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this is the view news live from berlin the deadly corona virus continues to spread more than 2000 people have now been infected as more new cases are kids are detected within china and in other countries also coming up as easy going to your husband's college did she view talking says that he's conscious to your children too after friday's powerful earthquake rescuers and eastern turkey are still trying to reach people stuck under the rubble and fears are growing for survivors trapped
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beneath flattened buildings as the temperature dips below freezing and as the world prepares to mark 75 years since the liberation of the alfred's concentration camp we'll look at the important conservation efforts preserving the site and the memories of the atrocities that took place. 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 of the virus began in the eastern city of ohio on what has now spread to all but one of china's provinces and at least 11 other countries the death toll is rising as well at least 56 people in china have died and more than 2000 more have been infected chinese president xi jinping called a meeting of the leaders on saturday as authorities try to prevent an even larger
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outbreak over 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 no mickey mouse to usher in the year of the rat in response to prevention. help in the market. are temporarily. tourist attractions across the country have been closed to the public now. i just went to chant i'm in square in the imperial college and they're all closed many other 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
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outskirts of will han people trying to leave the virus stricken city of 11000000 are turned back health checks are carried out at the roadside province cities which are home to some 60000000 people have been put under quarantine. as cues form of 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 sonorous killed 650 people across mainland china and hong kong this outbreak has a long way to go before it can compete with us 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
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has been following the 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 was it supposed to nate's from a wide life market in downtown we saw the animals including crocodiles but also snakes were sold in consumed and also the 2nd strategy is to restrict the mobility of the people one whole province effect already on the current time and it's really the 1st and it's never been the case in the whole history of china now you mentioned bill hahn that's the center of the al break it's been on lockdown since wednesday but many other cities are seeing similar restrictions tell us about that . yeah i think the situation and will go on and the whole province becomes more
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severe i'm starting from today also cop traffic individual cop traffic is spent in the city you can eat a license and a 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 8 their citizens the german side however is more i mean they have not issued a travel warning yet but definitely people are stockpiling on food and also on medical supplies and yeah that's the sense of people. tell me more about how people in china are feeling now you've been looking at chinese social media and the way that people reacting there i mean what are they saying it especially about how the government has been handling this i mean social media is always.
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a way of people to share information also beside the state media and how the government has actually introduce and use the whistleblower function for the f we check in at that literally every chinese has on his or her smart smartphone and people can citizens can report authorities 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 they have trust in the government and also in the government's handling of 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 doctors etc and them overeat 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 all non-story for us from beijing thank you so much. here's
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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 date of the country's national holiday to be changed australia day is held on a day to the british ships arrived on the continent in 1788 demonstrators say celebrating this occurrence on that date is disrespectful to the country's indigenous people. in mexico city hundreds of feminist activists so to these streets to protest the recent murders of 2 fellow activists it's the latest in a series of all female protests that were triggered by the alleged rape of a teenager by city police last summer. boeing's new long haul passenger jet the
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777 x. has successfully completed its maiden flight the plane is the world's largest twin engine jet liner the flight comes as boeing faces a crisis over its smaller 737 mags after 2 deadly crashes. in india and old republic day celebrations wrapped up with a parade in the capital new delhi the parade is the highlight of 3 days of festivities the celebrations marked the anniversary of the country's democratic constitution and india's independence from british rule. in turkey rescue workers have been working around the clock to free survivors from the rubble after friday night's powerful earthquake in the east of the country the official death toll has risen to at least 31 but rescue efforts have been showing some success according to turkish officials at least 45 people have now been freed from under the rubble. as if you can hear your husband's voice and keep him talking says that these things conscious talk to your children too. this rescue worker is
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trying to calm those trapped in the rubble while the rescues dig 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 jugaad of relatively lightly only 5 buildings collapsed in the surrounding area more than 70 apartment houses have caved in and nearly 1000 have been damaged. late in the day president richard 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.
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even today the very word auschwitz carries with it chilling images cruelty of the worst kind more than 1000000 people were murdered there by the nazis monday marks 75 years as the camp's liberation by the soviet army reporter mark erith visited auschwitz and spoke of the people working to conserve the site and the memory of horrors that took place there. work sets you free this cynical nazi slogan looms about the entrance to the auschwitz memorial horrors were committed here now it has become an important tourist destination for visitors from all around the world over the past 10 years visitor numbers have doubled. more than $2000000.00 people now visit auschwitz every year. it is heartbreaking to see how cruel people can be and it's it's very moving too hard not
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to cry and. to be home for unicef many many times. you see the 1st time in person that's itself is really important like a place is giving greeting people kind of impression about what happened to people when true and so on but i think that we are paying too much attention to the buildings to the place itself to the general names and things like that and to small attention to what was really important so worried all came from. the memorial site she said to add new exhibition of earth so accommodates all the visitors pavel's there vicki says the ending stream of guests has posed a real challenge. the numbers of visitors that we're getting are already overwhelming this is logistically difficult operation so we are also planning to build a completely new visitor center that will be slightly at the side of the historical . site of the comp and it will also help us from this very well just
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a cool point of view. even that big so winter cold doesn't stop people from visiting the barracks in the here from our concentration camp. here the nazis murdered more than 1000000 people mostly jews they died through malnutrition disease or in the gas chamber. now the barracks are crime. but renovation work has started the goal is that they look like the original yet are sturdy enough to withstand hard winters a task that may take decades to accomplish. this venue just the reconstruction work calls for great diligence to restore the structure to the original state. it is very painstaking work that requires great accuracy and attention to detail we don't human to everything in advance in order to be able to restore the place accurately
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and something that says you. precision is also key when it comes to preparing items to go on display in this case conservation material used in the past has to be carefully removed because it is now understood to be damaging the exhibits the goal is not to repair objects but to preserve them. these objects reflect the history of auschwitz so there deformation contamination the fact that some objects are not complete all this is testimony to what happened here . still there are plans to change the exhibition the present one was largely designed in the fifty's by survivors who focused on the fates of victims pictures of the perpetrators were hardly bearable for them but in the future their history will be included as well when we asked one of the most important educational questions about
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a story about france which is the question why does not the story about the victims does a story about people who accept to decide the old g. chose to join the nazi party cho chose to join the s.s. and a day where here and they were working and at the same time they were bringing up their children. it's been 75 years since auschwitz was liberated germany is now providing a total of $120000000.00 euros to support the site to ensure the horrors of the holocaust are not forgotten. and we'll have more coverage of that solemn anniversary right here on d w a reminder now the top story that we're following for you at this hour a total of $56.00 people have died from the corona virus in china and there are now more than 2000 cases chinese authorities have locked down the worst hit area by province travel restrictions have also been stepped up in a bid to try to contain the virus. stay tuned a new edition of our documentary series doc film coming up next in the meantime all
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