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this is a deja vue news live from berlin chinese president xi jinping warns the spread of corona virus is accelerating as the virus infects people of other continents authorities in china restrict the movement of over 50000000 people to contain it also coming up. a powerful earthquake strikes the east of turkey killing at least 22 people and injuring hundreds more emergency services are searching for survivors still stuck under the rubble.
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welcome to the program and we begin with the news from china she is calling it a grave situation as the virus has now killed at least 41 people in his country with more than 1300 others in effect infected the 1st cases emerged in the central chinese city of. but as holiday makers return home and people from the area travel overseas people made sick by the virus have been found in other asian countries these include thailand japan and singapore and the united states 2 people are recovering after treatment in france 3 travellers back from china have been diagnosed with the virus and australia confirmed 4 cases. meanwhile hong kong has just announced it is canceling all trains and flights from o'hare and has raised is still
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a disease overt level from serious to emergency in mainland china travel restrictions remain in place in over a dozen cities and all of the country's 7570000 movie theaters have been closed the measures are critical as millions are on the move over the lunar new year new year holiday. as the scale of the outbreak grows so too does the edge and see if the response in ruhani construction is underway on a new hospital for coronavirus patients chinese authorities say will be complete in just over a week the city at the outbreaks epicenter remains under a transport lockdown road checks. for a good. drive this with a high temperature ascent to hospital across china almost 40000000 people face travel restrictions during the important new year holiday you know nothing that eats a lot of people had no way to get home i really feel for them because i can understand
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what it's like to have been working hard to way from home for a year everyone looks forward to being with their family i want but in this situation there's really nothing we can say that innocent before. the outbreak even featured on state television saloon a new year broadcast with hosts sending messages of support to medical staff. in airports across the globe scenes like this are becoming common officials using thermal monitors to screen travelers for signs of fever around the world concern is heating up. 2 of the french cases appeared in the city in the capital paris and one in the city of bordeaux health officials there said the 48 year old patient had been traveling through china and passed through the epicenter of the outbreak france's health minister says authorities are not ruling out finding new cases. to tell who we are going to do everything possible to contain this epidemic
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knowing that it is possible and even probable that there will be other cases particularly in europe just because they're on 20 other identified cases today doesn't mean that no other cases are circulate and for the latest on the spread of the virus i'm joined now by d.w. correspondent lisa lewis in paris who is at the sha hospital lisa what can you tell us about the patients in france well we have heard very little about the people who are here in this hospital behind me we know that the 48 year old man in the city of dillon south western france that apparently he's feeling better the health minister and yes resigning has said that she would give an update once a day in the coming days so thoughts are really watching the situation. and what measures are the french authorities taking to stop the virus from spreading they've set up a special helpline people can call this saying you know when you come back from china when you feel symptoms don't go to the hospital don't call your local g.p.
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call this hotline and people would come and get you make tests and possibly take you to a special special isolation parts of 3 hospitals in paris for example the other places in paris where they can go the authorities are saying there are dozens of beds available and that they are prepared for a possible outbreak because they've seen infectious diseases in the past and they've been testing similar measures in the past really how is the french public reacting to all of this. well the newspapers obviously running headlines on this people are really right on social networks people are saying i'm quite scared i don't understand why the authorities are not testing. systematically people who are rife french adults with the devices at the thought he said answer that question actually saying that you know there is a new campaign incubation period of several days so people need to watch their
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state of health and then get in touch with authorities people are really scared they they in saying you know we really need to be very careful to maybe stay home for a few days so lots to watch out for a complicated medic medical situation lisa lewis in paris for us thank you for that you can find more information on the virus and tips for protecting yourself on our website that's dot com. now it's time to take a brief look at some of the other stories making news around the world. iraqi security forces have begun clearing anti-government protest house at locations throughout the country the crackdown comes after populist politician solder said he would no longer support the protesters several demonstrators were reported injured in clashes with the police. millions of hindus have gathered in northern india for a cleansing ritual in the ganges river as part of the mock male celebration of the month long festival of trucks millions of hindu believers and tourists each year.
