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cut. the boat load. the boat. but this is you don't use life for berlin china opens its new high speed hospital the facility specially built in just 10 days will help treat the influx of patients infected with the coronavirus with 8000 beds experts say the new hospital is crucial to stopping the spread of new infections also coming up it is the return of the gregs it battle britain and the e.u. go head to head on trade talks that use of brands that negotiator me should ban he warns of a possible cliff edge new deal the promise of course justifiers back we won't
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accept in your rules plus a dangerous escalation tensions flare up between turkey and syria turkish troops retaliate against an attack by syrian forces hitting targets in northwestern syria taking out dozens of troops meanwhile thousands of civilians are being forced to flee and in an exclusive interview on goal this president tells you to reduce he's going to take unprecedented action against corruption to try the should we now have got a chance for a change and this is the right time to do it we ask why do you fail to speak out earlier amid accusations that the former president's daughter stole hundreds of millions in public funds and. i thank you so much for your company everyone while we start this broadcast in china. that country has opened a hospital bills in just
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a matter of days to treat people infected with the coronavirus the hospital is and will haunt the city of 11000000 where the virus originated then spread around the world trade up to a 1000 patients janice's the corona virus has now killed more than 360 people there and infected over 17000. after just 10 days of construction the makeshift hospital is operational it was designed for the epidemic isolation wards account for half its size china says it's located in the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak a 2nd hospital with more beds is due to be finished this week the city is on lockdown fresh supplies are delivered to by the army thousands of personnel have been brought in for reinforcements but the country is in urgent need
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of surgical masks and medical equipment china is accepting donations from other countries and officials say the demand for supplies will be met. we were able to double our production capacity we have the raw materials to increase production and supply them. many companies are worried about overproduction but we have assured them that the government will collect when and store any surplus in supplies after the epidemic. authorities have recommended coping mechanisms for people affected by the outbreak . if your emotions are suppressed you can look for an isolated spot and have a good cry for a few minutes you will feel relaxed afterwards. punching back or sound back at rest areas at work and spend
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a few minutes doing some punching exercises you can also help you relax and adjust . the biggest stress reliever could be a vaccine there's now a global drive to develop one. until that successful life at the epicenter remains restricted. well correspondence much longer is in the chinese capital beijing and he filed this report as the outbreak of the corona virus in china or since. the number of new infections and the number of deaths are climbing at a faster pace now most of these cases are still happening inside where province and the city of one that is at the epicenter of this epidemic outside of these areas the numbers are not climbing at the same pace we do not know whether this means that the epidemic has been contained to these areas or whether we are still in the period where infections have already been happening but are not showing up yet due
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to the long incubation period the government of one has taken drastic measures one of them being that they have now ordered all of the infected that cannot find bad in the hospitals to go to designated isolation areas and that they will enforce this with the help of the police this gives us a hint that the situation inside one is dramatic. that is billionaire reporting from beijing china with fears of the outbreak getting a lot worse information is now spreading like wildfire misinformation rather i should say chinese nationals and people of asian descent are reporting racial scapegoating instances of racism and xenophobia have been reported in delhi where peter dahl has investigated this what did you find out what's going on what drove really essentially what we're seeing as is that these spread of the of the virus and cost a global outbreak of what can only be described as mass hysteria in thailand
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pleased to have seen $1000.00 cases no deaths signs that we've seen have been pictures. been shared on social media reading we don't want chinese people to come into the restaurant for instance the reason coronavirus 9000 kilometers away in italy a place that's only seen 2 cases no deaths we've seen signs outside shops and restaurants saying that people from china were barred from entering the director of one of italy's most prestigious music schools effectively banned all east asian students because he was afraid that they would somehow spread the virus that's just racism i mean what has been absolutely here is calling out what's what's been the reaction well to speak up against this race and very accurately called it i think many of take a social media share their stories they've used the hash tag i'm not a virus. the everyday a counter's really happy so in demick that we're seeing pretty much every single country having their own version of it from as we pass on the who's in france right
