as her date of news live from the u.k. for past a. farewell to the european union prime minister boris johnson and his cabinet meets in the city that 1st declared for press it in the referendum on some 6 years party in central london but no official events have been used to mark the occasion that still divides the country also coming up. impeachment trial of president trump in the u.s. senate seems to be heading for acquittal a vote on whether to call witnesses looks like years ago in his favor leaving the white open for a swift not guilty verdict. all countries are warning against visiting china

because of the coronavirus the u.s. government is one of the latest to tell its citizens not to go us the number of cases nears 10000. times it's not a spectacular as the treasure of 2 kamu but it is a sensation for just the tomb of a high ranking official and his family i'm going 16 discovered in the egyptian desert. believe the site will deal even more significant discovers. i'm still going to welcome to the program. the u.k. formally leaves the european union in just a few hours marking the end of a divisive 3 and a half years in british politics prime minister barak's johnson and his capital marked the occasion by holding a meeting in the north an intercity of sunderland. the 1st place to declare for

city in the 26th referendum mr johnson is due to make a speech tonight but aside from that no official events have been organized it was very different in brussels where party members of the european parliament have been celebrating. tomorrow they'll be one fewer the british will no longer fly at the european parliament. peas staged a special departure from the building. they've achieved their political goal. this is happening the war is over there's now a battle for the shape of our relationship with the european union the shape of our role if you like with the rest of the world but this is the moment one minute past that happens and it's the. european leaders acknowledge that after that the

relationship with the u.k. will be different if you will i mean we are sending a message that is extremely clear simple and strong we the european union hope and want to keep the closest possible relationship with the united kingdom. but of course we must be clear on the subject. the more the u.k. decides to divert from european standards the less access the u.k. will have to the single market. everyone will be affected although they differ on how much it'll matta so it's all in the prime minister we're here to get our country back so we voted remain now we have no choice so we're going to get behind day and we're just going to carry on as as normal and we trade with the you as a business so we just got to find a way to do it and get through this. for everybody. in

england and bring. in orlando we're hearing from. everybody in the country and there is a real back with me for the u.k. i'm again very sad about it so it's just a choice there's no sort of russian move wasn't something that we want. we wanted i think. it's happening. and i mean look forward this is just the start of it this is a trial run because the worst day will be after the transition yet so the 31st of december will actually be far worse than today. for now some a literally dancing in the streets celebration the departure of the british fact from european senses of power and its return home. back to london that we're enjoying faisal who's in parliament square where the party's going on welcome barbara what's going on behind you. it's raining on the bricks and to use parade i must say and i would not possibly want to

add that this might be a signs of the heavens of troubles to come however they're trying to keep the control bricks and spirit up people here are dressed in union jacks in the british flag from head to toe it's astonishing on what side of the sort of garments you can print a union jack on. coats and t. shirts on trousers and on shoes even not to speak about hats and i'm proud as these hours is sorely needed so people are sort of having a party and just sort of telling each other how glad they are that this is the brits that because if big stages music of fireworks or anything more exciting had not been allowed by the administration of parliament and i think the government of course they didn't want any celebrations that would come out too jubilant but from time to time here they are singing god save the queen and do you see all sorts of

fun things like there is a bricks it cart was a special bell constantly ringing in the background that is because the big bend here behind us the tower of palm and where there's a huge bell of which they wanted to say we want it to rain. on the renovation and it was said that it couldn't be put up quickly enough so they have to help themselves and it's part of the rain they're trying to have a good time and a couple of cans of beers might be helping with that ok well in his speech to the impoverished people strong unite despite their differences what is the likelihood that after 3 bruising years. from what we know phil the like you know is not very high because boris johnson doesn't have anything to offer to the euro fildes the friends of europe here and that is more or less half the population people who think britain would have been better off staying in the european union and to regret leaving and regret losing their rights to travel freely and work

