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this is news coming to light from a city of 11000000 people on lockdown move home is the metropolis at the center of the corona virus outbreak all transport to and from will haunt is suspended as authorities attempt to pour in team the chinese city but will it work like. playing . with another 1000000 people is. also coming up germany's president. joins the israeli president and other world leaders to mark holocaust remembrance day he will deliver the 1st speech by
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a german president at the memorial. and anger boils up over greece's overcrowded migrant camps thousands of protesters to bend the government shut down facilities on 3 pretty thailand or migrants faced squalor and desperation. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us it's never been tried before and no one sure it will work chinese authorities are attempting to quarantine the city of woo han a metropolis of 11000000 people it's at the center of the corona virus outbreak that's spreading across asia and beyond all transport in and out of the city has been suspended. it's a difficult time to try and quarantine a city because millions of people are on the move to celebrate the chinese new year
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so the question is will the attempt to isolate will work. this is where it all began authorities believe the outbreak of corona virus can be traced back to a seafood market in rwanda. that shutters have now down and the city has followed suit. a soft thursday morning this city has been cut off from the rest of the country trains flights buses and ferries have been canceled even public transport within will hon has ground to a halt. hospital wards have had to deal with hundreds of cases but so far the world health organization has for framed from declaring a global health emergency much depends on whether the measures set in place by the chinese government will prove effective. trying to contain a city. of 11000000 people is new to science
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it has not been tried before as a public health measure so we cannot at this stage say it will not work. with the city sealed off from the outside world if you headed to the epicenter of the outbreak. the last trains bound for han were unusually empty. and there's plenty of elbow room for passengers on the final flights into the city some fear a repeat of the deadly outbreak of the sars virus which killed over 800 people in 2003. i think those i'm really worried i'm really scared it will become the next ours that's why we all wear masks. others are less concerned. you know who on is a city often 11000000 people just about 400 have been infected but that's
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a very low percentage and the fatalities are old people. all over china people on the move to visit relatives over the lunar new year holidays it's one of the biggest annual movements of people in the world despite the lockdown of 100 it's likely that somewhere the coronavirus is traveling among them. or for the very latest let's cross over to our correspondent probably and cuts in beijing fabienne the city of $100.00 at the center of this outbreak tell us more about what authorities are doing there to contain the virus already yesterday the authorities have issued a travel warning people not to travel to watch. the city and now of course the city is and lockdown it's isolated that's a pretty radical decision i'm just have to look at $11000000.00 people living there and also on the space i mean it's basically like putting a greater london area under lockdown but from medical point of view the sun
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a stand alone because of all the. consomme virus cases they originated from the fish market and and they have been spread by citizens from who 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 scan us especially at parts and also at the train stations and people are also very cautious will 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 across the country. they're very very very i wouldn't call it kenya but you know literally everyone is very face must by spot the lots majority to protect themselves and people are very skeptical it's what's you know government. numbers and also to the official state
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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 of london or the city university of hong kong and they assume that far more has been affected and the reason is many people here they still remember the saucepan demick in 20022000 at the time the parties tried to cover up the real threat of the pipes so what earth can authorities do now that they aren't already doing to make sure that this doesn't get any worse. i mean the isolation of one is already a pretty radical step also if you consider that the virus outbreak is still at an early states. i would say that actually the authorities take a different step compared to what they did during the sauce and then make them more transparent i mean they're reporting no more prominent he about the virus outbreak
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this particular mission from the communist pot his also urged its politicians to not cover up any infection to stand not to you know just for the reputation of the local politicians to you know. they french they call from want transparency and i think it's a big sign and a big any indication they take it much more seriously and they don't want to repeat the same mistakes that they did in 200-2300 think you very much for bringing us up to date there correspondent probably incredible in beijing. 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 snowy one narrow range. in the impeachment trial of u.s.
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president donald trump the impeachment managers from the democrat controlled house of representatives presented opening statements in the republican controlled senate trump is charged with abuse of power in his dealings with ukraine's he denies wrongdoing. 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 votto new a politician in the city of costal and a deadly attack on a synagogue in the city of hama. world leaders are gathering in jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp and international holocaust remembrance day next monday before today's ceremonies germany's president. and that holocaust survivors and their families it's time i spoke with mostly listen to some who lived through what is known in israel as the show later he joined israeli president than rivlin and other world leaders.
