this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight 11000000 people in china on lockdown the city of new holland canceling all flights in trains in a bid to stop a deadly virus from spreading the city is the epicenter of an outbreak of the corona virus it's claiming lives and it's fueling fears of a global pandemic it's no vaccine officials are scrambling to contain the strain also coming up tonight a call to action to fight climate change the head of the european union commission ursula from the alliance says that europe should be leading the charge in creating

a carbon neutral future plus. on trial democrats lay out their case for removing the u.s. president from office in oral arguments impeachment manager adam ship says that trump abused his office by withholding aid to ukraine it follows a bitter and partisan debate over at the ground rules for the trials will take you live to washington plus world leaders set to mark 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz with the number of holocaust survivors dwindling israel's beacham center is making sure that their stories never end up. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome but we begin. and tonight

with chinese authorities making a drastic decision in closing all the transport networks in the city of rouhani the city that is at the heart of the corona virus outbreak that is spreading across asia and beyond the government has also with by its inhabitants not to leave the city on their own bus subway ferry a long distance transportation out of mohan will be closed from thursday morning 70 people have died from the new strain of the virus nearly $500.00 cases have been confirmed in china alone a handful of cases have also been reported in other asian countries and in the united states chinese health authorities believe the virus originated from wild animals at a seafood market in new high they have confirmed human to human transmission of the virus now the world health organization has not declared a global health emergency over this outbreak that decision just made in the last few minutes it says it needs more time and more information to decide we'll talk

about that i'm joined now by dr mohammad near a virus just at lancaster university in england dr it's good to have you on the show you know we've just heard from the world health organization they say they need more time to decide if this is a global health emergency. do you agree with i mean we're seeing a dress tick measure being taken in china tonight. yeah well meeting has just concluded a few minutes before 'd but since yesterday i being as sort of claiming this month that there wouldn't be any emergency because we were seeing as you clues about it for instance if we talk about saw school in 2020 which has been a lot more devastating compared to what we are seeing now at that time there wasn't any emergency imposed by the w at shows so there were a few indications that it wouldn't be an emergency situation but there were to be

some. control of mayors that is what they are proposing so hopefully if this situation carry on with a lot of efforts from international community we might not need to go 40 m. again see having an interim control a get instead what do you make of what the chinese authorities have now which is basically the lockdown of the city the city of new han where a love and 1000000 people live is that the right decision to contain this virus. well this is a wonderful decision and if i would be on their position i would probably do this decision a lot earlier than what they have done so far and there is a strong scientific backing for this one if you really look on to all those outbreaks or all those cases that has been not only of it in england but also overseas they all have links mid or regional cases in a war on city so that mean that warm city is an epicenter and if control of years wouldn't be taken place in that city it might lead to even more cross take effect

so the decision they have taken today i think it is out of the shape that it's great in sort of containing the infection within this locality because if we do so the chances to get it even more surprised at has been surprising you know dimensions can be many my significantly would would you say that this decision is something like pulling the emergency brake here because we know that the lunar new year holiday is about to begin in china and once you have tens of millions of people traveling it will probably become impossible to contain the virus that right . yeah it would be impossible but all those controls layers of thought instead for example restricting the movement or discouraging the government these do how in and to some extent in 3rd they're disseminating the infections because why we believe is that for a sustainable infection in

a community at least one person has to transmit the virus to and either one person at least so if it is possible to minimize that contact and after last mission the divide itself will dry out as it has been the case in many other ok sions for example in sauce 2003. dr mohammad when are we just joining us tonight from lancaster university with the latest on this corona virus outbreak in china but we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you. well here in europe the european commission president or so if underline and she has told the world's business and political elite at the world economic forum that time is running out to fight climate change in her keynote speech today in davos switzerland she urged leaders to take action pointing to her european green deal as a model that they should follow and that was a stark contrast to tuesday's speech by u.s. president double trump he largely ignored the issue of climate change the u.s.

