this is v.w. news live from burlesque a middle east peace plan without the palestinians the u.s. president unveiling the plan alongside the israeli prime minister in washington it would hand israel control of more disputed territory one reason the palestinians have rejected it out of hand also coming up. countries begin evacuating their nationals from the chinese city on it very hard to corona virus outbreak that is the number of east germany rises to 4. plus

a final vote to seal. as the european parliament prepares its vote on britain's departure from the bloc d.w. catches up with a british member of the e.u. parliament who's trying not to look back in anger. and rising sea levels have started displacing millions of people in coastal areas if you look at what's already happening in the philippines. bryan thomas a very warm welcome to our program u.s. president donald trump has unveiled his long awaited peace plan for the middle east at a white house event israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu describing the proposal as the deal of the century but palestinian president mahmoud abbas has already to dowse the plan which calls for a palace. the instate with

a capital in east jerusalem but also grants israel control of disputed lands. president trump and prime minister netanyahu pushing their international peace plan but they've both got troubles at home impeachment hearings against trump a continuing in the senate and on tuesday yes and you know he was formally charged with bribery and fraud but there was no mention of either of those scandals at the white house. under this vision jerusalem will remain israel's undivided very important undivided capital. but that's no big deal because i've already done that for you right. we've already done that but that's ok for too long far too long the very heart of the land of israel where our patriarchs prayed our prophets preached and our kings ruled has been outrageously branded as illegally occupied

territory well today mr president you are puncturing this big log. you are recognizing israel sovereignty over all the jewish communities in judea and samaria large and small alike. this is what donald trump says a future palestinian state could look like the map he tweeted chose palestinian areas into green but the west bank and gaza connected by a tunnel he said east jerusalem would be the capital of the state of palestine the palestinians have already made it clear this isn't a plan they're prepared to back or either a hold of it i would like to say to trump and the whole wanted to know that jerusalem is not for sale. well

and all our rights are not for sale they said by not so bargaining your conspiracy deals. and. if this new plan will need to move quickly is radio fishel saying netanyahu plans to ask for cap and approval on sunday to make the proposed new quotas a reality. ok we're joined now by the israeli author and former politician avraham burg he's been a very outspoken critic of binyamin netanyahu is right wing government and settlement policies a misanthrope thank you so much for joining us today our 1st question what are your thoughts on this this deal being called by the by the trump white house a vision for peace. very vicious those associates mr trump with the word the vision i so the stage office. using here at the rick's

very. very warm very empty because i never never a manager and it's impossible to think about that the broker and one side if anybody any one of the participants in the posse if they really want to have this story should have been missed an attorney and president of. over and if you really want it to happen it should happen so we're between the 2 you're separate think there's between ramallah and jerusalem all the way washington it's was a beautiful well staged press conference just a moon maybe to save the skin of both need there is nothing will come out of it ok why do you think the palestinians were excluded or joined. i've no clue but since you're here with the dealer of the century. from the americans and the magician

from the israelis i think the magician made something between themselves the beautiful show to me like a david copperfield of the magician or the neat thing is this i mean if you want to make this this is how i was broke at home and politics you have to find the path of peace that is not even look for the positive and therefore it's empty and hollow and meaningless ok what about this plan having the backing of a large sections of the railway society in that it calls for the annex saying of of disputed territories i mean this plan does have backing in israel. trust nobody really measure this they're going to have elections within top of weeks and i think it this will be a central piece of the election from say what you think about it and let's see who would have a majority to form a government implement the 2nd is i'm not at all sure that many israeli is really invested thinking into the potential future of something like this and this is

israel. very shortly according to this so-called vision is going to be an apartheid state that will be under the israeli territory in the civilian sector that one side will enjoy privileges and the side will have. i would say less privileges not to say what the legally discriminated this is has no other name but a great geisha and ties the description and therefore when you would go down into the psyche of the israelis and then really that kind of democracy one lives then i think you'd then you would find it's a different definition of who is the majority ok briefly if you could what do you think needs to happen to move peace for israel and the palestinians for. you know is simply for both me the across the aisle very short a rhetorical gap between jerusalem and ramallah but the huge psychological one the

sit down with each other 1st recognize the pain and fears of each other the promise of the past and then we do not wreck the wrongs of the past by creating the wrongs of the future the basic foundation should be that every individual between the jordan and the in the mediterranean will have the right to have the same rights and then probably build the political structure in the end the political structure for the israelis and the coordination mechanism to make both of us able to live together peacefully and at least. avraham burg thank you so very much for coming in france you very much former israeli politician and author joining us there thanks very much. thank you very much. ok let's get you brief now some of the other stories making the news today don't trump's legal team has concluded its opening arguments in the u.s. president's impeachment trial with an appeal for him to be swiftly acquitted his

lawyers also trying to marginalize a former national security adviser john bolton whose testimony should the senate allow it could incriminate the president. devastating floods and landslides have killed at least 59 people in southeast brazil entire buildings have been washed away some 30000 people have been displaced a state of emergency has been declared in some 100 cities and towns including the state capital belo horizonte. israeli president ruben rivlin is here in berlin taking part in events mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz. and to honor the victims of the holocaust rivlin will be addressing the german parliament later today this trip comes as fears grow about rising anti semitism across europe.

while hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from the chinese city of on the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak as more deaths more cases are being confirmed the number of deaths from the virus has risen to 132 in china number of confirmed affections is about 6000 that according to the chinese national health commission an expert from the and h.c. says it could take 10 more days for the outbreak to peak. ok let's take a closer look now at at the countries evacuating are planning to evacuate their citizens from the epicenter of this virus now 11000000 people live in this chinese city germany says it will be evacuating 90 of its citizens from move on now france's 1st plane to repatriate its nationals will leave for paris today. charter flights were bringing south korean citizens of this week home and some 650 japanese

nationals will they have already been repatriated some are still being repatriated back to japan the united states has already begun evacuations diplomats and their families among the 240 americans who are being flown out of who are now a number of other nations are also discussing exit plans with beijing well meanwhile hong kong is taking a different approach as authorities are confirming more and more cases of the virus and mainland china hong kong as leader kerry lamb has announced plans to suspend all ferry and high speed rail links to the territory flights to china they're being cut in half and personal travel permits for mainland chinese to hong kong are to be suspended. so how is this affecting a city already torn by months and months of protests to w.'s correspondent charlotte cole joins us now from hong kong good morning to charlotte hong kong is

imposed travel restrictions with china what does that mean for the city what's it looking like where you are right. brian we know that just across the border thousands of confirmed cases so far in mainland china many more suspected cases tensions here of really starting to build the memories of the son of epidemic back in 2003 still very fresh very painful the people here hong kong which is very densely populated was one of the worst hit areas by that epidemic nearly $300.00 people were killed so the people that we've spoken to now trying to take as many precautions as possible to keep themselves safe and to stop the spread of this virus now authorities here have to clad this crisis possible at this crisis an emergency that's the highest possible level as such

a lot of public spaces have been players events counseled we know that schools are going to be suspended at least until mid february a lot of people opting to stay off the streets we saw huge queues this morning outside pharmacies before they'd even opened with people trying to stock up on faceoffs hand sanitizers mostly walking away empty handed because those shops and now in very short supply all of those face masks and hand sanitizers because the concern here is so great ok show it to the people you've been talking to have in these measures who have faith in a government that they've been losing trust and over the past months. all of the people that we have spoken to particularly since these new. travel restrictions one hour announced yesterday have said that they are not feeling reassured by these new restrictions we should use to come into place tomorrow yes

very very it will be suspended high speed rail networks will be suspended the flights we hope that people say that he doesn't go far enough where the bus station at the moment the buses will be running from mainland china from tomorrow when those measures kick into action ok so for us in on kong thanks very much for that update short while here in germany authorities have confirmed more cases of the coronavirus doctors in the southern state of bavaria say there are now a total of 4 people infected all 4 of them work at the same company they apparently contracted the virus from a visiting chinese colleague. it's believed to be the 1st human to human transmission in europe a man in his thirty's has tested positive for the corona virus in germany he's currently receiving treatment at this hospital in munich. the patient is doing very well has no fever currently has no more press pretorius

symptoms but when i visited him he was awake he could talk and i can therefore say that his life is not in danger. health officials say the now isolated man contracted the virus from a chinese colleague at a company training event here in this building inched on back near munich he began showing symptoms at the weekend. his chinese colleague had traveled to germany from shanghai where she reportedly had contact with people from the 110. the woman is now back in china where she tested positive for the virus has self. informants we received this information yesterday and immediately informed the relevant authorities such as the public health department at the time from you we also notified our employees. and we made the information public. health

officials in bavaria said they were testing at least 40 people the 2 patients had had contact with the niece has left people in the area consent this is said you get scared by this but before when something like this comes into our country. but germany's federal health minister says there's no reason for fia or panic yet. we are well prepared we will continue to be well prepared we take the virus very seriously but we must not become hysterical. there's no reason for sense of worry is that as a precaution the minister said he would order and line pilots to pass on information about the health of all passengers coming from china and to keep a record of their contacts in germany ok let's talk about this more with a broader political correspondent joining us here in the studio good morning to you what more do we know about these cases here in germany. well what's important at

the moment is that all 4 of these confirmed cases of people that had contact with a colleague from china who had been at this company last week for an internal training session and they were all in such a session with this person. they were all directly infected by somebody from china we can also say that all of them are doing pretty well they are not all being isolated in hospital but none of them seriously sick the 1st person that was confirmed in fact has no fever has no symptoms at all but is still being kept in isolation so at the moment it's a matter of observation rather than a critical situation ok what about the evacuation plans for germany and european nationals in woo on that is moving forward what's happening on that front but i think the 1st thing you need to say is that all of these potential evacuees volunteers that people that have os to be evacuated and they are asymptomatic they are not sick they are not allowed to be sick obviously nobody's going to be evacuated if they have symptoms of any of these illnesses germany is

reckoning on taking ought to bog 90 people have been negotiations going on about what kind of airplane kind of becket them germany would like to use military planes the chinese would prefer that not to be the case and france is about to evacuate about 250 of its citizens probably today the plan is likely to leave today to go to china so they will arrive here tomorrow thursday the french of said that they will in fact isolate all of these 250 people once they arrive. at least some media report those reports are that will be the case and the european union as well has said it will be sending planes for other european union citizens who want to be evacuated from but we don't know the details of when exactly and how many so far i've been a german authorities say there is no reason for alarm why are they sound so confident one reason i think is that they are not enough effect infected people.

