i am. this is g.w. news coming to you live from berlin the 50th summit of the world economic forum opens in switzerland in his keynote speech president dollar trump the strength of the u.s. economy and says america is grinning like never before climate activists gratitude and bergen's also been addressing delegates we'll go live to davos to get reactions also on the program. chinese state media say a 6th person has died from

a new coronavirus international airport sentry and stations us treating passengers from the heightened concern is growing as health officials now warn the virus can be awestruck human to human. and from police chief to prison a chinese court sentences a full month president of interpol to touch him and a half years in prison for corruption but is there more to the case we'll ask an expert. and the mexican border guards clashed with migrants trying to cross into the country from guatemala migrants have been waiting across the river on the border after authorities closed a nearby bridge they were using. plus the skill from haiti becomes an improbable star at the youth winter olympics he did not get any medals but a mock concern for him don't feel cycles when a. as he captures the hearts of the people who tell you why.

kind of a warm welcome to you i'm a bit touchy the world economic forum has officially begun in davos u.s. president donald trump is given the opening speech at the summit which is taking place as the senate in washington the press to open his impeachment trial the president uses is used his address to pitch the united states of the deal business community saying the country has seen an economic turnaround that is nothing short of spectacular. he also use a platform to criticize climate change activists some of former attending the event calling them prophets of doom have a listen this is not a time for pessimism this is a time for optimism fear and doubt is not

a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism in action but to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse they are the heirs of yesterday's foolish fortune tellers and i have them and you have them and we all have their. and they want to see us do badly but we don't let that happen. so that was president donald trump speaking at the opening of the davos summit a short while ago we return to davos a little later to get some more reactions from that also here from our correspondents and our team based there but 1st let me bring you up to date with some of the stories making news around the. iran civil aviation authority has confirmed that 2 missiles were fired at a ukrainian airliner that vote in tehran earlier this month or $176.00 people were

killed iran initially denied down in the plane before its revolutionary guard accepted full responsibility. russian authorities say 11 people have died in a fire that destroyed a workers' shack in siberia most of the victims were migrants from uzbekistan a chinese company use the hot as a dormitory. senior executive mangan zhou has appeared in a court in canada on the 1st day of extradition trial was arrested by canada on a warrant from the united states which has accused him of covering up attempts to breach u.s. sanctions on iran china says the case is politically motivated. concerns

are growing over the rapid spread of a new strain of corona virus in china the virus a school 6 deaths infected almost 300 people cases of also surfaced in thailand japan south korea and the philippines as a travel rush ahead of china's lunar new year holiday gathers space domestic and overseas epis have begun screening travelers from the affected region. airports and train stations on high alert across china. this after authorities revealed the corona virus can be spread between humans something they had previously ruled out officials there say vigilance is key to stopping the spread. what should you do the one i think the outbreak is in its early stage and. though they have been more than 100 cases this is a small number compared to the population of 100 which is more than 10000000 become the but we need to be on high alert the outbreak can be totally reversed if all

measures are taken now and shoddy. health authorities believe the virus originated at this now closed market in ruhani which sold fish and wild animals the outbreak coincides with the lunar new year holiday the busiest travel time in china on the streets concern is growing. could be your money we make our own dollars of course i'm worried i just went to buy mosques i tried buying mosques around my neighborhood before leaving but they were all sold out i'm worried because so many people will be traveling. the job was. done to will result but honestly i have no idea which reports to believe i just trust my instincts i'm not that confident that authorities have the situation under control i think the number of infected could be far more important. but there's

also a lot of little for you to take as a canoe you are going to cause i'm worried and the virus can spread rapidly you cross infection happens during this travel period the epidemic will be terrible in . other countries including australia are also implementing enhanced screening measures authorities there say they are monitoring a possible case of the virus. the world health organization will meet on wednesday to decide if the outbreak should be declared an international public health emergency. and staying in china where a court has sentenced former into poor chief a man with a 13 and a half years in prison on corruption charges meng sandal as interpol chief was cut short but he vanished on a visit to china back in 2018 beijing later confirmed he'd been detained and said an investigation found meghann spent lavish amounts of state funds lost it said he