freely within the e.u. because he from what we hear once a rather hard practice it trades a simple trade agreement only with the e.u. and he wants to get away from european rules and regulations and the remainder is the people on the other side. side of the divide here the ones who are not here today at this party they would rather stay closer and sort of snuggle up to the to the bed as much to europe as they could under the circumstances that is not very likely to happen so they might be pretty frustrated in the end but. i thank you. for you case departs from the european union this is the result of a spectacular political miscalculation by the prime minister david cameron he wants to whip the e.u. skeptic wing of his conservative party back into line the referendum was he's chosen weapon but it blew up in his face their legislation will be introduced to

provide for an in our 2 referendum on membership of the european union before the end of 2017. that single sentence from the queen's speech set off a process that would disrupt politics for years. david cameron prime minister at the time introduced the referendum he didn't want britain to leave the e.u. would all he wanted to bring his party's many critics into line a month long campaign followed that hardliners especially nigel farage and boris johnson sought to turn public opinion against europe with aggressive slogans and as would later become clear light. the date of the referendum was june 23rd 2016 and the day after. this means that the u.k. has voted to leave the european union. of running. a good artist during. the run up to. the prime minister cameron resigned and

tourism a took over as boss at 10 downing street. corrected opponents and brags that supporters were irreconcilable the new prime minister tried to make the best of it . rex it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of it march 29th 2019 was set as the braggs a date but it was still a long way off. negotiations dragged on for more than a year. then may and her counterparts signed the bracks a deal. the problem was may was unable to get parliamentary backing for it so they're no use having their nose have it. twice may had to ask the e.u. for a postponement of britain's leave date breck's it became breck's tension and may

ultimately resigned. boris johnson became her successor the bracks a champion from the very outset. but even he failed several times at 1st because of opposition in parliament and the bracks a date had to be postponed once more. the prime minister made a gamble early elections his strategy worked. boris johnson's conservatives won an absolute majority with this mandate and this majority we will be able to do what. the pay attention. now after years of political tug of war nothing else stands in the way of britain's departure from the european union. and i'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world israeli aircraft struck militant targets in the gaza strip in response to new rocket fire from the

palestinian territories israel's military said 3 rockets were fired this israel overnight without causing any casualties the strikes come amid heightened tensions after the release of a controversial middle east peace plan by u.s. president donald trump. well hollywood film producer harvey weinstein is back in court for pivotal moment in his new york trial the woman who's right product patients lead to criminal charges against him has begun her testimony as to weinstein insists that any sexual encounters between the consensual. or us president donald trump is facing a crucial vote in his impeachment trial tonight the republican leading senate is debating whether to call more witnesses to testify the senators are split down party lines with republicans wanting to end the trial quickly democrats on the house want to question the administration insiders the senate minority leader chuck schumer warned of the dangers of ignoring evidence if my republican colleagues

refused to even consider witnesses in documents in this trial this country is headed towards the greatest coverup since watergate. if my republican colleagues refuse to even consider witnesses and documents in the trial what will the president conclude we all know will conclude he can do it again and congress can do nothing about it he can try to cheat in his election again something that eats at the roots of our democracy. the w. correspondent public foley alice is following the story in washington welcome pablo . outline for us then what happens today and why it's so important. hi phil well we're hearing from both democrats and republicans in the senate who are arguing over what you said if there whether there should be more witnesses or

should witnesses be allowed and further evidence i should say should be allowed in this senate trial that one of the key witnesses which many. democrats have been wanting is john bolton and he's the former national security adviser who they believe has some key information has also been a lot of talk here in the media. a book of his which is going to be coming out and will have some fairly damning evidence they claim against president trump but actually it's being discussed now here at. the moment what's going to happen is that they're going to wrap up their debating in a few hours time we don't know exactly what time actually the vote is going to take place but it does look like the democrats are going to lose they were holding out on perhaps some republicans are garnering the 4 votes that they needed to have the majority. getting the support of some republicans who let's not forget to hold