the moment and the ones that have been confirmed that are infected are isolated that there's not much chance at the moment of this virus spreading very quickly the other is that the infectiousness and the seriousness of this disease seems to be. not as severe as previous similar sorts of cases such as the sause virus some years ago in fact there german authorities are saying what's much more dangerous is the common flu that is obviously also in the european winter making the rounds at the moment and learn from that to learn normally in a normal season thousands of people die so at the moment the german authorities and others are saying just regular hygiene measures such as washing your hands regularly are enough to counter this virus so a positive note on all of us least here in germany hans i so much for that this is the news still to come on our program goes to the philippines where climate change

is forcing people to leave home as parts of that country sink beneath the sea. but 1st the european parliament is preparing to vote today to ratify the terms of britain's divorce deal with the european union this is storch vote will also be the last for the chambers 72 british m.p.'s will leave after it takes place britain is due to officially leave the european union in 2 days' time you'd have you caught up with one british m.p. who's trying not to look back in anger talking his back before the final trip home british. had only 7 months and the european parliament now his country's officially leaving and so must the 1st group. and it was in front of the people of yorkshire and hobo basically. on them like christmas cards.

really nothing exciting and honestly. elected in may of 2019 majeed was one of 73 pritish any piece in the current cohort with back said that term ends on the 31st of january now he'll have to find a new job for himself and his staff but his real concern is europe aside because we're losing a lot of blues not like. workers' rights environments right so many things that we lose and lose in an across racial group in union a lot of young people feel like they've been betrayed because they're no longer able to go be able to travel freely around the european union for love to so many things and it is yeah it just is a disaster before he was elected to the european parliament majid was large mayor of the northern british city of sheffield born in somalia and it came to the u.k. as a child refugee he started his political career in 2014 joining the green party where

he promoted an open european migration policy my campaign slogan was immigrants make britain great i also. our. hearts are where in the words we use girls and it was also the i really girl even economically culturally and the efforts of the immigrants really in the rich. this is exactly the opposite of what his compatriots from the grex and party the largest group of british any peace have been campaigning for while they're celebrating their success and he'd hopes the transition period which is set to last till the end of the year will provide an opportunity to work out what the future relationship will actually look like. like no choice europe the european union is our biggest neighbors we can't afford to just pretend they don't exist and do everything ourselves so the going to have to have some form of relationship and

help is a very. flourishing positive relationship a close one has lunches in the european parliament contini may be coming to an end but the implications of britain's exit from the e.u. he says will take far longer to digest. now experts predict up to 1000000000 people on our planet could become climate refugees this century now what would that look like rising sea levels could render low lying areas completely uninhabitable most of this will take place in asia in the philippines for example climate change is not an abstract concept for people living on its islands including some near the capital manila did have you visited one of those islands. judge is a risky bird captain in been one gun an island district in the bay of manila. he helps people in distress but he's powerless against the greatest danger facing his

community the island is sinking every year up to 6 centimeters deep into the sea. residents are now rebuilding their houses on the rooftops of their old sunken homes. and. what scares me the most about the steady sea water rise is that someday we went to even see the roofs anymore on this. whole. entire palace and it's all vanished. you know when. and at the same time we'll keep trying to build up the ground through the land reclamation. the moon will know by. the rising water has made his house unlivable so he's been sleeping at his workplace. that hard target everything here is submerged.

we had to study things in high places to keep them safe 1. if the water reached the bed and we had to wait for it to subside before we could sleep. a little. george doesn't come here much anymore after the water began to destroy his home his wife took his son and lift. yes but i mean. this was a happy home. we usually had visitors friends relatives . when. we'd all be together inside this house chatting sharing meals sometimes drinking and now it makes me sad to think about this house abandons . many families are being torn apart for young

people move away to seek work. in 2018 alone an estimated 3800000 people in the philippines fled from storms and natural disasters. judgers neighbor melody is also fighting a losing battle against the water. how are things that it is usually. that you mean how much have you raised your house already. you know. you know i've used around 306 of the oyster shells and. if sea levels keep rising the entire island district of being one gun could be submerged. how long that might take nobody knows. the pool. i don't like what's. happening especially for the coming generations. now up in the bank i pity those children all

grow up without experiencing the beauty of this place i. mean that in the largest probably in a body a. judge really doesn't want to leave but these rising waters may soon force him to . that's all we have time for that's for sure.

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