pleaded guilty to accepting over $2000000.00 in bribes. following the story i have professor of a son from hong kong spock to university welcome professor not china says menke accepted $2000000.00 in bribes what more did the court say about what took place and when this took place. well the call said out corruption has been taking place for quite a long time between 2 or 5 and 2617 so during a period where. moema more weight okayed by different positions us 1st are you to call it chatter brand director then you know who was moved to the coast guard race who were for some time yet the same time he was vice minister of public security and in that position he was very close to a former leader who was pretty twenties there and. now the job or the job of doing

your own com who are for a long time rule the public security in china the little white room is in france and she's accused chinese apologies of lying so besides his confession what do we know about the evidence which was used to convict him. we don't know much actually a lobby area to say that $2000000.00 broad falls by a charity is very small and there must be other things behind one of the. speculation of service maybe it's that richly. homework moved to france. because one of the secretary from china usually the ball president don't move to hurry on a frosty stay in their home country that wasn't the case of warhol way year apply for brazil besides falls and he stayed there with his family and you were schooled

by 2 china so probably didn't suspect that you will be arrested back to china but the ones in an age where clearly senator very alarming message was viral. now critics of president xi jinping say the anti graft campaign is a 2 way to remove political enemies so is she isn't being very cleaning up corruption or is he using it as a means to consolidate power in your assessment. we've heard or there should be one of the real need to keep her the party where is england going to power he cared power in the aftermath of the solicitor i referred to as a very big shot for a lot of people in china we didn't know a lot about the level of corruption of birds you know chinese leaders birds are clearly since the launches campaign against her they're thinking peano the research right are you a good reader many of these are new meters to search or right all they're probably

norway was part of a group of people who could have a sort of. limited the power of 13 people who now are now decided to use corruption as work to rule the country into careers i'm sure we need the bar as you noted to make sure that the little categories that are as you will will earn his days russians. will be a compass done from buckled up to scene of us city thank you very much for that assessment. we're watching the news coming up ahead desperate scenes on mexico's southern border dozens of hondurans trying to reach the u.s. take to the water after a bridge is closed off the troops from mexico's national guard shall get serious about cracking down on my groups. but 1st the impeachment trial against u.s. president donald trump gets underway later this evening trump is charged with

abusing his presidential power by asking your crane to investigate democratic political rival joe biden and obstructing congress as it looked into his conduct trump's legal team is demanding respect by the senate back to work house impeachment managers the democrats prosecuting u.s. president donald trump filed a brief making fresh demands for a fair trial in the senate. almost simultaneously trump's defense lawyers filed a brief of their own slamming the trial as a dangerous perversion of the constitution. but as both sides get ready for the showdown the president himself boarded a plane headed thousands of miles away to the devil swell economic forum in switzerland even if trump doesn't get an outright acquittal with republicans in

control of the senate confident he'll be clear it's either way. we know that he's not going to be removed from office we need help be acquitted in the senate so but again we respect the senate process so if a republican senator or a democratic senator wants to make a motion to dismiss will follow along in the vote with the trial just hours away the nation is split. we're definitely divided in the country but i think the majority feel the same way that i do that he should no longer be the commander in chief it's an effort from democrats to try to get some of the power that they seem to be losing is slipping away from them i am very hopeful that there will be witness says there will be documents and they the truth will come out that this president put our country in danger. with republicans calling for 12 hour daily sessions with only the 3rd presidential impeachment trial in u.s.

