A narrative that appeals to floridas cuban americans could the latino vote be the decider in this years u. S. Election. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us this week a number of European Countries are reimposing to read about iris restrictions as they struggle to stay ahead of the pandemic 2nd wave from today germany is back under a partial lockdown until the end of november social gatherings will be limited to 2 households bars restaurants Sports Centers and Entertainment Venues all have to remain closed and hotels are prohibited from providing rooms to tourists the latest measures come in response to whats being called an exponential rise in infections. One more round before not sunday was the last chance to jam and to visit boston restaurants before an enforced month long climb its a heavy blow to businesses still struggling to recover from the fast knocked out in the spring. The economic damage can no longer be measured you can just forget this whole year right this year off. This year isnt about making money any more its just about survival and saving jobs lets all just between. The German Government has announced up to 10000000000 euros of aid for businesses and the self employed it says the new measures are necessary to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed there are still enough intensive care beds available but some areas of facing shortages of medical staff to care for rising numbers of coronavirus patients. To the government is desperate to avoid shutting schools and childcare centers. Instead the focus is on recreation the fresh closures and tightened restrictions on socialising come after low infection numbers over the summer allowed to return to relative normality on sunday evening some took that chance for one mass blowout despite politicians pleas to stay home chance in america once again appealed to the public in her weekend video podcast. The. Day isnt just we must do everything in our power to get the number of infections under control we must face this test together and understand together in solidarity in unspoken promise is the prospect of family get togethers at christmas but if infection rates dont fall and extended lockdown cant be ruled out. More now from our Political CorrespondentThomas Sparrow told us credible iris infections have been rising sharply in germany a host of Health System coping at this point. Terry the main concern that German Authorities have both at the federal level but also regionally and locally is the speed at which the coronavirus is actually spreading new figures for example pointed to the fact that really 85 percent of german districts are now considered hotspots so for now germanys Health System has been able to cope with the coronavirus pandemic but if the virus continues to spread at the speed at which were seeing then the Health System will soon be overwhelmed another issue altogether is those Regional Health departments that are in charge of tracking of tracing infection and as we heard from Angela Merkel last week germany can no longer trace now around 75 percent of infections so that gives you an idea terry of just how serious the situation is here in germany and that explains also why we are now as of today here in germany and until the end of the month having a new partial lockdown thomas weve been seeing a massive rush infections in germany how likely is it that this one month partial lockdown will have to be extended or the tougher measures will have to be imposed the goal that the government has again both federally but also regionally is to avoid any comprehensive complete lockdown they want to keep schools open they want to keep is this is open as much as possible thats something that weve heard time and time again im going to put on the regional leaders will meet in 2 weeks time to assess whether these measures that will start today are actually effective all weather further measures are needed for now these are the measures that we have until the end of November Thomas thanks so much for filling us in there that was our Political Correspondent thomas spector. And here are a few other developments in the pandemic the one month lockdown for england announced on saturday could be extended thats according to a senior aide to british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson the u. K. Has the highest official code 19 death toll in europe the head of the World Health Organization is self isolating after being in contact with a coded 900 positive person to address you so said he was feeling well and did not have any symptoms and slovakia tested 2500000 of its citizens over the weekend in an effort to slow the spread of the virus the testing was voluntary but everyone who would not participate will have to go into corteen its. Now lets take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today more anti french protests have been taking place across the muslim world in pakistan demonstrators burn an effigy of president of Manuel Mccall the the protests came after mccone defended the right to Free Expression in the wake of suspected islam is killing of a teacher who had shown cartoons of the muslim prophet muhammad. And rescuers in the philippines have freed hundreds of people trapped by floodwaters after typhoon goni pounded islands in the countrys south least 16 people were killed as the storm destroyed homes and triggered deadly landslides it came just a week after another deadly typhoon struck the region. With just days to go before elections in the United StatesPresident Donald Trump and his democratic rival joe biden have been making their final pitches to voters trump has been holding rallies in 5 battleground states meanwhile bidens campaign is focused on pennsylvania believes he can hold off another surprise victory as he did 4 years ago but most polls have been showing biden ahead in the keys. Its needed to win. A lot of eyes will be on the biggest swing state of florida its being seen as a must win for donald trump the past 2 elections have seen a wait for a thin margin between the winner and loser there President Trump is banking on the support of one of the states main voting blocs the latino vote. Carolina chinmoy has been to find out how the republicans under President Trump have tapped into a narrative thats found appeal among floridas human americans. They want to see donald trump stay in the white house and theyre determined to deliver florida for him its a must win state for the presidency even at this scale back democrat rally in orlando the triumph waters are far louder. Trump has strong