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i want to. go below and mobility show everyone w. . gold plate . last. this is t w news live from berlin and countries and companies across the globe stepped up efforts to contain the corona virus outbreak some nations have started evacuating their citizens from the chinese city the heart of the potentially deadly virus and some airlines are suspending service to and from china. also coming up germany's parliament prepares to welcome the israeli president move in groups and these are
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live pictures you see a red line arriving in the chamber at the moment he's due to address a chamber shortly in a member of the victims and remembrance rather and victims of nazi germany. president trump unveils his mideast peace plan alongside the israeli prime minister in washington is quite handy israel control of war disputed territory for one reason the palestinians immediately rejected it. and rising sea levels have started displacing millions of people in coastal areas you look at what's already happening in the philippines. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us. hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from the chinese city of new han the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak more cases of the virus have been confirmed in china the death toll has
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risen to more than one $130.00 australia says its citizens who are being brought home from china will be quarantined on an offshore island at 1st some airlines including british airways have suspended all flights to and from china. for 206 japanese workers by student who han this was a most welcome return. a flight that brought medical supplies to the chinese province fighting to contain the corona virus delivered them back to safety in japan the 1st of some 650 japanese citizens to be repatriated on hunger soil they spoke of the situation they were thankful to leave behind. him sincerely relieved to have returned on this charter. were difficult for we were there it was a worrying situation which was changing very quickly through. astride the also
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plans to patrick the most vulnerable of it $600.00 nationals we will be standing up christmas all of as a quarantine area will be transported to christmas all and with all we will also be putting implies the time which will be travelling there to provide the medical support and that will be supplemented as necessary by the defense support which can assist the united states and south korea also both working to move the citizens out of china as the international community mobilizes china is grinding to a nice standstill in beijing the streets are deserted subway stations largely empty . efforts to set up a dedicated hospital go on around the clock the chinese national health commission says it expects the outbreak to continue spreading and reach a peak in 10 days' time. but here in germany authorities have confirmed 4 cases of the coronavirus all 4 people are employees at the same auto supply company it's
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believed they fell ill after a seminar with a colleague from china the infected individuals have been quarantined in hospital where they are receiving treatment and meanwhile germany's health minister says there are plans to evacuate around 100 german. nationals from move on by plane. and fall but we need to be vigilant and prepared but we should maintain a proper sense of scale for example the 4 patients in germany are having just mild symptoms thank goodness we now have the genome sequence for the virus that was published on twitter and the 1st rapid test was developed here in berlin so gradually we're learning more about the virus and because of it now. let's get more on this story now derek williams from good of you science is with us here in studio hi derek we have the german health minister yes they're saying we need to be built vigilant but we also have to have a proper sense of scale here so how dangerous is this virus really when the one virus so far has proven to not be as as deadly as either stars are murderers the
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other coronaviruses that it's closely related to sars kills about 10 percent of the people who get it murders kills over 30 percent of the people who get it so the mortality rate with this with this new virus is much much lower than that is certainly under 5 percent so that's that's the good news that said however on the other hand if it i mean the good news being that it doesn't also appear to kill normal healthy adults it's it's mostly also affecting people with compromised immune systems and certainly also the elderly however that said it does it is a serious disease and and the seriousness which with a lot that's in many ways very similar to classic pneumonia and so it has to be treated and so the question is is to what extent are healthcare providers going to be overwhelmed if really thousands and thousands and thousands of people get it all at once and that's why we're seeing efforts to contain this virus ramping up and scientists in australia now say they have grown a version of this virus in
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a lab how could that help stop the virus well it's very important to have have livestocks of the virus for and for a number of different reasons 1st of all it helps in testing when you're testing for vaccines it helps you for selective indians specific city the specific the. pacific nest of being able to to to target that seems that that will actually also that are within that bat that area of corona virus prevention so it's important to have it it's also important because in the course of of testing vaccines you have to be able to do a lot of it is animal testing so you have to be able to infect the animals that you're testing your vaccines on with a virus for that you need stocks of virus also another aspect of it is that it's not clear that everybody is actually contract ing that is these and so the numbers that we have in people who might have contracted it or are still pretty day again so you might you would also be able to do what's called antibody testing if you have a live virus you can do some antibody tests you can provide antibodies that testing
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that tells you how many people have actually had it and that will of of course improve the statistics will know more about how many people are getting at and how long and how many people are actually showing ok so that's an important step at the same time there are companies scientists working on a vaccine if you look at the sars outbreak it took several months to develop a vaccine what is the timeframe we're talking about here well that the timeframe what's interesting is that as you said it's as we said earlier this group of virus is closely related to stars and murderers and so so we're not starting from scratch . what's interesting though is in back scene development is not coming up with a vaccine it's the testing of the vaccine that actually takes a lot of time because you have to make sure safety is going to be obviously paramount and so you the testing of the vaccine in animal models is going to take a great deal of time and then obviously when you have the problems with production ramping up production after you've proven that you have a safe vaccine and so we're not talking about a quick it's not
