this is the w. news live from berlin the number of cases of the coronavirus in china increases again the world health organization says all countries now need to be on alert we ask a specialist how this virus compares with sars. and how dangerous it might become. and time to say goodbye.

an emotional sendoff for members of the european parliament after they vote to confirm their case the parcher from the e.u. coming up tomorrow friday. is fueling an increasingly heated debate about independence for scotland. our correspondent travel to edinburgh to assess the mood. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us today the world health organization is set to meet today to decide whether the spread of the coronavirus amounts to a global health emergency 7800 people are now infected worldwide the vast majority of them in china the number killed there by the virus that's hit 170

a growing number of countries have been evacuating their nationals from china. getting back home that is the priority for foreign nationals in will hon and their governments more than 200 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 now the whole world needs to take action and be ready for for any cases to come either from the original the center or from from other official interest rates to become established currently the

w.h.o. his rate at the risk levels as high globally and very high in china. airlines like the towns on british airways have cancelled their flights to and from china and in the city of homs frantic 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. our correspondent that she is spilling is following the outbreak for us from the chinese capital beijing and sent us this is us. we are getting to know a lot more about this virus yet anxiety and uncertainty prevail and people prefer to stay home in order not to get in touch with other people and to minimize the risk of being infected people are angry at how their government has handled the

situation and they are prepared for this to last a lot longer foreign nationals are being evacuated from one han now another sign that nobody thinks this crisis will be over anytime soon so how long is this likely to last more let's bring in martin stanley his role just in the laboratory for interdisciplinary medicine in frankfurt thanks so much for coming in this morning with us or can you tell us how much time does it take for a virus like this to peak according to china it should be about a week or 2 from now. normally normally not i think they expect the peak in about 10 days because they've done massive current action. so avoiding huge amounts of people that are small and square and therefore trying to in a bit transmission from human to humans and that's why they're a little bit optimistic talk to have a peak in about 10 days normally i would expect that last you know are ok longer

how long that they could be a month i mean do do we have any way to know that. i think it's difficult because we don't know in so much about the transmission activities of the boys yet because we know it let's last 4 for about 6 weeks now on. it's very difficult to expect if you look at an investor wave we have about 4 to 6 so weeks from the start to the pete. but it's not it's not the same in the situation. now this virus has been compared to sars it actually now has more cases of infection and sars are we looking at a more dangerous viral strain than the sars epidemic about 2 decades ago. if you if you define dangerous from the point of mortality in the note sars has a higher mortality in people in the middle about 30 to 40 percent. and we have know

a mortality rate with the world of ours at about 2.5 percent what that might be even if you define dangerous in the route of transmission then this why was this more dangerous because it can be transmitted even before the onset of symptoms and to know the world health organization is meeting today is looking at this being a global health emergency if if it is what steps in the w.h.o. take. you know that they can take in more corn and not of way to to for all the states you know we've seen current time in. the court of time in china they can they can order current china and other states they can cross closed borders they can restrict international travel it's done from different ways from different states but they could do it in a more cutting edge way than ok are quarantines the best way to get the situation

under control closing borders that kind of thing. to add to his sick the travel and to avoid infected people who are traveling from one point to another survivor effective measurement of course. and those countries who took their people from from go on to their home countries they also do these measurements and hopefully this will be effective to it to avoid the spread in other countries not just or not. sorry sorry about that we have to leave it there mr sherman thanks very much once terms of our all just at the lab for into disciplinary medicine in frankfurt thank you so very much for coming in this morning. well russia has more than 100 suspected cases of the coronavirus have been officially confirmed the country shares a very long border with china and is a popular destination for chinese tourists now. a spreading russian authorities are

preparing for a possible outbreak there our moscow correspondent for one as the. people at moscow's shooting each of the airport aren't taking any risks face masks are everywhere since the outbreak of the coronavirus around 10 flights still arrive here from china every day so far there have been no confirmed cases of the coronavirus in russia but at the border there are increased checks for passengers flying from china and several other countries the russian health control and consumer rights watchdog shows us the thermal graphic cameras it's using to check people entering russia for in a normally high body temperature the main symptom of the virus. we can minimize the risk of people with an increased body temperature entering the territory of the russian federation through the airport but of course we can't completely rule out that risk. like many places in the russian capital the airport has

signs in chinese is after all russia is one of the top 3 destinations for chinese tourists with more visiting every year but this week chinese authorities halted travel for tour groups to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and russian tourist agencies have also stopped arranging tours to and from china still the border between the countries officially remains open today china is an important market for russia both for inbound and outbound tourism so when we're talking about the risk of the corona virus spreading of course the risk of an infected person coming to russia is quite high i can't call for the author already is to halt air travel with china but if this virus is really as dangerous as they say it is it seems strange to stops. chinese tours to russia but to allow individuals to travel here at the muster makes us more suspicious to. russian authorities have recommended avoiding travel to china while the virus rages despite the many chinese tourists in