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here in germany we're seeing the hash tag it's been kind deed was i'm not a virus and so i reached out to asians and people of asian descent here in germany and asked them about their experiences and within minutes my inbox was flooded by people who were wanted to share their accounts one woman for instance told me that she'd been waiting for the bus in munich when a people's group of people started crowding her these. coughing at her and ultimately spat at her another person who is of south korean the said said he had gone to the local market with his parents to buy fruit when the local clerk said stop don't come near me like corona china. countless stories of people who say what they were taking the bus they were going to the local library every time they entered the room or try to sit down people would get up and leave so i mean is this just sheer ignorance of the part of these people subjecting people of
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asian descent to these types of racist acts or is somebody else flaming the fans of misinformation right i think it's a mix of both right i think it's a one thing that we've also that i've heard from a lot of the people that i spoke to say well there where this type of racism and really what they feel is that the coronavirus system just somehow legitimized it. we have the also see is the media coverage in some cases not being as level has it headed as it should be in france that could be a pickup reached deep into its back of anti asian stereotype when it's front page red election or yellow peril that is in all races ideology that paint appear to people from. east asia as a threat spiegel the very popular german weekly magazine has been facing a huge backlash after the cover that we just saw there so really sensationalizing virus and health care at
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a point where what people really need is levelheaded information absolutely so i guess the message is yes the corner virus is very serious but we've got to keep a sense of perspective and it could affect anyone of any background yeah absolutely when this virus doesn't discriminate unlike a lot of the people that we've seen here and so. it is like you said it's very important to keep these things in perspective worldwide it's we've seen about 7400 reported cases a little over 360 deaths every single one of them is one too many obviously but compare that to the flu the world health organization estimates that that costs up to $5000000.00 cases of severe illness each year killing as many as $25000.00 people so the reality is the absolute majority of people are much more likely to catch a very severe flu than ever catching the corona virus thank you so much for investigating this greatly appreciate it thanks much. and i want to tell you now about some of
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the other stories making news around the world. migrants have clashed with police during protests on the greek island of last boss officers threw tear gas canisters to disperse some 2000 migrants the asylum seekers were rallying against conditions in makeshift camps on the island rights groups and the un have repeatedly expressed concerns over conditions in slow processing there. a website link to the so-called islamic state has said the man who carried out sunday's knife attack in london was one of the terror groups fighters police shot the man dead after he injured 3 people the suspect had been under police surveillance after being released early from prison it served time for terror related offenses. at least 20 people have been killed in a stampede in tanzania during an evangelical service the crowd rushed towards the pastor who instructed them to touch holy will that he who are on the ground
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a minister has now been arrested the government says it was trying to flee abroad. they were so different is in iran for talks with the country's leaders it just overall met with iranian foreign minister job at zarif and will later hold talks with president assad a honey of rails trip is seen as part of an e.u. effort to salvage the 2050 nuclear deal between iran and world powers. now just days after britain left the european union the next briggs's chapter has kicked off both sides are squaring off for what looks likely to be tough trade talks british prime minister for justice at the u.k. will seek a free trade agreement but not at any cost on the other end the brig's it negotiator mission by the u.s. at the e.u. would demand tough terms on issues like fishing rights and a level playing field for businesses. up to do you could do the shuffle.
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we continue to have to europe's society to root and regulatory modelling the future hall we need cheek. there is no need for a free trade agreement to involve 'd accepting e.u. rules on competition policy subsidies social protection the environment or anything similar any more than the e.u. should be obliged to accept u.k. group stage is set a lot of hardline ridiculous get you more on these are diametrically opposed to perspectives in london bridge mass and in brussels again for you want to start in london if i may with you bigots a promise of course just in playing hardball it seems the sounding very confrontational even hinting that he might walk away from talks with the e.u. if he doesn't agree to you rather doesn't use agree to the u.k. so demands is he just bluffing is this part of
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a pretty detailed kind of negotiation tactic or is he serious. well we freely seen shifting and the u.k. government's position on this whereas during the referendum campaign there was talk about more or less free access to the single market and it shifted to frictionless as possible and now it seems that the prime minister is saying well if we can't have the deal that we want which is a free trade deal of canada style then it's actually ok and then we can just accept no deal so similary the government is also prepared businesses for some friction so it does seem that the government is serious and that for them the political gains of breck's it that they are more important than any economic tradeoffs that they might have to make gay or back to you in brussels of course we saw lots of love declarations last week but is the e.u. receptive to mr johnson's demands this week. i would say the u.
