this is g.w. news live from berlin the deadly corona virus continues to spread the number of people infected with the virus is now more than 2000 worldwide 4 new cases are detected within china and a few in other countries as well also coming up as easy if you can hear your husband's father is it keep him talking so that these things conscious talk to your children too after friday's powerful earthquake rescuers and eastern turkey are still trying to reach people stuck under the rubble fears are growing more

survivors trapped beneath flattened buildings as the temperature dips below freezing and in german soccer the top of the table is getting tight fire munich cut leipsic sleet and the blues they could just one point after a 5 goal demolition shall go at the other at a rate. i'm called aspen thanks for joining us we begin in china where the effects of the deadly coronavirus are being felt far from its epicenter the virus began in the eastern city of han but it has now spread to all but one of china's provinces and at least 11 other countries and the death toll is rising as well these 56 people in china have now died and more than 2000 people have been infected chinese president xi jinping called a meeting of party leaders on saturday as authorities are trying to prevent an even

larger outbreak of the lunar new year holiday. this should be one of the busiest days of the year here as lunar new year holiday crowds swarm through shanghai's disneyland but disney town is a ghost town closed until further notice they'll be known mickey mouse to usher in the year of the rat in response to the prevention in control of the. insurer that help in feeding our guests. are temporarily. tourist attractions across the country have been closed to the public. i just went to chairman square and the imperial college and they're all closed many of the tourist sites are also closed. at a time when millions of chinese travel to spend the lunar new year with family government roadblocks are in place to stop all non-essential traffic on the

outskirts of han people trying to leave the virus stricken city of 11000000 turned back health checks are carried out of the roadside in who by a province cities which are home to some 60000000 people have been put under quarantine. as queues form at health centers and emergency rooms and residents stock up on mosques and medical supplies some people have been forced to cut the holidays short because of the epidemic we have to go back to work with the chinese president xi jinping has warned that china faces a grave situation given the accelerating spread of this new saz like virus in 2003 killed 650 people across mainland china and hong kong this outbreak has a long way to go before it can compete with sars but at that time china faced international criticism for acting too slowly and withholding critical information from other countries. let's get the latest now our correspondent fabienne question

has been following that virus from beijing for us fabienne as we heard china's president now speaking out what's the latest how is china trying to slow down the spread of this virus. i mean the latest development is that china bans its wildlife trade and that has for long been a concern regarding the spread of viruses and diseases especially for the grown up virus because it's supposed to nate's from why it's life market in downtown with hardware exotic animals and to think with dials but also snakes were sold and consumed and also the 2nd strategy is to restrict the mobility of the people one whole provinces effect already on the parent time and that's really the 1st and it's never been the case in the whole history of china and just as we're talking the health commission is issuing a press conference to announce. more steps and we will know both that i think in the near future maybe in the next hour now you mention on that's the center of the

outbreak it's been a long down since wednesday but many other cities are seeing similar restrictions tell us about them. yeah i think the situation and what happened in the whole province becomes more severe i'm starting from today also top traffic which will pop traffic is spent in the city you need to license and government permission to drive. to be on the street also the u.s. consulate has announced that it will evacuate its stuff on tuesday also the russian authorities and the french authorities are. in with the chinese side and they also want to have a q. ate their citizens the german side however is more i mean they have not issued a travel warning yet but people are stockpiling on food and also on medical supplies and yeah that's the sense of. tell me more about how people in china are feeling now you've been looking at chinese social media and the

way that people are reacting there i mean what are they saying it especially about how the government has been handling this. i mean social media is always. a way of people to share information also besides the state media and. the government has actually introduced and used the whistleblower function for the eff we check in at that literally every chinese has on his or her smart smartphone and people can citizens can report forty's or if they see someone covering up or hiding the threat of the virus then they can they can report it in general i would say they have 2 big reactions some people to have trust in the government and also the governments handing off the situation they should have videos of solidarity and ask for donations to the hospital it's and then there are also other people who have videos which show overcrowded hospitals panicking doctor etc and they're more

varied and they also are criticizing the local authorities who especially in the 1st days of the virus outbreak acted quite naive and also incompetent fabienne question why is on that story for us from beijing thank you so much. here's a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world at least 30 people have been killed by flooding and landslides in southeastern brazil following 2 days of heavy rain thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes the rainfall in the region is the heaviest recorded in more than a century. thousands of protesters have held rallies across australia calling for the dates of the country's national holiday to be changed australia day is held on the date that british ships arrive on the continent in 1788 demonstrators say celebrating this occurrence on that date is disrespectful to the country's indigenous people. boeing's new long haul passenger jet the triple 7 x.