president left davos today but not before taking a parting shot at the european union. the world economic forum hosted in europe's highest town is hoping to encourage sustainable climate policy europe aims to become a pioneer says e.u. commission president fund a lion with her european green deal she wants to make the continent the 1st to achieve carbon neutrality. a novelty. 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 just before his departure us president trump surprised the participants with a different topic he called for a new trade agreement with the e.u. threatening to impose trade sanctions on car imports 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 following the trade agreement with china trump has his sights firmly set on the e.u. . well now to the united states and the impeachment trial of president double drama the republican controlled senate is now hearing opening arguments from house impeachment managers trump was impeached last month on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress he's accused of pressuring ukraine to investigate former democratic vice president joe biden a political rival and impeding a congressional investigation into that alleged abuse has denied any wrongdoing to seek help for more now we want to go straight to washington our correspondents all over salad is standing by he's on the story for us tonight good evening to you oliver i guess those senators they all need strong coffee this morning they debated

late into the night what kept them up so late. yes friend and that was a big surprise last night at the debate and the 1st day of the trial was supposed to last until 6 pm then went on until late at night until 2 am so a total of 13 hours a real marathon here at the senate last night and the reason for that is pretty simple there are hardly any rules laid out at the beginning of such a trial and this is only the 3rd impeachment trial in the history of the united states also so not not a lot of experience to load back to and the republicans who are holding the majority in senate were able to shape those rules which they did of course the democrats were very unhappy with them they believed that this is a cover up. to protect the president there we're talking about a very unfair trial in fact and so they try to alter those rules by proposing a total off 11 amendments essentially trying to subpoena additional witnesses but

all of these amendments in the end were ejected by the majority of the republican majority in the senate less than we did that the democrats they would like to see the former national security advisor john bolton tested far it doesn't look like that's going to happen but could there be a witness or 2 that the republicans would like to see. well absolutely and some republicans say why not just agree and have our own witnesses invited so join hunter biden for instance would be interesting for the republicans they could make their case there that they were involved in a corruption scandal in ukraine and therefore justify the president's home phone call with the ukrainian president there is no proof of that however another witness that could be interesting is the whistleblower who made the phone call public in the 1st place and their strategy could be to question his legitimacy but let's not

forget that will be a vote on witnesses and on evidence later that will take place after both sides have presented their initial argument so that a 6 days down the impeachment trial and that is way too late in the eyes of the democrats for all this information to be considered and all over talk to me about the image that we see here we've got in washington we've got the impeachment trial it's under way in the u.s. president he was last seen in the swiss alps this seems beyond bizarre. in particular because trump doesn't like such multilateral is like the world economic forum in davos he didn't go last year but the reason is easy that's a place where he can shine where you can distract from the impeachment trial as well so in his speech he was talking about his great economic data in the united states low unemployment high growth and let's also not forget that this is one of the most important selling points for his case and for his reelection campaign our correspondent oversouls on the story for us in washington all over thank you. well

here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world harvey weinstein appeared before a new york court today as opening statements were delivered a once powerful hollywood producer is on trial things seem to charges of rape and sexual assault he faces similar additional charges in los angeles he could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted there's no letup in lebanon's ongoing protest movement despite the formation of a new government that ended a power back you protesters clashed with police in the capital beirut after nightfall earlier the new prime minister has on said that the country must tackle the twin challenges of the protest movement and a nosediving a condom luigi dimaio says that he is stepping down as the leader of italy's 5 star movement it's the main party in italy's governing coalition a 33 year old is expected to stay on as foreign minister of the country de demaio

has headed the anti-establishment 5 star movement since september 2017 brazilian prosecutors have charged 16 people from the mining company of ali and its german all bitter over the collapse of a dam when you were go of the disaster in the southern state of being us your rice killed 270 people and dumped toxic sludge in the local river the charges include homicide and environmental crimes. dozens of world leaders are gathering in jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp and all eyes will be on the world holocaust remembrance center . it's israel's official memorial to the victims but as the survivors of the holocaust die out the center has the very important task of ensuring that their stories are not forgotten. leading to 2 or 3 jerusalem

