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b.t.w. dot com to distribute the milk can you give us a click term. plan . this is either a news line from berlin a call to action the head of the e.u. commission ers on the line tells global leaders gathered at the world economic forum that the window to fight climate change is rapidly closing or she says europe should be leading the charge in creating a carbon neutral future will get a live update for you from davos also on the program the question is whether the
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senate will be complicit in the president's crimes by covering them up the battle lines are drawn here in washington before a key vote in the impeachment trial republicans set the tone for the proceedings allowed no new witnesses at least for now and as world leaders gather in jerusalem to mark 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz we look at what is driving anti-semitism in one of the world's leading centers of jewish life new york city we visit the orthodox jewish community there and the new strain of the deadly coronavirus is killing people in china and the reckoning to spread well health officials are trying to contain the outbreak as millions of chinese embark on trips ahead of the lunar new year holiday the virus has also been detected outside of china the world health organization is holding an emergency meeting in geneva.
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the egg. on my heart thank you so much for your company everyone well we start in switzerland because it's day 2 of this year's world economic forum and it was underway in earnest in davos and the political and business leaders from around the world are gathered there for the 4 day prestigious meeting its core theme this year is sustainability and european commission president or slave on the alliance has delivered a special address laying out the environmental priorities while also touching on concerns over failing economic growth in the bloc while the forum comes as ongoing inequality in climate change feel global skepticism over traditional capitalism the european green deal is our new growth strategy the novelty
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and the difference. to our fossil fuel. based model is that we will fall still growth that is not extracting resources but that gives back to the planet more than it takes away from it. and europe has the 1st mover advantage. that was the e.u. commission president let's take you now to davos to have your our gave us from the business who is covering this year's a-w. yes you're the president there as of underlying is pushing in her words for the european union as to become the 1st mover when it comes to a new green economy how has her pitch been received. well despite the criticisms that we heard when this plan was 1st presented if you will saying that it was not bishops enough or that it wasn't even feasible the fact is of course that the weight of the european union and the leadership that it can
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take on this issue is definitely well received here in davos perhaps one of the most important aspects of her speech and of what she mentioned is the fact that 44 investors one of the biggest groups of investors in europe actually approached the european union to ask the e.u. to sign climate neutrality into law this is important because it would force companies investors banks and different enterprises to be climate neutral and to be more responsible this is important because despite all the good intentions and all the speeches that you'll hear here make no mistake no one is going to put money into any initiative unless they think at least investors that this money is going to at least be part safely or multiply so if the european union somehow makes a bold movement towards achieving that and is an example for other big economies and blocks that could be a positive sign the signs that are being hoped for here in davos here and as you are reporting we've been seeing that bilateral meeting between the lion and
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president trump because yesterday of course it was trying day in davos before he left he gave an impromptu conference and he drew a rather. unflattering comparison let's put it that way between europe and china when it came to take a listen and i'd like to get your take the united states has been losing 150000000000 and more for many years 150000000000 more i mean really more than that with the european union they have trade barriers where you can trade they have tariffs all over the place they make it impossible they are frankly more difficult to do business with than china. wow. or to begin so that bilateral meeting with yourself on the line didn't go as expected i presume. well you know if leaders in the european union have learned something in these years under the presidency of donald trump then it is to be cautious and to just
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wait and see what happens even though his statements might sound really badly for them at 1st they have learned to wait and to actually see what happens when they sit down in the negotiating table and if china is more easy to negotiate with the european union with that might be because the european union is a bloc it's a group of countries and that is how european leaders react to these statements as well when they sit down to negotiate was a fund that will represent the interests of many countries not just one and therefore it is quite normal that we won't see any bold statements or announcements when it comes to just i bilateral meeting between donald trump and was at a fund line she was in one go merkel's government she knows how to handle these statements and will probably only see action by the e.u. and reaction once it is consented by all the countries that are part of the bloc having i guess reporting for you from davos thank you. and as we
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said the president is on his way back home he's headed to washington and his impeachment trial there is in full swing in the u.s. senate well later today democrats on the prosecution team are expected to begin oral arguments laying out their case against the u.s. president will trump is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of congress stemming from his controversial dealings with the country of ukraine after a bitter debate on monday senators adopted a framework to govern the trial that could remove him from office the republican majority have approved rules that for now at least will prevent new witnesses from being called. so ordered that senate is adjourned. the day ended in the early hours of the morning there not with details finalized on how to proceed actions but not before senators voted on each proposed amendment to the
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impeachment procedure with control of the senate republican lawmakers were able to establish the trial rules on their terms rejecting democrats' demands for more witnesses republican senate leader mitch mcconnell suggested that many of the votes on the democrats' proposals could be avoided. i would ask the democratic leader and for certain some alerted all those amendments. whether he would be willing to enter into a consent agreement to stock. those vote but the democratic response came quick and defiant. the bottom line is very simple as has been clear to every senator and the country we believe witnesses and documents are extremely important and a compelling case has been made for them we will have votes on all of those. the day is so heated debate the white house counsel for the president claimed donald