a majority in the senate but it looks like they're not going to have that now what's next on the agenda is of course if they don't have the witnesses and the further evidence of course they're going to have to vote then on the overall impeachment and that's what everybody is discussing here when exactly it's going to take place it doesn't look like it's going to take place later on this evening or into early saturday but in fact next week so public if if the vote is not guilty if the president is acquitted how's that likely to affect this year's election. well at the moment of course let's not forget that there's a few things that we need to get to before we can even look at the election of course on tuesday it's the state of the union we'll be hearing from president trump of course. and he had been hoping and other senior republicans have been hoping that the whole trial would be wrapped up before then but if you then look at the

election of course if you look at the i know analyzed the figures in polls what's interesting is that consistently americans have actually wanted this impeachment process to take place they haven't really gone though a bove around 52 percent in polls also interesting trump's approval ratings have pretty much remained the same since around 2018 in the lower forty's will say approving of his of what he's been doing in the presidency and standing at over 50 percent those who disapprove of them and also another factor to look at is how polls have been showing that president trump in fact is losing if there were an election now against some of the main democratic candidates in several key states but of course this election process is essentially just under way it's about to kick off you could say with the caucuses of course and the democratic party in iowa this week at the start of next week it's going to be

a long road before we get to november 2020. 2 with us every step of. this in washington thank you. and more countries have been issuing travel warnings for china as the corona virus outbreak spreads united states and japan are amongst governments urging their citizens to avoid visiting china as other countries 5 people out almost 10000 people have been infected in the death toll has now risen to 213 the world health organization has declared a global health emergency. a flight back to safety foreign citizens are fleeing south korea is sending a total of 4 planes to china after it reported several confirmed cases of corona virus among its citizens and the list of countries repatriating is growing on friday german foreign minister heikal mass an ounce to his country would be following suit. you know life starts it's very it's

a relieved that we're now in a position to end a difficult situation in which our citizens find themselves there. yes just rubbish but we can now fly those out who are willing to leave most of the city it's also difficult to get some $100.00 people in total. surely this is words although none of the german nationals being picked up by this military plane are believed to have contracted the virus strict safety precautions are in place. today my government told me i have to go to the airport and i think they will be made a small mental check from the chinese government. i'm not sure that i think i will like to germany and after this i will be isolated. for 2 weeks you know it's a strategy being adopted by authorities in many countries like here in spain strict quarantines at this military hospital

a planned for spaniards returning from china this all comes after the world health organization revised its stance on the threat level on thursday the emergency committee called most to unanimously concluded the northern corridor virus outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern as people across the world scramble to protect themselves from the virus the hope is that international cooperation will keep a major global outbreak at bay. as to what professor alexander who's head of microbiology of the microbiology institute of the martin luther university in holland germany welcome professor what's your assessment of the spread of this virus how does the outbreak peaked yet. i know that the chinese authorities are saying no end in peak in one or 2 weeks i'm not so sure if this will take

place my view is that i have several weeks or even months of this epidemic going up even in china and then you will see certain loads rights in other countries so when we see in china close down and quarantine major cities are we likely to see those sorts of wide scale measures elsewhere in the world. i think there are not so many countries in the world who are able to do this china is a very are also it's a jewish state in more let's say democratic states it would not be possible to do this this is going to news and bad news on one hand you have not so many quotes around damage done because all it is able even a creation of distancing of the people on a strict regulations that have also cite effects which are very grave on the other hand i cannot imagine that a country like india where the virus or the philippines where there virus obviously

if you're not would be able to do anything comparable to china we are far away from that so we will see the virus spreading as specially in the lesser developed countries and of course also in africa you will see the virus spreading there so there must therefore be a fear that once this is out today this never goes away because there are just there are just places in the in the world where they can't actually contain it. there are 2 main stuff ending last remains of ending the appeal to me i call it an epidemic you know it's if it's global and it's global you would call it a pandemic yes really it rains of india it number one is that you really have enough social distancing meaning that people are far away from each other to stop the virus spread this is possible in the case of this sars like virus because these viruses are not asked contagious as for instance measles or insurance are so there is going to hope to to have even in poor countries some possibility of stopping the

