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and explore the major world heritage sites. w world heritage 363 getting out now. this is deja vu news live from berlin the deadly coronavirus continues to spread more than 2000 people have now been infected as many new cases are detected within china and chinese officials now say they expect the outbreak will only get stronger we'll get the latest from beijing also coming up. as easy as you can to hear your
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husband's call isn't cheap you talking somebody says conscious talk to your children to look after friday's powerful earthquake rescuers in eastern turkey are still trying to reach people stuck under the rubble and fears are now growing for survivors as the temperature dips below freezing and as the world prepares to mark 75 years and see liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp we look at the importance of conservation efforts preserving the site and the memories the atrocities that took place. i'm called aspen thanks for joining us we begin in china where health officials have announced that they expect to see the corona virus outbreak intensify now the virus has already appeared in all but one of china's provinces and in at least 11 other countries china has said it will intensify efforts to contain the virus which
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include a lot down in several cities including the city of new holland that's believed to be the epicenter of the outbreak meanwhile the death toll is rising at least 56 people in china have died and more than 2000 more have been infected. 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 the president in control of it is. true that help in yes there. are temporarily. tourist attractions across the country have been closed to the public. now. i just went to chairman square and the imperial college and they're all closed many of the tourist sites are also closed. at
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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 province cities which are home to some 60000000 people have been put under quarantine. as tooze format health centers and emergency rooms and residents stock up on mosques and medical supplies some people have been forced to cut their 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 sars 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
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international criticism for acting too slowly and withholding critical information from other countries. let's get the latest now our correspondent crash my is standing by for us in beijing he's been tracking that virus for us bobby i understand china's health minister has given a rare sunday news conference want to have to say. yeah i mean he basically a convey the message that it's really a great threat and several additional steps have been taken for example i'm china bents it's wildlife trade and it's significant because medical experts assume that the grown up by risk originated from a market in what they were selling exotic animals like snakes crocodiles and also but it's also we know that the problems of one dong that's in the south of china has introduced a new regulation that requires all citizens to wear face masks in public and if you don't wear anything he smiles in public then you are by law i'm not allowed to
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enter restaurants and other facilities and maybe the most severe restrictions are place on the on that's the epicenter of the virus starting from today even individual cops traffic is spent and yeah the city is basically on lockdown yet many cities across china are on lockdown mean that must be making just everyday life difficult for people there how are people coping with the situation yet especially in the cities that are isolated people are stockpiling on food and also on medical supplies because they don't know or home how much longer the supplies are listening i mean look who just equal challenge to keep those cities economically alive and here in beijing if the situation is not as intense but of course people are very and they tend to stay indoors not go outside and anyways all the public places i mean that was
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a corrections there close. also the government has urged the population to avoid any public gatherings so people just stay home and other wise i mean it's also the new year season usually they would spend it with their relatives and big families but many families have actually even canceled their traditional new year's family business. you've also been following chinese social media where there's a big discussion as well about this virus what are chinese citizens saying about the way that the government is handling the response yet the reaction is quite mixed i would say that the elderly people they tend to know what's for us in the government and also their steps and how they handle the situation now what they do is they share our messages of hope and also they are supporting nations towards the hospital stuff that cetera and they also support solidarity the young are look pretty good yes and also in that maybe not the central government but the local
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government who has handled the crisis quite incompetent and was a little bit not you especially in the 1st days of virus outbreak because they've seen a more videos of panicking over. hospital sick you know all the patients it's room but what's interesting is that the government i'm surprised and the situation more transparency they can use on social media accounts and whistleblower front. and able to all the citizens to report on a forties and any kind of cover up or if people are trying to. spread the virus i had family on question reporting for us from beijing on back wrote a virus thank you very much. our here's a brief check now of some of the other stories making headlines around the world at least 30 people have been killed by flooding and landslides in southeastern brazil following 2 days of heavy rains thousands of people have been forced to leave their
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homes the rainfall in the region is the heaviest recorded in more than a century. in mexico city hundreds of feminist activists took to the streets to protest the recent murders of 2 fellow activists it's the latest in a series of all female demonstrations that were triggered by the alleged rape of a teenager by city police last summer. boeing's new long haul passenger jet the 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 max after 2 deadly crashes. in india republic day celebrations wrapped up with a parade in the capital new delhi the parade is the highlight of 3 days of festivities celebrations mark the anniversary of the country's democratic constitution and india's independence from british rule. to
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turkey now where 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 if death toll has now risen to at least 31 but rescue efforts have been showing some success according to turkish officials at least 45 people have been freed from the rubble. if you can hear your husband's voice in tokyo says at these things conscious talk to your children to. this rescue worker is 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 jay got of relatively lightly only 5 buildings collapsed but in the surrounding area more than 70 apartment houses have caved in and nearly 1000
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have been damaged. late in the day president richard edouard visited the quake hit areas. the rescuers are working as fast as they can draw 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. even today the very word auschwitz carries with it chilling images of cruelty of the worst kind more than 1000000 people were murdered there by the nazis monday marks 75 years as the camps liberation by the soviet army a reporter mark visited auschwitz and spoke with the people working to conserve the sites and the memory of the horrors that took place there. work sets you free this cynical nazi slogan looms above the entrance to the auschwitz memorial horrors
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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 to cry and we oh fionn to be on for years for many many dames 1st time that you see the 1st time in person it's pretty reset itself is really important like it places giving real people kind of impression about what happened to people and 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 where he bolted from. the memorial site he said so out of new
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exhibition of rooms to accommodate all the visitors pavel's or vicki so he's the only ending stream of guests has posed a real challenge. the numbers of visitors that we are getting are already overwhelming this is just a clearly 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 does very well just a good point of view of. the. even the pits of 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 crumbling but renovation work has started the goal is that they look like the original yet are
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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 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
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. 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 ask one of the most important educational questions about the story about us which is the question why this is not a story about the victims does the story. about people who accepted decide the chose to join the nazi party choate chose to join the s.s. and today where here and they were working 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 on not forgotten. you have more coverage of that anniversary right here
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on d w a reminder now the top story that we're tracking for you at this hour a total of $56.00 people have now died from the corona virus in china and there are more than 2000 confirmed cases chinese authorities have launched down the worst hit area province travel restrictions have also been stepped up in a bid to try to contain the virus. stay tuned it shifts up next in the meantime all the latest news available on our website called aspen in berlin and more news coming at the top of the. world. the cry for freedom in the fight for freedom are always a company but. they transcend dreams and bring us all together. our 2
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