it came out of the. this is the w. news live from berlin tonight the corona virus outbreak is now a global health emergency. for both those reasons i'm declaring the public close emergency of international concern over the global outbreak wolf you know little call and i'm going to put on my writer's. world health organization making that declaration just hours ago it comes as the total number of cases approaches in class despite widespread lockdowns and public screenings the virus is now in every region of mainland china. also coming up greece plans a new border fence take

a look at here a floating barrier something like this to stop migrants crossing the sea from turkey to greece but will it work. and when blue cross good to have you with us the world health organization has declared the new corona virus outbreak and china an international health emergency the move will trigger tighter containment measures in coordination with all countries now despite measures to stop the spread the virus is now present in all regions of mainland china infecting nearly 8000 people 212 people in china have now died. people around the world on high alert as efforts to keep the coronavirus that they are interested now to coordinate the global response the world health organization has declared the outbreak

a public health emergency of international concern. is the potential for the virus to spread to countries we could call the systems. which are prepared to deal with the w.h.o. praised china's efforts to contain the virus saying they have set a new standard for africa response in the meantime more and more countries have seen cases of the virus in the philippines a 38 year old chinese woman tested positive. for arrived in the. last. patient sought and was admitted in one of the country's government hospitals last january 25 after experiencing. india has also confirmed its 1st case of the virus in the southern state of kerala

according to officials the patient had been out of the country to study but they say there is no need to panic. also if you're worried this is one positive case came out of 4 suspected ones that we had already isolated. in italy an entire cruise ship with roughly 7000 people on board was quarantined after a female passenger was suspected of being infected with the coronavirus but the tests were negative and the passengers have since been allowed to leave the ship. the w.h.o. has not recommend the trade or travel restrictions but prior to the public health emergency declaration several airlines had already suspended flights to and from china. now let's get more from dr john epstein in new york she specializes in these kinds of diseases dr epstein how worried are you hi good evening. howard in my eye and paying careful attention to this but this is

a rapidly evolving situation and we know from past experience that we will be able to control and contain this a bench actually and it's a matter of understanding how quickly it's transmitting where the cases are and making sure we're doing the fundamental things like early detection of cases isolation and social distancing to prevent secondary transmission. so tell us you've been very involved with previous outbreaks of this kind what have we learned from those outbreaks that we can apply to this one happening now. most interesting sars was originally controlled when those things that i just mentioned were applied it was about isolating case it is making sure people were separated that they weren't infecting others and there was a global cord nation sars is really important in terms of. and we're seeing even more of it today now middle east respiratory syndrome or mers coronavirus is still ongoing there are cases that still occur and we're still working on identifying

where the irish transmission areas are typically from camels to people and so we do get low cost years of cases this one is going to require a lot of court nation and making sure that cases are detected in accurately diagnose early and recognizing mild an asymptomatic cases and those who've been in contact with cases so very traditional public health measures are going to be important here and that's from kind of top down what governments and health officials need to be doing what about for our viewers ford mary people is there anything they can be doing to keep themselves safe and healthy. really one of the most important things is hand washing good hygenic practices if you're in an area where there's transmission of this current are going on particularly in china masks can help because the limit aerosolization or you know coughing and sneezing and droplets being transmitted into the air which is how the virus can spread from person to person but for most people hand washing and simply being aware you start to feel ill and you have a history of travel to an area where this virus is circulating make sure you see

a medical professional report to a hospital so they can test you for inspiring all right dr john i've seen in new york with the latest on what's happening with this global health emergency thank you very much thank you and let's turn now to the epicenter of the outbreak in the chinese city of han on the line we have yanick advice from germany who has been studying there yannick tell me a little bit what has life been there in the city for you the last few days well. to be honest 100 is a very big city and 11000000 citizens and it's very strange that all of the streets really completely empty only a few people are walking or driving through and nearly everybody is very much facial mask. it's it's a strange feeling there's no panic here everybody is paying attention and i think

