this is deja news live from berlin for foreigners at the epicenter of china's coronavirus outbreak it's get out while you can evacuations out of the city of one hand and away charter planes carrying japanese and u.s. citizens have already arrived back home meanwhile the number of confirmed cases in china jumps to almost 6000 also coming up. former trump security adviser john bolton may not be allowed to publish his potentially damaging book about his time in the white house because his former boss is threatening to block it. i.

was. and the european parliament sings farewell to the u.k. some members were in tears as they formally approved britain's departure beginning friday. i'm told me all laddie well thanks for joining us hundreds of foreign nationals are being flown out of what the chinese city at the center of the corona virus outbreak evacuation flights have already arrived back in japan and the u.s. the evacuees leave behind them even more confirmed cases of the virus stand almost $6000.00 and the death toll in china has risen to more than $130.00 the world health organization is urging governments around the. world to be on the alert and

take action to prevent the virus to continue spreading. getting back home that is the priority for foreign nationals and will han and their governments more than $200.00 americans have returned on a chartered plane but not without undergoing extensive health screening all passengers had already been screened twice before they left china they were monitored throughout the flight and in anchorage the passengers were screened twice more and were approved to continue on to california the world health organization has called an urgent meeting for thursday to discuss whether the outbreak now constitutes an international emergency as the number of infections is rising but the whole world needs to be on alert the whole world needs to take action and be ready for for any case to come either from the original center or from from all the epicenter is to become established currently the w.h.o.

has rated the risk levels as high globally and very high in china. airlines like lufthansa and british airways have cancelled their flights to and from china. and in the city of frank efforts to build a dedicated hospital from scratch go on around the clock. scientists at the chinese national health commission expect the outbreak to continue spreading and reach a peak in 10 days' time. i'm joined in studio now by the reports i've done up till taji done of the world health organization is having this urgent meeting on it what can you tell us about it so this is a meeting of the chairs emergency committee so this is a committee that's comprised of 16 independent experts who have come to the death of before in fact 3 times in the past week to talk about this lyra's and what they're going to do is they're going to discuss whether the virus should be

a global health emergency and if they do discuss the kind of recommendations that they want to see happen to in order to manage this server at the moment they've already changed the risk level for moderate to high but they haven't really to ted it is a global health and i don't see yet but with the amount of countries being affected going up to 16 now that might change things there this is why by having an open i want to we know about the efforts to control the spars so as as of yet there's no cure or vaccine for this virus but international experts are being assembled to go to china to learn more about the transmission of this disease but the w.h. here says that currently an important juncture where we can interrupt the transmission of this virus and really under control so that's really what they're going to be looking for but at the moment in hand the city where this originated as

we had that cities in complete lockdown and that's one of the ways they're trying to control the virus we've also had about a lot of and lines stopping the flights momentarily to china such as left hand british airways and that's another way that they're trying to control the spread of this ok and now. and the impact on people how severe is this fires so that's what we don't quite know as of yet this virus is still quite new was still in the middle of this outbreak and there isn't really all that much data so far what the w.h.o. says is that most people have mild symptoms and only 20 percent of people are sharing severe effect like pneumonia or respiratory failure so the variations in severity really make it difficult to gauge just how severe this virus is it's difficult to know how many people are affected and because of that and makes it more difficult to control the spread of the virus so they're really just going to

have to wait for more data to see how bad it is what we do know is from a report published on wednesday by the new anglin journal of medicine is that on average each infection only leads to 2.2 other people being infected so that's more than the ordinary flu but less than other respiratory diseases can cough tuberculosis and less than the saas so it remains to be seen really how severe this is but at the moment the data is still coming in ok dr recourses thank you keith. to the us now the book that's been threatening to up and donald trump's senate impeachment trial the trump administration is moving to block former national security adviser john bolton from publishing a potentially damaging book about his time in the white house trump's national security council says an unpublished manuscript of bolton's book contained

