tv DW News Deutsche Welle February 2, 2020 4:00am-4:16am CET
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them thanks for joining us the death toll from the corona virus has jumped over 300 . over 14000 people have now been infected worldwide almost all of them on the chinese mainland the world health organization has declared a global health emergency over the outbreak it says the measure is designed to prevent the spread of the virus to less developed countries where which are less equipped to handle infections in china as the number of cases grow factories have gone into overdrive to meet the demand for medical supplies. production lines have become crucial in the battle to contain the corona virus in china. we have not been at home for 7 days and are working overtime to produce disinfectant i feel glad to
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contribute to the epidemic control across the country production of medical supplies has switched into top gear in here baby provinces companies are producing hundreds of thousands of medical gloves and surgical masks every day to support hospitals in the epicenter of the outbreak and further north in one county workers a busy building makeshift treatment rooms to handle the overflow of newly infected patients. so far we've delivered $200.00 units today we plan to send enough to 60. factories like this one in junk super ovens i working day and night to meet demand for medical supplies the kind of the people across the country are concerned about the outbreak and move on what we ordinary people can do is small. this company recruiting sewing machine operators and i happen to have such skills because i used to work in a clothing interest so i immediately came to help. the
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number of confirmed cases of this corona virus has now overtaken the sars epidemic of 2003 a growing number of countries are evacuating their citizens from badly affected regions in china more than 100 evacuees have arrived in frankfurt on the german air force plane passengers were checked at a specially built medical assessment center there are no confirmed cases of the virus but all passengers will spend the next 2 weeks under quarantine as a precautionary measure. for more we go to my ts berlinger our correspondent in beijing but here thanks for joining us we just saw in that report it seems like ordinary chinese people stepping up to help out but as cases of fatalities go up how concerned are people there. yeah we see cases go up let's just take a look at these numbers if we if we think that the incubation period is about 7
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to 14 days these are the cases that have been infected around the time chinese authorities started taking action when this chaos in one hand erupted as the city was on lockdown we might see a lot more cases in the next few days these cases are mostly from province the province that has been locked down of course these numbers have people worried here people try to still try to avoid contact with other people this treats are still quite empty here in beijing although today it feels today it has no doubt how doesn't happen very often in this city and people are taking the opportunity to go out i see a little a few more people than usually but still not as many as you would usually see around this time of the year on the streets of beijing people are cautious and people. think that they have to protect themselves so aside from locking
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cities and entire regions down what are chinese authorities doing to get on top of this health emergency. we have been seeing the chinese state going from 0 public response to a flurry of activity these lockdowns of course the increase in production. that we've just seen in the report and all of the organizations of the party state have been mobilized to do something people go from door to door to knock on the doors and hand out leaflets how to protect yourself whom to call when you're infected etc and these household committees that govern. the residence at the grassroots level they have started here in beijing to register everybody who has been out in and out of the city within recent days no matter
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where they have been a lot of it is just. i feel is just activity for the sake of activity but it's definitely that all levels of state and of society are mobilized and go into that a little more for us there's been praise and criticism in the international community for how china has responded to the virus what have your impressions bed. i think there's no doubt that we would not have this crisis if the authorities in one hand had reacted timely they kept telling people that there was no danger when they already knew that the virus was spreading from human to human that is the critical thing before they that what they have told people is you can only get infected if you get in touch with infected animals not how many people get in touch with infected animals. but the virus was already spreading among the population before anybody responded and it seems that only when there was no denial the party
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state reacted it reacted forcefully it is building makeshift hospitals from scratch etc but the criticism of the timing and of the handling of this crisis is high here in china and abroad mathias burning in beijing for us thanks very much and stay healthy now to some of the other stories making news around the world. iraq has a new prime minister mohammad allow we former communications minister till now trying to form a new government and will run the country until elections are held his predecessor resigned following months of political unrest protesters protesters have been demanding an end to corruption in the country. the messaging service what's app has stopped working and millions of smartphones worldwide phones with older operating systems are no longer supported as of february 1st the facebook phone service says it's necessary for ensuring data security