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our jerusalem correspondent tony kramer is covering the gathering at yad vashem and joins me now from there tanya tell us more about the gathering that's taking place today in jerusalem. you know ascending here outside of the 1st time this now the reason is almost in a locked on this very very high security with all these words leaders. coming here to jerusalem so in a couple of hours time there will be meeting here at the. side just behind me you might see the white tent of us built over the wall so memoria this is where the memorial service will take place who are here pray is who they hear. songs and music but there will be most importantly speeches by several word leaders of course 1st of all of the hosts here these are the president moving rivlin the speaker
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acting prime minister binyamin netanyahu as star but also russian president vladimir putin the french president a man who in my car but there also has been an important gesture to the german people to invite the german president franco to steinway it's the 1st time he's going to speak here at the memorial site there's one leader he was absent here and that has taken a bit of waves to polish president he has declined to come because he was not invited to be on the speaker's list at this event tanya this holocaust commemoration comes at a time when i see so many violence are on the rise in many parts of the world can we expect that to be addressed in the speech is there are today. well that's what's expected because. the speeches here probably hear from them from the leaders that they were trying to. keep this memory alive to commemorate the possible topping
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75 years ago but also to address. what's happening today and i spoke to some holocaust survivors here over the past ace and it's very important for them that leaders address this i mean they have been going through all this and they're very worried what's going on here at the same time this is a largely symbolic event so we will probably hear you know this speech is about commemorating the past keeping this memory alive but also saying no to discrimination to racism and also to to semitism. well beyond the high level gathering is taking place how is the holocaust anniversary being remembered elsewhere in israel. but as you said this is a very special event it just comes a couple of days before the coming of the ration. that's usually on the
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international holocaust day that said on the day that the concentration camp was liberated here in israel usually the national remembrance takes place in april this is when people come together for ceremonies for national ceremonies there's also a siren in the morning where the whole country comes to a standstill remembering the victims of the show are and that is happening usually here on national remembrance day in april tania thank you very much to use jerusalem correspondent tanya kramer. well holocaust survivor dieter crawl's was just a teenager when she was deported from prague and ended up in our survey it's now $91.00 teacher spoke to d.w. at her home in israel world leaders will be former death camp for the official holocaust remembrance day on monday but for dita it's
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a place she never wants to see again and says my. little sister cheered and spoke. and here i sit with the books. this is me in the black stockings. my number is 73305 which i had to shout twice daily and counting still a pale. you had to shout over a number then septic 1000 that i hunted from the air was for up and like snow from there from the smoke from the chimneys. and the spencer and she's from from the crematorium.
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and here i. me just had to. understand that this is what happens. when their train arrived they were prisoners who assaulted her luggage she made 2 mountains of clothes and shoes to prove the bridge. and if they found a book she somehow managed to bring it to the chair and broke. there were some $2414.00 books on the book so afraid invented this is very be library and you are in charge people being killed in gas chambers. and. then there. and then you think they're in the air they cover their ass there or they played
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around and we knew that time come in june we had a 6 month grace period between knew we knew we knew we are going to die in 2 and everybody knew that i won't ever go a big take on it that the. hundreds and thousands of people go and that they're on the ashes. or 00 over the. there's stepping on the dead people. as the holocaust commemoration gets underway d.w. will bring you special coverage throughout the day that begins in about just under an hour from now you're watching the news still to come we find out how the trash from your problem to the girl in indonesia to take up the matter with germany's leader of. the international
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court of justice has just issued a ruling on whether emergency measures should be imposed on me on maher over alleged genocide against her hinge of those limbs it's the 1st verdict in a legal case that's expected to run for years the case against buddhist majority myanmar alleges that genocide took place when more than 700000 muslim or hinge of fled a crackdown by be on mars army and 2017 prosecutors alleged mass killings and widespread rape leader aung san suu kyi denied admitting the war crimes may have been committed but she didn't know i'd genocide she said refugees exaggerated against the. people. joining us now is charles when he's the executive director of burma human rights campaign mr wynn tell us why this ruling is so
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significant. let me correct the name. like human rights network base and then yes. we are. indeed a significant difference today those who are struggling for for the rights of the rangers those who've been suffering in strong decay and the 1st time in the history . something we will international community has done something significant significantly what what what does this ruling mean for the rich minority in myanmar. it is not only for the ranger coming of course within your community it is significant they put them. in the life. you know something the metal community in their plight. gives them can just this is also very important for the other minorities the victims in burma like