history is set to be a grueling one. if i'm on the story i'm joined by politico. with congealed there's a lot of interest in this trial but this isn't a crime in a traditional sense is it well has a judge it has prosecutors it has so-called jury members and there's going to be evidence and witnesses but don't let that distract you this is more about politics than justice so more house of cards than lower order and what we know is that some of these jury members are supposed to be impartial and to balance make balance decisions based on the evidence but some of them of already told us that that's not going to be the case for example the leader of the republicans in the senate mitch mcconnell now before christmas he told reporters that he's taking orders directly from the white house let's have a listen to what he said then well exactly what we go forward i'm going to coordinate with the president lawyers so there won't be a difference the tradeoffs on how to do those cases so darned week coming over from the house we all know how it's going to be on there is no chance the president's

going to be removed from office so that's kind of like the judge taking orders from the defendant's lawyers and there's some on the other side of the democrats who also were elected promising to impeach trump so that doesn't really indicate an postulate either this is going to come down to party loyalty for many of them so given all of this so let's see how these impeachment of proceedings will go ahead they're going to start later today in washington 1 pm washington time that's even in time here in europe there are going to be $100.00 senators who will be going into the chamber they have to hand over their mobile phones they could vote to kick the media out and it's going to be a very long process is going to be 4 days of 12 hours of opening statements followed by 16 more hours of debate and 4 hours and they could even extend it so that we're in for a long run here what's interesting though is that the accused himself mr donald j. trump doesn't have to appear and in fact economists here we know that he's in what is in switzerland today he's going to be back in washington tomorrow but there's no

indication that he's going to show up for his own trial. expecting any surprises in this trial a would it be over fairly predictable there are a few surprises that could occur and most of them come down to witnesses the democrats want to call for key people to appear and give evidence they include the john bolton the former national security advisor the secretary of state. as well as some white house insiders and associates of trump's lawyers and it whether those witnesses do appear come down to 4 republican swing voters if in the next few days democrats can convince those 4 swing voters to allow witnesses this could totally change the dynamic of this trial and it could get very dramatic indeed if they can't then this will probably be all over next week with a fairly fairly predictable outcome which will be acquittal ok so a lot of interest in this trial which takes place in about 4 from now and to be following that right jill dougherty thank you very much fold is an issue commons.

well mexico's national guard has fired tear gas at my friends trying to cross into the country from guatemala hundreds of migrants began wading through the border river off authorities closed a border gate on a nearby bridge mexico is under pressure from washington to crack down on a vegan migration. the question reach the u.s. is ending here for many. mexico's national guard forcibly repelled hundreds of migrants trying to storm its southern border. officials also detained several 100 who may face deportation some parents and children reportedly got separated during the crossing. was most of the migrants are from honduras and say they want to escape rampant poverty and crime. can also took him 7 years i'm scared and i don't want to go back to my country because there's nothing there no work my

daughter and i go hungry i think i'm a muslim member of the l.g.b. t. community it's very hard to find a job in place yet but i think the majority of us suffer from violence and discrimination that we just don't have the option of staying in our country you know not a morsel of genocide in the fight. last year mexico stopped allowing migrants to cross its territory with few restrictions in june officials dowd unprecedented steps to block crossings into the u.s. absolutely the country was responding to threats issued by president donald trump is 1st he had tweeted in may we will impose increasing tariffs on all goods coming into our country from mexico until illegal migrants stop coming through and into our country. mexico's tougher stance appears to be having an effect since may u.s.

officials say there's been a steady drop in the number of people arrested or stopped at its southern border. thousands of pro-gun activists from across the u.s. have stage a rally in the state of virginia the urging lawmakers to abandon plans for stricter gun control laws democrats promised to tighten gun legislation after they gained control of the state's legislature in november but their proposed package of control says enraged gun rights campaign as. pro-gun campaign is gather in richmond every january but this year they are here in far greater numbers with new reason to rally for that cause no make is in virginia are pushing forward with a package of gun control legislation including universal background checks a ban on assault style rifles and a limit of $100.00 gun purchase per month gun rights supporters are furious. all of these rights are god given no one can take them away we have