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has been receptive all along for u.k. demands many times you'll be a negotiator and have told us that they have taken note of the red lines they have taken note of the u.k. ones but over and over again they have to explain what conditions this comes and you see that the difficult situation that you find itself in is is that they want an ambitious trade deal they want a close relationship you just have to read through the political declarations just a couple of pages where it's all written down the problem is that the most ambitious relationship is the one they had and so much are going to work on this new one they need a partner who wants to play ball. that brings me back to you what are some of the issues that london is not prepared to negotiate on. well boris johnson wants to be seen as somebody who's fright fighting for the rights of the u.k.
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for the independence they want to make the most of bricks and they arguing what's the point of brakes if we don't divert from e.u. rules so he has some very symbolic industries for example fisheries where he just wants to be seen as standing up to brussels and he says that this is not non-negotiable it's very much for bracks innovators in the north of england this is a very sensitive topic even though economically fisheries are not really important for the u.k. but these symbolic industries and these sort of symbolic moves where he says we're just not going to subjugate under any e.u. rules we want to come to an agreement we want to see eye to eye but we're not going to just do what the e.u. tells us to do and barrack what is non-negotiable for the e.u. . well for the european union the trade part of the deal i would say is absolutely crucial and here it is the level playing field that is the key word that the you
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will insist on so they they have said to mr bundy as said in his recent press conference that he wants 0 tariffs on both sides but that comes at a cost and the cost is that standards needs to be applied standards need to be applied in the u.k. and particularly those standards need to be checked by some form of i thought you know it's no longer the european court of justice but you need to create some other form of organisation that makes sure that everybody plays by the rules no state subsidies is another example but that is something that a boris johnson today has simply ruled out that he says will not take place all right we're in for a long 11 months i thank you both for your team coverage in london back at mass and garrick motus in brussels we turn our attention now to turkey and syria turkey's president wretch of tired everyone says the turkish military has quote neutralized dozens of syrian government troops in retaliation for an attack on turkish forces in syria now says 5 of its soldiers and one civilian were killed in
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the syrian attack and it led province a syrian war monitary is reporting that we're telling tori's strikes by turkey left at least 13 syrian troops dead turkey has had military observation posts in rebel held ellipses 2017 they were set up under an agreement with russia and iran. and president everyone described the syrian attack on turkish forces as quote vile he said syria's ally russia had been told that ankara would not stand for any situation where it was prevented from responding to syrian assaults. the operation is underway at the moment. his. around 40 points are now the constant targets of our operation. if. according to the initial indicator is. 30 to 35 syrians on the other side you are certainly true
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cause is that of the however the operation is not yet over and. present everyone there speaking earlier today our correspondent to dorian jones told us earlier about the clashes between turkish and syrian forces well there's been a sustained military operation going on throughout the day turkish forces using heavy artillery and according to turkish president the one backed by fighter bombers have been pounding around 40 identified syrian regime forces sites this follows a deadly attack by syrian regime forces on turkish forces in it live president heard one has promised that they will be revenge for those attacks those deaths will not go on the answer it was his message and he also said that this operation will be continuing now this clash between syrian regime forces and turkish armed forces has been looming for several weeks ever since damascus launched his major
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military offensive in it live which is the last bustin of syrian rebels home to around 3000000 people uncle has repeatedly warned that if this operation had to stop saying it is in violation of agreements it had reach with moscow and it had been the even the fear of right from the beginning of the syrian civil war that ultimately it would move beyond a civil war and would involve one of syria's neighbors these ongoing clashes now will stoke those fears there will be efforts on all sides i think to contain this but the message from president one is that these deaths of turkey soldiers will not go unanswered and the series will receive a lesson during jones there reporting earlier from istanbul and other news. u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls are making their final push for votes ahead of monday's iowa caucuses democratic voters in the state will be the 1st to decide who should stand against republican donald trump in november's presidential election 11 candidates are currently competing for the nomination. authorities in the italian
