this is d w news live from berlin tonight 11000000 people in china on lockdown the city of homs canceling all flights and trains in a bid to stop a deadly virus from spreading the city is the epicenter of an outbreak of the corona virus that claimed the lives in fueling fears of a global pandemic and with no vaccine and officials are scrambling to contain the virus also coming up. on trial democrats lay out their case for removing the u.s. president from office in oral arguments impeachment manager adam schiff says trump

abused his office by withholding aid to ukraine we'll get the latest by going live to washington plus a call to action over climate change the head of the e.u. commission or so the fund a lion says europe should be leading the charge in creating a carbon neutral future. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us shutting down a city to stop a virus chinese authorities are closing transport networks in the city of hong it is at the heart of the corona virus outbreak that is spreading across asia and beyond the government has also advised inhabitants not to leave the city on their own flights in trains out of ripon are being shut down. 17 people we know have

died from the virus more than 500 cases have been confirmed in china alone a handful of cases have also been reported in other asian countries as well as in the u.s. a chinese health authorities believe that the virus originated from wild animals at a seafood market in move on they have confirmed that the virus can be transmitted human to human the world health organization has not declared a global health emergency over this outbreak yet it is delaying its final decision until thursday for the talk about that i'm joined now by dr mohammad monier 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 drastic measure being taken in china tonight. yeah well meeting

has just concluded a few minutes before but since yesterday i was being as sort of claiming this monday 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 new 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 for b.m. again see having at aintree in control they get instead what do you make of what the chinese authorities have which is basically the lockdown of the city the city of han where what the know you 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 or regional cases in 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 to defect so the decision they have taken to date i think it is out to be shared it is great in sort of containing the infection within this locality because if we do so the chances to get it even more surprised yet has been surprising or dimensions can be minimized significantly what would you say that this decision is 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 controlled layers of foreign stuff for example restricting the movement or discouraging the gathering and these do how in and to some extent in 3rd there disseminating the infections because what we believe is that for a sustainable infection in a community at least one person has to transmit the virus to and other one person at least so if it is possible to minimize that contact and that close mission the divide itself will dry out as it has been the case in many other ok sions for example in soest attention 3. dr mohammad when he arrived are all just joining us tonight from lancaster university with the latest on this corona virus outbreak in

china dr we appreciate your time tonight thank you. and well to the united states and the impeachment trial of president donald trump the republican controlled senate has been hearing opening arguments from house impeachment managers today 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 and a political rival and he's accused of impeding a congressional investigation into that alleged abuse trump denies any wrong doing . and more now let's go straight to washington where our correspondent all over salad is standing by good evening to you. lead impeachment manager the democrat adam schiff he just accused trump of setting up a corrupt scheme to pressure ukraine to help him win reelection this year did he have any new evidence to present. well it would certainly like to brant

republicans have been blocking efforts made by the democrats to vote on new evidence asif now the democrats are alleging the republicans that they're trying to hide new evidence that they're covering up president alleged wrongdoing so adam schiff the leading manager of the impeachment trial is now. presenting basically the evidence that was collected by house investigators in the last weeks and basically laying out how it all trump pressured ukraine to investigate into donald trump's political rival joe biden on corruption charges with the goal of course to weaken him as a presidential candidate who's currently the front runner all for the democratic party and donald trump's political opponent and that is already one of the 2 charges made against donald trump all of us will power the other one is off struction off kong where is it we're going to hear former national security advisor

john bolton you know as a witness testifying that probably will not happen could there be a witness or 2 the republicans would like to see and would allow. absolutely and some of the republicans even argue let's agree to that bit of the democrats to have witnesses included in the trial and just invite her own witnesses and those could be joe and hunter biden for instance on those corruption allegations and they would certainly like to justify them by having them testify that president trump's phone call. was the right thing to do there is no proof of course of that as of now the whistleblower could be another witness to be invited where the strategy could be to question his legitimacy of the whistleblower was the one who delivered the information on the phone call in the 1st place let's

not forget there will be a vote on witnesses and on evidence that is going to take place after both sides have presented their initial arguments and that will be 6 days down the impeachment trial and that in the eyes of the democrats it's too late for all this information to be considered w.'s overzealous with the latest from washington on the impeachment trial of president trump all over thank you. the u.s. president left the world economic forum in davos switzerland today as that impeachment trial was getting underway but he didn't leave before taking a parting shot at the european union now in contrast to draw european commission president. she told the world's business and political elite in davos that time is running out to fight climate change and her speech delivered today she urged leaders to take action pointing to her european green deal as a model that they should follow. 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. the 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. . it's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world experts at the united nations say that the phone of amazon founder and washington post owner jeff bezos was likely hacked through a file sent from an account used by saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon the experts allege that the hacking was an effort to influence or silence the washington post reporting on saudi arabia. there is no letup in lebanon's ongoing protest movement despite the formation of a new government that ended a power vacuum protesters clashed with police in the capital beirut after nightfall earlier the new prime minister. said that the country must tackle 2 challenges that of the protest movement and a nose diving economy 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 lesbos and some most howls over 10 times the number of people that they were built for in some cases. the defining trial of the me 2 era has begun in earnest in new york hollywood producer harvey weinstein is facing charges of rape and sexual assault prosecutors say that weinstein is a sexual predator who used his powerful position to abuse women for decades his defense lawyers have argued that his accusers were willing participants. appearing at court on wednesday morning the once mighty media mogul cut a frail figure sources close to harvey weinstein reports he feels he is the victim and has pleaded not guilty claiming all his sexual relations were consensual over 80 women among them prominent names like with paul true and angelina jolie accuse

him of sexual misconduct several cases every church the statute of limitations and some others weinstein reached settlements out of court but 2 cases are being heard in new york with charges of rape and sexual assault in the court of public opinion weinstein is long been seen as guilty but it's not a clear cut case says defense attorney stacy schneider. the defense is in possession of e-mails from the victim to harvey weinstein after the alleged rape occurred and the defense's position will be that if she was raped by harvey weinstein why was she telling him that she misses him and wants to see him again the biggest challenge so far has been selecting a jury of his peers 12 people who can reach a verdict independent of public opinion at least 6 weeks of hearings are planned so far the outcome is wide open. i'm burned off here in

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