the center of moscow most people feel the situation is under control but. i don't think we need to be afraid they'll figure out what the virus is doing and everything will be fine with. most of them we do believe that maybe we'll have to worry at some point but for now people should probably just take care to wash their hands and be aware of the people around them is really to me i guess i am afraid of the corona virus because people are dying and in force i don't want to die. on monday the russian government created a coronavirus task force there were these are determined not to let the disease that's them off guard. let's get you briefed down some of the other stories making the news today germany's biggest lender deutsche bank has posted a net loss of 5300000000 euros for 2019 it's the bank's 5th annual loss in a row and its 2nd worst ever result georgia bank says the loss was driven by the

cost of a massive restructuring program. but as wayland president nicolas maduro says he'd like to reestablish diplomatic relations with neighboring colombia. ties last year after colombia backed the opposition leader want guardo adding to the tensions colombia has asked for the extradition of its former senator item or law no she was arrested in venezuela on monday. authorities in the us say they've discovered the longest ever drug smuggling tunnel at the border with mexico the tunnel ran for more than a kilometer and contained an elevator rail track and a ventilation system will now be filled with concrete direct by u.s. law. well staying in the u.s. the white house has told former u.s. national security adviser john bolton he must lead parts of his upcoming book before publication as they are quote top secret and could damage national security

all this call comes after it emerged that the revelations in bolton's new book could undermine president trump's defense and his impeachment trial bolton was one of president trump's most important aides but in a highly volatile position the 4th the national security adviser in the administration's 1st 2 years is highly respected by everybody in this room and bolton was gone after less than 18 months plenty of time though in the trump white house to start writing a tell all book now but i can speak in unvarnished terms about the great and as yet unpublished book is called the room where it happened in it he reportedly alleges that president trump did exactly what impeachment prosecutors allege trump demanded that ukraine investigate one of his political rivals in exchange for vital military aid to ukraine senators recognize possible bombshell information for prosecutors who are trying to convince an unwilling senate

leadership to call bolton to testify before they decide their verdicts you need to hear from his former national security advisor don't wait for the book don't wait to march 17th when it is in black and white to find out the answer to your question the president's defense team says bolton's possible testimony wouldn't matter anyway they say any effort by trying to get ukraine to investigate his rival is not a crime not an impeachable act and if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in an impeachment. senator questions to the 2 legal teams will continue through thursday with the crucial votes on whether to allow witness testimony including that of john bolton likely on friday this is deed of news live from

berlin still to come on our program how did a nazi filmmaker come to be associated with her lens prestigious film festival the valley home. but 1st tomorrow the u.k. makes its exit from the european union marking the start of an 11 month transition period a very tough trade talks britain will stay in the use economic arrangements until the end of this year as the 2 used sides try to thrash out a trade deal but the use says the time span is too short and fears a chaotic exit if no agreement is in place when that transition period ends the european parliament voted yesterday to confirm the ukase departure from the. the final vote after nearly 4 years european lawmakers overwhelmingly back breaks that happening this coming friday for the architects of e.u. case departure from the e.u.

it can't come soon enough i mean what's next and like i know you're going to search i know you want to know national flags but we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future so working with my suffering. if you disobey the ruse you get cut off could you please remove the flags. 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 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 depth of love we will always love you and we will never be far long live europe. the was. the was the. i. was the. the 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. or bracks it is already having a knock on effect would stop parliament voting to demand the right to hold a new referendum on independence after the u.k. leaves the e.u. bought in order to hold a binding referendum lawmakers need the approval of the british parliament and that

appears unlikely still it is a sign of how strongly many stars feel about bret's as the bag of moss found out when she visited the scottish capital and brah. most pro europeans in the capital more than 70 percent voted to remain in the e.u. . as did most members of the wild ones. these hardy winter ultra swimmers a staunch supporters of europe and they're furious that scotland is being dragged out of the e.u. . feeling ignored and feeling that we're being torn out of the e.u. with or. without her consent tree and it's horrible and says i don't sod off england and unfortunately all of england i am yes give us our

independence equal we can look after ourselves one solution for scotland would be to leave the united kingdom and then rejoin the e.u.'s a 2nd nation but scots haven't faced that independence in the past. the last independence referendum in scotland so the remain side when comfortably with a vote share of 55 percent and even today opinion polls don't show a sustained majority for independence the nationalists hope that this will change once britain leaves the e.u. and that will persuade a majority of scots to go their own way. the s. and p. is scotland's leading political party it's calling for open borders with england scotland's top trading partner as well as an independent scotland rejoining the e.u. . we have had a lot of extremely generous and friendly overtures from other european governments saying that if things pile britain leaves the european union and scotland takes