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trump is innocent house managers on the upper hand argued trump should be removed from office polls have consistently shown americans to be stockley divided down parties and lines on whether trump should be forced to leave the white house rob watches a republican strategist believes that this trial may be damaging to the democrats. people don't like when our processes up and if you're democratically elected and if you've won they don't like to think that they're going to be invalidated that's why impeachments are so damaging to the party that does it because it up and so the will of the people of $100.00 senators have now decided what's to come both sides have 3 days each to make their case. dozens of heads of states are gathering in jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary tomorrow of the liberation of the os that's death camp but they'll also be 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 and culture but the rise of anti semitic incidents has begun worrying the jewish community there and he must have hard to he has filed this report from there. this is a tense time for the city jews of crown heights a neighborhood in new york brooklyn. new community has become the target of an increased number of attacks in recent months. now there's more police on the streets protecting synagogues in other jewish institutions. and his friends his students and even the jewish religious. anti semitism is always been an issue in this ethnically diverse neighborhood but the recent string of
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attacks has hit uncomfortably close to home. attacks where someone 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 fred a little central quite heights where everyone walks. the see they're not afraid of them but the attacks have made them more weary they want to walk by herself specially at night. just yet i'm saying obviously because of the increase of the fear in the community because of the recent attacks. the family that had it in that apartment had a feeling that you know you have to be more careful often want to gets jews become targets and 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
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a risk but he says hiding is not an option never be afraid never be afraid to show who we are never afraid to to remain and or run away never to the idea what kind 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 or to fear but it's not only the orthodox community that's feeling uneasy he also held me in is jewish too and as with many of new york's jews you can't really tell from his lips born in israel he's been in the u.s. since the age of 3 you know leaves 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. is jews for centuries has been a refuge for jesus from the world this city is home to the biggest jewish community
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outside of israel that's why rising anti semitism here is particularly unsettling jewish advocacy groups are saying the phenomenon is as surprising as it is complex because the sources of these recent at the semitic attacks here in the united states are multiple that they're not all coming from white supremacists or white nationalists they're also coming from street attacks in new york or by young african-americans they're 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 juice or identifiable on the streets. back in town heights his friends say they will back down the chance that you know he's stronger than the he is very tempting these. are so hard to get there with that report from new york now to some of the
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other stories making news around the world. large crowds of people are protesting on 3 greek islands to demand the immediate removal of thousands of asylum seekers camps on the islands of less boss chiasson and some of those house over 10 times the number of people they were built for some cases brazilian prosecutors have charged 16 people from the mining company vallejo and its german auditor over the collapse of a dam a year ago the disaster in the southern states of minister ice killed $270.00 people and dumped toxic sludge in a local river where the charges include. homicide and environmental crimes. chinese state television reports that the death toll in the outbreak of a new corona virus in china has now jumped to 17 with nearly 500 confirmed cases
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well there is now growing fear that the disease could spread and several countries are screening transit points for passengers well the virus is on the move and that's what makes it so scary hong kong and macau have confirmed infections other regions have also reported a handful of cases thailand type what's ability of a viral mutation. all right joining me now for more on this story is dr mohammad when you're just a doctor so good of you joining us from lancaster one of china's top health officials that we just heard there and now it's that the virus could mutate now as a member of general public hearing mutate that sounds really scary this is mean that it will make it more contagious. well much of the fact is that why this is all of it is mutate they have a tendency to change shape to evolve so that's not new the important thing is that about the change about that mutation would have any impact on to the disease
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outcome or disability would be increased so if you look onto the history of these viruses like source and marse which are relative to the corona virus is there all highly probability that these viruses if they mutate they will be more stable they will be more fit to her and be able to stand in the population for a longer palling now dr the world health organization is holding an emergency meeting as we speak it is rare for the w.h.o. to declare a global health emergency it has not done that as of yet but when it does do that what does it actually mean. so since the placement of the room w. actually has only placed the emergency 5 times in the last 20 years and all those have been on why this is so in the current situation though the virus is emerging in all dimensions from england to overseas and the human to human transmission is there there are relatively less talent says that there would be an emergency in place but
