this is news coming to you live from a city of 11000000 people on the walk down to holland is the metropolis at the center of the corona virus outbreak all transport to and from will haunt is suspended as authorities attempt a korean team the chinese city will it work with the. 11000000 people who is. also coming up the german president meets holocaust survivors in jerusalem he's there with other world leaders to mark

holocaust remembrance day and he will deliver the 1st speech 5 german president at the memorial. plus anger boils up over greece's overcrowded migrant camps thousands of protesters demand the government shut down facilities on 3 greek islands where refugees face squalor and desperation. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us it's never been tried before and no one sure will work chinese authorities are attempting to quarantine the city of han a metropolis of 11000000 people that's at the center of the corona virus outbreak that spreading across asia and beyond all transport in and out of the city has been closed down but will the attempt to isolate it work. trying to contain

a city of 11000000 people is new to science it has not been tried before as a public health measure so we cannot at this stage say it with order to want work we know. if this is happening we will note carefully to what extent it is maintained how long it. public transportation within the city of homs has also been suspended with residents advised to stay at home so far 17 people have died from the respiratory illness in all 6 other cases have been confirmed across china. a doctor in will hand shows the isolation ward to a camera team from state television no other journalists are allowed access to this is where the infected patients are treated and their data collected in an attempt to bring the virus under control sounds like there's

a whole race in the binnie detailed records are very valuable for analyzing and evaluating large amounts of data going forward. so that. most patients it will hands clinics have only mild symptoms fever and breathing difficulties. 5 of the dead and known to have had preexisting health conditions. that beijing isn't taking any chances. we have evidence that the illness spreads through the respiratory passages and there's the possibility that the virus could mutate and pose a greater threat. and china is on the move some 400000000 people are travelling ahead of the lunar new year holiday many end of us. actually away i am worried about the virus not just for my own health but for my whole family. everyone is traveling for new year. month. and this.

i'm just relying on myself i'm not so confident because i don't believe what i hear . the number of infections could be a lot higher than is being reported. the evening news on state television mentions the virus for the 1st time 20 minutes in prime minister called on all affected places to be efficient and transparent in their response. in geneva the world health organization is emergency committee extended talks for an extra day after hearing reports from several countries. with. a public old emergency of international concern is one. extremely seriously and one only prepared to make. consideration of all the evidence one case has been confirmed side of asia a man fell ill in the u.s.

state of washington on the west coast after returning from a week ago. russia has also reported suspected cases they're carrying out temperature checks on all passengers arriving from china more stringent checks are in place at airports across the world in a bid to reduce the risk of the disease spreading further. cross over to our correspondent. in beijing far beyond the city of han is at the center of this self break tell us more about what authorities are doing there to contain the virus. already yesterday the authorities have issued a travel warning urging people not to travel to one and also the city and now of course the city and lockdown it's isolated that's a pretty radical decision i'm just have to look at 11000000 people living there and also from the space i mean it's basically like putting

a greater london area under lockdown but from a medical point of view the sun the standard will because of all the. consomme virus cases they originated from the fish market and and they have been spread by citizens from who are han who then traveled also to thailand to south korea to japan and so of course the forty's are focusing on that area but even in beijing where i'm based right now you see a lot of you know body temperature skinless especially at hawks and also at the train stations and yet people are also very cautious well there are concerns that this virus has spread more widely in china infected more people than officially claimed you say people are cautious how worried are they are across the country. there were very very i wouldn't call it a penny but you know literally everyone is very face must by father lots of authority to protect themselves and people are very skeptical. you know government

. numbers and also see the official state news and i think it's safe to assume that the numbers are much higher that's also you know in the line with estimates from scientists from the imperial college london or the city university of hong kong they assume that farm boy has been affected and the reason many people here they still remember the saucepan demick in 20022000 at that time the parties try to cover up the real threat of the part is obvious thank you very much for bringing us up to date there correspondent probably in christmas invasion. now some of the other stories making headlines around the world today 3 american firefighters assisting with the bushfire crisis in australia have been killed in a plane crash south of the capital canberra the premier of new south wales state said the hercules aerial water tanker like this one from file video outfitted to battle bushfires crashed in the mountains of the snow we will narrow region. in the

impeachment trial of u.s. president all the impeachment managers from the democratic controlled house of representatives presented opening statements in the republican controlled senate is charged with abuse of power in his dealings with ukraine. wrongdoing. and the german government has banned a neo nazi group that calls itself combat 18 the ban comes after a surge of far right violence including the murder of a politician in the city of consul and a deadly attack on a synagogue in the city of hama. ensure bruce of world leaders have gathered ahead of international holocaust remembrance day of on monday they're also marking 75 years since the liberation of the of its concentration camp before today's ceremonies germany's president func. met holocaust survivors and their

families. spoke but mostly listen to some who lived through what is known in israel as the shoah. the later joined israeli president ruben rivlin and other world leaders. are jerusalem correspondent tony kramer is covering the gathering and joins us now from there tanya what more can you tell us about today's gathering taking place in jerusalem. all right i'm standing here outside of. you see behind me the white tent this is was built over the warsaw memorial on the side of the yacht and then morial to where all these world leaders will be gathering this afternoon for a memorial service you will hear prayers who will hear music there but you can also hear speeches from some of the leaders among them of course these are the president

who've been rivlin but also russian president floating the a putin the french president in my craw but also an important gesture to the germans from photos steinmeyer the president will speak it for the 1st time. for sam one of that is his absence actually the polish president he declined to attend this event because he was not included in the list of speakers and he also said that he thinks that the main memorial event should be the one that is happening on monday on international holocaust day in auschwitz well this holocaust commemoration tanya comes at a time when acts of anti semitic violence are on the rise in many parts of the world can we expect but to me addressed in the speeches there today well i think this is a very important part of this meeting hosted also by the was holocaust forum

together this year to a sham and the israeli president i think i want to pass on this message they want to look back on what happened commemorating what happened over 75 years ago but also say here together in a message to the world that they see the us standing together against anti semitism tanya thank you very much the w.'s through some correspondent tonya kramer. well as the holocaust commemoration gets underway d.w. we'll be bringing you special coverage that begins in 2 hours from. now to greece and tensions over migration on the island of les paul's thousands have been demanding that the government close migrant camps there and on to other. reports now from lesbos and he hears from those who say their communities can't cope with the press surge of migrants in the camps that are already overcrowded with squalid

conditions 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 constantine is from the island's capital need to lean 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. the ones 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. 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. definitely. now here but. what's the what's the nightlight. the lead yet individual if. you don't want to come out. according to les pauls 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 down to the rest of the european union close the borders to these problems because they don't have to 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. 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 and stolen her equipment she believes they came from the more you can. 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 go to demand our demands. not just a symbolic move but rather

a cry for help to finally take the pressure off these greek islands. you're watching d.w. news coming up next we've got a documentary for you on health cheap tomatoes are forcing an exodus of farmers in ghana. i'll be back to the top next hour with more news thanks for being with us. it's all happening much of it coming. your link to news from africa the moral your link to exceptional stories and discussions can you unload some seed of you suffocating program tonight from fun to meet from one uses easy town wow with sandy dempsey to come smash africa join us on facebook and t.w. africa.