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the but. this is the dublin news coming to you live from violent the corona virus spreading sickness and fear beyond china chinese authorities believe the saucer like virus posed a growing threat it's ready to already killed 9 people and is downrange the united states china wise about how to contain the virus ahead of a busy lunar new year holiday period also coming up with leaders gathered in
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jerusalem to mark 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz we look at what is driving a resurgence of anti semitism and about the was leading centers of jewish life our reporter visits also dogs jewish communities in new york. and lebanon takes a step forward as the prime minister unveils a new cabinet but he faces a massive task to satisfy protesters who've been filling the streets demanding radical change. plus we go to the world economic forum in davos. tells us what the european union's or is it up on the line has been saying. inclusion exclusion european commission president also said that nationalism is only going to hold back a very fast changing world she said inclusion is the approach to ensure growth. and protect the environment.
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the death toll in the out freak of a new coronavirus in china has risen to 9 and there is growing fear the disease could spread china has confirmed more than $400.00 cases infections is or have also been reported in thailand taiwan south korea and japan as well as in the united states and the world health organization is meeting in geneva to decide whether to declare a global public health emergency we talked of viral or just in just a moment about what that means but 1st let's look at how authorities in china are battling to contain the virus ahead of the lunar new year holiday which is there was largest annual human migration event. it's possibly the worst time of the year to try to stop the spread of
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a virus in china. hundreds of millions of people are crisscrossing the country this week to celebrate the lunar new year with family. also coming from abroad these passengers are traveling to beijing from seattle where the 1st u.s. case was confirmed on tuesday i think what i can do is to wear a mask wash my hands and stay away from the problem. since that outbreak in the city of the deadly virus has jumped a number of international borders prompting large scale screening measures at airports bus and railway stations. containing the virus is an absolute priority as quickly as possible because they are fears that the virus could mutate. the evidence shows that the disease is currently transmitted through the roof spirit retract and there is the possibility of a viral mutation. for our future. in an attempt to minimize the risk of contagion
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during the current travel rush a number of airlines and railway companies have announced they'll wave cancellation fees for trips to and from with han. the city's mayor has also warned against travel to the epicenter of the outbreak and urged the people who are already there to stay. some people have canceled their trips due to the current situation but it's unlikely to stop the majority from traveling. for many chinese the lunar new year holiday is the only chance they get to see their relatives all year. and joining me now for more on this story is dr mohamad monies he's a viral or just who's been tilsley following these developments dr way what happens when the world health organization declares a global health emergency. so don't actively you had sure has a policy in place and since 2000 and indies 20 years it's already been 5 times and
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the emergency has been declared and so this meeting especially being our organizing the numbers jency only for one main part that had 2 days of 3 days before it had been consigned that human to human transmission is possible which is really a main concern for the health officials to really sit back and decide about what possible implications could a pause in new york future so if americans who want to declare that i mean there were a lot of restrictions on the travel of the trade but there would be a lot more control it would be in place not only that in china but also all of the countries that are receiving travelers from china and what are the symptoms off the virus and how long is it before people realize that they a sick so the symptoms are mainly desperation associated so there will be an ammonia they will be difficult leading it would be to a preacher so these are the indication when we initially looking into our
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indication to clone a virus so whenever there are these kind of conditions the 1st thing flora for people to do is to contact the authorities so that the containment can be made so these clinical side could appear fit in $6.00 to $10.00 days. and so these are the conditions one disease is already established but even the infection is there may be a possibility that the clinical sign has not yet appear but that doesn't mean the virus is and they are now authorities say that this virus a could mutate would that make it more contagious. yes so these kind of why does say it's based on their history in 2003 all these kind of us have a potential to mutate although the intention has not been yet proven for this flight is because we have a very limited amount of data but if the mutations have been proven which is very likely for these kind of a lot of sense that mean a virus mill get more fitter it can trust much from people to people more easily
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and it can escape longer duration of time in the population. is the spike in new cases likely due to mutation or because of improvements in detection and monitoring . so the current increase in number of crown of ice insect people is many faults so there are many reasons behind that the 1st and the prime reason is that now we have very good tools to apply and to detect the infection 2nd thing is that they have in essence a lot more as you can see you know many international countries an airport they have started to launch this meaning programs and turley i think the overall strategy has changed especially even at the intended actual meeting or against meetings like this one so what we're all scenario is changing that is all together leading to an increased number of cases that is not just because the virus is spreading could potentially be because we have a lot more to be announced and the tools to detect them dr mohammed monied a vajrayana just thank you very much for sharing her expertise with us and you can
