Carrying out an attempted, true in 26 day. But former soldiers and civilians will now spend the rest of their life in prison. And in ethiopia, the Prime Minister, what is the army to begin . What hes calling the final phase of his offensive against the northern reaches. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the program. German chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the country faces a tough months ahead. As it faces down the coronavirus pandemic. She told paula meant that measures to curb its spread may well be extended into next year. She also said more restrictions were necessary as of next month because although the infection right has stabilised, it remains at a high level and the number of deaths has also reached a record high medical once again repeated a mantra thats become familiar to anyone closely following her statements through out the pandemic, stopping the spread of the virus is in everyones hands. You know, i was going to say very clearly, its up to us. Were not powerless. Wit
Im sara kelly welcome to the Program Germany is back under lockdown today amid a dramatic rise in new corona virus infections chancellor Angela Merkel has been meeting her cabinet this morning and is due to hold a press conference in a few minutes from now the monthlong measures come as many European Countries battle a 2nd wave of the coronavirus chancellor merkel of arriving at the press conference were going to go live to that in just a moment she is expected to discuss the measures that have been really imposed to fight rising cases of the virus germany reported a record 19000 new infections over a 24 hour period over the weekend and last week america warned germans that a National Effort was needed to prevent the countrys Health System from being overwhelms you know many government down the choice of me here. Ladies and gentlemen their concern. Is fitting into the federal press our friends thank you for inviting me here to give an opportunity to answer questions put to me by journa
And for more lets bring in our very own they are mattis who is joining us from brussels they are why has belgium been hit so hard. Well sarah a big issue here is of course the book mortality rate the 3rd highest in the world but to explain that you need to understand the broad criteria that belgium uses to get to these numbers and the reason is that only 50 percent of the cases are actually confirmed caray corona cases the other ones of possible cases that have not been confirmed whether coronavirus test and the reason is that in the 1st wave of the pandemic here in belgium the country was so hard hits that they wanted an easy way to to count deaths and that is why they installed the system that now makes the numbers of the death rate look really bad on the other hand youre right of course numbers here i stream the high with belgium having a small population extremely high numbers 2 possible explanations one is that the tracking system has been rather weak its not been running smoothly
Higher alert test cases served across the continent germany is again hit by a Record Number of defections governments tightening restrictions and impose food lockdowns we have the latest from 4 sponsors italy india and china plus looted buildings and prisons set on fire in Lagos Nigeria president bush is calling for an end to the on drugs too sweeping the country but after weeks of protest against Police Violence demonstrators say they will keep up the pressure on the government. Im sara kelly welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden have faced off in a final t. V. Debate less than 2 weeks before the election the exchange in nashville tennessee was a lot more civil than the 1st ill tempered 1st debate between the 2 men the racism taxes and the economy were on the agenda but for both candidates the coronavirus pandemic was top of the list. A different tone and pace the find this head to head between the president ial hopefuls gone were
A substantive debate but it may be too late to have a major impact on the election result a Record Number of americans have voted early and polls show most remaining voters had already decided how theyll fill in their ballot. And i am joined now here in the studio by william glue croft from our us Election Team who came out on top here i say everyone did i mean not just the candidates but kristen relic of the moderator she was fully in control much more than Chris Wallace was she had the help of muted microphones but even without those she was really in control of both can especially donald trump who we saw in the 1st debate loud really quite abrasive and it didnt do well for him in the polls and of course viewers actually got a chance to listen to these candidates debates are never that substantive and in fairness to both candidates to have 30 seconds or or 2 minutes even to explain their solutions to very complex policies are never going to get that deep into things but certainly a f