political control of its own affairs then scotland would be welcome in the european union but that would require a new referendum on scottish independence something the conservative government in london is keen to avoid. that referendum was a once in a lifetime once in a generation event it happened it's only 5 years ago rather than spending all our time as politicians going over and over having referendum after a from them after referendum well i don't see any but the scottish nationalists i'm not about to back down you know protests in glasgow have renewed calls for independence. but. the conservative government may have a majority in the union parliament westminster but its mandate stops at the scottish border it's a challenge for the prime minister and a challenge for the conservative government every time they say no a few more people in scotland say yes. a strong will and plenty of stamina that's

what the scottish nationalists need to push their course forward perhaps the winter swim is can provide some inspiration. well there's only a few weeks to go now until berlin's famous international film festival the belly nala gets underway but this year's edition is being overshadowed by a scandal from the not 0 the festival's organizers of hold an award named after its very 1st director. and this follows a newspaper article by the respected insights alleging that powell had links to the nazi regime. saw the festival from 1951 until 976 the prize in his name honored innovations in filmmaking. let's get more with political correspondent hans bronson joining us this morning good day to you hans what exactly has come to light about about well we have to go back here to

a nazi times to a time when the nazi propaganda minister good was nationalize the entire german film industry and founded a central organise central institution to control the film industry and in this central institution our football was the 3rd from the top he was right at the top of that institution he was a close collaborator of go both he was in charge of issues such as deciding which films get made which people are allowed to participate in filmmaking which people are excluded from film making and eventually also which people from the film industry were sent to the front was sent to be the soldiers for the german for the nazi government at the time so he was a very crucial in a very crucial position in that propaganda ministry of joseph goebbels ok this is certainly it was in the archives it was accessible information how did this remain unknown to so many for so very long and was coming up now. but what happened is

that after the nazis. fell after germany capitulated many people that were involved in nazi structures had to go through a process called de nazi for cation and it's also happened to alfred boa in that process he simply lied he lied about his position in the film industry he maintained that he was simply a cog in the will. of the film industry somebody who was not particularly high end . in the hierarchy of that industry and that somehow perpetuated itself was accepted by eventually by the british authorities he was allowed to get back into film work and he also wrote one of the major histories of german film from that period and in that history in fact perpetuated his own lies in all came all because an amateur film. expert found out about this he was reading

the history of somebody else and found inconsistencies in the story of of limbaugh went into the archives and revealed all the details that we know. great you know those amateur sleuths are out there what's the belen allah been saying about the news of about was newly revealed nazi past well this was one of the h. top prizes at the ballina. and presents and obviously this is one of the most important film festivals in europe next to khan and venice so this is a really major setback for the film festival it is now not presenting this prize in this current edition and has said that it will examine footballers' past itself and after that they will make a further decision on how to proceed. see this affecting the film festivals coming up next month of war. yes indeed and i think there are discussions about all of us

about film industry and nazi times about the propaganda role of films then and about how it could happen that this founding director of the film festival hired his so effectively i think that's going to be a very big talking point at the phone festival this year ok great to see you again thanks so much for coming in on this or as the discussions about these revelations continue the anticipation of film fans is growing for the 70th hundreds of movies from around the world are set to screen next month but only 18 of them are eligible to win that prize the coveted golden bear. 70 years of the belly not it's a story with big stars and big films. the story continues with the new festival director duo carlo shot play on artistic director and money at least in the executive director in charge of business. the 1st look at the films and competition

when there's a strong focus on art and film a time drama hidden away is about a painter. and in siberia director able ferrara sends his actor friend willem dafoe on a voyage of self discovery into his own subconscious was the belly nala has created a new section for experimental films we want to change it to be that i think we change again we create a new section we decide not to continue with the other 2. but. i mean every festival celebration i always say festival itself as the ward fest party. but no better not a party is complete without glamour and oscar winning star time actor roberto binny will be in town for the premier of a live action remake of pinocchio. i. heard. this i. did it is the christian.

british actress helen mirren will receive the honorary golden bear for lifetime achievement guests can enjoy her performances in films like the long good friday and the queen on the big screen. or another oscar winner is president of the jury british actor jeremy irons whose most recent incarnation is as an aging superhero in the h.b.o. d.c. comics series watchman. over the rejuvenating. the festival diverse they say they have an obligation to directors from all over the world and to the stories they want to tell the filmmakers are very harnessed to the reality they present with it but also. we always have to keep in mind it's seen as a sort of bridge consideration and for me of the human being with his greatness and is. a downside. but the animation film onward gets along nicely without

any. of the disney production examining the problems of teenage elves is berlin's biggest nod to the mainstream machine. this is the. next conflict. i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks to. our website get up and come.

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