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be. they've been having up to date with some other stories making news around the world the republican controlled u.s. senate has finalized a framework for the impeachment trial of president donald trump lawmakers voted along party lines blocking bids for the democrats to a new evidence or trump is accused of abuse of power over his dealings with ukraine . visit and prosecutors have charged 16 people from the mining company valley and its german auditor over the collapse of a dam a year ago the disaster in the southern state of mena. killed $270.00 people and dumped toxic sludge in a local river the charges include homicide and environmental crimes. dozens of heads of state are gathering in jerusalem tomorrow to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp but then also we're talking about
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a resurgence of anti-semitism jewish people and institutions have been attacked around the world including in new york city which is a thriving center of jewish life but the rise of anti semitic incidents has begun wiring the jewish community there did boston harty has this report. this is a tense time for the keys of crown heights a neighborhood in. brooklyn. community has become the target of an increased number of attacks in recent months. now there's more police on the streets protecting synagogues and other jewish institutions. his friends. the jewish. anti semitism is an issue in this ethnically diverse neighborhood but the recent string of attacks has hit uncomfortably close to home. attacks were so
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on someone threw a chair at someone else or screaming kill jews there's different attacks that have a son that pointed a gun. so in that. i have friend they got punched by the middle central crowd heights where everyone walks. the see they're not afraid but the attacks have made them more weary they want to walk their selves especially at night. just yet thing obviously because of the increase of the fear in the community because of the recent attacks. on the family that had it in that apartment had a feeling that you know you have to be more careful. often orthodox jews become targets of anti semitic hate crimes because they're doing this is plainly visible. and the colon is a rabbi in the community he knows being recognizable is a risk but he says hiding is not an option never be afraid never be afraid to show
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who we are never afraid to remain and or run away never the idea would come of running away somewhere else this is this is our community and we're going to take whatever it takes to stay here and be strong but not to be afraid or to hide out of fear but it's not only the orthodox community that's feeling uneasy and all feldman is jewish too and as with many of new york's jews you can't really tell from his looks born in israel he's been in the u.s. since the age of 3 you know lives in manhattan huge to me says the mood in the community has changed since the attacks. people are talking about getting armed and carrying guns mace weapons and learning self-defense worry wasn't even a subject for. roughly one in 8 new york city residents is jewish for centuries has been a refuge for jesus. and this city is home to the biggest jewish community outside
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of israel that's why rising anti semitism here is particularly unsettling jewish advocacy groups are saying the phenomenon is surprising as it is complex because the sources of these recent semitic attacks here in the united states are multiple but they're not all coming from white supremacists or white nationalists they're also coming from street attacks in new york. by young african-americans coming from black hebrews what seems to be constant is a sense that there's a copycat phenomenon now it's become sort of more involved. to go after jews or identifiable on the streets. back in town hates green his friends say they will back down the. stronger than he cheated the rich templars. still to come the fun the damage caused 5 years trillions bush 5 untold number of
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animals including cantors have been killed or injured on the other side of there was a boy and his mother want to have a simple gesture that says to both films. but 1st 11 on which has a new government ending a 3 month power vacuum triggered by mass demonstrations against the country's political establishment the most urgent priority for the new prime minister and his cabinet will be to pull levanon out of its deep financial crisis it's led to soaring inflation and banks restricting access to cash but the new hezbollah backed government may find itself having trouble winning support both at home and abroad. months of protests left rudderless without effective leadership but now lebanon finally has a new government. prime minister has sunday announced his cabinet chosen after
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intense wrangling by shiite group hezbollah and its allies getting a handle on lebanon spiraling economic crisis is the most urgent issue at hand or haiyan intifada thoda i salute the uprising that pushed for this path to be taken lebanon has one this is a government that meets the aspirations of the protesters across the country after more than 3 months of anger at that what. you know and it will work towards addressing their demands with a paramilitary party to him that instead of calming them protests flared up again on the streets of the capital beirut and around the country. demonstrators say they wanted a government of independent experts who be able to deal with the country's financial crisis and not ministers selected through horse trading by political parties. and we want a government of experts the politicians should not have brought their advisors.
