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he added that. this is deja vu news live from berlin the 1st death from corona virus is reported outside of china health officials in the philippines say a 44 year old chinese man has died in a hospital in manila with a number of deaths and infections rising in china factories there are racing to produce medical supplies for. the palestinian authority breaks all ties with israel and the united states including those related to security cooperation the move comes after palestinian leaders and the arab league rejected mideast peace plan put
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forward by the trumpet ministration. and in german soccer bowl which should dortmund's teenage shooting stars put on a dazzling display against india on thursday. i'm nick spicer thanks for joining us 3 philippines has reported the 1st death from the new coronavirus outside of china officials in manila say the 44 year old man came from move han chinese province hardest hit by the outbreak the death toll in china has now topped 300 more than 14000 people have now been infected worldwide almost all of them on the chinese mainland as the number of cases there continues to 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
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china. we have not been at home for 7 days and are working overtime to produce disinfectant i feel glad to contribute to the epidemic control across the country production of medical supplies has switched into top gear in here bay province 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 are 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 on what we ordinary people can do is small. this company recruiting sewing machine operators and i happen to have such
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skills because i used to work in a clothing interest so i immediately came to help with. the 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. and for more on the topic i'm joined now by d.w. correspondent charlotte charles until in hong kong charlotte you seen this jump in both infections and fatalities how concerned are people there. when they're there. leap in the number of cases confirmed so far in mainland china
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of course is a cause for concern for people in neighboring hong kong now people here is to bury scarred by the painful memories of the sun's virus back in 2003 then almost 300 people lost their lives here in hong kong so that's an epidemic hong kong of course being a very densely populated allowing for the spread of epidemics such as this quite quickly now some fall hong kong has 14 confirmed cases of the new current a virus the fear of course is though that that number could be considerably higher and that's given the fact that it can take it's believed up to 2 weeks before people displaced symptoms in that time people have been traveling to and from mainland china so cools that is a concern to people here we're seeing people have voiding big open spaces public events have been closed schools are closed a number of workers are now working from home just an attempt to try and avoid the
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spread of this virus and what are the authorities doing to get on top of this merger. well authorities this week have closed a number of borders with mainland china they've suspended a high speed rail service is this expanded ferries that will fly home the number of flights coming from mainland china but critics here across the political aisle medical experts as well have warned that that is simply not enough to contain the spread of this virus they say more than half of the borders with mainland china are still open including extremely busy land borders in fact medical workers voted overwhelmingly to go on strike to munging that authorities here close all of those borders those strikes begin set to begin on monday thousands are expected to take part in that strike action now carry land the chief executive here has said the closure of the borders is unnecessary and not in line with advice from the world health organization a lot of people they can send by the spread this virus simply say it has to be done
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and if we could just focus on china for a moment it has received both praise and criticism for its response to the virus what have your impressions been there. a lot of people of course appointed to the fact that some 30000000 people if you they probed at the epicenter of this outbreak or suspension essentially on the look down as china mainland china tries to get control over the spread of this virus a lot of people are praising that move so far in the speed at which they've reacted in recent weeks the question will be though going through it did mainland china react fast enough and of course we're not going to know that potentially for a little while yet as more people are expected to display symptoms and more confirmed cases are expected to come in the days and weeks ahead. in hong kong thanks for that. time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. japan is sending
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a warship to the gulf of oman to guard its oil supply lanes amid lingering tension between iran and the united states prime minister shinzo a base in japan is prepared to use force to protect its assets there tankers passing through the gulf supply 90 percent of japan's oil. iraq has a new prime minister former communications minister mohammed alawi will now try to form a government and run the country until elections can be held his predecessor resigned following months of political unrest protesters have been demanding an end to corruption in the country. the messaging service what's up has stopped working on millions of smartphones worldwide phones operating using older operating systems are no longer supported as of february the 1st what's up says it's necessary for ensuring data security system update is required for affected users.
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u.s. president donald trump's mideast peace plan is meeting stiff resistance in cairo the arab league rejected the proposal saying it does not respect the rights and expectations of the palestinian people alison and president mahmoud abbas has cut all ties with israel and the u.s. including security cooperation many palestinians have already been protesting across the occupied territories plan for seize a small demilitarized palestinian state in exchange israel would be allowed to hold on to many of its settlements and an exit some of the land it currently occupies. we asked correspondent. linda tell us more about the palestinian decision. well we're talking here about security relations the palestinian leadership has already cut off diplomatic ties with the trump administration in december 2017 that was when president trump. recognized hussam as to capital. but
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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 agencies in the occupied west bank that is a very controversial issue actually for a very long time among the palestinian public that's been a lot of pressure always on president abbas to stop this kind of security cordon nations so if you go through with it this time this would be a big headache for the israeli security establishment i was due to correspondent reporting for us from jerusalem. just soccer now and have gone top of the bundesliga table after 3 months 15
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minutes into the game the defending champions were 2 goals ahead was thomas the 2nd . it was easy going from bahrain. through the mind's defense to make it 3 nil with less than half an hour gone the host put one in just before half time through jeremiah st and that was it for the story fire looks like they're back to their best how they won 6 league games in a row. slipped to 2nd place in the bundesliga table despite a 2 all draw at home to fellow title challengers. the hosts were swept away in the 1st half for some tactical changes and the red card swung the game in their favor. has turned his side into an attacking force helped in part by this pack. out of sam playa. play i was in the thick of things after just 5 minutes but.
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she was equal to both his and oscar events efforts. the same were involved when grant back did finally break through to play. one nil after 24 minutes a super team goal. might see where living dangerously defended mcconnell coming to his science rescue here it was no saving the moments later a sloppy ball out from the back ruthlessly punished by young men 10 minutes before halftime i. rang the changes at the break and one of the fray made an immediate impact patrick shaikh taking advantage of yan saunas. the hosts had won back the. businesses were feeling the pressure and lessened share player was sent off for getting 2 yellow cards in crete succession for dissent.
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rose his master plan was quickly unravelling. likes it peppered the glad back goal with shots and they got their equaliser with just a minute to go 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 these 2 up stock title challenges. dortmund crushed when younger than 5 nil it's their 3rd consecutive win in the bonus league they have dazzled since winter break with their new striker finding himself and fined for. don't mince january signing alling holand is the man of the moment having schooled 5 goals in his 1st 2 matches for the club but don't have plenty of young talent and another 19 year old shooting star in their ranks got them off the mark against on your own berlin jade and sam
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show scoring for a 3rd consecutive match is now the youngest player ever to reach 25 under sea goals has 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 don't mean spent on him just one month ago union plans whipping in a pinpoint cross to set him up. my. in the 2nd half dortmund's young guns kept on firing. first a soft penalty when their way as poland made the most of this challenge by keep out of a foul geeky of its. captain marco royce stepped up so converted from the spot. just 2 minutes kept the hosts
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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 blonde to secure a 5 mil end result. dortmund those youngsters celebrate a fantastic performance as their fans celebrate the new norwegian. the galapagos islands are known for their giant tortoises reptiles even inspired charles darwin to develop his theory of evolution but human activity has left them critically endangered now scientists say they may have found a genetic way to bring to extinction species of galapagos tortoises back to life conservationists have discovered 30 of their partial descendants they hope to use the tortoises d.n.a. in a breeding program to revive the species that have died out. this
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