holocaust memorial. yeah by sham feel is a was special for jonathan matthews cool to day the young israeli was search erickson is guiding a group of israeli still children with its monumental architecture i'm powerful exhibition it's a place like know whether to learn about at the shoah generally speaking the whole concept of telling the story in this museum and perhaps connecting different generations store the holocaust is by focusing on the victim and when say focus on any victim we have naturally stork information in a see him but we also have personal artifacts and video testimony is a survivors the individual stories of the victims are an essential parts of the museum making the horrors of the show a ton gibble over 75 years laser the increasingly elderly survivors are slowly disappearing 1000 poses a challenge with the museum educational programs it's comprehensive archive under large collection of documents yeah at the sham aims to keep the victims memories

alive the exhibition also deals with the nazis rise to power to tell a tarion regimes on to anti semitism of of an issues that it's just as relevant today this is a topic that worries me on to semitism and a holocaust denial and this is one of the reasons i do believe that it's important for me to work your such as an individual but also if think of demands more active involvement of different governments in the world to deal with this problem let me get me to news the whole of names many victims never left a trace never had a headstone or a grave it's a memorial for all of the 6000000 murdered jews young israelis often learn about the holocaust through their own family histories annual memorial services on school from the age of 16 school groups usually go t. out the sham but a visit like this is never easy. it's my 1st time here and i walked in and it was overwhelming and difficult to see. if you feel their suffering

what they went through can you can see and hear many artifacts from that period and it's really tough for. some and i think it's very important to conserve this because people need to know what happened. and to prevent this from happening in the future again here and to show that even in hard times there were people who kept up their hopes and helped others and tried to survive without music yeah beacham a place to reflect on what's happened over 75 years ago and a commitment to keeping that memory alive for generations to come. we're joining me tonight from jerusalem is our correspondent. peter going to see you i want to talk about what we're seeing here this is going to be one of the biggest diplomatic events in israel's history what is already happening today.

well jerusalem was already a diplomatic beehive today you could see motorcades with the black ones rushing back and forth through the city and that is because many of the more than 40 presidents prime ministers and crown prince's have already arrived here in jerusalem and they were here for the diplomatic talks today with the prime minister netanyahu with president rivlin also with the palestinian president abbas among them was the french president who stated after meeting. that he considers those denying israel the right to existence also its anti semites and i think that was an important signal here today and of course also frank fight this time i had the german president has been here today for talks with life and live in the israeli president you know we just saw the german president in those images there here is part of what he said today. in some ups was.

only i want to assure you that we are aware of germany's responsibility. for. this responsibility has no point to. this kind and just wish you know we along with the allied powers were to germany but also be speaking at this commemoration event tomorrow what else can we expect tomorrow. well of course all the world leaders have come here day here to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the german extermination camp . by the by the red army by the soviets and i think they will do both they will try and. the holocaust remember the holocaust keep this remembrance alive and also look into the future and discuss maybe or talk about how to fight and

semitism in europe and in north america because when you look at numbers hate crimes against jews have risen in europe and they have risen in north america so i think that will be an important topic there tomorrow as well we know tomorrow the polish president will not be reportedly because the russian president will be very or what is this diplomatic row over bell. yeah those 2 countries they seem to be fighting about how to remember the role of their countries during the holocaust and during the 2nd world war they seem to be forces in these countries trying to rewrite history trying to make their countries look better and that's the diplomatic role that they are fighting there because the russian president has accused poland off and to semitism during the holocaust and during the 2nd world war and that has caused the polish president to decide not to speak at an event