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a system update is required for affected users. president donald trump peace plan for israel and the palestinians has started meeting resistance in cairo on saturday the arab league rejected the proposal seeing it as too favorable for israel palestinian president mahmoud abbas has cut all ties with israel and the u.s. including security relations many palestinians have already been protesting across the occupied territories the plan for seize a small demilitarized palestinian state in exchange for israel holding on to many of its settlements and attic saying some of the land it currently occupies. we asked correspondent tanya kramer in jerusalem to tell us more about the palestinian decision. well we're talking here about security relations the palestinian leaders have already cut off diplomatic ties with the trumpet
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ministration in december 2017 that was when president. recognized hussam as to capital. but still kept some relations with u.s. security agencies and intelligence services so they could be cut off now the other thing is the security coordination with israel that happens on the ground between security agencies palestinian and israeli. in the occupied west bank that is a very controversial issue actually for a very long time among the palestinian topic that has been a lot of pressure always on president abbas to stop this kind of security cordon nations so if you goes through with it this time this would be a big headache for the israeli security establishment tanya crammer reporting for us from jerusalem now the galapagos islands are known for their giant tortoises they even helped charles darwin develop his theory of evolution but their biology
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and human activity have made them quite vulnerable to extinction now a new find to help scientists bring to extinct a lot of those toward a species back to life conservation is say they've discovered 30 tortoises or partially related to the extinct species they hope their d.n.a. can be used in a breeding program to resurrect the species that have died out. to football now and byron munich have gone top of the bonus league table after a $31.00 win in mind the defending champions were 2 goals ahead inside the 1st 15 minutes. firing in their 2nd goal it was easy going for buyer. through the lines defense to make it 3 nil with less than half an hour gone the host pulled one back just before half time through jeremiah. and that was it for the scoring biron looked like they're back at the back at their best having won 6 league games in
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a row. leipzig slipped to 2nd place in the bundesliga table despite salvaging our 2 all draw at home to fellow title challengers. the hosts were swept away in the 1st half before some tactical changes and a red card swung the game in their favor. has turned his side into an attacking force house in part by this pack to ram and allison playa. play i was in the thick of things after just 5 minutes but. she was equal to both his and event sessions. the same were involved when grant back to finally break through went. one nil up to 24 minutes a super. living dangerously defended mcconnell coming to his side's rescue here there was no saving the moments
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later a sloppy pull out from the back. 10 minutes before half time i . rang the changes at the break and one of the fray made an immediate impact patrick shaikh taking advantage of yan some of. the hosts had one packed. the visit says we're feeling the pressure and shadow player was sent off for getting too yellow consecrate succession for dissent. varies his master plan was quickly unravelling. likes it peppered the glass back goal with shots and they got their equaliser with just a minutes ago a moments of magic from christopher in concrete i it was a goal facing of a thrilling game and immense it finished on as even between east to stop title
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challenges. and strode to a 5 nail victory over on young berlin is their 3rd consecutive win in the bundesliga they've dazzled since the winter break with their new striker finding himself in very fine form but. don't mince january signing alling holand is the man of the moment having scored 5 goals in his 1st 2 matches for the club but don't want to have plenty of young talent and another 19 year old shooting star in their ranks got them off the mark against in your own beilin jayden sam show scoring for a 3rd consecutive match is now the youngest player ever to reach 25 when just to get goals he's still got some space while a big deflection government's goal 13 minutes in 5 minutes later though all in holand was back in business i the norwegian already repaying the 20000000 euro fee
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don't mean spent on him just one month ago union plans whipping in a pinpoint cross to set him up. i. in the 2nd half dortmund's young guns kept on firing. first a soft penalty went their way as poland made the most of this challenge by keeper a foggy cubits. i captain marco roy stepped up to convert from the spot. and just 2 minutes later axel witold got in on the goals sanchez setting him up for dortmund's full. time sensu kept the hosts going shortly off the hole and kept up his record of scoring at least twice in every match so far. he was once again set up by european blondes to secure a 5 nil end result. the woman's youngsters celebrate
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