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this is d.w. news live from berlin germany finds new cases of the coronavirus officials say 2 people evacuated from china have tested positive for the virus they've been putting 14 since landing in frankfurt on board a german military plane on saturday will speak with someone who was on that plane also coming up the news as to growing concern over the spread of the virus after
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the 1st death outside of china is reported health officials in the philippines say 44 year old chinese man has died in a hospital in the middle. i'm calling assman thanks for joining us at 1st they were symptom free but now officials say 2 people of vacuum waited from china to germany on saturday are in fact infected with the new corona virus they were among a group of more than 120 passengers flown to frankfurt on a military plane from hong that's the chinese city of the center of the outbreak evacuees are now in quarantine in a military facility and they will be there for shoe weeks infected are 2 german citizens they are being treated in a hospital in frankfurt where doctors say they are doing well. on sunday germany's health minister defended the decision to. carry out that evacuation.
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departure and show you know we had to and were able to assume that symptom free compact treats were returning to us. they were still symptom free in frankfurt and in that sense they seemed healthy. thank you patient to you means in a situation like this but what we've seen can change relatively quickly and i'm not sure exactly why the quarantine was right that's entirely on toping wish to try but one of those people who is on a plane joins us now yannick vice is a german student who was living in china is now in fact under quarantine at an air base in southwestern germany yannick 1st of all thank you for speaking with us i want to ask you how is your health how are you feeling i mean this has been quite the ordeal for you and everybody who was on a plane. well. yeah i'm feeling very well. probably. everybody i know here from the german group also very well. of
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course this is a difficult situation for all of us this type of current team i think nobody expected this. when we started going to china. of course we were fine we were well treated and of course he has quite a lot of medical support so if something would. go out we never to really hospital in frankfurt once that quarantine like so you currently had a german military base one of the facilities like you feel where well taken care of and how are you coping personally. well right now we're here at the military base. building is separated from the other buildings we have fans around over most so there's no way that an old soldier or somebody else can join us in our holes but also we are not the last to leave or house.
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because we are going to go outside but we are not to process the fence. facility here is very very good everybody else has the signal room you revenge to. get one through prevents break here also of course in the facility so this kind of is elation is i think the best opportunity to manage the extinct yannick tell me about the evacuation of self you were one of a around 100 people flown out of china at the time you were not aware that a couple of people on the plane were infected right. well of course this is the risk is always there we're all wearing masks during. the plane for all the time so i think there is extent we expect as there is not very
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high but of course it's quite possible. and that's why we have here just kind of courteous rather think it's necessary for us nobody can say and my healthy you know . how you were studying in will haunt right what was life like in the city once this outbreak happened what what did you experience. well of course i was there for health year at the beginning everything was starting for me it's a living city 11000000 people are living there and suddenly all of these 11000000 people know what 'd is the streets anymore you have giant roots which are completely empty malls nobody is inside there are no cars there are no walkers or something out the shops are completely clueless. only some supermarkets are open left their. groceries everything else that's right. but
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for me as a student i don't have the opportunities to a group for myself very much so 'd the last time well it's the rules. and fruits of course i'm fine that i can ease no better food here. vice he's a german student he was recently evacuated from china for mohan due to the corona virus outbreak you sound very calm thank you so much for speaking with us we really appreciate you taking the time you're welcome. here's a check now on some of the other stories making news around the world in london a man has been shot by police after a stabbing attack that they described as terrorism related the attack took place in the south london suburb of stratham the man has been confirmed dead police say 2 people were injured in that attack. a state of emergency has now been lifted near new south wales but bushfires continue to burn in other parts of australia at least
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60 fires threaten property and landing clued in a blaze in the blue mountains has been burning for several weeks sunday saw dozens of homes destroyed as fires raged out of control south of canberra. protesters in lebanon have rallied outside the u.s. embassy near beirut to protest president's donald trump's controversial mideast peace plan removed barbed wire and are sick been reached a security fence chum's proposal would allow israel to annex part of the west bank it's been rejected by the palestinian authority and the arab league. after britain's divorce from the european union crucial talks on the terms of future of trade between the 2 are due to start next month the negotiations will put renewed scrutiny on the status of gibraltar spain's long contested britain's 300 year old sovereignty over the territory its economy relies on an open border with neighboring spain which is of course in the e.u.