classified information and con to be published as written the manuscript reportedly alleges that trump demanded ukraine investigate a political rival in exchange for military aid that's one of the accusations in the impeachment case against the president and democrats demanding sworn testimony from bolton on this issue. the question. correspondent all of a salad is in washington d.c. d.c. oliver thanks for joining us why all the accusations in bolton's book so dangerous for trump. well 1st of all the book is supposed to be published in march so we don't know exactly what's in there but of course there are reports and following those reports former national security advisor john bolton writes that president explicitly told him that he was using this now famous military aid to pressure ukraine and the ukrainian president a lot of mayors olinsky in particular to investigate into his political rivals joe

and hunter biden joe biden of course being the current front runner in the presidential election come pain now. so that is basically one of the core allegations made against him in the impeachment inquiry if that is confirmed that so-called quid pro quo and that means investigations in exchange for money basically in legal terms that would be an abuse of power one of the 2 allegations made by democrats now this is also the 1st time we're hearing that from someone directly involved because until now the republican defense was that all these allegations are made on hearsay and that would certainly now be different we're hearing that from national security advisor john bolton and he essentially says that president trump directly told him what he was planning to do with that money

and that would undermine the republican defense and now the wide tells desperately trying to prohibit the public publication of that book which they by the way also tried with an earlier book fire and fury and as we know that 3 book is very famous now and was successfully published now is one of the potential witnesses impeachment trial against president trump what's the latest there. that's correct that he was also invited earlier by the democrats during the impeachment inquiry and you skipped that deposition back at the time even threatened to go to court if the democrats insist and subpoena him but with a trial it's different he offered voluntarily to testify here the biggest hurdle right now for him and other potential witnesses is that senators will have to approve that they will have to vote on that a simple majority is needed to approve the now 4 republican senators are said to be needed to change that momentum senate mitt romney is one of them of course the

most prominent figure here but what we're hearing lately is that republican leaders are pretty confident that they're going to be able to block those witnesses we've had similar remarks just very recently by senate minority leader chuck schumer off the democrats he then also accuses president trying to put senators under pressure to vote against witnesses that vote is scheduled on friday if witnesses will be blocked can be acquitted in just a matter of days ok all of a salad correspondent in washington thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world israel's president has addressed a special session of the german parliament. to remember the victims of nat's hegemony and mark 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz death camp riven rivlin warned of the rise of anti semitism in europe he echoed germany's president

from volta. who said the evils of the pasta returning in a new guys. a charity ship carrying more than $400.00 rescued migrants has been allowed to dock in italy the vessel had been stranded at sea for several days the un's refugee agency says increasing increased fighting in libya is causing more people to risk the dangerous sea journey to europe. an official in the democratic republic of congo say $36.00 people have been killed in a suspected militia attack it's understood that people were hacked to death during a raid on villages in the country's eastern benny region the attack is being blamed on a ugandan islamist group. 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 was seen beating up one protester more than 450 people have been killed

in anti-government demonstrations in iraq since october. after years of wrangling and stalemate it finally happened the european parliament has approved legislation allowing britain to leave the e.u. on friday while most lawmakers expressed their regrets one prominent did not hide his satisfaction or 'd the final vote after nearly 4 years european lawmakers overwhelmingly back breaks that happening this coming friday for the architects of the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. it can't come soon enough i mean words no exam like i know you're going to miss so . i know you want to burn our national flags but we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future to working with you guys so very. if you disobey the rules you get cut off could we please remove the flags. thank you thank you. but not all the british a.d.p.s in the chamber are happy to be

leaving. i hold in my heart the knowledge that one day i will be back in this chamber celebrating our return to the heart of europe thank you. for what was a sad day for many here oppose brags that the european commission president reiterated that the u.k. e.u. relationship is far from over i want to use the words of the famous british poet george eliot she said. only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love we will always love you and we will never be far long live europe. you are the god was the 5 the. am i the. the.

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