the hotels and restaurants on the island according to local age organizations and like other residents theyre not entitled to any Government Support and for them the absence of tourists is becoming more and more of an existential threat to. The island governments doesnt even try to put a gloss on things it is now pinning all its hopes on a meeting of the e. U. Tourism minister at the end of the month the government commissioners hopes rest on trevor taws his governments idea on the rival mt parts of the island could test all the tourists for the. And the existing quarantine regulations could be lifted and i hope in that meeting 28 of september in europe they are able to say ok all European Countries decide how to proceed to make those tests in the airports on the ports the government of the counties and also put them into we have to budget with the money to make it possible they could start as early as tomorrow the politicians that it would be expensive but it would be worth it if planes finally landed on the island regularly again. So the view there from Spains Canary islands lets look at the broader woes facing global terrorism and the pain started in the 1st 3 months of the years of the year rather as asia lock down that led to a 22 percent pullback in the sector and while those numbers have improved slightly in some regions the overall Tourism Industry is looking at a whopping 60 to 80 percent contraction for the full year and that would put as many as 120000000 directors and jobs at risk. And lets talk now to Richard Weston hes a Senior Research fellow at the Luxury School of business in the u. K. Where he focuses on tourism but just good to have you on the show how dependent has europe become on tourism. I think that. Probably is as a region europe isnt more dependent all the loss of all the regions in the world that there are parts of europe. Particularly spying in italy greece which have become very dependent on tourism. 15 percent of their g. D. P. Comes from from just from this one sector thats staggering what does that mean for jobs. They have to jump a lot of jobs and of course hes not just a directly employed people in the in the industry but all the ancillary support staff you know. Travel companies and they dont treat companies that everybody does anything that might be connected to tourism so the supply chain. Largely impact you could probably add 50 percent again. What is that 1st at the same time you have all these jobs but then the old Business Model in some ways wasnt that great a lot of the cities amsterdam venice barcelona really chafing at the amount of tourists that were coming through their cities and what it had done culturally what it had done to gentrification things like that. Certainly yeah some of the cities become far too successful if you like. Causing problems for the local populations the resident population in terms of increasing property prices and. Local shops closing because there arent enough local. Places. Particular started to address these in terms of the attract and where they are not trying to put people off. Then trying to push them out into the wider region. But he created a lot of places in in europe which were clamoring for more tourists you know some of the the new Member States in the balkans and. Where they were they were under tourist. The tourists you know when i looks like everyone is under tourist how long can we expect things to last as they are how long this industry be down. Right how long the piece of string adam thats. A. Very good question i think certainly and this year will be written off than were already saying a 2nd spike and so i think you know there will be coming towards the end of the primary tourist season anyway but i think you know were seeing the 2nd spite were likely to get more local lockdowns more interruptions to travel more borders closing and more quarantine period so all of these things will have a negative impact on on to resume. I think the long term impact is likely to be felt for for many years perhaps up to a decade. It just just depend on the progress of of the virus and whether we have a vaccine if we dont have a vaccine an effective one then that means that we will be looking forward to social distancing for the future and of course that has an impact on the capacity of hotels and restaurants cafes beaches even and so thats going to have a serious impact on certainly the mass market of the plates zeroing heavily on tourism for those areas where the track to tourist but they were more dispensed then obviously its less of an issue because theres that natural spacing going on between people all right Richard Weston joining us from the University Lot of sure thank you very much my pleasure. And once again its time for your questions answered by our science correspondent there williams. Doing need to stop taking medications for high Blood Pressure did they make a coded 1000 worse. This is one of those questions thats been subjected to a lot of intense scrutiny over the months early on in this pandemic there was a lot of worry among Health Care Professionals that certain medications called ace 2 inhibitors which are used to lower Blood Pressure that they might actually make people more susceptible to cope at 19 thats because we think they might increase levels of whats called angiotensin converting enzyme to or a stew in your Cell Membranes and we confirmed that in early stage that that just like with other corona viruses the ace 2 receptor is kind of the door knob that sars co 2 uses to open the door to your cells so the theory was that having more ace 2 receptor is would probably be a bad thing however stopping Blood Pressure medication suddenly can also have serious side effects so the medical advice was keep taking your meds until we know more well fast forward 6 months and we do know more and guess what it turns out the opposite could be true a recent large scale met analysis of 19 other studies conducted by british researchers shows that taking those hypertension medications doesnt put you at greater risk of a severe kovac 1000 outcome in fact this study says they might actually reduce the risk of disease severity although that wasnt proven definitively but really i think whether they actually help or not is almost beside the point just knowing that were now pretty sure ace 2 inhibitors. Really dont make over 1000 worse will be a big load off the minds of the people who take them and the doctors who prescribe them as well. All right our science correspondent their claims there and finally here is a special flight for australian travelers with nowhere particular to go quantas is offering a 7 hour scenic flight called Great Southern lands around australia on october 10th it will allow passengers to catch a glimpse of popular attractions such as lulu the Great Barrier reef and sydney harbor tickets cost 570. 00 us dollars apiece and sold out in just a few minutes. All right thats all for this cup in 1000 special to check us out on dot com thanks for watching. Conspired to change the people making it possible to go africa fantastic right. Join them as they set out to save the environment learn from one another and Work Together for a better future. Maybe comes to you all for tuning in. For. Next on w. Beethoven. Is deep Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo doo. 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