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this is in these leaders do not represent us this government doesn't reflect us we want a government that's ours. protesters are demanding swift progress which may prove difficult for the new government with hezbollah designated a terrorist group by the us its key role in picking lebanon's ministers who make it harder for the country to win the foreign support it so vitally needs. for more i'm joined by reporter. welcome so we heard about reports of the new plan this is sounding very upbeat but how different is this new government from the previous one so i mean i think the biggest difference is that this government is really tasked with this. task of really pulling lebanon out of a crisis unprecedented since the days of the civil war which ended in 1990 but on the former level this is a reduced government if it is composed of 20 ministers as opposed to 30 ministers
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from the previous government it has a large female presence as well 6 of the 20 ministers are women including the defense minister for the 1st time in lebanon a woman is taken this post some ministries have been merged and some of these mergers have recent question marks with the protesters if you will for example the merger of agriculture and culture these are now one ministry social affairs and tourism so even on that technical level the government is causing some agitation. that's with the different but in terms of the similarities it seems that the political maneuvering the goal was on behind the scenes of established business of parties. getting in there people of you will hasn't really changed with this government there are indeed people that are new to the political scene but a lot of them are previous advisors to ministers. and established politicians that have actually been the target of anger so in that sense it seems like not a lot has changed yet this been some support for the government from the outset for
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example the un 6 region until good to audition attention said he looks forward to working with his comments but most importantly how will the people of lebanon accept this government from. the most unhappy indeed i mean it is taking a month for this government to be formed and in this month a lot of agitation has or has already been mounted a cut against the prime minister has sent india precisely because there was a lot of you know political maneuvering. by others by some political parties for example that it was delayed because you know it was said that certain political groups wanted this ministry and not that ministry so already there is there's kind of bad blood between this new government and the protesters another important thing to remember is that the future movement former president prime minister said that harry's party has boycotted this and this is a huge part of lebanon lebanon's political political spectrum so we might also see other political parties that have boycotted this government now mobilizing people
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against it and finally you know these 2 just beginning of a peaceful manner but now we can see there's a lot of anger on the streets combined with this political chaos as well as financial problems what does it mean for the country. i think one thing that's very important to remember is that yes the protest movement has perhaps made lebanon more unstable but they are there as a symptom of the country being dysfunctional that's what the protesters keep telling me is that we are on the streets because we didn't have electricity we didn't have jobs the economy there's no economic growth in lebanon the country has the 3rd highest the to g.d.p. ratio in the world for a tiny country of 6000000 so that's an. important thing to remember with that being said it is not helping the situation because for investors and for the outside world it looks like this is an unstable place and already yesterday with the announcement of the new government the lebanese mirror increased in value. it had been it had been losing its value against the dollar in the past couple of days so
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a lot of challenges for the new government thank you very much for sharing those insights with us in other news venezuela's opposition says government agents have raided the office of opposition leader one why those currently traveling in europe seeking support for his bid to asked president nicolas maduro opposition lawmakers condemned the office treated as illegal and said it's unclear what the agency did inside. the discovery of an unexploded world war 2 bomb led to the evacuation of almost 2000 people from central on tuesday public transport was disrupted and street traffic diverted experts have since successfully defused the device. day 2 of this year's world economic forum is underway in davos switzerland political and business leaders from around the world are gathered for the 4 day meeting its core theme is sustainability the european commission president from the
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line has delivered a special address leaving out the environmental priorities while also touching on concerns over forming economic growth in the block the forum comes as ongoing inequality and climate change fuel global skepticism over traditional capitalism years the future now then facility debbie senior business editor joins me from a diverse then i you've been following that speech but was it off on the line how has the speech gone down there. it's going down very well the e.u. wants to lead the way as far as green goes and this sustainable push from countries and companies won't wide. it's yet to be seen which companies join the cause there have been lots of promises and pledges made here but certainly the e.u. wants to have a say and wants to be at the forefront of the front line said that inclusion is so important here not exclusion nationalism will only see countries fall behind while