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city of milan have temporarily banned cars from the city center in an effort to curb pollution smog is a frequent problem in the city but not all residents are happy about the car ban some got behind the wheel nonetheless risking a effort to find. this year's british academy film awards have been overshadowed by a rout over diversity or lack there of many award winners but the fact that none of the nominees in the acting categories were people of color. a phoenix who won a best actor prize for his a role in the joker said the film industry must overcome its systemic racism. are we turn our attention now to a goal of the president of on goal or. has told the daily news his country is facing an unprecedented opportunity for change after corruption allegations against
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the former president's daughter while billionaire isabel is seen here is accused of stealing hundreds of millions in public funds while heading the state oil company in angola all the allegations were published by a team of investigative journalists. insist she's the target of a smear campaign. if you increase she sent down without goal as president and started his conversation by asking about rumors that the shunters is negotiating a deal to pee back part of the allegedly stolen money from a source saying from died there. most of the information is unfounded. the. we would like to make clear that there are no negotiations. and the brink. of. war there will be no negotiations and there was an opportunity to do so. the very people who were the golden knights
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of corruption benefited from a 6 month period of grace to return they took illegally out of the country. those who have used that chance would not be responsible for any consequences that may result. from now the documents that were leaked were quite clear do you want to see her behind bars certainly from the preferred not to answer it's a judicial matter and i'm not a judge of any of the documents indicates that some of the deals happened with a no letter sometimes on the orders of the former president for example presidential decrease to give under-valued lends to isabelle's companies why don't you go after the former president you must know what legislation what do you mean by that. because of these former presidents are immune for at least 5 years after they finish that. but what you consider going after and after that time.
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it's the justice system not politicians of either indicts people. it's the justice system that investigates possible crime. the mission of politicians is to design policies ensuring that the justice system can be. within its competence is. the. president doesn't send people to cool it open i wouldn't even have time for that there are many cases in the country in. a position where representatives are basically saying the justice system is not as independent as you are saying that it is very well controlled by the government was a response to that. that may have been the case in the past that it's not today. if you today they have the absolute liberty to act. that's the reason why there are so many trials but if you particularly related to
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corruption. now you served as the secretary general of the m.p.l. as a defense minister as well you knew the former president very well worked under him for a very long time why didn't you bring all these criticism up during that time. now . that i've worked under president bush i'm told. we all did but if you. think he stayed in power for almost 40 years. no one can say he or she was not part of the system. but we were all part of the system. those who are in a better position to correct what is wrong. and improve what is good. of those who know the system from within. but then you must have seen that is a very corrupt system because this is what the documents now show us and that's
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what even you know investigations. it is precisely because i've seen these high levels of corruption. and because i think that the situation should not continue. that we are fighting what we have seen for decades. comfortable for us to leave things as they were before. would not be correct. we've now got a chance for a change woman and this is the right time to do it. we know it demands a lot of courage and we face some resistance we would rather fight that resistance but i believe things. are moving the president. speaking to the krishnas already got some sports news now for you the kansas city
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chiefs pulled off a late surge to win the super bowl for the 1st time in half a century all the fans in the city with a career when their team made a dramatic comeback in the 4th quarter overcoming a 10 point deficit to defeat san francisco 49 ers 3120. pryor back patrick holmes that was named the game's most valuable player becoming the youngest player ever to receive the honor at the right age 24. at our martin on the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour china has opened a new hospital bills in just 10 days to help treat the influx of patients. acted with the coronavirus shyness is the core of iris has now killed more than 360 people there and infected over 17000 others. you're watching it over the years coming up next in news asia. i was scared for help one of the pakistani students in china pleading with their government to evacuate them from
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the country and the plastic bags choking bangladesh's waterways we look at it possible alternatives to turning the tide of. those stories and a whole lot more coming up with a rush rather gee i'm a little rock and roll and on behalf of all of us thank you so much for watching us to get to the top of the hour.
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