starts feb 7th. your home. news alive from our land nations began evacuating their citizens from the city epicenter of the corona virus outbreak charter planes take people home to japan and the united states other countries are planning similar operations meanwhile the number of confirmed cases jumps to almost 6000. coming up

a welcome for israel's president but a warning for the future israel's reuven rivlin addresses the german parliament to commemorate the victims of the holocaust and called for village vigilance against resurgent anti semitism and palestinians in the israeli occupied west bank demonstrate their opposition to president trumps to peace plan but international reaction is more cautious. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from the chinese city at the center of this corona virus outbreak more cases of the virus have been confirmed in china and the death toll there has risen to more than $130.00 the world health organization has urged governments around the world to be on the alert and take action to prevent the spread of the virus some airline. including british airways and look tons of have suspended all flights to

and from china. for 206 japanese workers based in 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 when i. am sincerely relieved to have returned on this chart of blood. while we were there it was a worrying situation which was changing and very quickly 3. of those people repatch reacted to tokyo at least 5 have now been hospitalized with symptoms consistent with the virus. astride the also plans to patrick the most vulnerable of

its $600.00 nationals we will be standing up christmas all with as a quarantine area will be transported to christmas all and with all we will also be putting in place the which will be traveling there to provide the medical support and that will be supplemented as necessary by the defense support which can assist the united states india italy and south korea all working to move their citizens out of china as the international community mobilizes the country is grinding to a standstill in beijing the streets all but deserted the usually bustling subways and shopping malls 2. in the city of homs who have a frantic efforts to build a dedicated hospital from scratch go on around the clock the chinese national health commission says it expects the outbreak to continue spreading and reach its peak in 10 days time. they're joined by now by martin starmer he is a better all of just

a lab for him to disciplinary medicine in frankfurt thank you so much for joining us and i'd like to ask in your expert opinion i mean we have here flights being canceled countries bringing back their citizens is this really necessary from a medical point of view. no that seems to be the best solution actually because. spreading before symptoms. by the patients or by the infected people so they don't have a specific control of all the cells to carry the virus or not so there's a lot of danger of transporting infected patients from country to country sitting in a plane being infected with the why was might spread the virus even more you mentioned the danger how dangerous is the virus. actually difficult to say or to compare with a water system the rate actually spending between 2 and 2 and how percent mainly if they do you know elderly people as basic diseases so.

might be comparable total strolling through in some wave australian scientists they have now created a lab version of the virus in order to understand its nature russia china they say that they've started working on a vaccine how fast could science deliver an effective vaccine in order to stop the outbreak. what they demand a time of nearly half a year to have that seen available and might last even longer depends on how it really works in asians you know after a producing scene you have to test it in human beings so to be sure that there is no no side effect or anything else and only if these this in a small oblation they can they can provided that fall that people talk with us a little bit more about quarantine procedures because we know for example the

germans who will be brought back from on there are apparently going to be put in quarantine for 2 weeks is that enough. yeah it should be a 1st but we don't know exactly if the people off there are they have we covered from the symptoms if they still can get and. carry out the virus somewhere so we don't even have to be sure that they're not infected if the symptoms are gone we don't from sars that the virus was stable in stool samples even up to $24.00 days after infection so this has to be approved and then we might talk about time of course time talk with us a little bit more about the determination process you know one person is sick how is it determined whether or not they are really suffering from the corona virus. fortunately we still have a good test based on the nuclear secrets of the virus so every every host of

those tests available and you can even perform the tests in the one and a half up to 4 hours of the test results big depending on. transport from the to leverage or the test itself it's available and it talks about. one to one in the hours martin. virologists at the lab for him to disciplinary medicine in frankfurt thank you. and here in germany authorities have confirmed 4 cases of the coronavirus all 4 people are employees at the same auto supply company it is believed that they fell ill after a seminar with a colleague from china infected individuals have been quarantined in the hospital where they are receiving treatment meanwhile germany's health minister said that his country is taking the virus threat seriously. 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. germany's health minister there let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world a charity ship carrying more than 400 rescued migrants has been allowed to dock in italy the vessel had been stranded at sea for some days the un's refugee agency says that increased fighting in libya is causing more people to risk the dangerous journey to europe. fresh clashes have erupted between security forces and protesters in the iraqi capital baghdad at one stage police used tear gas to break up a crowd and were seen beating up one protester more than 450 people have been killed