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in turkey at least 22 people were killed and more than 1000 injured by an earthquake in the east of the country the quake struck near the town of separate about 550 kilometers east of the capital ankara it was followed. the sun rose to reveal a picture of devastation exhausted rescue crews are still working their way through the rubble searching for survivors. rescuers have been battling the unfolding disaster all night pulling people from collapsed buildings this man was trapped when the walls of his home caved in on him he was found among the debris and dug out. the tremors began at 9 in the evening terrified residents recorded the impact as the ground shook beneath their feet
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relief efforts have been hampered by aftershocks almost as powerful as the initial quake. in freezing temperatures families became homeless overnight show on download images our houses are either collapsed or damaged we cannot go back to our village some people have died i hope god will help us and give us patience our animals died we have to spend the night here by the fire or to the. surrounding villages have been devastated to some inhabitants are now reduced to sleeping in tents. in the east today just as a sort of that last night we were watching television when all of the sudden there was an earthquake and it shook hard. the floor collapsed and we went to the window . which after we had figured a way out were broke the door and got out. because we did we saw the other houses
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had collapsed to. search teams and it comes. back in sieverts authorities are warning residents not to return to damaged buildings because of the risk of further aftershocks for thousands of people in the city and beyond there is no home to return to and for more on this i'm joined now by d.w. correspondent yulia hand in istanbul yulia how is the rescue were progressing. well there are fears of course that the death toll might further rise because rescue workers are still searching for people buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings thousands of people had to leave their homes last evening because they were either damaged destroyed or just no longer safe so what happened is that most
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schools the student dormitories and sports holes were open for people so they had a place to stay turkey's national disaster management authority has also distributing tens and blankets bags turkish president and one on twitter promised people that all steps would being taken to aid people affected by this disaster now additional rescue workers and how has also been sent from areas from from other cities in the contrie from across the country to the areas affected you know only imagine how traumatizing that must be for the people there but is there any idea of the extent of the damage. now it's too early to say that this earthquake last night definitely triggered fears here in turkey across the country there is life t.v. broadcasting now on all the major channels and this is the topic this is what
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people are talking about right now on the streets and on social media and this is because a taxi is prone to earthquakes it has a history also earthquakes in 1999 for example 800000 people were killed off the 2 quakes here in northwest istanbul this big city of 16000000 people was also very badly affected and this is what experts here are warning about that a very large quake could hit goal and this would potentially be disastrous that was due correspondent in istanbul the world is marking 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz and the solemn occasion is bringing together leaders of the jewish and muslim face on thursday a high ranking muslim cleric visited the nazi death camp for the 1st time and on friday delegations gathered in warsaw for prayer services in both a synagogue and a mosque to promote dialogue between the 2 religions. never before has
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this small mosque in warsaw had such a luster yes guests representatives from the muslim world lead an american jewish committee have come to pray together for peace. gatherings like this one are great way to counter i mean some which is my islamophobia around the world those kinds of voices are limited but as we all know the voice of evil is the loudest. in the old warsaw synagogue rabbi michael should rich believes there is no better place for such gestures of re conciliation i think a place where jews experience genocide the worst genocide the german genocide. has a special meaning an extra special meaning any place in the world would be important but here in warsaw has an extra special meaning in a place where the jews the germans try to wipe out the jews some of our members of the american jewish committee say that 75 years after the holocaust understanding
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of nazi crimes is low tragically we live in a world filled with ignorance of the holocaust misinformation and outright denial of its reality. the muslim dignitaries had visited the death camp auschwitz the day before to commemorate the victims of the holocaust it was a historic visit. but you have not. we have come here to emphasize that we strongly condemn this harring crime while. on how i saw the gas chambers. of the 1000000 people were killed. just because they were jews. and no young. i would give to that the muslim delegation left the jewish community bears the words remembrance. time for sports now and the bundesliga dortmund put on a dominant performance in
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a $51.00 win against cologne on friday night thanks in part to a rising star dortmund's new wizkid erling hole and hit the target twice in his 2nd game for the club after scoring a hat trick in his debut last week a 19 year old norwegian proved once again that he has what it takes to be a major new force in the game for a long time to come. to the alpine ski world cup in our local favorite mathias maya has shown his experience in the men's downhill at the austrian resort town of kits the 2 time olympic gold medalist delivered a strong performance down the steep 3.3 kilometer long course meyer made a powerful push close to the finish line clocking a winning time of one minute 55.59 seconds much to its at the light of the home crowd as well as former california governor and hollywood royalty arnold schwarzenegger. to now for reporter
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which finds out what it's like to be foster parents who've been taken in several children don't forget you can get all the latest news around the clock on the website of an exposure berlin thanks for watching. every 2 seconds the person is forced to flee their home. the consequences of the disastrous our documentary series displaced depicts dramatic humanitarian crises from around the world. for. i didn't go to university to kill people.

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