virus by social distancing people not being so close to each other and using. measures the 2nd possibility would be that so many people are immune against the virus especially in china. doesn't find more victims in china contains the virus to its to its region and then wait until it's some kind of immunity popular immunity of the population then we can also be in the fight and number 3 is that the virus becomes just a regular virus which is present all over the world we saw at least this with other coronaviruses and they are now it because of the common code because what happens then is that the virus after half a year or a year or 2 it darts to humans and then it loses parts of its viral and becomes less dangerous so there is might be also a possibility that this will become just

a regular virus which we have every ground approach and so if we take that example event that there is a severe outline does that mean then that a vaccine would no longer be necessary. and they like said it will be very nice to have against the so-called corona virus as we have already forced strains which are much weaker than the actual strains which cause a common coat and pharmaceutical companies will be happy to have happened by accident because this is a big market damage done the economic damage by common call it is enormous but we were never able to to make such a great scene also with the other coronaviruses because that changed so quickly right jeff i'm not optimistic that this will take place within the next next let's say 12 or 24 months it's very clear professor thank you so much for joining us professor alexander calculates of the martin luther university that was sensational

discovery in the egyptian desert the tombs of high priests dating from about 3000 years ago an archaeological dig at a site 300 kilometers south of cairo has found 16 tombs containing stone coffins along with 10000 statuettes and precious jewelry and. a high ranking official possibly a religious leader was buried almost 3000 years ago and unearthed from 7 meters underground a woman and her children were also discovered in the sarcophagus archaeologists have been painstakingly piecing together what they have found when i made the importance of this discovery is that we have a better understanding of funeral rituals in the late kingdom. the graves were intended for high officials up to the greco-roman period at the last interim many. the scientists have been digging up 16 graves in the minya province south of cairo

since august the findings include 20 sarcophagus thousands of statues amulets and other finely crafted pieces of jewelry of priceless value. the fact that extended families were buried in a single chamber with all these artifacts is regarded as a sensational discovery. i closer that one of the most important if this covers it in this area and it will add more and more and more information the discovery sheds new light on extended family relationships in the ruling class of ancient egypt the archaeologists painstaking research and nursed the names social roles and relatives of the mummies they say more fascinating discoveries are likely to emerge. in football and germany's bundesliga could have a new table lead of this weekend abi leipsic of held on to the top spot for 5 consecutive much days but after losing last week that lead has become slammed only 2 points separate them on saturday's opponents and bloodbath who sit in certain

place and they're also harboring hopes of a league title rb wipe sick aside unbeaten since october couldn't continue that run last weekend in frankfurt losing 2 goals to none the eagles despite struggling a bit this season have serious punching power in their own backyard wife 6 slightly bruised can't afford another slip up dropping points against could see their table we disappear only success guarantees leipzig remain stable leaders and their coach isn't taking lightly. some foreigner with his temple on the field we've got a good tempo up front they play the long ball game well. they have a clear pattern of play when they win but the ball. the press well as a team a salzburg did under market was a. dozen there are a lot of parallels there their development in the 1st half of the season shows that a lot of good work is being done they are where they are on merit and it's

a top much on saturday i'm some stuck glottal lost their 1st fixture against the bulls this season but after defeating mike's last match day momentum will be on their side ahead of saturday's match the defending champions byron munich who kick off before you can go about one saturday only trail leipsic by one point and could climb to number one with victory putting even more pressure on lifes. sky watch as if discovered a totally new type of northern lights over finland and sweden the waves like formations on the net of your screen that known as cubans unlike traditional northern lights which allowed curtains the celestial streets the horizontal and the pier at a constant heights and all the lights are created when electrically charged particles of solar wind react with molecules in the us as. to his

reminder of the top stores of the british flag has been taken down of the e.u. in brussels ahead of the chinese departure from the european union in just a couple of hours essential london praxiteles up popped positive but no official events have been organized on occasion but still divides the nation. michel reptile back to take you through the day tonight britain and europe and wrecks see it.

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