this is a very very good solution. for them to be panic and to be focused what's important what's been your interaction with chinese authorities there as they've really locked down this city to try to contain the virus. for the 1st in all of our contact will say university. here. so they take care of us they give us quite a lot of information to give advice as how to react how to. how to go out to handle if you go outside in the public and those mean also where mosques to the titanic washing your hands the white cross of people stuff like this also. if you needed medical treatment and we understand that germany

along with many other countries are removing their citizens from. what's next for you where are you going now. well. today my government told me i have to go to the airport i think they will be made to small man to check from the chinese government i'm not sure then i think i will fly to germany and after this i will be isolated. for 2 weeks i think is a good idea to be sure that there's no speech in germany from the german prisons which are removed right now all right yannick vice thank you very much for sharing what's going on there thank you very much. the human rights group amnesty international has criticised plans by greece to deploy a floating barrier as a way to prevent migrants from reaching the greek islands from turkey now the group

described the plan as alarming escalation in the greek government's efforts to stop migrants from reaching the shores. the ministry of defense has announced new plans to protect the external border so that no more refugees from turkey can cross into greece. floating barriers are there solution and the contract for production is up for bids because. this is below dormant the national coordinator had a good idea when he suggested buying floating barrios. follow me after we install them we'll see if i have to decide affects. the blocks the barriers might look similar to this right now these service storm protection between the greek islands and the turkish mainland they are being used in many places including off the coast of lesbos the plan is to build 2.7 kilometer long barriers or nets that rise about 50 centimeters out of the water this would be

a barrier mechanism in the agency. human rights organizations are worried about the greek government's plans. establishment of fans at sea to prevent the migrants from reaching crease. and there's no way that these we stop the as long as people have problems in their countries who for human rights watch has stated that these plans violate human rights the greek government has also decided to deploy more border police bill deportation camps and speed up asylum procedures. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. has imposed sanctions on iran's nuclear agency washington says the atomic energy organization of iran breached uranium enrichment limits but iran denies there will be an impact on its nuclear program. a nurse has been arrested in southern

germany on suspicion of poisoning 5 premature babies with morphine investigators found an oral syringe containing breast milk and morphine in the woman's locker at university hospital she denies the charges doctors do not expect the infants to suffer any lasting harm. in sweden thieves have broken into a stockholm art gallery and stolen at least 10 sculptures by spanish surrealist artist salvador dali these sculptures are valued at between 20 and 50000 euros each and were on loan from switzerland but it appears id documents that would help the thieves to sell the stolen items were not taken. opponents of brecht's it have been rallying on the eve of britain's departure from the european union the united kingdom is due to depart the block at 11 pm on friday local time a year long transition follows as london and brussels have to hammer out their future relationship. now as the u.k. faces its future outside the e.u.

one challenge to be faces the possibility of scotland breaking away scottish people haven't shown a whole lot of appetite for independence in recent years but a new opinion survey from the pollster hugo of shows that 51 percent of scots now believe their country should become an independent country he wus u.k. correspondent burgert moscow went to edinburgh to take the political temperature. well you here in the capital more than 70 percent voted to remain in the e.u. . as did most members of the wild once. these hardy winter ultra swimmers a staunch supporters of you and the furious that scotland is being dragged out of you. nerds and feeling that we're being torn

out of the e.u. . and. with african century and it's horrible and says why don't we start off england and unfortunately. yes give us our independence he can we can look after ourselves the s.n.p. is scotland's leading political party it's calling for open borders with 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 of it happened only 5 years ago rather more spending all our time as politicians going over and over having referendum after a from them after a friend well i don't see any but the scottish nationalists are not about to back down you know the protesters in glasgow have renewed calls for independence. from. the conservative. it 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 the challenge for the conservative government every time they say no a few more people of scotland say yes. a strong will and plenty of stamina that's what the scottish nationalists need to push their cause forward perhaps the winter swim is can provide some inspiration. that's all from us for this hour but don't go anywhere if you don't use africa is

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