322021250th anniversary year on. this is the news live from berlin global airline suspend flights to china amid fears over the spread of a new coronavirus that's why some countries charter planes to evacuate their citizens out of the outbreaks epicenter of the chinese city over the past meanwhile the number of confirmed cases in china jumps to well over 7000 also coming up.

former truck 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. israel's president and dresses the german parliament to commemorate the victims of the holocaust and to call for vigilance against resurgent anti semitism you. told me a lot of people thanks for joining us. and lines around the globe are suspending australian back their flights to china concerns grow about the spread of a deadly new coronavirus meanwhile hundreds of foreign nationals are being flown out of the chinese city at the center of the outbreak authorities in china have not been found more than $7700.00 infections and the death toll has now reached $170.00

the world health organization is due to hold an urgent meeting as it warms all governments to take action to prevent the spread of the virus. 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 calm either from the original if you center

or from from other efficient christof to become established currently the w.h.o. has rated the risk levels as high globally and very high in china. airlines like 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 a belt down of the world health organization is having this urgent meeting on the wall 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 deemed 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 detailed it is a global health dimension see yet but with. a mouse countries being affected going up to 16 now that might change things sorry this is why by having enough i want to 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 have been assembled to go to china to learn more about the transmission of this disease but the w.h. says that currently at 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 one hand the city where the sewerage anita does 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 lufthansa british airways and that's another way that they're trying to control the spread of this ok and now regarding 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 we're 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 facts like pneumonia or respiratory failure at 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 $2.00 other people being infected so that's more than the ordinary flu but less than other respiratory diseases i think often says 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. so the u.s. now in the book that's been threatening to append don't all trumps senate impeachment trial the trump of ministration is moving to block national security adviser john bolton from publishing a potentially damaging book about his time in the white house national security

council says and i'm published manuscript of bolton's book contain classified information and contra be published as written the manuscript and politically 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 a demanding sworn testimony from bolton on this issue. correspondent all of a solid as 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 years 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 the 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 in the 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 that position 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 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 'd he then also accuses president trying to put senators under pressure to vote against witnesses that vote is scheduled on friday and 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. the president of israel today addressed the german parliament in berlin to mark 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp riven rivlin attended a special special session of the bundestag and annual event to remember the victims

of and that's in 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 in the hague 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 gade a. rivlin said that if this effort fails in germany it will fail everywhere german president. said the show art 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 and 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 off 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 there by david or lair who survived his ordeals in the camp he'd been forced to retrieve bodies from the gas chambers and burned them. 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 brooks did not hide his satisfaction or the final vote which 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 well it's no exact like i know you're going to service 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 i was so very. if you disobey the room you get cut off could we please remove the flags. thank you thank you. but not all the british a b.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 homes of europe thank you. 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 along live europe. far. from the i. thought i was. an emotional day in the european parliament before breaks it comes into force that and the beginning of a transition period with the many more negotiations that lie ahead thank you now the berlin zoo here in the german capital is debuting its hottest new stars panda cubs many share and may go on lovingly nicknamed pit and paolo by the keepers

there the 1st ever pandas to be born in germany their mother bang bang is of course keeping a close eye on proceedings for lindsay who is getting ready for a busy day as fans flock to see the city's new cubs firsthand. up next our documentary of blood trade versus dollars on the global trade in blood plasma don't forget you can get all the latest news around the clock on our website . it's time to take one step further. and face the it's. time to search the you know fight for the. time to overcome down dreams and connect the world. it's time.