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a question of days or weeks we're talking about certainly months or possibly even years all right derek williams from good of you science thank you very much. now german lawmakers are attending a special session in parliament this morning to remember the victims of the holocaust this year's event marks 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz death camp and israel's president he seems picture here will also address members of the bundestag he spoke at recent events to warn against rising anti-semitism in europe and he's called on people to never forget the atrocities of the holocaust. and he didn't use chief political editor michelle or cousineau joins us from the bundestag for more on the story. and israeli president addressing the german parliament here tell us how symbolic and important. was only the 2nd time that an israeli president speaks before the bonus talk on this day of commemoration
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of the victims of the nazis and in 2010 it was shimon peres he just received a special welcome from the president of the german parliament the choice and his 1st words in his opening speech that there can be no healing silence about auschwitz we have to talk about auschwitz of course where around a 1000000 jews died alone in this death of the nazis that so appeared to my eyes is the mass murder the plan of the nazis who is so it's a historic day also bearing in mind that for the 1st time the german president addressed the commemorations at yad vashem only last week and franklin time of course is in the room here today michel that we have seen now several days of holocaust commemorations this week and on monday the focus really was on survivors who shared their stories and there's
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a lot of concern that in future years survivors will no longer be there to share their stories so is the emphasis of these commemorations changing. here is clearly shifted over the past year is from going after the last killers of the nazis as a responsible for this to preserving the memory for the future and i can tell you only 24 hours ago i was standing in the ruins of the gas chambers there with survivors who lost most of their family there and they clearly feel the weight on their shoulders to keep the memory alive and also remind the young generations here that it can happen to them to this also echoed here in the 1st words of akanksha ability the president of parliament to says that this happened is a remind how fragile civilisation is how fragile democracy is and i expect to hear
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more along that message here today in the bonus time and you'll be covering that for us there our chief political editor michelle akers and i thank you very much. as that special session of germany's parliament alerts people to the lessons of the past the specter of continued anti-semitism still looms large today the jewish community in the german capital berlin might be growing but not everyone feel safe . stands at the entrance to a jewish cemetery in central berlin it was designed by. an israeli artist who's been living in berlin for 7 years. since i came here i realize. that i'm jewish because. i didn't. think about it.
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thing. she says she left israel because she couldn't bear the fear of terror attacks that fear has stayed with her but she does feel safer in berlin. because i've been through. kind of. that it's always there you know and i'm going. to. looking for the. publisher of. an online lifestyle magazine for jewish women the attack on the synagogue in the german city of hillah shocked her but she won't be intimidated by it. i feel a mix of fear and defiance we don't want to hide. to remain visible jewish
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life. made up of many different cultural component i don't want to. sit at my desk and say i won't go. because i'm scared. magazine focuses on culture politics and jewish life from a woman's perspective on this day she's come to hear about my work unlike the artist hasn't experienced anti-semitism in her daily life here but living in the german capital means confronting traces of the holocaust everywhere and that's a challenge for you. because i feel it. too much. and i would like to stay here for a while. but the really i mean it's such a. cruel. thing
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to really really really understand it. it's too much. say they don't want to change their way of life even if it means confronting anti-semitism they prefer to continue their work as part of a thriving diverse jewish community. let's check in now on some other stories making news around the world britain's ambassador to the european union has delivered a letter confirming britain's divorce from the european council in brussels the european parliament vote later to ratify the withdrawal agreement. officially in 2 days. brazilian media say floods and landslides in the southeast of the country have now killed at least 59 people some 30000 people have been displaced a state of emergency has been declared in more than 100 cities and towns including
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the state capital. president trump's legal team has concluded its opening arguments in the impeachment trial with the appeal for trying to be swiftly acquitted trump's lawyers also try to marginalize former national security advisor john bolton whose testimony should the senate allow it could be incriminating for the president. meanwhile president trump has unveiled his long awaited peace plan for the middle east at the white house israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu welcomed their proposal last the deal of the century but palestinian president mahmoud abbas swiftly denounce a plan it calls for a palestinian state with a capital in east jerusalem but grants israel control of disputed lands. president trump and prime minister netanyahu are pushing their international peace plan but they've both got troubles at home impeachment hearings against a continuing in the senate and on tuesday was formally charged with bribery and
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fraud but there was no mention of either of those scandals at the white house. under this vision jerusalem will remain. undivided very important own divided. 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 preach. and our kings ruled has been outrageously branded as illegally occupied territory well today mr president you are puncturing this big log. you're recognizing israel sovereignty over all the jewish communities in judea and
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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 and 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. up all that is i would like to say to trump and the 10 yeah who wanted to know that jerusalem is not for sale. well all right it's a not for sale. but not so bargain anymore your conspiracy deal. and. conan's if this new plan will need to move quickly israeli officials say netanyahu plans to ask for cabinet approval on sunday to make the