where he can be speaking after the russian president you know the politics of memory as politically charged in this. particular on the story for us tonight from jerusalem peter thank you. well turning now to greece and tensions over migration thousands are protesting demanding that the government close a squalid migrant camps on 3 greek islands demonstrators say that they are being overwhelmed by a new surge of refugees with migrant camps already overcrowded inside those camps a picture of desperation but. it's likely to be the largest protest in the history of the island more than 8000 people have followed the call of this man. this post governor constantino smith who is from the island's capital mytilene he wants to send a message to the government in athens the island can no longer bear the brunt of europe's refugee crisis here in america now how do you feel. you know you want our

islands back we want our lives back. you don't have to go far from this scene to see how the crisis has taken hold of the island. this is the notorious morea camp europe's fastest growing humanitarian crisis just a stone's throw away from the capital more than 20000 people are stuck here this part of the camp the so-called jungle has only been here for a few weeks every day scores of new arrivals set up camp trash is piling up everywhere and it's hard to find a child that is not suffering from disease or injury like this boy who burned himself on an open fire. for refugees like khalid winter has made life even more difficult together with his wife he came here 2 months ago on terrorists in somalia shot him in his leg and shoulder he says the 26 year old can hardly walk

and is in constant pain. being forced to live in this shock he built himself it's the conditions in moria that now bother him the most. it's get out and i think. now we have. what's the what's tonight plague and all that god would let you out in a very sort if. you don't want to come out but. according to les paul's governor roughly a quarter of the island's population is made up of migrants he says nobody outside of lesbos seems to feel responsible for the situation. i'm afraid that the rest of the european the rest of the european union close the borders to these problems because they are going to have do they don't want to be bothered by this and i'm afraid that there is the grace is closing the borders to the islands here because they don't want to be bothered so i disagree some of the blow was really. a situation that is also affecting people in the village of moria opposite the camp

everyone here tells us their life changed for the worse when the greek government started sending people here in large numbers. christina runs a hair salon in town twice people have broken in installed in her equipment she believes they came from the more you can run with stones we are not safe we don't feel secure and nobody protect us from almost when i leave my side alone i'm scared she says she does feel for the families who are forced to live in the camp christine has 2 children herself but she's also worried about their future. now if the situation continues like this we one manage the next few years we will have to leave in order to live why do i have to live it doesn't sound fair that it has to be me leaving my place back to the protest in mytilene government who has at 1st seemed skeptical that the government in athens would listen to the islanders

but leading a protest this big seems to have encouraged him never have been so much crowd here in subsequence drazen and they were very happy and we feel very powerful now to demand our demands not just a symbolic move but rather a cry for help to finally take the pressure off these greek islands. our sports news now a top referee here in germany has criticized a soccer video assistant referee technology known as v a r for not adapting to meet the needs of the game of the technology was supposed to make the game more fair and accurate but it has calls plenty of controversy more than expected the german referees association says that a solution may be found in american football. making space making decisions is what makes this one of the toughest jobs in football but the fast paced sport also makes it difficult for referees to always make the right cause the

introduction of the a are a video assistant referee was supposed to help eliminate human mistakes but has it cause more confusion than clarity yet. when you look at how many wrong calls we've already prevented then it's fine but there are always things we can continue to improve the. listen i critique say there is still way too much newman interpretation and that the costs are inconsistent and that the delays take the punch out of goal celebrations. one of germany's elite referees mom would prefer who was in charge of the doj month versus out spoke match on the weekend is pushing for an n.f.l. like system where the coaches have 2 challenges per game and referees can explain their decisions to fans and the media it's an idea that is slowly gaining some ground in the bundesliga just like. we're working on how far we can integrate the referees to communicate directly on the field they may even sometime in the future

explain their decision and clarify the process and that's the key on the bills is. that clarification could go along way in appeasing the system's critics. here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you chinese authorities are closing transport networks in. and the city at the heart of the corona virus outbreak that is spreading across asia and beyond the world health organization has not declared a global health emergency over the outbreak yet and is delaying its final decisions until tomorrow. i'm going to go off in berlin after a short break we'll be back to take you through the day but 1st a tribute to the genius of terry jones a revolutionary in british comedy one of the founding members of the monty python team jerry jones dead at the age of $77.00.

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