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companies need is strong help from governments and also innovators being connected with scientists to create jobs that are sustainable to ensure sustainable growth and also that the planet is protected i've been talking about that subject with funk back he's from accenture germany a tech firm. from 1st of all tell me how companies need to change to ensure that they remain sustainable. sustainability is the number one topic here in davos and the world on fire and i think the company leaders the c.e.o.'s are recognizing that we have to try to go changes now how do you do that a digital allows you today to create transparency around the whole supply chains product engineer it manufacture it consumed and recycled and that transparency allows you to basically change everything so the tech is already there china is
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proving as well that it can name and shame polluters as far as companies go and ensure that multinationals do have green supply chains is this what you're seeing is china really leading the way i think the world is actually moving and i personally if europe can lead in this because it's not about the name and shame that is probably making sure that we are understanding the problem we have to great new solutions we have to redevelop the products think about exchanging. plastic this biodegraded plastics if you do that you need new manufacturing processes you need smaller lot sizes you need different applications and different ways to recycle i think we have to step back and think about radical transformation and radical new solutions and digital and other technologies material science will make the difference we are hearing from so many companies here that they do want to
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change why aren't we seeing more of a move by governments i mean we just had trumpy yesterday saying that we do not and i are not going through a climate of urgency i think you know if you look at the us and think about california i think we have seen many leading initiatives actually with respect to sustainability coming out of the u.s. and we see china picking up this topic because none of the people want to consume polluted food or they want to live in a polluted area now what it means for us i think we have to go beyond activism we have to understand that sustainability and climate change is actually a good a green and a big business and if we have to find solutions how these changes are not a burden to our companies but they are an opportunity to great new solutions for the people for the business and for the world. thank you very much appreciate it so as you heard there the e.u. in his opinion is leading the way other economists i've spoken to here say china is
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the candidate to become the green pioneer we'll see we've got blue skies here a lot of green to talk about and a couple more days of talks between world leaders business leaders and all stakeholders as that's what they want here in davos stakeholder capitalism not just pure capitalism anymore all right ben facilitated obviously a business that is a great chatting to you and thank you very much for that and of course we'll be chatting to it felt the day as well as the next couple of days at davos thank you. turning onto a stray they have which in recent weeks has been battling some of the west bushfires in living memory 100000 square kilometers of land has been scorched scientists say part of the country's landscape has been permanently damaged and also its biodiversity the images of the devastation have moved around the world in tooting a young boy in poland who wants to have. the australian bush fires have been
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devastating to wildlife an exact figure is all but impossible to come by but the estimated tally is 1000000000 animals killed among them australia's beloved kangaroos no one knows just how many have died or got lost but many of the little ones are on their own without their mother's pouch to keep them warm their lives are at risk. this situation has moved a group of fallen tears seamstresses half a world away to take action. here in quetta in southern poland these women are sewing 50 years for orphan kangaroo infants known as joey's. my son was deeply touched by a photo of us they had been trying to flee from the burning bush but they couldn't escape they were trapped by a wall by the highway and they were burned to law and. the idea
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is that a volunteer in australia can wear the power and take care of the joey the group hopes to deliver 50 pouches to australia by the end of the week a simple and modest gesture they say but one that shows how people can help each other no matter where you are in the world for it keynes because 8 year old son tony who inspired the project has more ambitious plans because you know if everyone in the world so one such pouch then probably all congress would be saved. but not a tall order but given the scale of the fires the. guy diaz may be exactly what's needed. it watching the news here's a recap of the top stories at their funding feel the death toll in the outbreak of a new virus in china is now 19 and there's growing fear the disease is spreading cases have been reported elsewhere in asia and in the u.s. the world health organization is meeting to decide whether to declare
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a global emergency. and offer a lengthy delay lebanon's prime minister is a new cabinet but he faces a massive task to satisfy protest has been filling the streets demanding a radical change. coming up next to w.'s business program made in germany in this episode it looks at how designers are creating fake auto songs so pedestrians and electric cars that's coming up shortly stay with us for that in the cat.
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not going to think out of the gym well i guess sometimes i am but i stand up and with that message i have a thick skin cancer jemma culture of looking at the stereotypes question in here think the future of the country that i no longer. need it seems to pick from a scrum on their toes it's all about who they are by my job join me to meet the jetman from d.w. post. the fact that. just. what do you hear music kids playing a neighbor drilling raindrops hammering against the window your own heartbeat the
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world we live in is noisy sound is everywhere even in business in fact sound is business and that's our topic today on made.

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