a right to defend ourselves and our families. so we're here to. they can't take our rights away we don't need the government telling us for our rights or are not there our government does not take away our rights. and if the governor keep portion of. his democratic friends there you go to 2nd revolution america was the 1st revolution where people get shot. for possible violence prompted gov ralph northam to ban weapons on the capitol grounds and declare a temporary state of emergency. fee is fueled by the memory of charlottesville in 2017 when a white supremacist attending a rally drove his car into an anti-racism protest and killed. and these kept some gun control activists away from planned kind of protests with all of the threats and all of the terribly violent rhetoric that's going on right now

our main goal is not to engage with going to extremists we're really here to be present in the legislature our voices heard to underscore a majority. for the moral agency that we have as our generation effected by gun violence figures show 2019 was the worst year on record for mass shootings in the united states the total number of people fatally shot also increased last year according to data from gun violence a nonprofit the tracks shootings. these activists insist guns on the problem they say any attempt to tighten controls infringes their constitutional right to bear arms and see if it's any as a key rallying point for the fight against what they see as a national liberation of gun rights. 10 and out of the philippines authorities there say they're keeping the wrong the tile. at its 2nd highest level even though activity inside the mountain has decreased the volcano has been spewing ash for

more than a week evacuated residents are frustrated by the precautions that are keeping them from returning to their homes and their livelihoods. another day of uncertainty. the threat posed by volcano tiles some 66 kilometers south of manila may appear to be subsiding but the country's institute of volcanology and seismology says that the danger has not yet passed with a hazardous explosive eruption still possible within hours to days. that means many locals are able to return to their homes police cordons are still in place leaving towns completely deserted. the number of residents forced to flee has now reached more than 235000 according to the national disaster risk reduction office. most of squeezed into evacuation centers people who are desperate to return to their homes are becoming frustrated with the situation. i know. it's very

difficult that there's no certainty about what will happen next because we have elderly people we have children and we don't know where we are going to stay but i mean for. some defied the government's orders to evacuate their homes reliant on food and water coming from non-governmental organizations they said they were aware of the dangers. in alabama bearing i mean we're worried that the volcano might erupt again. we're not a 100 percent sure if we should stay here. but if something happens i can still get out. the government says as long as the threat of a potentially even bigger eruption lingers it won't allow people to return to the area leaving many people's lives up in the year. funny an item of

sports and the youth winter olympics conclude this weekend with powerful host switzerland top of the medals table the caribbean nation of hit in comparison has no big traditional winter sports but the explorers of the only competitor at the games this captured the hearts of the people there. my concern florindo may not be the quickest. but he is still a trailblazer haiti's only enter into a youth winter olympics has inspired a nation still struggling after an earthquake a decade ago left over 100000 people dead. his 51st place finish in a field of $77.00 in the giant slalom was celebrated like a victory the 17 year old normally fixes. things i do not consider myself as an outsider but i haven't had enough training and i got to do more to be better at this level. and it's

a big difference for all the others are training during the week. i'm at school or at the garage. where i work as a mechanic or play you know. he was lifted an orphanage in haiti by his mother when he was 3 he was adopted and now lives in france but he was immensely proud to carry the haitian flag at the lows on opening ceremony. he was a looking to ski out during a 2nd race at the games. but florida was happy just to be there. it was a great experience. i didn't perform at a satisfactory level. but it taught me a lot. i can use this experience in the future. haiti is dancing and florida has even been signing autographs.

finally a record breaking turnout that might have become a victim of its own success thousands of twins gathered in sri lanka's capital colombo in a bid to make history in the guinness book of world records the previous record off some 4000 twins in one spot was set in taiwan 2 decades ago all the nies is in sri lanka say they counted more than 6000 but the turnout might not be certified after overcrowding at the venue prompted some twins to leave early. here watching the news coming to you live from berlin coming up next on d.-day have been used. as a potentially dangerous new virus spreads in china so too does the fear of

contracting it we see what people are seeing on social media. and digital you meet with a hong kong activist who has dedicated his life to the city's pro-democracy protests movement. that and more coming up shortly on the news easier and do remember we have lots more on our website this d.w. dot com i'll have more international news for you at the top of the hour i look forward to seeing you that. lucky.

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