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but its future is uncertain. between a rock and a hard place residents in gibraltar voted overwhelmingly in favor of staying in the european union but spain is ceded the territory to britain in the 18th century so when the u.k. left the e.u. gibraltar went with it now media reports say madrid wants the e.u. to give the issue prominence by including it in its opening negotiating position a draft of it is said to be published on monday it would involve gibraltar being excluded from any trade agreements between the e.u. and the u.k. a demand the block is expected to back residents here are feeling the uncertainty. of personal point of view unfortunately with the neighbors we have spoken. they're going to make life difficult for us and from that perspective we're all
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a bit concerned there was. a phone call it's a very good to sophia was bad really and it seems like it still happening for the wrong reasons and obviously you know is that your world so it didn't want this to happen but. more than half of gibraltar's workforce comes from spain their economies are intertwined brigs it could now offer madrid a chance to reclaim influence over the territory. the horn of africa is still struggling to cope with a massive infestation of locusts sweeping the region the latest country affected it's declared now a national emergency as the insects devastate farmland and food supplies in one of the poorest and most vulnerable parts of the world a swarm of locusts 1st hit in kenya over
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a week ago. land and livelihoods at risk farmers wrestling with the impact of climate change are now trying to defend their crops against desert locusts. depend heavily on the farming season we have to but the one beginning in april is short and not as productive we worry that the locus will destroy our harvest and we end up remaining hungry through the rest of the year waiting for the october cropping season. swarming by the billions locust pose a grave threat to food security throughout the horn of africa kenya the epicenter of the infestation ethiopia and somalia are the most severely impacted countries so far the south sudan and uganda are on the rise fear of what this could mean for the ecosystems of nations already struggling to feed their people is also growing.
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they're destroying the environment because of this very big bills of the so in within 6 hours and they tell us this appraise deplete all the past us and that is very sad situation and they're multiplying quickly. you can see they're trying to. say this so we are trying to metz and produce so we need more help because i get it this time we need to suppress the locals before it in bed in the neighboring countries like south sudan. well. the challenge is that some areas are so remote that crews can't coordinate their efforts using the internet or g.p.s. kenya's ministry of agriculture continues to put planes in the air spraying chemicals with the hope of ridding the region of the swarms and protecting the food
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supply for the 11000000 plus people who live here. ard soccer now in leipzig slipped to 2nd place in the bundesliga table despite a draw at home to fellow title challengers bruce mentioned the hosts were swept away in the 1st half before some tactical changes and a red cards won the game in their faith. got that coach has turned his side into an attacking force house in part by this pack marcus to ram an out of sam player. play i was in the thick of things after just 5 minutes but life's a keeper pets a good lashing was equal to both his and oscar events effets. the same were involved when grant back did finally break through to player one nil after 24 minutes a super team goal. by living dangerously
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defended mcconnell coming to his side's rescue here there was no saving the moments later a sloppy ball out from the back ruthlessly punished by younis hofmann 10 minutes before half time i might seek rang the changes at the break and one of those entering the fray made an immediate impact patrick shaikh taking advantage of yan samas butterfingers. the hosts had won back the visitors were feeling the pressure and show player was sent off for getting 2 yellow cards in cricket succession for. descent. raises masterplan was quickly unravelling. peppered with sharks and they got their equaliser with just a minute to go a moments of magic from christopher. it
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was a ghostly sing of a thrilling and immense it finished on as even between these 2 stark title challenges. are let's get you up to date now on all the results from this weekend's buddhist league games cologne put 4 goals past freiburg later on vosburgh travel to potter born on saturday as we saw leipzig drew with mentioned by and won big in minds to go to the top of the table dortmund thrashed lin hoffenheim beat liverpool isn't dusseldorf world or held by frankfurt well. off bremen and on friday berlin. ended goalless are down under some tennis news serbia's novak djokovic has been crowned the men's australian open champion after defeating australia's dominic team in a 5 set thriller on sunday team recovered from
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a sets down to take an unprecedented lead in the contest but joke of it proved too strong he sealed the final $0.02 to bag an 8th australian open title that makes 17 grand slam victories overall for job which you're watching news i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news. where i come from we have to fight for a free press that was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if your newspapers when official information as a journalist and not work all of the straight talk many can trust and that problems are almost the same chord.

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