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proposed new quotas a reality. let's get some perspective on this story now we have baker with us he's a political consultant who has worked closely with palestinian leaders akram thank you for joining us here and i hear what you know what do you make of this peace plan how does it how much does it really shift the situation well it's not a peace plan it's absolute abdication of all of our palestinian rights it is a deal done between. trump which just exemplifies the right wing extremist views that are propagate in the world today is that he said it's completely denouncing essentially a palestinian state but it does of course allow for palestinian land and a capital in east jerusalem no it doesn't it is 1st of all they're not disputed territories they are illegally occupied territories. as we heard the israeli prime minister who are strict and they are illegally occupied territories and it gives
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israel it gives the right wing of israel and the united states and the evangelical right when you've angelical christians and every single thing they want and it's giving the palestinians some vague promise of becoming a bantustan because that's exactly what they're getting if you look at that map that kind of looks like south africa in the 19 $170.00 s. and eighty's ok well you said in an interview on t.v. that essentially israel does already claim or control all of this land already and that palestine essentially doesn't exist on the maps it does not confirm the situation that arises so in my opinion. let's thank donald trump for finally giving the death knell to the so-called peace process which i was involved with 30 years ago from 30 years ago till today we're talking about the same things israel controls all of palestine and all israel and the problem is that this is going to continue and if this is going to formalize it them bring everybody
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in 2 into one state and we'll call it call it is roll call of palestine let it become a democratic state where there's 11 man one woman one vote donald trump has said he's open to negotiation so what options are there for palestinians at this point in my in my opinion the only option the palestinians have is and i've been calling on this for quite a while and maybe this is the time that they'll finally do it is to absolve to dissolve the palestinian authority it is nothing but a sham there should be no so-called security cooperation with israel israel rules that area they occupy that area and they should be responsible for all of the palestinian people in the population living within these territories we cannot give them any more fig leaves it's the only way to do this otherwise this is a fast track to war or genocide ok you'd say that would be the solution going forward how do you feel about the reactions that we saw from germany for example from europe fairly muted we did see the u.k.
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say that they welcome any step towards a solution that means peace between israelis and the post in which i actually hold western europe just as much responsible for what's happening right as if they're just going to say oh we protest or it's mute or we're not going to do anything they are the ones who are perpetuating this israel's largest trading partners not only united states with the european union so what should germany the european union living here to put their foot out and hit israel work has to say there are costs there you have to be held have to be held accountable for their policies which are going against everything in the european constitution rights all right that's all we have time for at this moment akram baker a political consultant who has worked closely with a palestinian leader's thank you for joining us now to give you. now to some other news and this week g.w. is featuring a major new documentary in how the climate crisis is generating its own refugee crisis experts predict that the effects of climate change could force up to 1000000000 people to leave their homes
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a century one such effect is rising sea levels they render low lying areas uninhabitable the to be visited one community in the philippines that is slowly succumbing to the sea. is a risky boat captain gun and 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 even see the roofs anymore. not an. entire housing it's all vanished. and at the same time we'll
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keep trying to build up the ground through reclamation. 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. 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 home his wife took his son and lift. now. yeah but i mean. this was a happy home. we usually had visitors friends and relatives
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. we'd all be together inside this house chatting sharing meals sometimes drinking and now it makes me sad to think about this house abandoned. 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. was that our things that it is usually. i don't know you mean how much have you raised your house already. you know. you don't and i've used around 306 of the oyster sheds and. if sea levels keep rising the entire island district of being one gun could be
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submerged. how long that might take nobody knows. the documentary displaced the climate exodus arizona this week and you can also catch our displaced series on our you tube channel documentary. this is news these are our top stories hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from the chinese city of the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak that's authorities confirmed more cases of the virus with the death toll rising to over $130.00 some airlines including british airways have suspended all slights to and from china. israel's president ruben rivlin is taking part in a special session of the german parliament in commemoration of the victims of nazi germany were going is on
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a 3 day visit to germany to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz. u.s. president donald trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have unveiled trumps peace plan for the middle east the plan calls for a palestinian state but also grants israel control of more disputed territories the palestinians have already denounced the deal. brazilian b.s.a. floods and landslides in the southeast of the country have now killed at least 59 people some 30000 people have been displaced a state of emergency has been declared in more than 100 cities and towns this is news from berlin for more follow us on twitter at the w news or visit our website. now the berlin zoo in the german capital is debuting its hottest new stars and the cubs men john and men one lovingly nicknamed pitts and paul by their crew caretakers said they're the 1st ever panda to be born
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