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a real selection like a change people like look kind of other men minorities look at the money just like we all welcome this decision and because this is the 1st time in the history something happened like that for my city. how do you explain burma how do you expect the authorities in myanmar to react. well they have to comply with this new. decision of the. i.c.c. and. just if. they have to protect the ranger community one of the thing important things i would like to mention is. the court has decided the burma has to submit before every 6 months in the filing for one then every 6 months is a mechanism exists to money to to come to check whether this report is conducted or what is the right has been what kind of violations going on because you know burma
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has a very good at lying and they are giving false information to misleading and they have no credibility so. i think. gambia should ask what is the. what is the mechanism that. make sure that burma is complying with the court order. when thank you very much for talking with us that was kind of when from the burma human rights network thank you very much. now to greece and tensions over migration on the island of lesbos thousands have been demanding that the government close migrant camps there and on to other islands you know the reports now from lesbos where the community feels left alone with overcrowded camps where migrants live in squalid conditions but. it's likely to be the largest protest in the history of the island more than 8000 people have
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followed the call of this man. this post governor constantine is from the island's capital need to lead 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 you know how do you feel. you don't want our islands back we want our lives back. you don't have to go far from this seem 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
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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 tonight plague. is not yet in the fridge. if. you don't want to come out but. according to les paul's governor this 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 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 greece 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
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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 proud 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. and
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in the parts of the country are drowning in plastic waste but it's not a homegrown problem as 12. has learned she has written a letter to german chancellor angela merkel pointing out that germany is among the countries using indonesia as a plastic waste dump some something she wants to stop its environmental group greenpeace says germany is the world's number 2 exporter of plastic waste with more than 59000 tons in 28. trying to be patient 12 year old. wrote a letter of complaint and she's about to find out how it will be received by germany. the. best the german and the da to connote addressed to chancellor angela merkel it demands the country take back its plastic waste she says indonesia is the 2nd largest
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contributor of trash in the world but has also become a dumping ground for many western countries including germany and. i went to a chant junk parent seaport recently with my friends and i witnessed how developed countries have been sending all their waste to indonesia. trash means cash to some in the nisha and the town of bengal in 2 thirds of the residents make a living by mining placed some of it will be up cycled some will be burnt as few demagoging the environment. as. the smoke creates talks in schools dioxins. everything official living in poisonous water the poultry next door also gets affected it can end up in our stomachs. indonesia has his own waste problem but it's being compounded by imported trash when china decided to reject foreign waste 2 years ago he was quantities were routed to
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indonesia the country's trash imports have tripled since 2017. nina is trying her best to push back against the trend. an exhibition at school. letter getting a reply from the chancellor might take some more patients and just remind her the top story we're following for you china has locked down the city on the metro top metropolis at the center of the coronavirus l. flights trains buses and ferries in and out of the city 11000000 people have been stopped health officials around the world are scrambling to contain the outbreak as fears grow of a global pandemic. well as stay 3 of the world economic forum in davos switzerland and our senior business editor ben physical and is part of our team covering the event ben from what i can gather this is a very different davos from years past it is very different it's gone
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green which is trying to find out whether or not german chancellor is also going green terry as he's an avid supporter of the industrial sector which is very strong and profitable for germany and figure and is behind a lot of the growth of course that the economy is enjoying but there's also a new green drive announced by the line the european commission's president. she reckons that that is what's going to be driving growth in the near future we also spoke to the finnish prime minister about this she says it's going to take a global if it to ensure that we do fight the climate the only problem is there are so many different views on whether or not climate change even exists at the moment corruption is also something that's holding back global efforts according to transparency international and i spoke to bill browder about that he's russia's most wanted man he was once one of the biggest foreign investors in russia but is
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now basically on the run from the russians ok been a really poor day hearing more for you in the next half hour in our business with our business team ben thanks for now. i'm terry martin thanks for watching did. the.
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