support from a large part of the Latino Community here in florida this despite things which would seem almost designed to put latinos off like the harsh words he has used to describe immigrants im here to find out why the hispanic vote leans more republican here in florida nearly a 3rd of the latino voters in florida have cuban roots including the. Head of latinos for trump in orlando she was 15 when her family fled cuba after losing everything to the government of. Not one of the door and. Now we had lost everything you know we had lost our beautiful home. The ranch the chauffeur but we had a different life and you adopt. Thats why voting is so important to me because its the gift that this country has given me that i didnt have they took away. One of her biggest fears like many other cuban americans is the idea that the system they fled could be adopted in the United States no i dont think joe biden is a socialist or a communist but i do believe the people around him are and they have the same socialist ideas that ive lived through in cuba and ive seen in venezuela so yes i do believe that hes surrounded with that and a leader is as good as the people around them being pro trump is slowly becoming something to president s supporters keep to themselves because there can be consequences mike or plumber is also a devoted trump support i have written for you i have. 0 right. For your press you have a letter from the left of i was this is you not appropriate person wrong word because you dont want to drive your truck choice already provided bridges to do the job because thats a really good word. Its not just a fear of socialism driving support for trump. Many latino voters are catholic and support the republican position against abortion and it may seem counter intuitive but many also supports trumps hard line on immigration even from latin american countries. That trump tells the truth i dont want other hispanics to come into the u. S. Even if they are from my country peru if they dont pay taxes that is not fair so if more hispanics come and dump a taxes they seal and live off the money they get from the government then im a racist too and i also say get out its not fair that those that come through the board border illegally dana call you already 10000. 00 to come here and we dont know where they are they could be rate based here in florida support for President Trump and the republicans steeply emotional if that support is reflected at the ballot box it could decide the election. Lets bring in william glue cruft here from our u. S. Election team very good to see you so florida very complicated demographically how important is it in this election complicated is a nice way of putting it its often the butt of the joe of a joke in america politically socially culturally i mean there are social media accounts that follow all of just the crazy news that sometimes come that comes out of florida that said it is an extraordinarily important election almost every winning president in recent history has won florida and you cant really win the presidency without winning florida and its such a diverse state 17 percent of registered voters in florida are now the t. L. Which is a huge amount of voters but also we have a huge retirement population we have rural white voters you have a large Jewish Population you have an increasingly young population all of these are competing groups and you know we talk about latino but that in itself is a Diverse Group were talking about people come from dozens of countries or their previous generations of come from dozens of countries with hundreds of experiences you know when we talk about for example in comparison black americans 80 to 90 percent of black americans vote democrat theyre much more reliable in politically speaking electorally speaking of a much more uniform group of people or time but latinos its important to say. We saw in the report many Trump Supporters but the majority are still in florida going to go for biden but you do have a breakdown or there are more people voting for trump we saw this in 2016 you had 35 percent of all the tinos voting for donald trump at 54 percent of cubans within that group voting for donald joke and when you talk about cuban americans there they are really concentrated in in florida but lets broaden this out a little bit talking about the latino vote in the u. S. It is incredibly important but they dont vote as a monolithic group theres a lot of diversity within. The latino absolutely in the united of how do they lean politically as a group i mean they lean democrat were looking you know 2 thirds of latinos in 2016 regardless of their specific circumstances voted for Hillary Clinton or were looking at about that same for joe biden and latinos are a growing population you know 4 out of 5 of them are u. S. Citizens they have they have us as a ship they have Voting Rights they this is no longer the immigrant story that stereotypical immigrant story always here these are tried and true americans who have been here for generations now for groups such as cubans and venezuelans as you heard in the report this word socialism is a code word for them you and i might hear socialism think something very different but for them thats a scary word because theyre coming from countries where Socialism Means political prisons and it means taking land away from from landowners and these kinds of things and these are many people who lost out to those socialist revolutions in their countries and came to america to find a different way of life to find what they would perceive as freedom and that leans them more conservative but again we need to be careful say its still a Minority Group but the question is these as we said of the top these razor thin margins it might be enough to tip an election one way or another the fact is we just dont know williams thank you so much was from the u. S. Election. And just reminder the top story were following for you here today on d w news germany has gone back into a partial lockdown schools will remain open but bars restaurants gyms and other public venues they shot for a month to try to curb rising threat of virus in sections districts. This country faces new pricing coronavirus and auctions you are watching news im sorry mark thanks for being. And you hear me yes we can you can hide on stands gentlemen sonce now well bring you im going to back off and youve never had to have surprised himself it was just possible to is magical really. Want. To talk to people who are on the way maurice and critics might join us from apples last thoughts