in an attempt stray sions in iraq since october. and a powerful earthquake has struck in the western caribbean sea between cuba and jamaica shock waves sent people staggering onto the streets the 7.7 magnitude quake was felt as far away as mexico and florida. the president of israel has addressed the german parliament in berlin to mark 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz extermination camp why even rivlin attended a special session of the bundestag an annual event to remember the victims of nazi germany. the jewish poet is available sang this lullaby to comfort children as they were forced into a gas chamber in auschwitz. addressing the german parliament israeli president ruben rivlin warned of resurgent anti semitism across europe and said germany had a key role to play in combating it. get a man you have a chip that germany the country where the so-called final solution was devised has

assumed responsibility for the protection of international liberal values which are being violated by populism. kidney gate guy late forty's. rivlin said that if this effort fails in germany it will fail everywhere german president hung in my a said the shoah is part of german history and identity he warned that hatred and abuse are spreading and the poison of nationalism is seeping into debates once again including here in germany they dumped the idea when guys within minutes we thought that the specters of the past would vanish with time but no they're raising their ugly heads again in a new guys moreover they're presenting their focus and all for a tarion ideas as a vision for the future as better answers to the open questions about time paintings about schlitz are on display in the bundestag by. who survived his

ordeals in the camp he'd been forced to retrieve bodies from the gas chambers and burn them. palestinians in the israeli occupied west bank have been demonstrating against president trump's middle east peace plan trump unveiled the proposal alongside israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on tuesday the palestinian president has rejected the plan but international reaction has been cautious with saudi arabia saying that it appreciated trump's efforts under the plan palestinians would gain statehood but give up large tracts of land drucilla would be the undivided capital of israel but with parts of the city's east reserved as a palestinian capital. tear gas fired in the west bank as israeli troops respond to palestinians protesting trumps peace plan netanyahu has dubbed it the deal of the century but people here are adamant that they want to accept it. it does not give us any of our rights as palestinian people and therefore we reject

the deal of the century we want the right to return we want to just solution. deal of the century has been totally rejected and it's a shame for anyone trying to support it. it's places like this the turkey part of the controversy jewish settlements in palestinian territory they're viewed by palestinians and the international community as illegal but still would allow israel to annex them something many of the saints there is here would support. it give security to the settlements and give security to israel if they implemented as it is written there will be fewer terror attacks less danger on the roads and also from an economic point of view it will move us forward. donald trump has been pushing ahead with policies supportive of israel my vision presents

a win win opportunity for both. a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risk of palestinian statehood to israel's security the very heart of the land of israel were our patriots prayed our prophets preach. and our king drew. has been outrageously branded as illegally occupied territory well today mr president you are puncturing this big large. both in the u.s. and internationally there has been mixed reactions to trump's plan which most hopeful that trump's vision for peace will be realized yet protests continue in the west bank 6. to tennis now and dominate team has reached the semifinals of the australian open after beating world number one rafael nadal it was a tight match but team of eventually triumphed by 3 sets to one the australian won

all 3 of his sets through a tie break he now faces germany's alexandra wherever for a place in sunday's final now where i've reached the last 4 of the men's draw after beating 2014 champions stand by the swiss veteran won the opening set where i've fought back to win by 3 sets to one and reach his 1st ever grand slam semifinal. honestly the team fortunate to have fired coach friedhelm focal after a bad run that took the club to the bottom of the league table the club's huge loss to laver couzin over the weekend sealed. he had been in charge of just the door since 2016 but the loss on sunday means the team has won just one of its last 9 matches will be replaced by move a rose who has never previously coached it once they go. you're watching news coming up next in business africa we look at how it plans for

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