has successfully completed its maiden flight the plane is the world's largest twin engine jet liner a flight comes as boeing face a crisis over its smaller 737 max after 2 deadly crashes. in india annual republic day celebrations wraps up with a parade in the capital new delhi the parade is the highlight of 3 days of festivities of celebrations that marked the anniversary of the country's democratic constitution and india's independence from british. and turkey rescue workers having been working around the clock to free survivors from the rubble after friday night's powerful earthquake in the east of the country they are still working as a fishel goal death toll is rising now 31 people confirmed dead those rescue efforts have been showing some success according to turkish officials at least 45 people have now been freed from the rubble. if you can hear your husband's voice in

tokyo says that he's conscious talk to your children to. this rescue worker is trying to calm those trapped in the rubble of the rescues to make their way in by hand. so far they've pulled more than 40 people out of the collapsed buildings this quake was a big one magnitude 6.8 and there have been hundreds of aftershocks. the town of severity just got of relatively lightly only 5 buildings collapsed but in the surrounding area more than 70 apartment houses have caved in and nearly 1000 have been damaged. late in the day president richard tired edouard visited the quake hit areas. the rescuers are working as fast as they can drop all survivors from the rubble they search for every voice they can hear. after 17 painstaking hours they have freed as he said from the rubble she's suffering from hypothermia

but she's ok the search for other survivors continues so. lawyers for u.s. president donald trump have become making their case to the senate in his impeachment trial democrats accuse him of abuse of power over his dealings with ukraine but trump's legal team says he's done nothing wrong and that it should be american voters not congress who decide his fate. remember our democracy senator this sign or just another one shows donald trump's head made of snakes it's a small gathering of protesters the senate impeachment trial doesn't appear to be attracting a lot of attention outside of the capitol building. inside democrats used up their 24 hours of allotted time spread over 3 days tens of thousands of pages of evidence now it's the president's lawyers turn and they want to rebut everything. we believe that when you hear the facts and that's what we intend to cover today the facts.

you will find that the president did absolutely nothing wrong pat's polonius strategy denounced the democrats his few is that they only have one goal they're asking you. not only to overturn the results of the last election. but as i've said before they're asking you to remove president trump from the ballot in an election that's occurring in approximately 9 months the front lines in the capital haven't changed the exchanged arguments are well known right now both sides get in position for the upcoming election. if i democracy is going to be safeguard guarded you cannot have a president who defies all congressional subpoenas who defies all requests for information that is guaranteed to make him

a dictator or in his in his to attempt to make him a dictator on twitter president trump appeared satisfied with his team's performance any fair minded person watching the senate trial today he tweets would be able to see how unfairly i have been treated after just 2 hours on saturday trump's defense team wrapped up its 1st day to be continued on monday when more people are expected to be paying attention the media and the american public to. our sports now and in football by munich have close rb leipsic lead at the top of the bundesliga table just one point after battering xanga and the very capital this was billed as a heavyweight title fight but it ended up in a 5 nil knockout ever sit and shout when to on the answer raina knowing it was a stage on which david wagner's side would be closely examined on the football's brightest lights up to just 6 minutes it would be keep the mark of schubert to be

tested 1st he failed to deal with a tantalizing cross probably been dubbed the pursuit celebrating a return to the top of the scoring shot with his 21st goal of the season the replay was a great viewing for the 41 year old keeper who was old at sea and the retired continue to sweep forward before half time as a bottom 5 buttons of the score sheets at the end of the well constructed move. the paris it's cross a great skill system and the thomas will of finish was poetry in motion and there was more beautiful prose to come 5 minutes into the 2nd half in the form of shock a style that leon gorecki stepped up. to bring his old club today needs. 3 nil up to the trickery and the only question left was how many would have. 8 minutes life to live and he turned provider and it was by him for. the poles to quit by the by 40 odd goes

a very simple finish. the final stages little more than a position is so that you can operate made fun of his opponent before shivered at one final sad and sour note to he's meeting symphony by him back within a point of logic at the top and ready to make a run at a strike title and shall go back to the drawing board. i will things are getting tight up there rb leipzig suffering their 1st feat in the bundesliga since late october at the hands of frankfurt now the league leaders will be high. shortly after the restart thanks to this amazing strike right into the top corner i'm a tory but that one home side frankfurt hanging on to their lead throughout the 2nd half the 4th philip coast itch grabbing a 2nd goal injury time to wrap up all 3 points leipzig though remaining and 1st place in the table despite that defeat all frankfurt moves on up to its.

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