this is good news live from berlin the deadly coronavirus continues to spread more than 2000 people have now been infected as new cases are detected within china chinese officials now say they expect the outbreak will only get worse we'll get the latest from beijing also coming up. as the world prepares to mark 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp we hear firsthand from an auschwitz survivor about the horrors experienced there almost through snow.

from this small community. i'm nick spicer thanks for joining us. and we begin in china where health officials have announced they expect to see the corona virus outbreak to intensify 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 boost efforts to contain the virus that means a lockdown in several cities including the city of will have been believed to be the origin of the outbreak meanwhile the death toll is rising at least 56 people in china have died and more than 2000 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 prevention in control of it is. true that help in our guests. 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 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 at the roadside inn who bay 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 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 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. and let's get the latest now from our correspondent in beijing. who's been following this. the health minister of china how the rare sunday press conference what did he say yeah he basically reminded the press a whole so beautifully. a lot of. a lot

of steps have been taking one by the problems of the one gone that's in south china they introduce a new regulation that requires every citizen to wear a face mask and if you don't wear face mask in public you're not allowed to enter any kind of facilities including restaurants also in china then it's trade with wild animals we don't it. know that in. viruses supposedly originating from sort suppose the originating from the foreman market where all small. exotic animals were sold such as snakes and also crocodiles and vets so that's also a big step and maybe the most intense steps were taken. starting from today every kind of traffic individual contract because also banned can you tell us a little bit more about these lockdowns there are several cities in lockdown what

does it mean for the chinese people and for foreigners who happen to be are they stuck in china. for the foreigners who are living in will they get preferred entry treatment for example the french authorities and also the russian authorities the end of. the evacuation of their citizens and also the u. s. consulate. they already announce that they will it work you eat their stuff on tuesday for the chinese of course it's more because they cannot leave the city. it's sealed off and. you can see that people are stockpiling on food there also stockpiling on medical supplies and yet you get the sense of. the. ok henri. 5 in just going to try one last question with you your signal seems to. ok i think we're going to. have

a bad connection thank you for the pressure in beijing reporting on the corona virus outbreak now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. 31 people are now confirmed dead in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck turkey on friday 1600 people were injured by the magnitude 6.8 quake that hit the town. and surroundings rescue teams are still searching for survivors. 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 homes the rainfall in the region is the heaviest recorded in more than a century. in mexico city hundreds of feminist activist took to the streets to protest the recent murder of 2 fellow activists it is the latest in a series of all female protests that were triggered by the alleged rape of a teenager by city police last summer. in india

annual republic day celebrations concluded with a parade in the capital new delhi 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. even today the very word auschwitz carries with it chilling images of cruelty of the worst kind monday marks the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation by the soviet army in 1900 germany's nazi regime established the auschwitz concentration camp in occupied poland it was run by the s.s. the brutal military wing of the nazi party it was their largest and deadliest extermination camp. in total $1300000.00 people were deported to auschwitz most of them jews sent there from all across europe nearly all of them were killed most of them in the dettori s. gas chambers others were also sent to auschwitz who didn't fit the nazi doctrine

such as homosexuals roma and sinti polish political prisoners and jehovah's witnesses but this week is of course about more than numbers it's about the people as the world remembers the survivors and those who lost their lives and for more now on join john joined by correspondent simon young who is in auschwitz. simon what is happening there today. yeah i'm standing in the original auschwitz camp so-called our schlitz one camp where the machinery of killing really started and continued through most of the 2nd world war and tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz where more than a 1000000 people were murdered and incredibly survivors from that time people who'd been through the experiences that we have all read about how coming back here and

they've been telling their stories they're here in the camp now revisiting the place where they knew so much suffering and i was just listening to the story of one lady from new york a well into her ninety's in a wheelchair she's come here with her family and she was just remembering how she arrived in the camp as a 20 year old and the brutality that she experience it's very moving very powerful and for a lot of these survivors it's important to tell their stories d.w. spoke in the last few days with a survivor who now lives in israel and she thinks it's important to tell her story but for her the pain of this place auschwitz is so so intense that she feels she can't come here let's say my.

this is me in the back of. my number 73200 and i. had to shout twice daily and counting. a pin. number then tip to cover the $100.00. the air was full of and she likes know from the from the smoke from the chimneys. and despair and she's from from the chemical you. and. me just had to understand that this is what happens. when the train arrived there were prisoners who sought it luggage they made

mountains of clothes of shoes of prude of bread. and if they put found a book somehow managed to bring it to the children's broke. there were some 2414 books on the book. so afraid invented this was maybe library and you were in charge people being killed in gas chambers and being burned in claremont loria and the ashes they play in the air they cover their ass there all the surrounding they knew that our time will come in june we had 6 months grace to live which we knew we knew we knew we are going to die and you and everybody knew that i

won't ever go back it's i can't bear it that. hundreds and thousands of people go and step there on the ashes ashes out all over all over the. place they're stepping on our own but that people don't. want to know how it was so i mean you almost don't know what to say after after seizing on it and hearing her words i just heard a lot of mixed feelings about about going there. there are as i say there's still so much pain and people here throughout the time of auschwitz throughout most of the 2nd world war suffered beatings they died by starvation through cold through disease and of course in the gas chambers and also the mass shootings and for the survivors they are people who were forced to experience every day the mass murder

that was going on around them these are unimaginable experiences but as i said a lot of the survivors feel that it's still important to tell their story to make sure that their warning from history is still heard particularly by young people today and i should say this site auschwitz has become if you like a tourist destination people are walking around here even today in large groups with headphones on listening to the details of the story and a lot of the survivors who come back every year many of them and often to see their their friends and acquaintances among that dwindling group now down to probably only around $200.00 who will be here for the commemorative events this weekend but they feel it's so important to to be here and to speak out and would you be able simon to sketch out for us the main commemoration tomorrow briefly.

yes tomorrow will be a bit more formal there will be presidents the president of france of germany of israel and of course the polish president as well and some other heads of state now but also those those 200 or so survivors will be here it will be a solemn event marking and honoring the survivors and if you like celebrating the fact that 75 years ago auschwitz and the misery that it was associated with finally ended when the soviet troops liberated the camp ok simon young in auschwitz many thanks for that. and we'll have more special coverage marking the 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz throughout today and monday here on to. stay tuned now for a new edition of world stories up next and don't forget you can get all the latest news 247 on our website that's dot com next vice or and berlin and i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour.

where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship just one to the shadow and if you newspapers with official information as a journalist and have worked all of the strengths of many cantors and their problems are almost the same who are doing social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can't afford to stay silent when you.