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this is g w news live from berlin nations begin evacuating their citizens from the city of the center of the corona virus outbreak chartered planes take people home to japan and to the united states other countries are planning similar operations need while the number of confirmed cases jumps to almost 6000. also 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 call for vigilance against resurgent anti semitism and palestinians in israeli occupied west bank to demonstrate their
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opposition to president trump's peace plan but international reaction is more cautious. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from wu han the chinese city at the center of the 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 airlines including british airways and of tonga 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
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province fighting to contain the corona virus delivered them back to safety in japan the 1st of some 650 japanese citizens to be repaired tritt on hunger soil they spoke of the situation they were thankful to leave behind. him sincerely relieved to have returned on this chart of blood for the well we were there it was a worrying situation which was changing very quickly and 3. of those people repechage reacted to tokyo at least 5 have now been hospitalized with symptoms consistent with the virus. astride the also plans to bring petrea at the most vulnerable of its $600.00 nationals we will be standing up christmas all and as a quarantine area will be transported to christmas island with all we will also be putting in place the met which will be travelling there to provide the medical
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support and that will be supplemented as is 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 too. in the city of would however 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 stammer he is a just at the lab for and 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
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a medical point of view that seems to be the best solution actually because the u.s. is spreading before symptoms are. read by the patients of infected people so they don't ever specific control of all the cells if they carry the virus or not so there's a lot of danger of transporting infected patients from country to country sitting in a plane and being infected with the why was might spread the virus even more you mentioned the danger how dangerous is the virus. you know actually difficult to say or to compare with a water system that you rate actually spending between 2 and 2 when the percent mainly effecting you know elderly people as basic diseases so. might be comparable total strolling through in some wave australian scientists they have now created
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a lab version of the virus in order to understand its nature russia and china they say that they have started working on a vaccine how fast could science a liver an effective vaccine in order to stop the outbreak. they demand a talking about nearly half a year to have that scene available and might last even longer depends. on how it really works in patients you know there are producing vaccine you have to test it in human beings to be sure that there is no no side effect or anything else and only if these this in a small lot of elation they can provide a fall of 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. they
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have we cover from the symptoms if they still can get and. carry out the virus somewhere so we don't leave you have to be sure that they're not infected if the symptoms are gone and we don't from sars that the virus will stay in stool samples even up to 24 days after infection so this has to be proved and then we might talk about a human long 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 case and sequence of the virus so every every hospital has the tests available and you can even perform the test and then one
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and a half to 4 hours of the test results beg depending on. transport from the to leverage or the test itself it's available and it talks about $1.00 to $1.00 in the hours mark. there ologists at the lab for into disciplinary medicine in frankfurt thank you. you're welcome. and here in germany authorities have confirmed 4 cases of the coronavirus all 4 people are employees at the same auto supply company it's believed that they fell ill after a seminar with a colleague from china the infected individuals have been quarantined in the hospital where they are receiving treatment meanwhile germany's health minister says that his country is taking the virus threat seriously because. 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
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published on twitter and the 1st rapid test was developed here in berlin so gradually we're learning more about the virus and. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world the european parliament has approved legislation to allow britain to lead the e.u. the vote in brussels passed with 621 lawmakers voting for war and 49 against the army then burst into song joining hands and singing the scottish farewell ballad auld lang syne britain will leave the european union on friday. a charity ship carrying more than 400 rescue 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. and to power 4th quake has struck in the western caribbean sea between cuba and jamaica shock waves sent people staggering onto the streets the
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7.7 magnitude quake was felt as far away as mexico and florida. 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 anti-government demonstrations in iraq since. october. the president of israel has addressed the german parliament in berlin to mark 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz extermination camp reuven 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
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a chip. 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 les. 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 the idea when guys get emitted 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 better answers to the open questions about time. paintings
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of auschwitz are on display in the book in the stomach by does he who survived his ordeals in the camp he'd been forced to retrieve bodies from the gas chambers and burn them. now 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 jerusalem 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
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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 that's a shame for anyone trying to support it. it's places like this the turkey part of the control for sea jewish settlements in palestinian territory they're viewed by palestinians and the international community as illegal but trumps deal with. them something many of the settlers 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
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pushing ahead with policy supportive of israel my vision presents a win win opportunity for both sides a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risk of palestinian statehood to israel's security the very heart of the land of israel where our patriarchs prayed our prophets preached. and our king. has been outrageously branded as illegally occupied territory well today mr president you are puncturing this big large. both in the us and internationally there has been mixed reactions to trump's plan which most hopeful that trumps vision for peace will be v alliance yet protests continue in the west bank 6 will bother to tell us now and dominic team has reached
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the semifinals of the australian open after beating world number one rafael nadal it was a tight match but team eventual lead triumphed by 3 sets to one the australian one all 3 of his sets are tie breaks he now faces germany's alexander where i have 48th place in sunday's final where i've reached the last 4 of the men straw after beating 2014 champion stan the swiss veteran won the opening set but swear i've fought back to win by 3 sets to one and reach his 1st ever grand slam semifinal. and going to take a team fortunate to has fired coach a fried hound focal after a bad run that took the club to the bottom of the league table the club's huge loss to leverkusen over the weekend sealed fumbles fate he had been in charge of to subdue arsons 2016 but the loss on sunday means the team has won just one of its last 9 matches a focal will be replaced by roessler who have never previously coached one is that
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