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that all depends on what the situation will come up and how do if we should decide today often but there are relatively less chances that emergency would be put in place now dr when you are of course this is the flu season so how can we tell whether we have contract it this is a very contagious disease what are the symptoms of the virus and how can it be treated. so the virus itself calls in the morning or like symptoms there would be a problem with breathing they would be in the mooney and there would be fever so whenever these kind of situations comes in there was literally no treatment or vaccine available at this moment the only possibility is the personal hygiene sting of a from on cooked food or direct contact with the animals and sort of containing yourself for longer travels or in contact with other healthy people so that's the only thing that can be done at an individual level at this moment. dr mohamed nearer joining us from a lancastrian university sir thank you so much. to be here. are
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going to shift our attention now to lebanon that country has a new government ending a 3 month power vacuum that trip was triggered by massive demonstrations against the country's political establishment well the most urgent priority for the new prime minister and his cabinet will be to pull lebanon out of its deep financial crisis that's led to soaring inflation and banks restricting access to cash but the new as well about government may have 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 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
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haiyan and the father 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 that what. he did and it will work towards addressing their demands with a family that some of the majority to him. that instead of calming them protests flared up again on the streets of the capital beirut and around the country. demonstrate to say they wanted a government of independent experts who be able to deal with the country's financial crisis and not ministers selected through whose trading by political parties. we want a government of experts the politicians should not have brought their advisors. this is stablished minton these leaders do not represent us this government doesn't reflect us we want to government that's ours. protest is
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a demanding swift progress which may prove difficult for the new government with hezbollah does ignited a terrorist group by the us its p role in picking lebanon's ministers who make it harder for the country to win the foreign support it so vitally needs. are u.n. officials now have called for a full investigation into allegations that saudi arabia's crown prince was behind the hacking of amazon chief jeff bezos as phone it follows reports that a whatsapp message from the personal account of muhammad and some on was implicated in the data breach it had previously been claimed that the hack was linked to the murder of washington post writer jamal khashoggi and the saudi consulate in istanbul and 2018 and my colleague alex force whiting is here where to begin this it reads like a film script so some really serious allegations involving 2 of the world's richest
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men and the head of a state as well phone hacking even murder. yeah i mean when you're this is it let's start from the beginning and start with jeff bezos now we know that t. bones which is the huge retailer is worth a lot of money now back in february last year he claimed at the u.s. tabloid the national enquirer. he accused him of extortion and blackmail because published intimate text messages in details between him and his girlfriend now his head of security carried out an investigation and said that the leak that the country that was behind the leak was soundly arabia ok so it's one thing if your allegations are sorry was behind this but for the crow prince to be implicated as well that's a whole nother story and i mean the question is why would saudi arabia be implicated in this anyway and what we have to remember about jeff bezos is he doesn't only own amazon but also the washington post and he had a writer who was
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a saudi dissident jamal khashoggi who worked for him he was found murdered in the consulate the saudi consulate in istanbul back in 2018 just a few months after this alleged attack now jihad criticized saudi arabia had criticized the crown prince and although saudi arabia the authorities have said that this was just a rogue operation that went wrong there are still many questions to answer about that so many people believing that the high of base of his phone was linked to that murder and what is being alleged about the crown prince was involvement in the hack so it's all down to this particular encrypted what's message that was sent from the personal account of the crown prince to base else now the 2 men had been in conversation over what's up before this malicious video file was sent which contained it's alleged a type of spyware now within hours huge amounts of data began to leave base of his
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phone now we don't know what happened to that data or how it was used but that is. what is being alleged so far or so is malware basically and ok now how has riyadh reacted how is saudi arabia reacted to these are they trying to dismiss the allegations and the u.s. embassy embassies or the sound embassy in the u.s. has tweeted recent media reports that suggest the kingdom is behind the hacking of jeff bezos his phone. and the call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out where u.n. experts have now reacted and said yes we do need there to be an investigation we want there to be one carried out by the u.s. and they have cited this that the saudi prince is possible involvement with that tax so it is has become very serious a much bigger obviously than saudi arabia had ever wanted this to be exported thank you so much.
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this is it over here is these are top stories. european commission president vonder liar has delivered a special address at the world economic forum in davos she laid out the environmental priorities and touched on concerns over failing economic growth. the republican controlled u.s. senate has finalized the ground rules for the impeachment trial of president donald trump as lawmakers voted along party lines blocking bids by the democrats to obtain new evidence trump is accused of abuse of power over his dealings with ukraine similar. chinese officials say the number of deaths in an aisle great of a new coronavirus continues to increase if confirmed nearly 500 cases in the country the world health organization has called an emergency meeting after 5 other
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nations reported cases of the disease. brazilian prosecutors have charged 16 people from the mining company vallejo and its german safety auditor over the collapse of a dam a year ago the disaster killed $270.00 people the charges include homicide and environmental crimes. this is due to reduce from berlin for more follow us on twitter at the news or visit our website at g.w. dot com. now phil forget you can always get you don't use on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store i'll give you access to all the latest news affirm around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can also use the date of the app to send us your photos and videos of what's happening. are coming up next made in germany takes
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