that's for all time by. the sound of fresh starts february 7th. the mom. this is news live from berlin the deadly corona virus continues to spread more than 2000 people have now been infected as new cases are detected in china chinese officials now say they expect the outbreak will only get worse i'll get the latest from beijing. as the world prepares to mark 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp we hear firsthand from

a survivor about the poorest experienced there. you know. i'm nick spicer welcome to the program. in china health officials have announced they expect to see the corona virus outbreak 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 even more transport and travel bans canceling major public events and shutting tourist attractions as well as widespread health screening meanwhile the death toll is rising at least $56.00 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 there will be no mickey mouse to usher in the year of the rat. in response to the prevention and control of the disease. through the help in our efforts in. our temporary. tourist attractions across the country have been closed to the public. now. i just went to china i'm in square and the imperial college and they will 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 saas killed 650 people across mainland china and hong kong this outbreak has a long way to go before it can compete with saz but at that time china faced international criticism for acting too slowly and withholding critical information from other countries. and for more on this i'm joined by a question in buyer spokes person of the world health organization china's health

ministry says the deadly new virus is ability to spread it is growing how much do we need to be concerned. looks it's a novel coronavirus which means it's a new virus where we don't have any treatment measures yet other than the clinical treatments off's you know fighting a fever and a cough we don't obviously have any vaccine because it's in the virus so it's something which we knew all would at some stage happen in the world but it's definitely something which is spreading and will get worse before it gets better we've seen travellers leaving china and coming to other countries around the world took quite a lot by now and taking this virus with them what we haven't seen and that is very good news that in those countries we haven't seen any further transmission and that's a sign to look out for. the w.h.o. is expected to announce whether this new coronavirus will be designated what it

calls a public health emergency of international concern what is its current status. it is definitely an emergency in china there's no doubt about that there's not the official status this. description of a public health emergency of an international concern has certain criteria not quite technical criteria it is not linked to the amount of cases and that's very important so we're not looking out cases or deaths it's linked to the fact that it's a new virus it's linked to the fact that it's internationally spreading and it's linked to the fact that it's human to human transmission is ongoing in other countries that's why the fact that this hasn't been spreading yet further in other countries is a very significant fact in china as far as we know all cases have yet been linked to one directly and all human to human transmission as have been within close families or in close circumstances so that's what we know right now but we're

constantly monitoring the expertise of the emergency committee also constantly being up to date on what's going on there will reconvene shortly that is something we can safely assume and our country's doing everything they can and should do to stop the spread of the virus are there any weak links in the chain here. this is now certainly a test for international health systems of all countries around the globe it's very good so far that we have been seeing travelers coming home and we see a virus detected to us that means what that means that it has been detected as silly as this may sound and that is definitely good news and these people have been either put in isolation they have been needed to put them to treatment their family members friends the contacts have been reached out to and checked medically and monitored so these are very good news and that's exactly what people can do they can do exit tests so entry tests for them slights coming from various areas people

themselves look should look out for symptoms of cough or fever of sneeze now this is of course a very tricky scenario because it's a flu like virus and we haven't the seas are still in europe so that means everybody can develop a sneeze or cough or cold so that's something which can be confused and again it's important to know the most that the farthest way you can go for your own protection is the same way you would protect yourself against the common flu what a common cold or the flu that means don't sneeze into the open don't cough into the open sneeze into your elbow or into a to show and discard the tissue afterwards. and if you get if you get infected your or if you touch with somebody then wipe your hands afterward sanitize and maybe just don't get too close to somebody as you wouldn't if that person is infected with anything else all right take the usual steps as one does winter christian then myra joe thanks so much thanks for having me. the few remaining

survivors are beginning to gather in auschwitz one day before the official ceremony marking 75 years since the liberation of the extermination camp even today the very word auschwitz is a synonym for man's inhumanity to man monday marks the anniversary of when the soviet army freed the camp and its remaining prisoners in $140.00 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 nasty party it was their deadliest and largest extermination camp in total 1300000 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 new torrijos gas chambers others were also sent to auschwitz who didn't fit the nazi doctrine such as homosexuals roman sinti polish political prisoners and jehovah's witnesses but this week is of course about more than numbers it's about

the people and as the world remembers those who survived and those who lost their lives for more i'm joined now by correspondent simon young where people are already gathering ahead of tomorrow simon. that's right nic i'm standing at the entrance of the original auschwitz camp auschwitz one as it's now normally known and you know this is a place where thousands were incarcerated and many people were murdered but 75 years after the liberation of auschwitz incredibly enough some of the survivors who experienced what this place was like under the nazis are still coming back every year we believe around $200.00 auschwitz survivors of different nationalities from countries around the world many of them jews will be coming here and want to tell their stories remind people of the brutality of the horrors of auschwitz

and warn future generations about what the semitism is and what the holocaust was and d.-w. had the opportunity within the last few days to speak to and survive or he won't be coming this year she lives in israel and for her the pain of what she experienced here. too deep but she still wants to let the world know of her suffering and says. this is me in the back. of my number 73200 and i wish i had to show that twice daily. counting.

pin. number then to protect $1100.00. legs no from the from the smoke from the. and the spirit and she's from something came up korea. and. we just had to understand that this is what happens. when they train arrived there were prisoners who sought luggage they made mountains of clothes of shoes to prove the bread of and if they picked from the book they somehow managed to bring it to the church and

broke. and there were some 2414 books in the book. so afraid invented this very be library and you are in charge people being killed in gas chambers and blood is being burnt in claymont loria and the ashes that bear in the air they cover their ass they're all the playground things when you were that time will come in june we had 6 months grace to live between you we knew we knew we are going to die and you and everybody knew that i won't ever go back to it's i can't bear it that. hundreds and thousands of people go and step there on the ashes. or over all over the. place there stepping

on the dead people. just looking simon at the people walking behind you and thinking of her words just it's so moving there's no escaping the history it would seem i guess there's a lot of mixed feelings about coming back for some people. well i think as you heard there inevitably they are and there is so much pain associated with auschwitz but as i was saying many of these survivors think it's so important to come to continue telling their stories and indeed there's a sort of special bond i think that exists between the existing survivors is a sense of reunion every year when they come but it's a dwindling number and you know it's hard to say exactly who will be here in many cases illness prevents some of these very elderly people from making the journey but those that have been here today many of them you know with tears in their eyes

and we suffering but also showing sympathy even one woman was telling me that she remembers a german guard who gave a warning to the people arriving saying you must also you're 16 and you're able and ready to work and that may have even saved a few lives she said so these are the kind of very personal stories that people have and as i say for many it's about warning future generations that really is the key motivation and what can you tell us about the commemorations to morrow at this point. to morrow will be a more official or more solemn ceremony with the presidents of poland and israel also the german president and the french president will be here and other heads of state also those $200.00 or so survivors as well laying wreaths and speedy as speeches will be made of course and there will be

a and honoring of the survivors in the memory of the $1100000.00 and probably many more who died here but also some sense of celebration that 75 years ago the horrors of auschwitz came to an end when serbia troops liberated the camps here. and young reporting from auschwitz thanks for that. i'm exposed thanks for watching. what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 get the map now. actually really just shows the 1st graph shows.